Regeneration

Posted on Mon Nov 2nd, 2020 @ 7:03am by Commander Arrianna Salannis an Vantar & Commander Runyon ( Barclay de Tolly )

Mission: Side Mission: The Aftermath of Kronos
Location: Ilya's Home
Timeline: Current
1800 words - 3.6 OF Standard Post Measure

It has been two hours since Cassius and Ilya have had turned over the prisoner and the evidence to authorities. Cassius was not feeling anything yet even though the DNA scan shows he has been given El Aurian and Being DNA. "Ilya," Cassius asks, "I have to stay here for at least two days, maybe longer. Do you have a spare room?" What he really wanted to say was could he stay with her in her room.

Ilya nodded and gestured to Cassius to follow her. She lead him to a converted transport that was remodeled into a house. Complete with gardens and the decor one expected from Alindari.

Cassius looked around. "I like the peace of your home. It reminds me of a Buddhist friend I once knew."

"We are only violent when we must be, Cassius." Ilya noted.

"Could you excuse me for thirty minutes," Cassius said as felt sweat. "I need to take a shower. "

Ilya showed him into the shower. While he showered, she prepared a meal. Vegetarian for her, but with some courses containing seafood and other meats for her guest.

Cassius came out of the shower and dried himself. He felt his body was fighting the regeneration process from the DNA. His muscles did seem to become tighter,so he had to measure himself. He walked out with his clothes on but no shirt. "I need to find where I place my medical tricorder , so I can measure my size now."

Ilya showed him to the guest room and helped place his belongings inside. "I'll have dinner ready when you're done."

She went downstairs and prepared two candles on the table with the food.

Shortly later Cassius came down as he had replicated a shirt as his muscles were very ripped. Seeing the romantic display with the candles, feeling the aviance and mood as he gazed in her eyes, he saw her as a very attractive woman now as felt real love for the first time in his life. "Ilya...I...love it."

Ilya smiled at him and nodded. Giving him body language that just said 'I want to love you.'

At the moment he could not read her mind but he saw in her body language. "Love to me is important. It is built on trust. I trusted you send still trust you and I feel I will always trust you." He placed one hand on her lower back. "I love you Ilya."

"We must have something to live for, Cassius. Otherwise we become hollow. I may be a shadow, but I am not hollow." She noted. "Everything I do is for Empress and Imperium."

"What I want to live for is love," Cassius says as he notices his fingers are getting razor sharp. "Klingons have ceremonies about blood bonding Either love or friendship." He slits his wrist out of instinct, "Taste my blood," he says as he gives her his blood. "Drink of my blood and let me drink of yours so we pledge to each other our fidelity." He places the wrist to her mouth so she may drink and likewise mirror his actions.

When the blood was shared he instantly felt her mind. His mind recalled an extremely painful incident on a destroyed colony.

He saw Ilya take down two more colonists who looked like they had their eyes rolled up in the back of ther heads. Just white pupils. They were more meat-puppets than sentients. Completely hollow.

"Hello Ilya." She looked at her mother. "Mother... Father... Sister?"

"These voiceless fools. Their minds are enclosed shells. Worthless." Her father noted. "They do not share thoughts or understand each other, Sister. The only good they are is for Labor."

Ilya looked at them. "No... You haven't."

"They are all lesser minds, Ilya. Look at them. How easily their consciousness falls. They were made for us. To become our hands. We know what is good for them. Only we have the intelligence to understand their fate." Her mother noted.

"Join with us, Sister. And we will write a new chapter for our Empire. Just like Tirielle did so long ago. They will serve us.. Feed us.. Die for us.."

Ilya looked at them and She began to decieve their thoughts. shielding herself from them. "Alright, I'll join you."

They nodded with each other. "Good, Ilya. Please go hollow out more of these wretched colonists for the ma...." Illya shot her mother... She then shot her father before he could draw his weapon disintegrating them both. Her sister Sharsa took cover. "How dare you!! You killed them."

"And I shall kill you Sharsa." Ilya darted out from cover to cover, opening fire until she closed the distance and drew her sword. Metal clashed as the two sisters battled. "DO you not see we are superior to these shell-brains?

"Warlord..." Ilya continued to fight. "You are a warlord. I cannot bear to see you feed your base nature, Sharsa. We all have evil inside us. You've fed yours with greed and prejudice. You are a Warlord. You bask in conquest."

"Yes... I do Ilya. It will be glorious. Armies.. Loyal to me.. Rolling forth in my name to crush all beneath me!!!" Ilya sobbed. "No... Sharsa... I have to end you." Ilya continued fighting her own sister until Ilya caught her offguard. slicing a gash across her face.

Sharsa screamed. "Arghhh. This ien't over... I'll come back and rend you to pieces Ilya." Sharsa tossed a flashgrenade and Ilya took cover. When the light cleared. Sharsa was gone.

"Tirelle forgive me." Ilya began sobbing over the place her parents fell. "Give me dishonor, not my house!!!"

Cassius cried as it was real. His mind felt drunk a bit as they were both drank from the wrist as his memory came up. He was still a teenager and he was on the planet Hellsguard. He was with his big brother Zodok and his little sister Angelica. Something had just happen which was not suppose to happen or maybe it did.

"Children," Captain Addison Blaire says, "I have to return to the future with the USS Relativity to the future. History records I died this day but I did not. I have have to go."

"NO!" Angelica says who was barely a teenager. "THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY!"

"YES ANOTHER WAY!" Cassius waled as well."You can not go."

"Brother! Sister!", Zodok says to them both, "She stays she has to die. Every minute she stays, she risks the timeline changing. She was from the future and the future she must return."

"Damn Time Travel," Angelica says crying, "It sucks."

Addison gave each of her three children kiss. "Do not ever look back. You must move forward. The Captain has assured me your destiny is for you to stay here. Zodok, you are the oldest. Promise me you will look out for them."

"On my father's name I shall," Zodok promised.

Before another word was spoken, Addison was beamed away. Zodok comforted his two siblings.

Angelica says to her brothers, "I swear I will see my mother again one day."

Next moment both Cassius and Ilya came to reality as they look at each other. "Ilya. I am your mate now as we are now bonded. I understand why Angelica did what she did. She and I will live long enough to see our mother one day."

"So that's why she did what she had to do." Ilya mentioned.

Cassius whose regeneration was happening could see what was happening. "Ilya. When you drank my blood, it was still Resequencing. You too will live long as Angelica and I. We are truly bounded for eternity my Imzadi.

"Now you know my pain. Watching your parents become your worst enemy." Ilya mentioned. "I had to put them down."

"Your pain is my pain and my pain is yours," he says as could smell the food cooked. "I am with you always. We are mates. Let's eat and finish the day as we consummate our love and union."

*Later*

Ilya brought Cassius in and smiled as she began to unholster her weapons. She had phaser pistols and disruptors in the most strategic positions. Along with a leg holster containing all sorts of goodies.

Cassius was enjoying immensely what he was watching as he removed his belt. "I feel this universe has a way of bringing two who are right for each other. May I help you or what would like for me to do my mate."

Ilya suddenly and gracefully with a elegant martial arts kata, flipped him onto the bed. It was graceful and precise, She wanted him on the bed now. "You talk too much Cassius Blaire." She smiled and kissed him repeatedly. (Fade to Black)

The two agents made unrestrained love. Both of them unleashing themselves upon each other. Both of them sharing in the transformation happening within Ilya.

"Well," he says touching her stomach, "First our regeneration is complete. We made passionate love for hours. Both of those events plus you were ovulating has caused you to become pregnant with twins. Look at your nails and feel your teeth. They are all sharp. Besides being Alindari, we are both Talosian Betazoid Chameleloid El Aurian and what I assume is some kind of immortal race."

Ilya spoke. "Let's not advertise this. You know how I don't like to talk about myself.

"Agreed except for your pregnancy," Cassius says as he could sense the twins. "Before I carried you to the water, I ran a medical tricorder over you. The embryos are growing with a one to ten ratio using the Terran Scale. Another words, you will have the twins in twenty-eight days. "

Ilya spoke. "I still desire to be an agent of the Imperium. This is all I know.. My love of knowledge, art... music... My soul is Alindari." She noted. "Immortal? I may decide I want to pass on one day, Cassius. An Aea cannot remain in a finite universe." She mentioned. "it's our greatest fear. Existing in a void."

"We must one day leave this universe behind."

"Ilya," Cassius says placing his right palm on her left cheek. "Our main DNA is our dominant DNA. This immortal one will only allow us to live longer. We could live one thousand to maybe five thousand. We will die one day. Make no mistake about that."

Ilya smiled and looked at a rose. "Roses bloom, and one day they must wilt. It's beautiful and not a tragedy."

"And if thy rose blessed," Cassius says as he about to give her a kiss, "It may be used in a potion of perfume or jacuzzi filled with petals." He kisses her lips gently as for now, she is the soon to be mother of her children.