Moonweavers (12 page)

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Hey cowboy.  It’s beautiful, isn’t it?  During the summer, I can drink a whole pot of coffee out here, just staring at the sunrise.  Mom loved it out here on the porch too,” she says as she snuggles into him on the swing.  She grabs his arm firmly and lays her cheek gently onto it.  They gaze together, out towards the rising sun.  She mutters, “I miss her.”

Frank wonders if he should tell her that he saw her last night again and thinks, why not.

“Patty, there is something that I have to tell you.  When I ran off into the woods last night, I saw your mother and this time with another ghost.”
“Oh my god, no way,” Patty exclaims.

“
I kind of get the feeling that she don’t like me very much,”  Frank tells her.

“
Why’s that?”
“That’s another thing, Patty.”

“
Uh oh.  You’re not married, are ya?”

“
No, uh.  I’m not from your world.”

“
You’re not serious are ya?  Tell me you’re joking with me, Frank.  Great, I finally start to get involved with a man again and he tells me he’s not from this world.”  Patty crosses her arms now and pouts.

“
Its true,”  Frank replies.  “That’s why I can see ghosts.  I don’t know how it works exactly, but I saw two of them last night.  And I think there were more.  I think it all had something to do with those wolves.  See, I just arrived to your planet from L5 up on the moon.  Its kind of like a base.”

“
Oh, you’re from the moon, are ya?”  she says, sarcastically.  “Look, Frank not this shit again, they have a lot of drugs for this stuff now.  Maybe you could live a normal life.  You should go see a psychiatrist or something.  It’s just not healthy.”

“
Damn it, Patty, I’m telling the truth.”

“
Ha, ha, ha,” she says and pulls on his cheek.  “This isn’t a  mask.  You’re not an alien.  Quit saying that, Frank.  You’re scaring me.”  She lets go and his cheek falls back in place. 

“
Think about it though, Patty.  Do I act normal?”

“
Well, you eat funny.  Other than that, you act normal.  And the proof is in the pudding.  Look, I will make a deal with you.  If you can prove to me that your from another planet or the moon, which is impossible, I will believe you.  Like, show me your spaceship.  Yea, Frank, where’s your spaceship?”

“
It don’t work like that.  I am in a different plain of existence.  Like mist.”

“
Ok, then, turn to mist,” Patty says.

“
Well, I took an organic form.  I can’t just turn to mist.”

“
How come when I ask you to do something, Mr. Alien Man, you just find an excuse to not do it.”

“
Well, look, feel here.”  He grabs her hand and runs it along his neck to where the slight impression of the tag under his skin lies. 

She feels two small bumps and asks,
“What is that?  Ew, there’s something under your skin,” she says as she rubs more frantically on Franks neck. 

“
In a way, this is my power source that turned me organic.  It’s very complicated.”

“
Frank, it’s just a scar or something.  Don’t be ridiculous.”

Frank looks down at the ground and says,
“I should have never told you this.”

She pats Frank on the leg with her right hand and returns her hand to her lap.

“You really should see a doctor or something, Frank.  I’m getting scared.”

Frank puts his hand over hers and looks her in the eye.  At that moment, something happens.  Patty feels Franks life force enter within him with quick still pictures and stories.  Suddenly, she has seen his whole life in a matter of an instant.  His hours in the lab, trying to form the chip just right, along with Jack, his friend.  She sees and almost feels the same way that he does when he feeds from the energy all along the walls.  Then she pulls back suddenly away from his hand. 

“Oh, fuck!  What the hell was that?”, she says startled in a panic.  “You’re not lying to me at all, are you?”

“
No, that’s what I am trying to tell you, Patty.  It’s true.”

“
You mean there are people that actually live up there?  That’s incredible!  I heard a few farmers over the years say they see strange lights and stuff in the sky.  But I never really believed it.”

“
I don’t know about all that.  We are pretty secluded up there.  We have always wanted to come here, so  I did.” Frank

“
You said you saw my mom last night.  What did she say?”

“
She thinking that those wolves might have come down as well.  We are so segregated, that we don’t know what’s really around us up there.  If I experimented with the DNA, I imagine the other ones might have done the same on the L bases.”
“L bases?  What’s that?”

“
Different groups in a way.  We all have our own duties, I suppose, in different parts of the living core of the moons biochemistry.”

“
Say what?”

“
Like blood cells in your body, we are like oxygen for the entity within the moon.”

“
That’s  crazy,” Patty says.  “And you think there are others here too?  How many?”

“
Who knows, but those wolves might be part of it.  I think that’s why your mom is scared.”

“
And that’s how you can do that weird power, like when I touched you just now?”

“
That’s the first time I have ever done it.  But I could sense that when the animals were around, like the wolves and the ghosts.”

“
Look, Frank, I’m sorry I didn’t believe you, but you have to admit, that was one hell of a story.”

Frank embraces Patty and they kiss. 

             
                                         
9

Scott awakens paralyzed to the basement floor from the gravity machine that did its pulsating hum by the door of the cellar.  Suddenly the machine stops and the door swings open.  Scott feels the weight from the gravity machine, lift, and he emerges off the basement floor like the invisible force isn’t pushing him down any longer.  Scott, after getting his bearings, looks up to see the professor Tom Mcgee. 

“
Hi there, Scott.  I’m Tom, but most people around here call me the professor.  I’m sorry you had to wake up like that stuck to the floor.  I was hoping that you hadn’t awakened yet so I could loosen the gravity pull mechanism.  Maybe you could help Links and some of the others create my contraptions like this one.  Me in a ghost form and all.  This one is actually kind of fun on three, but you received a full dose on ten, and its very uncomfortable, isn’t it?  Three is kind of like getting your feet stuck in the mud.  You kind of slosh yourself around quite often.  We call it “getting heavy”.  I might modify it just enough, if we can get some wire to that fence down there, to secure the whole perimeter that way.  But that’s a long time in the making.  I figure if we get it at the very end of pulse, that way it would give them time to get back and out of the current of the gravity pull that would push you down to ground, but go  farther than that toward the cabin….you’re stuck.  I figure, if we get it on an alarm and we can see the whole perimeter through binoculars or something, we wouldn’t have to worry about it.  If its something good that we want to get through, we can just turn it off for a minute.  If not, we go take care of the situation.  Brilliant, huh?”

“
Yea, I think even in my wolf form, I was stuck there for quite awhile,” Scott replies.

Professor walks toward the cooler area where the wolf was secured earlier that night.  The wall that
’s attached to the door is completely gone.  It lies on the floor, unattached completely.  Bits of wood, insulation and tin cover the floor.  Gazing inward, he sees the claw marks that went completely through to the innards of the coolers wall, floor and ceiling.  Amazed that the desk is still in tact, but quite chewed on from one corner to the other.  Scratch marks all up and down the grain, the drawers of the desk were scattered about.  The Professor looks down and says, “Apparently, you got out of the door or through the whole wall, it looks like.  And on the leap out, you stopped approximately right here where the gravity force pulled you down and stuck you there, well, until we came down.”

“
Apparently,” Scott replies sarcastically.  “My neck is killing me.”

“
The important thing is that you never hurt anyone, Scott.  How much do you really remember of the transfer?”

“
Some, but not all of it.  The strange urges come then.”

“
Exactly,” the professor replies.  “Until we know further how you are going to react, I’m afraid you are going to have to spend a few nights, when the full moon is out at least, down here.  And eventually, if we can’t find a cure, at least find a better place for you to change into.  Its all in your interest, as well as ours.  You can understand, can’t you? Maybe we can learn more off the study.  Come on, I will show you.”

Scott follows the professor up the stairs and out of the basement.  The dog quickly passes the professor in the stairway and runs up the stairs.  He turns and waits for the professor to proceed up the stairway.  Out of the basement and in the kitchen now, he sees a big bowl of food.  It was the delicious jerky pellets that he ate downstairs.  He quickly runs, eats and drinks up every drop of water, gobbling it all down in a matter of minutes.  Hearing the activity in the kitchen as people calmly discuss things, he finally emerges his nose out of the food bowls and looks toward the commotion.  The professor finally ascending the stairs and shutting the door, enters the kitchen as well. 

“Good, you got the food we left out for ya.”

Now the people at the kitchen table turn to see the professor, not noticing the dog, for it being around the counter just enough for them not to see it.

The professor enters and sits at the big wood table with the others.  Links is sitting at the very end in a modified chair.  The chair is the same shape as the others, but almost five times bigger.  The floor was lowered an extra foot down for the massive chair to sit into, so the big ape man wouldn’t bang his knees for the chair being so much higher, Scott could only suppose.  But Links seemed to enjoy the chair quite a lot. 

“
I see you are eyeing my chair,” Links says and smiles.  “Live, learn and adapt, I always say.  I quite enjoy having the opportunity to look one another in the eye.  Others find it less intimidating too. Scott you have to tell me about your previous life on L6.”

The voices in the room quiet down now when they hear the front door sway.  They all look toward the door as the lady in the blue jean jacket, the first one to talk to Scott, appears through the front door with an Indian that was there earlier that night too.  Links says out loud,
“Did you get the other wolves?” as they enter the cabin.

Chief Bear Claw says,
“Tab have something to tell you.  Tab?”

“
I kind of failed to mention that there was another mooner.  Well, you see, he’s kind of a human.”

“
A human?”  Links says out loud.

“
Oh and living with my daughter.  Oops?”

“
A human?  Scott did he come down with you?”

“
No,” Scott replies.  “I don’t know who that would be.  I imagine the cycle generates in other particles or pods or units just like us. It’s just some kind of hypothesis I guess I have, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.”
“A human,” Link repeats one more time, amazed.  “They finally made a human.”

The room gets deathly quiet.  Then the young girl breaks the silence with a big
“Whoopy!” reaches in her leather coat and pulls some ear buds out her pocket, proceeds to put them in her ear and presses play on her ipod and casually walks into the other room and sits on the couch.  The professor says, “Yea, right.  So what you are saying Links, is that this is the first human to come down from the moon?”

“
As far as I know,” Links answers.  “My only explanation would be that the black mass of energy was weaker in his sector.  Just weak enough to manipulate the DNA correctly to form a human species.”

“
What about Patty, my daughter?” the lady in the blue jean jacket asks.  “Is she safe?  Do you think he is alright?”

“
We will have to keep a good eye on him,” Links replies.

“
Could you communicate with him quite well?”  the professor asks the lady.  “And does he seem like he is rational?”