The Federation Chronicles
Olympus Colony
Chapter 11 Goddess Artemis
"Do you have any items to declare Viceroy? Thats a rather thick bag that youve got there once again." The gate guard laughed..
"No Cyn, I dont have anything to declare and could you send the security team away once again for another hour break compliments of the state?"
Both ladies nodded to each other as the Viceroy swiped her access card opening the gates. Cyn called the two peacekeepers and gave them the good news which they were once again most appreciative of. Guarding the ever more bellicose humans was becoming more and more of an annoying pain in their behinds.
So seconds later the Shanty Town arena was emptied of all Federationers save Glendoria who was slowly making her way down the narrow roads with ever widening shadows obscuring the twists and turns due to the evening setting of the Poseidon star above.
As she skillfully avoided some of the more foolish humans who had not gotten out of the way quick enough her eyes fell on the statue that had been built in her image. Again, the emotion of embarrassment settling in for the second time today. But press on she did to the usual place in which she repatriated the hapless humans who she had saved from extermination.
Near the statue a plaza opened up giving her enough room to spread her legs apart and stand normally. Just before setting the case of trapped humans down she regarded the effigy of herself. It was beautifully carved and depicted a very beautiful lady.
Glenoria flushed with embarrassment one more time.. Did they really think that she was that pretty? Was she? Perhaps they had taken liberties in their misguided ways. But she found herself straitening a stray lock of her shining hair never the less if only to measure up to what she was seeing. They had done a wonderful job.. When was she going to break the depressing news that this was so not the case. She was not a Goddess.
She ate, drank, slept, belched, eliminated food and liquids just as any other mortal must do... But could these misguided notions be used in a constructive manner in the short interim before she explained to them the true nature of things?
Could she unite them and teach them how to make their living conditions more tolerable. Or better yet, to escape this place and start a new civilization of their own? A thought that shed been kicking around for a while now.. Humans who would perhaps share crop... Who would be needed within the Federation for better reasons than of lowly pets.. But of farmers or whatever could spawn from such humble beginnings. This moon could become a home world to them if she could convince them to play their cards right. This would be the ultimate destiny for them if she were successful. There were so many concentrated here now.. It could work if she had the time, the luck, and they the patience...
Glendoria was roused out of her dreamy trance by a cadence that rose up from her feet.
"Artemis, Artemis, Artemis." The throngs of humans chanted in unison.
"Oh, Im so sorry people.... Here you go! Here are your friends.. Please convince them to stay inside of the arena when not working on the plantation. It is becoming more and more unsafe for you anywhere else right now." A distracted Giantess said to the tiny humans as she lowered the plastic case down to the plaza ground and opened its side lid.
As the humans began to run out they were met by family members.. Mothers embraced children and fathers hugged wives.
Glendoria had another gift up her thong today too. Opening her diplomatic pouch again she began removing the tomatoes that she had bought earlier as she sat on the ground.
She removed her stencil pen and activated the laser option to which she began cutting the large tomatoes into tiny slices.. Or at least tiny to her. She didnt like setting the tomatoes on the ground as it seemed demeaning for them to have to take their scraps from there so she looked around and spied a tapestry that was in the likeness of Fayaa.. Smiling she pulled it down from its post and laid it out like a larger tarp and began placing her cut slices upon it.
The humans at once rejoiced and began running up to it. Taking what they could for their families and themselves.
Glendoria was smiling and very proud of her magnanimous gesture. "Was this all that it really took to make them love you? Small mundane food gifts like this?" She pondered.
She watched them clamor for a little while longer making sure that no pushing or shoving developed.. Remarkably, nothing of the sort happened. She was happy to realize that some of them were even directing the distribution of the slivers that she had cut up. They wore a white six pointed star upon their upper chests.. Glendoria wondered if they were some type of impromptu police force. "Had they really organized that quickly already?" She wearily pondered.
With her hour of undisturbed time close to an end Glendoria got to her feet and watched them for a little while longer before a mixed group of men and women approached her.. From that group a single lady broke from it and walked up to her and bowed. Having done that she looked up at her and made the universal pet sign with hands outstretched signaling that she wished to be picked up.
Glendoria obliged by slowly bending down, encircling her within her fist, and gently bringing her all the way up to face level.
"And who might you be little sweet thing?" Glendoria smiled, still a little bedazzled by everything that she had just taken in this evening.
The tiny human kneeled upon her palm.. It embarrassed Glendoria yet looked cute at the same time.
"Oh great benevolent Goddess Artemis.. I am your most loyal servant. I am Kiko the high priestess of Delphia and I have many sisters who share my devotion. We have set up a temple to you and wish to know what kind of sacrifices youd demand of us?"
Glendorias eyes widened into huge circles at the implications of what she was just asked by the tiny lady kneeling in her palm.. The lady would be recognized by the reader to have a very Asiatic look about her. Most likely of the Japanese variety. Jet black hair back in a dignified bun. Very small slanted brown eyes with a pure white toga covered her from neck to knee. It was a much more fancy gown then the usual brown drab burlap cloths that the masses were wearing.
She looked up expectantly to Glendoria with a smile of pure trust and pleasure of gaining the honor of being held by the Goddess .
"Uh, I dont wish anything to be sacrificed on my behalf. I dont think it necessary."
But the Asian priestess was not to be deterred.
"Why not great one? All Gods require sacrifices wether it be animals, food, or even humans. We do not wish to displease you and I beg that this is not a test and apologize for not knowing what you wish of us at this point in time."
Glendoria could only smile at the poor priestesses naivety. But this might be a lucky break for her and her team she shrewdly considered.. Perhaps she could get the other humans to rally behind this lady and she could unite them and in turn help them protect themselves more readily and even hear their requests and needs rather than through second hand accounts of their pets.
"Well high priestess... Would you mind if I took you back to Olympus and continued this conversation there. Im sure theres all kinds of things we need to talk about and iron out in the interests of helping your people." Glendoria smiled, becoming more confident with her proposal and the advantages that it could give with a direct channel of communication being made.
"Oh, nothing would please me more Goddess Artemis... I would love to go to your sacred abode and hear of your edicts and pass them on to my brethren.
Just a second!"
Kiko quickly leaned over Glendorias palm and whistled down to the pack of religious higher ups wearing similar clothing to her and who were still watching the development in earnest.
"Zyza, you will be in charge of the sisters while I am gone with our great Goddess. I will bring back news and possibly great wondrous items! Wish me luck!"
After which the excited and smiling little high priestess quickly moved back to the center of Glendorias palm, bringing her knees up and hugging them with her arms, akin to an excited girl.. Her face awash with a beautiful smile of glee.
As Glendoria began walking away the group of priests noticed a large metallic spear of some type with glowing buttons emanating upon it. The slowly approached and surrounded it.
Zyza immediately assess the situation and declared in earnest.
"A gift from the Goddess! We must take it back to the temple at once and place it upon the altar of faith! Guys, well need you to lift it back to the temple.. Kiko will be so proud of us!"
Glendoria in her excitement had forgotten her stencil pen...
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Yegori was woken by thunderous voices that rattled the plexiglass walls of the box in which he was being contained.
They seemed to be quarreling voices at that. Before long the strange clicking and mewing sounds started to become strangely familiar until they were Russian sounding all together.
Still wiping the bleariness out of his eyes he kept the blanket over his head and tried to gain as much intelligence as he could before this moment of frank speech gave way to a much more guarded dialogue should they know that he was awake.
A very young distressed voice rattled his cage once again as it sounded off in a most distressed sounding octave.
"But Glendoria you told Me not to go to plan C, not Mir. Mir extracted him without harming a single hair on his head. In fact his ship is still intact too minus the door I tore off of it this morning."
Then a more baritone adult sounding voice that even penetrated his bones responded in equally spirited passion.
"You used deception on your personal servant Mara. Which means you used deception on me as well. Plan C was not to come for several more days and only if his health continued to deteriorate!"
"Well, Glen thanks to me he is out now and we dont have to wait for his health to get worse. Now we can begin training, I mean teaching him immediately how to live and survive in our world which hes going to have to do. And hes my pet and I wanted him out and now hes out so there!
If you dont like it then send me home! Id much prefer that anyway."
Then Yegori felt massive footfalls that shook his little bed along with him as the teenager stomped off in a fit of anger.
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After which the rooms lighting was eclipsed by darkness and the more mature voice sounded like it was right upon him.
"I didnt mean for that to happen to you Earthling. I wanted you to leave on your terms the way it should have been. Please forgive me for my bungling mistake here.
When the light returned Yegori pulled the blanket from his head and began to look around.
He was definitely inside some cell of some kind with glass walls from what he could determine. And interrogation room perhaps? Down away from the foot of the bed he saw a wall that had many living amenities attached to it. He had to sit up in order to see it all..
There was a shower stall. A toilet and sink. There even appeared to be some strange type of flat television screen on the wall which looked very futuristic from the b/w units that the state handed out to the workers.
A strange looking box directly across from him near the opposite wall that was pushing cool air into the room.
A new set of clothing that looked like it was from an ancient time was at the very end of his bed too. It looked like pure white cotton that reflected a rainbow hue from each thread.
Discerning that he was naked Yegori looked around for his pressure suit and seeing it nowhere inside of his glass prison, quickly began putting the simple cloths upon his body.
Once fully clothed Yegori got up and began exploring his room prison. He was curious about the flat screen on the wall and the other gadget to the right of it.
This was all so bazaar for the Cosmonaut... He had gone from the land, to Earth orbit, to a strange space ship... To a massive residence... And finally to this glass room with the living fixtures that made him feel like hed be staying here longer than the other places hed been in quite recently.
He could almost accept this if it were not for the giants.. A smiling giantess had taken him right out of space... A smiling giantess had drugged him and stripped him naked before dropping him upon the bunk bed only a couple of feet away.
"Was this Brobdingnag?" He wondered. He had read the story as a young man and could now see things from Gullivers perspective up close and personal. And it was scary being the littlest one in the room he surmised.
What did these giants want from him? Information on how to invade Earth? Hed let them invade the USA but never mother Russia... This could become a battle of the wills.. He would have to draw upon his extensive training to protect the ones that he loved back home...
The way in which that dark skinned lady had simply picked him up several stories above the ground and deposited him here was not lost on him either.
They were so huge yet they looked human. What forms of torture did they have designed for him in order to gain useful intelligence to be used against him and his countrymen?
How could he outwit these beings when they already appeared to hold all of the cards?
He would need to devise an escape plan and take in all of his surroundings.
Yegori began looking up at the ceiling that was amazingly open. There were massive walls beyond that with a sky instead of a ceiling...
Then he looked around for things to stack so that it would be more easy to climb to freedom at the top.. But everything seemed bolted and fixed to the floor. Perhaps he could make a lasso out of his bed cover and sheet he pondered looking up at the ceiling again..
"Oh, your awake! Thank the Empress for that and about time!"
Yegori spun around to see a massive smiling face of a young teenage girl who was beaming a monstrously sized grin while she seemed to be chewing gum from what he could tell as her lips smacked continually.
Yegori began to back away to the opposite wall.
The greedy looking happy girl at once spoke while moving her hand into the terrarium. But her arm was caught by a much larger giantess.
"No grabbing, we agreed on that too."
The young giantesss grin turned into a sour frown.
"I wasnt going to grab him Glen I was just going to offer my hand to him."
"Yeah, Ill bet you were. But anyway let me talk to him a little and well decide if hes ready to come out and talk to us some more."
The younger giantess shook her head and pulled up a chair placing her elbows upon the white table surface propping her face up with her palms to stare directly at him.. Grinning once more..
Yegori noticed that another human was in the hand of the larger giantess and eagerly staring down on him. She looked up at the giantess and shouted.
"Is he a bad human Goddess Artemis? Are you about to smite him? Ive seen the other goddesses smite bad humans lately too and.."
"Shhhh, hush little one. We will talk soon enough. But for now Id like to talk to this man so if you dont mind Im going to let my younger sister hold you and take you to her room while me and him talk things over just like you and I will do very soon."
Glendoria playfully scrubbed the little Asian looking ladies hair and handed her over to Mara who was not too pleased with the latest development.
"Go on Mara.. Take her to your room and feed her. Ill call you back out in a little while. And I dont want you playing with her either.. .Shes a very important human to our cause so treat her with dignity and respect. She didnt get her evening meal so please go see to it that she does within the confines of your room.. Now run along."
Mara closed her eyes with a scowl as she absently received the tiny priestess correctly deducing that leaving now and listening to her sisters commands were the most prudent thing to do in lieu of how angry her older sister was at her already.
Glendoria sadly looked down at the tiny Earthling.. This was going to be very difficult conversation indeed. She hoped he could endure some of the revelations that were about to be made known to him.
With a pained sympathetic expression she leaned very close to the terrarium and began addressing the confused looking Cosmonaut.
Giantess World
Author's Chapter Notes:
Chapter End Notes:
I'm going to take a slight hiatus and learn a new 3D program so please stay tuned for the rest once I've gotten a little more competency in the new renders that I will offer for this story.
Dr Creep