Chapter 47

It took a while for things to settle down in the encampment. Soo Hong's family swarmed her the moment she made her presence known. They all wanted to know what was going on. The same thing happened with Gaeta, although the cave women were more subdued in their reaction. It was one of the first things I noticed about them. Once the firing had stopped and the other Cro-Magnon women had picked themselves up out of the dirt. Then one by one, they had come forward to greet Gaeta. From the look of it, one woman out of the group did most of the talking once all had greeted Gaeta. I just stood there for a minute or two watching and wondering to myself. While I was doing this, I heard someone clear their throat and speak to me.

"Umm," the voice said tentatively, "if you don't mind, could you help us out?"

I looked towards the voice and noticed it was the stool talking to me. My eyes widened with surprise as I gazed into the finely chiselled features of an alien woman.

"Hello," she said when I didn't respond immediately. "Do you understand me? If you do, can you help? I'd really appreciate some assistance here."

"Okay," I answered slowly, "how can I help you?"

It turned out that Asana and her sister, Bizana were stuck. Buktohesh had a device on his body that controlled the form that they took and without it, they couldn't return to their normal physical state. Asana begged me to search Buktohesh's body and find the device. Nodding my assent I did just that. Quickly I knelt down beside Buktohesh's corpse and I started to search him. I came up with a couple of interesting items, of which one was obviously a weapon of some sort. I gathered the items up and then showed them one at a time to Asana.

The first thing I showed Asana looked exactly like a pistol. Asana confirmed that it was Buktohesh's personal weapon; a state of the art laser pistol. I put that into my belt and moved on. The second item I showed her was a three inch long, half inch in diameter metallic cylinder that was dangling from a length of chain. Asana informed me that it was the master universal translator and that we'd need it to keep communications going amongst the various species here. I put that about my neck and tucked it into my shirt. The last thing I showed Asana was the device Buktohesh had used to force her and her sister to change shape. It was a small flat metallic panel mounted on a clip-on wristband. The panel was covered with a dozen different raised buttons like a keypad. Asana slowly walked me through which combination to push that would return her and her sister to their normal forms. Obediently, I followed her instructions to the letter. The results were interesting.

There was a shimmering about both women as they began to change shape. The outline of their form became distorted for a few seconds as things progressed. Slowly everything came together in a small ball of green light and then they separated into two distinct columns standing side by side. The two columns took shape and then solidified. What remained when the light faded were two naked alien women. Both were gorgeous. They were tall, with long limbs and a slender waist. They both were well endowed with breasts that defied description. In many ways they looked like a statue, with well defined lines and a look of elegance. Their skin was a shade of bluish-green and they had dark blue lips and areolas. Their long bedraggled hair was a greenish-blonde. It hung down their backs to the bottom of their spines. Their hair obscured a pair of well defined pointed ears. As for their sex, it was covered in a matching thatch of hair. It took effort to pull my eyes off of their naked forms and in the end it was their voices that drew my attention up to their faces.

"Oh thank-you," Asana declared enthusiastically, "thank-you very much."

"Yes," exclaimed her sister Bizana with equalled enthusiasm, "thank-you Master for freeing us."

Master? The word struck me and immediately caught my attention. I looked at both women and saw that they were bowing their heads submissively as they both spoke.

"What do you mean by Master?" I asked bluntly.

"You are our new Master," Asana replied softly but firmly. "You have killed our former owner and Master, Buktohesh and because you have done this, you are our master."

"No," I said curtly, without thought, "I'm not your master. A person doesn't own another person where I come from and that's that. Do you hear me?"

"Yes Master," both women squeaked in reply.

I didn't get a chance to argue with them anymore. By then I noticed that others were milling about gawking at me. In front of these people were Soo Hong and Gaeta. To my horror, the majority of them were half naked. There were a few who were dressed in furs like Gaeta and Soo Hong had been, but they were few and far between. Some had on rags that had once been shirts and pants but most had one or the other and not both. It was a sorry sight. It was almost as bad as their physical appearance. Obviously, Gaeta and Soo Hong had been a lot better off than the rest of these people had been. A quick look showed me a bunch of hungry looking individuals who were in need of food and a good bath. I felt sorry for them and knew that they were my new priority for the time being. I started barking orders right away.

"Lizzy," I said to my daughter, "get your sister and some help and hoof it back to our vehicles. If you can move them down here, do so immediately. If you can't then gather up as much food as you can and any extra stuff like clothing and bedding and get back here as soon as you can."

I then turned to Vicky who had just walked up to me from climbing down from the ridge. With a quick word to her, I tasked her to collect all the weapons that the Turtle soldiers had been using. I also asked her to grab a couple of Cro-Magnon women and get them to help her dump the carcasses of Buktohesh and the Turtle soldiers into the pit that they'd been digging. Vicky just nodded her acknowledgement and went off to do it. That left me alone with the two groups we'd rescued and Buktohesh's personal attendants. Since I didn't want to get into a lengthy discussion with the two alien women, I turned my attention to the others. The first group I addressed was Soo Hong's family.

"Hi folks," I said forcing a smile onto my face, "I hope all of you are okay. By the way, my name is Adam and you can all call me that. I hope Soo Hong has been telling you about me and my family. If not, it doesn't matter much at the moment. What does is that we're going to take care of you. We've got food and transportation and hopefully we can help you out."

Naturally that started a bit of chatter and people started asking questions that I didn't want to answer at the moment. I waved to them to pipe down and then told them that all the questions would be answered later, but for now I wanted to speak to Gaeta's people. It didn't go over as well as it could, but I didn't care. Instead I turned to Gaeta's people and spoke to them. I essentially gave them the same spiel as I'd given Soo Hong's family. They just nodded and smiled. I appreciated that.

"All right now," I called to everyone, trying to get them all to pay attention to me. "I've sent people to see if they can bring our vehicles down here and if not bring down some food and water for you people. Our main concern is what we're going to do next. It's mid-afternoon right now, so we're going to have to decide whether we head back to our camp in the valley or to stay here for the night. Our camp in the valley is only a campsite and not our settlement. Our big problem is transport. We don't have a lot of it and we'll only be able to carry out a few of you at a time. For now I'd suggest that we all gather by the fire pit and wait until the rest of my family gets back here."

It took almost an hour for my family to return and in that time I got to meet all of our new acquaintances. Soo Hong decided to take the lead in things from the very start. I'd just gotten comfortable on a log by the fire when Soo Hong dragged over four individuals. They included three young women that looked a lot like Soo Hong and one teenage male. The male was obviously her great-grandson. I rose from my seat when they stopped in front of me.

"Adam," Soo Hong said with obvious pleasure, "I would be honoured to introduce my great-grandson to you and his family. This is James Dong and his wife Olivia. The two girls are Katherine and Sally. Sally is the youngest of us. She is truthfully only fourteen."

I gave them all a quick once over as I moved to greet them. James Dong was a slight looking boy who couldn't have been more than ninety pounds in weight. There was some muscle to his arms and legs but there wasn't much. He was wearing a pair of cut-off shorts and a pair of battered up sneakers and that was it. His wife Olivia was about five feet tall and an inch taller than her husband. From the look of it she weighed even less than her husband and she had almost no muscle definition. She was wearing a dirty, torn t-shirt that reached to her upper thighs and that was it. I couldn't see the outline of any other garments under the shirt. She looked attractive even under the grime that covered her extremities, and I noticed that she had nice pair of bumps in the front of her t-shirt. They weren't more than an 'A-Cup' but they were certainly more than Soo Hong had. Her daughters looked exactly like their mother in everything except breast size. Both girls were also wearing soiled t-shirts. In their case, the t-shirts barely covered them. Both girls blushed with embarrassment as my eyes slipped over them. It was to be expected. Soo Hong had already told me that the eldest had just turned sixteen and the youngest was only fourteen. I was certain that neither of them had been checked out before in such an obvious manner. Drawing my gaze away from them I turned my attention to their father.

"Hello," I responded, extending my hand in greetings as I did. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Hello," James Dong replied enthusiastically, grabbing my hand and shaking it, "and thank-you for rescuing all of us. Nai has told us that you saved her and the others from those four-armed monstrosities. We're very happy that you did and that you came for us as well. You've taken us completely by surprise. We hadn't expected anyone to help us."

"Well," I said, shrugging off his thanks, "it wasn't that big of a deal. We were out exploring when we came upon her and her companions being attacked by the Grk'to and since we'd experienced them before, we just did what we had to do to end the problem. As for rescuing you, that wasn't anything as well. The truth is that there was no way my family was going to let some alien get away with enslaving people."

"Still," James replied humbly, "we're in you debt and we thank-you again for helping us."

I left it and that and released James' hand. As I did, his wife stepped forward and grasped my hand into hers. Hers was very tiny compared to mine.

"Yes," Olivia Dong reiterated with a serious look upon her face, "thank-you Adam for rescuing us. We are all in your debt."

I just smiled in reply, not wanting to repeat myself again. I knew instinctively that we'd be at it for a while if I kept telling them it was nothing so I just let it go. I did let my eyes drift over Olivia for a moment or two longer than it was necessary, but she was cute and the excitement of being rescued had obviously stirred things up in her. Her little nipples were pointing up against the tight material of her t-shirt and it was a very inviting sight.

Of course Olivia noticed where my eyes had drifted and while she didn't protest, she did blush. That made her look even cuter and I started to wonder what it be like to plough her furrow. It surprised me to be thinking that way, considering the fact she looked a lot like a child, but I just couldn't help it. I just shrugged it off on the fact that half the people about us were almost naked and I was just reacting to it.

Fortunately Soo Hong came to my rescue. She had other relatives that she wanted to introduce me to and I decided to let her do it. It would distract me from thinking about screwing another man's wife.

It didn't take long to meet the rest of Soo Hong's family. The next person up was Elizabeth Chow. She turned out to be Olivia's fifty-eight year old mother. I groaned silently to myself when I saw her. She looked exactly like her daughter, right down to her cup size. It didn't help matters much when instead of just shaking my hand Elizabeth decided to throw her arms about me and give me a hug. True I was wearing armour under my clothing and I couldn't feel anything but the thought of her little bumps pressed up against me caused a stirring in my loins. I'm certain that Elizabeth had felt it. When she finally drew away from me, she gave me a knowing look in the eye that left no doubt in my mind.

Of the other dozen family members that remained to be introduced, two of them were note worthy. One was Laurie Dong who was James' sister-in-law through her marriage to his brother Robert. She was a cute little kitten with the largest set of tits in the family. She had a whopping pair that measured '28B+' which looked huge on her tiny frame. Unfortunately, I already knew that she was being screwed by James and therefore off limits. The other noteworthy was Shaba Dong. Shaba was James' sister-in-law as well. She'd been married to his youngest brother Richard. What made Shaba interesting was the fact that she was Indonesian. Soo Hong whispered to me that Richard Dong had been the black sheep of the family for marrying the woman and that poor Shaba had borne the brunt of the family's bias since arriving on this world. While of Chinese descent, it was obvious from her features that she favoured the rounder look inherent in women from South-East Asia. That difference made her stand out amongst the other family members and it was obvious that the other women resented her for it. Personally, I found her attractive and very desirable, considering that from the shoulders on down Shaba looked no difference than the rest of the women in Soo Hong's family; just like a fourteen year old teenage girl.

After meeting all of Soo Hong's family I moved on and greeted the members of Gaeta's band. It proved to be interesting. Gaeta started with the women who'd taken mates on arriving on this planet and then worked her way through the unmated women. For the most part they all looked the same to me. All of them were roughly five-foot six or better and well built. They had muscular arms and legs and they all looked to be in their late teens. All of them were in need of a good bath and a shampoo. Their bodies and hair were encrusted with grim. In many ways they were better dressed than Soo Hong's family and that was saying a lot. What clothing that they had was made from animal skins or furs. All wore a tunic of some sort and many had furs wrapped about their feet. I just smiled at them and nodded as Gaeta mention each of their names, trying to ignore that each of them were looking at me like a cat getting ready to pounce. Luckily my family returned and gave them something else to gawk at.