The world was blinking and Yae watched, lost in the deepness of thought as she pressed her cheeks against the cool glass wall that separated her from the unforgiving void that would mercilessly suck out her soul if it got the chance. It was space, empty and deadly but it was beautiful.

If I could sell it. . . the woman barely managed to curb the thought, shrugging off the image and shifting her gaze to the crude flower she had drawn on the mist that was created by the heat of her breath against the glass. It's time to go.

Lights twinkled in the black void, the little specks of broken asteroids that made Gea's belt. The planet was too unique, mesmerizing swirls of pink and purple dancing along it's poisonous, slime-slathered surface.

Yae smiled against her reflection, admiring it for a moment, and pink eyes stared back at her, holding her gaze until the only color that surrounded her was a pale red.

She tilted her head and blinked away the confusion, eager to forget the odd color and get back to viewing the planet. If only I could sell it, she repeated in her mind, unable to help herself. Unconsciously she counted how many of her customers would pay for the dying planet.

When she peeled her lids open again, her mirror image had returned to normal. Pale hair still framed her dark skin and blonde lashes still shielded her cerulean eyes from the harsh rays of the rising star.

Her features had always made her stand out, even here in a crowd of pink-skinned Galians.

"But it's my uniqueness that makes me so approachable," she smiled to herself and ran her hand through her hair. She let herself forget that everyone who saw her was instantly terrified. They all were, bustling at the Ge-port waiting for their turn to board the various spacecrafts that were heading to the nearest galaxy in their desolate planetary system.

She watched as they ignored her, evaded her even. She didn't mind. She had only come back on business, she hadn't planned on staying long anyway. By forcing her to leave, the government had just made things easier for her. Plus, the trip was free.

Squaring her shoulders, Yae marched towards the queue, cutting past the line of violet haired Galians and headed straight for the attendant's desk. His eyes were set and his smile grim, the usual response of those who feared her enough to hate. Immediately protests sprung up from behind her.

Yae lifted her head, making sure her eyes were visible to the rest of the Galians. She heard sharp intakes of breath and fought to hide her grin.

With a casual shrug, she handed her ticket to the unamused man.

His loss. Yae moved past the gate and stepped directly onto the teleportation pad. She hadn't been allowed to take any luggage so there was no need for her to be scanned.

She let out a low hiss as the familiar tingle of the technology hovered over her skin. She had to be the only one that was sensitive to the damn thing.

Just my luck. She cursed as she felt all her body parts being tugged upwards until she herself was the nothingness.

When she came to, the darkness edging her vision receding, she found herself standing in the middle of a hall. Probably a spaceship, she thought as she fingered the 'Welcome to Spaceship' sticker on the wall next to her. How informative. . . She thought, dryly.

It wouldn't be long now, she felt the spacecraft lurch forwards, the familiar sound of a starting engine filling the space around her.

Soon she would be in hyperspace. The thought made a large grin crawl her face as she strutted towards the nearest window, eager for the view.

Holy galaxy.

The sight, though she expected it, stunned her and Yae found herself laughing. Blues, reds and oranges danced all around the spaceship as it steadily left Gea's sphere of influence. For the first time in a long time Yae could see could see colors apart from pink and violet, colors that dotted her very body. Colors that made her cursed.

"Boo!" A voice snapped her out of her awe and Yae narrowed her eyes, turning on her heel to see. . . nothing?

She eyed the air in front of her warily, her hand unconsciously moving to her hip, only for her to curse when she remembered that she hadn't brought her laser gun along with her. "Who's there?"

As expected she got no reply. A tired sigh left Yae's lips and she rested her head against the window. Maybe she had been hallucinating? Suddenly she felt tired, her fingers absentmindedly tracing the colors that surrounded her.

It was to be expected, she hadn't got any good sleep in eighty-four hours.

"Boo!" The strange sound appeared again, this time in front of her.

Yae jumped back instinctively and gaped at the thing in front of her. Wide pink eyes blinked at her in response. Several words passed through her mind, alien blob being one of them.

"You. . . You?" She pointed at the strange liquid that stuck to the window, somehow clinging to the speeding spaceship. For a moment she felt stupid. A blob? Really? I ran away from a pool of goo?

Yae stuck out her tongue, disgusted by her own behavior as she watched the creature curiously, with her hands on her hips. Yes, creature, that was all she could call it.

I wonder if I can eat this thing? The thought made her remember that she hadn't eaten anything decent in a week. Not that this blob can be considered decent. . . might be tasty though.

It was shapeless with no features to make it look Galian or any other race she knew. It bore no limbs and no neck, no teeth and no skin. If not for the slight sheen of flickering red that floated about it, and it googly pink eyes, Yae would have thought that it was made out of air.

But it resembled gelatin. And gelatin was edible.

Yae's eyes lit up as she eyed the creature, thinking of how to subdue it and get it into her belly. Could be poisonous though, her inner voice warned and it was enough to pause her.

"What. . . What are you?" She asked the thing, stifling her hunger. If it was sensible it should answer, maybe she would even consider sparing its life. Instead of eating it, she could sell it.

It might not be as much a planet, but she knew over twenty people who might want their hands on sentient jelly.

"Boo!"

At the sound, an annoyed yell crawled up her throat, ricocheting off the steel walls of the spaceship and echoing the room. "Can't you see I'm trying to think?!"

After her outburst, Yae looked at the creature to see it now in the spaceship. It stayed far away from her, clinging to a corner like it feared for its life. The woman was speechless, all her plans and greed evaporating at the sight of the poor, trembling thing.

She had frightened it. Yae laughed and turned back to the window, hoping to see her reflection. Was she truly that horrid?

"Hey," she raised her hands in what she hoped was a show of peace, "why did you do that?"

The blob didn't answer, the red hue around it now a churning green. It didn't even look at her with those weird pink eyes.

"Don't cry." Yae said awkwardly and slowly made her way to the blob, still nervous about the whole ordeal. Would she put it in a container? Could she freeze it? Could it even die?

She shivered at the thought of it crawling around in her gut, unable to be digested. Tingles floated about her skin as though to imitate the feeling.

"There, there." She made a move to pat the creature on the head like she would a diogee, only for it to evade her hand.

"Oh come on," Yae turned around and tried again, effectively sealing it in the corner. As her hand touched the incredibly soft surface of the thing, it fell through and a horrible scream echoed through the spaceship again.

Yae stepped back as the creature trembled uncontrollably, horrified by the sound she had caused. "Bloody hell! What in blazes was that?"

The scream repeated itself and Yae stumbled to the floor in shock, now recognizing the sound. It was her voice, her scream that now rippled through the empty room.

The tickle of emotion that rushed over her skin only served to confirm her thoughts. It is mocking me!

Suddenly angry, Yae leapt to her feet and pointed furiously at the creature. "That's not funny! Stop it now, you overgrown dessert!"

A laugh bubbled out of strange blob, literally. Yae watched the emotion swirl around the pit of its body and rush upwards in an eruption of sound and slime.

Disgusting. . . She shuddered, moving her foot slightly to evade the was of goop that landed by her feet.

Then she let out an annoyed screech and tackled the creature. "Stop copying me!" She slammed into it, only to be submerged in its fluid.

The creature giggled and spilled more goo on the floor of the spaceship. It pulled away from Yae and laughed loudly, a slimey pseudopod extending out of its body and tapping the woman on the face.

"Ah!" Yae yelled in frustration and the creature scampered away, its eyes wide.

"W-hy," it gurgled as its shifted further away from her, "d. . id yo-u," Yae's brows jumped to her hairline as she watched the creature try to speak. It would sell for a lot more if it could.

". . . scream!"

Why did I scream? Her nose wrinkled in confusion as she momentarily ignored the slime that dripped from her hair and soaked her shoes.

She ignored the proactive way her shirt clung to her breasts. Could she be seducing the blob at the very moment?

Was it just a desperate creature looking for love in this world? Could it want to make her its own?

It all seemed possible, and truly she had dated worse.

Yae stared at the trembling creature, lost in thought. It was just like her, she realized. It was different and maybe it's people hated it, just like the way hers got scared of her. She and it were trapped on this spaceship bound on a course to practically nowhere, another galaxy where they both could start afresh. Maybe it was also sent away by its people.

She gulped and made her decision. I'm going to die anyways. . .Probably.

Her business always meant maximum risk, minimum reward. Getting a pet wouldn't hurt—even if she would be tempted to eat it at times.

She deserved this. Yes, Yae deserved to do something good for herself once in a while.

So what if she didn't sell the blob and get that little bit of cash on the side, she had always wanted something exotic as a pet.

"My. . . My name is Yae." The woman let out a breath and held out her hand. What was the worst that could happen? Would it swallow her whole? She doubted it for the creature barely reached her waist.

The blob seemed to grin, Yae couldn't be sure but she thought she felt a brush of happiness against her skin. She found herself smiling back as its tentacle wrapped around her wrist.

A blob, she thought, what a completely strange pet to have!

Then she paused, feeling a bit giddy as she processed the fact that now she had something to do while she was trapped on this spaceship. "What is your name?"

"G-ea." It replied, brokenly.

Yae paused, her head suddenly clear. "You wouldn't mean. . ."

She looked out the window hurriedly and saw that the planet was no longer in sight. No, she shook her head, that isn't it. Everything else was still there, the constellations, the Ge-port. Even the morning star was about to rise.

Gea had simply disappeared, there was no other way of describing it.

Damn it. Yae thought sullenly and watched the blob wearily. She had just made a planet her pet.

"Gea!" It wrapped its tentacles around her, ecstatic, and Yae mentally added a new conquest to her already full checklist.

Maybe she would sell it after all. . .

There was a chance she could sell the people in it too, she stared into the blob, if she managed to find them that is. 

And then all the world would know her name, for she would be Yae Wintro, the first alien to enslave a planet. Forget about being a mercenary, she was about to become a government. From now she would be the overlord of millions—if they weren't digested already.

Yae grinned as the spaceship finally shot into hyperspace, sealing her crime into the history books. The future had never looked brighter.

She squeezed Gea to her chest and already she could hear the chants of her people. All hail the queen. They roared. Long may you reign.

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