Evolution's Essence by Jr H. Lee Morgan

for shelter? By now a barrier system
should have been erected?” Breena proposed, holding her new
Solarian midnight black spear Oliver bound her to. It was all she
wanted from the armory made up from the raided derelict battle
cruiser.
    “ Agreed, I’ve got the rights
to all discoveries to do with as I please.” Oliver said with
confidence. “By law, all property defers to me and as a Hunter
Elder I do not require credits to pay taxes.”
    Davan coughed. “But do not forget it is a
historical site and any damages wrought will reflect on your person
when eventually humanity finds out your heritage.” He coughed
again.
    Renee frowned and walked right up to the man
and stood roughly ten centimeters above him. “You alright?”
    “ Pollen never agrees with
me.” Davan then sneezed.
    “ Hold on for a moment and
don’t move too much.” Her arm lifted and the sleeve partially
transformed into a gauntlet where a red beam of light shot from the
top of her wrist and began a scan. Through her own chip she began
seeing inside the man and even multitasked by taking a blood sample
with her bracelet that didn’t hurt the man even slightly. “Wrong,
you haven’t gotten a vaccine for a common virus on this world and
it’ll make you violently ill. The nanites are helping, but you need
a booster. Wait a moment while I make one.”
    The bracelet Valek disappeared under her
milky skin, passing the cells themselves and diving through the
outer bones of her body to collect the necessary ingredients she
stores in between the hollow outer and inner bone structure. Ever
since she got the protein that removed a block on her own unique
genetics her skeletal structure altered to be a living biological
factory of cures and poisons. Keeping volatile and deadly particles
suspended in plasma apart and only mixing so she didn’t accidently
kill herself. Having bone density ten times that of normal humans
made it that much harder for fractures.
    When the particles were gathered she diluted
the concentrated serum with plasma and injected the blue skinned
man. Her abilities made it fast acting and within three minutes
Davan’s bolstered immune system no longer struggled and he was able
to cease coughing and sneezing.
    “ Since laws prevent us
flying on our ships, I’ll carry them. Stone, you help Davan.
Steven, take care of Jessica. If we make good time we’ll reach the
city by sunrise about seven hours from now.” In Hunter law, the
strongest was leader and Oliver was undisputed in that
department.
    Without warning all the fighters and Renee’s
large sailboat shuttle lifted silently off the ground. Oliver was
still trying to master his power. Big things were easy. Small were
not. He and others left the ground using telekinesis.
    Renee though checked Sparky’s leather saddle
and mounted after he told her it was comfortable. Four wings spread
and blurred like a hummingbird to take a vertical flight and slowed
a bit to fly with everyone. The heavier gravity of Zerika at six
gees wasn’t hard for him even with his rider aboard. He was big and
strong.
    The only ones to not fly were the Ligers
running through the dark forest. The adults ran an average of two
hundred kilometers per hour even trough thick foliage. They would
have gone faster, but that was the cubs’ limit as a group. Their
smaller strides and lack of collars and armor slowed them some.
    Along the way Rose got hungry and snatched a
Piranha straight from a slow moving river, her keen eyesight and
speed didn’t let the low rank Beast stand a chance as she ate
during the flight, utilizing her curved talons to hold while she
tore into the meter long grey fish with deadly teeth and insatiable
appetite.
     
    It was about an hour and a half after sunrise
that a hidden Hunter camouflaged in the thick treetops flew up from
below at the sight of intruders. Brandished weapons cracked with
energy and she shouted “Halt!”
    The large group did so and Oliver
continuously maintained the