“Think about it, brother.”
“It is stupid.”
Thanato’s orange hair fell over his forehead as he nearly collided with a short, terrified-looking pale human wearing a white—open dress?
“It is not,” he mumbled. “We have known our generation was going to be the one to start this experiment since they made contact and explained their involvement in the matter.”
“We did not know it was going to beour kind. Out of all twelve of our species, whyus?”
He let out an annoyed throaty sound, lifting his arms in the air in desperation, narrowly missing hitting another human in the head. “It does not matter why! You are lucky enough to be one of the first ones to get a human bride. Maybe it will prove that the humans are right and our lines have become too pure and—”
“I do not havetimeto deal with a human bride,” I grunted.
And yet, here I was,walking through the corridors of this huge and stinky space box, ready for the monthly inter-species meeting. Ready to accept—to be forced—to become the first of the Zodiac System to breed a human female.
To be the first to try and cure the infertility issues that had plagued all of the species of our system.
Humans fucked up, and humans came up with a fix—not a solution any of us were happy about, and one all of us still had trouble believing.
“You will have plenty of time,” Thanato pointed out. “A wholeyearin fact. More than enough to see if the seed takes.”
My eyes strayed to the few humans plastered against the walls in fear. Old. Wrinkly. Some of them asbaldas the fucking Canco. Humans were ugly. I was not sure if their appearances deteriorated ever since they used their genes to create us or if we evolved in a completely different branch, but I would not want to share my bed with any of the ones I have seen so far, extinction be damned.
“For the seed to take, the seed has to come out,” I deadpanned. “I am not sticking my cock in any of them.”
Thanato followed my gaze and scoffed. “These are male specimens.”
“So?”
“So your bride will probably not look like that.”
Irrelevant. All the humans we have seen so far looked like them. And maybe they were like Cancos—their male and female specimens looked oddly similar.I wouldnot fuck a Canco either. This station could not be occupied only with males, it did not make any sense.
“No one is asking you to fuck a Canco,” Thanato said, making me realize I thought out loud. “I am just saying it is an incredible opportunity. You could be the first one to have an offspring! You, one of the last ones naturally born! We cannot count on humans to create artificial babies for the rest of our existence. Orworse, be stubborn enough that we will go extinct.”
I hated that whole plan. Hated it since humans first showed up thirty years ago and told us about it, even if I was still a child. ButfuckThanato was right.
And if I had to close my eyes and imagine I was fucking anything else just to get it done, I would.
“Here he is,” the damn Canco—Filbur—said, a grin splitting his face.Damn, I couldn’t remember why I was mad at him but the anger was still there.
“Why are you even here?” Thanato asked before I could. “Were you not supposed to be part of the third phase?”
He was. What was initially planned was that there would be four different stages, one year for each elemental planet. Which meant, only the three earth species should have been here. My eyes fell on the Lionus sitting silently at the large table.Fire Lionus and water Canco. humans had changed their plans.
Instead of calling on earth beings only, they had called on more than one element.
“Looks like they changed their minds.” Filbur shrugged. He let out a mocking scoff. “Malaak must be devastated.”
“Is this all a joke to you?”
“Is the idea of saving all of us from extinction by making us breed human females not a bit preposterous?”
My old red-skinned friend had a point. The whole thing made no sense. Yet, I knew he had helped the humans in their research on the subject. If someone here understood this whole mess, it had to be him.
“Are we not part human?” the Lionus said softly, finally breaking his silence
“Their genetic material allowed us to evolve to what we are today,” Filbur countered, matter of factly. “It was thousands of years ago, our DNA does not have anything to do with them anymore.”
