Magda tried to move through the wall, but couldn't. She was trapped. "Michael," she screamed, but she heard no reply. Was she cut off from communication as well? Her weightless body sunk to the floor as if in a puddle where she wept and shivered.
Wholly unheroic. She admonished herself through her tears. She'd had a full kundalini awakening, yet she was still overcome by fear and doubt when confronted with a challenge.
Rising, she brushed herself off mentally and resolved to find her way out of this. Whether Michael could hear her or not. She felt along the walls, ceiling, and floor with her astral hands, looking for some kind of crack, some way out. She couldn't find anything but the seam where the door closed. Focusing on that, she tried to press her astral body through.
A moment later, the door pushed open and she tumbled out and smacked into another astral body. Expecting to find an Anu standing before her, she was surprised when it was Michael.
"Come," he said, taking her hand. “We haven't much time."
"Michael. I'm so relieved to see you."
"I wanted to avoid getting involved at this level, but I won't let you be imprisoned. Not even for a short period. Come."
He took her hand and in the blink of an eye, they were standing before the mainframe of the Anu's shipboard computer. "Do it now," he said. A team of Anu engineers came toward them, their long fingers grasping at Michael and Magda. Michael put up his hands and they all stopped, as if blocked by an invisible force field.
"Hurry, I can't do this forever."
Magda looked at the brightly lit computer terminal and tried to figure out how to get the virus into the thing. She found what looked like a touch pad and pressed her palm to it. In a whoosh, she could feel the virus uploading into the Anu system. It took less than fifteen seconds.
As soon as the last bit of data transferred to the ship, the lights started to blink on and off. On the screen that showed the collection of ships, the lights of the other ships in the armada began to blink out, one after the other.
Michael let down the force field and took Magda's hand. Before she could respond, she was awake, sitting in the terminal chair back inside the mountain.
She blinked as everyone looked at her with expectation in their eyes. "Did it work?" Rafe asked.
"Yes," she croaked.
"Someone get her some water," Rafe commanded. Xavier handed her a glass of water a moment later. She chugged it down, looking around for Michael. He sat across the room, smiling at her.
"What now?" Xavier asked.
"They will be defenseless for the next six hours at least. Now is the time to launch the attack. Everyone has to get back to the meditation room."
Chapter Seventeen
The group hurried to the meditation room. Michael gave them instructions on how to fight in the fourth dimension. They had to imagine any kind of weapon in their mind and then use it against the Anu ships.
Cassie, Circe, and Magda guided the group into a deep meditative state, bringing their level of mind into the astral realm, the fourth dimension. Magda found herself floating in space with several hundred awestruck shifters, human kids, and witches. They faced the Anu ships in the distance.
The group was as one in mind, speaking to each other wordlessly. All at once, they constructed a massive vessel, equipped with powerful laser guns. The group shot at the Anu ships. One after another. The smaller vessels began to fall out of the sky.
Suddenly, half the group's ship fell away. "What's happening?" Magda shouted. They were so close. So very close.
"The Anu are attacking on Earth. Their smaller fighter jets are not on the same system as the spaceships. People are falling out of the meditation," Michael said. "I will rest no more. I love this race, and I will help you."
In the blink of an eye, thousands upon thousands of shifters and humans floated in space around the Anu ships. They took one look at their oppressor's vessels and mutually created their own armada.
Laser beam blasts shot out from every side. Ship after Anu ship fell out of the sky, but it wasn't enough. Groups continued to fall out of the human armada. The Anu on Earth were launching a full-scale attack.
Magda heard a massive boom and snapped out of meditation. All around, dust fell from the ceiling and the ground shook. The Anu must be blasting the mountain. She tried to get herself back into her meditative state, but she couldn't. She refused to distract Michael. Not that she could anyway. Michael was a highly evolved being. Far more evolved than the Anu even. He must have brought a much larger population into the fourth dimension. How he was able to do that, she didn't know.
All of a sudden, she was back in space, her consciousness creating the ship blasting away at the Anu. But the Anu would not be defeated so easily. She could see them powering back up in the distance. They shot back at the Earthlings' ships.
The Earth armada disappeared, not existing on a physical level. The Anu shot her group's ship and she felt the hot blast burn through her mind. They returned fire on the largest ship, barely making a dent.
Out of nowhere, a massive white ship, blazing with light, appeared in the middle of the battle. With one blast of light, the entire Anu armada disappeared into thin air. Magda was so stunned, she snapped out of meditation and awoke in the meditation room.
Everyone else was looking back at her, blinking in shock.
"What happened?" she asked aloud. The sound of her own voice seemed unfamiliar and strange.
"It was The Council of the Seventh House. They finally came to your aid," Michael said, standing.
He slowly walked out of the meditation room through the rubble of the mountain as everyone followed behind him. He came to stand before the blocked exit. Rocks flew away from the entrance as if flung backward. Light streamed through the opening until the entrance was clear.
On the other side, there stood a group of exquisitely beautiful beings, dressed in white, shining like the light of the sun. "You changed your mind?" Michael asked.
"They have proven themselves worthy. With the aid of their guardian perhaps, but you have proved they are ready to ascend and that they do not agree to subjugation. We will not allow the Anu on this planet from this point forth."
"The Anu are manipulative. They work around the prime directive to get their way. We can no longer allow them to do this."
"We have come to agree, Michael. We want to offer you back your place on the Council. We need a mind like yours which is ready to see things differently. Even to break rules when need be."
Michael looked down at Magda, light in his eyes. Her heart fluttered. Would he leave her?
"I have come to realize that my place is here on Earth. I will remain and help humanity build a better future,” he said, putting his arm around Magda.
"Very well. Now that Earth has come of age and is ready to become part of the Federation, we will be available to help you at any time."
The Council blinked out of sight. Everyone was silent for a moment before the entire population of the mountain erupted in a mighty cheer. Michael turned to Magda and took her in his arms.
"We did it," she whispered in his ear. "We really did it."
"This is the dawn of a new day, my love. The future holds the most brilliant of possibilities and we will help Earth grow into its full potential. You and I will oversee this world for millennia, side by side."
"Millennia?" she asked. She was eighteen but she knew she would die within the next hundred years.
"As my beloved mate, you will take on my life span. We will work together to ensure the development of your home. Generations will stretch out before us and our own children will grow to help us in this task. Your race will become one of the greats and will someday sit on the Council as well."
"Oh, Michael," she said between kisses. "I can't wait."
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