Free Heaven Saga 1: The Lost Hero by Marcus Johnson

here.”
    Valis stopped, looking Celi in the eye. “You’d like
try and create Kalaidian males using Brian as a base?”
    “Then I don’t need to say anymore,” Celi said as they
entered the shuttle bay.
    “Let’s get down there before he gets himself killed,”
Valis said.

Chapter 12 – One Man’s Fight
     
    Brian turned off the computer. He went to Seles as she
slept quietly in the back of the shuttle. She looks so peaceful right now. He
brushed her face with his hand. She’s really cute. Why not? He thought,
kissing her on the cheek.
    “I know you can’t hear me Seles, but thank you. The
last twelve days have been a lifetime to me,” he said as the closed the
shuttle’s back hatch.
    He calmly walked in the snow and noticed the Malcovin
were indeed birdmen. They stood a head shorter than the average human with long
black feathers and black beaks. They moved with grace and speed with legs of
the reversed knee style. Their wings were very small, but their clawed hands
were quite dexterous. They wore brightly colored armor and carried long
barreled pulse rifles. They surrounded the human, unsure of what he was. He was
taller than a Kalaidian with long brown hair and facial hair. As the ring
closed around Brian he noticed a Malcovin with red plumes attached to his armor
approaching.
    “I’m Lieutenant Giga of the Rigika . We’ve come
to except your surrender. Stand down stranger,” the birdman spoke with a high
pitched voice, filled with screeches.
    Brian grinned. “So your name is Giga. My name is
Brian. I won’t let any of you take Seles. Leave now or die.”
    Giga cawed. “You may be strange looking Kalaidian, but
you can’t beat us single handedly.”
    Brian glanced around to see the Malcovin’s positions.
“I’m not Kalaidian. I’m just a lost traveler who found a princess on this cold moon.
I look Kalaidian, but I’m not one of them.”
    Giga paced around the Terran, looking closely. “I’ve
never seen one of you kind. Just what planet do you call home?”
    “Earth, but I believe your kind call it Terra Prime,”
Brian answered. He carefully slipped a hand under his cloak and began the
sequence to activate a pulse grenade.
    Giga took a step back. “Did you say Terra Prime?”
    “Yes, and I can’t let anyone know that fact,” he
answered. With a quick motion he threw the grenade into the snow.
    Giga screeched out the command when a flash of light
and an explosion filled the area. Most of them were knocked prone with snow
blowing all around them. In the confusion they heard a single phrase uttered: “Rakna
bel de cou”. A red glow emitted from haze. One birdman fell as the glow
flashed to the next birdman, killing him.
    “All troops retreat to the check point!” Giga
screeched as he retreated.
    I feel something weird inside me. Brian thought as he sliced the third birdman in half.
He sprinted into a small formation with the rakna blade and cut down
another five. Using cover from the snow he tossed the second grenade into their
midst, blowing a dozen away in the explosion. The remaining birdmen retreated,
firing pulse blasts at Brian as he followed them.  Giga, along with the few
troops left hid behind an outcropping. He pressed his com, “This is Lieutenant
Giga reporting.  A Terran named Brian encountered, we have suffered heavy
casualties. Request…” Giga’s report ended as Brian threw his last pulse grenade
into their hiding spot. Two remained. Brian walked towards the very afraid
birdmen as his eyes glowed blue.
    “I’m sorry,” Brian said, grinning oddly. “It’s nothing
personal.” He decapitated the two foot soldiers with a spinning slash.
    Brian touched his left shoulder. One of their shots
got through. Blood trickled onto the snow. He grimaced in pain. I can’t
let that ship of theirs leave this moon with any information. He saw the
drop ship close by and ran towards it in haste. As he came to the cube shaped
ship he noticed the back hatch was wide open. Standing