The Fight for Creation: Book 01 - Life Warrior (12 page)

“Then you need to go see.”

Jon stared at Debat and after a long silence he said, “May I take the time to go visit that planet?”

Debat reached into his desk and handed Jon an old disc, “Take your brothers and play this when you get there. There’s a recorder in the room where we found you.” Jon stared at Debat and he handed Jon another disc, “This has the coordinates of where you need to go. Now go and see where you came from. There’s an attack shuttle waiting in orbit for you.”

Jon stared at Debat, saluted, and left the room. Debat looked at the door Jon had exited and then pressed his panel, “He’s leaving, Sir.”

“Let me know when he comes back.”

“Don’t you mean if he comes back?”

“No, he and his brothers are Warriors. They just don’t know what they’re fighting for.”

“Do you think this will show them?”

“I really don’t know but before they can find out who they are they have to know where they’ve been.”

Debat saw the light go out on his panel and offered a prayer for Jon and his two brothers.

• • •

Jon, Teg, and Dern looked down on the blue and green planet through the viewport on their small attack shuttle. None of them spoke or shared their thoughts. Jon sighed and activated the ships scanners. Most of the cities were overgrown with plants and most of the roads had given way to erosion. The three watched the view come in closer to the large city below them and they saw millions of dark clumps of minerals scattered throughout the city. They noticed that plants avoided the clumps. Jon flew around the planet and the view was the same everywhere. There were no birds or animals on the planet. Everything was gone.

Jon looked at his brothers and pressed the final coordinate. The shuttle entered the atmosphere and landed in front of a small house. They exited the ship and walked up to the white and brick building and saw the entire front of the building had been ripped away. Jon nodded toward the house and walked forward. Teg and Dern followed.

They arrived in a main room and saw six dark piles of minerals under the windows. They looked over and saw where the floor had been ripped up and the passage way could still be seen. Jon saw a recorder on the table and he took the old disc out of his pocket and inserted it into it.

A Human female said, “We’re hiding our babies under the house. If you find them, please take care of them.” Jon froze the image and the three brothers saw their parents for the first time. They were firing lasers out the windows at something they couldn’t see. Jon stared at the woman for a long time. Dern said, “You have her eyes, Jon.”

Jon nodded and looked at the human male firing out of the left window. He was Jon’s height and had Jon’s hair color. Jon started the recording again and after the view of the room faded, an image of Admiral Mandel appeared. “I’ve included the recording made by the White Warrior that arrived and brought you out of the passage way. I thought you would want to see it.”

The three watched as the two Zord and Cat took them from the White Warrior and they listened to their conversation. At the end of it, Jon collapsed into a chair. The three brothers linked their minds and shared their sorrow. “They killed everything.”

Jon just stared at the floor and after ten minutes he said, “Debat was right.”

Teg thought, “What?”

“I’m frozen because I lost fifteen warriors in a battle. Every living thing on this planet was killed and it’s still happening out there. My priorities are messed up.”

Dern took a deep breath and said, “Do you know how this makes me feel?”

Jon looked up at him and Dern said, “Vengeful.”

Jon’s expression hardened and he said, “Why are we here? Why did our parents have this passage way? How did the Dremor not find us?”

Teg blew out a loud breath he was holding. Jon and Dern looked at him and he said, “They did.”

“Did what?”

“They found us.” Jon and Dern were shocked speechless. Teg sat down, “They just couldn’t do anything to us.”

Jon thought a moment and then said, “We’re immune to them.” He thought some more and then said, “That passage way was here before the house was built.”

Dern nodded.

Teg said, “It was in that passage way where we were changed.”

“Why did your parents build over that passage way?”

Teg slowly shook his head, “I don’t know for certain, but it may be that they heard the melody and wanted to be close to the source. Or it could be a hundred other reasons; but the point is that they knew it was here.”

The three turned and looked at the passage way. Jon looked at them and then stood and stepped down into the hole in the floor. Dern and Teg followed.

• • •

Juliette sat in her room and watched the reporter as he told the Realm about their newest heroes. She listened to Victoria as she presented the medals and the revelation that Jon refused to accept it. She shook her head at the video showing what his platoon had accomplished during the battle for Belwen. She froze the image when Jon had looked up at the Queen and she saw his sense of loss for his warriors.

She remembered his bravery when he had fought in the castle and she knew he was more than even she thought he was. Her mother came in and she hit the button to darken the screen. “Juliette, James Dodd is coming to take you to Baron Gardner’s Ball this evening. Please be ready in time.”

“Mother, why are you setting up these events with James?”

Cassandra smiled and said, “He’s asked to take you and he’s a fine young man. You should be flattered.”

“Mother, he has a dark soul and is mean for no reason. Why are you doing this?”

Cassandra felt her heart go into her stomach and managed a smile, “Please be ready, dear. You need to represent us.”

Juliette stared at her mother until she left the room. Cassandra closed the door and fell back against the wall. What had she done? She tried to convince herself that Juliette was wrong but she knew that Juliette was never wrong about people; she was a good judge of character. But she had no choice. She would marry James or see her mother executed.

• • •

Newton looked at the fleet commander and said, “Tell me what happened.”

“We were attacking a planet being held by the Megat and the Dremor arrived. They flew through our ships and our hulls didn’t slow them down. They killed half of the fleet before we were able to teleport the rest away.”

“What about the warriors on the planet?”

“We managed to defeat the Megat several days later. The Dremor left immediately after our ships teleported away. Evidently they had made some sort of agreement with them not to attack the planet.”

“So our enemies are starting to work together against us?”

“It appears that way. They left while our warriors on the ground were still fighting. I suspect that if we had already defeated the Megat, they might have moved on the planet.”

Newton slowly shook his head, “This is not good.”

“No, it’s not.” The commander paused and then said, “We’ve also discovered that the Hagrem have a beam that will penetrate our green armor. It appears to be similar to the one developed by the Demon’s White Creatures to defeat the Keepers long ago.”

Newton stared at the Commander and said, “That is something we’ll have to work on later. How were you able to defeat the Megat?”

“Fortunately, we’re carrying Realm blasters. Our speed and agility allowed us to win…this time. You know how hard it is to hit one of our warriors moving at full speed. It might not be so easy next time.”

Newton punched his panel and said, “Destiny, I need you and Einstein to come and meet with me. There have been some developments.” Newton reached over and sent a message to the Zord and Cats.

• • •

The three brothers walked down the passageway and Teg pulled put a beam and handed it to Jon. He shined it in the corridor in front of him and continued moving forward. After sixty yards the passage leveled out and they continued their march. Jon looked at the walls and saw there were no supports or beams holding the wall up. He touched them with his hand and they felt as hard as stone but they looked like normal dirt walls. He looked back at Teg and saw him shrug. Jon shined the light ahead and saw the beam scatter through an opening. They moved through the opening and they saw a chamber about fifteen yards in diameter. In the middle of the room were three cribs that were arranged side by side. Jon shined the light around the room and saw there was nothing else in the room. Jon looked at Dern and saw his disappointment. “What did you think we’d find here, Dern?”

“I don’t know…I just sensed that there was something here we needed. This is where we were changed into what we are now. I just…I don’t know.”

Jon sighed and said, “Listen and see if you can hear the melody.” The three closed their eyes and only found silence. After a minute Jon said, “Nothing.”

Teg slowly shook his head, “Nothing but these cribs.”

The three sat down on the floor and Dern said, “I can feel the pain our parents had before they died. There was no escape.”

The three sat on the floor and felt each other’s emotions. They sat in silence for an hour and Jon said, “I’m going to accept the promotion.”

Teg said, “You should.”

Jon nodded, “I see that now. Avoiding death will never stop it. I just hoped that there was something here that would at least confirm that we are here for a reason. Why were we changed?”

Dern said, “I guess we’ll just have to find our destiny and maybe an answer will emerge.”

The three stood to leave and Jon glanced back over his shoulder and came to a sudden stop. Teg ran into him and said, “Sorry.”

Jon stepped around the big Glod and moved back in the room. Dern and Tegen looked at each other and followed him back in, “What’s bothering you?”

Jon said, “This crib was Dern’s.”

“How do you know that?”

“Dern, it’s the smallest and you are the smallest of us.” Jon looked over and said, “That one was Tegen’s.”

Dern smiled, “Well duh, I could get lost in that one.”

Teg saw Jon’s expression, “What’s going on, Jon?”

Jon turned to his brothers and said, “The supports are all wrong.”

Dern tilted his head, “I’m not following you.”

“Dern, your crib has four legs. It could have rested on just a single support. Teg’s has two large headboards. He should have had four legs.” Jon looked at his crib and said, “Mine just has that single support running under it. The bed is wider than the support.”

The three looked at the cribs and Jon looked at them. He went over and turned his crib upside down. He hit the center support and nearly broke his hand. He grabbed his wrist unit and turned the control left and then right and his armor teleported in. He took an armored glove and hit the support again. It shattered into thousands of small pieces and the three were nearly stunned by the high volume of the melody that suddenly overwhelmed them. Jon turned off his armor, looked at the floor, and saw a violet colored sword. Teg and Dern were holding their ears as Jon reached down and grabbed the sword. The volume of the melody immediately lowered and Jon felt a shock rush through his body. He fell to his knees and saw the sword was now brightly glowing. Jon held it up and it felt weightless.

Dern turned on his armor and shattered the four legs supporting his crib. The volume immediately went back to the former level of intensity until Dern grabbed the four short swords in his hands. Teg turned and followed their lead and grabbed two long swords from the rubble of his two headboards.

Jon looked at his sword closely and didn’t see anything on it that looked like a power source for the glow. He heard Teg say, “Swords; we came here for swords.”

Jon looked at him and said, “Look at your armor.”

Teg looked down and saw his armor was pulsating with the violet colored glow. He put the two swords down and the glow disappeared from his armor and the two swords. He picked them up and both began glowing again. Jon looked on the floor and saw something in the rubble. He reached down and picked up a flat piece of black material that looked like some form of metal. He stared at it and then placed it up against his sword to compare the length of the two and the sword blade was suddenly enclosed inside the black material. Jon pulled on the handle and the sword immediately appeared in his hand. Jon thought a moment and then placed the black metal on the ground and dropped the sword. It was instantly enclosed by the black material. Jon turned his armor back on and took the black metal and put it into the armor’s skin just behind his left shoulder. He held the sword out and released it. The handle instantly appeared just behind his left shoulder.

Teg and Dern began stirring the debris from their cribs and found the black scabbards for their swords. Teg set his in his armor and said, “Why swords? What possible use are these in a major Life Warrior attack?”

Jon reached over his shoulder and pulled the sword out. “I don’t know. I suspect that the swords will let us know at the appropriate time. However, this does show us that we are here for a reason. These blades are part of the process of finding out what it is.”

“Whoever made these made them only for us.”

Dern said, “Why do you say that, Teg?”

“Because the numbers match up to the swords used by our species. I believe these swords were put in those cribs when we were changed. I don’t think anyone in this creation can touch them if they’re active and survive.”

Jon smiled, “The reverse of that is also true?”

“What’s that?”

“Whoever those swords touch will not survive.”

Teg thought about Jon’s remark and walked over to one of the cribs lying on the floor. He touched it with one of his long swords and it flashed into a violet colored light and disappeared. Teg smiled, “I might have been somewhat hasty in my initial analysis.”

Dern said, “I also believe that our armor has also been affected by contact with them.”

Jon raised his eyebrows and Dern held up his arm. Weapons began appearing and disappearing faster than they could see. Dern lowered his arm and looked at them, “Do we tell anyone about this?”

Jon said, “We tell the Cats.” Jon looked around the room and smiled, “Our parents saved us. Now it’s time for us to return the favor to the rest of those being attacked.”