Chapter 62: Sacrifices.After the evening with Munroe, Sloan fell asleep on his friend's couch. By the middle of the night, he was awoken by pain. He attempted to go back to sleep, but now the throb in his belly and back was unbearable. He tossed and turned, but nothing he did helped.Elijah got Sloan his pink blanket, and time stood still. With every move or shift to roll over, he either couldn't breathe, or he thought he would throw up. His belly was almost entirely blue. The skin was bruised and aching. Spider lines rose out of his skin to the point where he thought it kind of looked like he was about to have an alien baby. The thing was, even though he wanted to vomit, he'd barely eaten. Junior was starving, and he knew he was hurting Octnavin's offspring. He didn't know what to do. He did the only thing he could. Sloan kept tossing and turning on Elijah's couch and praying for JP to show.Munroe, who was now a tall blue alien much like Octnavin, paced by the sofa's side where Sloa

Chapter 64: Luckiest human ever.Sloan inhaled water. This again? Was the alien baby thing all a dream? He floated and exhaled the water in the tube. Unbelievable. He thought he got out of the hell hole of fighting. Sloan tapped on the frosted glass. At least now he would see Octnavin. He would tell him what a crazy-ass dream he just had. Maybe he would even tell the dickhead ruler that he loved him.As the container opened, tentacles caught him. He looked up into JP's eyes."We've got to stop meeting this way." Sloan coughed, and water dribbled down his chin.JP wrapped a fluffy towel around his shoulders. Nebos rose over his body and became pants and a shirt in minutes. As Sloan looked around, he realized they were on the spaceship and not in the folantos-loser-room. Not much has changed on the spacecraft other than the fact that the healing cylinder was in the bedroom next to the magic food table. "What happened?" Sloan dried his hair. Guess that wasn't a dream after all."You had

Chapter 66: Almost sure.After Sloan pulled on his band t-shirt, he grabbed his leather jacket and his backpack. He tossed the strap on his shoulder and walked out of his quarters toward the ship's command center.When he entered the large oval room, he noted that everyone on the spaceship was staring out the enormous wide window at the front. None of the aliens or Murry were talking or moving. The entire group eyed the water like they were looking for a monster. The room pulsed with fear."What's going on?" Sloan tossed down his bag and scanned the spectacular view. Ahead of them was a massive clear lake and bright peach sky. On the far end was a long dock that stretched out into the water. The ship was quickly approaching the dock and flying so low as to make little rippled waves. "You know how in a space movie ships get caught in tractor beams?" Murry turned his head, and their eyes met."Yeah.""This is like that." Murry looked back at the approaching dock. Now Sloan caught that t

Chapter 68: Late for a meeting.The inside of the palace was all pink tiles. Sloan wasn't surprised by the color choice. As he followed Octnavin and his advisor, Sloan gazed around the grand interior. Daris wrapped a tentacle around Sloan's arm as they walked into a long wide hall with windows for a ceiling."This is called the Meeting Gallery," Daris explained as he rubbed a tentacle over Sloan's new tattoo.Huge pieces of Octnavin's Nebos decorated the walls in cascades of different shades of pink. Sloan gave the area a glance before he faced the alien baby he carried. "Daris, what's up with you?"His alien child looked to the ceiling, and then a frown wrinkled his brow. "Up?""Why are you giving your creator a hard time?" Sloan dropped his voice while Octnavin talked briefly to a few other Dagerstanteens who joined them in the gallery. "Keltrix told me you have been a royal asshole.""I…" Daris looked to Octnavin and then back at Sloan. Roughly, the alien pulled him into a hug. "My

Chapter 70: The end of... Ruler and Slave.Sloan and Murry circled each other in the boxing ring in the palace's training center. "I'm getting better." Murry danced backward. "I swear it.""Stop talking and show me." For how long they had been training together, Sloan hoped that Murry was getting better. Every day for months, they worked on his fighting technique, and still, Sloan was kicking the kid's ass.Murry threw the first punch. Sloan easily dodged. He danced around Murry and spotted Octnavin entering the training area on the far end. Behind the ruler followed Rhylent, JP, and one of his advisors, Neilattellemen. Murry caught their entrance as they walked up to Keltix, Daris, and Petey. Sloan did a smooth gutshot, and Murry bent over, swearing. "Pay attention. You're watching them and not me."Murry muttered a nasty word in the Dagerstanteen's language. He threw another punch and missed Sloan again. "I thought you said you were getting better?" Sloan asked as he did some fanc