Evil Kraye
ALIEN KING KARN'S POV
Kraye somehow managed to free himself from hold.
He stung me with his claws. "Fuck, you fucker," I clenched my teeth while holding the side of my face.
Crab aliens were very dangerous. They had deadly venoms that could wipe out an alien in less than a minute. Being a king and living for thousands of years had made me inject all sorts of antidote against different aliens and space animals in order to protect myself.
Space was quite cunning. No one was to be trusted. I once had a trusted friend poison me and take one of my wives as his.
My sons have been killed by fellow government officials during times where I sent them on inter-planet visits for peace. Crab King Kraye got nothing on me!
I always knew he was a sneaky man that was not to be trusted. He came to my planet to beg me for lithium supplies and suddenly decided that taking a human I held dear to my heart was the best? Fool!!
"Bring it on!!" I mocked, my skin healing immediately. "There's nothing you'd try to poison me with that I won't overcome."
"I know you're fortified. I'm not stupid," Kraye replied with a smirk on his face. "I'm not oblivious to the fact that you're one of the most powerful men in space. But of one thing is for sure, I'd make sure to feed your corpse to my pets, old horny fart!!"
"How dare you barge into my planet, trying to start war for a human you never treated right?" Kraye continued.
I laughed. "You're talking about treating a woman right? How did your first wife die? Did you not accuse her of sleeping with the cook?"
Kraye was quiet.
"You didn't even give her a chance to prove herself. You killed the cook, fried him with flour and ginger and forced your first wife to eat it. And when you were done.."
"Mind your business!" Kraye cut in.
"Ha ha!! So now you believe people can mind their businesses huh? Did you not kill her afterwards without letting her drink water? You imported some human lions and threw her into a furnace. You forced your children to stand and watch!! Didn't you?" I asked.
Kraye refused to answer. His red crab face that held his ugly bushy brows furrowed into a frown. "Didn't you?" I yelled. "Tell me!!"
He tried to stab me with his sword, but I did not even move away. The blade hit my armor and snapped in half. I laughed in his face, a sound that was full of death. I reached out and grabbed his throat with one hand, lifting his feet off the floor.
"You want to talk about my daughter?" I growled. "I will show you the pain she felt."
I slammed him into a golden pillar. The gold cracked and the ceiling began to shake. Kraye hit the floor and coughed up a pool of blood. He scrambled back, looking for another weapon, but there was nowhere to hide. I kicked him in the ribs, and I heard the bones snap like dry wood. He let out a high scream that echoed through the hall.
"Where is your pride now, thief?" I asked.
He reached for a piece of the broken sword and tried to slash at my leg. I stepped on his wrist and crushed it. He howled, his face turning pale from the pain. I was not using my axe. I wanted to feel his skin tear under my bare hands. I wanted to feel his life fading out.
Suddenly, the big doors at the side of the hall swung open.
"Stop! Please, stop!"
It was Aurora. She was wearing a white wedding dress that trailed on the floor. Her hair was done up in jewels, and she looked beautiful, but her face was white with fear. She saw me standing over the bleeding Crab King and she gasped, her hands going to her mouth.
"Karn!" she cried out.
I turned my head to look at her. Seeing her in that dress, the dress Kraye bought for her, made my blood boil even hotter. I looked back down at the Crab King.
"Look at her, Kraye," I hissed. "Look at the woman you thought you could take from me."
Kraye looked at her, blood leaking from his nose. "Aurora... help... he is a monster..."
I grabbed him by the hair and dragged him across the floor toward her. Every time he groaned, I pulled harder. I stopped right at her feet. The white silk of her dress began to soak up the red blood from his wounds.
"Is this the man you wanted?" I asked Aurora, my voice low and scary. "This thief who uses words like a knife? He told me about my daughter. He thought he could use my shame to win."
Aurora was shaking. She looked at Kraye and then at me. "Karn, you're hurting him! There is so much blood!"
"There will be more," I promised.
I picked Kraye up and threw him against the throne. He hit it so hard the seat of power for Planet 444 bent. I walked over and put my foot on his chest, pressing down until he could barely breathe. I looked back at Aurora.
"Take off that dress," I commanded. "It smells like him. It smells like this planet. I am taking you home, and I am going to burn every memory of this place out of your head."
The two Chiefs walked into the hall then, their armor covered in the blood of the palace guards. They looked at the broken Crab King and laughed.
"His army is gone, Karn," the first Chief said. "The trade routes are ours. The gold is ours. What do you want to do with the man?"
I looked at Aurora, who was crying now. Then I looked at Kraye, who was dying under my boot.
"Leave him to me," I said. "I have a lot more to tell him about what happens to thieves."