Chapter 6 - Understandings
#6 of Back for Revenge
I woke up several hours later warmly curled under the covers. I Rubbed my eyes and gave a soft yawn before looking up. My eyes meet my Mistress's as she stared down at me. I was still pressed against her soft body, cradled like a baby in her arm. She always had that expecting narrow stare that kept me on edge but I was slowly growing use to her face being more of a comfort then a fear to me now.
"You sure know how to sleep." She stated not expecting me to replay.
"I know..." I giggled a little rubbing the back of my head and looking down shyly.
"Did you...respond to me?" She said titling her head surprised.
I nodded lightly to her. I wondered if she could understand me like I could understand her. She turned her head curiously testing her theories to the situation.
"If you truly understand me then I want you to demonstrate it to me so there will be no doubt." She spoke staring at me with expectations. "Stay completely still knowing I will not hurt you. If you understand me then you understand my request. If not I expect you to cower as you usually do when I become threatening to you."
I didn't enjoy this idea but I wanted her to know I could understand her, however my wonders if she could understand me were fading as I was becoming more convinced that she couldn't. I Looked back up at her and I waited. I knew she was going to scare me somehow, but I kept thinking about earlier how I fell asleep with her, the comfort she supplied to me. Suddenly she threw her free paw forward as her claws came out, she was so fast by time I could understand what she did her claws were pressing against my throat.
I tensed up, it was frightening to me still to have this creature I had never seen before and who had slaughtered many like me at my throat like this but I kept reminding myself what she said, she would not hurt me so I stared back up at her not moving. We both knew at that moment if I couldn't understand her I would have tried to escape the situation quickly or go into a panic. I stayed as calm as I could just staring at her and she gave me a smile.
"You can understand me hmm?"
I smiled at her agreeing and she retracted her claws, giving my head a soft pet. I had to know for sure though before going any further in this delima.
"I can understand you, but can you understand me?" I asked quietly
"I don't know your language so I don't know what you are saying to me." She responded. "It's ok though, Some of those chemicals must have stuck inside you somewhere, lucky for us it was not a negative effect they gave. This does make my job much easier."
I nodded in agreement, it would probably be twice as fast now to understand each other when that time comes. That gave me hope, I wanted to be able to communicate with her. She has been the only creature in my life that has blessed me with the warmth and care that no one else but my Mother could show. I tightly hugged her around the waist pressing my smiling face against her soft fur and she returned the care with her arm around me.
"I know I'm not suppose to get attached to you or any other human we captured..." She spoke softly "However there is no path now that I can take which would lead me from that. I can see you have become much the very same."
I nodded still hugging her. It's true we were growing attached to each other, we were growing a bond and strengthening that bond each second we were together. I still feared however what the other Mistress told Mistress Ariana. I remember her saying that all the test subjects needed to be terminated before something would happen. That's what I was to them, a test subject. Even worst they plan on killing me in a certain amount of time. I had no idea how long I would be able to live but I hoped that maybe, just maybe there was a chance that my Mistress could have my life spared. I would happily live here with her for the rest of my days, no matter how long that would be.
"Alright you cuddle bug... I know your not feeling well after all you been through, but if we do not make some noticeable progress understanding each other I fear what the other Mistress would do to you."
I understood, I needed to do all I could to help my Mistress learn my language so the others wouldn't take me away from her. That was a beginning of a long road for the both of us, for the next several months it seemed I did my best to teach her and progress was going very well. After the first week that Mistress had come back to carry out her threat. My Mistress spoke to her for a long time showing how much she has learned about me and that progress was shown. She saved me from being just another test subject in there experiments and managed to keep me under her caring watch. I had never had anyone stand up for me like that, it was one of the happiest days to see the love she had for me.
Even longer after that it was becoming known to many of the species there of the link between my Mistress and I. How we could communicate with one another, how we even respected one another and even how the serum they injected into me managed to grant me the ability to understand them. I was never the more happier, and I soon became a charm to other's too. Some of the male creatures there found me rather cute and a joy to have around. Mistress Ariana even let me walk with her outside of her chambers, along the systems of tunnels and rooms they had. More and more of there types were becoming to know me, even smile at me as the human who befriended there race. They even gave me a name which translated to English as Snake, because I was the one human to slip away from there killing onslaught. It was a dream come true to me but even the greatest of dreams have there ends, and I was worried mine was still coming.
"Mistress Ariana?" I asked laying with her in bed one night curled up against her like I usually was.
"Yes Snake?" She asked warmly looking down at me with a smile.
"I have something that's been worrying me for a long time now." I worried about asking this but I knew I had to "I heard what the other Mistress said to you the day after the injection. She said all test subjects had to be terminated before something was to happen." Mistress Ariana looked a bit shocked that I heard this. I looked up at her with worry in my eyes. "Am I going to die soon?"
"Snake..." I could tell this event was still in the future, she didn't know what to tell me. "Snake, I don't know what will happen to you, but I have risked my life to make sure yours stayed with me and I will never stop doing that for you, understand?"
I nodded gently "Why would I have to die before this event happens, and what is this event?"
"It's too risky to tell you Snake. Let us worry about keeping you alive first, you have made good impressions on many of our kind here, I am sure I can pull some strings to get you through this." She smiled and scratched my back gently.
I nodded giving her a hug, pressing my face against her warm fur. She has always taken care of me, even when we didn't know each other. I can still remember how she saved my life time and time again. In the creek, after that injection, from the other Mistress... she has always been there for me. I hoped she always will be too. I trusted her that she would get me through this. With my worries calmed I was able to sleep peacefully that night and even the next few nights, but the worry would always return. This event was coming closer, I could see the tension in everyone's eyes and actions. I worried it would mean the end of me.
It started out like a normal day, I was talking to my Mistress as we taught each other more about our languages, or living styles and likes as well as dislikes. I was on the floor in front of the bed with my staff showing my Mistress what years of training has let me do with it. She seemed quite impressed, I think she was just making me feel proud of myself but I enjoyed it just the same, giving her a smile as she returned one to me from her desk.
Suddenly without warning the chamber doors flung open and two males came up to me, disarmed me from my staff and cuffed my hands behind my back. I was so baffled I didn't even put up a fight. Mistress Ariana got right out of her seat in rejection to the situation.
"What do you think your doing? I demand answers for these actions immediately!" She roared moving in front of the male creatures.
"We apologies Mistress Ariana but the time has come for Snake's execution." They spoke obeying orders.
"What?! That is not scheduled for another 3 weeks... I'm still discussing this entire operation with the head Mistress. Who ordered you to do this?!" She was in shock as much as I was, but she had fire in her eyes, I had terror.
"Mistress Sisay." That was the Mistress from before that wanted to take me from my Mistress.
"But... how could she have gotten authority to carry this out?!" It was then she was getting desperate. Mistress Sisay out ranked her.
"Sorry Mistress Ariana, we only know our orders, please move aside or our ranks will remove you from this sector."
My Mistress stared in disbelief when another voice came from the door way causing Ariana to move back towards her desk.
"Do what they say or I will have the pleasure of stripping you of your ranks and I will never see your face again." Mistress Sisay smirked.
Sisay signaled the guards to move and they did taking me with them. I squirmed in there grasp un able to get away looking towards my Mistress for help but she couldn't do anything.
"Mistress..." I cried but I only got one response from her.
"I'm sorry... Snake."
I was broken... I couldn't even struggle against the guards after hearing that. The one person I ever cared for since my Mother died, and she couldn't help me. They dragged me down the hall and into a large room were they walked up on some sort of stage with me and then tied me to a post set up there with a drain nearby it rusted with blood stains. There were many of these creatures sitting in rows in front of the stage. Most of them looked like they didn't even want to be here, didn't want to see this.
"This is the last human." Sisay announced to the people walking up on the stage and taking center. "The last human that has dominated our surface. Who has ruined our planet. I will see no remorse for this creature, this parasite. There will be no mercy because he is a lower form of life. This creature will receive the death we bestow upon our enemies. For he is our enemy and he must be vanquished."
The words hurt deeply one after another. I never did anything to hurt anyone yet everything in life seems to always want to hurt me. So here it is, my end at the hands of one of those creatures I had so much respect and love for. My eyes were tearing as I held my head low. I didn't want to be here, anywhere but here. Mistress Sisay turned and looked down at me like some pitiful insect.
"I always despised you human." She said so I could hear but no one else.
"I know..." I painfully admitted.
"Silence!" She swiped her paw across my face leaving a bloody trails of claw marks across my cheek as I whimpered.
The entire time I could only hope that by some miracle my Mistress would charge through that door and save me. Somebody... I didn't want to die, not here. Not now. I felt her paw move over my throat and a sharp claw press against my neck. I tensed up clenching my teeth and closing my tear soaked eyes. There was only one thing I could think of at that moment. One thought, one memory flowing through my mind. How much I missed my Mother, and how Mistress Ariana gave me another chance to have a mother, the mother I had lost so long ago.