Gaunt Galaxy / Blue Angel: Book 1

Fight

The day of the fight came and I was ready to face Goliath. Everyone else were at their posts. He entered the arena with a robe on his shoulders, very proud and very self confident. It was easy to see why he was so self confident, nobody had ever defeated him!

I stepped into the ring in my royal robes, Goliath was taken aback, "There has not been a S-Que for many eons. Where are you from and how did you get here"

"That really doesn't matter, what does matter is that I am here, NOW!"

"I don't care who you are! I will still defeat you and feed you to the wild creatures!!"

"If there is a feeding, it will be your ego into the bowels of truth!"

The creature lunged at me and I placed a shield to stop him in his tracks. He looked perplexed, he had run into solid... nothing. Again he lunged, this time harder, I placed the shield at an angle and he glanced off to the side. He was angered, so he built up some steam and came at me running at full speed, I placed the shield just below his knees and he went flying head over heels into the dust! He got up and glanced into the crowd of Kysharisk, I knew he was getting orders and ideas from them. Again he charged but about halfway he leaped into the air, I had expected this and had erected a dome shield around myself. You could see the glee in his eyes as he thought he had avoided my traps and then he collided with the shield and curled up like a sleeping Kysharisk cub.

He was furious, he snorted, pawed the ground, howled and circled me like a wounded tiger. All the time he kept looking into the Kysharisk group. Looking for answers. Someone found one! He began to attack my mind, he was trying to break into my mind. I knew what he wanted and I refused to allow him to have it! He wanted to know my weaknesses, what would make me waver. At first I was able to hold him off and I went on the attack. I began to use the shield as a hammer and beat the beast, then I used it as a huge fly swatter and began to slam him from one side of the arena to the other. Both of us soon realized that at this pace the battle could go on for days!

He grouped his Kysharisk together into one mind and joined them with his, they attacked my mind and I was powerless to stop them. Lererial stepped in and began bolster my mind, we were able to hold. Again I began to bash him with the shields, but to no avail. I began to see other Kysharisk appear at the edge of the woods on the outer edge of the ring. They all joined together and began to push into my mind, even with Lererial helping me there was only so much we could take, we finally caved. The beast saw what he wanted, my weakness, Lererial. He spun and went for her, I placed a shield between him and her. He ran into the shield, he backed up and hit the shield so hard that he spun the shield and me around.

He grabbed Lererial in his huge hand and began to squeeze, he was going to squeeze her to death in front of me. That genetic part of my brain that I know nothing about, took over, I reached deep within and began to build a psi scream. This time my mind was focusing it at the head of the beast. When I screamed the beast stopped squeezing and spun around to face me, he was reeling with pain but still holding onto Lererial, there was a steady flow of blood from his hand!! As the psi blast continued my hands grew hot, I looked at them as they became white. I lifted my hands in the direction of the beast and brought them together with both index fingers pointed at the heart of the beast. As the hands came together an arc of white hot Ionic plasma burst forth and pierced the chest of the beast. He screamed but did not falter, I moved the beam upward and sliced straight up, through the beast's head. The beast finally fell to the ground, dead!

When the beast had hit the shield and spun me around he had put himself directly between me and his followers. The beam that I produced that had killed the beast also had went straight through and killed about thirty other Kysharisk. I ran to the hand of the downed Goliath that held my dear Lererial, I knew she was dying, I could feel her weakened body trying to stay alive. The hand would not let go, she was trapped. I brought my hands together again and a beam appeared and severed the hand from the wrist. Lererial fell very unceremoniously to the arena floor, I went to her, I picked her up in my arms as her life, and those of our unborn twins, was beginning to fade. She called to me, weakly! My genetic mind once again took over, her side had been pierced by one of the claws of the beast and she was bleeding out. I took my finger and shoved it into the wound from the claw, to try and stop the flow of blood. I felt my blood generator kicked in... What?! Can she take my mostly Ovarunt blood since I now have a fission heart? What about the twins? I was in agony in my mind, Lererial was not there and I didn't know if what I was doing was going to help her and our babies, or kill them. It was only a few minutes but it seemed like forever, I stood there holding my love with my finger in a hole in her side to staunch the blood flow. I felt the blood generator shut off and I had my answer, Lererial said weakly into my mind, "I am healing." I cried! I went to my knees as I held her in my arms and began to sob like a child! This was too close, she is my everything, I would be completely lost without her and she carries our twins! Thank You All Father!!!