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  HYCN

  a Sci-Fi novel by

  D.S. Foliche

  Hycn

  By D.S. Foliche

  Copyright © 2013 Dimpho Sametsi

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

  ISBN: 9781311995926

  SMASHWORDS EDITION

  Published by Dimpho Sametsi

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Chapter One: Xerla

  Chapter Two: Cede & Tilyhn

  Chapter Three: Cooke

  Chapter Four: Xerla

  Chapter Five: Cooke

  Chapter Six: Cede

  Chapter Seven: Xerla

  About The Author

  CHAPTER 1: XERLA

  “This little exploration quest of yours shouldn’t take eons Kocz. I’m damn tired and need rest.” Xerla Crpye massaged her eyes but promptly reverted her concentration to her spacecraft’s controls. She nonchalantly shoved forward the lever on the left side of her cushioned seat, the small craft dived in response, losing its height by a few feet, and then straightened once more.

  “Kocz, engage me.” She spoke again. This time in an authoritative tone of voice, her voice a tad louder and ruder than previously. There was no response or acknowledgement whatsoever to her earlier statement. The fatigued outlandish warrior princess glanced outside to her left for the first time ever since she left The Maztica, Cede’s fighter craft’s lights were flashing wildly in the dark of space sixty or so meters to the left, but again she received no response like before. Regretting her decision to come along with Kocz, she returned her attention back to the monitors in front of her and sank further into her seat. She was utterly exhausted and sleepy.

  “You induced me to come along with you against my will, the least you can do is respond when I talk to you cunt.” Xerla barked lazily in Ekcyrien. Her native tongue. She was a very proud and somewhat arrogant Ekcyrien with a very short temper and a sharp tongue.

  Ekcyriens were an alien race of beings that looked and were “human” in everyway imaginable; the only slight difference was their long green hair and reddish skins. This race of technologically advanced beings resided in the many strange planets and sun systems within the Hycn galaxy. Originally Ekcyriens were from a huge planet with five moons and two suns named Ekcyr but due to overpopulation and other expansion reasons, this alien race was scattered throughout the entire Hycn galaxy now.

  “Fuckin' asshole, I said talk to me.” Xerla growled like an enraged mad dog about to sink its crooked and sharp 'saliva dripping' teeth into flesh. She loved and adored Kocz like a brother, but right now, she hated him with all her being. How he succeeded in getting her to come along with him to explore the wandering alien planet she wondered. She was exhausted, she should have been relaxing in her cozy quarters aboard The Maztica at the moment; immersed in comfort and bliss, far away in other Hycn worlds within her dreams killing dangerous wicked aliens. But Kocz had to bring her out here.

  “Yes! Finally! I wonder what is down there waiting for my eyes to feast on.” Kocz exclaimed excitedly. Their short flight from The Maztica had taken only about 3 minutes but to Kocz it had seemed like eternity. He was eager to explore the spinning planet. Exploring alien worlds and cultures was more his ‘thing’ than being a soldier.

  “Come on lets do this so we can head back to the carrier Xerla.” Kocz shouted ecstatically. His fighter craft sped and entered the dead planet’s atmosphere.

  A smile flickered across Xerla’s face as she realized why she’d agreed to come along with him. She’d agreed because it was an excuse to fly her anti-gravity fighter craft. She didn’t give a damn about exploring dead worlds and wandering planets. She was not the touring kind; there was nothing interesting in exploring dead worlds. Not for her anyway. There definitely wasn’t anything worth writing home about down there on the dead planet, only ruins of an alien civilization long dead. She too increased speed and followed Kocz.

  Darkness devoured the entire Okavango Delta whole, relieved that the Eskadet sun had finally retired, and it had for the umpteenth time, reclaimed its rule and supremacy over this vast patch of wasteland, which once upon a time was filled with all kinds of wildlife. This marked the beginning of another extremely long night. Seventy-four hours long the nights were, and very cold and dark they were. It was the same for the whole of planet earth. Not that it mattered anyway; nobody lived out here on earth’s surface anymore. Erect skyscrapers and other iconic structural formations that once covered the planet’s surface had been erased out of existence. The only evidence that the domain formerly harbored one of the universe’s super exceptional civilizations was the few dark forms of the shattered buildings remains, noticeable at night thanks to a very faint light emanated from distant stars hidden from sight by a thick cloud cover that forever hung above the dead planet.

  For a while it appeared this night wasn’t any different from the others that passed already. All changed in the blink of an eye however. Peculiar scorpion-like small constructs with pulsing white-blue lights at their tops and multiple differently colored lights flashing on their sides, tore through the dense cloud cover above. The two spacecrafts came cannonballing from the black skies with incredibly fast speeds like Lucifer’s bats from hell, and plunged downwards towards the still planet’s surface; their intense dazzling lights facing downwards, fixed on the surface of the dead planet earth. The crafts’ dizzying speeds dropped abruptly, they appeared to hover overhead for a second, and then swooped further downwards as if they were starved hawks locked onto prey. The dark erratic shadows they cast on the surface with their blinding white beams of light danced and touched tips with one another, changing shapes instantaneously as the spacecrafts soared past at very low altitudes, heading south. These unusual vessels maintained their low altitudes and proceeded southwards at an unhurried pace, their pilots’ eyes glued to the ruins below.

  Xerla was barely paying attention to the ruins below. Her craft’s comforting hum made it a huge task to keep her eyes open as she and Kocz kept gliding onwards smoothly. They were now passing Kgalagadi desert.

  “Kocz, I literally can’t keep my eyes open, my body is shitting down by itself.” Again Xerla received no response from her partner.

  “Seriously Kocz?”

  “Was still taken by the ruins below.” Kocz responded. “Look, some of the structures are still standing. I would love to go at least a thousand miles before we can head back to the carrier”

  “Come on, we‘ll explore the planet later. We have lots of time to explore. We will be here for three full days remember? Let’s go back, I’m really tired.” Xerla pleaded. She might have been in love with flying but at the moment her body was almost at its limit, she needed sleep.

  “Just a few miles. Please?” Kocz beseeched.

  “Fine. Just a few miles, not more than two hundred though. When we reach the two hundredth mile mark from here, I am returning to The Maztica. With or without you.” Xerla told him.

  “Aaaah, party-pooper. Don’t tell me you aren’t mesmerized by the beauty of the ruins below.” Kocz said quizzically.

  “Not even slightly. Although I do wonder what transpired on this planet for it to have lost orbit, to be plunged into deep space, cursed to be forever spinning in the cold and cruel space.” She informed him.

  “It’s simple. This planet’s people angered God. This is what happens when you piss him off.” Kocz commented. He was a devout Inzperu. The one and only existing religion in all of Ekcyr. The Inzperu credited a god named Zuralyrkro to have created planets, galaxies and all life in the whole multiverse. Theirs was a religion that acknowledged the existence of sentient extra-terrestrial life forms in other
space vectors, and encouraged people to love one another and live peacefully. Although like most religions in the multiverse, The Inzperu also preached against their ‘the devil’ and warned the religion’s followers about the looming end times.

  “You Inzperu and your childish beliefs.” Xerla started. She loved getting into debates with him about his religion “You really believe that God did this?”

  “Tell me Kocz, how is it that you are a soldier, hold a degree in Physics yet you believe in this Inzperu crap?”

  “Being a killer and scientist does not necessary mean I should not believe in God.” Kocz debated.

  “But last time I checked most if not all science scholars like yourself said and agreed that the big bang created everything. Not some old guy with extremely long white beard dressed in all white residing above the clouds.” Xerla pressed him.

  “The big bang particle that exploded and formed the universe had to have a source it came and originated from right? That is where the big guy comes into the picture. The particle was created by him and it was him who made it explode to form everything.” Kocz said.

  Xerla chuckled. “If only you were listening to yourself! According to what you are saying then he too was created by some source which also had to be created by some other source and so on, since you say everything has to have a source.”

  “No other source created him. Zuralyrkro is omnipresent, divine and infinite, even five year olds know that. He has no beginning or end.” Kocz lectured, not knowing he was burying himself with the words. His little speech was exactly what Xerla was hoping for. She had cleverly set him a trap without him realizing it.

  “That sounds like energy to me. God then is energy in your own words – because of all things that exist in the universe that I know of, energy is the only infinite thing. Law of conservation of energy. It states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it transforms from one form to another. For instance potential energy can be converted to -”

  Kocz interrupted her before she could finish. He knew Xerla Crpye too well. If he did not cut her off, she was never going to stop talking trying to convert him to her way of thinking. She was not a religious person and thought religion was a lie to manipulate masses and a waste of time.

  “I forgot you are a non-believer. I shouldn’t have tried to reason with you. Though I got to ask - why are you like this?” Kocz interrogated her.

  “Like what?”

  “The way you are. Why don’t you believe in God like most normal people? There are probably billions of non-believers like you out there but you are the only one I know of personally. I mean, even my cousin is a rapist and murderer but he believes in God.”

  “Just because one doesn’t believe in a personalized divine source like you Inzperu doesn’t mean they should be bad and evil.” Xerla argued.

  “Really? Because every anti-Inzperu I hear of and read about are all evil. They all do pretty bad things.”

  “I’m not evil or bad, but I don’t believe in God. Well, not in a personalized God like you people. I believe we are all God. Everything that exist is a part of god, combined we make ‘god’, a perfect complete system.” Xerla responded.

  “I don’t- “

  She didn’t let him speak.

  “Everything that we do have consequences. Every bad deed I do is likely to have an undesired result or consequence and vice versa. Bad things that happen to us aren’t punishments from God, they are results of our own doings. The same also applies to good things that happen to us, they are not blessings from God but results of our own hard work and good deeds. It’s like that. If I treat people well and do good by them then it is highly likely they will treat me like I do them and do good by me too. The opposite also applies.”

  “Ok miss ‘God Is Energy’ – each to his own then! Leave me with my beliefs and I will leave you with yours. I see you aren’t swaying in your anti-God stand. However, know that he will judge you accordingly. It will be late then to –”

  “I knew it! You Inzperu always resort to that phrase. If someone does not believe in your religious views then they are unholy and should be punished. I know you have read about those holy wars in planet Nomm more than thirty thousand years ago long before Inzperu started. The Nomms annihilated each other.” Xerla paused and hovered her craft at almost the same place for a moment. Something had caught her eyes below. She pushed the control lever further forward and her craft lost altitude.

  “Millions lost lives in the holy wars, you know that. Why didn’t God intervene and reveal to the people which of the many religions warring against each other was his and true? Lives were lost in his name. Folks killed each other in his name. Does he like it when people destroy each other in his name? Maybe the religions that you believers believe in and fight very hard to convert and force us into were created by the devil himself to deceive us into destroying each other. Why do they have to be forced unto people? Their Gods appear to be very jealous and not sure about their status. I mean, if I were God I wouldn’t give a damn whether Xerla believed in me or not, I wouldn’t waste my immeasurable God time and care on such trivial matters, because I would be God! When bored and without an idea of what to do with my heavenly, awesome god-powers and time I would hunt the devil down instead, catch him and eliminate him so he wouldn’t cause my ‘beloved’ subjects any harm. In fact, I wouldn’t have created the devil in the first place because my all seeing eye would have looked into the future and foreseen his rebellion.”

  What caught her eyes earlier stood towering ahead of them. She could see it clearly thanks to her ship’s powerful searchlights. It was a very tall structure. One of the very few buildings still standing among the ruins she saw by far. Xerla wasn’t the type to be fascinated by buildings and architectural constructions, but this structure was different. It was a marvel. Elegant and sophisticated, yet simple.

  “Wow - check that structure out!” Xerla exclaimed. Mesmerized by one building that stood towering over other ruins like a circumcised penis. Erect and massive.

  “I disagree with all the crap you’ve been blabbering about, except the remark you just made about that alien structure below. I’m absolutely in agreement with you there, the building is astonishing. This planet’s people truly had excellent tastes in their construction and architecture. The structure rivals Ekcyr’s best skyscrapers.” Kocz paused then added. “Was it not you who said we should head back to the carrier?”

  “Now now, don’t get too excited already. Just because I acknowledged the beauty of one structure does not mean I changed my mind. I’m still going back. Ninety five miles further and I‘ll be going back to The Maztica.”

  “Come on. Don’t you want to see more awesome stuff like that building?” Kocz tried to trick her. They were already past the tall building and still continuing southwards exploring the dead planet in the night.

  “No thank you. Can’t wait to be back aboard The Maztica.” Xerla replied.

  The Maztica, an enormously large military plasma vessel the size of a small city, about four miles in length, and with more than eight thousand Ekcyrien soldiers onboard, had just arrived in this section of space a few hours past, and was now travelling with matching velocities parallel to the spinning planet, slowly advancing into Eskadet’s inner space.

  The lost planet was detected just a few weeks back after it drifted into Eskadet, a star system at the outer edges of the Hycn galaxy. Eskadet had more than thirty-five suns and over twenty-nine different alien races residing there, of which Ekcyriens were the most advanced and a superior. The Ekcyrien army was here to blow the wandering planet into a gazillion bits before it could wreak havoc on Eskadet.

  Zcadec Nazzzuuh, commander of the huge military carrier vessel, had declared that the soldiers should rest. They would start drilling to the planet’s core to blow it in three days. There was no hurry he said. Xerla Crpye thought differently. She wished time would pass by quickly so that her three-day stay out here would come to an e
nd. She had about four hours here only but she couldn’t wait to return home. She resented it out here. If it were by her, at this precise moment she would be in Tyrlia - the capital of Ekcyr, clubbing and partying. Having fun. However, here she was thousands of miles far from home, tired and sleepy, accompanying Kocz on a boring aerial night tour of a lost planet they were about to destroy. Why the planet decided to invade their space during the time she was on duty she wondered, it could have waited at least five more days.

  CHAPTER 2: CEDE & TILYHN

  The elegant metal doors hissed open and Cede Nazzzuuh strode majestically like the boss he was into his quarters. The reflective double doors gave their snakelike hiss again and slid tightly shut behind him. Cede went straight for the exquisite luxurious couch set by the center of the spacious room and threw himself onto it. Despite being unfruitful, the day had been a very busy one and he was damn tired. Today unlike the past five days, he and his men did not find anything of value from the alien ruins. It was seven days since they landed on the wandering alien planet, but they had only managed to find four gold statues and two gold masks.

  It wasn’t enough.

  Cede needed time. Unfortunately for him, the Ekcyrien military had just arrived on the planet several hours past, which meant he now had to tread delicately even though his younger brother and commander aboard the Ekcyrien military vessel did assure him he need not worry; he would look out for him like always. That is why unlike all space pirates who left the planet when it was broadcasted in the news two days ago that the Ekcyrien military was on its way here to blast the wandering planet to smithereens, he remained behind. He had his brother to look out for him.