![](../../_themes/sumipntg/sumhorsa.gif)
The Writers Voice
The World's
Favourite Literary Website
![](../../_themes/sumipntg/sumhorsa.gif)
The End But Yet the Beginning
by
Timothy Manassah
![](../../_themes/sumipntg/sumhorsa.gif)
'Twas a sunny day in the world of Groth
although it is always sunny in a world as barren and desolate as Groth. Groth is
a dry desert world consisting of 8 major deserts and the 17 different mountain
areas that surround them.
Lopeth, a lowly human, was out scouting to
make sure no enemy Gavolt armies threatened the colony of humans that has been
established to further expand our grip on the fringe worlds. Lopeth mumbles to
himself, "God, humans suck. I should go to the Gavolts and tell them the
location of our base and pledge my allegiance but they would have me
killed and eaten before I said anything. Even if I did get a word out they
would not understand."
He casually walks along the edge of a cliff
not really expecting to see anything spectacular on this planet, but suddenly a
glint of sun reflecting off metal catches the corner of Lopeth's eye and he sees
an oncoming horde of Gavolt soldiers armoured for war.
"SHIT!" Lopeth yelled and began to run back
to the base, but he does not want to alert the humans to their presence.
He simply wants to get his wife Avalon out of the colony and to safe ground. He
knows the colony doesn't have a chance against an oncoming force. Due to
the human's law against unfair warfare humans are not permitted to use force.
That gives them a considerable disadvantage against another civilization in
battle, and since the Gavolt use only hand to hand weapons of steel so must the
humans in their defense. This is a rule that Lopeth has never understood as
especially in this case the human colony is very much outnumbered 100 to one and
the Gavolt know the terrain and methods of war while the humans "come in peace"
but will probably end up in pieces.
Lopeth ran until he was in sight of the
city, then proceeded to walk calmly into the city and towards his quarters.
"Anything to report?" questioned his
commanding officer Major Burdone.
"Nothing out of the ordinary," replied
Lopeth. His quarters were a small one bedroom apartment where he found his wife
and told her to come on his next reconnaissance as a romantic gesture. She
gladly accepted the offer as she knew how much he was risking to take her into
the outlands beyond the city walls.
They snuck out of the east gate and made
their way to the great Rocky Mountains, named after the ones back on Earth One.
They came to a place where they could see the whole city and they began a ritual
commonly known as making love, which was strictly forbidden for any peoples
without a license. Lopeth and Avalon didn't have one.
Avalon suddenly looked up from their sweaty
bodies and realised what Lopeth had done as the battle began and the Gavolt were
charging down the city walls. Of course the humans were fighting back but
their army consisted of forty-five troops, most of which were asleep, and the
oncoming horde of Gavolt consisted of more than five hundred warriors caring
only for victory and not for their own lives.
Within 30 minutes the battle was over.
All the humans were dead and their carcasses were being dragged off - probably
for food for the Gavolt. Avalon looked back down at Lopeth in disgust, not
realising they were still having sex, and glared into his eyes until her
eyeballs rolled back in the pleasure of the moment.
The horrific image of the colony's demise
was gone, and only the feeling of total ecstasy was going through her mind,
coupled with the fact that now they could do this whenever they pleased without
restriction as they would probably be assumed to be dead.
![](../../_themes/sumipntg/sumhorsa.gif)
Critique this work
![](../../images/book.gif)
Click on the book to leave a comment about this work
![](../../_themes/sumipntg/sumhorsa.gif)