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Turning to regard said creature, Tainui shook his head and reflected back on recent events. The hot, hot sex with Andrej; the terror and confusion of an alien abduction followed by a struggle that appeared to end in heartbreak for the alien lying unconscious next to him.

After some consideration, he and Andrej had impulsively decided to throw in their lot with it. Quite why they decided to go flying off into the vast unknown, with something resembling a reptilian demon, escaped him, but it had seemed like a good idea at the time. Neither of them had any close friends or family that would worry about them and neither of them was unhappy to abandon the emotional wasteland that their lives had been up to that point. Now if he could just stop Andrej from making any more insane, rash decisions...

After checking that the insane white boy was still breathing, he stood and wandered up the short corridor toward the cockpit, hoping to locate whatever was making that awful racket and shut it the hell up. The noise was beginning to give him a headache and that, he decided, couldn't wait for the comatose alien to do something about it.

The starry vista displayed in the viewport in front of him was something he still hadn't quite gotten used to. Growing up, he'd often laid outside at night staring up into the night sky, contemplating life, the universe and everything. Here, however, it was something more tangible - he was in it, not just looking up at it.

One of the control consoles in front of him was lit up with alien script flowing across its surface, and a single holographic symbol appearing to float in mid-air a couple of centimeters above its surface; this appeared to be the source of the irritating noise. What the script said or the alarm indicated, he had no idea, but he touched it anyway which seemed to have the desired effect. The alarm cut out abruptly and a heads-up display flashed up onto the inside of the shuttle's 'windscreen' (he recalled the Vanguard had called it a 'viewport'). A small target reticule highlighted the yellow star then magnified it, words in the alien language flashing up beside what he gathered were points of interest.

Tainui yelped, startled when something warm and dry clamped onto his bare shoulder and he whirled around to see the hulking alien standing right behind him, studying the viewport with its enigmatic black eyes. After a few moments it turned its gaze to him but didn't release his shoulder from the firm grip, the lethal looking talons on the hand were folded down, thankfully. Its other three arms were flexing and stretching, the light gray, scaly skin taut over the large muscles beneath. He hadn't heard it wake and move about behind him - for something so tall and solid it was surprisingly light on its large, taloned feet.

Even more unsettling was the fact that Tainui knew the alien was definitely a he now. Despite the outlandish alien physiology, there were definite signs that it was equipped with certain features that generally only graced the male of a species. Especially evident since it wasn't wearing any clothes.

Releasing his shoulder, the Vanguard reached out to tap away at the controls with deft flicks of his talons while making hissing and rumbling noises at him.

"...Unwise adjust controls you possess insufficient knowledge," he said in the now familiar clipped, electronic sounding voice that issued from the small, translucent black disk hanging like an unusual piece of jewelry from one of his shell-like ears.

Tainui swallowed nervously and nodded. "Yeah. Sorry about that."

"Alright, small-one. Negative damage. Journey imminent completion, destination imminent. That «guttural-noise»."

Trying to replicate the name, Tainui spluttered, coughed and stopped with an embarrassed grin on his face. This appeared to amuse the alien somewhat - at least he thought it was amusement - when it rocked back onto its haunches and huffed quietly while regarding him through half-closed eyes.
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Scene taken from my first novel, The Cold Wind... If you are interested, there are links to the story on my profile info. Drawn by the lovely, talented Viral_Divinity on another site [link]

Description
Turning to regard said creature, Tainui shook his head and reflected back on recent events. The hot, hot sex with Andrej; the terror and confusion of an alien abduction followed by a struggle that appeared to end in heartbreak for the alien lying unconscious next to him.

After some consideration, he and Andrej had impulsively decided to throw in their lot with it. Quite why they decided to go flying off into the vast unknown, with something resembling a reptilian demon, escaped him, but it had seemed like a good idea at the time. Neither of them had any close friends or family that would worry about them and neither of them was unhappy to abandon the emotional wasteland that their lives had been up to that point. Now if he could just stop Andrej from making any more insane, rash decisions...

After checking that the insane white boy was still breathing, he stood and wandered up the short corridor toward the cockpit, hoping to locate whatever was making that awful racket and shut it the hell up. The noise was beginning to give him a headache and that, he decided, couldn't wait for the comatose alien to do something about it.

The starry vista displayed in the viewport in front of him was something he still hadn't quite gotten used to. Growing up, he'd often laid outside at night staring up into the night sky, contemplating life, the universe and everything. Here, however, it was something more tangible - he was in it, not just looking up at it.

One of the control consoles in front of him was lit up with alien script flowing across its surface, and a single holographic symbol appearing to float in mid-air a couple of centimeters above its surface; this appeared to be the source of the irritating noise. What the script said or the alarm indicated, he had no idea, but he touched it anyway which seemed to have the desired effect. The alarm cut out abruptly and a heads-up display flashed up onto the inside of the shuttle's 'windscreen' (he recalled the Vanguard had called it a 'viewport'). A small target reticule highlighted the yellow star then magnified it, words in the alien language flashing up beside what he gathered were points of interest.

Tainui yelped, startled when something warm and dry clamped onto his bare shoulder and he whirled around to see the hulking alien standing right behind him, studying the viewport with its enigmatic black eyes. After a few moments it turned its gaze to him but didn't release his shoulder from the firm grip, the lethal looking talons on the hand were folded down, thankfully. Its other three arms were flexing and stretching, the light gray, scaly skin taut over the large muscles beneath. He hadn't heard it wake and move about behind him - for something so tall and solid it was surprisingly light on its large, taloned feet.

Even more unsettling was the fact that Tainui knew the alien was definitely a he now. Despite the outlandish alien physiology, there were definite signs that it was equipped with certain features that generally only graced the male of a species. Especially evident since it wasn't wearing any clothes.

Releasing his shoulder, the Vanguard reached out to tap away at the controls with deft flicks of his talons while making hissing and rumbling noises at him.

"...Unwise adjust controls you possess insufficient knowledge," he said in the now familiar clipped, electronic sounding voice that issued from the small, translucent black disk hanging like an unusual piece of jewelry from one of his shell-like ears.

Tainui swallowed nervously and nodded. "Yeah. Sorry about that."

"Alright, small-one. Negative damage. Journey imminent completion, destination imminent. That «guttural-noise»."

Trying to replicate the name, Tainui spluttered, coughed and stopped with an embarrassed grin on his face. This appeared to amuse the alien somewhat - at least he thought it was amusement - when it rocked back onto its haunches and huffed quietly while regarding him through half-closed eyes.
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Scene taken from my first novel, The Cold Wind... If you are interested, there are links to the story on my profile info. Drawn by the lovely, talented Viral_Divinity on another site [link]