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Chapter 3: Obita

On the dawn of the next morning Delia and Al arrived on Obita, Nick’s home

planet. Before leaving their cargo ship, Al gave Delia a tiny device to put in her ear. It was a translation device. Al had added Delia’s language to it too. It mainly translated everything that was being said into the language desired by the user. So basically with that device in her ear she could understand what was being spoken around her by the alien races. Al had also used one such device but now he kept it in a drawer on his ship as in time he had learnt the languages of the main races he was in contact with for business so he didn’t really need it anymore. But as for Delia, it was a must have.

Unlike Al’s planet, Obita was a luxuriant planet with lots of vegetation. It looked very wild with very high trees and tall plants of all sorts and all colors. They didn’t need breathing masks on Obita. Quite the contrary: the air was extremely clean due to the large variety of plants and trees. It was the cleanest air Delia had ever breathed although she came from a mountainous area where the air was cleaner than in the rest of the zones anyway. But the air on Obita was not only clean but also full of flowery smells and scents from all the vegetation and flowers and blossomed trees. It was magnificent although rather wild. Obita was a very small planet. It was as small as Earth’s moon or maybe a little smaller. It was like a small paradise with all that vegetation. But exactly because of all that vegetation there were also many types of insects and animals of all sorts and sizes living there among the leaves, trees and thick blades of grass. 15

And not all those insects or animals were friendly so to say. Some of them,

although tiny, were quite deadly.

Delia was awe struck by the beauty and the wilderness of this place. She was

happy and grateful beyond words for having been given the opportunity to see it and to have Al by her side. She had to pinch herself to make sure it wasn’t a dream. She couldn’t believe that only days ago she was a waitress at the local restaurant. And now she was here on this remote planet with an alien by her side, her future husband. She was in love for the first time. And for the only time as she knew she would spend the rest of her life with him. Her life had turned from

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ordinary and boring to exciting and thrilling. Every day was a day of wonders for her and a day to be grateful for what she had been given by God. They had to make their way through the tall grass and plants towards Nick’s headquarters. Al had to use his laser gun a few times to cut away the grass and bushes which were so tall that they could hardly advance otherwise. The vegetation was teeming with life. Hardly had Delia thought of all the insects she could see everywhere when she felt something small and hairy crawl on her arm. She looked and saw something black and with a shiny red dot as its head. It had many tiny legs, she didn’t count them, and it was hairy and crawling towards her shoulder. She panicked and gave a loud shriek.

- Don’t move, she heard Al’s voice. But his voice seemed to be coming from so far away even though somewhere in the back of her mind she knew that in fact Al was right by her side.

- Huh? She barely managed to answer when it all went black, as black as the back of the insect crawling on her arm.

Nick’s headquarters was a square building of glass and steel and it almost looked like a building from Earth, just a little different in design. Nick was the owner of the building. He owned the trading business and had a few other employees besides Al. It was a two- storey building with his office on the upper storey. On the first floor there was something like a tavern where aliens of all races gathered to do business and have a drink and something to eat. Nick himself 16did business with many of his customers besides selling them food and water; which by the way, was more expensive than the food. Nick was at his desk in his office when suddenly the door flung open and Al entered with a young a beautiful woman in his arms. She didn’t seem well.-Look what the cat dragged in! Said Nick while looking at the woman in Al’s arms. She seemed sound asleep. Come take a seat. Who is this young beauty and what’s wrong with her?

-She is my betrothed. She was stung by a black grass spider. She is poisoned and needs help fast. Can you please help her?

-Lore-Dana! Come here baby! Al heard Nick say although he had no idea who he was talking to. Had he been gone for that long that Nick had finally met a woman? He had been a loner all his life. He figured he would find out in a moment.

A slender medium dark- haired woman appeared from behind a door

on the left of his office. She was quite beautiful. She had dark eyes and a small oval face. She was short and seemed rather skinny than slender. But

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she was beautiful by any standards. Then when she turned, Al saw something out of the ordinary: she had a pair of wings! He had never seen such a creature before. This reminded him that the Universe was humongous and that there were a lot of mysteries to be discovered.

-Yes Nick, she said in a sweet melodious voice and then she kissed him. They were an odd pair to look at: he was a muscular creature with four huge arms while she was so tiny and frail. But her wings were magnificent! She could fly!

-This is my employee and also an old friend of mine, Nick added, and it seems his future wife needs your healing knowledge. It appears she was stung by the most poisonous spider around, the black one! Help her quick or he might lose her!

-Put her down there, Lore-Dana almost whispered and she pointed towards a comfy sofa in the far corner of the office. I’ll be right back! And saying that she spread her transparent wings and flew through an opening in the wall which back on Earth would have been a window. But here it was just that: a plain opening in the wall, no window whatsoever. Though there 17were windows on the first floor so Al figured here the openings were left without glass on purpose for Lore-Dana to be able to fly in or out whenever she felt like it.

-Where did she go? Asked Al as she had left so fast; although he had tried reading her mind the moment he saw her, he couldn’t. The second person whose mind he couldn’t read. It was beginning to annoy him, make him feel less… gifted.

-I don’t know, answered Nick, but I am sure she’ll be back to save your fiancé. What’s the name of this beautiful angel?

-Her name is Delia. She is from Terra. She is my soul mate. I can’t lose her, Nick.

-You won’t, calm down. I am sure… but he couldn’t finish his sentence as Lore-Dana flew back inside through the same opening she had flown out a few minutes earlier. See? Told you. And Nick had a smile on the corner of his lips. He was so proud of his future wife as he was sure she would save poor Delia.

Meanwhile Lore-Dana approached Delia with a dark purple flower in

her tiny hands. The flower was fading fast. It was obvious it had just been

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picked up but it was already withering away.

-Ugh… said Al with irritation in his voice, are you kidding? She is passed out and you brought her a flower? Excuse me, he went on nervously because he felt helpless and didn’t know what to do, but I don’t think she can smell it right now…

-Hush, Lore-Dana said and put her index finger on Al’s lips to make him shut up. Then she went straight to Delia and squeezed the flower on her lips until a tiny droplet of juice fell from it on Delia’s lips. Delia instinctively licked it and slowly the color returned to her cheeks. Then she opened her eyes and first thing she saw was Lore-Dana looking down at her. Then she saw her wings.

-Oh… Delia finally said. I died. So this is heaven? She addressed Lore-Dana thinking that she was an angel because she saw her wings. What are you doing here, Al? Did you also die?

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-Oh, thank you both so much for saving my love, Al addressed both Nick and Lore-Dana with gratitude in his eyes.

-Saving? Asked Delia confused.

-You aren’t dead, silly! He said and took her in his arms and kissed her till she could hardly breathe. Welcome back! Although I can understand your reaction at seeing Lore-Dana. I haven’t seen such a creature before, either. You were stung by that spider that crawled on your arm earlier and she saved you.

-Oh, and I thought I was in heaven and that she was an angel! Now if I think about it, said Delia in a playful tone, she looks like a fairy! Thank you for saving my life!

-I don’t know what an angel or a fairy is but you are welcome, answered Lore-Dana bowing gracefully.

-Eh, never mind… thank you again, Delia said slowly getting up from the sofa. You must be Nick, Al has told me so much about you!-Yes, Nick answered without taking his eyes off Lore-Dana, and this here is my future wife. Her name is Lore-Dana and we will be married by the end of the month. Nice to meet you. Now if you girls want to excuse us, Nick added on a more serious note, Al and I have some business to discuss. Follow me, Al! And Al winked at Delia meaning that everything was alright

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and then he followed Nick to his office.

Back at Nick’s desk, Nick and Al were already discussing business.-So what happened? Nick asked him after they both took a seat at Nick’s desk. Where have you been all this time? And where is my cargo? You were supposed to get here so long ago that I am not even sure how long it’s been.

-It’s a long story, Al answered calmly as he read Nick’s mind and knew that Nick wasn’t upset for his cargo anymore. He was too much in love with Lore-Dana, the beautiful winged little creature.

-Well, could you sum it up a bit at least? Nick asked again. 19

-Yeah, of course. I crashed on one of the forbidden planets due to a malfunction in one of the engines and most of your cargo was lost. Even water… he said on purpose to see Nick’s face. But then he quickly added: but I have bought you three times more water than I was supposed to in order to make up for the other stuff. Fresh water from Earth. So are we even?

-Are you kidding? And he slapped Al in a friendly manner on his back with one of his four hands. Three times more water? Of course we are OK then. Frankly speaking, Nick added more for himself, I thought all was lost. So three times more water is a very good deal. So tell me more about your plans, about this Earth and about her, he said looking back at Delia who was chatting with Lore-Dana.

-They seem to get along well, started Al who was glad at seeing Delia get along so well with Lore-Dana. You know that Valentinians only fall in love once in their lifetime. Well, I have fallen in love with her. She is my soul mate.

-No wonder, said Nick smiling slyly. She is a beauty to behold! But weren’t you supposed to fall in love with one of your own kind if my knowledge about your race is not wrong?

-I thought so too. But God works in mysterious ways, said Al as Delia had introduced God to him and Al, although he had never heard of God before, liked and believed what Delia said. In the time they spent together on Earth, Delia had turned Al into a believer. He really believed that a supreme being, no matter what the name of that being was, was responsible for

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everything. Delia had told him that there were more than one religion on Earth and that the other religions called God in different ways, Allah and so on. But it was the same one and only God. And as God had created heaven and Earth and humans and every living thing on Earth, animals and vegetation, he had also created the aliens and their planets. God’s might is limitless.-Huh? Asked Nick puzzled. Who is God?-Also a long story but you can ask Delia and she will gladly tell you more about him.

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-I will. If God is responsible for your meeting her, then he must be a cool guy!

-Ha-ha! You have no idea! Said Al laughing. But I’ll let Delia tell you more about him. Who knows, maybe you’ll like him too. Later that evening Al and Delia bid Nick and his future wife farewell and returned to their ship. Their next destination was Al’s home planet this time, Valles.