text: [Themes: sci-fi, science fiction, fantasy]
  
  Celebration was rampant among the villagers as news was spread of your victory. You had left Han behind at the sieged village to look after things for the future annexation of it. A feast was held and all the participating soldiers ate their rewarded fill. It truly was a much better day that was a great change of pace compared to what you had weathered earlier.
  
  You and Alyssa didn't attend much of it though, as the two of looked over a map that showed much of the land that belonged to the conquered tribe. Technically, it all belong to you now as you also had a second village once you were able to rebuild the destruction that you had caused.
  
  Things were looking pretty great for your future.
  
  A year later
  
  The situation was turning pretty grim for you and the tribe. Ever since you had conqured your first tribe, the council of tribes grew furious over time because of your claims for the land and the village. They were even more pissed since there was no native chief ruling over your village. They would have probably declared total war on you if it weren't for the ally that had supplied you weapons and armor backing you up through it all.
  
  Eventually the council let you you have the village and the land as long there was no village in the area, it all had to be unconstructed land. You didn't really mind at all for that rule, since the plethora of mounts and metal on your new land was all you really needed. Your own tribe grew to be one of the wealthiest and strongest in the region with both you and Alyssa in co-control. Though as the years went on, you grew to distrust her a bit as now that your situation seemed for stable, she started going back to her old ways. She would be the one to answer to any requests from the natives and the one who handled most of your trade routes. Through enough persuasion with her you were able to keep control of the armies and diplomatic relations with other tribes.
  
  Wether or not she would further challenge your power and if you would do anything about it still was undecided. Though for right now you had to put all that aside for the bigger problem that was facing the whole planet.
  
  Earthen colonists had started landing all over the planet with the intent of starting colonies. Unsurprisingly they were vastly technologically superior in every way and could easily wipe you out without even breaking a sweat. What scared you most is that they had successfully wiped out any pirate resistance on the planet as they were all now in hiding or already dead. It's not like you missed them, they were always a nuisance with the kidnappings and extortions that you would occasionally have to comply with. It was just how fast and easily they were able to wipe them out, the pirates had been operating on this planet for years and now they were just gone.
  
  Numerous tribe meetings were held on how to follow through with the planetary invasion, with all the chiefs looking up to both you and Alyssa since you were of the same species. You didn't want to tell them the truth, that there was nothing that could be done. The best thing that could happen was for diplomatic relations to be made and for no one to do anything stupid that would lead to everyone's annihilation.
  
  You were even looking to Alyssa at this point for answers, but even she was at a loss for words.
  
  It even came to such a low point, that she brought up the subject one night after a round of deppressed sex.
  
  "Why don't we just leave." She whispers into your ear.
  
  "Leave where?"
  
  "Where human, they'll take us back for sure. They won't care about what we did, about our time with the natives. Hell we'll probably be essential for that reason, no one else would know how to speak native that isn't already dead like those pirates."
  
  "You want to leave everything we've built here? To just start over as some random colonists?"
  
  "That's why I want to hear your thoughts on it first."
  
  > Can't give up
  "Come on Alyssa, you've been here longer than I have and ruled and built this place up for who knows how many years and you just want to give that all up? Trust me, we'll be fine, if it really turns out being so bad we'll pack our bags and become colonists. Only after we have no other choice though, I'm not just going to quit like that, there would be no point of any of the work we've done otherwise."
  
  "Fuck...you're right. I was being a little too scared about everything. We can't just quit."
  
  "Are you quitting for tonight?"
  
  Alyssa smirks at your challenge as the lights go out once again.
  
  With your hopes back, you try to live life ruling the village as if nothing had ever happened. Although you're much more careful with confrontations and try to send less patrols out then before. You would need to find a way create diplomacy between you and the colonists if you were planning on surviving for long.
  
  You sent a letter to a nearby colony in hopes for creating diplomacy without putting you or Alyssa in danger. It was days before they responded, but they actually did respond with a quite a few panflets being airdropped over your village.
  
  It stated that as long as no hostiles were to be seen between the two of you then they would leave you at peace. This came to a massive relief to you as they at the very least acknowledged you instead of just randomly gassing you. Even if they didn't keep true to their word, this piece of paper at least showed some promise for the future.
  
  > Epilogue
  A month had passed since the flyers were dropped down over your village.
  
  The peace didn't last, not for long. Some fuckhead chief decided that it would be smart to try and steal some shit from the colonists, of course his attempts failed and his tribe was soon gassed and bombed into oblivion. The colonist commanders seemed to take this as a universal sign of war from all the tribes in the vicinity though as more tribes were randomly gassed and bombed. You managed to escape with Alyssa before it managed to hit your tribe and kill you inside, but soon even your home was gone.
  
  With only a mount and supplies of food, the two of you set out into the wilderness.
  
  "I'm sorry Alyssa, if we would have just given ourselves up then maybe we would have been better off." You start to apologize while also breaking the silence that was between you too.
  
  "No don't think like that, those scum would have fucked us over either way. Just be glad that we made it out with our lives and without any gas scars. As long as we have each other through this, then we'll find a new life, new people to lead. It's not going to be the end of us just because one part of our life is at a end. This just means that were onto the new part."
  
  Alyssa's hope brings a grin to your face as you agree with her internally. You just had to live off as hermit's for a few years as the colonies grew and wait for the next time to strike. You were still young to a extent and you had plenty of years ahead of you, with Alyssa by your side, those years wouldn't be too bad.
  
  Bonny and Clyde Ending