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“Flame,” I cried out as we headed to the surface. We broke through the atmosphere shield, and smoke started to fill the command center.
“Go to the jump pod, leave now!” Flame demanded. She gave Terrek a stern look.
“Take her.” Flame said as she looked at us with soft sadness in her eyes.
“No, not without you!” I cried. “
“No, Terrek, grab her too!” I yelled as he dragged me off to a Jump pod.
Ember and Candy were running past us through the smoke. Ember looked me in the eye and said. “Go with Terrek, Darah. I got Candy and Flame.”
“No, NO, NOOOOOO!” I screamed in a panic as Terrek pulled me into a pod, and we jumped away from our burning ship and our mate.
“Why? Terrek, why did you leave her!” I cried.
I felt so betrayed. This was not happening. This can’t be happening! We hit hard, my body jerked, my head hit something, and my nose cracked. Blood was pouring out, and that terrible taste of copper filled my mouth. I was numb; shock was taking over.
“Darah, my sweet, I am so sorry. Here, let me help you.” He tore off some of his uniform and tried to clean my face.
“Stop, Terrek, I can’t believe you left her, left my Candy. What happened to I go wherever you two go?”
“Darah, leaving her was the hardest thing I ever did.” He choked up himself.
Terrek’s jaw was clenched, and a pulse in his jaw kept a quick rhythm. He wiped a tear from his eye with a roughness. His eyes filled as he stared deeply into my eyes.
“Why?” I cried.
“Flame made me promise to get you to safety. She swore she would be able to focus on saving herself when she doesn’t have to worry about saving us, too.”
“Terrek, I cannot stand that we left her,” I said through tears as he insisted on cleaning my face. He pulls me in for a hug and kisses my head.
“We need to move. We can’t stay here. We are on the moon that houses the female slaves.” He said as he grabbed our weapons and survival packs.
I left our life pod and saw the spaceships battle above us. I saw a ship falling in a fiery crash further away from us. I hitch my breath in terror.
“I lost my Candy and Flame. How could they have survived a fiery crash?”
Tears fall freely as I notice numbly that I can breathe heavy air. I put on my pack and robotically followed Terrek. My steps kicked up the soft powder-like surface of the grey moon. We landed inside the prison gates. Alarms blared all around us. Debris from the battle above fell all around us.
Terrek pulled me to run with him when I heard our pod explode. it was like running on the beach slower and more difficult as our boots sank with every step. It was dark, but the battle fire lit everything around us. We crouched in the shadow of a doorway that had solid metal doors locked and sealed tight.
I looked at a guard tower, it was firing laser shots into the smoky sky. To my amazement, a giant blue dragon flew into view and lit up that tower with a spray of lava fire. My heart skipped a beat, if Ember survived the crash, Flame and Candy may have managed to survive too.
Hope bloomed in my chest, and my tears turned to cheers as I yelled to Ember, “Burn their asses!” Terrek pulled me back into the shadow.
“Don’t alert the enemy to our location.” Terrek put me behind him up against the door,
“We need to find Flame and Candy.” I tried to push my big male out of my way.
“Darah, focus; were on a mission, we need to follow our training. Flame knows what needs to happen. We need to trust her abilities. I promise I will find them as soon as this fight is over.”
I can see Terrek desperately wanted to find them. I knew he was right. I needed to focus. Okay, I needed to blow this door and move on. I pulled my pack off and dug out my magnetic grenade.
“Get ready to move; I am blowing this bitch.” Terrek’s eyes grew alarmed.
I slapped that device on the door and activated the countdown.
“Damnit, woman, you are mad!” Terrek growled as he pulled me in his arms and ran.
