Meridian Warriors: Xander and Des

By Jana Leigh

In book one of Meridian Warriors: The humans thought they were alone in the galaxy, but they could possibly find out different. That is, unless Xander and Des, the Meridians, who have claimed the ocean on Earth to live in—have anything to do with it.
These men, along with some of the other Warriors from Meridian, watched from space as their home planet exploded with the remainder of their people still on it. Leaving no hope of ever completing their Tri-bond, they only had each other to love, leaving the Meridian Men to live solitary lives in their under-the-ocean city.
Running from their home planet, hundreds of years ago, they found solace on Earth, living under the water and helping the humans as they began to develop the land. Now they feel the need to make sure their own enemies don’t hurt the humans.
Questions arise when they save a beautiful woman and her friends. The men are surprised to find the human women possess some Meridian DNA, which raises a whole other set of questions.
Meet these gorgeous Mermen Warriors who tame the heart of their Tri-bond mate. Follow the harden Warriors in this New Series as they fall in love after living and believing for hundreds of years that they were destined to live the remainder of their very long lives together, with no possibility of ever having the joy of women or children around them.
They will make you laugh and have your blood boiling all in one.
Warning: M/M/F

• Language: English
• Publisher: JK Publishing Inc
• Release date: Mar 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301898916

Jana Leigh

Jana Leigh lives in Colorado surrounded by her family and friends. She loves writing and meeting new people!

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Meridian Warriors: Xander and Des

Meridian Warriors

Book One

By Jana Leigh and Zach Collins

Edited by M. L. Hill

© Copyright March 2013 JK Publishing, Inc.

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Dedication

When we started on this endeavor it was in a Facebook room just brainstorming. Although we wrote the words, our editors Michelle and Caroline helped develop the story. Although you have seen this a million times, we thank and love our editors. We are coming up on our one-year anniversary of this company’s inception. Since then, we have grown and come to be not only friends but also family. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but in the end, we always come together.

We love you both and hope that you will put up with us for many years to come. However, Michelle the word vagina for a man is just weird. In addition, Caroline, no rewrites really does mean no rewrites!

Jana Leigh and Zach Collins

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Table of Contents

~Prologue

~Chapter One

~Chapter Two

~Chapter Three

~Chapter Four

~Chapter Five

~Chapter Six

~Chapter Seven

~Chapter Eight

~Chapter Nine

~Chapter Ten

~Chapter Eleven

~Chapter Twelve

~Chapter Thirteen

~Chapter Fourteen

~Epilogue

~Books by Jana Leigh

~Books by Zach Collins

Prologue

"We are losing the battle with the Hopis, they have powerful weapons, and I fear soon they will break through our defenses, no matter what we do," the King said to Xander.

Their numbers are too many, no matter how many Warriors I have; we will not defeat them. Sir, we should think of evacuation," Xander said.

Xander was the leader of the Warriors, he was the one the King went to for military strategies, and so far, in this battle they had done well. Partly because they were underwater and the Hopis didn’t know how to fight underwater, but fighting was not what they wanted—it was the water. And they had finally found a way to begin draining the planet.

"Sir, our planet is being sucked dry from its resources. Our greatest protection from others was our water. We have lived hidden from everyone for millennia. The Hopis have developed a way to steal the water from our surface, Xander explained. There is a large ship on the farthest side of the planet, which they are using to exact the water. Every day it goes down further and further, soon we will not be able to hide."

They lived in a huge force field built around the ships their ancestors arrived to the planet in. It was amazing. They built homes, buildings, and businesses as they moved out of their ships. They grew food, learned to live underwater, and flourished in the new environment.

The Meridians were an intelligent species, and their technology was advanced. They found in their travels that many of the other species were eager to buy and learn what the Meridians were more than happy to teach and sell.

According to the scripts, they evolved over time to adapt to their surroundings. The Meridians were known for their shifting ability. When in the water their legs changed into one long tail with scales that allowed them to swim and hunt underwater.

The Hopis were people from another planet only two light years from them, they were vermin. While traveling the universe, they found their planet, Meridian. Meridian was a small planet whose surface was entirely covered in water. At first, the Hopis didn’t bother the planet because it didn’t seem inhabited. The Hopis planet was inhibited and they thought they could just use the water resources for their own, coming back every few years and filling their tanks with water.

When they discovered by accident through their defense field that there were inhabitants on the planet—the attacks began. They wanted the water for their own, along with the Meridian’s technology.

For thirty years, Xander led the Warriors in protecting their home planet. However, the Hopis would not give up. Through many prisoner interrogations, they learned the Hopis home planet had dried up a century ago, sending its inhabitants into space to find water for their people. They thought they hit the payload with Meridian—only to find out that Xander and his people were there.

They wanted the water, but when they found some of the technology the Meridian had, they wanted that too. The Hopis were brutal in their attack, Xander grimaced a little as he thought about the torture many of his men succumbed to. Sir, what can we do? Xander asked.

Rolf, the Leader, and large Warrior himself, said, We must gather the ships. One of our men discovered a planet in the early stages of development, if we land in their waters, we could stay hidden for many years. It is our only hope.

Xander led the evacuation, they tried to keep it a secret from the Hopis but of course, they found out. The day they all left their home planet, Xander thought they’d planned the escape to perfection. The only thing their leader didn’t consider was the Hopis in their greed to obtain everything—destroyed the planet while they were still too close. Xander and his men’s ship was the only one to escape the blast. The ship held fifty-two men, no women, and no children—they were stagnant. Left to survive on a strange planet without the benefit of companionship.

They plotted the course for Earth and landed in the body of water, which is now called the Pacific Ocean. The planet was in its early stages of growth, so the men stayed underwater all the time in its early years. They discovered they were still able to shift into their Meridian form when they entered the water. Their legs disappeared and a long, large tail fin appeared with brilliant colors, showing their ranking in the Meridian City.

Slowly over time, they discovered that most of the men were mates, and were just missing their female. Xander always figured it had to have been the rest of the race being destroyed that triggered their mating instincts with the only survivors. Xander and Des had been friends since childhood, and they never felt the pull until one day while they were swimming in the ocean.

It was amazing to have a large area to swim in, their planet was much smaller than Earth, they could have swam their entire planet in two days, but Earth, hell it took more than a week, and that was if they swam steady the whole time.

The group of men knew their limitations; they needed materials from the surface to help them live.

They lived in the ship they escaped on for a long time. It took their brilliant Warrior technology man to slowly create a shield that expanded and formed into a large bubble-like barrier between them and the surrounding water. It was similar to their own planet; however, Earth’s water had a different compound—salt. Meridian had not had salt in their water, so it took a while for Cash’s mate, Rosul, to create a new barrier bubble. Now they had approximately a five-mile city built to accommodate them.

Over the years they went to the surface and discovered they could shift above the water and search for materials. When finished, they could reenter the water and shift for the return to their underwater city. They also discovered the Warriors could only stay above on the land for about seven rises of the sun before they began to get sick. They needed to be in the water to survive now.

A surprise source of help came when the men rose from the ocean one night only to find a ship of Pirates waiting for them. The battle lasted only briefly as the Warriors overcame the men from the ship. Then a bargain was struck, and had been in place ever since.

The humans developed and evolved, although the Meridian had not wanted to interfere, they did feel that since they had come to Earth to survive, they owed the humans something. Xander and the others began letting some of the technology surface with them. A few well-placed ideas—in the right minds—had allowed the humans to develop as well.

Xander also felt the need to protect the humans. They did not want what happened to their home planet to happen to Earth as well. They sent out a tracking beacon, and they could tell when another race moved too close. Some of them were harmless, although some were not. Therefore, they did what they had to do in order to protect the humans.

Around a hundred years ago, the Hopis discovered Earth, and although they could not completely protect the humans from them, they did help deter them. The Warriors set out to kill any of the Hopis that came to Earth to scout; however, it wasn’t until fifty years ago they found out, through interrogation, the leader of the Hopis searched for them. For some reason the man had vowed to find and destroy the last of the Meridian, the Meridian Council all assumed it was because the Hopis didn’t want it to get out to some of the other species what they had done.

So far, they had been lucky, they avoided their detection every time, although Xander knew that someday they would not be so lucky, there were too many of them and the Hopis were sending more scouts. They had probably figured out the Warriors were here since many of their scouts never returned.

Rosul made only one entrance to the city, and only a Meridian would be able to enter. Rosul embedded the entrance doorway to recognize their blood markers. Anything else trying to pass through the doorway would be trapped and if not allowed in, thrown back out into the ocean after a certain amount of time. Fish and other creatures sometimes wandered into their passageway, which saved them from going out to find food.

The entrance was remarkably well hidden, as was their city. Over time, with the development of the planet, rock formations shifted and Cash used them to incorporate the city. On the far side of the city was a lake, Meridian made of course, but they kept it well stocked with fish now. However, to leave the city, they had to dive into the lake and pass through a rock tunnel. Their doorway worked both ways, except anything entering had to be accompanied by a Meridian. If not, it or they were killed.

They developed a Meridian Council just as they had on their home planet. Xander was the leader, but the Council was also in charge. They made the laws of their underwater land and everyone obeyed them.

Chapter One

Xander stood on the balcony and felt his male mate enter the room behind him. He smiled and waited. Des was late; he was probably training the rest of the Warriors with the new toys that Cash developed. They would do well when they had to go to the surface and blend in.

Xan? Des yelled as he walked back into their home. The home was traditionally decorated in their home planet’s décor. When they barely escaped the planet’s destruction with the ship, they at least planned ahead of time and put their personal belonging aboard since they knew they would no longer be able to return home.

The bold colors of red and blue adorned the furniture along