Sorry if I disappoint the horny whiners who try to get off on this stuff, but the only reference to people having sex here is a few naked, sperm-spattered bodies. Oh – and I do mention that hot bosomy blonde, Tanya, in an ‘air-tight’ situation. Ha, ha.


“I called you all here to announce the opening of our new venture,” Macario called out over the little group of Earthers. “Paleo-Hunt, Incorporated!”

A smattering of applause greeted his announcement. Amongst the group attending his grand opening, though, there was more confusion than approval in their faces.

Frank decided to help his friend out by asking what was on everyone’s mind; “What’s a Pay Leo hunt, Mac?”

“Anything it wants!” Macario laughed. “No. Actually, folks, the whole idea is that whenever a group of people want to go hunt some really dangerous prey, like saber toothed tigers, that person can contact us and we’ll arrange a party to go back through time – into pre-human history so we don’t mess up our future.

“I’ve just spent several months in the far distant past with my hot, fiery wife, Lisa,” Mac proclaimed, grinning widely, “and Earth, back in prehistoric times, is a wild and beautiful land, full of danger and excitement! It was like a second honeymoon for us.”

“But how did you come up with the idea of hunting extinct animals?” Jake asked.

“To tell you the truth,” Mac replied, “I don’t care if you don’t want to hunt. But ancient Earth is so beautiful and exotic, I came up with the idea of hunting parties just so people could experience the far distant past. Whether you hunt or not, any party we take into that past has to be well armed in order to defend itself against the wildlife. There aren’t any humans there for them to be afraid of. Yet.”

“It sounds like a good idea…” someone started to say.

“That’s the lamest excuse to butcher extinct animals I’ve ever heard,” someone else shouted. “Somebody outta hang you out to dry for coming up with some asshole idea like that!”

Annalisa climbed up on the little podium next to Mac and Lisa. Using her mental powers to speak to everyone in their heads, she also spoke her words out loud, quelling any disorder that might erupt.

“All right! That’s enough! You Earthers are new to this station and you need to learn and learn fast! The justices of this land, of which I am one, do not tolerate dissidence! Any disorderly conduct will bring you to face a justice in whatever district you find yourself. Also, any complaints, and I will admit that your complaint about murdering wildlife is certainly valid, are to be brought before the justices, and not acted on by any of you. Vigilante tactics are simply not tolerated here. You got that?”

“Yer just one girl,” another newcomer yelled. “How’re you gonna enforce against Vigilante justice? Majority rules and always has! Twenty men would just walk right over you and do what they want!”

Grinning happily at the challenge, Annalisa leaped down off the stage and pushed through the crowd toward the man who had yelled out his challenge. Several of the men in the crowd who were with him decided that this young goddess, although she was incredibly sexy, needed to be taken down a notch or two, and formed a human barricade in front of her.

When she was close enough, one man grabbed her by the arm and yanked Annalisa off her feet, pulling off her top as he did so. The next thing he knew, he was lying on the ground and Annalisa was casually sliding a new, un-ripped garment over her bare breasts. Before she could get it on, however, another man ripped it out of her hands and tossed it away.

The garment whipped around in his hand and wrapped itself around his neck, then pulled him about ten feet up in the air before releasing him and letting him drop back down to the ground.

The other men were frightened, now, and also very angry. This young slip of a girl was showing them all up. A general surge of angry hands and faces assaulted her, now, and she was forced to form a mental shield around her body. Rapidly expanding it, she shoved all the men backward and they fell to the ground.

“I can do this all day,” Annalisa grinned at one aggressive man who leaped to his feet and started forward to attack her.

As he strode forward growling with anger, he vanished into thin air. Several others who had thought to join in the attack, backed away, instead.

“Where’d he go?” someone cried out.

“I will have order in my district,” Annalisa proclaimed. “And I will insist on peaceful, civilized behavior.”

With an over-accentuated gesture of her hands, she rematerialized her primary attacker on the ground in front of her. He was unconscious and bleeding from his ears and eyes. His tongue was swollen and half out of his mouth.

“It’s amazing what ten seconds in outer space will do to an unprotected man,” Annalisa mused, loud enough for her captive audience to hear. “If one of you knows CPR, perhaps you can revive him. His heart’s still beating – he just needs a little help getting his lungs going again.”

Picking up her blouse from where it had fallen, she slid it over her head and adjusted it around her bodice in the silence surrounding her. Then she turned and walked back toward the stage. No one bothered her this time. In fact, most backed away, giving her a wide path.

“I guess I ruined your announcement,” Annalisa said, apologizing to Mac as she approached him. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay,” Macario replied. “At least with you reprimanding them, no one got fried. I can imagine what would have happened if Lisa found it necessary to defend me.”

“Ha, ha,” said Lisa. “You don’t think I have any self-restraint? I didn’t interfere with Annie, did I? Huh? I let her handle the whole show. So go pick on somebody else or next time I’ll let that monster bear eat you.”

The group broke up shortly afterward. There were several men that still grumbled, but there were others who were interested in going back and visiting the distant past. Macario talked to them for some time, basically explaining about wormholes, time travel and his exotic pet phoenix and her special capabilities that made it all possible.

“It looks like you may have a little trouble with this group,” Tanya said, coming up to greet Annalisa and Jake. “Most of those guys were factory workers back on old earth, and they have a kind of an attitude about uppity females.”

“I’m not a female,” Annalisa said, smiling. “I’m a goddess, and a justice. The sooner they make that distinction, they more readily they’ll accept the fact that I’ve pretty much run this entire district by myself for nearly a hundred years, and they don’t stand any chance of running me out. I treat my people well, and my people love me. These newcomers will learn to do that, as well. If not love, I insist on their respect.”

“They weren’t being disrespectful of just you,” Tanya replied. “They’re disrespectful of females in general – especially those who are in charge. I’ve had trouble with them before. You’ll need a tight rein to control them.”

“Thank you for your advice,” Annalisa told her. “I will keep your words in mind.”

Tanya smiled back, knowing that she was being politely dismissed – perhaps not in such a way that she thought Annalisa wanted her gone, but she didn’t really want her advice, despite the fact that Tanya thought it was needed. But perhaps Annalisa had handled men like them before. There was some industry and logging in this northern district, as well as farming, and Tanya knew as well as anyone that the harsher the environment, the more independent (and unwilling to be controlled) men tended to be.

One thing was certain, Tanya realized – Annalisa handled people a lot differently than Béla ever had, as far as she knew, anyway. Béla had always been interested in finding out why people did the things they did and tried to correct problems on a personal level. Annalisa didn’t seem interested in other people’s personal affairs so long as they were quiescent and didn’t hurt each other.

Of course, Tanya didn’t know that Annalisa’s fierce independence derived from ruling by herself, aided only by the distant praetor at university. At one time, the goddess Beth had been co-justice with her, but had long ago abandoned her post to journey to Earth with her sister goddess, Béla. Now that Beth had returned (in the form of Lisa), she showed no interest in resuming her old position, even though Annalisa would have welcomed the help despite the fact that Lisa seemed as caustic and difficult as Beth had ever been.

In the meantime, Annalisa was really pleased that Macario and Beth, or rather, Lisa, had come up with a way for her half-wild humans to blow off steam. Hunting parties to Earth’s distant past seemed to be a good idea to her. Real adventure and excitement – “Man Against the Elements” – always seemed to make people happy, and, to be truthful, not much ever happened in New Eden. Paradise was really a very, very dull place to spend eternity.

Word spread around the little moon like a wildfire (which they had never had, by the way, so that concept was alien to them) about Macario and Lisa’s new hunting project.