Alien Princess' Life

Cover image by SKNR＠冬眠中, 2016. Alien Princess' Life [Online]. Pixiv: SKNR＠冬眠中 [Accessed 26 August 2021]

In the control room of a little space station, blinding blue flashing lights and the sound of the alarm from above causes Riley to come back to reality from his daydream. With calm and practiced movements, Riley receives the emergency signal while tracing back its origin.

"Shit. Why does such an emergency have to happen today!" Riley frowns at the thought. The weight of the emergency becoming clear.

Having spent 20 years as a member of the Intergalactic Emergency Response Association, Riley must often deal with many false distress signals and messages from damaged rockets and broken-down ships. Both born on Earth, his best friend Sam Marston has also shared the dream of joining the IERA since childhood. They came through thick and thin and grew up together with the goal of protecting the lives of the innocent and wield justice against evil.

Riley subconsciously reach towards a keyboard covered in strange complex switches, letters and dials, about to contact Sam, but retracts back as he recalls that Sam is taking some time off to attend his younger cousin's wedding. Plus, it would take too long for him to rush over.

Rarely being alone without his most trusted partner, Riley seems hesitant on accepting the mission to investigate the source of the distress signal from a hostile region in the 23-2 Mega sector. After a moment, his core sense of justice kicked in - for better or for worst - he starts transmitting a message to HQ.

"THIS IS GALATIC EXPLORER 647HEV9. I REPEAT: THIS IS GALATIC EXPLORER 647HEV9. BEING THE CLOSEST TO THE SOURCE OF SIGNAL, I WILL BE ARRIVING WITHIN 27 HOURS 44 MINUTES AND 31 SECONDS. I REPEAT..."

Once fully equipped and transferred to his good old spaceship, Riley flicked dozens of switches and the ship shot out of sight of the space station, flying at the speed of light towards somewhere that will change his life forever.

The ship is registered as a Frawna Kingdom cruiser. However, there are apparently no recorded data on this species.

Regardless, Riley proceeds to follow the protocol. "Let's see... The passengers aren't responding to my calls, so I guess I have but to enter the ship directly. Maybe I can find some useful information on this species." Considers Riley on the actions to take, perfected through countless hours of training.

Climbing into the mysterious foreign ship, Riley puts his hand against the white metal wall of a long corridor which seems to be extremely sturdy. The floor and ceiling are made of the same material which emits white light, setting a peaceful and clean ambience. After a while, a beep from the inside of his spacesuit informs Riley that the air is safe, leading to him taking off his helmet.

Lining the many corridors, there are dozens of doors. Although most are locked, Riley managed to find some which were left open; containing some neatly arranged documents and books.

"Even though most of the text are in a different language, luckily I can understand some parts which are similar to some of the languages I've learnt." Thought Riley, feeling proud of himself.

After a long investigation around the ship, Riley found his way to the control room of the ship but frowns to himself.

"Strange... There's absolutely nothing wrong with this ship!"

Riley paces around the control room in frustration, but something bizarre caught the corner of his eyes as he cautiously approach it.

"Whoa!! What's this...? A piece of skin?"

Feeling scared and fascinated at the same time, Riley circles around the thin, dark green skin-like object to take a better look.

"From what I could understand from their books, aren't Frawnians supposed to be partially photosynthetic?

But to shed a skin. I've never heard of it!

The inside is... eww...!"

Riley picks up the thin green Frawnian skin which feels uncomfortably life like. The body structure is almost identical to that of a human female's, and turning it around reveals the face of an outstandingly beautiful Frawnian girl with lilac coloured hair, generous sized breasts, and long silky-smooth legs which leads to her plump backside.

Riley looks around trying to spot the person who had shed this skin but to no avail... except a body that looks grey, covered in wrinkles, and is practically dried out like a raisin. Upon contact, the corpse immediately collapses into a pile of dust.

"There's no survivors though. Guess my work here is done..." Baffled by the turn of events, Riley shrugs as he looks at the skin of a Frawnian girl in his hand.

Now that he is slightly more relaxed, Riley lifts the skin in front of him. Although being only skin, like a deflated balloon, the Frawnian girl looks to be round about 20 in human age. Her large eyes are closed with a few of her lilac hair scattered across her eyelashes, making her seem incredibly pretty. She has long, dark green ears decorated with a pair of intricate golden earrings which consists of two rings, one half the size of the other, and two generous sized sapphire spheres hanging on the bottom rings. Her nose is small and sharp, along with her full rosy lips, so gorgeous that girls would kill for.

"This thing sure is amazing. It almost looks like it's alive! Maybe..."