Battle for Earth Ch. 02

Roxane moaned inside his mouth. She enjoyed his sweet and passionate kiss as much as he was enjoying hers. But on the flip of a dime, his gentleness disappeared. He grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her closer to him. His other free hand grabbed one of her tits and squeezed hard. Despite her appearance, she was not as frail or as dainty as she let on.

She shoved him back with all of her strength and slapped him across his face with all of the power she could put behind it.

"You—You just struck me in my face," Elred said, surprised at her.

"You're damn right I did! And I'll do it again if you try to lay your hands on me like that again! Don't get it twisted Elred. You may be handsome, you may be tall and you may not be human, so maybe sun elves do it differently. But I am not some broodmare you can lord over and do as you wish. If I am going to be bear your children, you're first going to start by showing me more respect, you got that?!"

"How dare you put

your hands on me like that woman!"

"How dare I!? You grabbed my breast like you own it and you don't own shit at the moment!" she barked back.

"If I wanted to I could paralyze you with one of my glares and force you to get on your knees and make you apologize."

"So do it Elred! Do it I dare you!" she yelled, "but if you do, I'll kill you in your sleep afterward."

Elred chuckled and smiled, turning forward on his seat.

"You had me fooled once for a soft heart. But now I see you have an admirable amount of fire in you. That's good to know, at least I know my children will inherit some of that."

"You know something fella?"

"My name is Elred! Address your future husband with respect."

"You suck so hard right now. Why couldn't I have been paired up with a handsome vampire or a Greek god."

**Yaounde, Cameroon**

Central Africa, Region 18

Eposi splashed warm water on her face from the inside of the bathroom sink to help her calm down and gather her thoughts in order. She stared back at her reflection in a large beautiful mirror in front of her. She and Methild, the male drow, had chosen to settle down in the presidential palace of her country. Although everyone whom she has ever known had vanished. Somehow living with another person, if they were only humanoid and strange looking like him. Was comforting on some level. In the last three days, they spent living together in the presidential palace. She learned small but important pieces of information from him about the fate of humanity.

"There are less than two dozen members of humanity left in your world. Five native Africans were put in charge of their own regions of Africa. That means I am not the only African woman or African left in the world. There are other humans left and they're all alone. Okay maybe not alone, but who woke up to this same world I did."

Eposi undressed and stepped into the bathtub to take a shower in the opulent bathroom. She was a lean teenager with average sized breasts for her frame. A lean face with a small waist and wide hips. Her hair which took her years to grow. She kept braided and tied in a bun. She undid her bun and undid her braids before stepping inside of the tun with water spraying out of the shower head. Warm water always felt good when she was having a bad day. She heard the bathroom door open and the sound of heavy footsteps walking inside.

"What is it Methild?"

"I was just wondering. When do you think it would be a good time to start repopulating?"

"You sound worried. What's worrying you?"

"I mean ye no offense. But I am finding it difficult to wrap my head around the fact that I must lay with ye in order for my bloodline to continue."

"Well, it won't just be your bloodline continuing on. It will also be mine. Do you find me unattractive? Is that why you're having such a hard time getting comfortable with the thought of us getting together?"

"Nay Eposi! Your dark sin is beautiful and captivating to me as a Drow. But I can't find it in me to make ye my woman just yet."

"Just enough to take me as your lover, right?"

There was silence on his side.

"I do not mean or wish to bring your spirits down. But I am still trying to acclimate to life on the surface. I have never been on the surface for more than one hour without surface elves or fairies trying to open my throat. It's all still very new to me.:

"Can I ask you something Methild? Aren't you saddened that your entire race vanished, leaving only you."

"I am not saddened by it one bit. I am more disturbed by it happening, Aye that it true. I see nor feel any reason to continue to hide this truth any longer. My species are a selfish and violent one. Always ready to fight and murder for any small offense against any of them. Even the children are encouraged to seek out and kill enemies. We are trained to kill by practicing our craft on each other. Intra-species violence was a daily reality for Drow society. We made slaves of traitors and enemies. We worked them to death and used them as sacrifices to our queen, Lolth. So if you were to ask me again if I am saddened that my entire species vanished, leaving only me. Nay again I would answer. Had this even not had happened. I was either going to lose my life to an enemy or forfeit to my own kind. Perhaps this was for the best."

"I think I can relate you Methild. In more ways than one, you and I share the same views about our own kind. As beautiful as my country is, the people in it were very flawed. The government was very corrupt and neglectful of its citizens. Don't worry about the topic of children, there will be many more days for that. But now that you're here with me, do you know what I want from you Methild?"

"Ye just need to mention it."

"I want you to teach me how to use knives of yours."

"Ye mean my daggers? I can arrange a few lessons for you."

**South Australia (Australia)**

Australia/ Oceania, Region 26

Sliding down a frozen path on a sled Miyuki created with her ice powers. Brandon rode beside with her. But because of the freezing winds generated by his partner's powers. He had to wear winter clothes until the ride was over. His partner and wife-to-be is a Yuuki-onna, a snow woman in English. She was a Japanese woman whose beauty was supernatural. Her skin porcelain white and her long hair silvery and beautiful. They traveled cross-country to reach Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Waiting for them at the end of their journey was the 'The Lodge'. The former home of the Australian prime minister.

Brandon could care less where he stayed now that the end of the world was here. It was Miyuki's idea to head to The Lodge and take it over. With no other person left to run the now empty country, it's ripe for the taking.

"Tell me again why I need to live in the prime minister's old home?"

"Every lord needs a castle, a seat power to ruled from," she told him.

"I'm not lord of anything except my toilet, refrigerator, and bedroom."

"Maybe not before, but you are now. There is no one else more suitable to rule over your region but you. The other human survivors and their partners are going to come to the same idea. Even in this mostly desolate world, you have to make a clear point that your region is under your firm control and rule."

"How do I do that?"

"Think about it, Brandon."

"I could send out a broadcast to other countries instead of nationwide. But in order for me to do, I would need to find a broadcasting station to send out a signal that powerful. Or maybe I can...wait a minute, that's it!"

"What is it, Brandon? Did you come up with an idea?"

"I've been so fucking stupid this whole time! I've been too preoccupied with the thought of aliens ending all of life on earth, and trying to use ancient technology. That I forgot that I have the strongest piece of technology on me right now. My light based phone!"

Brandon pulled out his 5mm thick phone that was as wide and tall as the palm of his hand. He tapped on the middle of the phone which brought him to the lock screen. He unlocked his phone and was taken to his home screen. His phone's home screen wallpaper was of flying saucers. The phone was similar to Plexiglass with rounded edges. He pressed his finger on an application that began to film him.

"Miyuki can you bring this sled to a stop?"

The sled they were on came to a stop as Brandon had asked. He stood up on his feet and stepped off the sled. She followed his lead and stepped off the sled also. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her over to him so she could stand closer to him. Blushing, she wrapped an arm around his waist and smiled up at her reflection on his phone.

"Brandon, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to record a message that I'm going to send out to the rest of the world."

"You can do that?"

"I'm honestly mad at myself for thinking about doing this much earlier. If this works and one of the surviving humans see's this message. We will have officially established the first line of communication with the outside world. Baby hold me tighter and look into the phone's camera eye. In three, two, one..."

But there was a problem. Brandon didn't know what he was going to say. He just kept getting lost in his partner's supernatural beauty. Shaking it off, he thought quickly of something to say.

"My name is Brandon Evans. I am twenty-five years old. I used to work as a former union electrician before the world ended. This beautiful woman standing beside me is my partner, my fiance. Her name is Miyuki. And she's a Yuuki-onna, a snow woman. And contrary to her appearance, she is not human. Well, she's human enough for me to have a family with her. She appeared to me on the same day the world came to an end. I made this video message to tell everyone who watches that I am the only person left in Australia, and possibly Oceania. Please send a message to everyone about this using the MTW app. Use Message the World to film a video response to get back to me, please. We'll be waiting for your responses."

Brandon finished recording himself and sent his message via the MtW application on his phone.

"What does MtW mean Brandon?"

"It's an acronym that stands for 'Message the World'. It was an application used by everyday people to film themselves doing stupid and silly things to gain internet fame and followers every new video filmed and uploaded was sent to everyone in the world who had this application on their phones. Every day when I checked my phone there was always a 1000+ number on the upper corner of my app. But before it became an app for everyone else in the world to use it started off as a military application. Servicemen and women of different branches of the military used this to stay in contact with everyone in their units including their superiors. It's most important use was in the case of a soldier being taken as a POW in an enemy nation. It

would give the exact GPS location of where the soldier was taken so that they could be found as soon as possible. So long as they kept any of their communication devices on them, be it a phone, watch, ear piercing or zygomatic bone implant; the application would give off their current location with a ten-second update until they were found. Who knew it would come to good use after so many thousands of stupid videos."

"Oh. And how exactly is your rectangular device powered?"

"This light-based phone may look and feel like thermoplastic. But they're made of crystals that derive their power from any source of light. Be they natural or artificial. They're the ultimate phones."