A story we all write.

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BLACK POWDER, TRAINS AND GERMS
Coming in from the southern plains of North Dakota and moving south West Kevin kept the chopper at a steady speed of 150 miles per hour. He had taken a direct course across South Dakota and swung along the southern border of that state straight into Wyoming. As they entered the eastern plains of Wyoming they begin to see the trains. Back in 2021 the coal mines were completely shut down and the coal trains began to shut down. A few years later they all had quit operating and were abandoned on the tracks. The miles and miles of cars full of coal still set on the tracks and people from time to time still loaded their pickup trucks with this stuff to heat their run down homes with it. Most of them were kicked off their lands and herded into the cities. Some hold outs remained but their power was shut off. So people that continued to live out there virtually had to grow there own foods and drill for water. They supplied power by the coal and any other type of fuels they could find to use. The coal began to deteriorate and the dust would blow from the cars which created a fine powder across the plains. They all looked at the black landscape as they continued towards Powder River. The entire Powder River Basin was one large area of black powder.

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They flew over the little town of Powder River and headed towards the Northwest. Kristyl was watching her scopes and noticed the extra vehicle activity as well as the heat signatures of humans. The bunker appeared to be located North west and into some rolling hills. They could see the fence line and a guard post entrance as they flew over. They also saw men with dogs and the dogs were looking up as they flew over. Kevin told everyone that this was going to be fairly tough to get into. They appear to have quite a few dogs down there. The Guards on the ground kept looking up also but could not see anything and would jerk their dogs to follow as they continued around the fence perimeter. Kevin took the chopper higher and over some of the rolling hills until they were well away from the fence line. Bill had noticed a medium sized convoy of hummers and armored patrol cars setting outside the main Guard post entrance and on the inside there were several buildings with vehicles parked close to them. Carolyne had also noticed a landing field with two choppers sitting idly on pads.

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Kevin flew the chopper over two hills away from the fence line and set it down Bill and Carolyne were talking to each other in the rear of the cabin. Kevin and Kristyl shut the rotor off and put all the other gear on standby. The dispance cloak and the stealth gear remained active as usual. Bill mentioned that the layout of the ground base was almost identical to the one they had destroyed. If this was just like the other one then there would be a rear entrance to the base also. The buildings would hold the Guards and the dog pens. The one separated building that seemed to be located a greater distant from the others would be where the entrance to the bunker was located. Carolyne asked if anyone noticed the train tracks running into the hill just west of the main buildings. Kristyl said she did and wandered where they might lead. Carolyne said “on the other base the tracks ran into a hill and wound their way down to the second level. That hill side has an opening that is remotely operated from two different locations. The engine and cars are used to bring large supplies down and other major materials up to be shipped to other facilities. Level two is nothing more than a large storage facility with that engine and cars. Somewhere down there is a very large elevator that is used to deliver big containers and what not. I would suspect that a people elevator is in that small building setting by itself to the South of everything else. It looked like the fence was only about 20 feet from the back of that building. We must remember this; there is only one path to that building that is safe. It is surrounded by land mines I am sure. Kevin started to ask about getting in when Kristyl grabbed his arm and spun him around. Outside the chopper once again was a small group of Prairie dogs standing on their hind legs looking straight at them. Bill and Carolyne both moved forward to see.

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ODAKOTA had watched the giant metal bird land in his valley barely missing some of his brother’s burrows. This thing had swooped in and stood on his Coterie. He had given the warning and the whole town had scampered into their burrows just in time. When the bird had landed he waited for it to try to dig into the burrows but it did no such thing but rather just stood there. As he watched he could see things moving around inside of the bird and thought maybe it had already eaten and would not harm him. He popped up and stood on his burrow and the bird did nothing. Some of his brothers popped up and they chattered together and then got braver and moved towards the thing. It still did nothing so they moved real close and watched the movement in its belly. ODAKOTA recognized the things as humans and he and his brothers stood up on their hind legs and began to just watch these creatures. When they turned and looked straight at him and the brothers he almost sounded for them all to run and get safe but they just stood and looked, After a few clicks of moment A voice arose in his mind and it told him to not be afraid these humans were brothers and sisters and that he should help them. The voice was sweet and he waited for a sign from the humans in the bird’s belly.

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Hava/Luun spoke into the crews minds and told them to meet ODAKOTA the Prairie dog. He would be able to help them to enter the bunker in a safe manner. She was opening his mind to receive their thought mind talk. Carolyn walked forward to the pilot’s seat and began to speak to ODAKOTA. My name is Carolyne this is Bill and these two are Kevin and Kristyl. We have been told that you are ODAKOTA and that you can help us to gain access to that place over the hills that have the big metal wire around it. We also understand that you had or may still have families and towns living inside the wire. We have met your distant brothers and sisters, NANTAN helped us in another place. As soon as she said NANTAN there was a very big chattering from the others that were standing around. ODAKOTA chattered for them to settle down. They all stopped chattering but were looking at one another and then back at the humans. ODAKOTA found his mind open to understand and began to speak back to Carolyne. “You speak of our brother who lives in the greater plains; he is a great speaker for all of us. We will show you the place to get in where your thought shows us. We have been that way everyday to see our brothers and sisters that live in their burrows to the open areas from those human burrows. They are attacked every light time by the big animals that look like wolves. Sometimes one of our brothers or sisters is caught and they no longer live in the town. We do not speak of what happens to them because it is too gruesome. We can show where the metal round things are that make loud noises and tear our brothers and sisters apart if they get to close to one. Carolyne asked when they could show them the way and ODAKOTA said it would be after the light has sunk into the ground. Everyone understood and made arrangements with ODAKOTA to meet at a place he chose.

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Dusk was approaching quickly and everyone had rested and eaten. Carolyne made sure once again that everyone had taken the pill she had created so the germs/viruses could not affect them. They all had the Officer uniforms on and planned to use them the same way they did in North Dakota. They kept the dispance cloaks on even though they knew the animals could still see them ODAKOTA had told them to meet him at the top of the hill just before the wire. They all had moved out on foot but used the levitation capability to float up and over and to the next hill. Landing near the top, ODAKOTA had watched them all float to his position and asked with great curiosity how he might be able to do that. Carolyne told him that it was a gift from the Great Spirit and she would ask for him to receive it. Darkness had set in when ODAKOTA and TUSA scampered down the hill and across a short flat area to the fence. Both of them disappeared for a moment through a hole and popped back up on the inside.

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Amanda brought the branch down with full force but Connie rolled away before the branch could meet its target.
Screaming with rage and frustration, Amanda flung the branch away and pounced upon Connie, like a tiger leaps on its prey.

It brought them both to the ground with a crash and the sheer momentum of it all sent them rolling and tumbling down through the forests steep hillside and down to the river.

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They all had watched the two Prairie dogs scamper down the hill and cross the flats and go under the fence. Kevin was watching the perimeter for any sign of Guards and dogs when out of one of the buildings a Guard and a dog exited. Tall LED lights lit up the yard or compound and every 100 feet the fence was lit with the same lighting. Bill spoke in the mind and said “I do believe the military has become quite paranoid now. “You can bet your bippy that the fence is highly electrified too”. The Guard started to walk the perimeter of the fence and it was their luck that he headed off in the opposite direction from their location. They watched him move away until he was almost out of site and checked for any other guards and activated the jet belts and lifted up over the fence. ODAKOTA and TUSA were standing on there hind legs at the rear of the building with the elevator shaft in it when they came over the fence and zeroed in on the Prairie dogs. ODAKOTA watched them fly over the fence and he and TUSA darted around quickly showing them where the round metal things were located. They all paid close attention and were able to land in places that were clear. Once on the ground they followed the two prairie dogs around the side of the building that was away from the other buildings. The dogs were scampering around running from one metal disk to the next so the company was able to walk in between and step over the mines. At the front of the building the dogs both ran to two mines and kicked a trench around each one so they could be seen clearly and then came back to their spot. Carolyne spoke to ODAKOTA and asked him how many families were living inside the perimeter of the wire. ODAKOTA spoke back and told her that there was only one family of about 10 folk living on the far back side of the wire ring. Carolyne asked him and TUSA to go to the family and ask them to leave the wire ring for awhile. She told him that it could be very dangerous for them and perhaps they could have their homes back after she and her companions were done doing what they had to do here. ODAKOTA acknowledged in his mind and he and TUSA took off towards the area were the family was living. Bill led the crew to the entrance and they all entered. Once inside, they all noticed the man sitting behind a desk of some sort. He was reading a magazine or something of the sort.

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Private Henry Johnstone was reading a magazine from Bear Lake Utah, looking at lake front property where he could live with his wife when he got out of this nightmarish military. He had joined because of the financial resource to support his wife. He thought it would be easy and after 10 years he could get out and they would be set to disappear into the wilderness. He had been sent here after another underground base had been destroyed 3 or 4 years ago. His sight had rested on a small cabin with a large open deck on the front of the house. The house was built on a sloping hill side that ran down to the lake front with a walk deck out onto the water. His mind wandered to that lake when the main entry door blew open. He was startled and looked up quickly. The door stood wide open so he got up and walked over to close it. After closing it he headed back to the desk thinking that the door opening like was very strange. It could not have been blown open because there was no wind this evening. He started to sit back down and resume his musings of the property on the lake. He went to pick up the magazine and it was not there. He begin looking around thinking it may have fallen on the floor. He frantically searched knowing that if it was found by his commander he would be put on report and be made to suffer some unknown punishment. He stood up and walked around to the front of the desk and heard a rustling noise like pages being fanned. He looked up and the magazine was floating in mid air open to the page he had been looking at before the door opened. He stood there starring and watched the magazine move over to the desk, close and lay back down on the surface. In his mind he heard a woman speaking to him saying “Private would you like to go to that place right now”? He did not know what to say but his wish was so strong it made him shake his head up and down. “I can send you there with your wife and you both will not be missed from this place” Henry spoke and said “who are you and where are you”? Kristyl smiled and the rest of them almost giggled. She spoke back to him in his mind “Henry who I am is someone that can give your dream to you and Marci. The world is changing and all of this evil and hate is being dissolved from the human race. I will send you to Marci and you both must gather what you think you need and then you both must wait to go to the cabin. I will send you there when you are ready. Is this what you want in your heart and spirit? Henry new it was exactly what he wanted and the sooner the better. His doubt was still controlling him somewhat and he asked, “what about this duty station, I am due to be relieved in three hours”? Kristyl reassured him that the man to relieve him would not come. He still was not sure but wanted to go so bad. Kristyl could feel his trepidation and saw his memory of the little house in Cheyenne. She opened a portal in front of him and he saw Marci sitting on the couch. Kristyl told him that he could just step into the room and explain it to her. That is all it took to make up his mind. He started to step through but Kristyl said “wait” and floated the magazine to him. He grabbed it and stepped through the portal. It closed and Kristyl followed his mind. It did not take long for Henry and Marci to gather what little they had and Kristyl saw them both standing in the little space waiting. She read the mind thought of them visiting the place and opened a portal for them to step through into the cabin. She closed the portal and they were secure on a wonderful lake in a very cozy cabin.

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Carolyne hugged Kristyl and they all turned off the dispance cloaks. Kevin walked over and opened a panel on the desk and opened the elevator door that was located on the side wall of the building. They all walked to the open door and climbed in. The car door closed and they all noticed that there were only two levels below the ground level. Knowing that the second level would be a big storage station for supplies and the engine and cars they punch the button for level three and the elevator dropped like a stone. There was a meter on the wall that showed distance. They all looked at it in astonishment as the elevator fell through the shaft. The meter showed that they were headed down 2000 feet to the bottom level. Carolyne stepped up to the front as the car began to slow.

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TO LOCK A GATE AND EXTINQUISH FIRES
The gate had been opened by greedy little men that thought they would gain all the power and wealth to control the world. These were men that controlled the Governments of the World. They controlled the monetary systems and ¾ of the world with their wealth. They wanted more. It was always that way. They could never have enough wealth and power and as long as they could not control the entire world they would always seek new ways to gain that goal. The wars they created were just one way to control the population but for the most part humans always seemed to outbreed their ways of control. The only ones that knew them were the controlled politicians and the top owners of the banks. They were continuously making sure that anyone going against them was eliminated.

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These men were eternals; they had risen to power hundreds of thousands of years prior and could never actually gain true dominance over mankind. They did manage to influence the world course for mankind and amassed great wealth and power at times but still were not able to take complete control except one time in the distant past but their greed destroyed the world and all the technology that was created at the time. None of them knew where they had gotten the power from to start with but they all knew how to cause mankind to destroy themselves. It took thousands and thousands of years and every time mankind was on the brink of total destruction something would change and humans would evolve to a higher intelligence and these greedy little creatures would have to start over. It had been 10,000 years since the last time they were on the verge of total control.

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There were only 4 of them left when they were told of a strange object that was found in the pits of a coal mine. The miners that dug the black rock had dug down to almost 10,000 feet when they opened a hole in a wall and found the circular device that was revolving. The miners left in a frightened flurry and told the mine owners about what they had found. One of the owners had told a very high ranking politician at the time and word got to one of the four. The Mine was shut down within days and the miners were all sent to a different mine. The four were all brought together and contacted a few highly intelligent scientists of the time, and began to explore the object. The scientists found keys to certain parts of the wheel as they called it that made it do certain things when they activated them. In 1932 they could not get the wheel to do anything but spin with bright shinny lights. They did not know that one of the scientists had activated an opening into another dimension, allowing a horde of life forms to come through the gate. The Beings that had come through found their way into the deeper bowels where it was so hot that humans could not survive. When the scientists and the 4 became disenchanted with the object after 8 years they finally blocked off the tunnel and closed up everything to the 5000 foot level. The 4 eternals became disgusted with humanity on earth and decided to go to the ancient world of Atlandia where humans had first traveled to over 100.000 thousand years earlier when they first became star travelers. They thought they might have better luck at becoming controllers of humans there. So they activated a hidden space craft that had been created then and left the earth and the solar system shortly before the beginning of the world war they had brought about. The bankers that had been part of the 4’s schemes continued the destruction of the earth. When the space ship the 4 were on entered a worm hole on the other side of Jupiter a tiny island in the pacific ocean was being attacked by a nation that had been devastated financially by a larger nation through the bankers that controlled the worlds monetary system.

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In 1945 after the world war ended, the underground city was created by the government for “The Continuity of Government” project. The lower recesses of the mine were forgotten about but the dark fiery forms had stirred and ventured up through dark coal caverns. They had found fires burning with the black rocks and those became closer to their world. They had tried at first to get back to their world but the gate had been shut off and they could not get through to it. They waited and lived in the deep areas that were hot but not quite as hot as their home. When they finally ventured up further they found the fires and that was like being home once again. In the early 60’s the Congress was meeting on a regular basis in the giant underground city and using the place as a vacation spot. They used the underground garage for access.

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A tunnel had been made from the large fire pit to an opening into a stairwell that was close to the underground city. The beings were living in the fires when the creatures that inhabited this world began falling in to their living place. Sometimes these creatures still had a life force as they fell in but most of the time they were just empty bags of matter. The Burnsacka as they called themselves ventured ever closer to the center where the beings that inhabited this world, lived in large groups. Soon enough they captured a few and brought them to their living area. The creatures screamed and squirmed and expired so the Burnsacka learned how to keep them alive until they could experiment with them. The Burnsacka could assimilate into other living species on their home planet and dimension. That had been an evolutionary process that took eons for them but once accomplished it was a normal process for them. The species that they captured at first expired when they tried to assimilate with them. They finally learned how to assimilate into them without destroying them and the process allowed the Burnsacka to live in cooler climates and control the species. The one drawback was the fact that once they assimilated into a human that particular human would always be sweating or loosing water as the Burnsacka called it, so the assimilated human body had to continuously be fed the fluid and be in an environment that had cold air moving around.

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They began to cause the species to gather others of their kind and bring them to this place. They had controlled them to build large holding pens for the ones that were rounded up and brought down into the large city. They meant to take control of this world and could only live by assimilation. In the process of all this happening they had explored the depths once again and found the access to the gate. They knew how to operate it and began to bring others through and showed them how to assimilate this species that lived here. Once they had assimilated enough they caused them to build tunnels that were wider and safer for the Burnsacka. This all happened over a period of time and most of the assimilated species, calling themselves humans, were of a political nature or those that were in control. The warriors of this species came and went and were assimilated rapidly. During a certain time of major turmoil on this world in this dimension the underground city had been abandoned or closed off. The unassimilated humans closed the roads that gave access and shut the facility down. The Burnsacka assimilated humans waited for the turmoil to subside and then made their way back to the facility. They created a different way that was hidden, to access the vehicle tunnel. They created a different road to the top area and built a secret parking area for those that had to remain above ground and known to the unassimilated humans. They carved out the hill or small mountain area and made the sliding door. All of this transpired from the early time of the closures to the present time. They had stepped up the invasion through the gate and the capturing of the unassimilated humans for assimilation. They began to concentrate on the younger of the species and the females for breeding. Due to the shorter life spans of this human species they were always capturing and causing the younger ones to breed more often. The process was running fairly smooth at this time and they planned to have enough to control this world within 100 years. As it was at this point they were just barely getting started and there was a tremendous amount of room still available in the underground city

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Amanda was the first to hit the water. She plunged deeply into the murky waters and disappeared.


Connie soon tumbled in after her and she also disappeared for just a moment before bobbing up again, coughing and spluttering at the surface, her breath coming in harsh jagged gasps with the shock of the cold water.
The pain in her head forgotten, she knew from the splash she heard that Amanda was first to fall into the water.
She recalled with the shock of the water how Amanda couldn't swim. It was not the first time she'd had to play lifesaver to that wretched woman. Many years ago, Amanda had fallen into her own pool and Connie had dragged her out with a towel.

Connie took a deep breath, tried to still her racing heart with her thoughts, took one more huge breath and duck dove. Blindly groping at all around her, she swam frantically, grasping at whatever flotsam and jetsam she could get a hold of in search of Amanda.
Feeling like her lungs were going to burst, she came up for air again and kicking her way down again, she cut her foot on a jagged tin. Luckily, nature's little helper in the way of adrenaline came to her aid. She neither felt the pain or the deepness of the cut on her heel. Doggedly and determinedly the search went on.

At last, a limb was caught hold of and she held fast because Amanda thrashed around in her confusion and desperation for life, fighting the water and Connie. At the very least Connie knew that Amanda was still conscious but they still had to get to the river bank.
Using every last bit of strength and reserve she had, she pulled Amanda up to the surface and tucking Amanda's arm up behind her, she dove under the water again to anchor the crook of her arm around Amanda's neck, and holding her head firmly against her chest, she kicked out sideways, making her way to the river bank.

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Two snouts appeared above the water. Waiting and watching as the two women made their way to the river bank.

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The original ones that came through were very few but they were able to control the humans that were the highest of the hives. When they had found the gate once more they let more through but kept it at a minimum until they could get enough assimilated to begin controlling the lands outside this place. So in all there were only 100 of them in existence on this world at the present time and they continued to capture the young ones and the females. In the large pens within the underground city there were thousands of these humans. They fed them regularly and kept them in a relatively clean environment but they were all locked in. They had kept the gate closed for around 25 years now and had planned to open it soon to begin assimilating the hives of the humans they had accumulated over the years. They began culling the humans as they grew older and kept the population at a steady age of 30 years and less. The assimilated humans that controlled areas outside of the city were allowed to live for the usefulness of their bodies until they were able to assimilate the younger ones to take over.

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When the crew reached the bottom of the stairwell, they all gathered in the landing area. Lionhawk told them all about the first corridor and then the large cavern. He told them of the other larger cavern beyond the first one and how he had witnessed the vehicle with the caged trailer that was full of humans. “We must rescue those humans first before we destroy any experiments and research. I saw women and children mostly and then young men. I do not know what they are doing down here that requires the collection and enslavement of those humans. I have a feeling that it is not a good thing and those folks need to be set free. Shadowself listened and then turned towards the other door in the Landing area and asked what was through that door and could they use it to possibly get to another exit in the caverns? Lionhawk told her and the others that behind that door was something very dark and they should not venture into the area unless they were willing and ready to fight whatever was there. Shadowself understood that at the moment they all must do the other more important thing of releasing the humans. Fighting the darkness was coming and she knew that Lionhawk and the two lions were going to fight when the time came. She was thinking that she was going to stand next to Lionhawk in the ensuing battle.

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Nawhuar and Sawlyne the beavers were anxious that the two humans would make it safely to land for they knew that humans were very poor swimmers.
They had seen the light-haired one sink to the bottom of the river and struggle very much and then become very still. The sacred spirit had then left the body. It was different to their beaver brothers spirits, it was a bigger and brighter light.
To their amazement, another bright light appeared within the water and the two lights merged.
And then, ever so strangely, the sacred spirit went back into the light-haired one again. They watched as the light-haired one struggled and then was rescued by the dark-haired one. It made no sense to the beavers.

Nawhuar could smell and taste human blood in the water, such were his refined senses and he sensed with alarm that something was wrong. He paddled his way effortlessly through the water and the debris, strong water creature that he was and he spied that one of the humans had blood coming out of one of its moving parts.
He swam swiftly back to Sawlyne to let her know that a special packing medicine would be required for the dark-haired one.
She immediately swam to a place where the pure refined clays lay at the bottom of the river. They were full of rich healing for open wounds.

At last, Connie and Amanda reached the river bank edge. Connie went to stand and suddenly felt the sharpest pain shoot up from inside her foot. She screamed and collapsed with pain, suddenly dropping Amanda from her clutches.
Amanda, too weak to cry out as she fell, slowly crawled out of the water and lay on the ground, weakly throwing up river water. Connie crawled onto land and then she passed out from the pain.
Meanwhile, each was unaware of the silent approach of a kindly stranger...

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Silently and deftly, Sawlyne packed and applied the bentonite clay to Connies open wound. Beavers have great paws for doing just this, such are their practised hands at building mud homes. Connie was unconscious and felt nothing. Amanda just lay there, dry wretching and feeling like death.
It was some time in the late afternoon when Connie came to. She winced as she remembered her foot but as she went up onto her elbows to look down and examine her foot, she noticed that it was heavy with clay. It looked like someone had deliberately placed clay on her wound!
"Well, don't look at me, I didn't do it," said Amanda, a little stiffly and awkwardly, her voice cracked with emotion.

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"It was a beaver." Connie looked at Amanda like Amanda had just said that they were on the moon.

"A beaver?" Connie exclaimed with one eyebrow raised.

"Just what I said, a beaver," said Amanda, now aware that she was now sounding like she required a straight jacket and feeling very, very uncomfortable inside, an emotion quite strange and alien to Amanda.

"It really was a beaver, I swear," said Amanda, starting to feel herself cry. Amanda hadn't cried in such a long time that as she wiped the tears from her face, she thought to herself, "What am I crying about?"

Connie was in no mood to argue with the likes of someone who had just tried to kill her. Besides, that crazy woman was crying her eyes out like there was no tomorrow.
She could only feel pity.

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They had all traversed the corridor and entered the first large cavern; it was dark and empty as Lionhawk had said it would be. Arie and Chephirah had padded along the exterior walls to guard the perimeters. When they all reached the Hugh doors they began to check out the small human doors looking through the windows. The lions stood guard at the walls on each side as the doors were checked out. On the other side was the larger cavern and the lights were bright. Lionhawk pulled his sword from its scabbard and held it up. The blue tint was dull at the moment so he looked to the lions on each side and their eyes were also dull. He figured that it would be alright to enter the larger cavern. He sent Mark and Maria to the side that had Arie and Jim and Shadowself to the side that had Chephirah while he stayed near the center and once they all were in place they all entered at once. As they all entered through the doors into the larger cavern, they all scooted to the far side from where the cave was that let the vehicles in from level 3. The two lions could not be cloaked so they would be very visible and Lionhawk did not want them to be exposed to danger from some dark creature shooting one of them with a gun. Arie and Chephirah understood what Lionhawk had thought to them, they in turn did not want the brothers and sisters to be in danger without them being there to guard them. Lionhawk was the only one in the group that knew what these two spirits were in truth and what they could do.

[Constance]

"I drowned down there." Amanda sobbed dramatically, pointing to the water. She completely lost it at that point and was sobbing uncontrollably. Connie waited for what seemed like an eternity before she eventually calmed down enough to speak.

Putting her hand on her heart Amanda said, "I saw my body floating in the water and I know that I died. I could see and feel those beavers - they were in the water watching me. I am SO not making things up!" She exclaimed passionately. "One of those beavers came and applied a mud pack to your foot."

"As I floated up there, " she said pointing a finger to above the water, "a large golden being of light came to me. It told me that I had a choice about what I wanted to do, I could go straight back to the source, or I could stay and make the most of my life.
I don't know how it knew this but it explained that when I was a little girl, the dreams I had of building a cubby house in the woods never eventuated because my father was an alcoholic and he would spend any spare money we did have on his addiction.
And it's true. I really wanted to build a treehouse in the woods and live out in nature."
She paused for a moment to really consider what she had just shared. "I told the being that I wanted to come back because I wanted another chance to live. I do want to make the most of my life but I now realise that it can't be with Aberdeen anymore. I've just been compensating for the lack of what I've really needed in my life.
The being also showed me how you and Aberdeen were going to have a life and kids of your own. That is, if Aberdeen lives. And it's all my fault that he's now really sick." She said, starting to sob again but more quietly now.

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About 70 feet along the left side wall of the cavern was the first door into the large room with all the windows. The room appeared to run along the side wall for about 100 feet. The windows were broken into 6 foot sections or so it seemed. The entire room was lit up and they could see about 7 people working at computer stations. The back wall of the room was lined with large monitors and they could see all the level areas. This level showed the caged cells further in with all the humans. Another monitor showed the exterior of the sliding door at level one. The monitor showing the caged humans also split and showed what appeared to be a furnace or large pit of coal on fire. They could see dark figures moving around intermittingly. They all had moved to the first windows and watched this going on while Arie and Chephirah had padded along the solid part under the windows and disappeared down the cavern. They both padded back at a fast lope and spoke into the minds of the group telling them that a vehicle pulling an empty cage was heading their way. They all ran back to the doors into the first cavern and got Arie and Chephirah out of site for the moment. Lionhawk had taken his sword out and was holding it in front of him. The blade began to glow brighter and the cat’s eyes began to shine bluish in the darkness. The entire group saw the bluish tints and eyes grow in sharpness and brighter as the vehicle grew closer. As they stood in the dark and looked through the windows the cave with the roadway opened up and the vehicle disappeared into it. The Cave door closed and the sword began to loose its brightness while the cat’s eyes began to dim once again.

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As they were all standing there Evelyne and Eryne stepped into the cavern and stood behind them. Arie and Chephirah were the first to turn and see them. Both girls giggled and every body turned and with a surprise began to speak in the mind. Evelyne and Eryne both spoke quickly and calmed there questions. Arie and Chephirah both walked to them and the girls hugged them. Evelyne began to relay into their minds the plans of saving the people and destroying this place. Evelyne spoke first; Lionhawk, you and Arie must enter the large room with those controlled humans and release their souls/spirits from the beings that have assimilated them. The beings that have taken control of all the humans in this mountain are from a different dimension and mean to invade this world for there own species. They have been here for a hundred years and have assimilated humans that started this place. They intend to open their gate to the home world/dimension and bring enough through to assimilate the humans that have been captured and brought here. Your sword will release the humans by striking them. Do not worry about their death. The bodies have become empty vessels that contain the Burnsacka. That is what these other dimensional creatures call themselves. Arie knows what to do to release them. Your spirits are now girded to fight the battle that is upon us this very moment. Shadowself you will go with your twin flame. You were a princess warrior in a past life and here is a sword for you. With that Eryne reached through a hole in front of her and pulled a blade back through. The blade had a bluish tent like Lionhawk’s sword. It was shorter but broader. As Shadowself took the sword she noticed a name on one side of the blade, the letters were in ancient writing and they spelled A N D U R I L. She turned the sword and on the other side another name lit with the letters C E L E S T E When she had taken the sword from Eryne it felt as if it belonged to her and she wielded it in perfect form. Lionhawk smiled and bowed to a warrior lady. Just like the Cats, Lionhawk’s and Shadowself’s eyes began to shine with blue tint.

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The Cats sat back on their haunches and purred. Eryne said, “Your spirits are re-united and you will spill the healing from your blades and eyes as you vanquish the beings that do not belong here. Now while Lionhawk and Arie take care of the beings in the room. “You, Shadowself, Chephirah and Maria will go to Level three and cleanse the humans of the Burnsacka. Those that take the vehicles to capture the humans can not get out of that place any longer; we have shut the doors so they will not open. You must be very vigilant these beings are quite adept at assimilation. Again do not worry about dispatching the flesh. It is useless. The souls/spirits of the humans are locked away in a prison and when you dispatch the Burnsacka from the bodies the human souls/spirits will be released to enter the universe. There are no others on that level now only the assimilated. Lionhawk, the ones you vanquish in the room and two in the great area where the humans are locked up are the only ones on this level. Once you and Arie have sent the ones in the room back you will proceed to the large caged area and dispatch those two also. Evelyne and I are giving Arie and Chephirah the ability to be invisible just as you all are, to help in the mission.

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Mark and Jim will go into the large room once Lionhawk and Arie remove the dark beings and destroy the computer systems. There is no experimenting in this facility other than the assimilation of humanity. So research is nil but those computers must be taken out and destroyed completely. There is also a room on level two with computers that must be destroyed which you will do after the humans are returned safely to their original places that they were taken from. You will use the TM Gizmos to send the humans back and here are all the locations. With that Evelyne and Eryne placed into there minds all the places so they could sweep the people back through the space function. Once you have done this you will go to this room and the girls placed a location into their minds. Shadowself, Maria and Chephirah will meet you there and clean the Burnsacka away. Once that is done you will send the contents of the room to this place. The girls again placed a vision into their minds. Shadowself, you, Maria and Chephirah must cross to this place and remove any Burnsacka. Evelyne showed them the computer room on the other side of the elevator. Mark and Jim will take the computers out. Remove them to this small asteroid on its way to a collision course with a very nasty place. Once this is done, Shadowself and Chephirah will meet Lionhawk and Arie back at the landing inside the stairwell and prepare for battle against the Burnsacka and their living place below in the burning coal furnace. You will have to fight spirit against the fire creatures. When you have completed that mission you must shut the gate and make it disappear forever. I must warn you that this will not be an easy task you will undertake. These beings are well adapted and in their natural state they are very dangerous. Mark, Maria and Jim will go to level one and remove any one and everything from that place and then you will step out next to your chopper and wait for the warriors. If this all turns out well this mountain is going to collapse all the tunnels and just become a natural mountain once again. If this mission becomes so dangerous as to cause your spirits to leave your bodies by destruction there is one thing you all have that was given at the wedding. With that she produced two small pearl shaped crystals on necklaces and placed one around Lionhawk’s neck and one around Shadowself’s neck. That gives all of you the ability to hold one another and move to a safe place until danger has passed. Know this. It takes a minimum of 3 of you to move to safety so do not separate yourselves from at least three. Evelyne and Eryne both touched them all in their minds and turned sideways and were gone.

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A PLANT IN TALLAHASSEE
The next day the main stream propaganda or better known as the Provincia news service reported the total destruction of a military base in southwestern Georgia. The main headline was FORT WRECKTOR ATTACTED BY DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP 300 DEAD. “A military base in southern Georgia was attacked and destroyed last night by a terrorist group calling themselves the Midwestern Alliance for Freedom Fighters. The base was bombed and 300 military personnel were killed. The Emperor has sworn revenge on the Freedom Fighters and has sent a large contingent of forces into the state to investigate and round up anyone that is involved. He has stated that these people will be publicly drawn and quartered when caught. The damage has come to over 3 billion credits. All military and Law enforcement divisions have been put on alert and road blocks have been set up all over the state and into the surrounding states. The smaller towns and cities within a 200 mile radius have been put on lockdown until further notice. It has been reported that the high ranking military and law enforcement commanders have been given the order to use small tactical nuclear weapons if even one of these terrorists are found in any city or town. Stay tuned for further developing news on this horrible attack on our men and women of the armed forces”.

[Constance]

"I'm really really sorry," said Amanda, brokenly.

"Just to be clear Amanda," said Connie, very sternly but kindly, Aberdeen doesn't blame you for what you did to him.

He realises that you are a product of your upbringing and that this has been a part of the human condition.

As it just so happens, Nick and I have been working on a plan that will allow Aberdeen to do the healing on his heart himself.

However, he will not tolerate your plans to hurt Mother Earth and you need to put a halt to the plans you had to turn this land into a resort...and, you need to allow us to remain living in that cottage!"

"Yes, Connie," said Amanda meekly. She looked so ashamed of herself that Connie softened her tone.

"Now I expect that you would still want to be able to fulfil that dream you had of building a tree house and there is something I want to show you once I am able to walk on my foot again." Said Connie, leaning against Amanda for support as she stood up.
The pain was great but Sawlynes mudpack had done its job and there was no further bleeding.

"I want to tell you the rest of the story if that is okay." Said Amanda, in a contrite tone.

"Later," said Connie. "I'm exhausted, in pain and I need for you to concentrate on getting us back to the house. And with that, two wet forlorn figures limped back to the house.

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Daniel had been scanning the one and only news service left in the country and caught the propaganda. He had to smile when it played on the small computer they had in the cabin of the chopper. Brad had come with them to help destroy the manufacturing plant outside of Tallahassee. He had to laugh when he heard the news. “300 personnel gee they must have shipped in another 200 people last night while the empty buildings were being destroyed”. “I remember there being about 100 personnel at that base at most and a good part of those men and women were away on some sort of mission that was taking place. “Now the whole Midwestern Alliance thing is something I have never heard of. So where do you suppose the news came up with that one”? Susanna chuckled and said “they have to place blame somewhere so I suspect that made up story will carry on for awhile until they round up some poor folks and heard them into some large area and assassinate them on the vids so the message gets pushed out to the country that Patriots (domestic terrorists) will not be tolerated. Brad made the comment about the world needing to be changed and soon.

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Michael had taken a leisurely flight pattern south then east then south again towards Tallahassee. The distance from the base was not so far that they would have to push even though he had installed the Jet gear. The bird was not structurally outfitted for the stress that would be put on it yet. Once they were directly north of Tallahassee he had slowed and asked Brad exactly where the plant might be located. Brad said, “Take the 319 north from Tallahassee to within 20 miles of the Georgia border and then we will swing along a dirt road to the east for another 20 miles till we come to some swamps and just beyond the big trees will be the base and the entrance to the plant is located on the southern edge of that base. There are large lakes and swamp land down that way and If you are looking for a place to land that is secluded it would be close to one of the lakes. Michael acknowledged that and asked how guarded the base was. Brad told them that the last time he had been there it almost appeared that the base was abandoned. It does have a 10 foot high fence around the perimeter but there are no guards patrolling it. There is a guard post where the road turns off of the main road and that is called Sunny Hill Road. The road to the base entrance is a few miles south of that road. About another mile inside the fence line are two main buildings and a large warehouse. To the south of those buildings stands the building where the entrance to the underground factory is. That building looks like another warehouse but actually holds the elevators for people and large vehicles. They can drive a tractor trailer on the vehicle elevator and take it down to the second level. The main factory is one level below that and it is quite Hugh. Most of it is performed with Robotics so the human contingency is rather small. All the parts for the Metals are made there and there is a small lab and research center that stores all the experimental research. Almost all of it is on the computer system the metals built. Theresa sat up and said “did you say the metals built the computer system”? Brad said “yes” “the computer system the military started with became insufficient once the metals became sentient” Susanna and Theresa both said “what do you mean they became sentient”? Brad looked at them and said “you did not know”? Both women looked surprised and said “did not know what”?

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Michael told everybody to buckle in they were going to land shortly. While the discussion had been going on about the Metals He had taken the chopper out over the large lake south of the base and found a secluded area to set it down just south of the fence line and the warehouse looking building that Brad had said was the entrance. The conversation was curbed for now but the women fully intended to continue it prior to them entering this place. Michael set the bird down in a small grove of trees with clumps of brush and cat tails. They could just see the fence line through a small opening in the trees. The patch of ground was solid but on four sides the swamp could be seen clearly in this ring of trees and cat tails. There were large clumps of ferns and yellow flowers spouting out of the swamp grasses. Michael shut the rotor off and the chopper shifted in grass. The soil under the skids was soft but it held. Michael told everybody that they would have to levitate across the swamp area until they got to solid ground on the outskirts of the tree line. Brad was not sure what he meant by levitate and had to ask “how do you plan to levitate from here to over there and he pointed to an area beyond the tree line.

[Constance]

Rolin felt himself snap to the present moment. All the nerves of his very being felt innervated and alive! He felt so exhilarated and connected with everything within and around him.
It was as if a light had pierced the darkness and flooded his very being. His face shone with gratitude. So grateful was he for the opportunity for such an experience that he stretched his arms out wide and did a spontaneous victory dance on the spot.

It was a highly contagious expression of the heart and before too long, a whole crowd had gathered to celebrate with him. It was a joyful overflowing of the heart experience for all. A drummer appeared and as they whirled and twirled and drummed up a dance of the heart and sang their hearts out unrestrainedly and unselfconsciously, surrendering themselves to the music, Rolin felt that whatever was missing within was beginning to be made whole again. Everything else was just falling away.
Moving and gyrating the body was so good for the soul. Dance is the hidden language of the body and when we dance spontaneously, we allow our souls to connect with the divine dance of the universe. "How did I forget this?" Said Rolin to himself as he danced to the rhythm of his own soul in nature's divine surroundings.

The more he moved, the more he comprehended that he could not compromise his heart anymore. If the police force found out that he had partaken in an Ayahuasca ceremony, so be it. Other professions such as psychologists were using Ayahuasca as a healing tool so why couldn't the police force also be educated? He would deal with the consequences once they became a reality. He had consciously made the decision to be real about his life and this was the affirmation he had needed.
He also realised that at some point that he would need to find Amanda and put a stop to everything but she found him before he found her. The girls were heading his way.

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Broketooth the Alligator had watched from his favorite spot in the swamp that the big trees encircled, as the giant bird flew in and rested on the small island he had so often caught his dinner on. He had never seen such a large bird and was not quite sure if it was an edible meal or not. His eyes and the front of his snout were the only parts of him that were above the murky waters. He was the oldest of his congregation in these parts and his length was 17 feet give or take. He had lost quite a few teeth in the time he had been feeding in these parts. Some of the two legged creatures that ventured in here never saw him until he was in the feeding frenzy. There were only a few times that happened and then he did not see them anymore. He always caught the big swimmers with the long sticks on the front of their heads and they were very tasty indeed. He had found his way into this place at a younger age. His congregation had chased him off when he refused to share the meals. That is when he found the shallow water ways that led to this place for him to live. Being alone was fine for him because his hunger greed allowed others nothing. The spot he had found the best was partly in the heat shines after he would feed every day and he loved the heat of the waters and would rest in peace while his meals would digest. When the bird had rested he was almost asleep from a rather large meal he had caught out in the water courses. As he continued to watch and think about attacking this creature he saw movement within the large eye of the creature. There were smaller creatures moving around and he thought that the large bird had fed itself and the creatures that it had fed on were just being digested.

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Susanna and Theresa both looked at Brad, and Susanna said you must tell us what you know of these Metals and their computers and we definitely want to know about these things becoming sentient. Brad looked at all of them as they were looking at him waiting for him to speak. “Okay when I first came onboard to build robotics, the military sent me here first. I worked on that lower level building the parts for the machines that would become the factory. There were about 20 of us all working to create those robots. Two of the top dogs were working to create the brains of the machines, so these things could then begin to create the parts. They wrote program after program and could not get the right protocol. They finally asked the military for real humans to experiment with, especially they needed the brain. So they built a metal to receive the human brain and put all their sick programming into the computer that would run this thing. We were recruited to build the main body and come up with a metal that could be identical with the human body. Some other scientists began to experiment with a fast growing, near impervious, skin and muscle tissue to overlay on the metal parts. The first 4 humans and I say policemen, because that is where the monsters could get their test subjects without anyone really being suspicious, died. So when the policemen started disappearing the high command of the police force began asking to many questions. So anyway, the military took care of that little glitch and I suppose you all know how all of sudden the high command started to be replaced. The 5th try was the one that finally worked but they had to take the entire spine still connected to the brain and hook it into a special computer that was created at the base of the spinal area. Once they hooked it up the metal became aware and then sentient. I am not sure if that is totally what I would call this thing but it did things without a human controlling the computer program. That creature moved on its own and did everything a normal human being could do. I think the human brain plus the metal brain gave it the ability to be sentient. The first thing it did was re-build a computer to make robotic parts and then created something that began to make human parts work inside the metal framework. What you saw at the Fort and destroyed was the result of what began here. I was transferred to the fort when the metals actually took over the manufacturing here. When the first one finished restructuring this facility it came to the facility at the Fort and began to transfer the human parts to the metals on that lowest level It wasn’t all that long before we were pressed into building the metals skeleton and harness structure to transfer the brains and spinal systems. Those things actually had one ready for transplant when you showed up. That would have made 5 all toll but you got rid of everything there. The original is still here as far as I know. Once it got the first one made there, we never saw it again.

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Broketooth’s curiosity along with a growing hunger got the best of him so as he had always done; he ducked into the water and began to slowly move towards the island. His eyes were the only part of him that showed above the water line. His plan was the usual, he would creep to the land edge and when the creature bent down to get a drink, he would pounce and his powerful jaw would latch on to its head or neck and pull it into the water. Susanna had moved back to the rear bench and sat with Theresa and Brad as he discussed the metals. Daniel had moved up and sat in Susanna’s seat. Michael was watching the tree line for movement and Daniel began to do the same. He noticed the movement about 60 or 70 feet away at the base of some trees and saw the water swirl and then noticed the pair of eyes as they slowly moved towards the island and them. He knew almost immediately what it was. He had his computer with him and tapped into a very old distant movie that he remembered seeing when he was a young kid. That movie had scared him so much that he could not go near water for a few years. The movie was called Jaws and he especially wanted the sound track. It took just a few minutes and then the music began to play. He watched the eyes moving closer across the swamp as the music played. Da dunt… Da dunt… Da dunt…, the music became faster as the eyes crept closer. Daniel was smiling; everyone stopped talking, stood and moved to the front. Daniel pointed at the eyes and began to laugh. Brad had seen the eyes moving and also knew. As the eyes came closer everyone was in full laughing mode by now. They finally bust out hysterically when the eyes stopped and continued to stare at them. Michael settled down and said “That could be a very large Alligator (glad it isn’t a shark). Not sure we want to step out of the bird just now. “It could just be curious” Susanna said. Theresa began a concentrated mind thought but the gator’s thoughts were only on eating and she couldn’t get a connection any deeper. Michael said that they could send it to a very warm place for a short period and then put it back into the swamps further south. Susanna heard his thoughts and cracked up. We can do that but just for a short time so it won’t be harmed. Michael agreed.

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Broketooth became confused when the bird did not move, it did not try to get a drink or fly away. He moved closer and his snout surfaced and still the bird did not move.. He became quite bold now and moved his body out of the water and onto the land. The bird still did not move. Infuriated by no movement and fear Broketooth moved quickly and chomped down on the feet. As his mouth clamped down he felt his teeth break in several places and three more fell from his mouth. He released his grip and looked up. Something moved on the side of the bird and he saw a two legged creature standing on the side of the bird. He started to gather himself to attack this creature when he was no longer on the island but on a slippery surface. Three of the two legged creatures where making very loud noises and two four legged creatures were also making very loud noises at him. He twisted his snout and opened his mouth to snap these things. Blood was running from three or four places in his mouth and he began to move towards the two legged creatures. As he stood on all four legs he moved into a large water course and went under. He surfaced to find a swampy area and big birds flying away at an alarming rate. He dove and swam to a darkened area and lay at the bottom for a short time and then surfaced once again and moved to a stretch of land. He crawled up on a beach and lay there wondering what had just happened to him. His mouth hurt and he knew he had to lay and rest before he could find his next meal.

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When the Hugh Alligator showed up in the middle of his office Vinnie fell back out of his chair. The Two secret service men jumped from there chairs and tried to get out of the room. The gator was thrashing around and bleeding from its mouth. Vinnie was frightened so bad he lost control of his bodily functions. He was looking to get his gun but it was in the desk and he was afraid to go back to it. The two Dobermans were frightened very badly and were barking so loud Vinnie could not here anything. He yelled to the two men to shoot this thing. One pulled his weapon and popped a round off but it hit the floor and ricocheted into a very expensive piece of art work. The Gator had disappeared as soon as the gun had gone off. Vinnie became furious and began yelling at his guards and screaming at the dogs to shut up. He had lost control running around with wet pants. He reached his desk and pulled his gun out and started shooting wildly into walls. The dogs dove under some furniture and the two guards went out the door into a corridor and ran to another room.

[Lost N Found]

The crew in the chopper all sat down and smiled. “That was a very large Gator” Brad said. The two women had just stared at the thing. Theresa asked if there was any way they could be sure that no more of those creatures were around them. Michael said “we just have to keep our eyes open. I would suggest that when we come back we open the portal to the inside of this bird”. Every one agreed whole heartedly with that. Now let’s talk about getting in and then getting out and what is going to happen to this place. Brad asked again “you still haven’t told me what you meant by levitation. I saw you create the hole that we all stepped through back at the Fort but for the life of me I do not know how or even understand how that happened”. Michael looked at him and said “we will discuss all of that at a later time when we have it. For now just know that we will get you over there and into that facility. When we get into the elevator area you are going to say that you are here to inspect the progress of the robotics and we are who we appear to be in these uniforms”.” If you are right this facility will not have very many humans and we can get in and take care of the Metal or metals and shut this factory down and get out as quick as possible. Brad knew that this could be a very dangerous mission and told them all so. “it has been over 2 years since that first aware metal came into existence. I was removed from here and semt over to Fort Wrecktor shortly after that first one came on line. It spent a short 2 months here before it came to the fort and began its work there. The last time we saw it was around 3 months after it arrived. So it has had ample amounts of time to build more of itself here. I can tell you this, after we were removed we did see some of the prisoners being transported to this place and we never heard of any human military being stationed here either. We received some shipments of parts for about 7 or so months. We would see the tractor trailers come in and disappear below but the amount of parts we were getting from those trucks did not add up. We never saw any drivers and the trucks went back empty.

[Lost N Found]

Michael had used his jet belt and was cloaked when he flew over the fence line. There was no activity around the warehouse that the elevators were located in. He continued to fly around and passed over the two buildings and the other warehouse. They all appeared to be abandoned. There were no lights on and no vehicles parked around the buildings. He began to get the strange feeling that there might not be any humans at this facility. As he flew over the Guard post at the front gate he did see movement in the small shack and the gate was closed. He hovered because he saw headlights of a vehicle coming towards the gate. He watched a military skimmer drive up and stop. A guard or something came out of the shack and walked through a small gate. It walked up to the skimmer and someone rolled the window down to speak. The Guard or thing raised an arm and all of a sudden that arm became a mini-gun and the car began to spark and caught fire as the mini-gun filled it full of holes. There was a small explosion as the motor in the rear blew and fire began to engulf the entire car. Michael saw one person fall from the opposite side of the car. The guard thing had stopped the gun and backed off. The person that fell out had begun to crawl away when patches of earth opened up and several shiny metal things crawl out and began to dismantle the car. The poor creature crawling away was attacked and Michael heard screams from him. Michael watched the car completely disappear as it was taken apart and the metal things hauled pieces back down the holes. The human or so he assumed was dragged into a hole and the earth closed over. In hardly any time the car was gone. A small machine of some kind came from small doors on the shack and began to sweep up the road way. When it moved back to the small space in the shack there was no sign that a car had even been there. Michael watched the guard thing re enter the shack and then there was no longer any movement. The lights that had brightened when the car drove up had now become dim once more.

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Michael flew back to the chopper and once inside, he sat down and said we are going to have to change our plans. Everyone looked at him and asked what he had discovered. He said “I don’t think that there are any humans in this facility other than prisoners that are being dismantled for their parts to be installed in the metals. This place has been completely taken over by those metal things. We are going to go in fully cloaked. Those things are destroying anything that is now part of a programmed set. We are going to get in and see if any humans are still alive to save, get them out and destroy this place. We must all be very careful. The metals have become very deadly silent killers and there is no hesitation on their part. Theresa can you go to the haven and get us one more Jet belt with cloak? Theresa stood up stepped through a hole and stepped back almost instantly. Brad looked at her with wild eyes. May I ask what you just did and where did you go? Theresa handed him the belt and began to explain how to use it. “We have a safe place where we all live and it will become known to you when we finish this mission. Meanwhile this belt will give the power to fly and be invisible. We will not have to levitate at this point now that you have the belt. Michael asked him to explain the inside of the warehouse and how they might gain access without notifying the metals.

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Brad understood that this could be his last mission, he had an agenda to accomplish with these things and he meant to see it through. He did not want these people to get hurt for his mistakes. He had been responsible for creating the one that started this entire nightmare. He had two close friends that were also part of the underground that had been sacrificed. They had been caught feeding information to the brothers and sisters. The small cell that was located in the little town just to the west had been raided and all the good folks had been assassinated. The two that were caught had their brains removed and placed in the metals. They had been the last two of the 4 that died and it was not a good death. He had sworn that he would get revenge. When these good people had taken out the Fort facility he was very glad. He would have gladly died for the cause but the opportunity presented itself for him to come here and destroy the first and all the others that it had created. He knew that this facility did not have any humans other than the poor souls that were being used to create more metals. He had neglected to inform these folks but he meant to destroy this place and keep them safe. He had come up with a device that could be injected into the small computer at the base of the spinal cord to virtually shut off the force of sentience or awareness to these creatures. Once doing that he could destroy the outer shells of the metals. He had been very clever when the skeletal parts were created; he built a back door to dissolve the metal. The whole thing rested on the base computer of the first sentient. Once that one computer was in destruction mode all the rest of the metals and parts and what have you would fall apart. So his plan was to find the original and destroy its spinal computer.

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“Yes, I know a secret tunnel into that warehouse. It actually will take us to the 2nd level where all the storage is located. Once we are in there we will have to take a freight elevator to the lowest level where the manufacturing plant is located. They all cloaked and Theresa mind spoke to Brad and showed him how to speak telepathically. She told him not to try to speak physically while cloaked. One by one they left the bird and the last one out shut the hatch. They flew up over the tree tops and Brad led them to the area where the tunnel was located. It actually was outside the fence line and to the south east of the warehouse. They all landed on the ground and Brad opened a hatch that looked like the ground at first. It had a ladder that dropped about 20 feet so they all dropped into the hole and Brad closed the hatch and then dropped to the level where everyone was waiting. Once at the bottom of the ladder they all noticed a wide tunnel that went down with a fairly steep slope. Brad took off on a brisk walk and they all followed. Every so often there seemed to be a dim light in the walls, there was just enough light to barely see the floor of the tunnel. It seemed to wind down in possible a circular pattern. After about 15 minutes of almost running they came to a wall that looked like stone. Brad approached it and peered into something that looked like a scope protruding from the wall. He reached over and turned a dial that was part of the scope. Everyone waited and finally Brad turned and said it appears that this storage level is empty at the moment. There is one tractor trailer parked and some crates full of boxes on the far side. I could see no movement but we should be very weary none the less. There are cameras located at the elevators and the rear of the trailer of the truck the opening from this tunnel is concealed behind some columns and can not be seen from any of the cameras. Noise would be the only thing that someone or something would notice.

[Lost N Found]

A portion of the wall opened slowly and Brad squeezed through and moved to a column. He knew he was cloaked but his mind still made him move as if he was visible. The rest of them imitated Brad and squeezed through the opening. Daniel was the last through and pushed on the door. It moved slowly at first and then with a clang it shut. He moved away very fast and everyone had turned when the door made the noise. They had adjusted their TM Gizmos and had them in their hands, when out from behind the trailer came the most horrible looking chunk of human like metal. The thing had one small leg and the other one was about 3 times the size of the first one. The torso was round and the arm that matched the side of the small leg looked almost human but swung loosely at the side of the round ball of a torso. The arm that matched the large leg was also very large and they could see that it was a mini-gun with ten barrels. The thing was moving towards them to investigate the noise. The head was the most gruesome part. It was human and if that is all one could see it looked just like a real human being. The eyes were moving just as the head was moving from side to side looking at everything. They all heard the click, click of the mini-gun arming itself. Even though the legs were different in size and the arms as well the thing moved quite smoothly. When it came within 10 feet it stopped and the torso spun 180 degrees then continued to spin a full 360. Michael was ready to send this thing into the sun when Brad touched him and sent into his mind to wait. The metals torso began to spin like a globe. After a few turns the ball stopped and the thing turned around and headed back to the truck and trailer. Brad told them that the thing was connected to all the rest of them on the level below and probably to the surface ones also. Brad pointed to the freight elevator and the camera mounted on the ceiling in front of it. Daniel told them that he could take care of the camera without arousing suspicion.

[Lost N Found]

They all traversed across the large storage area towards the elevator; half way there Michael noticed the door leading to a stairwell. He spoke to Brad and asked if the stairwell led down to the level below. Brad told him it did. Michael then asked how far down was that level below this one? Brad said “I think it is about 150 feet deeper than this floor level. I remember something about an underground river being about 250 down so it was decided to stay at least 100 feet above it. Michael then said “Can we get in that stairwell shaft with arousing attention”. Brad said “I do believe so but that camera still takes in the door”. Daniel floated up to the ceiling and moved to the camera from behind. Once he reached it. He fiddled with a key pad on the back of it and the camera actually froze with the picture of everything in front of it. He turned and motioned to everybody to move to the stairwell. They all got in and Daniel fiddled some more and then floated down and entered the door and it closed. Susanna asked what Daniel had done with the camera. Daniel chuckled and said “its amazing how two dimensional these things are. I would have changed those cameras’ a long time ago. I actually programmed those things years ago and no one has ever bothered to change that program. There is a key pad on the upper back side and if you know the right sequence you can freeze the thing and make it look like it is still scanning and you can also set a timer on it so it will resume its real scanning and no one will know the difference.

[Lost N Found]

One hundred fifty feet could be a tiring climb down or up so the crew grabbed Brad and they all elevated down the stairs. At the bottom they all stood in the landing while Brad peered through the little window in the door. All he could see was a mass of robotics moving with sparks as the things welded and assembled parts and pieces. The conveyer belts or chains where running with assembled parts and he could see a large area with a standing army of metals or the empty cases that were not yet ready completely to receive the basic spinal computers. It looked like a brigade of soldiers with no power source yet. As he continued looking as best he could through the glass he saw the area where the spinal computers were being assembled. He wondered where the surgical rooms would be located to remove the living brains and spinal cords and then place them into these insidious metal shells. He was thinking and scanning the factory floor as best as he could when three metals walked out of a side room and moved to the brigade of metals. They picked one up and carried it back towards the room. Brad turned and told everyone that they were getting ready to create another sentient as he called them. We must stop this insanity as quickly as possible. With that He began to open the stairwell door.

[Lost N Found]

Daniel grabbed Brads Arm just as he was opening the door. “Wait he said to Brad and pulled him back from the door. “We have to plan our movements very carefully from here. Yes we have to stop this nightmare and hopefully we can save whoever might be lying on a gurney, in that room before those things destroy him. Michael touched everybody’s mind and said we do have to save whatever soul may be in that room first. After that we can begin the destruction of this place. Brad knows his way around this place more than any of us so let’s let him lead. Every one agreed and Brad told them that they must get to that room. The sentient metals appeared to be concentrated there and if they could take them out the rest of things may just stop all activity. It is kind of like a hive mentality where if the Queen dies then all the rest stop and die also or move to find another queen. Brad opened the door quietly although that did not really matter down here simply because the noise level was deafening with all the machinery moving and working. He slipped over to the wall that would take them to the room. The rest of them followed and they all began to move along the wall. It turned out to be quite the distance as this level was rather large. As they moved along the wall they noticed that the robotics would work in a feverish mode and then slow and almost stop until something made them speed up again. Theresa saw something come from another room across the mass factory area from them. She spoke into everyone’s mind and they all stopped and watched.

[Lost N Found]

The “First” walked out of a lab room where it had been preparing a new fluid to store organic matter in to keep it alive. It had worked on this from the start and the fluid had finally become a viable solution. After it had successfully become sentient and aware it had secretly began to create more aware beings like itself. It had to take the humans that inhabited this place and use their organic parts to create others. The organics were creating the parts that it was made from and were also creating the pieces that made the machines that could do automatic work on its kind. The one organic that had virtually created It or its structure had been re located to another organic factory. It spent enough time making other skeletal structures here and then began to take the organics and remove their parts to fit into its work. When the organics disappeared and the other ones figured something was going wrong they came in force to stop what they thought was happening. By the time they came, its awareness through the organic brain that was connected to its structure had already taken control of all the machinery and it had created ten more of its kind. When the organics entered this level all of them were seized and given a serum that kept their organic matter alive but put them all into a comatose state. Today it had perfected the serum to permanently preserve the organ matter so that it could be transferred into the army of inorganic beings such as itself. The one weakness that it knew of was the spinal computer. The organic that had created it built it to be destroyed and before it could find the answer to that the organic had left. It ceased to be concerned while it was building the others and when it located to the other facility it never saw the original creator of the part. It did manage to create two more like unto itself and it had taken 3 with it. It intended to leave them to build more at that facility. This left it and 7 more here when it returned. So far it had not been able to create any more but it was busy creating the frames to create the army. The 4th at the gate had captured an organic this very day and they would be making another of their beings. The organic had been damaged but his vital organs were intact. As it walked across the factory floor it was thinking about creating its own Spinal cord power box. It looked at the robotics that it controlled and they were slow but got the work done that needed to be done. Half way across the floor something landed on its back and it began to struggle.

[Lost N Found]

As the crew stood against the wall and watched the metal walk across the floor. They noticed that there were patches of human skin covering areas on the metal superstructure. The Face was almost complete the eyes looked human and the nose and mouth could not be mistaken for anything but human. They did notice that the back of the head was still metal skeletal and when the thing turned its head they could see the brain throbbing. The legs looked human but the torso area was still open to metal. They saw the small computer with a red light blinking on and off with a continuous synchronicity. The thing was moving rather slowly while glancing around at all that was going on across the floor. They were all so enthralled with this thing that when Brad dropped from the ceiling onto its back they all gasped and Michael spoke into Brads mind.” BRAD WHAT ARE YOU DOING”? GET OFF THAT THING AND AWAY FROM IT. I WILL SEND IT AWAY” Brad spoke back in an anguished thought and told them all to go and save the human before the metals destroyed him. He would take care of this thing.

[Lost N Found]

Susanna mind spoke in a very excited shrill manner. She said look. As soon as they all turned, they saw the door to the room they were headed for open and 5 of the metals came crashing into the factory. At the same time all of the robotics arms and torsos on the factory floor began to thrash wildly. The crew all had their TMG’s pointed at the metals coming through the door. Brad spoke in almost a scream and said “WAIT” They all turned just in time to see him stick something into the base of the brain of the thing he was on. It froze for a short space but one of the robotics wildly swinging arms caught him and knocked him from the one he was on. They all watched him hit the floor and roll away. The ones that came through the door had stopped and were frozen also. Brad slowly stood up and looked very dizzy. The one that he had jumped on was trying to move its arm up to its back. Whatever it was that Brad had stuck into its brain, they knew that if it removed it they would all be done for. Michael started to move in its direction. It all seemed to be happening in slow motion. The things hand was moving so slowly up towards its head and the ones that came out of the door were still moving but very slowly towards the ones place. The robotics’ were moving very slowly. The choreography was like a dream where everything moved in one fluid motion but so slow it was almost painful to watch. Brad was loosing blood from a back wound were the robot arm had landed on him. He was moving ever so slowly back towards the thing. He had another shiny thing in his hand and was bringing it up as he moved towards the metal.

[Lost N Found]

Theresa was watching all of this happen in slow motion and reading Brad’s mind thoughts at the same time. She became so alarmed at what she saw and heard that tears began to flow profusely from her eyes. She began to mind speak to Brad and told him to back away and let them take care of this thing. She heard him saying that he must do this for all those that he caused harm to. She was speaking to him when everything happened at once. The Metal reached the thing in its base brain and pulled it out, the five running at it started to move faster and brought their mini guns up and started firing and Brad jabbed the shinny thing into the small box at the base of the spine of the metal. He twisted the thing while bullets were tearing him open. He let go of the shinny thing and the metal began to crumble. The ones moving towards them began to crumble as they continued in that direction. The robotics began to crumble. Brad fell back from the pieces of metal flying through his body and again in slow motion flew through the air and over onto his back. All the metal on the floor of the factory slowly fell into small parts and then dissolved.

[Lost N Found]

The crew watched all of this happen like an old time movie on slow motion. The last mind thought from Brad was “now I can rest in peace” and they saw him dissolve also. A few minutes later all they saw on the floor of the factory was empty space and it was so Hugh It made them feel small. Daniel and Susanna rushed to the door they had been heading for and ran inside. On a gurney was a human and he was moaning. They noticed that he was hurt very badly so they removed the straps and levitated him off the gurney. Susanna could not think of a place to send him immediately so she opened a portal to the garden and moved him to a lounge. The two girls appeared and Susanna told them that he needed emergency care and then she walked back into the room and she and Daniel went back out to the factory floor. Michael was holding Theresa as she wailed for Brad but she knew that he was one of the metals or one that had become more human than the things that he had helped to create. They created a portal and caused the underground facility to begin caving in on itself as they stepped through into the chopper cabin. Once inside they heard the rumbling sounds and Michael told everyone to strap in as he began to lift the bird. 50 feet in the air they witnessed a large sink hole happening and it was so large they could not tell. The entire base that was above ground fell into this hole and water began to rush in as fast as the hole was created. Daniel watched as all of it happened and said, “I guess there will be a new lake north of Tallahassee. Michael banked the chopper towards the North West and headed home.

[Lost N Found]

BUTTE, CHIPS AND LASER SURGERY
The chopper had checked out well so they all climbed back in and lifted off for Butte. Samuel took the bird south and then due west over interstate 80. They flew over some mountains and dropped in over a large lake just north of Butte. The underground facility was supposedly located about 20 miles to the south west from Butte. As they flew in that direction they saw the military base with a medium sized contingency of military vehicles. The base appeared to be about 3 square miles in size and was peppered with buildings. There were two ingress/egress roads and both had guard posts with guard rails. In the center of the base was a large warehouse with at lease five docks where tractor trailer trucks were parked. It appeared that these trucks were being loaded with crates of boxes. The contingency of vehicles were lined up in a ready position just inside the first gate area and then they saw another small amount of vehicles at the other gate. It appeared that something was underway and these vehicles were preparing to move out. There was a large parade ground in-between building’s that looked like barracks and troops were being marched up and down. Samuel guessed that is about a company of soldiers. He did want to see what was being loaded on the trucks at that warehouse and told everyone that he was going to set the bird down on the south side of the base in a very large open field. It did appear that there were some rolling hills in the field and he would try to land in a gully area between them. He brought the bird down and it fit fairly well into an area between to small rolling hills. Mary had tracked all activity as they came down and told everyone that it was clear for now. They saw some beef cows further to the south but they were perhaps a half a mile from where they were landing. Samuel set the chopper down and shut down the rotor. They all strapped on there day packs and made sure they all had the gear needed.

[Lost N Found]

They were all cloaked and used the jet belts to carry them over to the base and across the fence. They did not see any dogs but that did not mean that some were around somewhere so they were being extra precautious by landing in between a couple of buildings and possibly proceeding on foot to the warehouse. Mary was leading them around a small building that was located about 50 yards from the warehouse when she stopped and held up her hand for everyone to stop. She mind spoke and told them that there was a guard with a dog walking the perimeter of the warehouse. She watched as the guard and dog walked around the trucks and along the end of the building. They disappeared around the corner and she motioned everyone to move out quickly. Instead of walking, they all flew up and headed to the trucks. When they reached them they landed on top of the trailers and waited. Samuel spoke to everyone and told them to lie down on top of the trailer until the dog goes by the second time.

[Lost N Found]

Corporal Jake Hammond had walked around this building a dozen times on his shift. Reilly his special guard dog had been trained by him a few years back and he and the dog had a special bond. The trucks had been loaded with crates of weapons. He thought they were M30 03’s for the war going on in Northern Manchuria. The crews loading the trucks had all taken off and the warehouse was empty. He had been assigned to walk the perimeter of this building along with his team two days earlier. He had heard through scuttlebutt that something had happened to the base at Gerou. Someone had also told him that the base at Flaxville was under suspicion of selling military secrets to the defunct Russian Empire. That base was under secret service surveillance at present. He did know somewhat of the experiments at Gerou and how Flaxville and this base were tied into each other. He had heard of a secret weapon that was supposed to replace all small arms for the military. He knew the war in Manchuria was not going well and the men and women going there were being shredded by the Manchurian army. He was slatted to be shipped out next month and he was dreading the reassignment. His wife, Molly was pregnant and just shy of 9 months. She had been sick this last month and the doctors had told them that she was in for a challenging birth. He also knew that the baby was a boy and so far healthy in the womb.

[Lost N Found]

As he walked with Reilly he was wishing that he could just leave the Army and be with Molly and as soon as the baby came they could just disappear into the wilderness to live in peace and watch the baby grow up. Molly had told him of a dream net or some such and how she talked with people and children that were connected all over the world. People were waking to the peace and knew how corrupt the world was. He had talked with her and she was so determined to get him away from the job he was connected to. She had been shown a paradise and a wonderful home where she and he could raise their son. He would grow up learning how to live with mother earth and all life. Jake had dreamed of this place also and he did not want to leave Reilly here to be sacrificed to this sick environment. He came around the other end of the warehouse and saw the trucks for the umpteenth time as he began the walk across the front. Reilly stopped abruptly and looked up at the top of one of the trucks. He did not bark but just starred and his ears were quite animated. He twisted his head as if he was trying to understand something. Jake watched him and looked at the area Reilly was looking at but could not see anything. As he kept looking he said “what is it boy”?

[Lost N Found]

Samantha and Mary both were lying on the top, at the side of the trailer when the dog and his owner or guard came around the far corner of the warehouse. The dog spotted them and started to notify his owner. Both women spoke into Reilly’s mind and he stopped and looked at them curiously. Mary continued to speak to Reilly while Samantha searched Jakes mind. She heard what he had been thinking and decided to ask him to come closer. “Please come up on the doc and walk to the back of the first trailer”. We must speak about your wife and child”. Mary had spoken to Reilly and asked him to lead Jake to the doc. Reilly began pulling Jake towards the steps up to the doc. Jake did not pull him back but rather almost ran with him towards the steps They both climbed the steps and Reilly moved to the back of the trailer and sat on his haunches. Jake stopped and stood looking around. Mary and Samantha had dropped down to the doc and stood at the trailer door. The door was still open and they could see the crates stacked in the trailer. Reilly had come up and sat back and Mary kept talking to him to wait until they could speak with Jake.

[Lost N Found]

Samantha spoke to Jake and asked if he new what was in the trailers? Jake started to speak when Samantha told him to speak softly. He said in a quiet voice, who are you and where are you? Even though Jake had his rifle at the ready, Samantha knew that Mary and both men had the TMG’s ready if anything happened. She also knew that this man had a good heart and reached down and turned off her cloak. Jake saw a women materialize in front of him. She was about 5’-6” tall with light brown hair that was shoulder length. She looked very healthy and had a slim figure. She was dressed in army fatigues and had a small day pack strapped to her back. He looked at her and started to ask more questions when her pleasant voice spoke and said “I am Samantha and I and my companions need to examine the contents of this truck. Jake started to complain but Samantha told him that they were not agents of any organization or enemy country. She also began to explain to him that he would need to be with Molly shortly because her baby was coming and there would be someone to help her deliver. He opened his eyes wide with surprise and asked how she knew his wife was pregnant? She told him that he had spoke of her in his mind. I can send you to her and get you both to a safe place where she can deliver the baby in comfort. You can also take Reilly with you. The military will never be able to find you and you and your family will live in peace. Jake starred at her for a moment and then asked “how will you do that”? She heard in her mind from Samuel. “You must hurry or we must take this man and his dog to a secure place shortly. I think that the people that load these trucks may be coming back soon. Reilly was looking at Mary and waiting for her to touch him and Samantha reached into Jakes mind and asked him If he wanted to go to Molly. In his mind he said yes but he was still being hesitant. Reilly walked to him and began to bump him and rub against him while looking at him and then looking at the women. In his mind he was saying we must go. Jake reached down and patted Reilly and then said in a quiet voice. “Follow me and I will get you into the warehouse where we can talk in private without being seen from anyone out here

[Lost N Found]

Samantha reached down and activated her cloak again as Jake spoke to Reilly and told him to go to the man door into the warehouse. Once he opened the door and entered Samantha, Mary and Samuel hurriedly scurried through. Jake closed the door and moved to a small office area. Reilly was glancing around the warehouse as they all moved to the door and went in. Once inside Jake went to a desk and removed the leash from Reilly and placed a water dish on the floor for him. He then sat down and said “okay we are in a more secure place but we must hurry because I can not be away from the perimeter more than 10 minutes at a time. Mary and Samantha both uncloaked and Mary walked over and began to pat Reilly. He stopped drinking and began to rub his head against her. Samuel uncloaked next and Jake asked how many were there. Samuel told Jake that this was it and he had some questions that were very important. Jake sat for a minute and said “what questions do you have”? Samuel asked the first one and wanted to know if Jake knew what was in those trucks. Jake said “as far as I know those crates are full of small arms, mostly M30-03’s destined for Manchuria and our troops. Jonathan had stayed out side and began to investigate the crates. When he opened the first one he discovered the laser rifles. He pulled one and popped the magazine to see if it was the real McCoy and sure enough it was and it even had the chip inserted. He relayed that information to Samuel by mind thought. Samuel then asked how many levels under this warehouse there was. This took Jake by surprise and he said “how did you know there were levels under the base”? Samuel told him that he had been told by a high ranking general and they had come here to investigate a possible leak from some of the scientists about weapons movement. Jake told him that the scientists had all been transferred to Flaxville a week ago and the lowest level had been shut down. That level had been where all of them created and produced computer parts. They wrote software and mass produced the circuitry for certain weapons down there and then of a sudden it was all just shut down. The level just below was more or less a factory for the M30-03’s. That is where they made the rifles. Samuel then asked if there were more of those rifles on the level below. Jake did not know for sure but something seemed very peculiar when they transferred all the scientists. Two days later is when they brought these five trucks in and began bringing up the crates of rifles. I thought that we all were going to be transferred to Manchuria and the weapons would all be going with us. I do know that there are two more empty trucks waiting just inside the front gate and I have heard that the company of men on the base will be going to Helena tomorrow for some kind of combat exercise. I think they will be convoying this fleet of trucks.

[Lost N Found]

Samuel spoke to Jonathan and told him to send all the crates in the trucks to a hidden place close to their chopper and they would remove them from there. Jonathan set his TMG to the place he had seen just in front of the chopper and began to send all the crates in each truck there. Once all of them were gone, he then checked carefully before entering the warehouse. Once inside he looked around and found a bunch of empty crates so he began sending them into the trailers to give some weight to them. He cleaned out the warehouse area where these things were and then found the elevator doors to the levels below. He relayed this info to Samuel. He then went back to the door and out on the doc and closed the trailer doors and locked them. Samuel acknowledged in the mind speak and told the women what they were going to do next and that they should send Jake to safety.

[Lost N Found]

Samantha spoke to Jake and asked him if he was ready to leave this place. He said he was and called Reilly to him. Reilly moved close to him and stood very still. Samantha had seen in his thoughts where Molly was so he told Jake that when he arrived at there little home in Butte that they should pack what was needed and she would send them to the place in Molly’s dream. She would also send someone to help with the delivery of the baby. Jake said he was ready and Samantha opened a portal to the living room of the house and told him to take Reilly and step into that room, get your stuff together and Molly has already been told to expect you and where you will be going. Jake and Reilly stepped into the living room and Jake immediately hugged Molly and began to gather the few belongings he needed. Molly had already done the same and she touched Reilly. They were all standing in the little living room when the portal opened and they could see a lush garden area. There was a man standing just under a tree and waved to them to come. They all stepped through into the garden like area and the portal closed. Jake helped Molly move towards a lounge type seat and set her down, He looked up at the man and said my name is Jake and this is Molly and this fellow here is Reilly. The man reached out his hand and Jake took it and the man said “My name is Nick” welcome to paradise”. He touched Reilly and said to him “you must be with the family my fine friend”. Reilly bumped Nick and waited for them to move to the next place. We will get you to a place where Molly can give birth and don’t worry she will be fine and the baby will cry with joy. Hava and Luun both saw Illya coming back and went to greet him as he came into the world once more. They knew he would be Jesse Hammond.

[Constance]

Now that Aberdeen was safe and secure under his dispance cloak, Nick was also heading back to Rolin again to decide what next to do with him if he hadn't woken up to himself.
But as he approached, he saw that there would be no need. Rolin looked like a completely different person. His whole face had relaxed and changed in a way that was indescribable except to say that he looked peaceful and calm.
As for Amanda, the poor girl looked broken and defeated enough. He didn't have the heart to upbraid her and so he turned to Connie and said cheekily in true Laurel and Hardy style, "Well...here's another nice mess you've gotten yourself into," to which Connie retorted with a weak chuckle, "d'oh!"
Rolin was strong enough to carry Connie over his shoulder, fireman style and soon, Nick and Rolin were laughing and talking over their days experiences. Rolin soon explained to Nick what he had now realised about the whole situation for Aberdeen and Connie; there was such relief on Connie's behalf and she sighed audibly.
The charges laid against Aberdeen regarding selling produce on his land could be dropped by Amanda; the house would still have to go to council to get a retrospective planning approval but Charlies roundhouse at the Lammas ecovillage in Wales many years ago had set a precedent and he was confident that with enough public pressure, the local council would cave. The only immediate danger was Aberdeens heart and Connie's idea was a sound one. They just had to keep their fingers and toes and everything else crossed that it would work. The only person who was quiet was Amanda.
The closer they got to the house, the more uncomfortable Amanda looked. She was a fidgeting nervous wreck by the time they arrived at the entrance to the house.
She knew that she needed to face Aberdeen and this bothered her more than anything else she had ever done in her life. It was a very hard and bitter pill that she expected to swallow. But when Connie, Rolin and Amanda entered Aberdeens bedroom and Rolin had gently set Connie down onto a chair, Aberdeen was not to be found anywhere!
Nick laughed as he entered the bedroom where Aberdeen lay. He pulled off the dispance cloak with all the flourish of a magician and there lay Aberdeen before them. The girls were so shocked that Amanda's hand flew to her mouth and Connie almost fainted. Rolin was the only one who didn't look surprised.

Before the girls could say anything Nick said to Aberdeen. "Amanda has had a change of heart about your whole situation haven't you Amanda? He looked at her and winked...she also managed to talk all of the medical professionals involved back into procuring you all the drugs you would need so that your body will no longer reject your heart." Amanda was flabbergasted because she had done no such thing and she knew that she had used up her bag of tricks so to speak so what were they up to? All she could do was dumbly nod her head in acquiescence.
Nick lovingly placed the first pill onto Aberdeen's tongue and taking a glass of water from his bedside, helped to prop him up and swallow it all. "There you go now Abey. You will be as good as new in no time, if not better than before!" Said Nick, as confidently as a rooster in a hen house.
"Now, all we just have to do is wait and see what happens," said Nick to himself. He looked over to Connie and whilst she looked pale and drawn, he could see that she looked hopeful too.

[Lost N Found]

After Samantha sent Jake and Reilly on there way the crew met Jonathan at the elevator and climbed in. Mary punched the button for the lowest level and the elevator fell towards the bottom. At the bottom the door opened and the corridor was black. Samuel flipped a flashlight on and they moved down the corridor towards a double door system. The corridor was not long and when they reached the double doors the windows were dark on the other side so they pushed through, Jonathan found a light switch system and turned on the lights. The lab was fairly good sized. The computer stations had all been shut down and some of the computers were smashed into pieces as if someone had gone berserk. They all explored the area and Samantha and Jonathan both tried to turn on the computers that were not destroyed and found that there was no power to them. Mary and Samuel had explored any rooms that were off the main area and found them to be either restrooms or storage closets. Something did not seem right here and from what Jake had said the men and women that were here a week ago were all dead by now. Something had happened that caused the military to take these people and move them to a facility that was nuked. Mary knew that the scientist at Gerou had hidden a secret about the chip that was built here for the laser rifle. She did not find out where he may have hidden it but was sure it was not at that facility. Something kept nagging at her inner feeling that whatever happened here had something to do with that little secret. She had heard enough in that mans mind to know that he had the only piece of the chip that would make it operate properly. The smashed computers gave her a clue that maybe someone else had figured out that little secret and had tried to cover it up.

[Lost N Found]

Mary began to examine the smashed computers and looked in the drawers to the desks which all seemed to be empty. She looked at every thing on the floors on the ceilings and all around the computers. Her forensic background was on full alert. Why would just these few computers be smashed and not all of them. She kept going over the area looking for any small clue. She continued to open the drawers and look under the desks. The computers themselves did not provide enough evidence to give her suspicion but something kept bugging her about the work stations. She started to go over everything once again but this time she pulled the drawers completely out and began to look at the sides and tops of the drawer slots. She wasn’t finding anything until she began to examine the drawers themselves. Sure enough after going over about 3 of them, on the fourth one at the very back underneath was a taped down small package of cellophane. She undid the tape and pulled the little cellophane pack up and held it to the light. Inside of it was a small wire looking device with a two prong plug on one end and a single snap in on the other. The thing was so small she almost could not see it. Samantha had fiddled around and got one of the computers that were not damaged to work. She had been moving through files when she came up with a file that simply said “CHIP” She opened it up and sure enough it showed a perfect picture of a small chip and reading into it she discovered it was the chip that fit into the laser rifle to make it work. The only thing that was missing was a small area where it looked like a wire would be attached or something like that. She called Mary over and said “take a look at this” Mary looked closely and then held up the little wire thing she had found and it looked like it would fit into the chip at that place. “I believe we may have found the missing link to the chip that the scientist in Gerou was thinking about in his mind. Without this piece on that chip it is worthless. What we have to do now is check the chips out that may be in those rifles and see if there are any more of them in this facility. I think I know now why the scientists were all transferred to the death camp at Flaxville and why somebody destroyed these computers. Seems that just those over there, may have had the chip design on them. This one that Samantha got up and running could be an anomaly. Shall we see what else might have been going on down here”? Samantha began searching more on the running computer and came up with the design for the laser rifles as well. She found some encrypted files but could not get them to open so she searched around till she found a flash stick and stuck it in and downloaded the entire hard drive. Samuel told everyone to move this rooms contents to a very destructive place so they all used the TMG’s and sent everything into the sun. On the ball of helium that blazed with a billion degrees there were tiny little sparks and that was all. They left the entire floor level empty and took the elevator up to the next level.

[Lost N Found]

The elevator car stopped at level one and they waited for the door to open. When it did all they could see was a factory and large storage area with a pair of elevators. The doors on the freight elevators were large. Sitting in the storage area were 3 extra large crates. Each crate had 10 boxes all tied down. The factory was shut down and the lights were dimmed. They could see conveyer belts and robotic arms at certain points. Jonathan moved out first and headed towards the factory area. Samantha followed after him so Mary and Samuel moved towards the storage area and the crates. Jonathan had reached the factory area and began to inspect the conveyers and parts that were being assembled. Samantha approached and noticed what he was inspecting. She said “my God they are assembling the rifles here. If Flaxville is gone where do you suppose they are getting the parts from”? Jonathan looked around and said “I don’t know but we are not leaving here until all of this is gone. He began to dial his TMG to the same place as they had done on the lower level when Samantha told him to wait. She asked him to follow her and they both walked towards Samuel and Mary.

[Lost N Found]

Samuel and Mary approached the crates together and once they reached them Samuel began to examine them. On the side of the boxes in big bold letters it said AMSTEAD COMPUTERS and it had some small print with address, City and State and that was it. Samuel kept moving around until he found an area that he could access a box. He glanced around and walked over to an area that had some hand tools and retrieved a pair of cutters for the straps. He cut the straps that were holding the boxes and removed a box about the size of an old fashioned paper box. It was about 13” wide by 16” long by 10” deep. It had been sealed at the top with some kind of film tape. Samuel pulled out an old fashioned pocket knife, flipped it open and cut the seam of the lid. When he opened the lid he saw more small containers packed inside the larger box. He pulled one out and it had a easy open lid so when he opened that his eyes grew bigger. He held the open box so Mary could see it. Her eyes opened wide, she reached into it and pulled one of the chips from its cradle.

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She began to examine the chip. One side looked like the one she saw on the computer. When she flipped it over, her grin became quite profound. She pulled the piece she had found taped to the drawer and held it up to the chip. Samuel noticed that the chip did not have that particular piece on it. He looked at Mary and back at the piece in her fingers and asked “is that what that scientist was hiding or perhaps the design of it. She shook her head up and down to acknowledge his question. Samantha and Jonathan walked up at about that time and had witnessed the exchange. Jonathan said “my God they have assembled these weapons and boxed them up and did the same with the chips but all of it is worthless because they did not have or could not find that little piece you hold there”. “Now we possible know why those poor scientists were shipped off to Flaxville and why someone destroyed those computers down there. They were frantically searching for that missing part and could not find it. The schematic was not on a computer and I could not find any research for it either. Samantha said the same thing but we will see what is on that encrypted file later. Suggestions for what we do with this level? Samuel smiled for a minute but thought better of what he was thinking because human soldiers were going to be given these weapons and they would be slaughtered not knowing that they would not actually work. Mary put the chip into her pouch with the other piece and stuck it away into her fatigues. Samuel closed the little box, stuck it back in the bigger box and resealed it the best he could and stuck it back into the crate. “Send all of these crates somewhere to be destroyed. We do not know yet if someone else has gotten their hands on the missing part of the chip but we will not take the chance”. Jonathan set his TMG for a very nasty place he had studied and sent the crates to a very active volcano. The crates showed up inside the lava and melted almost immediately. We must leave the upper area in tack as best we can. The levels below will cave in but will not disturb the warehouse. Remove the factory robotics and conveyers and any parts of that weapon and make a clean surgical sweep of all that is on this level.

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When the level they were on was empty they opened the portal to the chopper. Samuel and Mary had set things in motion on the lower level and just before they stepped through to the chopper they set it all in motion for the first level to have the entire ceiling area cave and stepped out next to the chopper. Samuel walked over to Jonathan who was prying open one of the crates. Samuel helped him get it open and when the panel popped they both pushed on it to get to the contents. The Laser rifles were setting in cradles and there appeared to be dozens of them side by side. Samuel picked one up and removed the magazine. Jonathan asked him to give the magazine to him. He disassembled it and looked for the chip. There was no chip in this rifle. Oh my Jonathan said, those poor boys were going to be sacrificed just to cover up the mistake. Samuel set his TMG to the same place that Jonathan had sent the chips and sent all the crates into the lava. They all heard the rumbling and it sounded like an earthquake. The earthquake activity was well known around Butte so most people would not think much about it. They all climbed into the chopper and once buckled in Samuel lifted off and turned the chopper toward the west. “Idaho here we come”.

[Constance]

As Rolin continued to wash and bandage Connie's foot, he found that miraculously, the poultice had done its work and the wound was already starting to heal over. "If it was the beavers," Rolin said to Amanda, "they were great healers."

[Constance]

"And then what happened?" Said Rolin. He was just as amazed and incredulous over Amanda's story as Connie was.

"Well," said Amanda dreamily, her eyes cast downwards and inwards. "As I came back into my body again, I then became aware that my lungs were full of liquid and yet shockingly enough, I was still alive. My lungs felt like they were being continuously filled with something warm and nourishing. A part of me knew that it had to be the river water but another part of me felt that I was being infused with a new kind of energy; an energy that would sustain me through anything. It was as if the water had been transmuted into a life-giving force for my lungs!

I knew logically that I should be dead because I had been down there for what felt like a very long time but it also felt like my spirit was more concerned with keeping me alive. I had, what I thought, were water spirits appear to me, delicate little creatures they were; they danced around me and were very playful. They kept on reassuring me that everything was okay and that I was okay. I could see everything in the water around me, even though that water was so cloudy! It felt so peaceful down there and I could have stayed down there forever but my spirit was also urging me to get to the top of the water; it was urging me to live and to redeem myself.

The message from my spirit was that I had to "re-deem" myself, not in the sense of how society defines it but rather in the true sense that I had to find myself again so that I could unconditionally support all who I would meet in my life.
Eventually, I felt a tugging on my leg. It was Connie. She brought me to the top and well... now I'm here to tell the tale." She stopped to look at Rolin and Connie.

[Constance]

Day-by-day, Aberdeen appeared to grow stronger. His circulation had begun to return and he had lost the blue tinge around his mouth and the black half-circles underneath his eyes. The strawberry-red tongue that heralded heart and lung failure was now returning to a more healthy colour and he was able to walk around the house with the aid of a friend.

Nick sat in the kitchen in consultation with Connie and out of earshot of Aberdeen. How would they continue to help Aberdeen? "I think it would be a good idea if we continue our experiment with what we are doing with Aberdeen. He is responding so well Connie. What do you think?"
Connie put her fingers to her lips as she always did whenever she was in deep thought. She paused before she responded. "Yes, I think that we continue to do what we are doing but I am also consciously aware that the whole experiment could potentially backfire once he finds out what we are giving him.
What I am going to do is leave quite a few spiritual and wholistic wellbeing books scattered around the house so that he is inspired to take his healing into his own hands in the time he has to rest. Once he can fully understand and appreciate what he needs as an individual, he may be more empowered to maintain his own health and wellbeing."

[Lost N Found]

HELENA AND A COMPANY’S DREAM
The warehouse did shake but remained in tack and the company of men and Jakes team had all felt tremors before so they kept on doing what they always did. All the soldiers were getting ready to move out the next day for the maneuvers at the Capital. They all thought or had been told that they would have a new weapon and they would be trying it out. Two hours later Private Kyil bullock went to relieve Corporal Jake Hammond. He was expecting to relieve him on duty outside but could not find him. He suspected he had taken Reilly inside to give him some water. All the Semi trucks were still parked at the docks so he entered the warehouse and moved towards the office area. He could not find the Corporal here either so he reported to his company commander of a missing soldier and a dog. The area was searched with no results so the soldier was reported AWOL. While searching the warehouse it was discovered that the elevator car had broken loose from its cables and was laying just down the shaft about 20 feet. A secret access to the underground levels was found to be totally caved in and no access could be gained. The Next day the trucks were rolled out and the medium sized contingency of military vehicles pulled out in front with some hanging back and then bringing up the rear. The company of soldiers was loaded into troop carriers and followed the convoy towards Helena. Later that day the convoy pulled into Helena and filled a large area of the local fair grounds. The trucks were opened and the crates removed. The soldiers waited to receive their new weapons. When the crates were opened and it was discovered that nothing was in them, all the men looked at one another and began to wonder what was happening. The Governor who was at the fair grounds with some of his private police force had hoped for some of the new weapons so the surprise on their faces was very funny to look at. While they had all stood around waiting to receive their weapons, The local underground had notified almost the entire city of what the governor and his minions plus the military were planning to do to them, They came out from the bleachers and from behind buildings, all armed to the teeth. The 250 men of the Military and police were surrounded by about 5000 folk of the city of Helena A local Sheriff and two deputies walk up to the Governor and the local mayor and arrested both of them. The Commander of the Military tried to pull his sidearm and was tackled by two of his officers. They cuffed him and turned him over to the people.

[Lost N Found]

Major Joseph wheeler and Lieutenant Rodney Turner had joined the underground the year before and became aware of what the military along with the Emperor had planned to do with Montana and several other states. The overall plan was to take control of the entire country once the new weapons came on line. They had notified the underground in Helena who in turn began to notify the entire country. A large contingent was gathering to overthrow the Emperor at the right time. For now small groups in cities and counties of the states were beginning to stand up. Major Wheeler turned to his company as they all stood at parade rest. He began to speak and asked them if they wanted to become a new army of the people and help turn the tide of the tyrannical dictator of the United States of America. He watched the men closely and waited for some sort of answer from them. Sergeant major Jack Bollard the company leader walked up to his Major and saluted him. He said in a small still voice, “Major I have been in this Army for almost 20 years now and I have seen the total destruction of honor and trustworthiness I have witnessed that puke in Denver’s’ white house bring this nation to what it is today and I am ready to fight for the people of this country With your permission I will step to the side and ask my soldiers who will join me in the upcoming revolution. Major Wheeler looked at the sergeant major and said “you are a credit to the people and your uniform Jack, please proceed.

[Lost N Found]

Hava and Luun had showed up in the dream realm of Joseph, Rodney and Jack and had opened their minds to the healing of the earth. While in their dreams the girls had healed their hearts and minds. Hava and Luun both had been given the gift to give the healing and open minds by the Divine Creator and the Great Spirit. Jack had entered the Dream net as well as Joseph and Rodney and waited for the time to come such as now. Jack stepped aside and faced his men and women and began to speak. Those of you that wish to be in the people’s army may step to the left and form a line over here and he pointed to his right as he faced them. Those that wish to remain in the loyalty and slavery of the Emperor may remain standing where you are. The Company stood at 230 men and women at present. After Jack had spoken the company stood for a few minutes and then the ranks began to move over to stand with Jack. He watched them move almost as one. A few minutes later 228 of them had moved to the new position and two of them stood in the old position. Jack strode over to them and asked if they were sure about staying in the Emperors employ. Both of them jumped at Jack at the same time. He raised both arms at once and smacked both men on the back of the head as he moved forward between them. He took 3 steps and turned like a tiger. He did not move but watched both men stand back up from the ground and charge at him once more. The motion from Jack was a blur; his left hand came up and hit one man in the solar plexus as the other hand punched the second man in the throat. Jack stood up straight and straightened his fatigue shirt while the two men lay on the ground. One was moaning and the other was completely unconscious. Jack motioned to some of his men and they came over and picked the two up and dragged them to the sheriff’s patty wagon. They were not gentle when they through the two in the back with the other prisoners. The Sheriff had talked with Joseph and Rodney and then walked over to Jack and shook his hand after saluting him. The iron doors were shut and locked on the patty wagon and the Sheriff and all his men drove off towards a jail it was presumed. The five Semis’ were given to the citizens of Helena and the underground force commander met with Joseph and Rodney and Jack and talked about safe places. Jack excused himself when he saw the two additional tractor trailer trucks pull up. Two enlisted men hopped down and saluted Jack and they walked to the back of the trucks and opened the doors on the trailers. Jack called his company over and told them to empty the trucks. “I want every man and woman in this company to be fully outfitted in battle gear, this truck has all the necessary gear for each of you. The M30-03’s are in the second truck with all the ammo needed also. When you are all complete the rest of the gear, weapons and ammo will go to the underground and civilians that are willing to fight, now let’s move out.

[Constance]

Even though there had been a complete corporate media blackout around the proceedings (and what else could be expected in these totalitarian dictatorship times where all media was owned by those who would fight to keep the masses downtrodden?) the dream network was alive and well. The council had received so many pleas from those who occupied Paradise and from supporters around the world. They were forced under such a harsh spotlight to reassess the situation.
Every aspect of Connie and Aberdeens lifestyle were heavily scrutinised by the planning inspector; Friends, neighbours and supporters were invited to give their views on the house but of course, the inspector could find no fault once all things were considered; for natural homes built with love and inspiration were far superior to any of the modern homes built today.
A natural home could withstand all the elements; earthquakes, floods, snow, drought, fire; aesthetically they were beautiful to look at; culturally they drew people to the house because a house like that is so inviting; they could withstand the test of time; some homes could stand for over 800-years plus. And eventually, just like Charlie and Megs roundhouse in Wales, so many years ago, their home was eventually vindicated, the people triumphed and the retrograde planning permit was granted.

[Constance]

However, Connie and Aberdeen were not happy to just leave it at that. Thus were they so inspired and touched by the generosity that people had showered them with, they wanted no one to be homeless. They wanted everyone to be able to build and live in their own home, on their own parcel of land. It wasn't enough that they could have this for themselves, they wanted this for everyone as well.
When they told Nick of their thoughts, Nick began to laugh and laugh.

[Lost N Found]

THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FIRE
Lionhawk and Arie stood outside the first door into the room where the assimilated humans were sitting at the computer stations. Mark and Jim were waiting against the wall until Lionhawk and Arie completed their task. Lionhawk opened the door quietly; Aria’s eyes were shinning with a deep blue tint. Lionhawk could see the blue light protruding in front of Aria’s face. The sword’s blade was shining and the names were turning golden. Lionhawk could feel the light of blue flame extending from his own eyes. They both stepped into the room and the things in the human bodies all looked up at once. Lionhawk and Arie both could see the blackness around the bodies and they also saw deep orange red flames in the beings eyes. The beings were looking at the open door and could not see the two blue spirits but knew that something was in the room. They began to stand up and move around their desks. Lionhawk uncloaked himself and stood with his sword held out in battle form. Arie had moved to another spot and became visible also.

[Constance]

Aberdeen and Connie both looked at each other, completely puzzled over why Nick would be laughing.

"Aberdeen and Connie," said Nick, between whoops and gales of laughter, "You will never believe what I have been up to in my spare time. I've been waiting for the right time to show this to you." He coughed and cleared his throat to regain his composure and drew a device from his pocket.

Their eyes widened as he pointed the device into the air in front of him, projecting a holographic image. He lay the pocket-sized device down on the table and it continued to project the image.

"Wait," said Nick, seriously now, "the device is not what I wanted to show you...it is rather nifty though isn't it?"

He swiped the air with his fingers from one side to the other, much like people used to do with the old iphones when looking at photos. He swiped for some time before coming to a particular image.

He pressed the air and the image came alive.

It was a movie of Connie and Aberdeen with a whole bunch of people they didn't know, standing in front of the most amazing cottages they had ever seen, conversing and gesticulating animatedly. The cottages were those that they had been drawing up from their inspirations and sharing with each other!
"This is your future that you are now looking at. This is one of the many that you are living out simultaneously whilst in this lifetime. The images I'm showing you are a future that already exists somewhere within the holographic field.
Because everything is holographic and fractal in its nature, whenever you have a "eureka" moment or an inspiration that is for the highest good of all, you are tapping into that evolutionary part of you that already exists, that has already grown.
Much like when you used to swipe the old iPhones that allowed you to bring up all sorts of images and movies, this device works on the same principles. However, this allows you to capture an image or a scene from that future.

Your intuition is the vehicle that carries the idea to your brain. The brain is a transmitter and receiver. The brain doesn't store all our thoughts, as previously thought by scientists, our new thoughts and ideas come to us from the cosmos, and from others projecting their thoughts to us. Where did you think most of your thoughts came from anyway?" Connie looked aghast. She had never stopped to think about this before now.

"The reason I was laughing so hard," said Nick, trying to stifle another laugh, "is because one night, when we were all sitting around the campfire, an old man appeared and sat down in-between both of you. He was laughing and joking with you. Didn't you find it odd Aberdeen that you felt so close to him? Didn't it feel strange the way he looked right through you? Didn't you feel immediately drawn to him Connie?"
The couple looked at each other and as the realisation dawned on them, they were both shocked.

"He was your future self Aberdeen and you didn't recognise him did you? Take a closer look at that older-looking man in the picture standing next to you." Aberdeen peered closer and gasped with the recognition. "That's me again!" He cried.

"You may not be aware of this Aberdeen," said Nick solemnly, but some of the people who come into your life are not who they appear to be. Time is much more fluid than anyone ever imagined. Your future self can literally or holographically appear to your present self and most would never realise it, generally speaking because everyone is too preoccupied to see what is under their very noses.
Often, they can appear at times when you are most troubled or challenged.
That older version of you appeared just before you had your heart medications taken away. Most people mistake a future self for angels or a spiritual guide or god but who is god? God could be your future self!"

Nick could no longer contain himself and lost himself in hearty peals of laughter. It was infectious that laugh, it was the kind that makes you laugh, and Connie and Aberdeen soon joined him, laughing at themselves and each other.
When they all eventually stopped laughing, Connie said, "I think that God could be the ultimate comedian."

[Lost N Found]

The Burnsacka assimilated humans all began to vibrate a deep sound that resembled a Hugh building or something on fire, the crackling of timber burning and large pieces falling in on each other. Their eyes burned brighter and when they opened their mouths fire belched out. They rushed the two blue spirits. Lionhawk held up his arm and stretched his hand and a deep blue flame shot forth, it hit the first being full on and the human body fell to the floor as a black thing disappeared with a wrenching loud scream. All the other ones halted for a moment but then rushed forward with even greater speed. Arie leaped in a blue beam streak and caught another knocking it to the floor. Arie bit it on the neck and it screamed as the darkness left the human body and disappeared. Lionhawk had moved forward and swung his sword hitting one and back stroking into another. Both beings screamed that wrenching sound and left the human bodies and disappeared. Arie had leaped on another and bit it. As it twisted in agony another one jumped on Arie and tried to assimilate itself into the cat. The one under Arie left the human body and disappeared and the one on him was riding him like a human riding a bull. The thing was spitting fire and its eyes were shooting fire as it tried to enter the cat’s soul or body. Arie twisted and threw the thing off. It could not assimilate into the animal spirit and lay on the floor squirming as Arie stood over it and bit it suddenly on the neck. The thing caught fire burning the flesh of the human body as it rose in a blackened form and disappeared.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk was battling two at once. They had produced the appearance of swords but actually looked like fire brands The beings had split and one was trying to jump on Lionhawk from behind while the other one was keeping him busy from the front. Lionhawk was pushing the one in the front back as it spit fire at him. The blue flame of the sword was shooting sparks every time it hit the fire brand. The being behind Lionhawk’s’ back started to jump on him when Arie landed on it and pushed it to the floor. It screamed like a banshee when Arie bit it on the neck and exited the human body and disappeared. Lionhawk fought the other one up against a wall but it ducked away and turned. When it turned it threw the fire brand like a spear at Arie. Lionhawk reached out just in time to catch the spear like thing and it wrenched him around. His hand was a solid blue beam of light as he held onto the fire brand. The thing began to burn brighter and Lionhawk was brought to his knees while holding the thing. The last being in the room let the human body fall away from its true form and standing there it was a solid looking flame with black spots swirling around its outside. It ran at Lionhawk with the intent to assimilate into his soul. Lionhawk was so locked into fighting the fire brand spear that he did not see the being running at him. As the Burnsacka jumped to land on Lionhawk the blue beam streak hit it from the side and knocked it away. Arie and the Burnsacka were locked in a circle of blue and orange red. Lionhawk was writhing with the spear thing; he brought it down on the floor as it continued to shoot forth this way and that. Getting it to the floor with all his strength he held it in place while he brought he sword down and hit it on one end. The thing blazed with a blinding yellow light and then turned black and lay still. Lionhawk let it go and stood. He took his sword and hacked the thing in the middle and it disappeared. He turned just in time to see the blue circle beam open like a lion’s mouth and clamp on the orange red circle. The thing turned into a brand or stick that looked like a twig that rolled off the logs of a fire and was hot and bright but was quickly loosing its heat. It finally turned black and disappeared.

[Lost N Found]

The two Burnsacka assimilated humans that were at the far end of the room when the battle started watched as their kind fought and left the human carcasses. They also watched as their group members disappeared. The blue beams had hurt their eyes as they watched. Both had dissimulated themselves from the human carcasses and exited the room while the fighting was going on. They found their way back to the furnace pits and told their group what had just transpired. One of them said “we have been discovered so we either fight or return to the home world”. “We must wait and see what becomes of this, the Great Torchurer must know but we shall wait and see first.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk’s hand had become blue white while holding the burning spear thing and it was still blazing with blue light. The sword blade had become a dull bluish tint once more and Aries eyes were also dull in tint. His hand began to feel cool once more but had burned so horribly while he was holding that stick of fire. The room where they had fought had become a shambles and the human bodies were lying around. They both noticed that there was no life in any of them and as Hava had said the flesh was useless from the time the Burnsacka had assimilated into it. While they were getting ready to notify Mark and Jim to come in and clean the computers, the human bodies began to glow and they say the lights rising from each one. As the lights rose towards the ceiling the bodies began to turn to dust. The lights disappeared through the ceiling and Arie noticed two more at the far end of the room, he mentioned this to Lionhawk. Lionhawk said he thought there were more than what they fought off. He went to the door and called Mark and Jim.

[Lost N Found]

Hava/Luun began to catch the spirit/souls as they came into the universe and carried them to the Divine Creator. They all became one and Hava/Luun returned to Illya as he was coming through a tunnel of water on his way to this plane again. Jesse Hammond was born to Jake and Molly Hammond on November 10th of 2035.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself had taken a headband from her day pack that she had retrieved from a private place in their home, and secured it around her head. The headband had come to her from a distant relative when she was a small child in this time line. It had small runes and ancient Scottish words on it. The band was about 1” wide and where it tied in the back was a longer leather cord that had some kind of stone ornaments tied at the end. They had floated up the stairwell and were standing in the landing area while she looked out the window. She saw no activity so she pushed the door open and they entered the corridor. The elevator was to their left and the double doors to the circular corridor around the vehicle garage were to their right. The door to the Guard or vehicle crews’ room was just 10 feet to their right. She could see Chephirah’s eyes starting to glow with the bluish tint and they were getting brighter. Maria noticed that Shadowself’s eyes were glowing brighter. She thought to herself the blue eyes looked so pretty and she saw the blue light starting to excel outward from her face. Shadowself pulled her sword from its scabbard and the blade was glowing with the bluish tint. The names on the blade glowed in a golden shine. Shadowself pulled a wrapping out from the hilt and wrapped it around her hand as she gripped the hilt. All three moved to the door and Shadowself peered in.

[Lost N Found]

When Smoko had come through the gate he was told to assimilate a specific human bag. He had been shown how to do it by Burntfeat who was one of the first to come here. Smoko was to take a human bag that was part of a warrior class on this world. When he had first come through he almost froze on the spot until he was quickly rushed to a large fire pit that was burning constantly. He quickly jumped in and felt a little better. It was not quite what he was used to but it served to keep him from freezing solid. He was told that once he assimilated into the human bag he would be able to survive on this world and sure enough once he took control of the bag he was in, it helped tremendously. It was hard for him to fathom how these being lived at all without actually living on a star or Sun as these bags called it. Where he and his kind came from all beings lived on the stars. The outer balls of dust did not support life as he knew it. As he and his group sat around playing the favorite game of Fire and Ice. He had thought about going back home. The game was played to defeat the opponent with death which was Ice. Each player had 6 cubes, 3 were Ice balls and 3 were stars. The cubes were laid down so no one could see them. Each player had to touch a cube with a finger of pure star fire. If the cube caught fire it was turned over and it was a star the player would then pass the play to another. When the star fire fizzled out, the cube turned over to be a ball of ice. The player had to choose a cube from another player and touch it. If it was a ball of ice the player had to continue around the table until he received a star. If he continued to receive balls of ice and turned 6 he would die and be eliminated. If he received 6 stars in a row then he won the game and they started over. As the elimination proceeded with players the game became harder because the eliminated players cubes would be taken off the table. All 6 of them had just begun a new game when a cold breeze made them all stop and look at the door. It was standing wide open. Firewead stood up and walked over to close the door. He looked out into the corridor and shrugged at not seeing anything. Moltenbreath looked at him and said, “That has never happened before, something seems strange”. Ashrock stood and walked around the table Bero and Canicus both jumped up and looked around wildly. Both of them were holding their arms close to their bodies saying “something very cold is in this room” all of them began to huddle together. Smoko was feeling like he did when he first came through the gate.

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Shadowself had wanted to keep Maria out of the room as she and Chephirah fought the beings but she had come through the door with both of them. Shadowself told her to stand against a wall out of the way and stay cloaked. If something happened to her and Chephirah Maria was to wait for the right moment and escape and tell the others what had happened. Maria acknowledged and moved to a wall close to the door. She had taken out her TMG and set it for a distant Ice world after watching the game that these beings were playing. Shadowself moved to a advantage point so she could uncloak and Chephirah followed suit to the other side of these beings. They both knew that they had to be uncloaked to be effective in battle with these things.

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Shadowself watched two of the assimilated humans leave the room. She almost decloaked at that point to keep them all in the room but decided to wait. As soon as they both left she watched the others as they begin to move apart. One turned and walked towards the back of the room. He walked to a wall and began to fiddle with some kind of thermostat on the wall. The other three continued to walk around the table. She calculated the time of surprise and decloaked herself. At the same time Chephirah became visible. The beings around the table were so startled they all just stood there looking in a frightened gaze. What they saw was a human appear with a blue beam extending in front of it by its hand and the eyes of the human blazed with blue white light. It was terrible and it hurt to look at so they turned there heads to keep from looking at it. Smoko had walked back to turn the heat up and when he did he turned around to see the human and then looked to the other side of the room and saw another being with the bluish white light extending from its eyes.

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Chephirah watched the being in the back and immediately ran straight at it. When she approached within 10 feet she jumped into a blue white streak and landed on the assimilated human. Smoko had watched the animal being running and began to spew fire from his mouth and eyes. He started to move but it was too late when the animal being hit him full force. He fell back and exited the human carcass as it fell to the floor. The animal being leaped from the carcass as it fell and turned so quickly that Smoko had no time to counter attack before the animal being was on him. His scream was like a banshee and he tried to assimilate into the animal being. He could not succeed and then the animal thing bit him. The bite shot blue white light through him and it was Ice. He screamed and screamed as his fire was extinguished and he disappeared from this dimension.

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Shadowself had waded into the three assimilated humans around the table. Her sword whistled through the air and made contact with the first one and it screamed as it left the human bag and disappeared. She brought the sword back and hit the second one in its arm. It screamed and dropped the human bag and backed up. Hot liquid fire was seeping from its arm where the sword had mad contact but it was still coherent enough to charge back at the Blue white human. When it charged the stick was thrust forward and entered its center area. It was spitting fire and its eyes were shooting flames but it was all to no avail as the blue white being pushed the stick with a deadly force into it and the eyes shot blue white light back to force the fire back into it.

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Moltenbreath’s arm was oozing liquid fire when he dropped the human bag and when he had charged back to assimilate the blue human the blue white stick entered his mid section and it felt so cold it was the ice death to him. The Blue white being in front of him was pushing the ice into him deeper and the beings eyes were forcing his own flames back. He tried to spit fire but that was forced back into him also. The blue white stick was turning him into ice and he began to scream just before he was moved back to his home dimension on a ball of ice where his flame was extinguished.

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Ashrock had watched Smoko be dispatched and turned to see Firewead drop the human bag and disappear. He was moving around the table area when the blue white human was fighting with Moltenbreath and watched him drop the human bag and then try to assimilate the blue human. All of the battle with the blue animal being and the blue human was taking place at once as he moved to jump on the human. He dropped the human bag and stumbled over something. The fire was spewing from his mouth and eyes as he approached the blue human as it was dispatching Moltenbreath. He noticed a light around the humans head. It was like a ring and it had small lighted symbols that were bright blue white. He was getting ready to jump on the human to assimilate it when a heavy object hit him from behind. He turned to see what it was and there was another human standing in front of him. The human swung something at him and knocked him down. His fire grew hotter as he started to stand up when a blue white streak hit him again and he felt a very cold icy thing enter his throat. He screamed wickedly and left this dimension.

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Shadowself had been burned on her forearm and hand where she had grabbed the fiery thing while she was pushing the blade into it. A bluish white light began to surround her hand and arm and the blackened areas began to heal. Chephirah and Maria stood together as she sat down and waited for the swirling blue white light to complete its motions. While she sat, the human bodies began to light up and the lights floated up from them towards the ceiling and then they began to turn to dust. Shadowself said “there are still two of these beings left so we must find them and dispatch them. They all left the room and headed for the vehicle garage.

[Constance]

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

"You ain't seen nothing yet," said Nick as with a flick of his finger the image grew and Aberdeen and Connie found themselves standing inside the image.

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Bero and Canicus had both left the room when the cold had been felt. They were the newest from their home world to enter this world. They had been showed how to assimilate into the human bags and had been given two to assimilate. When they left the room they quickly made their way to the large space where the wheeled metal boxes stayed. They had thought about taking one and escaping from the cold that had invaded their game. They could not see what it was that had given them the feeling that a great danger had come upon them. Their thought was to go into the world and assimilate into different human bags and to escape. Arriving in the area they went to the wheeled box and turned it on. They had moved it towards the opening closure and pressed the button on the consol to open the thing. They moved and the opening closure did not move. The wheeled box ran into it with such a force that it smashed in the front. They both had been thrown into the front glass part and the box became still. Bero was the first to get up and open the door to exit the box. Canicus stirred and jumped up and joined him. Standing out side of the box in the large room, they both felt a cold breeze and looked at the far side of the room. The double doors were standing open.

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Shadowself had peered through the windows in the doors and saw the vehicle smashed against the exterior large door to the cave outside. She did not see the assimilated humans so she pushed the doors open and passed into the garage with Chephirah and Maria. They had cloaked again and once inside they all moved to a back wall. They all saw the vehicle smoking from the front and as they watched the two assimilated humans jumped out of the wreck. Chephirah took off and padded around the perimeter of the garage. Shadowself told Maria to stay put and walked towards the assimilated humans. As she walked toward the two assimilated humans she turned off the cloak and became visible. As she did this, Chephirah became visible closer to the assimilated humans.

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Canicus was the first to see the Blue White human become visible as she was walking towards them. Bero made a burning crackling sound and touched Canicus as he saw the animal being with bluish white eyes shinning so brightly that it hurt to look at. Both of them immediately dropped the human bags and moved away as the bodies fell to the floor. Shadowself slowed her walk as she saw the human bodies fall and the fire beings step to the side. The beings looked like bipeds but were a column of fire. The black pieces or spots were moving around their entire columns. The eyes where they were located on the top of the flames began to shoot flames forward and the mouth opened wide and spit fire in globs. As she continued to move towards them she witnessed the growth of spears or fire brands from their hands or what she thought was their hands. Chephirah had begun to run when she became visible. One of the fire beings raised its arm and was getting ready to throw the fire brand when the blue white streak of Chephirah hit it with full force. She knocked the fire column to the floor and both forces began to swirl in a circle. The one still standing threw the fire brand at Shadowself. She saw it coming and ducked to the side as the fire spear shot by her. When she ducked she continued to move towards the being. The thing grew another spear or sword as soon as it released the first one and moved towards Shadowself. They both met and began to battle in a sword fight. The Blue White blade hit the flaming fire blade and sparks flew in a shower. Every time the blades struck, the sparks rippled around the room. Shadowself was in perfect form of parry and thrust with her blade and the fire column was fighting back to keep her blade away. Her head band was glowing with each rune. The stone ornaments were swinging around her shoulders as she dodged and charged into the fight. She was pushing the being back towards the wrecked vehicle when the headband started to fully light and the runes began to spin around. She made a lunge and struck the being in the side. It screamed so horribly that for a moment Shadowself hesitated.

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Bero had caught the Blue White animal being with full force as it hit him and they both fell back to the floor. The fire and ice began to swirl and the battle was fierce. Bero was flaming himself hotter and hotter as the ice was becoming colder. The fire fought off the ice as it tried to bite it in the neck area. Bero had taken hold of the animal beings head and was pushing it away with all his strength. What he did not know was how an animal being such as was on him fought in a reality. As he continued to hold the head and tried his own defense of spitting fire into the being, He felt an icy cold enter his middle. The blue white being had brought its hind feet up and started a mechanical action of raking across his middle, the ice crept into him and he started to spew his fire out of his mid section. He began to scream with unbearable pain as the ice spread through him. The last thought he had was lying on a ball of ice as his entire being extinguished itself. Chephirah jumped up and back away from the spot where the fire being had been. She turned to look at Shadowself just in time to see the fire being she was fighting swing his sword thing and hit her in the leg.

[Constance]

The image grew and widened. It felt so real that Aberdeen realised how easy it could be to mistake a holographic image for the real thing. "It really makes you wonder what is real doesn't it Connie?" He said wonderingly.
"I do know that the essence of the divine is Love, Light and Life and they feel very real," offered Connie helpfully.

Aberdeen got really close to the image of himself and put his hand through the image.
Nick grinned. He had caught the look on Aberdeen's face as Aberdeen had expressed shock and surprise.
"I could feel that!" said Aberdeen excitedly.
"What did you feel?" replied Nick nonchalantly.
"I felt my own body tingle at the same time I put my hand through the image. Nick, do you think that even a holographic image can affect our energy bodies?"

[Constance]

And now the houses that Aberdeen and Connie had seen in the holographic images were slowly going up in Paradise because as you already know dear reader, all things created of beauty require a whole lot of love and attention. But these were not your typical houses. These houses were tiny and each bore the stamp of their own unique character.
What was most strikingly apparent was that most of the materials used were only what could be found on the land.
They were building materials that could all be returned to the Earth and Mother Earth was most pleased.

Those who had been completely inspired by the work that Connie and Aberdeen had produced on the land had decided to stay on and build upon the land so freely given. The talented wood-turners had shared all that they knew with those who were willing to have the knowledge passed down and there was so much land that there was enough for those who wanted to live in clusters and for those who required solitude.

There was one little cabin in particular that was ever so pretty. It had appeared to have sprung out of nowhere. It had a little ornamental lake that graced the front of their sweet home and a wraparound porch so that many a pleasant summers evening could be spent there. Flowers seemed to bloom perpetually in this spot of the forest, for it seemed as if it were the will of one of the owners that they be steeped only in loveliness.
This was the home of Jake, Molly, Reilly and their newest addition to the family, baby Jesse.

[Constance]

Molly had dreamed of a home like this for a very long time and now, they had been gifted this home by beings who were able to spontaneously manifest anything through the outward flowing loving heart.
As you walked through the doors, a fire burned brightly in the fireplace. It burned with a joy and a brightness that could lighten even the heaviest heart for even it was conscious that the four who inhabited this home were full of pure grace, beauty and love.
Molly was singing sweetly to her babe when there was a knock on the door.

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Shadowself felt the horrible burning in her right leg as the being swung a glancing blow into her. She heard the hissing sound and glanced long enough to see smoke roiling from her leg. It almost knocked her over from the shear force and pain. She stumbled back and then recovered just as the column of fire moved in for a killing blow. The fire brand blade was raised over the beings head as it intended to bring it down on Shadowself’s head. She side stepped as the being swung the fire brand down. Her leg was burning with excruciating pain as she swung her own sword with all of her power and it connected across the mid section of the fire column.

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She slashed and fell to the floor in her movement to not be hit with the fire brand. Her blade had opened a large gash in the being and liquid fire spewed forth. As she hit the floor her ear drums almost exploded from the screeching sound coming from the being. She watched in horror as the being writhed in pain and disappeared. Her leg was on fire as she sat up and then tried to stand. Maria was standing in front of her of a sudden and reached both arms out to help her up. Chephirah had walked over and was behind her. The cat nudged her from the back as Maria grabbed her from the front and they both got her to her feet. They all turned and began to make their way to the open double doors leading to the corridor. Walking toward the doors Shadowself felt faint and so hot. She began to stumble and turned very pasty so Maria stopped and so did Chephirah as they both watched Shadowself begin to fall forward. Maria held her and Chephirah moved closer until all three where hugging each other tightly. The pear shaped crystal on Chephirah’s forehead began to glow as did the one on Maria and Shadowself’s necklaces As the crystals glowed brighter the light began to glow from their hearts and swirl around them. The light became a solid swirling tube and shot straight up through the ceiling. As they entered the universe they became one with Hava/Luun and the burning ceased to exist. The one moved to the edge and the 3 of light came to be in the physical world again and found their selves standing in the garage.

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Mark and Jim both entered the large computer room and saw the battle scene. Tables and chairs and some of the closer computer stations were demolished. There were burn marks on the floor and the walls and piles of dust in certain areas on the floor. Mark and Jim both looked at Lionhawk and Arie to make sure they were not injured and then started to inspect the computers. The ones that were demolished they just used the TMG’s and moved them to the place that Hava had showed them. As they inspected the ones that were still operating they began to discover data about the humans that had been captured and brought here. These people’s lives had been tracked through data that the government had created over the years and the Burnsacka just hacked the data bases to find the humans that suited their needs. Jim had found mass areas that were being set up for assimilation centers. The Burnsacka were quite busy in preparations to assimilate in large groups once they began to come through from their home worlds. The one gate, that was deep in the bowls of this old mine, had been placed there thousands of years in the past and then covered and locked. Forgotten until the humans had discovered it and accidentally unlocked it and opened it so it could be used. The elders had been notified and assembled a few to explore thus some had come through. The computers showed how they planned to bring through the necessary materials to build other gates and where these would be located on this world. Jim and Mark both opened the computers of all this information and then began to delete it all. Once the process began to show completion they had already set the TMG’s for the asteroid that Evelyne had showed them in their minds. They pressed the buttons on the Gizmo’s and the room became bare of electronics. The desks were the only thing left standing. The back wall that had all the monitors was bare also. They all moved to the far end of the room and opened the door to leave. As soon as the door opened a strong breeze held them back for a moment and it blew through the room and the dust piles swirled and filled the air and then just disappeared. The company entered the large cavern and moved toward the area where the humans where being held captive

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MICROSCOPIC WORMS AND DISENFECTANT
The elevator had dropped fairly rapidly but it did not give discomfort to them like some of the others had. They watched the meter move fairly quickly and then the needle approached the 2000 foot mark and slowed to a stop. Carolyne stood at the front of the car and waited for the door to open. Kristyl was standing to her side with her TMG at the ready. Kevin and Bill stood directly behind her. The car door slowly opened, which they all thought was a bit odd, and standing in front of them was a very scary looking human being. The man or thing was around 6 feet in height but it was a Hugh shaped blob. Its face had sagged down to where the mouth was resting where the neck should have been. The eyes were sagging at odd angles and both drooped to each side of the nostrils of the nose. The nose itself was flat against the face and the nostril openings almost did not exist. There were open blisters all over the head and face and the creatures arms were hanging to the knees. Like the face and head there were open blisters on the arms and the hands. The hands themselves were grotesques. The fingers had grown twice the length and had become 3 times the thickness. The legs were thick like tree trunks but shortened and the feet looked like duck flippers only very thick. A trail of fluid was behind and down the corridor where the thing had walked or slid. Carolyne backed up and fell against Bill as the creature tried to talk or make a sound. The mouth was nothing more than an elongated slit on its face. The sound that escaped was a wrenching gargle but the word help could be made out from it.. The thing raised its arm very slowly and looked like it was going to step forward when it fell to the floor in a heap of dying flesh.

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They all watched in horror as the thing fell forward, the stench of the thing made them all gag as it hit the floor in a big whop on the deck. Carolyne was the first to cover her face with a bandana. The thing had tattered clothing on the body that looked like it was a military uniform at one time. As it hit the deck they all were treated to more horror as the flesh began dissolving in front of them. Carolyne noticed how the skin covering the body was writhing just before it dissolved. It looked like worms or maggots swarming on a dead carcass of an animal. Kristyl was gagging and ready to lose here lunch when Kevin twisted his TMG and sent the mess to the sun. They all had backed up to the back of the car while the horror was happening. When the thing disappeared they all took a deep breath and stood holding each other. The slime trail was still in the corridor but Bill had set his TGM for the same place that Kevin did and cleaned the corridor. The stench was dissipated so they all moved from the car and stood in speechless horror at what had just happened

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Carolyne was the first to speak and told every body to take an extra dose of the pills she had given them. They did not hesitate and each one found the bottles and swallowed the pill. Kevin started to take another but Carolyne stopped him and said that is enough. Kristyl asked what that thing was and what was going on with it”. Carolyne said “that poor human was infected with a flesh eating bacteria and something else had been added to it. Back in the early 2000’s that particular bacteria was being experimented with and it managed to be spread in a few places around the world to see how it would work on the human body. The sick scientists that created it were part of a secret society of power hungry military generals. The bacteria did eat the flesh but it was stopped and then renamed some benign virus. It was pulled back in and disappeared from the news services. I suspect they wanted to make it more lethal in a quicker way but it did not come back. What we just witnessed was the more lethal and quicker way. If that thing is loose down here I sincerely hope there is a cure for it somewhere. We may not find any one alive but if we do we must get blood samples to test. If I remember right that thing looked like a worm of some sort in the microscope. It actually had teeth so if it ever became bigger it would be a total nightmare and as it is now it would appear that it is a total nightmare with being on the loose. These pills I have made for us will keep us safe for awhile but if we encounter anymore like we just did do not let it touch you.

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The corridor was not long. There were two doors before the end where a double door system crossed the corridor. As they moved towards the double doors Kevin checked the first door and it led to restrooms one male and one female. There was a short outer room and it had one door that said Storage locker #1 above it. The second door had a small window so Bill peered into it. What he saw in that room turned his stomach and he told everyone that the room was to be avoided. He was having a hard time trying to shake the image of mass chunks of meat piled up and maggot looking worms crawling all over every thing, That door could be locked from the outside so he secured it. He checked the bottom of the door to make sure nothing could escape and when he saw the gasket that completely surrounded the door he felt safer. As he was locking and examining the door something slithered across the window and he was spooked immediately. Carolyne had taken her day pack off and dug around for a few seconds and pulled out a piece of head gear and handed it to Kristyl. She fumbled around some more and pulled one out for every body. “Put these on, you should be able to see the bacteria germs in the air or on any surface. Do not be frightened by what you see because these will magnify those buggers. I would suggest that we all set our TMG’s for that disinfectant called the Sun. When you see these things cleanse the area. We may have already walked through some so for now I suggest we stand with our backs to each other and examine all surfaces around us.

[Constance]

Deb Petrovski found herself on the front porch of the tiny cabin. She had no idea why she was there or what had drawn her there.

There was just some vague recollection that she had to be in this particular neck of the forest and that she was there for a reason.

She had never seen this cabin or its beautiful lake before now and she wondered who lived here and how she had ever missed it.

She knocked and waited...

[Constance]

Reilly's ears pricked up at the knock on the door but strangely, he didn't get up off the mat he lay upon nor bark like he usually did when a stranger knocked at the door.

Molly bent to give Reilly an affectionate cuddle as she headed to the door. "Maybe," Molly said to herself, "He feels safe here too."

Molly opened the door and Deb stood before her with a basket of apples.

"Hello," said Deb rather brightly, holding the basket out before her "I thought you might like these."

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When they all backed up to one another Kevin was looking back at the elevator and saw some worms crawling towards the open door. He promptly sprayed his beam in that direction and the things disappeared. He checked the floor, the ceiling and the walls and did not see anymore. Kristyl was looking at the left side of the corridor and it appeared to be clean. Bill was looking at the right side and the door to what he deemed to be a cafeteria. Apparently the gaskets could not keep the germs in, the things were oozing from the door frame so he began to spray it down and the worms began to disappear but they kept coming. He touched Kevin who jumped and then turned to see the oozing from the door. He turned his Gizmo and began to spray also. It almost seemed that they could not stop the flow of these things when all of a sudden there was no more coming from the room. There were some pockets in the air and both men sprayed them into non existence.

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Carolyne kept watching the double doors expecting the things to come through in force but nothing showed. They all moved toward the double doors but kept a Leary eye out for any of the germs or infected humans. Approaching the doors Bill peered through the windows and saw a small group of men and women standing around a table. They all had their backs turned to the door so he could not see their faces. They also were wearing white lab smocks so he thought they were all scientists. Bill backed away from the window and told everyone what he had seen. He said he could not get a good look at the table but he could see what may have been a human being lying on it. Bill told everyone that they should cloak themselves before they entered the lab area. Kristyl heard a strange sound from behind them and turned to see what it was. This place had turned out to be very spooky and even creepy. When she turned she saw an average human being standing in the door to the restroom areas. The man was leaning against the door and weakly waving to them to come. Kristyl began touching every one in the mind thought and they all slowly turned to see the man standing in the door way.

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Sergeant Logan Masters had been stationed to this place two years earlier and it seemed to be a quiet non controversial ending to his term in the Army. He was looking forward to becoming a civilian after 8 years. His girl friend Shelly and He had looked at a small 5 acre parcel of land in a remote area of northern New Mexico above Taos. A good friend of his had told him about it and there was a small community of folks living off the land. It was secluded and tucked away from the hustle and bustle of society. When He had first come to the Powder River facility, his duty was to guard the main level or ground base area and he did not mind that. Henry Johnstone had been a good friend and he and Henry would go to the small town on times off and enjoy some drinks and playing pool at a local bar. It was just about 3 months ago that he had been moved to guard the lowest level of the underground bunker. The scientists all seemed to be okay at first, until about a week into his duties all but Sally Winestock became very mean and disrespectful to him. They treated him like some private little slave of theirs. It was not long that he started hating to come down here. If it was not for Sally he would have deserted long ago.

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Three weeks ago is when things started to become very strange. He began to notice the change in the atmosphere and the people became very irritable. He also started noticing the physical changes in the scientists and then Dr. Sumara turned up dead one morning No one was told how he died and the high command hushed it all up. Two weeks ago two more scientists and two of his men turned up dead. He had gotten a chance to see the bodies and it was so gross that he had vomited for two hours in the men’s restroom. The humans did not resemble humans any longer and he had nightmares about what he had seen. Three days later, Sally was found dead and he was so upset and at a loss that he almost left that night. The base had been put on lockdown and he could not get out. The gate guard acted as if he was controlled by some unknown entity. Logan knew that the scientists had been experimenting with germs and bacteria but he did not exactly know what. He had his suspicions that the people dying were being afflicted with something that had been created down here. He had been given an inoculation by one of the Armies medical doctors just before he was sent down here so hopefully that was keeping him safe. However, when two more of his men had died, he began to doubt his safety.

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It was three days ago now that he had been trapped down here because 4 more people had died, three scientists and Private Green. That had left 5 scientists and two more of his men. The cafeteria had 4 people working the kitchen and tables. Yesterday Corporal Mansk could not be found and Private Haggerty was in the cafeteria when he became very sick. Logan had been sitting at a table by himself when the Private began to vomit and bleed from his mouth. He watched large patches of hair literally fall from his head and then as he was moving towards the door the kitchen staff were all moaning and being violently sick. The last thing he saw as he exited was Private Haggerty swelling up. He rushed out and headed towards the elevator hoping beyond hope that it would work. It did not of course so he doubled back and entered the door to the restrooms. Inside the small anti room was another door to a storage locker. The door was a solid steel door that could be locked from the inside. He had hidden in that room through the night or what passed for night time down here. He heard strange noises and screams during the night but had moved to a safer place in the storage room. He kept his sidearm at the ready and in his hand all night. The next morning he heard the elevator working and thought to get out. When he came out and made it to the door that led to the corridor, he cracked it a little to investigate and saw Private Haggerty slowly moving down the corridor toward the elevator. He almost gagged at the smell and the sight of the man. He waited for him to pass the door and then peaked out once more. Haggerty had slid his way to the elevator car door as the needle gage moved to this level. When the door opened he saw a female Colonel and other high ranking officers standing inside the car. He shut the door then and went back to his safety spot and waited. His thoughts of Shelly and that place in New Mexico were the only thing that kept him from going stark raving mad.

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Carolyne moved towards the man and as she approached she noticed the firearm in his hand. She slowed her pace and looked at him closely with the head gear. He did not appear to have any of the germ creatures on his exterior but she could not be sure of his inside and weather he was infected until she reached into his mind and performed another given and learned gift from the book she had read in that special place of dream. She had learned how to observe other flesh and spirits as a complete whole from inside out. As she examined the man she found him to be completely clean of any of the bacteria. In fact the man was in perfect condition and more pure in physical form than any others she had seen. He did appear to be exhausted and worried in the emotional sense so she approached and began to speak into his mind.

[Constance]

"Hi and thank-you!" Beamed Molly in return. She had baby Jesse crooked in one arm and she scooped up the gift with the other free hand. This was her first visitor apart from Nick to their new haven and she rather pleased.

"I'm Deb. I live about a half a kilometre South of here."

"Oh great!" chimed in Molly enthusiastically. "It's lovely to have a neighbour so close to us. I'm Molly and this is Jesse...And behind me, sitting on his mat, is Reilly."

Molly shot a glance back at Reilly. "Come here boy; come on; say hello" called Molly in her most beckoning tone but he didn't budge. His tail wasn't wagging and he looked very forlorn. He began to whimper and put his head down between his paws.

"That's strange," began Molly, "I've never seen him do this before."

"It must be the effect I have on animals," laughed Deb in an apologetic tone of voice.

Molly brushed Deb's statement away with a wave of her hand and also laughed. The two women's eyes met and both felt the instant connection.

"Come on in." She offered warmly.

Deb stepped inside the cabin and was immediately struck by how warm and comfortable the cabin was.

[Constance]

She removed her shoes and went over to the poor dog who was still whimpering.

Reilly closed his eyes as Deb crouched down and as spoke softly to him, she put her hand underneath his muzzle and scratched him gently.

"I think he is remembering something that really scared him. I think I might be the catalyst for him remembering it but I'm not sure how."

She sat down cross-legged next to him and continued to scratch underneath his chin and then all around his muzzle.

He then looked up at her with mournful eyes.

That look flashed remembrance of something terrible in Deb's mind. Scenes of horror exploded inside her head.

She was revisiting something that had been long buried and forgotten.

[Constance]

"So...about those pills you are taking Aberdeen..." Nick motioned Connie and Aberdeen over to the couch.

Connie held Aberdeen's hand fast and felt her heart quicken at what was about to take place.
She tucked her dress underneath her as she sat down and she felt Aberdeen's whole body stiffen.
She held her breath and looked at Aberdeen, her eyes searching his.

"Yes? What about them?" interjected Aberdeen quickly with one raised eyebrow. He was instantly on his guard for he suspected that he was about to be told something rather foreboding.

"Well...we...um...Connie...do you want to say something?"

"Um...Aberdeen...." She said slowly and carefully. "Those pills you are taking...they are...um..." She looked upwards and bit her lip to find the words..."They aren't what you think they are."

"What do you mean, they aren't what I think they are?" He said, sounding alarmed.

"Do you feel really healthy Aberdeen?" Asked Nick, feeling quite sick in his stomach.

"Why, you know I do Nick!" Exclaimed Aberdeen, feeling more and more perplexed by the whole matter.

"You've seen me lopping at those forest branches. If I wasn't feeling up to it and if I wasn't strong enough, I wouldn't even attempt to take them down. I've been working every day for the last month, and if anything, I reckon that I'm now fitter than I've ever been. Can't you see that for yourself Nick?
Now seriously, what is this all about?" Nick glanced at Connie and Connie nervously glanced back at Aberdeen.

"I don't know how else to say it Aberdeen, my darling but the pills you have been taking for your heart are actually sugar pills."

Aberdeen's eyes grew wide and he declared, "Do you mean that the pills I have been taking all this time are a placebo?"

[Lost N Found]

The man began to relax as Carolyne introduced herself and all the other team members. He finally holstered his pistol the more she spoke to him. She had read his thoughts of Shelly and the piece of ground in New Mexico and explained to him how she could send him and shelly there if he really wanted to go. He had totally relaxed his physical body and his mind wanted to go beyond belief. Carolyne asked him if he knew what had been going on in this facility and what had happened. He told here that he had heard about germ warfare being experimented on here but he had been shut away from any further information than to just be a Guard for the elevator. He told her all that had transpired to his knowledge in the past 3 weeks. He also told her of the mysterious deaths and how the people that died looked like and finally he came to the last night and then watching Haggerty die the horrible death he did. Finally Carolyne asked if he knew how many people were left down here. Logan told her that he thought there might be 5 scientists left in the lab and possibly one of his men that had gone missing. He was pretty sure that those six people were all that was left. He then asked her what was happening to the people down here and would it be happening to him too.

[Lost N Found]

Carolyne told him first that he seemed to be immune to the bacteria germs. He had not contacted any thing down here and if he was going to it would have been by now. “The germ research and experimentation appears to have gotten out of hand and almost every one down here has paid for it with their lives. If this thing escapes from here, it could be that millions of lives could be lost in a very short amount of time”. “We intend to stop it here”. Logan looked at her and asked if there was any way he could help. She had been waiting for him to venture forth with his own consent. She told him that he could be a great help if he would donate a tiny bit of his blood so she could find a cure that would stop the outbreak of the germs. These things have been created by the scientists you saw down here. This thing had been created a long time ago but was shelved until it could be perfected as a weapon. Logan held out his left arm and said “Take what you need and let’s get on with cleansing this place”. “Once this is done you can send Shelly and I to that place where we can live in peace”. Carolyne looked around him and said “is there a safe place in there we can work”? He said “yes there is a storage locker in here and we can lock the door from the inside. I have jerry rigged the lock so it cannot be undone from the outside”.

[Lost N Found]

They all moved into the storage locker which was quite big. There were racks of all sorts of lab equipment and solutions. There was a small table towards the back with a couple of chairs. Logan had locked the door as they all moved inside and waited for Carolyne to speak. She asked him to move to the table while she searched for a microscope and some fluids she would need. She then asked Bill and Kevin to do something that was important but a dangerous task. She needed a specimen of the bacterial germs. Bill and Kevin both flinched but set themselves to doing that job. Kristyl walked up to Kevin and wrapped her arms around him and kissed him hard on the mouth. She looked in his eyes and said “you will be very careful and get back here as quickly as possible” because if you don’t and you get hurt, I will beat you, you do understand”? Kevin smiled and then kissed her back. Bill and Carolyne had moved over to a secluded place and talked quietly while holding each other. Bill walked over to a rack and retrieved a couple of vials that had rubber sealed lids and put those in his pocket of the jacket he was wearing. Carolyne walked back to the table where Logan was sitting and Kristyl walked to the door as the two men went out. She then locked it and went back to the area where Carolyne and Logan were. She watched Carolyne take a syringe and draw some blood from Logan’s arm and place it in a Petri dish. She them took some and put it on a glass slide and place it under the scope.

[Lost N Found]

Bill slowly opened the door to the corridor and peeked out. The corridor was still empty. He and Kevin both had the head gear on so they could see the worm germs. Both of them still had the TMG’s set for the Sun. Bill told Kevin that they could hopefully get some specimens from the cafeteria area where he had seen the gruesome scene of dead people. They would have to be very careful and he took another pill out and swallowed it. Kevin watched him do that and did the same. As they approached the door Kevin was watching the corridor in every direction he could as he spun around while walking. Bill was focused on the door to the cafeteria and they both came up and Bill peered into the room. The great lump of flesh was gone or dissolved and he could not see any of the worm germs where it had been. As he looked further he noticed some movement just above the counter top towards the kitchen area. At first it looked like smoke or something then he saw the swarm of worm germs rising and falling, it gave him the creeps but he knew that he and Kevin were going to have to go in and get the samples that Carolyne needed. He also knew that there were still live humans in the lab at the end of the corridor and thought that they could go there and gather the specimens they needed rather than chance the complete exposure they may get in the cafeteria. He spoke into Kevin’s Mind and told him the better plan.

[Lost N Found]

As Bill and Kevin approached the double doors to the lab, they both cloaked themselves. Bill walked up to the window in one of the doors and peered in. He could not see anyone this time and wondered where they might have gotten to. He did see the man on the lab table. He still looked normal so maybe he had not been infected yet. He decided to take the chance of entering the lab and slowly pushed the door open enough so he and Kevin could enter. They both slid into the lab and slowly let the door close. Kevin noticed the man on the table and let his gaze move around the fairly large room. He stopped when he saw the wall with windows in it to their right. In that room were the 5 scientists. They were all sitting at desks and looking through microscopes. He could not see their faces as they had them looking down at the moment. Bill had made his way over to the man on the table and when he approached he pulled out the vial and a small medical knife. He proceeded to scrape some skin gently into the vial. He then pulled another vial out and a needle and took some blood from the man. The man did not stir and Kevin thought he was either dead or heavily drugged. He could not see if the man was breathing from his location but he kept an eye on the interior research lab and the people in it. Bill had finished his gathering process and saw something on a desk that made him veer to it and gather it into his jacket. He hurried back to Kevin and spoke to his mind saying they had to leave immediately.

[Lost N Found]

The lab door to the corridor had just closed when Dr Grindschutz entered the lab from the research room. He stopped suddenly and sniffed the air like an animal might in search of food. He looked around and waddled his way to the specimen on the table. When he reached the table he sniffed the air once more and knew that something or some one had been in the room just recently. He kept this in mind as he began to complete his task. He pulled a large hypodermic needle from his lab coat and removed the cap over the needle and took the arm of the specimen and stuck the needle into his vein. The barrel of the syringe had around 10 cc’s of greenish fluid and he pumped the entire amount into the specimen. He checked the heart rate and felt the specimens head. As he waited for the fluid to enter the system he sniffed the air once again and turned towards the double doors. He kept starring at the doors when Dr Kraughtstein came into the room and questioned him. “is their something wrong”? Dr Grindschutz said “something or some one has been in here in the last 15 minutes. I can smell the stench of humans. Dr Kraughtstein sniffed the air and shook his head in agreement. “We shall find this human and use him like this one and make him become one of us but for now you must finish the procedure on this one. How far have you gotten”? “I have injected the final solution into the specimen. It should begin to work within the next hour or two depending on the specimens overall makeup like we went through. Dr Kraughtstein shook his head and said “let us go back to the business of creating the aerosol for the delivery system once we reach the surface. We must be diligent. We will only have a certain amount of time before we become discovered.

[Lost N Found]

Bill and Kevin hurried to the door leading to the restrooms and entered the little anti room. Both uncloaking as Bill tapped on the Storage door. Kristyl opened the door and Let them in. Bill hurried to the back where Carolyne and Logan were and gave the samples to Carolyne. He told her what he had discovered and showed the research papers to her. She took them and read them quickly and said “Oh my God, These insane people have managed to create the hybrid germs and cross bread the things into human beings. Logan looked at her with a look of not understanding. By that time Kevin and Kristyl had both made it back to the area and they also were waiting for an explanation. Carolyne looked at all of them for a moment and forged ahead with her explanation as best she could. Back in the late 20th Century the Military had experimented with germ warfare. It all actually started way before that but the world was not ready to embrace that stuff anymore and in fact after the First World War in the early teens of the 20th Century germ warfare had been banned around the world. So the military began doing secret testing with all kinds of germs. They tested these things out on foreign countries all over the world and it really never got out what they were doing. All the epidemics where blamed on viruses and so forth. The flu was a manmade warfare disease that was created during the First World War and actually killed more humans than any bombs or bullets did. It swept the world and millions of people got sick and died. That particular virus was spread with vaccines and people continued to die right up until vaccines were banned in 2021. So back to this particular bacteria, It had been created as I said in the late 20th Century and was released in small pockets during the early 2000’s to test it for validity and sure enough it actually ate brain mater and body parts of humans. It was a horrible way to die and nothing could be found to counteract the disease. It was pulled back in by the military to find the cure for it and possible use it in another way. Well here is the other way, they tried to restructure it to create their super soldiers but it kept killing the personnel that they used for experiments. You all have seen what it does to a normal human being. But this research that Bill has brought shows and proves that they have perfected their goal of creating something that is mostly a human sized bacterial germ that can eat flesh. This leads me to believe that those five scientists that may still be down here alive are nothing more than these creatures and very dangerous I might add. If they are allowed to get out it will not be very pretty for the greater population. Bill looked at Logan and said “I think I know what happened to your other man that you said went missing”. Logan looked at him and said “you saw Corporal Mansk”? Bill said “yes if that is his name, there was a man in a corporal’s uniform laying on a table in that lab. I would not place any hope in him being alive as a human any longer though. He looked as if he was being transformed into something”.

[Lost N Found]

Carolyne had tested Logan’s blood and put it through some other tests in the equipment she had found on the racks. His blood was extraordinary in that it appeared to be immune to any kind of disease. She had taken the specimens that Bill brought back and ran them through the testing and saw what had been added to make them mutate to the human system. Instead of eating the flesh and interior organs it actually cohabitated and caused the human genes/DNA to mutate to become like it and bond to itself without destroying the body of the human. In the process it distorted the human body to resemble its worm like appearance, mostly in the head of the human and the interior organs. The brain remained but all resemblance of humanity was transferred into the thoughts and intelligence of the bacterial brain. Carolyne took Logan’s blood and put it in the Petri dish of the bacterial creature. As she added Logan’s blood the creature shrank away and started to boil in appearance. She watched as the bacterial blood dissolved until there was none left. Logan’s blood had actually attacked the bacteria and did the reverse to it as what it was suppose to do to humans in the beginning. She had prepared an inoculation solution for everyone and shot each in the arm. Logan did not need any of course so Carolyne gave him a dose of energy instead. She began to explain that if one of the creatures attacked them they would be boiled away if they got a bite. As it would be, if they went to the lab in force and confronted the creatures, their very presence would cause the creatures to retreat. If they would advance and just touch the things then the creatures would begin to dissolve. She picked up a canister with a spray nozzle and said “This is the major disinfectant we will spay all over down here before we leave. I have synthesized this and added it to 3 more canisters so when we are done on this level we must go up to the next level and do the same just to be sure.

[Lost N Found]

Logan’s energy had been steadily building up when Carolyne had told everyone what their plans were. He asked if he could join them in destroying these things. Carolyne told him that he would be busy getting he and Shelly to New Mexico. As she spoke she opened the portal to the apartment in Powder River and told him to step in to the living room area and gather what he would need. She said Shelly has already been told and shown what is to come. As Logan looked he saw Shelly come from the bedroom with a suitcase and two small bags. She stopped and looked straight at him and said “are you coming”? He stepped through and the portal closed while he gathered his meager belongings. He changed his clothes and stuffed his uniform into a trash chute. When he came back out of the bedroom and stood next to Shelly a portal opened and they both saw a dome house surrounded by trees. Carolyne spoke to their minds and told them to step into their new lives. She told them that she would see them again in the near future. Logan and Shelly stepped into the forest and walked to the gate at the fence around the dome. Henry had been told by a man named Nick in his dreams to meet them and get them both settled. A portal had opened for Henry to the little dome house and he met Logan and Shelly. After they had been settled the portal opened once more for Henry and he stepped back into his cabin and cuddled with Marci.

[Lost N Found]

On the table in the lab what was once Corporal Mansk opened its eyes and sat up. The thing was hungry as it moved its legs over the side and stood up. A door opened and it noticed some more of its kind walking towards it. They had plates of meat in their hands as they approached and he began to feed. The meat dissolved in the slit of a mouth. Whenever the thing opened its mouth many rows of teeth that looked like sharks teeth could be seen. The mouth spewed forth a green substance that started the dissolving process as the food disappeared into the slit of a mouth. The things head was hairless and looked like an elongated ball or the end of a very fat finger. The eyes were nothing but slits in the head and they were located more towards the sides. The nose area had become just another stretched piece of skin with two holes for nostrils. Where the ears used to be there were only two holes. The entire head or what might pass for a head had no distinction of a head with a neck but rather just a straight tube to the shoulder area. The shoulder area almost continued the tube shape along the body. The human body had become more like the body of a worm with arms and legs. The hands and feet were almost entirely web shaped. As the newest piece of the collective finished feeding they all turned towards the lab doors and began to slowly move towards it. They all were sniffing the air as if they were on a blood hunt.

[Lost N Found]

As soon as Logan had left and Carolyne had moved him and Shelly to the place in New Mexico, They all gathered themselves for coming sterilization of this place. They moved to the storage door and entered the anti room. All of them turned the cloaking device on and moved to the corridor door. Bill opened it just a tiny bit and saw no one in the corridor so they all moved into the corridor and two went to one side while the other two went to the other side. Moving down the corridor toward the lab doors they all stopped abruptly as the lab doors began to open. Kristyl and Kevin both had the TMG’s ready while Carolyne and Bill had the spray containers held at the ready. When the doors swung open they all saw the horrible things sliding out of the lab. Carolyne had seen these things under the microscope and when she saw them in human size almost in human form she became queasy in her stomach. The things all slid out and stopped just a few feet from the doors. They all were sniffing the air as if some smell had them captivated. Carolyne had been thinking that she had to test the inoculation somehow so she walked towards the worm germs and stopped about 10 feet in front of them. Bill had been so mesmerized with the creatures he did not notice Carolyne move forward until she came into vision just in front of the things. She became visible just as he was starting to move in her direction. The worm germs all saw her appear and started to make a very strange deep growling sound. as they moved towards her. She moved to the first one and touched it. The others stopped when she moved so fast they almost could not see her. When she touched the leader of the collective it began to jiggle and thrash wildly. The green fluid gushed from its mouth and splashed on its own body. It started to howl or so it seemed and then the body fell into thousands of small worms and kept breaking down into millions of microscopic germs as they dissolved from the disinfectant of Carolyne’s touch. One other tried to rush Carolyne but she moved so fast and touched it the thing froze in its slime trail and did the same thing the first one did. The other four turned painfully slow and began to move towards the lab doors.

[Lost N Found]

Bill had begun to move as soon as he realized what Carolyne had done but stopped and watched the whole scene in slow motion. Kristyl and Kevin both had been mesmerized like bill at the creatures and then watched Carolyne just appear in front of the things and touch the first one. That had further given them pause as the thing broke into millions of parts until they could not see them anymore. They all had the head gear and watched a green mist rise from the spot where the human sized thing had been. The mist rose to about 2 feet from the floor and then just dissipated. They all watched the second one do the same and then noticed that the remainder of the things had turned as if one and moved towards the lab doors. Bill had made it to Carolyne and began spraying the container at the things. When the spray fell upon them they all stopped and the cacophony of screeching and growling filled the corridor as the things virtually fell apart into the green mist and then dissolved. Bill turned and entered the cafeteria and began to spray the air in the entire room. The green mist in that room just dissolved until there was nothing left. Bill filled every room, space and area within the cafeteria with the spray, until he was satisfied that none of the worm germs could survive then headed back into the corridor. When he came out he noticed that Carolyne was crouched over by the far wall. Kevin and Kristyl were nowhere to be seen. He bent down and knelt beside Carolyne, She was gushing tears. He heard her mind speak to him telling him that the soul/spirits had been trapped and could not escape into the universe. Hava and Luun had to find the microscopic parts and take it all into the universe. Some had lost parts but most had been brought back together. She looked at Bill and said “these things meant to destroy man kind and our spirit/soul. She then spoke openly in voice and said “my God Bill is there no limit to the depravity of these people or are they really not human beings”?

[Lost N Found]

Kevin and Kristyl entered the lab and began to spray the room with the disinfectant. They filled the air and the floors and walls. As they sprayed they began to see patches of green mist twisting and squirming in the air and on the table where the man had lain. Kevin touched Kristyl and they moved to the interior lab. Kevin opened the door and sprayed the disinfectant through the opening before he moved through. Stepping into the room he saw the floor moving around. He stopped and looked at his feet and then stepped back quickly. He watched as a green mist dissolved from his boots and the stuff dissolved across the floor. Kristyl had stepped in behind him and sprayed the walls and ceiling close to them. She watched as the walls and ceiling began to move and swirl and the green misty looking stuff began to dissolve. She spoke to Kevin saying “it appears that this area was completely covered with these worm germs. Kristyl walked into the room further as the germs dissolved away from the surfaces and looked at the computer stations. The computers were all on and she could not follow the stuff that was on the screens. She reached out in her mind and spoke to Carolyne and asked her to come to the lab and examine the computers with what ever research was on them.

[Lost N Found]

Carolyne and Bill both came into the small research lab and went to the closest computer. Carolyne began to look at the info on the first one and then click through screens. Bill had gone to the next one and did the same. Both of them moved around the computer work stations and performed the same procedures, After studying all the computers as much as they could, Carolyne looked at Bill and then looked at the two other doors in the room. Bill walked to one and slowly opened it and sprayed the disinfectant through the opening. He waited for a few minutes and opened the door wide. The room was not very big but it had all the electronic components for the computers. There were 3 server units and a host of other gear. Bill pulled his TMG, twisted the destination on the dial and shot the beam at all the equipment. After a few minutes the room was bare of anything. Bill shut the door and him and Carolyne both walked to the other door, Carolyne tried the door knob but it was locked. Kevin walked over and took something from his jacket pocket and stuck it into the lock hole on the knob. He began jimmying it around and they all heard the faint sound of tumblers. Kevin pulled the metal pick looking thing out and put it back into his jacket pocket. He reached down and turned the knob and the door started to open. He turned and saw everybody starring at him like some kind of amazing circus performer. He smiled and backed away. Bill took his spray nozzle and stuck it into the small opening and let loose as much as he could at the moment. He then backed away and they all waited a few minutes. When Bill opened the door there was a large refrigerator on one wall and the place stunk like a meat locker in a butcher house. The room was almost as large as the computer lab. Carolyne had taken Kristyl aside and they both used their TMG’s to empty the bigger room of the computers and any other research that might be available. Bill walked into the “meat locker” and looked to his right. All along the wall were racks with small box like holes. All of the boxes had metal tubes that looked like acetylene tanks of about 20 gallon containers. There were two outlets that looked like connections for air hose on the tops as they saw them. On the side of the two outlets was a gage that showed the tank full of air or whatever might be in them and the gage read 200 PSI. One of the nozzles looked like it had some greenish tint of something that may have been pumped into it or taken from the tank. Bill saw that it was the worm germs and when he looked closer he saw the things crawling around on the nozzle. Kevin had walked to the large refrigerator and examined it. The thing was so big that it had two doors that were each 4 feet wide. “What kind of refrigerator would have doors this size”? He started to open one when Bill grabbed his arm and pulled him away from the thing. He motioned for all of them to look at the side of the large box. There was a nozzle on the side that matched the nozzle on the tanks. It looked like it would fit over the tank nozzle. It also had the green tint on it.

[Lost N Found]

Bill moved everyone back and slowly opened the right side of the large refrigerator. Inside were 3 tanks with hoses connected to one nozzle going through the side of the refrigerator? The tanks all had pressure gages on them. There was a pump and motor sitting at the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. All of this was connected to the tanks. Carolyne spoke to everybody about the research and experiments that she had seen on the computers about creating an aerosol to spray in the air that would contaminate the humans on a mass scale. She looked at the containers in the refrigerator and the canisters on the racks of shelves and said “this is their weapon to destroy the human race and become the sole proprietors of this planet. Somewhere is a jet and possibly other means of flight that was going to be outfitted with these tanks. This is what was happening with the Bioengineering back in the mid 20th century through the 20 teens until it was all stopped. It appears these creatures were getting ready to destroy the human race and inhabit this world. She took her canister of spray and doused the refrigerator and opened the other door. The stench from that side made every body gag. The thing was full of meat that was spoiling, or was planned that way. They all wondered where the meat had come from but Carolyne sprayed it and it all began to break down and dissipated. Bill took his TMG and shinned the blue beam onto the canisters along the wall and they all disappeared. On the sun of our solar system there were small explosions that just happened to be noticed by a backyard telescope belonging to Chris Oberson. He watched the show and thought it was just a small solar flare. Kevin shinned his beam on the refrigerator and it also went to the same place as the aerosol canisters. They all backed out of the room and made sure none of the worms germs were left as they shut the door. They made sure that all the computers, research and experiments were gone as they left the small lab and the large lab. Before they entered the elevator they had disinfected the entire low level and set a discharge up that would cave the level in on itself

[Lost N Found]

When the elevator door opened on the second level they began spraying the area with the disinfectant. This level was almost empty so the cleansing was fairly easy. They noticed the train cars and a couple of trucks so they were sent to an abandoned area in the still devastated area of Washington DC. They had made sure that the level was clean and took the elevator to the small building at ground level. Looking out of the windows they saw a few Guards and wondered about anyone else that still may be on the ground base. Cloaking themselves they took the path straight out and entered the grounds where the other buildings were located. Whenever they came across some personnel they sent them to the Emperors location in Denver and figured they would sort things out there. Once the base was clean of human beings and there were no more of the worm germs in existence they all stepped out next to the chopper and Carolyne called ODAKOTA and TUSA. The two Prairie dogs scampered over the small hills and down to the chopper. The Crew had all de-cloaked and was standing around waiting when ODAKOTA and TUSA scampered down the hill. They came up and stopped and then stood on their hind legs as Prairie dogs were known to do. Carolyne asked if the area of the base was clear of their families. ODAKOTA told her that his entire coterie and the family had been cleared of the danger areas. Bill opened a portal and stepped through to set the explosions in motion. He moved from level one to level two and back out to the chopper. They all climbed aboard as the rumbling sound began.

[Lost N Found]

Kevin lifted the chopper up to around 100 feet and they all looked at the base as it began to sink in slow motion into a giant sink hole. They watched as it all fell in and the dust became so dense they could not see it. The cloud of coal dust turned the sky dark as the one square mile area sank to about 500 feet below ground level. ODAKOTA and his coterie heard the growling of the earth and as he stood on the top of the second hill away from the tall wire thing, a dark cloud of dust rose up into the sky. The rushing sound of water was almost deafening after the growling of the earth. There were some loud bangs such as he had heard when some of his brothers had ventured to close to the metal things in the earth. The Coterie had all been so curious but he made sure that they did not venture any closer to the noise and dust. After awhile and it was quite awhile the dust began to settle and the water sound was still very loud they all began to skitter down the hill and go up the next one. When they reached the top they all stopped in amazement. There was a giant hole in the earth where the human area had been created. It was filling with water from the underground rivers and soon would be full. He knew that they would be able to move the coterie closer and live in peace with a large body of water next to their town. He heard in his mind the human say, a gift for you my friend enjoy. All of his clan were scampering and skittering around in joy as they found new places to dig burrows. Bill and Carolyne sat in the back of the chopper cabin and talked about the deliverance of the spores and where that might be. Carolyne thought that it might be at the Banner base. There is a small airport there and jets can land and take off. We must get there soon because if they have any of this worm germ stuff there we could be facing a very devastating disaster for the human race. Bill told Kevin to make quick time to Banner and the chopper gathered its speed and shot towards Banner.

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CLOSED DIMENSIONS and COUNTRY ROADS
Lionhawk, Arie, Mark and Jim all exited the computer room at the far end and entered the large cavern. They walked for about 10 minutes all the while being amazed at the size of the cavern. There were doors on both sides of the cavern but they were not interested in exploring them at the moment because something kept telling them that the live human beings were further into the cavern. The cavern turned to the left as they kept walking and they came to a very large wall structure built across the width of the cavern. It had very large doors that could be opened to allow large vehicles or other things through. There were also many small double man doors that looked like entrance/exits to a theater or large coliseum. Lionhawk approached one set of doors and peered through some small windows. He saw the cages or one large area of cells and hundreds of humans inside milling and eating and doing what ever it is that they could while being locked up. Lionhawk continued to search and did not see any guards, he knew they were somewhere but would have to chance entering the Hugh chamber before discovering their where a bouts. He turned and told Jim and Mark to remain here until he and Arie flushed the guard creatures out.

[Constance]

Deb was very shaken by these memories. Hyperventilating, she could barely get to her feet again. Reilly whimpered and licked her hand. Concerned, Molly went to her side to steady her.
"Are you okay?" Queried Molly, placing a hand on Deb's shoulder; a worried look had replaced her smile.
Deb couldn't speak, for she was in a state of panic. All she could do was shake her head.
"I'll be right back." said Molly.
Swinging Jesse around to her other hip now as she hurried to the pantry, she found what she was looking for.
"Here, breathe into it like this," Molly motioned with her hands and face. Deb looked at her for a moment in confusion but then realisation dawned and she wrapped the brown paper bag around her nose and mouth and breathed deeply.
Her breath started to ease with the paper bag trick but the terror in her eyes showed that she was reliving a nightmarish scenario.
It was a look that Molly had seen too many times before.

[Constance]

Deb sat on Molly's couch for some time, vacillating between heartrending moans as she rocked back and forth in severe emotional distress and hysterical crying. Reilly sat by her side and didn't move. He looked up at her every now and then and howled.

Jesse was still in Molly's arms and she held on to her baby tightly.

She wasn't sure how Jesse would be affected by all of this because his birth into this world had been such a calm and beautiful experience and there had been nothing but love and reassurance since then.
He had floated ever so gently into this world from his mother's warm waters into the warmth of a bathing pool in an ecstatic orgasmic birth. Like all Lotus births, Jesse was attached to his umbilical cord and the placenta until he was ready to let go of it. His umbilical cord had fallen naturally off on day 4 and the happy parents had celebrated by dancing around the room with Jesse held high up in the air.
Jesse was one of those babes who had control of their necks from day one and when he was born, he had lifted his head up, gazed directly into each of his parent’s eyes and given them a knowing look.

Molly now looked into Jesse's eyes questioningly but all he did was smile at her and gurgle.

And then he did the most amazing thing; he spoke to her telepathically.

[Constance]

She wondered if she was dreaming; for she distinctly heard him say, "Mama, bring me to the suffering one.” He looked deeply into her eyes and smiled. “Mama, take me to the suffering one,” she heard again ever so clearly.

Trusting what she heard but with a heart so full of emotion, she took Jesse over to Deb and placed him gently into her lap.
Jesse smiled and gurgled as he lay there and looked up at Deb. He reached out with one of his tiny hands as if to signal something. To Molly’s amazement, Deb immediately began to calm down and stopped rocking.

Eventually, the memories began to fade and Deb became still and silent. It was if a light switch had gone off again and she became aware of baby Jesse staring very intently at her.

[Constance]

That child was so full of divine beauty; the absolute pureness and grace it exuded was enough for Deb to trigger the experience of a self-healing. It was as if the whole horrific experience could be let go of and she could now be present again. Looking into the eyes of pure unconditional love, Deb felt peace throughout her entire being.

“I’m so sorry,” said Deb, looking up at Molly who was still standing there, “I don’t know what else to say, except, to say thank you” as she clutched at a very wet and soggy handkerchief.
She looked down at Jesse again and gave him a very wide smile.
“Don’t be sorry,” murmured Molly as she picked up Jesse and cuddled him. “If you experienced what I think you just did, it is a sign.”

[Constance]

What the sign was, Molly didn’t disclose to Deb but Deb was sure she was about to find out soon.

[Lost N Found]

They all had cloaked themselves before they left the computer room. So Lionhawk and Arie Pushed one of the doors slowly open enough to get through. Arie squeezed through first and padded off to the right. Lionhawk turned sideways and slipped through heading off to the left. Mark held the door and let it close easy. As the door came to a stop Mark saw a bright light through the window and something smashed into the door pushing it into him as he backed away. He smelled the distinct odor of sulfur and ozone. He pushed Jim back and both men moved away from the doors and brought the TMG’s to the ready. Mark could still see through the window but could not tell if anything or someone was moving towards the door. Lionhawk had seen the spear like fire brand flashing through the air and watched it hit the door. Sparks flew out in a great splash as the thing made contact. He looked at where the fire had come from but could not tell immediately.

[Lost N Found]

Oveneye had been walking the perimeter of the human cage when he saw the door move to a small opening in the giant wall of doors. His thought immediately was to launch a fire spear in that direction to let his batch brothers know that something was not right. Scorch and he had been joined by Hotsctick and Lightner earlier. Hotsctick had told them that something was happening that did not seem normal so they all were on guard for any strange signs. Scorch was coming up on his rear and Hotsctick and Lightner were both at the far end of the large habitat for the humans. He waited for Scorch to catch up to him and told him what he had seen. He then screeched at Hotsctick and Lightner telling them that something may have tried to enter the area. Hotsctick and Lightner both decided to double back and come up the left side of the habitat.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk could see the bright blue white shine from Aries’ eyes and he had taken his sword out before coming through the doors and it was shinning a bright blue white. He could feel his own eyes pushing the blue white light out and prepared for battle He had felt the pain of Shadowself and knew she had been injured. He was going to go to her when a voice in his mind told him that she would be alright. As he watched Arie he witnessed something he had not seen before. The cat began to glow across his entire body and became a solid blue white body. He watched the cat become visible and streak through the air at a spot behind the edge of the cage. He began to move in that direction while he became visible also. As he moved a streak of fire resembling a spear whizzed pass him and hit the far wall. He turned just in time to deflect a fire sword from another Burnsacka. The beings rushing him had dropped the human bodies and became their true beings of tubes of fire. The one that had tried to strike him first was ferociously swinging the fire sword as he kept knocking it away. He could feel the heat every time the sword came close and then the second being waded in to distract him He ducked from the first one and came up with a cross cut into the second one. His blade made a complete contact across the mid section of the being as he danced away from both of them. He spun around to finish the one he made contact with and the first one caught him in the side with a glancing blow. The pain was horrific but he managed to swing his sword into the neck of the being and both of the columns of fire spewed liquid flame as they screeched and writhed and then the flames extinguished and disappeared. Where the liquid fire had spilled out onto the floor there were great scorch marks. He stumble from the pain in his side and went to his knees. As he hit the pavement he saw Arie bite the first being and heard it make a horrible screech. He saw the second one slash at Arie and catch him on the right hind leg. Arie spit blue fire at the being as he screamed with pain. The being was moving in for the kill when Arie leaped up and bit it on the neck area. The being dropped its sword of fire and screeched so loud that Lionhawk thought his ear drums would burst.

[Lost N Found]

Billy Wainright was the first to see the tall man with the blue white shinning sword. Others in the cage saw the fire beings, as they dropped the human bodies, throw the fire spears at the tall man. Billy moved to the bars and watched in amazement as the tall warrior fought off the columns of fire. He saw one of the columns slash and wound the tall warrior but then the warrior dispatched both columns. The air had smoke floating thick in it and the smell was sickening of sulfur and ozone. As he watched from the cage bars he saw the warrior stand and almost fall over but kept himself upright. He stood a bit shakily and then Billy saw the lion limping towards the warrior. He started to scream for the warrior to watch out but the lion walked up and lay down next to the man. The Man knelt down and touched the lion on the head. Each of them had burn marks on their bodies. As he watched this transpire two more men became visible and walked to the warrior and Lion. He did not know what to think when he heard a vehicle. He thought it would be the men in the black clothes that had taken him and brought him here, so he was preparing to see the monsters come in and kill these people that appeared to be saving all of them. The vehicle crashed through the big doors and swerved sideways to a halt. He saw two women jump out and one more lion. The Lion padded up to the one that was lying on the floor and began to lick and bump heads. The one on the floor raised its head and did the same with the one standing over it. One of the women strode up to the warrior and knelt beside him. She had long dark hair and a headband of some sort that glowed with symbols. The other woman walked to one of the other men and held him. What he saw next made him believe in magic and miracles. All of the people including the lions formed a circle around the injured ones and held each others hands and paws. Billy saw a light emanating from their hearts and then all their hands lit up and the light spun in a solid circle and became a solid tube and the solid tube of light shot straight up through the ceiling of the cavern. The floor was empty for a few moments and then the tube of light came back and began to slow and dissipate. The next thing he saw was all the people standing in a circle with both lions standing also.

[Lost N Found]

Gregory Stilson had moved from a place in the center of the habitat to the action on the outside of the bars and began to watch as the human bodies were dropped and the fire beings moved to combat the warrior man with the blue white shinning sword. The young kid that was hanging on the bars was captivated. Gregory spoke to the boy and asked what he thought might be happening. The boy told him that he thought they might be rescued by the warrior and then mentioned another on the far side of the room. Gregory then made his way to the far side and watched as the lion shaped being attacked the fire columns. Two days before he had been told by two women that were a few years younger than him that the black suits would be sorting out the older humans and moving them to another area. He knew what that meant. He had seen others that were just a little older than him disappear from the habitat area never to be seen again. Some said that they had been sent back home while others said that they had been taken to a deeper place and disposed of. When he saw the fight transpiring his hopes rose to a level of actually fighting these humans that had captured him not more than 5 years earlier. He had figured that they were not human by their actions and manners. They emanated too much heat and sometimes he would witness the fire in the eye sockets instead of eyes. He had even seen one spit fire from its mouth one day. He was prepared to fight to the death when the things came for him so when the fight of the creatures started and he watched the entire battle he knew that someone had come for them to help. When the people had turned into the ring and then the tube of light and disappeared he almost lost all hope but then they showed back up and all of them appeared healed of any damage. His hope sprang forth and he ran to the bars and hollered at them. “Hey over here we need your help” Other people began to mill around the closest area to the group outside and started to speak also. One of the humans broke free from the others and headed towards them. All the people became quiet as he approached.

[Lost N Found]

Mark had heard someone speak and turned to see a group of people standing close to the bars in anticipation. He noticed that most of them were young children but some were young adults and he did not see any of them that were older than perhaps in their 20’s. He spoke to the group and moved towards the people in the cage. As he approached the cage the people started to speak all at once so he held up his hands and asked them to let him speak. A few minutes later they all settled down and two of the oldest one man and one woman stood at the bars and waited for him to speak. He began to tell them that they would all be set free and sent back to their homes where they had been taken from. Once again the cacophony of noise rose but the two older people turned and told them to settle down. Gregory and Shauna looked at Mark and asked how they would be returned. Mark turned and waited for the team to approach. The two lions padded off towards the large doors and disappeared through the broken area where the vehicle had crashed through. The rest of the team came up and they all took the TMG’s and held them at there sides until they could start sending these folks back home. Billy moved to the side and sat down. He did not want to return. Mark asked every one to step back away from the bars and held his TMG up and pointed it at the bars. Everyone backed away in a hurry thinking he was going to shoot them or something. He twisted the space dial and flashed the blue beam at the bars and they began to dissolve away.

The people watched in amazement as the bars disappeared all around them. The complete enclosed area of their prison was gone. At the white house in Denver someone looked out a window and asked in a surprise voice why the white house had been enclosed in a barred fence. It looks like we are in a prison. Vinnie looked out and let out a screaming foul language. He ran from his office in a rage and headed down to the ground level. Running out the front doors and down the steps he came up against the bars and could not see any gates or doors to get out. His gaze ran up the bars and he noticed that the entire white house was enclosed with the bars. He began to scream louder and curse with all kinds of foul words.

[Lost N Found]

Back in the cavern the people were milling around wondering about going home. Mark approached the two older people and asked them to organize groups of folks and they would begin to send them home. He asked the man to gather them together where they had been taken from. Gregory and Shauna both started getting the people into specific groups. They had asked for specific areas and the people just instinctively understood and formed groups of their home areas. Everybody had ended into their perspective group and team began seeing in the minds, vivid places. Maria had chosen one group and saw were they had come from and sprayed them with the blue light and they disappeared. Shadowself had done the same as well as all three men. The groups kept being sent home until all that was left was Billy who had continued to sit a distance away and Gregory and Shauna. The team looked at Gregory and Shauna and asked them where they might be sent to. Gregory had been visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains and just happened to be in a small town hitchhiking his way back to Santa Fe New Mexico when he had been captured. His home was anywhere that he wanted to stay at the time. He had been born in Albuquerque New Mexico and when he became 16 he left to see the world. Both of his parents had been killed in a car accident when he was 12 and he stayed with an Aunt. She had been arrested for dealing with the underground and he lived alone for the last year before he left. Shauna was born in Nashville and lived there most of her young years until she turned 18 then left her family and moved to Huntington where she lived and worked as a school teacher for small children until she turned 23. She then hitchhiked her way towards Charleston and was captured just outside of Hurricane. Neither one of them wanted to go back where they were captured nor did they want to go to a place they had already been. They both had become close friends while in the habitat and had talked long hours about getting out and going to other places. There fondness grew tight the closer they came to being taken away because of age. The team members talked with one another about where to send these two when someone asked about the little boy.

[Lost N Found]

Billy had placed himself a distance away from the group of people and kept looking at the tall warrior and the woman that stood next to him. He wished he could grow up and become a warrior like this man. His mother had died one year after his birth and he could feel the excruciating pain of the entire experience. His father had a real hard time trying to except his mother’s death but he managed to raise Billy until he was 7 years old. Scott Depot was such a small town and he longed to see bigger cities from watching the Videos and reading books. He knew his father was doing the best he could to bring him up. His father worked the logging camps to keep the roof over their heads and he was also involved in the underground. Billy had met a lot of folks that were really good folks but he still longed to see those cities. 3 years hence is when the police raided their meager little house and killed his Dad. His Dad had taken him out the back door and hid him in the root cellar. He had lain under the potato barrels where they had kept all the secret stuff and listened to the screaming and yelling and all the gun shots. He stayed there for 3 days after the noise had quit and finally came out. When he exited the root cellar all he saw was a burnt out building that was his home. The old gas powered pickup had been burnt out and sat in a heap of smoke. Bullet holes were riddled all over it and the tires were melted. He spent two days digging through the ruins and found a few items that he put in a backpack that he retrieved from the cellar. An old pocket knife and some fishing line with some hooks and sinkers and some extra socks were found in the ruins of the house. He went into the root cellar and found a can opener and some eating utensils and then stuffed the pack with apples and other kinds of fruit and took some of the canned goods and walked to the creek behind their house and followed it to the old dirt road that lead to the main paved road that led to the main state route He meant to go to Charleston and maybe find some work. It was while he was walking down Teays Valley Road that he was captured by the men in the black clothes. He had just turned 7 and he had been here for 3 years now He was beginning to weep thinking about all of this when something bumped him in the back and almost knocked him over. He turned and the lions face was so close he was startled beyond belief.

[Lost N Found]

Arie and Chephirah had scouted the cavern and even went up the road way that let vehicles come down here. They found nothing in there travels and went back to the cavern. When they had entered Arie saw the boy sitting off to himself and knew that the child was all alone in this world. He spoke with Chephirah and she followed him to within 10 feet of the child and lay down to wait. Arie had come up behind the boy and sat on his haunches while the boys thoughts of what had happened to him came through loud and clear. When the boy began to weep, Arie moved to him and bumped him. When the boy turned Arie could see his fear and spoke into his mind “Do not be afraid I am a friend and will help you find a way” Billy sat back and then spun around and looked into Aries’ eyes. “You are the Blue white spirit that fought the fire being and was hurt” “Yes I am that spirit and you are the spirit of William are you not”? When Billy heard that his heart and mind was opened and he remembered his past. He moved and hugged the lion and stood. He turned and walked towards the crowd of people with the lion at his side. Chephirah padded up behind them and followed and then moved off to bump and rub against Shadowself.

[Lost N Found]

As the boy and the lion walked towards them everyone noticed the blue aura around the boys head. Lionhawk knew the boy/man from his past and knelt down as the boy approached. Billy watched the warrior kneel and then saw the woman kneel next to him. The cat that was next to the woman warrior sat on its haunches next to her while the cat that had followed him over went around and did the same to the man warrior. Billy stood in front of both warriors with astonishment on his face. He remembered these two people from somewhere and wondered. Lionhawk pulled a small blade from his side and presented it to the boy. The blade actually shined with the blue tint. Lionhawk spoke and said “William this is yours and I have waited a very long time to give it back. The boy reached out and with shaking hesitation took the blade. The hilt was wrapped with blue and gold leather and the blade was of fine steel about 16” long. It was double edged and the edges sparkled with sharpness. The woman spoke the same and pulled a wrist band from a pouch on her side and placed it around his arm. He would have to grow into that obviously, but with the sword or small blade and the wrist band, memories flooded into him and he sat down as his life swirled about him. Everyone watched a light engulf the boy and turn his skin into a bluish tint. This went on for a short period and then he was himself once more.

[Constance]

Jake dreamed of a boy named William.

All the unconditional love the female and male warrior had for the child evoked a light that shot forth from within the child.

Billy felt the true essence of the sword cut deeply into his heart.

The blade was engulfed in the light and in its reflection, Jake saw the destiny of the child.

He awoke, with a strange foreboding for he realised that who he saw in his dreams were his old dear friends Lionhawk and Shadowself.
But who was this child William? He had never met him before. He tried to get back to sleep to contact Nick but his thoughts kept him awake.
He pondered this child's destiny. What would be in store for all?

[Constance]

Aberdeen paced the room silently; back and forth like a caged tiger he went.

He could make neither heads nor tail of his strange new predicament for he had never stopped to think before about the true potential for self-healing.

As he paced deep in thought, he realised that there could be the distinct possibility that his heart had already been healed and that he would no longer need the placebo. Still he paced. The other two sat silently in the room waiting for a word.

When it finally came and hour and a bit later, it was one single word.

“EUREKA!” He cried triumphantly.

[Constance]

Connie’s eyes shone with happiness and relief.

She stood up and hugged Aberdeen with an intensity that surprised Aberdeen.

Nick soon joined and the happy three held onto each other tightly, for they knew that now they could finish the work that they had begun.

[Lost N Found]

Maria looked at Gregory, Shauna and Billy and asked where they might want to go, they all did not know at first but something lit their eyes and Billy was the first to speak. Can I go to the Garden, I would really like to meet, before he could finish, both Gregory and Shauna spoke and completed the names, Evelyne and Eryne. The team all smiled deeply and Maria said yes. When you arrive ask for Christine and the girls will meet you. She opened the portal to the Garden and asked them to step in our little paradise. All three stepped into the garden and the portal closed. Lionhawk had stood up and helped Shadowself up as well and said “well since you came down here to help we might as well all go up and take care of the levels above. As they all walked to the vehicle and climbed in Lionhawk had seen the front where the thing had rammed the doors and wondered if it would still run. When they climbed in Mark took his TMG and sprayed the area with light. Everything up to the vehicle became rock. Jim looked at him and asked what he had just done. Mark told him that he had sent everything from the rock wall back into the past so it did not exist anymore in this time frame. So shall we go up and take care of the rest of this mess? Shadowself started the vehicle and it did start to Lionhawk’s surprise. She spun it around and headed out of the smashed doors and over to the cave entrance of the road up to the third level.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself brought the vehicle to a stop in the garage on the third level. They all climbed out and moved towards the double doors to the corridor. Crossing the corridor and entering the corridor to the elevator they noticed that the car was coming down from the second level, everyone cloaked themselves including the lions and waited for the car door to open.

Scratchstick and wonderburn had been told to check on the area that has this world’s species transportation devices. The ones that had been assigned to operate these devices were somewhat untrustworthy and had to be looked after and kept on a leash until they could prove their worth on this important mission. The dimensional gates had been placed on many different worlds in other dimensions and the Burnsacka had conquered those places and spread their species to at least 13 different dimensions. The hot balls or stars were the places that they had to live and most places that they conquered were like this world where they had to assimilate the species until they could turn the worlds into mini stars. Burnsacka was a relatively new race of beings. They had only been around for a few million time clicks. There were far older species and the Burnsacka had yet to challenge any of them for fear of being destroyed in their quest to conquer. He and wonderburn were relatively new. They both had been created only a few thousand time clicks ago and they were not old enough to receive a true fire name. They both were part of a ruling class and as such were given this mission to gain the recognition to get true ignition on the home star. The large human species bag that he had been given made him sick but it did have more heat to its bloated bag than most. He did not like how he had to move with this bag. The two stumps of mobility below were so large that they could hardly handle the movement of the bag above which was even larger. Wonderburn had been given a bag that at least could move easier. The fire pits below were their only saving grace when they did not have to be subversive with the species. The can in the tube came to a halt and the closure opened for them to exit. They both walked into the path that led to the transportation devices.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself was standing with Chephirah by her side when the elevator door opened and she saw the rather large fat man and an average sized man step out. Both lions and she and Lionhawk’s eyes blazed with the blue white light. She had pulled her sword in preparation and it blazed also. She and Chephirah were the first to uncloak and step away from the wall. Lionhawk and Arie both waited and were ready to assist. The fat human stopped suddenly and looked at the bluish tinted sword and the eyes of the beings. He almost turned to get away when Wonderburn dropped the human bag and burned into his tube. Scratchstick dropped the large bag also and raised his arm with the fire sword and charged at the bluish lights. The tall human swung its own sword and the fire sword glanced off it.

Shadowself saw the fat human fall from the tube of fire and then the thing charged at her. She saw the fire sword blazing through the air at her and brought her own sword up and bounced it away. As she was doing this she had been moving toward the fire being and passing by the thing as their swords connected she swung her arm to the lower position and struck backward with a forward/backstab as she passed by. Her sword entered the tube of fire just above a mid section and poked through the entire tube. She pulled it back as she continued to move away from the being.

[Lost N Found]

Chephirah became a streak of blue white light as she flew through the air and landed on the tube that was moving towards her. They both fell back and hit the corridor wall just above the floor. The being was trying to throw a spear but when Chephirah hit it the spear fell to the floor and lay in a burning heap. The being then tried to wield a sword but Chephirah had bit into the things arm and it dropped the sword also. Wonderburn had never felt such pain and both of his weapons lay in a pile of fire on the floor. His second arm made a sword and he tried to bring it down on the being that had a excruciating hold on his other arm. As he was bringing the fire brand down to strike, the being bit down on his neck area and the fire brand fell from his grasp. He screeched and squirmed as the liquid fire gushed from his neck area. His essence of being shrank in on itself and he disappeared. Chephirah jumped back and turned in a flash to jump on the being that Shadowself was fighting with. The being was standing very still as it burned. Shadowself had moved past it and was turning like lightning. She came up from a crouch and stood ready to parry and thrust. She stopped and watched the tube of fire. In slow motion, the place where her sword had penetrated began to spew liquid fire from the front and the back. The horror of the next scene was the dying throws of the fire being. The sounds were ear piercing as it screamed and screeched. They all saw the dark slits of the eyes for a second before they became shooting flames. The mouth area shot flames out of liquid fire and the thing caved in on itself and disappeared. The human bodies that had been discarded crumbled into dust and then blew away.

[Lost N Found]

The smell of ozone and sulfur was overwhelming. Lionhawk and Arie uncloaked and moved to Shadowself and Chephirah. Lionhawk looked at Shadowself and checked for any wounds. She was untouched physically but she grabbed him and held him tightly. They both knew this was not over but the emotional stress was building and they had to be strong enough to finish this task. The lions were feeling the same thing and all four of them gathered together and touched minds to gather the strength needed for the coming battles. Maria, Mark and Jim felt the stress and touched their minds also to help foster more strength. The next level was going to be a hard one so as they gathered into the elevator car they all steeled themselves for the next confrontation. Shadowself, Maria and Chephirah as well as Jim were to go to the computer room and dispatch any beings and get rid of the computers. Once that was done they would meet Lionhawk, Arie and Mark on the other side of the elevator to dispatch the remaining Burnsacka in the large meeting chambers. Lionhawk, Mark and Arie would be scouting that room for how many of these beings were in there and getting ready for the battle to come.

[Constance]

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. .Jessamyn West

[Lost N Found]

When the car reached level two, Shadowself, Chephirah, Maria and Jim opened the door that led to the computer room. The corridor was not long and they all had cloaked so no one or anything could see them coming. Lionhawk, Mark and Arie opened the opposite side and saw a short corridor with two ornate doors at the end. There were two doors in the corridor and both turned out to be restrooms. The two ornate doors did not have windows in them so they knew it was going to be a touch and go situation to get in and check it all out. Fortunately on the other side, the double doors into the computer room did have windows so Shadowself had walked up and peered into the room. She saw 3 humans sitting at computer work stations and at least 5 computers. On a wall at the back of the room were monitor screens and they showed the main entrance to level one and a road that came to a hidden parking area. They also showed the road that lead to the cave at the 3rd level entrance but that was all. The humans were all sitting with their backs to the doors watching the monitors. She decided they could enter the room as long as the humans did not turn around. She pushed the door lightly and opened it just enough to let Chephirah through. Chephirah moved in and waited for the others to get in. Shadowself touched Maria and Jim both in the mind and told them to get in and move to the wall where they would be out of harms way. They both moved in and walked to a wall at the side of the room. Shadowself began to slide through the opening when a fire brand smashed into the side of the door. She dove to the floor as another one hit the door itself and splattered fire streams and sparks all over. Some of them landed on her and started to smolder her clothing. She quickly brushed them off and rolled away from the door.

[Constance]

Sitting around the campfire in the early evening, the flames crackled and rose steadily as the three fed the flames with their talk.
Nick turned to Aberdeen and asked him, “remember that time I said to you that I had a plan? If it is okay, I would like to share it with you now?”

“Okay”…began Aberdeen a little hesitantly, for he knew that in a short while, his life would probably change dramatically again as he was led on this journey. “Happy to.” He offered shortly.
Connie nodded her head in assent and got up and stretched.

“Come inside, I have something to show you...” His voice trailed off into the darkness.

Nick coaxed them onward to the house with a comedic bow and a flourishing wave of his hand.

[Constance]

He led them to the spare room in the tiny cottage that contained Aberdeen’s microscope and he then trotted off to the kitchen to procure something he hoped would give them an idea about what he was alluding to.

“Connie,” Nick called out from the kitchen, could you please switch off the light in there?”

Puzzled, Connie did as she was told and as they waited there in the dark and the silence, their curiosity grew. They felt like two children about to enter a wardrobe leading them to Narnia.

[Constance]

Nick returned to the spare room with a glass jar; the contents of which contained a strangely glowing mass of lights, suspended in a liquid of sorts. It glowed eerily in the dark and now he made his way over to Connie and Aberdeen.

“This, my friends, is called “Vibrio fischeri”, or, what is more commonly more referred to as a bioluminescent bacterium.”

“Wow.” Marveled Connie as she stuck her nose closely to the jar that Nick held, the lights sparkling and dancing in the dark.
“That is really something spectacular,” she exclaimed.

Aberdeen whistled low in his appreciation and the three stood around the jar, the silence deepening as they stood there in awe of Mother Nature.

[Constance]

With a flick of the light switch, light flooded the room and the three squinted like moles emerging from the underground.

Nick led them to the microscope and then he opened up the jar, fished out one of the glowing particles, sandwiching it between two slides before placing it under the microscopes powerful lens.

“I want you both to see this,” he gushed animatedly with enthusiasm.

“Who wants to go first?” He chimed as the two stood there expectantly.

Aberdeen pointed to Connie and grinned. “She’s the bossy one," he joked. She grinned widely back at him and put her hand up.

And as Connie’s eyes adjusted to the microscopic view of the bacterium, Connie noticed that the light had gone out in the few bacterium clumped together.

[Constance]

“Nick, it looks as if there are no lights in this bacterium?” She queried with an intense look about her. “Could you turn out the lights so that I can confirm this?” She asserted. Nick obediently switched off the light but smiled to himself.

“Nope. The lights have definitely gone out on these puppies,” she confirmed with a nod of the head as she peered hopefully into the microscope.

“Let me have a look.” said Aberdeen, playfully bumping her and then wrapping his arms around her slight figure before peering over her shoulder to get a closer look.

“Oh yes…I see what you mean Connie, there are no lights on these bacterium!” Concurred Aberdeen with firm conviction.

[Lost N Found]

Firetongue had been fiddling with the computer to help Scorchmouth fix the camera system in the cave on level three. Scorchmouth was in the room with all the electronic gear that operated the computers in this room. Firetongue had spent the last few nano time clicks working on getting the things to work. As he was moving through some screens he noticed one of the doors open through a reflection on the screen. He waited to see if it might be a breeze or something that made it move. When he realized that it was staying in the same position and not closing he knew something was wrong. He built up a fire brand spear and stood quickly and threw it at the door. He made another quickly and threw it also. The first one hit the wall next to the door but the second one hit the door close to the edge. The door then moved shut. Firetongue made another fire spear and prepared to throw it at anything that came through the door. Coalface and heliumeye both had stood by this time click and were making their own fire spears.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself had rolled behind a desk even though she was cloaked she was not taking a chance of one of the fire spears by chance making contact. Maria and Jim both had moved away from the wall and found their own pieces of furniture to hide behind. It appeared that all three beings were alert now of something entering the room and everyone had fire spears at the ready. This was turning out to be a very tricky situation. Maria and Jim both had twisted the time and space dials to send these beings to a very cold place. Maria got an idea and materialized a bucket of ice behind the couch she was crouched down behind. The bucket was not invisible so she would have to wait for the right time Chephirah new she would have to become visible to fight these beings and was waiting for the right moment to become visible as she sprang. Jim had crawled over to the wall that had the monitors on it and was watching the beings standing at their work stations and looking towards the doors. He was looking around the room when his eyes stopped on the hand held Fire Extinguisher hanging on the wall just above him. He knew these things had been outlawed back in the late 20th century but had come back somewhat after the great disaster of 2001 in New York City. He stood up very quietly and hesitated in short movements to the extinguisher. He checked out the attachment and saw that it could be removed by pulling a Velcro strap. The hose and trigger could be used in one fluid motion. He stood by it and waited for an action. It did not take long. Chephirah became visible as she leaped through the air and with her paw outstretched and the claws fully extended she swiped the first human across the back of the neck as she carried herself into the second human. The first one dropped like a rock with a deafening screech. She hit the second one and they both flew over the computer station to the floor about 10 feet away. She bit the human in the neck and it dropped the human body immediately as it screeched. The first one she had swiped dropped the human body and came up in a column of fire. It was screaming as it thrashed around and was loosing liquid fire from its neck area. As it had been hit while falling it tossed its fire spear in a hap hazard way and the spear actually hit the one standing in the front. It made contact with the back of the thigh and the being dropped its human body also. It hit the floor in a screeching agony but came back up in its full column of fire.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself watched Chephirah move and turn into a streak of blue white light as she became visible. She saw her swipe the neck of the first one and saw it go down as Chephirah hit the second one and both flew backwards. She saw the middle one throw its fire spear and how it hit the first one in the back of its leg. Flames had shot from the eyes of both and they both spit flames of large gobs as they both dropped the human bodies and then stood back up. Shadowself had instantly begun to move as she saw Chephirah leaping. When the first one had fallen from the spear in its hind leg she was halfway across the room towards it and becoming visible at the same time. She raised her sword to chop the head area of the first as it was rising. The speed of the thing surprised her but she managed to bring her sword to within a few inches of the head area. The thing had produced a fire blade of its own as it came back up in its natural state and bounced her sword to the side as it moved away. Shadowself had her own prowess and turned in an instant to deflect the fire sword. The room was becoming full of smoke and the stench of sulfur and ozone was overwhelming. The being she was fighting was loosing liquid fire from its leg that was scorching the floor and some of the furniture every time it danced around her blade. It was growing weaker but it still fought off her advances. The first one that Chephirah had hit on her way to the second one was twisting itself about and loosing liquid fire from its neck area. It had made a fire sword and was trying to reach the lion and the being that was loosing its battle.

[Lost N Found]

Maria had witnessed the entire battle so far and finally stood up with the thought of helping her companions. The being that was trying to reach Chephirah was screeching and moving erratically towards Chephirah when she picked of the bucket of Ice water and moved close enough to the being to toss the contents on it. The reaction that happened next knocked Maria to the floor and she had to roll quickly out of the way of the being as it was thrashing wildly. The noise it made caused the lights in the ceiling to start popping, Chephirah had finally gotten a solid bite into the being she was fighting and it screeched and fell limp as its fire diminished and then it disappeared. Shadowself was dodging and weaving as the column of fire threw all of its energy at her. She could feel the heat of the thing getting hotter by the moment as it pushed its way into her parries and thrusts. She was being pushed back to the wall with the monitors. It was as if the being had gained energy from the spear wound. The being that Maria had thrown the ice water on was loosing its flame rapidly, dark black spots were growing on it by the second and finally it stopped and froze in motion. Maria watched, as the thing turned completely black and begin to fall like a tree being cut down. She watched as the thing fell in slow motion. When it hit the floor it shattered into a thousand pieces and then it all began to disappear.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself had been pushed all the way back to the wall and narrowly dodged a killing blow from the being. Its fire sword had hit the wall were she had been standing and burned a large gash in a downward line. As she came off the wall she had swung her blade in a wide motion and connected with the beings sword arm. That entire piece with the fire sword fell to the floor and the being screeched loudly as it spun itself away and came up with a fire sword on its other side.
Jim had watched all the battle and had managed to retrieve the Fire Extinguisher from the wall. He primed it and was holding the thing ready when a door opened in the wall and another column of fire moved out. He saw it moving toward Shadowself and stepped in its way. The being raised an arm with a fire sword in it just before Jim rammed the end of the extinguisher into its mouth area and pulled the trigger. The Halon 1301 filled the beings mouth and kept pumping into its column of fire. The being tried to scream and screech but the fire suppressant did its job. Jim had held the bottle and hose while the entire canister emptied into the being. His clothes had caught fire and his hands and face were burned but he kept the trigger pulled. The being stumbled back with foul smelling smoke emanating from it as the suppressant began to ooze from it entire surface. . The being that was fighting Shadowself made the fatal mistake of hesitating for a split second and Shadowself thrust her sword straight into it at the chest height. The blade pushed into it like a knife through butter. She pushed it all the way through and pulled back. As she came back she pulled the blade in a downward motion and it opened the front of the column up. The being just stared at her as all of its liquid fire drained out and the thing disappeared in a rank cloud of smoke. The being that Jim had pumped full of the suppressant began to turn inside out as the suppressant fizzed and ate away like formaldehyde. The thing oozed and twisted as the entire column turned outward and then reversed itself and everything turned inward on itself and fizzed out with a pop.

[Lost N Found]

Jim had fallen to the floor and rolled to put the fire out on his clothes. He kept his hands in front of him and Maria brought another bucket of ice water and gently stuck his hands into it. It eased his pain somewhat but his face was a deep reddish and purplish color. Maria was weeping at the sight of him but he was smiling and she could not figure that one out. Shadowself was sitting on the floor trying to regain her strength when Chephirah walked over and bumped her and then sat next to her. Maria was beginning to weep louder when Eryne and Evelyne both floated down from the ceiling. They looked at every body and said “Well done my beloved. We will take you to the healing place and bring you back and no time will be done or lost. You all must complete this part and go to the others as they are about to do battle also. With that the two girls gathered the team and they all disappeared. The dream place where Carolyne and Christine had been and Carolyne had learned from the book was like a hospital and like a paradise and like a resort and there they all spent days or months or did it seem like years resting and recuperating. They all had been to a school and they all had read the books of knowledge. The love and the light had healed them of their physical and spiritual wounds then one day Evelyne and Eryne found them all resting around a wonderful little lake and told them that they must return to Lionhawk, Mark and Arie.

[Constance]

“Yes.” Said Nick with a wry grin.

“Allow me to quote Bonnie Bassler from her Tedtalk, if I may my dear ones.” He unfolded a piece of paper he was holding and cleared his throat with a loud ‘ahem.’
“What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light. What we noticed is when the bacteria were alone, so when they were in dilute suspension, they made no light. But when they grew to a certain cell number all the bacteria turned on light simultaneously. “

The most interesting part about her talk was about bacteria in general. Bacteria were only successful when the cells participated in unison. Alone, bacteria had no effect on their host but if they waited; they started to grow. Once they counted themselves and once they recognised that they were just the right number, they launched their attack together and only then were they successful at overcoming their host.”


And then Nick murmured ever so softly that he was almost inaudible, “We are those bacterium and all we need to do is unite.”

[Constance]

"Nine of us have been working on a project for some time now," crowed Nick enthusiastically.

"Bill, Carolyne, Evelyne, Jim, Christine, Mark, Maria, Eryne and myself have been working on a template for healing centres in this world that will be a natural extension of the community centres that Kyra Johnson and Arthur Curtis have been working upon.

We are pulling this idea down from the dreamland worlds we travel to and into this reality.

These will be healing centre's that accommodate all fields of natural alternative medicines, the likes of what has never been seen before. We are also sending out a call to all other medical practitioners who are sympathetic to playing a more wholistic role in helping people to self-heal.

He started to reel off a very long list of all the fields (For which dear reader, I will not bore you with, such is the number of them.)
By bringing all fields together in one place,” He paused here, “We can assist people so that they go in at one end and then come out the other end firing on all cylinders, in effect, the light will be switched on. If they are integrated on all levels of their being; clarity, inspiration and collaboration will unfold, and then we will have the strength and the numbers, just like the bacterium, to overpower our host."

[Lost N Found]

Jim was sitting on the floor and his hands tingled. He was laughing and Maria was kneeling in front of him asking if he was alright. He said he was fine and shouldn’t they make these computers go to a place that Evelyne and Eryne had showed them. Shadowself stood up and dusted herself and patted Chephirah on the head as they all began to move towards the double doors. Jim and Maria twisted the dials on their TMG’s and sprayed the computer room. They had taken care of the little room that had all the electronics first. On a lonely asteroid or a world sized ball of Ice rock a pile of computers and electronic gear was building up. This very large Ice ball had been traveling through the heavens (space) for eons and its destination was just a short time away. It had been gathering things from different dimensions for thousands and thousands of years. The ice ball was almost the same size as the star it was headed towards

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk, Mark and Arie had heard voices coming from the room. Mark had noticed that the doors were swinging slightly in a breeze from the corridor. Lionhawk could feel hot air coming from the room beyond and new that the beings were emanating the heat from the human bodies that they had assimilated. He moved to the doors and waited for a moment as the doors swung inward and pushed one just a little further and let it come back. He waited for any possible action but nothing happened. The doors kept moving in and back so he waited for the next inward motion and told Arie to be ready to go in. The door moved inward and he pushed it just enough so Arie could slip through. He let the door swing back and he and Mark moved back to wait for Arie give them some Intel of the condition and number of humans in the room.

[Lost N Found]

Arie slipped into the large room and saw right away that he was in a wide aisle or walkway that ran around a circular shaped room. When he first slipped in, the wide opening ran straight from the double doors towards the front of the large room. He had moved to the side and slipped up to the wall of seats and peered around them. He could not see any humans but he could hear them talking. He turned and crept along the wall of seats moving around the circle towards the front of the room. As he approached the front the voices grew louder. He came to another wide area and peered around the edge of a seat. The wide area ran across the seated area from side to side and he still could not see the humans. The noise of their voices was coming from the front so he crept to the next wall of seats and moved towards the center opening. Approaching that area he could here the humans quite loudly. He peeked around the seat and could only see a few humans talking. He needed to know how many were in here so looking around he saw an upper area towards the back. He crept back to the side aisle and padded up to where the doors were. On his way he saw an opening in the back wall and darted into it. The stairs led up from there so he climbed them and came to the upper area. It was lined with seats so he moved to the front area that had a wall. Once there he could barely see over the wall so he hopped up into a seat and had a perfect view of the floor level below. He took in the area down towards the front and counted about 12 humans sitting close to the front with one more sitting in a seat behind a small desk. Their conversation would become louder sometimes then it would get quiet. He spoke in the mind talk to Lionhawk and told him the entire layout and how many humans where in here. Lionhawk told him to come back to the doors area and wait for the others so they could all be in there together.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself, Maria, Chephirah and Jim entered the elevator and opened the back doors. They all saw Lionhawk and Mark standing just outside the double doors leading to a room. Lionhawk motioned for all of them to come so they all quietly walked over. Maria hugged Mark and Shadowself did the same with Lionhawk. He told them what Arie had seen in the room and how they all should take turns getting in before they began to battle with the beings. Chephirah was the first through and paired up with Arie. They both stood guard behind the back row of seats while the others got in. Shadowself was the next and as soon as she moved in she stood against the back wall and watched the assimilated humans down at the front. Lionhawk was next and when he got in he move to the opposite side of doors from Shadowself and stood against the wall also. The lions eyes were ablaze and the swords were a bright blue white tint. Shadowself’s headband symbols were lit and appeared to be spinning on the leather band. Maria moved into the room and placed herself up against the wall on Shadowself’s side. Jim and Mark were the last in and the Doors kept moving with a slight breeze of some kind. The assimilated humans at the front paid no mind to the doors moving in and out as if it was a normal thing that happened all the time. Chephirah moved to Lionhawk’s side as Arie moved to Shadowself’s side and they all began to move around the circular shaped room two on one side and two on the other side.

[Lost N Found]

Blowtorch was trying to tell the rest of the group about how to proceed with the humans in the seat of power He was telling them that they would have to bring at least 20 or 30 more of their sect through the dimensional gate and train them how to assimilate this species. He had discovered where the main power structure of humans were located and one in particular had to be assimilated and the sooner the better. By gaining control at that level they would be able to bring their soldiers through and little by little they could assimilate the warriors of this species until it would be to late for the greater population to resist them as they annulated them to prepare this world to become populated by the Burnsacka and the entire world could be transformed into a small star. Matchtoast had argued about the timing and said it was not the right time yet. They were still outnumbered and some of the ones below were still being trained on how to assimilate. He wanted to wait for a time click or two before they could make the move to assimilate the upper power structure of these human species. Lavatoe had argued that the human leader needed to be assimilated first and as quickly as possible. Blowtorch had shaken his head knowing that Lavatoe was in agreement with his assessment. Incineratore had been on Matchtoasts’ side and had hotly contested the idea of bringing any more through the dimensional gate. First of all when the gate had first been placed on this world it was much hotter down at that point. By waiting for the time clicks that they did they had lost the memory and ability to open it until some humans had done it for them. When they first started to come through it was walking into ice and that killed the first ones until they had gotten through and started moving lower immediately to keep from freezing. The gate was still in the same place and the only thing that kept the sect members alive was the black rocks that would catch fire and keep the cold at bay.

[Lost N Found]

Volcanno had been wondering where Scratchstick and Wonderburn were. They had been sent down to the bay of transportation devices early to check on the slaves that were brought through to control the mobile devices. The conversation of this assembly had been interesting of course and quite important as to the timing of their takeover of this world. Just before he had come through the gate he had been part of another discussion of the leaders. The 13 worlds in other dimensions had been able to rebel and only two were transformed into stars but had fallen apart shortly after the transformation. The other 11 had all managed to expel the Burnsacka and close the gates. What had been sent through for control and take over had mysteriously disappeared so they had lost all 13 dominions. This world and dimension had been left and rediscovered and now was their only hope of expansion. Once this world could be controlled and turned to another home like star they could then proceed to conquer the dimension. Volcanno knew that their very existence could depend on this one world and dimension. He kept thumping the human fingers on the arm of the seat he was sitting in and fretting about Scratchstick and Wonderburn. They both were so new and just because they were of royal fire both of them were given this mission even so they both were inexperienced. He had told the high order that this mission was their only hope and sending the two young idiots could cause a mishap. Blowtorch was a tool for the high order and went along with anything they said to further his own agenda. So when he Volcanno had objected, Blowtorch had told him to mind his ovens or he would have him relieved and find another that would obey the direct orders of the high order. So here they all were and something was going on that he could not get a smoke of. The two that went below were unusually late and he hoped that they were just sidetracked as young idiots would be. He decided to go out and see about finding them.

[Lost N Found]

Solarflaren was sent through the gate to warn the group. A very large ball of solid ice was heading straight for the home star. It was expected to be twice the size of the star by the time it reached the horizon event of safety. All the high command brains on the Star could not stop the ice ball. Not even the heat of the star would keep it from destroying their home star. He had been told that it would strike within a few hundred time clicks. And to warn the group that they had to speed the process up and get the world turned to a star so they could all migrate. Of course it would only be enough to keep the species alive and start a new base of columns. That is the way of the Burnsacka; even if the flames were small they could survive and build the inferno to a new and bigger group. When he came through the gate he almost expired from the coolness. Smallfire fortunately was there to take him directly to the fire area that was burning with the black rocks. Once he was somewhat comfortable he asked why they had not created the fires around the gate. They told him that the high fire columns had wanted the gate as uncomfortable as possible because they were not ready to actually receive any more from the star. The black rock surrounded the gate but if they started it to blazing the gate would no longer be stable so they left it as it was. Solarflaren told them that he must speak with the high fire columns immediately and it was very important. They asked him what the issue was but he had his orders and his information was classed only for the high column.

[Constance]

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
- Dalai Lama XIV




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y97rBdSYbkg

Aberdeen and Connie looked at each other. They could almost feel the chain reaction of empowerment exploding into reality as they envisioned the healing centre's growing and taking on a life of their own.
"We are with you Nick," they chorused in unison.

[Lost N Found]

Chephirah and Lionhawk both had watched the tall human with the black hair on his face stand up and head up the aisle towards the back double doors. Lionhawk spoke in the mind to Chephirah and asked her to follow the lone being to see where and what he was doing. She padded around the side aisle and timed the meeting of this being as he went through the doors. She moved through just as the doors where beginning to close. She watched the human walk towards the elevator car. Padding after him she barely climbed in before the door shut and the car began to move downwards. At level three the door opened and the human began to move towards the guard’s door in the corridor. Chephirah followed and stopped as the human knocked on the door. There was no answer so the human walked to the doors that led to the corridor around the large vehicle area and went through. Chephirah had been almost at his heels and went with him. They both crossed the corridor and entered the vehicle bay.

[Lost N Found]

Volcanno left the elevator can and tried the slave’s quarters, there was no answer so he moved toward the transportation device storage area. When he had gotten through the doors into the large area he stopped and looked at the wrecked device against the large doors that led to the outside. Something was definitely wrong. He saw burn marks on the floor by the transportation device and turned to go back when a blue white light that was ice cold hit him and knocked him over. Whatever it was bounced off him and moved away. He immediately dropped the human bag and came up in his full column of flame. He was almost to his peak heat when the blue white light struck again and this time he twirled and the thing and him began to swirl around and around. He was trying to create his sword flame when a very cold feeling entered him just at the ignition lighter spot below his speaker area He screeched and screamed due to the ice that was dampening his flame. His last spark of flame was the vision of the ice ball that they sent the slaves to that disobeyed the high flame masters and seeing his home world just before he froze and exploded across the ice sheet.

[Lost N Found]

Chephirah bounded off the column of fire just before it shrank into itself and disappeared. She had been singed on her belly and the smoke was roiling from her as she moved to the doors. She knew that the elevator door had been left open when she and the human had exited. So she was going back to try and go back up. When she entered the corridor to the elevator the door was closed. She could see a dial and lights above the door and the dial was moving back up towards the place she had started from. Her belly was still smoking when she lay down next to the wall and waited. In the large room above Arie was standing next to Shadowself when he felt the pain of Chephirah. He padded up to the double doors and waited for them to blow open. When they did he squeezed through and headed to the elevator. It was moving back up towards him so he waited.

[Lost N Found]

In the large room Blowtorch had noticed the back doors move more than usual. He looked at Lavatoe Fireye and Burntround. They all looked at him with a big question and as they did Blowtorch glanced at the back doors and nodded. Incineratore saw the motions and began to prepare himself. The other 7 assimilated humans caught on fairly quick that something was not right so they all begin to prepare themselves for whatever may be happening. Blowtorch kept talking but kept watching the doors with downcast eyes.

Lionhawk and Shadowself were alerted to the fact that the assimilated humans down in front had become aware of something. They both began to prepare themselves for this battle. Both lions had left the room and Lionhawk had heard the mind speak of Chephirah and her encounter with the human that had left the room. Shadowself had heard the same thing and now Arie had left and they could not hear his mind at the moment. Lionhawk spoke to the team and told everyone to wait and see what these beings were going to do before they made a move. He knew they were outnumbered and this could really get hot and sticky. He was keeping his eye on the one that seemed to be the leader sitting behind the desk. The other ones looked to be getting awful nervous for some reason and he knew what that might be.

[Lost N Found]

Solarflaren had been given a human bag to assimilate. It seemed that there was a small cage of these creatures being kept in an area that would not destroy them due to complete heat of the fire pit. They were kept just for the convenience of someone having to go up and give news to the high columns. No one could leave this area for more than what it took to get someone from the gate to the pit. Being away for more than a few time clicks would kill them without being in the human bags. His first try at assimilation had expired the human bag. So he had to wait and be given additional instruction. His second try was more successful but he only got a little way with the bag before it collapsed and expired. He could not believe how fragile this species was and wondered why they had not conquered it yet. He knew of course that this species could survive on the world were as they could not at the time without using the species shells. His third try was successful and he tried it out for some time clicks before he ventured up and found the entrance to the steps. He was told to go through the other opening and then wait for a can that came down a shaft. Take that up to a level called 2 they had told him and there you will find the high columns.

[Constance]

“I’m so proud of you.” Spoke Kyra Johnson fondly to a gathering dream crowd. She was quite a motherly figure and very tender in her approach.

“You have been persevering for so long on this dream of ours to make the world a better place and I know that some of you are exhausted with all your untiring efforts. I hope to inspire you to continue all the good work you are doing for if we are to truly live free lives on the land, we must continue to be a united front. I know that you can do it. You hold the keys. The crowd cheered and Kyra looked shyly over to Nick, who was standing by her side.

We have all had enough of destroying what is essential for our growth and evolution.

Mother Earth is our consciousness in another form and we, in the dream world, have deliberately withdrawn our support of the draining of Mother Earth’s resources.
I know that you have all been working so diligently in both worlds to find us the materials that we need to build our community centres in this country with resources that honour Mother Earth.

It is amazing what we have found sitting around in peoples sheds, lying around in empty factories, building sites and at rubbish dumps!

The Agro-forestry we have been developing in conjunction with the community centres has played an enormous role in redefining the way that people in each community live, for they now have the opportunity to grow an unlimited abundance of food for themselves and each other. Why, we have even been able to grow fibre that can make cloth and grow flowers for a rainbow of coloured dyes.

As you well know my dear friends, most people are good at heart and we need to nurture and inspire these collaborations of the heart so please continue to spread the word far and wide."

[Constance]

"Every neighbourhood who has a community centre now has access to free seeds and the access to help and advice on growing an abundance of food. We have requests from all around the country and all around the world on how to grow greenhouses that will feed a million people at a time. Imagine that!

Precious souls like you who are dedicated to showing others a lifestyle that will completely support them in living a life where they can do what they love to do is of the utmost importance and I honour you for all your work.
We all know deep in our hearts that we just can't do it without each other and this has made all the difference in the world to know that there is the support and that it has been unconditional."

[Constance]

It was then that Nick spoke.

“To keep you up to speed, if you are not already aware, Arthur Curtis, a former banker and now an advocate for the people, has recently shared with us that due to his efforts, local bankers are walking off the job everywhere.

Withdrawing our support and dismantling the need for the whole monetary system is where we are at. This is why, through your consensus, we have been working on the community centres, so that we can truly support ourselves and each other without the need for money.

I know that you are already aware of many of these things my dear friends however we are now faced with a situation where Arthur’s efforts have not gone unnoticed by those who so desperately fight to retain the status quo.

And so dear ones, we have had to use our imaginations to stay not just one step ahead but many steps.


I have been working with 8 others to help create a healing centre that is integrated into the community centre that will enable people do the healing work they so desperately need so that they have the energy and the resources to reach their highest potential and truly empower not only just ourselves but each other.
Once we have built rock-solid foundations for true self-empowerment by switching on the 72 empowerment reflexes that lay dormant within all, we will then be an unstoppable force.

Now that the community centres are springing up like weeds through the cracks in a concrete pavement, we now have the opportunity to also support those in the alternative medicine fields who wish to join us.

We are building infrastructure to support those who are not already within a community setting so that they can come and experience healing work and we are also building infrastructure that will support visiting and resident alternative healers.

Who is with me on this?" He cried and the deafening roar from the dream crowd said it all.

[Constance]

“All for one and one for all.”


― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

[Lost N Found]

Solarflaren had found the can that ran up the shaft and he had to wait for it to reach his position. When it had come a door opened and he climbed in. He pushed a button that had a mark on of 2 and the can began to move upward. He waited impatiently as the thing moved. When it reached its destination he stood at the door and waited for it to open. It would not open so he hit another button and something opened behind him. He turned and something knocked him back against the wall. The door from where the thing had come from closed and the can began to move down. It stopped almost immediately but the blue white light had a hold on his neck area. He immediately dropped the human bag and came up with a fire sword but it was too late, as the bag fell to the floor and he raise his fire sword an excruciating pain entered his being and he screamed and screeched as his fire de-ignited and he disappeared from this dimension and saw for the last time of his existence his home star in the heavens his torch had gone out and the black column shattered into a billion pieces.

[Lost N Found]

Arie had waited for the door to open and leaped at the human as soon as it did. He became visible just before the door opened and leaping he caught the being in the neck with his mouth. The Human body fell to the floor but he kept his hold on the column of fire at the neck area and bit down with a powerful crunch. The fire completely went out and the thing disappeared. He lay on the floor as the box moved. He could not tell which way it moved but the door opened and Jim stepped in He bent down and patted Arie on the side of his head and told him that they were going to get Chephirah. The elevator dropped to the 3rd level and when the door opened they both saw Chephirah lying against the corridor wall. She was breathing normal but her belly fur had been burnt and singed. Arie padded to her and bumped and rubbed her. She managed to stand up and they both got back into the elevator, the door closed and Jim pushed the button for the second level.

[Lost N Found]

Inside the large room Mark and Maria could see Lionhawk on one side and Shadowself on the other. They both had their swords drawn and were steeling themselves for the coming battle. Maria knew that they were outnumbered and even with Arie and Chephirah they would still be outnumbered. Her and Mark both looked at each other and had their TMG’s ready. Maria moved close to Marks ear and whispered, “do you remember that pond we used to go Ice skating on in the winter”? Mark shook his head and smiled a big grin. Maria kept looking at the low area where all the assimilated humans where now standing and pretending to talk the same as before. She whispered again and said “do you think that area around those beings is about the same size as that pond.”? Mark studied it for a few minutes and said “it is just a little smaller and as I remember that pond was only about 5’ deep at its deepest part. That podium and those seats would be standing in water or ice as you are insinuating if I am right. He turned his face towards her and gazed into her eyes. She was smiling and kissed him as she twisted her space and time dials. He did the same and they both waited as the beings moved towards each other into a close group.

[Lost N Found]

Blowtorch was standing in the middle of the group and gave the order to drop the human bags as he came up with a fire spear and prepared to fling it at the doors. Several things happened at once. The human bodies dropped from the 12 columns of fire, two fire spears flew through the air together and a large body of ice formed around the entire group. The ice enclosed their waist area and they all began to scream and screech. The fire spears hit the double doors and bounced back with streams of fire sparks splashing back to the seats. The seats caught fire and an archaic sprinkler system began deluging the entire rotunda. The species caught in the ice pond were all screaming and trying to burn their way loose from the ice and water and when the sprinklers cut loose all the water dropped on them. The scene was so chaotic and horrific Lionhawk and Shadowself backed up the aisles hugging the walls as fast as they could at that moment. The pond of ice had almost caught both of them within its formation. Once they got far enough in height to escape they both turned and watched the scene.

[Constance]

Out of the campfire and into this part of the world - the place between two worlds - momentarily jumped the two large tawny lions Chephirah and Arie (looking more singed than tawny), a hummingbird, the bear family, the two deers Honovi and Starbuck, a hummingbird and Yahto the nightingale. They were closely followed by a battle weary Shadowself and Lionhawk. Out of the fire also brought Mark, Carolyne, Hava and Luun, Maria, Bill, Evelyne, Jim, Christine, Maria and Eryne.
The animals were all sounding their call for all to come to the fire where they awaited Nick, Connie, Aberdeen, Nick, Molly and Jake, Deb and Rolin.
Soon enough, the others arrived and everyone was soon parked in their respective spots; a hush fell around the campfire.
“We only have a moment in this time-frame to share with you” stated LionHawk “because we are simultaneously in battle with those unearthly beings who still roam the earth, however we come here in this moment to share with you something…

[Lost N Found]

Lavatoe had been standing next to Blowtorch and had been the second one to throw a fire spear. When the ice formed around them all the excruciating pain caught them all and they could not move. Incineratore had been caught dropping the human bag but it had only barely fallen and was caught by the ice at his waist. He tried to thrash around to remove the burdensome thing but the ice stayed solid around his column and it lost its fire from his waist down. His screams were distracting for all the rest. As the same thing happened to the front line of 7 the cacophony became so high pitched that Lionhawk and Shadowself both had to cover their ears. The back row of seats close to the double doors had caught fire but when the sprinkler system came on they were put out quickly. The ice pond and the sprinklers falling on the columns of fire began to put them out. The noise was deafening and then began to lessen as the beings began to disappear. Jim, Arie and Chephirah came through the double doors just as the last of the Burnsacka disappeared. They all decloaked and stood there in amazement. Maria produced a pair of ice skates and asked if anyone was in the mood for a little skating. They all turned and looked her in abject astonishment and then they all cracked up laughing. Chephirah had lain down and was breathing heavily. Arie was bumping her and licking her. They all turned and saw her and moved as quickly as they could to her. Shadowself knelt and put her hands on the cats head. Her headband began to spin again and the symbols were blinking faster and faster. A light came from Shadowself’s hands and engulfed Chephirah. Both of them vanished for a few seconds and reappeared. Chephirah was standing up and looked like nothing had happened to her. Arie bumped her and rubbed his head against hers and they turned and walked out of the rotunda room into the corridor. The Ice pond had water on its surface and the human bodies began dissolving and the dust flew up in a swirl and looked like it melted into the ceiling.

[Lost N Found]

They all walked out of the room into the corridor and headed for the elevator. Lionhawk turned when they had reached the elevator door, stretched his hand out and pointed at the metal latches of the double doors. A blue stream of light shot forth and hit both latches. They melted together and the doors were fused together. He turned and spoke. “Shadowself, I, Chephirah and Arie must go down and take care of the beings below and close that gate forever. You three must go up and destroy the main level and make sure it will never be used again. When we are done below we will meet you at the plane”. Jim and Mark understood but both knew that it was going to be a very dangerous task below. They both had thought to themselves to go down once they had cleaned up the main floor. Maria had been thinking the same thing but she kept her thoughts to herself for the moment. Mark said “okay but you must call us by mind talk if you are being overrun, we will open a portal now to the stairwell where you can enter the pathway to the pit of those creatures. You must give us some time to take care of the upper main level before you proceed to that pit of hell. Is that a good agreement”? Lionhawk shook his head and Arie came over and raised himself placing his paws on Mark’s shoulders and bumped his face with his own.

[Constance]

Lionhawk continued. "Shadowself wrote something on a forum thread that we started a very long time ago that I will share with you now. It is just as appropriate today as it was back when she first shared it.


'Morpheus and the Ship of Dreams'

"Morpheus....the god of dreams.... was not only the god of dreams, he was a seaman. He loved the ocean mist and was at peace there always. Traveling the far ends of the earth for yet another view, yet another port. One day he happened upon a port where a woman was waiting for him. Assistance she needed... and that would be his demise in the grand scheme of things. But he fell in love with her. Her name was Iris. They played often in the ship of dreams. For he was the master of dreams called upon often to assist kings in their quest for direction.

His fated end in the hands of those that sought to destroy his travels and dreams and most of all his love for Iris. Irony played fate as he was buried in the cave where his dreams were born...with poppy fields as far as the eye could see. Keeping him asleep until one fateful day a word was uttered.... that word that would come to the ears of one who would wake him up. One who told him to remove and burn the fields to the ground.

Arise Morpheus...wipe the sleep from your eyes. Remember the ocean mists and cool salt breeze. For it is that memory that will spark the true nature of existence itself and the order of man with nature.

Work no more for the dreams of kings... be your master and live your own dream...you earned it."

He fell silent and the rest of the group quietly sat and digested this, for they knew that when LionHawk spoke, the arrow met its mark, straight and true.

And then Arie spoke..

"Sons and daughters of humankind,

“Those who seek to maintain the control over the masses do not truly realise who and what humankind really are for if they did, they would have realised that ultimately, there is no getting over and past you.
What the powers that be do not realise, and cannot realise, through their own lack of imagination and severe lack of natural intelligence is that it is through the very act of suppressing your lives and the desire to wipe you out that they cannot and will not win.
You have your very own inoculation against the disease that has plagued you for thousands of years and the answer has been hiding in plain sight.

It is something about your brain and the role it plays in your vision.

Like yourself, Lions have eyes and yet it is not actually with our eyes that we see; even though it may appear this way; it is actually our brain that sees. And how does our brain see, why through the very act of our imagination! And now you may ask yourself, where do your imaginative thoughts come from?"

[Constance]

He growled softly before continuing...

"When we do what we love to do, when we have a passion and a purpose in our lives, the imagination is stimulated greatly because we are in touch with the same part of the universe, the whole universal ganglion that is firing up and unfolding continuously. All potentials and all possibilities would have the opportunity to express themselves in a safe and positive environment at the healing centre's.
The same place that your imaginative thoughts come from are where we can draw upon the very resources that we need to activate, nourish and strengthen the brain's capacity to think outside the box so that there is the real capacity to bring about the mass changes throughout the world. These changes could all happen simultaneously once enough of you have been through this.
This is why, your roles in the healing centre's humankind, will be to assist each individual to find what it is that they are passionate about and what they feel their ultimate purpose is through the art of the imagination.
And what else feeds the imagination and keeps it firing? Why play, of course dear humans. Each must be encouraged to learn how to play again like little children. It is through play that we can learn anything our hearts desire. Play with each other; play for the sake of play; play is everything when it comes to expanding our hearts and minds."

He paused for a moment and looked straight at Molly and Jake. Molly was holding Jesse in his arms as he slept peacefully but now Jesse awoke, as if on cue.

He held out his chubby soft little arms to the lion and Molly approached.
Arie bumped Molly playfully and to everyone's shock and horror, Jesse reached out and tweaked Arie's nose. Jesse giggled with delight as if to prove a point.

They all heard a telepathic chuckle from Arie (you don't think he was a talking lion now did you dear reader's?) and everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief.

[Lost N Found]

The crew stood in front of the elevator door and opened the portal to the landing in the stairwell at level 4. Lionhawk had drawn his sword as Shadowself had done while Arie and Chephirah both stepped into the landing area. Lionhawk hugged every one and stepped into the landing. Shadowself did the same and winked at Maria. The portal closed and the three left in the corridor stepped into the elevator car closed the door and pushed the button for the main ground level. All three cloaked themselves again from the corridor experience and waited for the elevator to stop. Down below in the landing of the stairwell at level 4 Lionhawk moved to the door that led into the exterior pathway of the coal pits. His and Shadowself’s blades began to glow a little brighter with the blue light. The lion’s eyes were beginning to glow as they all stood at the door. Lionhawk spoke in the mind to all and asked if they were ready. They all acknowledged and he opened the door. The lion’s went through first and then the humans. They stood on a narrow path that rapidly sloped down. The walls were a mixture of limestone and coal. They all had become cloaked and began to move down the path.

[Lost N Found]

The elevator came to a halt and the door began to open. Jim was standing towards the front when Mark grabbed him and pulled him back into the car towards the back. When the door opened a fire spear bounced off the edge of elevator and shot sparks into the car. Maria had set her TMG for the planet Neptune which is mostly an Ice planet and as soon as she saw the being standing about 20 feet away she pressed the button and the blue beam connected to the assimilated human. The being had burnt the human arm away so it could make and throw the spear. When the blue beam hit the being it disappeared with a screech. Mark and Jim moved to the door way and jumped to the floor outside and rolled away just as another fire spear hit the side of the car where the exterior controls were located. Maria hit the floor of the elevator and rolled herself out. The fire spears kept coming at a steady rate now and they went into the car and a complete blaze of fire had piled up on the floor and the walls were scorched. The two Burnsacka that were left were standing close to the control room for the mountain side door. Both of them had dropped the human bodies and were nothing more than two solid columns of fire. They were making spears in one side and had swords on the other and began to move towards the elevator. Maria had rolled to one side and was on her hands and knees scooting away from the elevator area as the two columns were working their way towards the elevator. Mark and Jim both had rolled to the other side and were beginning to stand. Maria spoke in the mind to both and told them to brace themselves on something just as she had set her TMG on a small lake she knew of and transferred a large chunk of water into the elevator car. The water filled the car in a flash and spurted out the door in a giant fire hose gush. The water hit the two columns of fire and knocked them back towards the control room. They both let out blood curdling screams and screeches as their fire began to diminish. The water began to fill the cavern area and Maria, Mark and Jim had to prepare to swim as the water rose around them. The Burnsacka were screaming but their flame was still burning somewhat as the water engulfed them.
Maria levitated herself up towards the ceiling and floated towards Mark and Jim. They both saw what she was doing and did the same thing The lake water kept gushing out of the elevator as the three floated about 10 feet above the surface. All three of them set their TMG devices and turned the water into Ice. The screams and screeching almost deafened them at that point and then there was silence and it was very cold. The elevator was a solid block of ice and the entire cavern was a lake of ice. There were two burned holes in the ice and the burn marks scattered out like a starburst at each blackened hole

[Lost N Found]

Yellowfire had been sitting at his station when the warning signal had sounded at his computer. Blowtorch had pressed the panic button under his desk in the high columns room down below. He had sent Hotstretch out to defend the area while he and Sparkles secured the outside and the transportation device area below. He tried to warn all levels but level four was nothing but static, Level three was not responding to anything either so he tried level two and its computer controls, all he got was the same as level four. The fire pit down below level four was useless the only way to get messages down there was to deliver it manually. He and Sparkles set everything and locked the systems. Looking through the window area into the cavern they saw Hotstretch burn the human bags arm off and throw a spear at the elevator. The door was open but he could not see anything or any body. He saw Hotstretch throw another spear and then he saw a faint blue light and Hotstretch disappeared. He told Sparkles to drop the human bag and join him in the cavern. They both became their organic selves of pure columns and both created fire spears as they went through the door into the cavern. They began throwing the spears at the elevator when all of a sudden high volumes of water gushed out at them. They both were knocked back and struggled to stand up. The water was rushing so fast and so powerful it was difficult to continue standing Yellowfire had tried to connect his flame with Sparkles which would double their power and perhaps turn the water into steam. He was making some headway towards Sparkles when the water turned to Ice. The pain of it all completely overwhelmed him. He began screaming and screeching louder while Sparkles had already been screaming from the water. He noticed Sparkles flame sputtering and the ignition was dying. The last site he saw was his home star as he lay on an ice world and blew completely apart.

[Constance]

Arie motioned to Molly and Molly placed Jesse upon Arie's back.

With an iron grip, Jesse held onto Arie's mane. Arie let out a roar and with his powerful hind legs leaped back into the fire taking Jesse with him. The last sound that everyone heard was Jesse squealing with delight.
The others followed.




Children of Paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UGsuM3xEhw&feature=youtu.be

[Lost N Found]

And the children dreamed and the fire was warm.

[Lost N Found]

The water had stopped flowing from the elevator when it all turned to Ice. The three watched the scene unfold with on edge alertness. When the beings of fire went out and disappeared they relaxed some what. Jim floated over to the area of the room behind the glass windows and looked in. The three computer work stations were almost under the sheet of ice as the water had flooded into that room also and then turned to ice as the cavern did. He set his TMG for the place that Evelyne and Eryne had given all of them and began shooting the blue light beam into that room. The ice and every thing in it disappeared. All three of them did the same in the cavern and all the ice and the concrete floor disappeared and all that was left was the original dirt and rock. The elevator car was left empty with the door standing wide open. Mark fiddled with something and the lights went out inside the car. It seemed that all the power was shut down to that object. The car shifted and dropped down and stopped so the opening was only half of what it was. Maria, Mark and Jim looked at each other and Maria opened the portal to the 4th level stair landing and they all stepped into the landing. Just before stepping into the stair landing Mark had started a process of the ceiling caving in but kept it in check until he stepped back here and gave it the old heave hoe while he would be stepping out and next to the plane. He did not know when that would be but hoped it would be soon.

[Lost N Found]

On the Ice ball that was huge and bigger than the star it was headed for, a patch of more ice showed up with many objects imbedded into it and rested with all the other objects that were piling up on this side of that ball. The closer it got to the star the more speed it gained due to the gravitational pull.

[Lost N Found]

Arie and Chephirah had taken the lead and padded down the path well out in front of Lionhawk and Shadowself They both meant to see what was up ahead and what they were headed into. The path kept twisting and turning on a steady downhill slope. In some places it almost fell straight down and the lions had to jump to the next level to stand and walk downward. The further down they went the bluer their eyes became and the air grew hotter. They both stopped short from pure instinct where the path was gone. Arie peered into the dark hole but could not see a bottom. So far there were lit torches along the walls but this area did not have a torch and further down the path way they could see a torch but it was far enough away that they could not see the other side of the hole. They talked with each other in mind and Arie decided to jump the chasm He was getting ready to do just that when Lionhawk and Shadowself came around the last bend in the path and stopped. Lionhawk was carrying a torch and stopped Arie just in time. Arie stopped and waited for both of them to approach.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk approached the chasm and held the torch over it. The distance to the other side was only about 10 feet. There was a ledge about 5 feet from the top on the far side that looked as it it could hold 1or 2 people and it jutted out over the chasm around 4 or 5 feet. Looking into the chasm no one could see the bottom, all they could feel was a very hot air rising from somewhere below. Lionhawk then asked Arie if he could make the jump and Arie without warning ran the little distance he was from the edge and flew threw the air and landed on the far side. He turned and spoke to Lionhawk and said “yep as you humans would say”. Chephirah smiled to herself inside while she backed up and ran to the edge and leapt over to Arie. Arie looked at Lionhawk and Shadowself and said “your turns”. Shadowself and Lionhawk both were fairly nimble and had been jumping over creeks and all sorts of things on their property for quite some time now so the leap over this short distance did not seem at all to hard for them. Shadowself was first and walked back about 15 feet and ran like a deer and cleared the edge. In slow motion the jump she performed was a work of art as she sailed to the other side. When she landed it was a thing of beauty. Both lions let her know just how graceful her leap had been. Lionhawk knew how graceful and nimble she could be and was not worried. He knew he could make the jump also but his eye had caught a gleam of something on the ledge and he wanted to retrieve it before they moved on. He actually jumped to the ledge from his standing position, picked up the object and grabbed the top edge and pulled himself up. Shadowself snickered and said “showoff”. They all turned and moved down the path.

[Lost N Found]

As they continued down the path the heat started to become unbearable. The two lion’s coats were completely wet at this point. The path became wider and they could hear crackling in the distance that became louder as they closed the distance to the fire pits. They had been walking for about 30 minutes or more when they came to an open cavern. They all stopped and peering into the open area, to the far left of their position was a cage with some humans in it. They all were lying on the floor of the cage and it looked like they were not breathing very well. They did not have much clothing on and it was no wonder as the air was quite hot. Chephirah approached the cage to see how many humans were locked in it. She walked up and a dog raised its head and gazed at her. Its eyes where glazed over and it looked like it was sick. Arie padded up next to her and they both looked at the dog. The dog tried to bark but the only thing that came out was a low whine from a very parched throat. Arie spoke into the poor creatures mind and made contact. He told the dog that they would get him and the others out. The dog tried to wag its tail but it was so wasted from the heat and no water that all it could do was scoot crawl a very short distance. Lionhawk and Shadowself had both walked over and tears were running from Shadowself’s eyes as she began to read the minds of the people.

[Lost N Found]

Martin had been the first to feel something was up when his dog Rocky had moved and whined. He watched him scoot and crawl a little ways towards the side of the cage. He could see his tail trying to wag. He glanced toward the area that Rocky was looking but could see nothing. He reached over and laid his hand on Rockies head and patted him. Rocky turned and licked him but his tongue was so dry it scratched across Martin’s hand. He was so sad for Rocky that he welled up some tears but even those would not come easy in this hell heat. He scooted closer to Rocky and laid his arm over his shoulder area. Rocky looked at him with big sad eyes and lowered his head to the floor all the while looking back toward the Lions and two humans that just walked up.

[Lost N Found]

Martin thought back to when they had been captured or kidnapped and brought to this place. He had been riding his mountain bike on some back trails and Rocky was running and exploring whatever he could find. As he came out of the woods and hit the back road that led to his house, there was a black Humvee with a trailer cage attached to the back. He could not see the trailer completely but he heard someone yelling at him telling him to run. He slammed his brake and spun the bike around and started to peddle away. Rocky was standing his ground and barking like crazy. He stopped and called but two black suited humans snagged Rocky and dragged him towards the trailer. He was not going to let someone take Rocky so he turned the bike and raced back. He ran into the first one and knocked him over and it flipped him from his bike. The other one that still had Rocky by his collar pulled a stick or something from his waist and swung it at him. He ducked and came up swinging. His round house swing caught the human on the side of his head and knocked him side ways. He let go of Rocky and the dog attacked the other one that was starting to get up from the ground. Rocky flew through the air and caught the human on the arm and knocked him back down. Martin started to turn to finish the other one when all of sudden something hit him and shocked him to the ground. His last sight was them doing the same thing to Rocky. He heard Rocky let out a yelp and then everything went dark. When he woke up he was lying on the floor of this cage and it was so hot he could hardly breathe. Rocky was lying on his side hardly breathing and he thought that the dog might be dying. He began to notice other people around him and they were moaning and carrying on like they were in pain. Something came up to the edge of the cage and slid some buckets through a hole in the bars. One of the other humans scooted over and picked up a dipper and began to drink. When everyone saw what was happening they all moved to the buckets and began to drink.

[Lost N Found]

Martin got up on his hands and knees and crawled over to the buckets. Someone held a dipper out and handed it to him. He filled it, stood up and walked wearily over to Rocky and bent down, raised his head and put the dipper up to his mouth. The dog started licking and then lapping the water. He took most of it and then Martin took a small sip and finished the rest, the water was hot but it was water and that is all that mattered at the moment. He walked back to the buckets and filled the dipper once more and took some more sips before handing it to another human next to him. The poor women took it and drank heavily. He reached down and held the dipper so she would not drink to fast. It could be dangerous to do that in so much heat and lack of fluids.

[Lost N Found]

It had been 7 weeks since he was brought here and they all were barely surviving with the meager water and scraps of food that were put into the cage at few and far between intervals. They could hear the noise of fire crackling and voices. The voices did not sound like humans and they all huddled together and discussed the connotations of that. Three days ago or as far as they could tell was a very frightening day for all and three of the people had been taken, Two had died of horrible deaths and the third had become something else altogether. They had been sitting around waiting for the water buckets and the scraps of food stuff when from a distance down the cavern two columns of pure fire appeared to be floating towards them. They all moved to the center of the cage and tightened the group as these things moved closer. The heat became unbearable; Rocky tried to bark but could not due to the dryness and heat. One cooled down as it came close to the cage and opened up the door. The thing came in and two people fainted as it approached. The flame turned black and it grabbed the first human. The poor soul began to scream as he was dragged out. They heard his screams as he was taken out of sight. After awhile the screams grew quiet and silence prevailed for a few hours. Not long after the first encounter the two columns of fire showed up again and the same procedure happened again. The second man screamed and screamed and was dragged away. As before the screams continued and then everything was quiet. After that it was about 4 hours or so when the columns of fire came floating back. As before the one that came into the cage turned blackish and moved to the crowd. Everybody was crying and bunched together. The creature started to grab the closest young kid and he took off running to get away. Martin watched the kid run around to behind the group. The creature reached out with a flash and grabbed the next man. The man tried to squirm loose but the creature slung him around and threw him out the door where the other one was standing. Martin watched in horror at the next thing that happened. The creature outside the door had caught the man and began to melt into him. From Martins view it looked like the thing just became the man. Sure enough within just a few minutes the man was all that was standing there. The other creature walked from the cage closed and locked the door and it and the man walked off towards the end of the cavern where the two creatures had come from. Every body stopped sobbing except a few of the women and sat back down on the floor. Today is when he had seen the man walk up the cavern and continue past where they were and leave the cavern at the upward far end

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk had heard the thoughts in the minds of the people and knew that they all had given up and they were expecting to die at anytime in the hands of the fire creatures. He and Shadowself began to speak to them in their minds telling them that they should not give up and that they could go back to their homes. Martin had heard the thoughts in his mind so he stood up shakily and asked in his own mind who was talking to them and where they might be. Rocky whimpered and tried to stand also. Lionhawk had walked to the inner side of the cage away from the open cavern and decloaked himself. He stood just away from the bars and whispered in an audible sound saying “I am here” Martin turned and saw him. The man’s eyes were blazing blue light and he was holding a sword that was also blazing blue light from the blade. As he watched the man a mountain lion became visible standing next to him. The Lion’s eyes were ablaze with the same blue white light. Martin walked the best he could over to the bars and asking in a very quiet voice “who are you”? “My name is Lionhawk and this is Arie, we are here to save you and send these beings back to where they came from”. Rocky had risen and walked shakily also, over to the bars next to Martin. The Lion came close and looked intently at the dog. They both stood and stared at each other. Lionhawk then said to Martin. Think of where you were when you were taken. Martin began to think of the path and the road where his bike was and saw the man holding something in his hand that looked like a flashlight. The man pushed a button and a blue white beam came out. Martin stood next to his bike that was lying on the side of the road and heard Rocky barking all of a sudden. He turned and looked at the little creek that was running beside the road and saw Rocky splashing around in it. A large fish jumped out of the water and Rocky snagged it in his mouth and came ashore to the bank, ran up and dropped it next to Martin. Martin looked at his bike and it still had the pack on the rear rack. Rocky ran back down to the creek and drank deeply before jumping back in. Martin walked down towards the creek and found an area that was semi level and built a fire. As he got the fire going and then began to clean the fish Rocky caught another fish and brought it to shore. He lay down and watched Martin clean it also and pull some foil from his pack with some butter he had. He took the fish and wrapped them up with butter and stuck them into some hot coals of the fire. They both ate a real decent meal that afternoon and drank clear cool water to their fill and after resting, they both headed down the road for the cabin where they lived.

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In the cavern after Martin and Rocky had been set free, Shadowself and Chephirah both decloaked themselves and began sending the people back to where they had been kidnapped. Once the cage was empty, they sent it to a favorite place in Denver Colorado. Vinnie had gotten the bars dismantled from the last fiasco and still could not figure out where they had come from. He was sitting in his penthouse office when bars showed up in that room and lined the office. He jumped up with a scream and screeching mouthful of vulgar curse words and rushed at the double doors to the office. He had taken his gun out and began shooting the walls and windows again. The secret service men that used to sit in his office had moved out and down the hall for their own safety. They heard the gunshots once again and knew something else had happened. Both of them vacated their desks and dove into a secure room. Vinnie ran at the bars blocking his doors and thought he would kick them aside. When he reached them and kicked out his shoe caught fire from the heat off the bars. The damn things were almost red hot. He kicked his shoe off quickly and watched it burn. He was standing so close to the bars that he began to sweat profusely. His clothes were soaking and he looked as if he had just fallen into a pool of water. He continued to empty his weapon into the walls and blow the windows out while screaming for his security team. He stood there screaming when the fire suppression system cut loose and it began to rain on him. He fell to the floor and began to weep in desperation. All the people outside of his office were snickering but kept moving away and going to their own safety.

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After the people had been returned to their lives and the cage had been sent to the emperor. Everyone re-cloaked themselves. In the invisible mode the blue white light was almost blinding. They were standing together and getting ready to move towards the end of the cavern where it apparently entered the fire pit area. Just as Arie started to move a fire column came around the corner and stopped. It screeched when it saw the cage and the people gone. It turned and disappeared around the corner; the team spread out. Lionhawk and Arie moved to one side and closer to the down hill side of the cavern while Shadowself and Chephirah moved to the far side and forward toward the pit area. Arie had padded close to the entrance of the pit area and peered around the edge of the rock cliff and saw the fire pit. It was full of fire with a lava lake. The beings were carving the black rock of the walls and the ceiling area and adding it all to the lake of lava. He watched them leave the lake and jump to the ceiling and the side walls to scrape the black rock and then dive back into the lava lake. He saw roughly about 7 of the columns all toll. The one that had come into the cavern was rushing back to the lake and screeching something to the rest and that made eight. They all stopped what they were doing and rushed to the edge of the lava lake. Arie saw them come ashore from the lake and began to move towards the cavern where the team was.

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Arie turned and headed back to where Lionhawk was standing. He warned everyone through his telepathy how many were coming and that they should lure them further away from the Lake of fire, the further the better because their strength flowed from that fire lake. They all moved back at that point and reached the upper end of the cavern. Lionhawk had told them that they would have to let them get to this point of the cavern so the power would be reduced somewhat and then they would attack them. They all agreed and waited as the fire columns came around the edge of the cavern and moved to where the cage had been.

[Constance]

Honovi led the large pack of animals across the arid planes and still they followed.

A man also walked, ran or trotted beside Honovi.

His name was Jonathan and the pink-eyed mouse permanently stationed upon his right shoulder, chattered to him all the while, offering Jonathon nibbling little love-kisses every now and then.
Jonathan also had a bat that nestled in the folds of a trouser pocket. "Batty" as Jon so affectionately called her would come out at night and fly around him as they continued to walk under starry skies.
Jonathan's mild blue eyes betrayed a love for animals. He affectionately and tenderly chatted to this creature or that as they made their way through countless lands.
He had an affinity and fascination for animals which had been with him for as long as he could remember.
He was drawn to the large pack like a moth to a flame. One night, a large lioness, Chephirah had appeared to him. They had played and wrestled in his dream. She had licked and rubbed her face against him and he responded in kind.
She told him where to find the animals. She said that they would help establish the new healing centre's because their presence was so vital for the healing of his kind.
He felt the spirit of Chephirah now as they trudged through the night and he called out her name. It echoed throughout the lands and she heard him and responded with a roar.

[Constance]

Jon had found Batty one mid-summers evening lying in pain on the ground, under a tree. Someone had foolishly taken a slingshot at late dusk and shot her down, mid-air. Her soft leather-like wing had almost been shredded but under Jon's loving care, her wing had fully recovered.
Batty had not left his side ever since then and she now called to him in the night air with her bat blips and squeaks. Jon responded to her unique call with his own unique bat squeak and Batty was reassured and comforted. He had developed the senses and keen hearing of a bat and what was mostly inaudible to others was loud and clear to Jon. He could recognise Batty's cries like a mother can sense her own newborn cries.

[Constance]

Batty had a wrinkly pouty muzzle and incredibly alert eyes.

Her fur felt as soft as down and he gently stroked her now as she settled back into the warmth and safety of Jon's trouser pocket.

Dawn was breaking and it was time for the animals to get some rest.

Those who were able stood guard over the other sleeping animals. The nocturnal animals fell into a deep sleep. The little ones, were very tired and rested on the larger ones.

It was such a tender sight to see and Jon was greatly moved by their protectiveness.

[Lost N Found]

Smallfire had come into the cavern to throw the food scraps to the human bags. When he saw the cage and the bags gone he became very alarmed and moved back to the home ground of the lake to inform his sect. There were only 8 of them down here waiting to have the gate opened so they could help the horde expected to swarm through when the time was ready to take over this world and its species. Up above there were a bunch of the bags to assimilate. The cage down here had just a few to assimilate so they could move up without dying from no heat to keep the life force of fire burning. Assimilating into the bags kept them alive. When this world was completely conquered then they would start the chain reaction to turn it into a livable star. Once that was accomplished then they could begin to conquer the universe in this dimension. Smeltereye and Kelvinhead were the most experienced columns and were in essence the true commanders on this world. The high columns up on the 2nd level were nothing more than slag from the home star. Their kind had brought the home star to its close demise and the sparks in their beings were nothing more than small pilot lights that often blew out. All the other dimensions and worlds that had been conquered were now free from their dominion because of these slag heads.Solarflaren had told him all this when he came through.

[Lost N Found]

When he had discovered the missing cage with the human bags he immediately knew that the human bags may be invading this domain. He quickly informed the others and they assembled to fight off the attacking force. They left the lake and moved into the cooler cavern and did not see anything that might be an invading force. Pilotneck and Melteriron both wanted to go back to the lake. Smeltereye moved to Pilotneck and cuffed him hard enough to knock some flame to the ground. “You are a coward, you will obey my order or you will be put out and sentenced to the Ice planet of wurmster, do you understand”? Pilotneck moved backward glowed less saying yes sir. Flickerstick, Lighterfluid and welderburn kept their speakers shut. Smeltereye then directed them all to move toward the higher part of the cavern. They all obeyed and moved that direction. When they had come to end of the large cavern and stood in front of the narrow pathway to the upper levels they all stopped. Pilotneck and Melteriron both hesitated to enter that narrow path. Pilotneck said “we cannot venture up there without the human bags or we will die”. They both turned to run back to the safety of the lava lake. When they turned and began to run, Smeltereye made a spear of fire and threw it at Pilotneck. It hit him and stuck through protruding from his front column. Pilotneck screamed and fell to the ground. Liquid fire ran from him and like streams of molten steel ran away from his column until he turned black and disappeared. Melteriron stopped short and turned just in time to get another fire spear through his chest area. He screeched and screamed and liquid fire shot from his mouth and eyes. His column began to fade as the fire poured out and onto the ground. His complete flame fizzed and popped and he disappeared. Smeltereye looked at all the others and asked if anyone else was in the way of deserting. All the others did not speak. Smeltereye then turned to move up the path.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk and the team watched all that had transpired and knew that now was the time to attack before they got into the narrow path. There were only 6 left and he thought that would be even odds at this point. Arie was the first to strike. He decloaked as he flew through the air and caught the first one in the neck and knocked the thing to the ground. Flickerstick screamed as he hit the ground and shook the blue white light free. He jumped up and ran back toward the lake. Arie flew through the air in a blue white streak and caught the fire column from the rear and they both hit the ground and rolled forward. Arie had gripped the column at the neck area and when they hit the ground he had bit down with a powerful crunch. The being screamed and screeched once again and the fire flickered out as the thing disappeared. Chephirah was next and leaped at the next one in line as Arie was tackling the last in line. Lionhawk and Shadowself both decloaked at the same time and waded into the remaining four.

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Lighterfluid had watched Flickerstick get knocked down by the blue white light and stood frozen in place as the blue light flew through the air and hit Flickerstick the second time and watched him disappear. He turned and ran towards the lake of safety when another blue white light knocked him down. He hit the dirt and tried to twist away. An ice cold pain ran through his pilot and he screamed just before his last vision was the home star and a very large object moving through the heavens at his home world.

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Smeltereye, Kelvinhead, Welderburn and Smallfire all saw the blue white lights attack the members of their sect and watched them disappear. Two humans materialized around them and came at them with blue lights that hurt their beings. Kelvinhead had made a spear while watching the blue light beings take out the members of the sect. He was getting ready to throw it when the humans had materialized. He redirected the spear and released it at one of the humans while making a sword. The spear grazed the taller human on the side of one of its legs. The human stopped and bent down but came back up with amazing speed. Kelvinhead was getting ready to slash with his sword when a blue ice beam took off his top speaking and pilot light. The column dropped to the ground and turned into a black pool and then turned into a solid rock of obsidian. Lionhawk had felt the burn on his right leg but ignored the pain as he swung his sword into the bigger column. The thing swung upward with its sword of flame and blocked his sword. The sparks flew through the air as both danced around. Shadowself had dispatched the column that threw the spear at Lionhawk with a powerful slash to its upper area. A large chunk fell off to the ground as the rest of it fell into a black pool and turned to solid rock. She moved through her swing and turned to block another fire sword from the one behind the one she had just dispatched. She had to dance away as the being brought its other sword at her in a thrust movement. Lionhawk moved to the side and twisted just in time to keep from being chopped by a fire sword. As he twisted he slashed through the other being that was trying to cut him. His powerful slash cut the column in half as he danced away. The column collapsed into two pieces and also turned into a black pool of solid obsidian. Smeltereye had two swords of fire and ran at Lionhawk swinging both in a high ark. Lionhawk saw what was coming and with a quick movement bent down to his knee and thrust his sword up and straight as the creature moved toward him. His sword struck true and went completely through the being as it pushed at him. The being screamed and screeched and stood perfectly still, while Lionhawk’s blade poked through its mid section. Lionhawk watched its facial area and saw the being look directly at him. The eyes formed and were full of fire for a short moment as it acknowledged the superior movement of the warrior in front of it. The fire dissipated and the being dissolved. Lionhawk stayed kneeling and saw Shadowself twist and thrust her sword at the remaining being. The thing tried to slash at her but was stopped by her blade as it melted into its midsection. The beings fire went out and it disappeared.

[Lost N Found]

Arie and Chephirah were both singed but other than that they were both unharmed. Lionhawk felt the burn on his right leg but he knew he could make it to complete the mission. Shadowself was unharmed physically but in her spirit was a wound that would have to be healed but for now she needed to complete this mission with Lionhawk and the two lions. They were all connected in the spirit and it gave her more comfort than anything. Lionhawk did not know which of the tunnels from the fire pit led to the gate location but they did want to bury this lava lake They were all sitting around catching their breath and thinking about the next move when Mark, Jim and Maria came walking out of the narrow passageway. They walked up to the team and sat down with them. Maria produced a bucket of cool water and they all began to drink. She kept it full so all could get their fill. Lionhawk asked what they were doing down here and they all looked at the four with sheepish grins and merely said. We came to help.

[Lost N Found]

Shadowself started to say something but was caught off guard when Hava and Luun suddenly appeared. William was standing next to them and he looked like he had grown taller and older with more maturity. He walked to Lionhawk knelt down and presented the sword blade that Lionhawk had given him “This dear brother was made for this occasion. It was given to you for safe keeping of which you gave it back to me for safe keeping while you battled the beings that came here to enslave and destroy this dimension. This key has passed through the ages of your ancestral family to be given back at this very moment for you to close a gate. This key was made many eons ago when the gate was first placed on this world. The key was the only thing that could close and finally destroy the gate but it had to be used by one such as you. The gate was buried and forgotten by the race of beings that created it. The key was hidden and passed into the future by your ancestors”. William held out the blade and it glowed with blue light just like the two swords that Lionhawk and Shadowself possessed. The major difference was the ruuns on the blade. They glowed with a brilliant golden shine. Lionhawk had not seen these in all the time that he had kept the blade. He looked up at Shadowself and the headband she was wearing had the same ruuns on it and they were lit up in the same manner. She smiled at him and walked over to him and sat next to him. He continued to examine the blade and saw more differences. One edge had fine notches in it and as he looked closer the notches grew in depth until they did look like some sort of key. Shadowself reached into her pouch that she carried and pulled out a vial. She opened it and stuck her fingers in and came out with some salve on them. As she looked at her twin flame she rubbed the salve on the burn of his right leg and it almost immediately began to heal itself.

[Lost N Found]

Arie and Chephirah both stood and walked to the two as they sat looking at each other. Arie began to bump and rub Lionhawk as well as Chephirah did. They bumped and rubbed both and then backed up Hava and Luun touched both and they were gone. Everybody had a question of what just happened. Hava spoke to them in their hearts and minds and told them that the two Lion spirits had much more to do yet in this world but for now they must be given the dream healing time out of this world. Chephirah is to have children and they will continue to unite the animals with humans. These children will be with the Children of Paradise and that is spreading over the world.

[Constance]

The souls within the dreaming healing centre were extremely excited. For some, it was the first time and an honour to meet the two brave souls and for others that knew Chephirah and Arie, it had been a long time coming.

The two lions had stood at the front of the doors waiting patiently like all cats do to be let in; the two paused, lingered and sniffed at the doors in order to adjust their energies.

[Constance]

William was highly adept at teleportation and as he leaped from one part of the world to another, a displacement in the atmosphere created only a slight ripple in the air followed by a short sharp burst of sound.

Batty was the first to pick up on it and she awoke from her slumber, her wings shuddered in response to the ultrasounds in the air close-by.

“What is it girl?” whispered Jon to Batty gently.

Batty gave one squeak and William now stood before Jon, sword glinting in the morning sun.

“Will-i-am at your service,” Spoke the young boy to Jon. William bowed and Jon responded with a nod of the head.

“I’m very glad you are here William, I have heard about you through the dreamland networks and I heard that you are an animal communicator.

[Constance]

The young eyes shone with love as they looked beyond Jon to the throngs of animals either sleeping or on watchful alert.

He could see and feel the greetings from each of the wakeful ones and he could see the dreams of each sleeping animal.

Some were having nightmares of being separated from their families, some dreamed of eating, whilst others played and communicated with other animals in their dreams. The rhinoceros, such a social creature, dreamed of meeting other rhino's they had never met before, such was their curiosity for other creatures of their kind.

Animals are so acutely aware of others in their midst and some now approached William with great curiosity. The great matriarch of the elephant family; Yasar, moved towards Will slowly and surely. She greeted him with trumpeting sound she usually only reserved for other long-lost family members.

[Lost N Found]

Hava had opened Lionhawk’s mind to the location of the gate by giving him the knowledge and wisdom to read the ruuns on the blade. The ruuns on Shadowself’s headband had one more that was not on the swords blade and when he read that one he knew exactly where to go and what to do. Once Shadowself had applied the salve to his leg he began to feel the energy returning to his spirit and physical being. He stood abruptly and pulled Shadowself to her feet. He hugged her and kissed her passionately and they were standing in front of a semi large crowd of folk. The lions were standing next to him and his team with some of the other folk he knew. He began to talk about dreams and brought the story of Morpheus and the ship of dreams to this campfire. He was holding Shadowself tightly and said that it was a story that she had placed into another campfire awhile back. When he had finished this story, Arie had begun to talk and told these folk about play and their imaginations. There was a small baby that was placed on Arie and they all jumped through a portal back to their own campfire. He turned and kissed Shadowself once again. He knew that he and all the team had entered the dream network. He sheathed his long sword and held the short blade out and it pulled him like a water witch would.

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The team watched as Lionhawk and Shadowself moved toward the area where the lava lake was located. Halfway there they turned and took a side tunnel that no one had noticed until just now. Hava caught everyone’s attention and told them that Lionhawk and Shadowself would have to go this one alone. It was their destiny to complete. She opened a portal and Mark, Maria and Jim found their selves standing next to the plane. Hava and Luun materialized with William and told them to take the plane to Charleston and pick up a woman by the name of Nancy, she would be waiting for them at a private landing strip outside the city. Hava gave the directions and they all piled into the plane. Maria asked about Lionhawk and Shadowself. Hava told them that the two would be alright after their mission was complete and that they all would see them again in the near future. The plane climbed into the sky as the sun was rising in the east and headed towards Charleston.

[Lost N Found]

At the lava lake below, Hava, Luun and William stood looking at the fires burning. Hava moved her hand and the lake disappeared leaving nothing more than coal rocks. The ceiling began to fall in small chunks and then larger chunks and the entrance to the cavern caved in and totally blocked the cavern and in the cavern the ceiling was caving in also. The pathway to the stairwell above became solid limestone and the stairwell disappeared into solid black rock and limestone. The entire cavern and city of level four turned to Solid Mountain. The elevator to the upper levels disappeared and became an old mine shaft shortly before it caved in on itself. Hava, Luun and William stepped into the garden just before the mountain began to reclaim its natural self prior to the mining operations of the late 1800’s.

[Constance]

With the tip of her trunk, Yasar lovingly touched Will’s small nose. She snorted and Will laughed with delight. She curled her trunk around Will’s neck and drew her to him.
After some time of holding him this way, she let him go and with that slow shuffling movement of the wise and elderly, she moved over to the shade of a large tree to talk with Will.
She told him that the large hairy man named Keltor who lived up in the hills was waiting for them. He would provide all the animals with food and shelter until they were well-rested. Animals are no strangers to balance and the large hairy ones were no different.
Will was very familiar with the Sasquatch for they often communicated with him telepathically and he was keen to meet Keltor, for he didn’t know this being.

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Vinnie was standing at his big windows that overlooked the lake that he had made when he first took over this building as his new capital. He had the bars removed from his office and the bars had been removed from around the capital building and he was still trying to figure out what had been happening to him. The large alligator had been a very frightening thing and he gave strict orders that no one would speak of him peeing himself over that incident. He told them all that if anyone said anything he would find out and that person would be executed on the spot. Everyone knew that this man was insane but they were all afraid to do anything. Vinnie knew this and used it to his full advantage. The chicken guards or secret service agents had all moved out from his office after the last fiasco of him shooting the walls and window. Just when he had everything patched up those rotten bars showed up inside his office. He had put 28 rounds in the walls and blew the windows out once again. The work crew still had not completed the work this time but at least he had windows back. As he was looking at the lake and the trees around it the trees all of sudden caught fire and exploded. The lake turned into a raging lava fire and all the people around it were running and screaming. Vinnie picked up a heavy metal chair and threw it through the window. The glass shattered into a thousand pieces and Vinnie was screaming. He ran out of the doors to the corridor and began to shoot at anything that moved. One of the security agents pushed a desk chair at Vinnie and it hit him square in the legs knocking him over. Vinnie hit the floor and rolled to the side. Hs stood back up and tried to shoot one of the secret service men when the taser tips entered his back. He lost his gun as he shook and jerked around and peed himself and fell to the floor and lost consciousness. The secret service men both looked at each other and began to make up a story. Vinnie was hauled off to a hospital and put into ICU. Meanwhile the lava lake burned and became a new wonder for the capital building.

[Lost N Found]

As Lionhawk turned into the tunnel, the short blade glowed and the ruuns began to blink on and off. Shadowself’s headband was bright with blue dazzling light and the ruuns were rotating around. They both walked for what seemed like hours but in reality only about 20 minutes. As they continued to walk the ruuns got brighter and moved quicker on Shadowself’s headband and the gold got brighter on the sword. The path kept dropping stepper and stepper and the air seemed to get cooler. They came around a turn in the path and in front of them stood the gate. It looked like an old fashioned oblong mirror with the ornate side posts. The mirror part was the scariest part. Looking into it they could see solid fire. It was very bright and they had to shield their eyes. As they continued to gaze there was movement and they could see the columns of fire moving around as if it was a large hallway. The side posts had ruuns running up and down and they were also glowing but with an orange yellow color.

[Lost N Found]

Sunburnt and Redsplotch stood guard at the gate. They were posted to keep any would be frightened columns from escaping the coming destruction of their world. The gate would only be used by the top high columns, the leaders and the immediate family to escape. The Star king would be taking a small sect of the high command and his family sect. All toll, there would be around 200 which was just enough to start the species over on another star even if is was in a different dimension. The large planet of ice was approaching a point of event horizon and it would not be more than a few time clicks before the star was consumed. The Star king had sent a top aid through the gate to tell the others that were already there to prepare and have enough of the indigenes species ready for assimilation Sunburnt was standing at the edge of the gate waiting for Redsplotch to return when he happened to look through the gate and see two tall humans walking toward the other side. He had heard them called that from a few that had come back. The gate had been shut temporarily from this side and as he watched, one of the humans started to stick a gleaming long tool of some sort into the side ports of the gate. He watched with fascination as the symbols on this side began to go dark every time the human pushed the tool into a slot on the other side.

[Lost N Found]

Lionhawk and Shadowself approached the gate and Lionhawk stared at the ruuns on the side posts and the ones on his short blade. The one at the very tip, he noticed, matched one at the top of the left side post. The blade glowed and became a funny shaped key. He reached up and stuck the blade into the ruun and it slid into place. He tried turning it one way but it would not move until he turned in towards the mirror part. It clicked and the ruun grew dark. He pulled the blade out and a new ruun was at the tip. He began matching each ruun and turning the key, always in toward the mirror. Each time the ruun would turn dark and the ruuns on the blade would move to the tip as the last one disappeared. He had gotten down both sides about halfway and there were only three ruuns left on each side when a fire sword poked through and tried to thrust into him. Shadowself had been standing just to a side. She swung her blade down with a hacking motion and the fire sword fell to the ground on this side and burned out. She waited for another but it did not come. Lionhawk kept matching and turning off the ruuns. When he had turned all of them off except one the blade was dark and had no more ruuns on it. He looked at it and could not find another. He stuck it back into the scabbard on his side and turned to Shadowself. The mirror/gate was almost dark but the one ruun at the bottom was still glowing. Some liquid fire began to ooze from the corner. Lionhawk noticed that the headband that Shadowself was wearing still had one ruun glowing She saw him looking and realized what it was he saw. She reached up and untied the band. When she brought it around she noticed one of the stones at the end of the tie was glowing and had the same ruun shape. As she gazed at it something grew from the stone and it looked like a key. She took it and stuck it into the slot of the last ruun on the gate. When she turned it the entire gate when dark. Lionhawk grabbed her quickly and pulled her away. As they both moved back they heard the shattering of glass and the entire gate fell into pieces into a pile. They stood staring at the thing and then it caught fire and melted into a slag heap.

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Sunburnt had watched the tall human as he began to turn off the gate symbols. Until he had turned off the symbols halfway down did he react. He finally made his sword and tried to thrust it into the human. The gate was transparent and could be passed through so his sword passed toward the human and all of sudden he lost his entire side with the sword. He screamed and backed away from the gate. Redsplotch came running up to him and saw the black patch on his side. He turned just in time to see the gate pop and fizzle out of existence. He turned back and heard the alarms of the palace and the entire star. The large Ice ball had passed the event horizon and was moving very fast now. All the royal columns were running around screeching and gathering their material flames. The slave columns in the outer areas were all screaming and screeching and running around in madness. The large ball began to spit fluid towards their star and the home star was doing the same toward the large ball Redsplotch watched as the streams of liquid fire shot out at the ball that had grown so big that it looked like he reach out and touch it. The last thing he saw was the ball of ice colliding with his home. In the dimension of the Burnsacka, a star was snuffed out with a giant ball of ice. Both bodies collided and the resulting effect was a super nova. 3 billion light years later the beings living on a planet in a far distant galaxy witnessed a new light in their night sky.

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When the gate had disappeared into a slag heap, Lionhawk and Shadowself both heard the rumbling of the mountain. They opened a portal to a country road that led to their home and stepped out onto that road and began to walk and skip down it singing Country road take me home.


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The trees were dancing with their branches stretched skyward with thanks to the Divine Creator.

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They both had been through a very hard time and both had remembered their past lives and knew and understood the things that had happened that did not make sense at the time but awakened them both now. Doors had been unlocked in their hearts, mind and Spirits and they rejoiced in the knowledge. While walking and skipping along another voice joined them and they both stopped and turned to see who it might be. William was walking down the road toward them and came right up and bent his knee in front of Shadowself. He held out another headband and this one lifted up from his hand and entered her heart. She felt the healing power of it as it dissolved into her. He stood up and looked at Lionhawk and then said to him. “You have another gift in your pouch do you not”? Lionhawk opened his eyes in remembrance and reached into his pouch and pulled the white gleaming stone out. He held it up in his open hand and presented it to Shadowself. William reached out and stayed Lionhawk’s hand for a minute. “You both will receive this gift together. The stone began to shine with a brilliance of bright blue light and disappeared from Lionhawk’s hand. The next thing that happened was a tear dropped shaped stone shinned from his and Shadowself’s forehead. They both saw Arie and Chephirah and their cubs and Arie spoke clearly to each saying “you are the spirits of these children and they will be the children of paradise. The stones that have become your hearts will bring you to us when you have the thoughts. Now you must go and gather Buster and come to the Dream healing centre.

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The sun was beginning to set when they reached the dwellings of Keltor.

They were so well hidden that the entrance looked like springy moss.

Keltor appeared to rise out of the ground as he came out of his dwelling to meet all of the animals.

He led them through tangled vines and thick underbrush into a small clearing that whilst cozy in size, was comfortable enough to hold them all.
A collective sigh of relief swept through all the beings as they began their preparations for the night. Some grazed on the long grass, whilst others ate from the leaves of trees, or others foraged for the food that would sustain them for another long day ahead.

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Jon and William were amazed by the hidden earth structure Keltor resided in. The springy moss door, once opened, revealed a deep and natural cavern. It was dimly lit by something the two could not explain.

Keltor saw with those intelligent penetrating eyes that the two were quite puzzled by the lighting. He began to telepathically convey to William that they had access to Mother Earth’s natural energies. Just as Will had finished translating to Jon, much to the two’s surprise, another four Sasquatch appeared!

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A BANNER IN THE SKY
The chopper came up the canyon following State Route 87. Kevin climbed higher and crossed over into the mountains and banked back towards Banner. The underground bunker was located under a small Military base that had a landing strip for small jets and choppers. The base was located 10 miles to the west of Banner at the base of the mountain range. The Grand Tetons were beautiful this time of the year and stood out with a pink rosy hue at this time of the day. He brought the chopper into a tight circle and landed in a small field with tall evergreen trees semi surrounding it from the base. When they had flown over the landing strip they noticed two small leer jets parked off the runway. Bill and Carolyne both had said that they should investigate those planes for any containers of the worm germs that may be aboard. It they had any such thing, destroying them was the number one priority. The chopper was cloaked and had the stealth gear in full operation so landing behind the tree line was all that much more protection for them. Bill spoke and said “we are going to need a military staff car so we can enter the base as a command recon like we did before”. Kristyl mentioned an area of parked vehicles when they had flown up the State route. She had spotted it south of Banner about 20 miles or so and it looked almost like a junk yard or something until she saw movement of vehicles going in and out She had used the magnifier on her gear to see what was happening and then noticed that the entire area was full of military vehicles. She had wondered about that and why there would be such a concentration of military vehicles in that particular place. She did not see many human personnel so apparently it was just a holding place for these vehicles.

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Kevin said “we could take the chopper to that place and get the staff car we need and drive back here. When we are done we can then open the portal back to the chopper and get out that way. They all hashed out the ideas and decided that would be their best shot to get in and out of this base and its mission. Rising in the air once again Kevin banked the chopper to the south as they moved over to the State Route. The parking area was not that far, when they come in over it the entire lot was fenced in and there was a small guard station at the front gate. It looked like it might be abandoned but as Kevin was looking for a place to land the chopper where it would be out of the way Carolyne saw a guard exit the shack and walk towards a small building about 30 feet or so away from the gate. The building was an old fashioned Quonset hut. Kevin had found a depression in the hills surrounding the lot area and set the chopper down. Once the rotor had been shut down they sat for awhile and had something to eat before they would go and find the right car.

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Achachak and Nadie the red foxes had been searching for food most of the day and had wound up in this valley. They new that the human beings were just over the rise with the large roaring boxes that had killed there brothers and sisters so much whenever they would cross the large dark smelly dead strip of land that ran through their homes and feeding areas. They both were trying to dig a bigger hole in the hill side where they had seen the squeaker run when the huge bird flew into the lower area. They both ducked down behind the brush waiting for the creature to leave but it just stood there doing nothing. Nadie’s stomach began to growl and Achachak looked at her and thought the bird would hear. He scooted close to her and tried to comfort her but they both had gone two suns and one moon without eating. As they lay by the bush something opened on the side of the bird and 4 humans were expelled from its belly. The humans were moving so they had thought that these humans had killed the bird and cut their way from the inside of the beast. They watched as the humans moved up the hill side and stopped. Nadie was becoming very restless and thought that the bird might be dead and she would go and eat some of it. She jumped up and ran towards it. Achachak tried to stop her but all he could do was run after her. They both approached the giant bird and it did nothing so Achachak was relieved and thought they would finally get a meal.