The Galactic Bride
Chapter 5: The Body

Akihiko woke up to the sound to alien chatter. There were times when he used to fall asleep only to wake up and not know where he was. But this type of awaking brought him to full alertness. There was no way he could forget the pain and torture he went through. He opened his eyes, and realized he was laying on a bed again, only now he had clothing and blankets over him. He could just make out a doctor in his line of sight, but couldn't see who she was talking to. It wasn't the same woman who had taken care of them the day before.

He had decided, in his dreams, that he wasn't mad at the young woman who first injected him twice with that lava liquid, nor take it out on her for placing him in that skull crushing pod. He knew she didn't want to do that to him, and was trying her best to get him through it. No, it was General Anura who was responsible. Just like how she was responsible for Hiro's death, and the countless lives of Japan's military who had tried to rescue him.

He sat up, that was a mistake. The whole room spun and he felt like throwing up. The Doctor near by gasped in shock and was by his side, with a bucket of sorts already in hand. Had she'd known he'd feel like vomiting? Whether she knew or not, he did. As he heaved he felt the doctor holding his hair back as he did so.

Holding his hair back? He didn't realize until that moment, but his hair was longer. Long enough that someone needed to hold it back while he puked. When he finished, a nurse gave him a glass of water, which he first used to clean out his mouth and spit, then drink. Now that he was aware of his longer hair, he was also aware of the tightness of his top to his chest. After he handed the glass back to the nurse he reached up and felt his chest.

It wasn't his… or it shouldn't be his. He could tell he was wearing one of those sports bras that the kind woman the day before was wearing. He tried to dismiss flesh he was feeling, that these Nimbonians didn't have males so they naturally dressed him in the clothes they had. But what was underneath shouldn't have been a woman's breast. He should have been flatter than a pancake. He was not.

He looked down, his head still spinning and realized his hands weren't his own either. They looked feminine. Now he really was getting worried. He reached inside the pajama pants they gave him and felt below. No bulge. Panicking, he went further and reached in his underwear. He had never felt a girls privates before, but it was unmistakable what he was touching now. Withdrawing his hand he look bewildered at the doctor, who had a look on her face as if she were expecting this reaction.

"What the hell did you do to me?!" A female voice came out of his own mouth.

That shocked him too. I didn't know why. It shouldn't after realizing his body had female parts to it now. Then his tongue felt inside his mouth. Aside from it feeling different because of his new body frame, his teeth felt different too. He remembered the kind woman's cuspids being slightly longer and pointed. His own seemed to be doing the same thing now. He reached for his ears next. Sure enough, they were pointed now.

"Why'd you turn me into one of you?!" Akihiko demanded, pointing at the doctor.

Of course she had no idea what he was saying. Instead she spoke something to the nurse, who hurried off out the room. The doctor walked closer to him with her hands in view showing him she wasn't going to hurt him. But he flinched when she came near him. If he didn't feel so sick he would have jumped out of the bed he was in and run. Run to where? He didn't know.

A few minutes passed by as the doctor was speaking to him in a cool voice, trying to get him to calm down. He was balled at the head of the bed, his head spinning, trying to keep her away. What had they done to him? Why had they done it? It was all so maddening.

Then she came in. General Anura walked at a brisk pace. She wasn't in that uniform anymore, it looked as if she had been awakened. He hair was down and she was in pajama's with a robe over her. Her eyes looked aware, but she clearly had just been sleeping moments ago. Before she addressed him, she talked to the doctor in her alien language, waited for the answers she wanted, then turned to him.

There was a brief moment where she just gazed at him. Even to her the transformation must have taken her a back for a moment. Her eyes scanned and down, probably out of curiosity from the change. Then as if she remembered why she was called there, her face returned to it's normal cold posture.

"No one's recovered from the rejuvenation chamber faster than you have." The General told him, as if that was something to be proud of. "I'm quite impressed. You've only been asleep for a rotation."

"Rejuvenation… that's what you call that thing?" Akihiko pointed at the pod he apparently was in a day ago.

"My understanding of your guttural tongue is limited, so that's the closest comparison I could use for what that devise is." The General told him. He noticed that even though he was being as rude as he was when he met her, she was treating better now that he looked like one of them. "Of course, my time for using these archaic sounds will be over soon. Once you have recovered I expect you to learn the common tongue."

"Why did you do this to me?" Akihiko cut to the meat of the issue.

"That…" The General rubbed her hand on her forehead. "That will require a lengthy explanation. You will not have the strength to listen to it all now."

"What do you mean?"

"You, no doubt, are still feeling the after effects of the alteration. Even if you hadn't woken up early you'd still need recovery time."

He could tell she was right. Only his fear and rage were keeping him awake now. He could feel his eyes growing heavy. "Then give me the short version."

The General smirked. Somehow her fanged grin was not as attractive as the kind women who looked after him. "The short version is that you were never human and we were simply changing you back. You were always a Nimbonian."

"What?"

"This is where the lengthy explanation comes in. To sum it up, members of the noble families on Nimba often sow their seed into alien species. This is to keep important bloodlines safe. Should the need for a replacement heir becomes necessary, offsprings of this nature are safeguards… insurance in a way. You are one of these insurances."

"So basically rich people hide their babies just in case the kids they already have die or something."

"Crude, but that's the thought process behind it." The General nodded her head. The way she acted, Akihiko was sure that she did not agree with this practice. "Those creatures on Terran-3 are not your real people. We are."

He was starting to get sleepy, as his rage was cooling. His curiosity was doing this to him. "But if that's true, how come I looked like a human? I'm a … was a boy."

"The seed of the Olma will always take the characteristics of the mother and the carrier. Because the carrier is human, you looked human. The rejuvenation chamber just took away those primitive features and returned your to the natural state. I apologize that we could not completely rid you of your carrier's features, but that's always the problem with this sort of thing."

He still hadn't looked at himself, so he didn't know what he looked like. But hearing the explanation on how the Nimbonians reproduced was giving him a headache. Then he realized that he never was a boy, if this were true. He had always been a female, and like being human, it was just a disguise. But he couldn't think of himself like a girl. He was raised as a boy.

"Your real name is Kezri, if you're curious." The General continued. "And your family is an extension of the royal house of Grajin. I suppose all of this doesn't mean a thing to you now."

Akihiko shook his head.

"I will talk to you once more when you are ready to listen, then I will not speak to you in this tongue again. You are part of an Interstellar community now and you will be expected to speak and understand the common tongue. Thankfully we have some time before we reach our destination."

"We've left Earth?"

"Yes." General Anura nodded.

"You heartless bitch, you didn't even let me say goodbye to anyone. My family, my frie-"

"Those animals are no longer any of your concern! You are a noble's daughter of House Grajin." General Anura raised her voice.

"You can't expect me to just forget about my life like this. You can't-"

"Tomorrow you'll begin your education. Since you seem so energetic, why wait? As for now, get some rest." She turned to leave.

"Come back here you alien piece of sh-" But she had left without even turning back around.

He flopped back on his bed enraged again. His sleepiness left him. Part of him understood all this nonsense, but the other part was filled with anger. General Anura was the cause of all of it. The deaths and the cold way she talked about humans really pissed him off. The doctor had returned to try and calm him down, but he waved her away angrily. He hated the lot of them.

Somewhere along the line he slept. He didn't know when that happened, so he figured he must of passed out from exhaustion. The only knew that he had fallen asleep when he was lightly awaken but a small nudge on his arm. He opened his eyes slowly the see the kind face of the woman who had tried to make his transformation more bearable. She wasn't wearing the uniform she was before, but a jumpsuit. It seemed the uniform was for formal occasions and the jumpsuit was for everyday wear. On seeing her he knew that the General must have assigned her to work with him, as he was being difficult towards everyone else. Even though he wanted to follow the same theme here, seeing her genuine smile made him forget about that being difficult with her. He couldn't take it out on her. After all, he knew for a fact she didn't want to put him in that rejuvenation chamber.

He sat up and she looked at him slightly embarrassed. I didn't know why. He could tell that she wanted to explain to him something complicated but there was no way she could do so with pantomiming. So instead she decided to ask him to breakfast.

Walking with his new body was actually more difficult than he thought it would be. The woman took his arm and they went slowly toward the officer's mess. Many of the Nimbonian crew were looking at him.

It was in the shining surfaces on the ship that he first got a glimpse of what he looked like. Oddly enough he still looked Japanese. Other than his blue eyes, pointed ears, and fanged teeth, that was. Still most of his normal features seemed to be gone. He couldn't know for sure, but he guessed that he probably looked like the japanese version whatever an Olma was, and the only thing left of his Earth mother was the japanese part. Seeing that somehow made him fell both sad and happy. Sad that he'd never see his real family again but happy that at least they couldn't take that part of him away.

They ate a breakfast at an officers table. Akihiko couldn't identity anything he was putting in his mouth, and the flavors were so foreign that he didn't even want to try. Still, the food wasn't disgusting. It was like trying something new, only that everything was new. Somethings he liked and others he didn't.

When they had finished eating, the woman took him to a room that looked like an office room. He guessed this was where he'd get his education. She still looked embarrassed about something, and still had no way of telling him why she was so flustered. But once they were alone she sat him down and stood in front of him. Her eyes looked watery.

"What? Why are you so scared?" He asked her.

She covered her face, seeing his concern and feeling all the more embarrassed. Obviously she was told to do something she didn't want to do. General Anura's orders no doubt. He knew that whatever it was, there was no way he could understand it, as she hadn't even attempted to explain herself.

Then she slapped her own cheeks and breathed him, as if steeling herself. She pointed to herself and said. "Lani." Then she pointed at him and said "Kezri." She repeated the process until he understood she was giving him her name.

He finally knew her name. She made sure she knew it, then took her embarrassed face again. "Forgive."

She leaned forward and kissed him. He juked back and looked at her with shock. She had an apologetic look and apologized again. He could tell she had to do this, for whatever reason. "N-No lie…"

Trust her… It was harder doing it this time. The last time he had done so his whole body was crushed and reshaped. Now she was kissing him with a look of panic on her face. This was too much. He scooted back in his chair again when she leaned back down to kiss him again.

"Please." She looked at him with sadness in her eyes.

Lani had to do this. Why, he didn't know. What if he forced her to stop? Would General Anura punish her? Would she kill her? His heart was pounding. So it came down to this. He was responsible to what would happen to Lani if he didn't do what he was told. He knew it just from looking into her eyes.

Swallowing he nodded stiffly. He tried to relax in his chair, but in reality he was terrified. Lani was just as scared as he was. But she leaned down and kissed him all the same. They kissed for a long time, then she pulled herself off of him, stood up, unzipped her jumpsuit and pulled it off. Next to go was her bottoms, she left her bra on.

"Wait…"

"Forgive." She whispered, then got on her knees and pulled off his pajama bottoms and underwear.

His legs shook. She could tell. She pulled him to the floor then intertwined her legs with his so that their privates were pressed against each other. She closed her eyes and started rubbing her hips. So this was how the Nimbonians did it. If he wasn't so petrified it might have felt good. His body was responding, but his brain still was panicking. He could take no real pleasure from it with Lani holding back tears.

Then he felt something go inside him. He looked down but didn't see anything other than two female organs still rubbing against each other. Suddenly there was a pop inside of him where the object he felt went. His spine felt on fire, but not from pain, but from pleasure. He fell to the ground and curled up into a ball. He never had a female orgasm, but he was sure that's not how it felt like. That was something else.

"Kezri. I'm sorry I had to do that. But do you understand me now?" That was Lani's voice. She was leaning over him, her hands lightly hugging him. He didn't feel it before because his whole body was absorbed in pleasure.

"I can. I can understand you." Akihiko sat up, and at looked Lani with shock in his eyes.

"Good." Lani breathed in. "Then it wasn't all for nothing."

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