CHAPTER HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE
I traversed the vast amount of space, searching for the flower in the spot I knew it was on. I left a part of myself to keep the ship moving, I didn't want to lose precious time because I was trying to right my wrongs. Also, if the people knew I'd left the ship, the pandemonium would be difficult to handle.
Although it was a split second decision, a dangerous one albeit, I needed to do this for her.
All I'd done was bring her pain, even my attempt at an apology made her bleed. What kind of man am I? I realized all our time on earth, I'd never given her flowers.
Just one real date and nothing more. And I remembered it ending tragically with the council sending thugs after me because of my father's actions.
I swore to do better, even if she doesn't forgive me, I had to try to make her life with me a happy one. With our child coming, her happiness was important.
Finally, I saw the flowers growing on a hot planet on the southern part of the galaxy and I descended.
I concealed myself as I walked on the hot soil of Kyrios, it's red sand staining my shoes.
I should have worn something else, boots probably because it was also very hot.
I watched their lives, the way they fought to show love, cried to show happiness and laughed at their problems. Strange aliens, that's what I saw. Their snakelike features made them look really dangerous and they were. One bite and you could be paralyzed for hours, that's if they don't want to kill you with it.
So they only do hand to hand combat with each other but I knew if my disguise shifted for one second, I'd be fighting paralysis while trying to run away.
I finally found a garden that was empty of alien form and I waded into it. It was hard to process how their greens grew with so much gusto even though their lands were dry. The white flower shone in the sun and I reached down to its long stem to pluck it, the petals looking beautiful.
But immediately I cut it off, it died.
That made no sense; if they couldn't uproot anything from their soil without it dying, how did they feed? I looked around me to make sure no one was coming and saw other colors of the flower and decided to make a bouquet out of it.
I'll also take some of their sand, and I'll plant a garden for her.
I brought out a vase with water from thin air and put the tulip that I'd plucked but nothing was happening.
Then I poured the sand from the ground and it sprang to life.
“These aliens must be eating sand everyday then,” I muttered to myself and set about, taking as much as I needed, nothing more.
I could have come to them directly, seeking knowledge about them as well as the flowers but I knew my people wouldn't settle for just a visit. We swallowed worlds, cultures and people and I refused to let Zorvath be on another planet. We already existed across fifty.
Finished with my little garden visit, I began to fly back up.
But then I discovered there were aliens gathering around me, and I realized my container of flowers and sand was not concealed.
I tried as much as possible but it was still glaring so I decided to focus on flying faster as I heard the sound of a helicopter.
I looked around and saw aliens hanging off something that looked like a death trap hanging off the air.
They were trying to get a good look at the floating flowers and why it was literally hurtling across their sky.
The faster I flew, the closer they came. I realized that although I was fast, they were faster and were soon too close to comfort. I didn't want to make this into a battle so I focused on flying, resolving to shoot down the vehicle only when I was directly attacked.
But I was solely focused on the heli by my right hand didn't see the small flying object from my back until it collided with my back.
“Ah!” I screamed into the void, shocking everyone.
They began screaming in their language but it was my collection of flowers hurtling down to the ground that scared me the most.
How could I come all the way here and return empty handed? Why make the promise and end up disappointing her?
So I gave chase, gathering as much of it as I could while they stayed up there, waiting for me to come back.
The injury on my back was supposed to be healing by now but it kept staining my pants with blood and I flew to a different direction and began flying again, but this time, there was a surge of those stupid flying things.
This was war now and I couldn't refrain from it, although I was losing strength with each inhale.
I unleashed a few rounds from the gun I had on my waist and used the distraction to fly off.
I knew the flowers and sand I carried made me easier to find but I couldn't drop it anywhere so I resolved to fly, shoot and keep flying.
I must have killed over a dozen flyers before I escaped their sky.
But I wasn't myself one bit.
My energy was depleting fast and I knew the ship was suffering for it.
If I'd not locked Corbin up, he would have helped to keep it afloat but I was the only one capable of holding it together so I knew I had to stay alive.
Which was quite difficult with alien venom spreading through my body.
Finally, I got to where I could create a portal without those space vermins getting access to my ship and I did.
The moment I walked into my room, I collapsed on the ground, sending a distress call across to my heads of state.
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