Book 2 C 30 Introduction

We are asleep finally after a long day. All went as planned except the Dragon event and the six deaths, but given the circumstances all went well.

My dream is a pleasant one, I am sitting against a large tree, Aerleras sits back against me, my arms around her and her swollen belly, as we watch Cindy, Julie and Ki'Diera running and chasing three small children who are running in delight, just over a year old each, waddling on their little chubby legs, two girls and one boy screaming in glee as the mothers approach them saying “boo!”

I smile at the serene scene and take in the peaceful surroundings around me. I look up and a flight of 9 Griffins and their riders fly past us high in the air, their long lances pointed outward, their tips give off a sparkling gleam from the sun.

Along the Walls, two Rock Golems walk encased in heavy looking black armor with spiked helms on their heads. One Arm looks like it is a cannon of some kind, while the other is in the form of a giant war Hammer. We successfully combined low tech and high tech to complement each other. Two Hum-Vees and a Tank appear out of thin air, driven by the Elves, clad in a similar black armor, the Tank looks thick and massive and sports quad cannons in place of the single barrel it had before. The vehicles hover over the ground no wheels or tracks to be seen.

Similarly the Hum-Vee's have a single turret with a single barrel, non manned, slowly turning about as if looking or searching for something to auto target and shoot. A group of riders on what seems like horses appear on patrol, the Horses have a soft white glow to them and muscular looking, they are white in color, a bright sheen to their coat, looking regal, I almost want to say unicorns, but have no horns on them. The Riders are the Elite carrying their light sword hanging off their sides, and their Phaser Rifles at the ready. Their armor is now a white, almost a metallic look, Their Rifles look modified different from before.

I see Rick and Beverly Copp approaching us, her belly is swollen too and both smile as they near us. It seems we averted his death in time. Or did we resurrect him? If we resurrected him that means we also saved Doc Snow, at least I hope we did.

I look towards the massive Fortress and the towering walls. In each of the watch towers is a quad canon, similar to the tank, mounted on its roof. On each Flanking tower is a gun emplacement, Dual canon types, like Anti-aircraft all of them on automated control.

I look again at Ki'Diera, she is holding a crying little girl, her blue hair is now shoulder length, and her little tail is wagging wildly in the air, it seems she fell and hurt herself a little. Her rounded ears look almost normal, but for the light fuzz of blue on them, she is half human half Ny'Har'en. She also has my eyes, a penetrating blue. She is an adorable little thing, I can not help but love her with with all I have.

I pull Aerleras to me closely and smile at the scene. My little boy now is chasing Cindy, Michael is his name, his Brown hair flying in the light breeze as he is running trying to catch his mommy, laughing and giggling.

I then look to Julie as she is....

“So? So? Did you like what you saw?” asks someone of me and the four girls who are with me.

Confused we look about and try to understand what is going on. I see Julie, Cindy, Ki'Diera and Aerleras around me, each is shimmering as if they were not fully here, like a ghost. I look to myself and see I too, am incorporeal.

“Where are we and what is going on?” I ask .

“Nah uh uh! Your soul link does not work here so to say! So stop trying to talk in secret!” says the being waving a finger at us.

The being is a shimmering of energy, not fully recognizable as man or woman and the voice is non distinct too.

“You did not answer my question” I say to it.

“Right to business now huh? Well I showed you one possible outcome of your future” It says to me, then as if I could feel the evil smile” here is another, sister show them, please enjoy it! Hahahahaha!”

The scene turns suddenly and I see a flaming ruin, the Fortress is in ruins, people lay dead everywhere charred by fire. I see Cindy, Julie, Ki'Diera and Aerleras with many other females, among them Doc Mathews and Doc Mayes, in chains and on their knees, the clothes ripped from them, fully nude and a defeated look on their faces, each crying in despair. Their jailers are fellow Humans in Army uniforms with leers on their faces as some fondle the women's breast and other areas.

“Do not hurt those three, you can touch them all you want, but no harm to them!”, Yells a man and points to Julie, Cindy and Ki'Diera,”do what you want with the rest”, He yells again, a big bald man, 6'6” wearing an Army desert camo uniform with five stars on his collar, at his side he carries what looks like a black scimitar it gives of a dark almost black glow to it.

I look and my arms and legs have been severed and capped by some sort of device on each and preventing my regeneration. Not that it mattered, once my arms were gone so were my rings. Around my neck is a collar, thick and metallic, preventing my use of the soul link and to form the one.

I see creatures everywhere killing and maiming Elves, Human and Ny'Har'en alike, the giant dragon flies overhead once more and spews it flaming death into the distance.

We are back and the being is now upset” Did you have to add so much details Sister!”

“It is not my fault you allowed me to show them the other possible future with no restraint” laughs a second being..

“It is all according to the rules first sibling” Says now a third being who appears before us.

“ yeah yeah fuck those stupid rules, now back to the topic at hand” says the fist being.” why are you here?”

“It is simple, you all achieved Soul Link 2, thus you can now bear our presence in your minds, barely mind you, even now we must limit how much of us we can reveal to you.” Says the second being.

“In accordance with the rules set forth by all three, once you achieved the soul link status 2 we will introduce ourselves to you and give you a fair chance to play our game.” says the third.

“A game? This is all a fucking game?” I yell, my anger is boiling at those words.

“Scott calm down, this is not going to help matters you getting angry Tiger!”, Cindy speaks up.

“Yes, yes, listen to her and hear what we have to say, it is all important” says the second quickly.

“You say either future is possible” asks Aerleras.

“Yes it is all up to you five, to decide which is which” says the second with glee.

“Why do this?” Julie asks

“Because we can!” says the fist almost yelling, our heads begin to hurt.

“Let me explain and please forgive the rudeness of the first.” says the third calmly” We have a bet that the Humans can achieve what no other race can and thus win the game, the first believes it is not possible the second believes it is possible and I mediate to ensure there is fair play.”

“And what is it you seek?” I ask now calming myself

“For you to kill us” says the second, in a joyful tone.

“What?” All five of us say at once.

“Let me start at the beginning and it will start to make sense. Billions upon billions of years ago, based on your way of thinking of time, our race evolved to what we are now. We explored the universe as energy beings and met many different races out there, and for the first billion years we had lots to see and do, we found however we could not directly interact with the races we met, as they simply evaporated into nothingness in our presence.” says the third.

“Our race grew bored not able to mingle or interact with others, having soul link beyond 5, we already knew one another as a species, so nothing new was discussed for over a billion years. We grew bored with time and some even went to sleep for billions of years after. We can not die nor can we directly cause others to die, by direct, I mean we intentionally will them or try to kill them. It is part of our nature that we can not kill another. However being in our presence is not our fault if you die, you are merely too weak.”

“Wait what about the day seven event and all those that died?” I ask quickly

“Oh that, they are not dead, you assumed as much, they were merely time stopped and moved into another dimension for now to make room for the NPC's.” Says the second.

“What about the millions who died to the monster?” Julie asks, disbelief can be heard in her voice.

“we can not directly kill someone, however the monster spawns did in fact kill billions on your planet, no blame to us, as we merely placed them and your people could not defend themselves properly” says the first, “Not our fault” he shrugs.

All five of us are stunned right now

“We are getting off subject if I may continue” says the third ,” as stated we personally can not directly cause your death, however we can get assistance from others to do so, such as the monster spawn and before you ask why it is simple, we need you to evolve and kill us”

“Why the human race?” Asks Cindy “and how do the NPC's fit in as you call them.”

“To point one, we have watched as countless races have been born and died off, none of them ever came close to achieving what we have. Then about 150 thousand years ago, we saw a new race come to be. It was funny watching you all grow up. The first time you encountered fire we all fell on our asses laughing. “

“But then we saw something remarkable happen, sure other races were able to use fire as a tool like the humans, but your imagination went beyond that and you quickly rose thru the ages achieving what many races take millions of years to achieve.” says the third,” as to the NPC's races, many have existed far longer than the Human race, and we brought them to you to spark their imaginations and to give you some help in understanding magics.”

“The elves magic specialize in plant and portals, the Ny'Har'en specialize in body and weapons enhancement, the Dwarves whom you have yet to meet specialize in magic metals and item creation. And there are many more races out there to discover, those are only a drop in the bucket.” says the third , “so we came up with a game, destroy the NPC civilizations to merge them with the humans and force the humans to evolve faster so they can kill us, this has been going for over a hundred thousand years.”

“But why?” Julie cries out

“In the infinite time we have spent alive, immortal by your definition and spending billion of billions of years alive, experiencing everything this universe has to offer, there is one thing we have not experienced. That is death, as we can not die. Even if someone managed to kill one of us somehow, as long as one heart beats of our race, all will beat. Not that we have hearts mind you, but you get the idea”, Says the second.

“It is simply not possible for them to achieve it and I already won the game”, says the first.

"You agreed first so pipe down!" says the third.

“So why us in particular?” I ask now wanting to know this answer.

“Well you see Scott, you of all the people on this planet have certain genetic make up, that allows you to adapt more easily to our conditions, plus we needed someone with three wives.” says the second being, “in this reality you and Julie, were already on the verge of marriage, it just took a little nudge to accelerate it. Now to Cindy that was the tricky one, you under stand that there are different realities right?” it asks me

“Yeah infinite possibilities where infinite realities exist, where in I one go right in another reality I go left instead, thus creating another alternate reality.”, I say to it.

"Very good very good you understand, well in another reality Julie married Mark, no worries Julie that Mark was nice and cared deeply for you, even had twins with him, but you never met Scott, so on that fateful Saturday, Scott went alone to the Mall and met Cindy who was alone, yups the accident never occurred and never met Brad. You two collided in the food court, Cindy spilling her drink all over the both of you, and yes Cindy you still had your big breasts, seems you are always conscious of them in almost every reality.” The being snickers.

“In that reality Cindy's mom does not give her up to her grandmother at the age three and instead leaves the bastard who tried to force her to do so, thus preventing her mom from committing suicide later due to a broken heart over losing her child. Hmm maybe I should have skipped that part. Oh well, in any case, mom and daughter move in with grandma, and because mom is present the strict curfews do not exist and Cindy grows up into a wonderful woman and keeps her virtue till college not experiencing the locker room event that scarred her for life.”

“Then she studied hard and becomes a world renowned chemist. A leader in her field opening new ideas in the field. But due to her strive and success she forgets her personal life much to the regret of her mother and grandmother. One fated weekend Cindy visits mom and grandma at their home and is hounded by them to settle down and have a family before it is too late. Frustrated and upset Cindy heads to the Mall to cool of and think things over. Deep in thought she gets a big gulp and plunges directly into Scott, drenching her blouse into a see thru fest of big breasts. Scott being the gentleman quickly removes his shirt filled with his godly scent and puts on over Cindy to hide those massive jugs of hers, all the while she smells his godly scent”.

“Grateful Cindy asks Scott to let her make it up to him. Scott says no it is ok and he is glad to help, Cindy insists, Scott refuses, Cindy demands, Scott gives in......Dinner comes and goes and before you know it it is the next day morning having talked the entire night away. Happy in each others company a bond grew and a fire was lit, one month later you two married in Vegas and a month after that Cindy had a bun in the oven.”

“So how does that relate to now? We simply brought the feelings Cindy had there to here” Smiles the being , "with the love spell, you three never had a chance”.

“Oh and to Ki'Diera well she explained it herself pretty good before, it was all about strength and we helped you in that department pretty damn good.” says the first being eyeing the second being with an accusing look.

“How does Aerleras fit into all of this?” I ask

“Hmm let's see, she has to teach all of you something important”, says the third being.

“What about the children, how are they involved?” Asks Ki'Diera who has been silent up till now.

“Ah that, once the children reach the adult age of 18, they shall become our, well how do I say this for you to understand, our shells. We will take over their bodies to host our presence in them. It will take a long time for them to mature and evolve enough to be able to withstand our spirits.” Says the first.,” when that happens, then we can move about the planet at will and interact with the other races, and fun will be had for all! We believe we can stay in the bodies for about 10000 years give or take a 1000 years. Then the planet will be destroyed.” The First says now snickering at that last comment.”That was my condition to play this game to give us bodies so we can interact and have some fun”

“That is horrible “ Cries Julie.”you want to use our children as tools?”

“Well yeah” says the first not caring.

“I went along with that condition as it will give you incentive to rise to the challenge, not only to save your people but to save your children as well” says the second.

“Tell them the rest of it” says the third annoyed.

“If your children reach the age of 18 and we take form, you five will die” Says the first quickly almost in glee.

“You said you can not directly kill us so how does that work?” I ask them.

“It is quite simple, the condition is, if we take form, you fail, the soul link will be passed to your children and you will die from the shock.” says the first,”it is every parents dream to pass on their knowledge right? Hahahahaha”

“What about the Reality Manipulation and....” I begin to ask.

“Sorry, but your time is up! Night night!” says the First.

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