Once upon a time, I had thought that the worst thing to ever happen to me was being abducted by aliens. It turns out that wasn’t the case at all. 

The worst thing to have ever happened was to be betrayed by the one thing you needed to survive. 

After the Alliance fell, my AI powered ship released me from the lab I had been in for the past few months. Not wanting to look like the monster I knew him to be, Lucifer sold me to a pleasure station, hoping that I would die a quick and painful death. 

He should have had a conversation with my parents before he did that. At least then, he could have been assured that I was nothing if not a constant source of disappointment. 

Instead of dying, I lived in that hell for almost a year before a military operation took out the pleasure station and all of us poor females with it. Thinking that this was my chance at freedom and a life of my own, I was sorely disappointed to find myself back in yet another cage.

Swimming in a pool in the center of my new cage, staring up at the gold bars surrounding me, I waited. 

For freedom or death, I really didn’t know, but I waited. 

All I had ever wanted was to be part of a world, to find that one place in all the universe that belonged to me. 

But unlike my mermaid namesake, I had no witch to grant me my wish, no Prince Charming to save me.

That was… until they showed up and killed my owner.

They told me that they could take me anywhere in the known universe. I just had to ask.

The problem was I had no idea where to go. I had no home and no way back to Earth.

But that didn’t stop them from showing me the universe. 

And then, one day, I found it. The one place I could call home. It was their world... and all I wanted to be was part of it. However, before I could call it mine, I had to fight for it. 

Jokes on them. I’d been fighting my whole life, and now, I finally found something worth fighting for.

You can run.

You can hide.

But if you fuck with me and mine…

You best be prepared to die.

My name is Ariel. Let me show you my new world.

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This is a dark novel with a dark beginning, please pay attention to the trigger warnings!

Trigger Warnings:

Sexual Assault (Past and Present)

Physical Assault

Child Bride

Abusive parents

Thoughts of suicide

Cults (high religious content)

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Reverse Harem, no MM
Part of the Star's Ships Universe (With cross over to some of the other novels)
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Other Novels:

Rebirth In the Apocalypse: Third Time's A Charm (Completed)
Fight, Flight, or Freeze: The Healer's Story (Completed)
Star's Ships (Completed)
Dancing with Monsters (Completed)
As Silent As A Mouse (Completed)
Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel (Completed)
The Witch In The Woods: The Transmigration of Hazel-Anne Davis (Ongoing)
Seraphina's Revenge (Ongoing)

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I opened my mouth to scream, but the smell coming off the creature in front of me was enough to make me want to puke.


I was still hunched into as small of a ball as I could, protecting my head and wondering why the guys weren't helping me.


"Is this some type of greeting we are unaware of?" asked He'dtaalh, and I could feel his legs pressing against my back.


Unable to utter a sound, I frantically shook my head 'no,' my eyes never raising from the ground. I had no idea what was going on here, but the thing had a human finger caught between his teeth.


"Are you in danger?" pressed He'dtaalh, and once again, I frantically nodded my head.


With a roar of his own, He'dtaalh stepped over my body and stood directly in front of me.


I looked between his legs to see him reaching down to the light purple creature in front of me. Wanting to see what was going on, I used He'dtaalh's body as support as I rose to my feet and looked around him.


Chapter 38 - Doesn’t Make it Safe