Enter the Yautja

I opened my eyes to find two towering forms moving above me.I squinted ,trying to make them out.
Finally,my vison cleared and I was able to recognize Elder Garak and Ghan-tiel looking down at me.

"What happened?"I said, dazed as I tryed to sit up.

"I came on to you,you went into heat and lost conciouness"said Elder Garak, kind of embarrassed.

My eye brows crumpled and I grinded my teeth together as I finally sat up."OHHHH!MY HEAD!I feel like I downed a bottle of vodka!"I moaned, holding my throbing skull with both hands."What do you meen I went into heat and lost conciousness!"(that sounded so stupid!).

"My scientist told me that your body was flooded with Yautja hormones when you were arroused...Apparently,this caused you to go into full heat,just as Yautja females do...And your human body did not react well to that",said the Elder,then pointing to a small mark on my skin."You've received an injection, to illiminate them".

My eyes shifted to the scientist as he came up to me."Gy-gen,can you offer any explination as to why this could of happened?"he said, tilting his head to the side in question.

I paused to think."My mother told me that to make the shift between species,our morphing cells,located at the stem of our brains,had to be exposed to large quantities of the new d.n.a...This is achieved either by injection,directly into the blood stream,or by using the natural method..."
I noticed eyes full of question as I looked up."When our bodies are exposed to a certain amount of alien cells,through saliva for example,it triggers the transition state,wich consists in the groth of two tiny fangs inside the mouth.When this is happens,our instinct takes over,and we go after the nearest d.n.a. host,biting down on him(or her)hard, to extract blood(mandibles droped all around at this point).The extracted blood then flows down to a newly formed opening in the back of the throat.This openning allows the morphing cells to be submerged in the new d.n.a...,thus triggering full metamorphosis...Humans have many myths and stories derived from our kind's few visits on earth.They call us vampires!"I laughed.

You could have heard a pin drop.They all looked at each-other, and then to me again as I finished.
"I think what happened today,was my body's reaction to an infinatly small amount of Yauja cells,probably taken in by the air or in the water.My mother had told me this could happen,but it is rare".

After these words,Elder Garak ordered the others to complete their scans, and me, to get some rest.He then left the medical bay, punching in symbols on his gauntlet as he left.Ghan-tiel moved up to me, obviously still impressed with what I had revealed."How would you feel about sleeping in my quarters tonight?We could eat like....what do Oomans say....oh yes!Pigs!And then we could share life experiences and stories.What do you think?"she took my hand as she spoke.

I paused to think,and looked back up to her."Yah,I think I would really like that.A girls night,sure,sounds good".That would surely be the most normal thing I would experience in a while...(as if my life had ever been normal!)

The scientist ran a few last scans and the doctor ran some tests of his own.They consulted each other and then, when both were done,they gave me a clean bill of health(exept for the broken ribs)and allowed me to leave with Ghan-tiel.

Back in Ghan-tiel's quarters,she gave me a small night gown she had kept from when she was a teen.It fit me like a really short dress,but hell,much more comfortable to sleep with than my bikini armor, let me tell you!Then,came one of my favorite parts... FOOD!
We ordered shit-loads of it.Ribs(well it was some kind of animal's bones with meat),sea food(I could only guess from the tentacles),fruits(the sweetest I've ever had)and little puffs of..Well honestly,I didn't know what they were made of, and I didn't care.Everything was delicious.Mind you, Yautja only ate once every two days...So I was SO damned hungry, I think chocolate covered TURD would have been delicious at that point!!!

When we were done eating,we both layed back in Ghan-tiels, beyond king-sized bed.Hands on our tummys we sighed in satisfaction.
"Tell me about your mother",said Ghan-tiel as she turned to the side to face me,resting her head on her hand.

"Well...(memories came flooding in),my mother was a warrior...(Ghan-tiel's eyes fixed me intenstly).She had deep blue eyes and the thickest ,blackest hair you'd ever seen.She was drop dead gorgeous and she had more 'balls'then most of the men I've met(I had to explain to Ghan-tiel that it was just an expression).We had to move and change identities three times, because of the fact that we didn't age like other humans.Our kind rarely had dads that stick arround too,mostly because of the age thing.It was especially difficult when they would find out, that even though they had something to do with the conception,the child was not and would never actualy BE part of their species.

So,my mother, like most Gy-gen had to raise me alone.She worked the land so we could survive in the 40ies and 50ies,building us a home with her bare hands.We actually WERE "Little house on the prairie"back then!(Ghan-tiel looked at me in question,not understanding what I was laughing about).
Anyways,(I continued)in the 60ies we moved to British-Columbia,where she found a job as a teacher and I was able to go to high-school...She paid the bills and brought home the food,helping me threw school at the same time.
She just about never complained,no matter how tired she got(at these words I had to pause not to give in to the tears ,swelling up in my eyes).
We moved one last time in 1994.My mother had always dreamed about warm weather and city lights,so we moved to Los-Angeles.She impressed a big club owner down there, by beating the shit out of some ass-hole that was trying to start a fight.From that night on,she had a job as a bouncer!I know,crazy isn't it!Back then I was teaching self-defense to teenage girls at a local community center.Life was really good for us ,up until...(I paused to collect myself again)up until she died...and then I was alone".

Ghan-tiel looked at me,deep in thought."How do you comunicate with other's of your kind?" she asked,her mandibles fluttering.

"It rarely happen's...Sometimes when we are lucky,wo cross paths with others of our kind.When that happens,we try to stay together as long as we can.Shapeshifting into the same species,one after the other...But most of the time , the circomstances are just to difficult for us to fallow each-other.Not all species have achieved long distance space travel...Like humans for example.
My mother and I were litteraly stranded on Earth...If you guys had not been schedualed to pass by Earth when you did,I would have died within the next year,bringning my kind even closer to the brink of extinction".

"Do you know how many of your kind are left?"Ghan-tiel asked.

"About three-hundred.Give or take a few"I said ,my eyes squinting as thow I were counting them.

"How do you know?"she asked.

"I can feel them.Inside my mind...Like tiny echoes of memories, but not mine...Every time a Gy-gen is born,all other Gy-gen know it right away,no matter how far away they are.A feeling of great joy overwhelms us inside, and we can't help but smile and feel proud,as if it wer our own...And when one of us dies,we are overwhelmed with sorrow, as the pshychic link between us is brutally severed".

Ghan-tiel seemed mezmerized by such a strangly different existance,as she stayed silent for quite a while.

"I've got a question for you...How does the Yautja mating thing work?I'd like to know before any other WONDERFUL surprises come up"I asked,figuring it was my turn to ask questions.

"Well...A Yautja female goes into heat about once every three months.When this happens,she starts feeling agressive and fearfull towards males,avoiding contact with them at first and eventually fleeing them all together.
When it gets to that point,the Yautja female can no longer function properly.She cannot tend to her duties nor to her pups for that matter.
There are always many willing males to mate,but only the strongest are allowed to.
The highest ranking males have first choice".

"Yeah ok,but the last time I saw,it turned into a 'foursome' so what's up with that, and what's up with the biteing?"I insisted,my most important questions not being answered.

"Well the male that has the right to mate can choose who he wants to take the female with him.Some choose members of their familly,like their brothers or their cousins,others invite friends in on it.And as for the biteing,when a female Yautja is in full heat as I said earlier,she cannot be approached, basicly, she just about looses her mind,so she definatly can't be mated.
Because of this,the lead male has to immobilise the female with the help of his chosen .Once she is immobilised, he proceeds to mark her and then injects her with a powerfull blend of feromones and relaxers, naturally pruduced by his tusks. When she is fanally calmed ,they proceed to take turns mating with the female one after the other".

(And she says all this like there's just nothin' to it)..."MOMMY!I WANNA GO HOME!!!!!!!"...Well at least I wasn't going to be "SURPRISED"...

I am so beyond exhausted!THANK-YOU Chancelor22 for the encouraging and constructive review!I went back to my other chapters and pressed the Enter key many times(LOL!!)Thus making this story easier to read.I also corrected Elder Garak's name where I screwed up cause I was just writting this story too fast(hope I got them all).WELL FOLKS HERE IS CHAPTER 8.It's 2 am,so I hope to God you like it cause it took lots of my sleep time!!!Thanks again Chancelor22!ENJOY!and bonne nuit mes chéris!!!