They transferred the baby Polar bear to the glistening capsule at the end of her bed with precision. As I watched, I realized that with this second birth, I was starting to feel that it was a truly magical scene. The shock of it being animals instead of human babies was really starting to wear off.
One of the aliens began to exit with the newborn Polar bear in its capsule; the other one covered the sleeping woman’s form with her white gown and thin silvery sheet. I wondered how long she’d been asleep for and how many animals she’d birthed. I also wondered if we’d always birthed the same animals or if they were different each time, considering the number of different species that were inside the glass wall.
While my mind was going over these thoughts, Zanika entered the room again. Between her hands hovered a black stone tray laden with a drink, fruit and chopped vegetables. Some of which I didn’t recognize, but as I ran my eyes over the selection, my stomach growled loudly which made Zanika smile. I couldn’t stop myself from smiling back. Her beautiful face oozed friendliness, and it felt good to smile.
“Thank you Zanika,” I whispered as I took the tray from her.
I began to eat some of the large green grapes, and they were so delicious. I didn’t think anything else could possibly taste that amazing.
“You have many questions I think,” Zanika stated.
‘I believe that’s the understatement of the year,’ I thought to myself.
“Where exactly am I?” I asked, between grapes.
“You are still on earth young one,” she replied softly, “You are on one of our spacecrafts. This craft contains our medical units and our main control center. This is where all human females stay, while we heal your Earth and replenish your animal kingdom.”
When she spoke, there wasn’t any hint of judgement, only a soft kindness. Her sapphire blue eyes sparkled as she continued.
“We arrived just as your Earth's water turned to poison. Your people were starving and dying, your animals were dying out, and your Earth was failing,” she said.
Still, there was no judgement, but as I listened to what she was telling me, I was judging us. I couldn’t believe my ears, ‘How could this happen? Was it even possible?’ Zanika seemed so sincere; she couldn’t be lying. In my heart, I didn’t really think she was capable of lying to me as she came across so pure.
“Is that why I just gave birth to a tiger cub?” I asked in a shocked whisper.
“Yes,” she replied, in her musical voice. “There were no healthy animals left that we could breed to replenish your Earth. We have crafts like this one all over your planet. We had no choice but to return and save your Earth.”
“Have you visited our planet before?” I questioned, my voice sounding a little stronger after sipping the fresh water.
“Yes, we have visited your Earth many times before. It is why your race calls us Angels or Gods and have created images and sculptures of us. We have been visiting your planet for as long as I can remember,” she said.
‘No wonder I thought they looked like angels; they were angels!’
Chapter 3
My mind was racing with so many questions and all the information it was trying to process. ‘Angels, wow, Real Angels!’
“I will take you to a room where you may feel more at ease,” she said gently. “Please follow me.”
Zanika moved away from my bed, allowing me the room to get up. Even though my body felt wonderful, my legs were still a little wobbly when I tried to stand. So, she patiently waited as my legs steadied.
I looked up into her beautiful face, and she reached out a hand to me. I lifted my own hand, and as I went to place my hand on hers, I felt her shimmering aura connect with my skin.
The most amazing feeling traveled up my hand to my arm. It coursed through my body, and it was a feeling of utter peace and calmness. Zanika led the way out of the massive birthing room, through another exit and into another corridor like the one we’d passed through earlier.
There were smaller archways along the corridor, which I assumed were smaller rooms. Every archway had different symbols glowing in the soft light at the top. Every so often, another angel would pass us by, and as they crossed our path, they would slightly nod their head at Zanika and smile at me.
They were just like her, the females and males alike. All of them were emanating peace and calmness. I didn’t feel unsafe or unwelcome in any way, and it was very reassuring. The tension in my body had begun to gradually melt away. Within minutes, Zanika stopped at one of the smaller decorative archways.
“This will be your room for now, if you would like to enter and make yourself comfortable. I will come back later,” Zanika said.
She swept her hand towards the entrance, inviting me to go inside. Nervously, I entered the room. The light inside was a warm, soft glow, and the room was stunning. Thin silvery veils hung from the ceiling to the tops of the smooth white walls.
The room was a circular shape with a round bed underneath a large round window. There was a hint of purple in the silvery bed coverings and the seating area to the right of the room. On the left side of the room was a smaller archway that led to a bathroom with the funkiest toilet, shower and sink I’d ever seen.
I quickly realized how desperate I was for a hot shower, but first I needed to look outside. After what Zanika had told me, I needed to see the outside world for myself.
My nervousness grew as I walked over to the large round window. I placed my hands on either side of the window frame and peered out, and I was astonished at what I saw.
We appeared to be in seawater, and I couldn’t tell whether we were in the middle of an ocean or on a coastline. As far as my eyes could see, there was choppy dark green and blue sea water.
The sky was cloudy with hues of pinks and reds, so it was either sunset or sunrise, but there was no way I could tell from the view I had.
In the far distance were what looked like futuristic looking oil rigs, but if the angels were trying to save Earth, I couldn’t imagine them mining for oil. As I strained my eyes to make out the white round rigs, I spotted something moving underneath the rigs and also on one side. It looked like flowing water, but how could water be flowing upwards?
I’d already seen enough to assume that the angels were using the same powers or magic that they’d used to move me in my bed without touching it. ‘This must be what Zanika was talking about when she said they were saving our planet.’ I suddenly felt so tired which was ridiculous. I’d been sleeping for the last five years; so how on earth could I be tired?
Logic made me realize that it was probably the shock of everything that had happened so far. Waking up in confusion and panic, my discovery that angels are actually real and the shock of not only giving birth to a tiger cub but also learning that I’d given birth to other animals too. ‘Yes, I seriously needed a shower and a good sleep!’
It didn’t take me too long to figure out how to work everything in the small bathroom. The toilet sink and shower all had the beautiful intricate symbols next to them, just like the ones on the archways but a smaller scale.
As I finished my business on the toilet, I started looking for something to wipe myself. I touched the wall next to me where the symbols were, and a small section opened in the wall. There on a small tray was what I assumed to be a cleaning cloth of some kind. It felt organic to the touch, which didn’t surprise me considering what the angels were here to do. It felt almost like a thin ultra-soft leaf.
After finishing my toilet business, I approached the shower, removing the gown I was wearing, and I draped it over the sink. I lifted my hand to touch the symbols on the wall next to the shower area, and the ceiling sprang to life. Clear water began cascading from holes above in the ceiling.
The symbols had glowed a bright white at the contact of my skin when I touched them, and I wondered if they had somehow read my body temperature because the water flowing over my body was now perfect.
When I looked around for any kind of soap
and shampoo, I realized that my skin was slightly glowing. I cupped my hands to catch the water and lifted my hands to my face to smell it. The scent of the water was fresh and sweet, not like I thought water should smell at all. I splashed the handful of water over my face, and as my hands smoothed over my features, I was truly amazed at how wonderful my skin felt. The shower water was better than a skin cleanser.
‘The angels really did take this planet-saving mission seriously,’ I thought. Respect was growing in me, and I truly admired the angels and what they were doing. I was desperate for more information about them and about myself. By the time I’d finished in the shower, I was more than ready for sleep.
Exiting the shower area, I started to scan the bathroom for some kind of towel, but my body appeared to be drying very quickly by itself. It felt so fresh, clean and alive.
When my feet touched the bathroom floor, another larger opening appeared next to the shower entrance. This time, there was a rolled-up garment on the tray, and as I lifted it up, it unrolled into a plain but stunning maxi style dress.
Long sleeves hung off thin silver shoulder straps, and I noticed that the dress was going to leave my shoulders bare. It was so soft to the touch that I couldn’t help but run my hands down the material. It was beautiful and a very pale, silvery blue color, like the sky on a summer's day.
I slipped it over my head, and the material was silky soft against my fresh shimmering skin. When I looked down in admiration, I noticed it had delicate symbols on it, just like the marks on Zanika’s body, as if they were indicating that I was also female.
Walking back to the strangely shaped sink, I tried to figure out how I was going to clean my teeth and brush my hair. It was then that I spotted some smaller symbols just above the sink.
I touched one, and water sprinkled from small holes under the symbol. I touched another, and a small tray slid out of the wall above the symbols with a small dish inside. The dish had a pale green pressed powder inside, with a slight hint of mint and something else that I didn’t recognize when I lifted it up to smell it.
Next to the dish was something that looked like the finger of a latex glove. When I looked closer, I saw that it had tiny bristles all around the end. I took the weird glove thing and slipped it over my finger. It didn’t feel like latex at all, and I just did what my instinct was telling me.
I put my covered finger under the water for a second and then dipped it into the pressed powder. ‘Here goes nothing,’ I thought to myself as I began to brush my teeth. The powder began to foam in my mouth instantly as I brushed, and it felt marvelous. The powder appeared to be toothpaste and mouthwash all in one. I could feel the foam getting everywhere inside my mouth, and when I’d finished, my teeth felt amazingly clean.
After I placed everything back on the tray, I looked around for a hairbrush or comb, subconsciously running a hand down my long hair. I instantly realized that I didn’t actually need one. My hair was so soft and tangle free already, ‘Damn, that water is amazing,’ I thought, smiling to myself.
I made my way to the circular bed and laid down on top of the sheets, my mind actively going over everything I’d seen and done so far. My eyes felt so heavy, and it wasn’t long before sleep took me.
My dreams were like memory flashbacks with images of floating, rotten whale carcasses in the sea and a grass lawn scattered with dead birds and butterflies as if they’d dropped from the sky.
Then faces started appearing of a man and some children. The man was handsome and rugged; the young children were angelic with pale blue and green eyes.
As their faces appeared, my heart ached; it throbbed so hard in my chest that I awoke with a start. Sitting up on the bed, my mind reeled from the vivid dreams. ‘Were my memories trying to reach the surface? Who were the man and children to me?’ My heart ached again in my chest, and I felt like I should know them.
I felt instinctively protective towards them as if they were family like they were mine. While I attempted to collect myself and get control of my emotions and thoughts, Zanika appeared at the entrance to my room.
Seeing her standing under the archway, I was again reminded of how beautiful she was. However, she wasn’t alone this time. The male angel who’d helped her deliver my tiger cub was standing next to her, with the same expression of love and compassion. He really was just as stunning as Zanika.
They began to approach me, and as they glided in my direction, the male angel touched his hand to his throat. The white glow shone at his throat just like it did for Zanika, and I understood immediately that he wanted to talk with me too.
Sliding myself to the edge of the bed, I stood to greet them. Zanika was starting to feel like a friend already, and I wanted to show them my respect and admiration.
The male angel was the first to speak, and although his voice was soft and musical like Zanika’s, it had a definite muscular tone to it.
“Welcome young one. I am Harrik; you look well rested; may we talk a while with you?” he asked.
“Sure,” I replied.
I was desperate for more information, and it looked like it was my chance.
Zanika raised her arm and pointed to the seating area. There were four soft looking chairs arranged in a semicircle around a small low table.
“Let us sit and talk while we await our meal,” she said.
Harrik led the way to the chairs, gliding gently in front of Zanika and myself. He really was very masculine once my eyes and brain accepted what I was seeing. We all sat down in the soft chairs Zanika and Harrik looked very relaxed and composed as they looked and smiled at me. I felt like I should say something before it began to feel awkward.
“Thank you for taking care of me and making sure I wasn’t in any pain,” I told them both, with total sincerity and gratitude.
Harrik smiled kindly at me while Zanika reached out to touch my hand.
“You are welcome young one; we do not want to hurt anyone,” she said softly.
“Do you have many questions to ask us?” Harrik inquired.
“Yes, I do,” I replied.
My voice sounded stronger now, no longer the strained whisper it was before.
“Firstly, where did you get me from?” I asked them both.
I had so many questions, but I knew I’d have to be patient.
“Our searchers found you, but I do not know the exact location. We were trying to find as many survivors as possible, and you were the first human we found,” she said. “If there were any other humans with you, then the women would have been taken to a structure like this one,” she explained, raising her arms for emphasis. “If there were any children or male survivors, they would have been taken to one of our healing crafts, she added.
Harrik seemed to sense the despair emanating from my whole body. He gently touched my arm, and calmness flowed through me from my head to my toes.
“I am sorry we cannot give you more information young one,” he said with so much feeling that I actually felt bad for him.
“There were so many humans dead already. We had to act fast, to save as many of you as we could. We also had to try and save as many of your Earths animals as possible too. So, we could not take time to record every detail as it would have slowed us down greatly,” Harrik explained.
What they were both telling me made perfect sense. I thought to myself that if I'd been in their shoes so to speak, I would have acted the same way.
“Why do you call me young one?” I asked.
They both smiled at me with affection. Harrik’s hand was still touching mine, and I think he left it there as a comforting gesture. He squeezed it gently as he explained.
“We are what you humans call ancient,” he explained. “We have lived as a race for more of your Earth years than we can remember. To us, anyone who is not of our race is young,” he added.
I must have had a funny look of amazement on my face because as they continued, they both had what looked like humor dancing in their blue sapphire eyes.
I was in awe of them, these angels who spent their lives saving planets, races and their wildlife! It suddenly dawned on me why they were loved, adored and worshiped by so many of us humans.
“Why have you visited our planet so many times and spoken to people here?” I asked, while images of angel pictures suddenly popped into my head.
I began mentally ticking off the questions they were answering. Zanika and Harrik then explained to me that Earth had had a number of mass extinction events. The Cretaceous era was the most recent event before now, and there had been four mass extinctions before that.
They hadn’t been able to save the dinosaurs because the event had happened so fast. They were, however, able to save some sea creatures, insects and other creatures, enabling Earth to heal and recover.
They’d kept returning to monitor our planet, and once humans evolved, they knew that they would have to be vigilant because of our natural desire to learn, develop and spread ourselves across the land. Which they understood could impact our Earth and everything on it.
They had appeared to some of us by accident, but when that happened, they'd spoken with the humans, so they weren’t scared. However, most of their encounters were intentional.
They explained that they had built relationships with many of our ancient ancestors, such as the Mayans and Egyptians. Civilizations who were willing to live in harmony with each other and, more importantly, nature. The angels had shared their knowledge of natural healing, farming and showed them how to read the stars.
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