“I’m ok, Are you sure this is going to work?” Ellie asked. The two were standing inside the inside the dark hull of a starship. They were inside the ‘Promised Dawn’.
“Yes, I know it is a lot to take in. Alien spaceships filled with humans, finding out your favorite games ‘Moon Fire’ and ‘Darkness Beyond’ were just reverse engineered from some code found on some kind of futuristic spaceship. That a secret government agency was trying to find compatible users to communicate with the inhabitants inside. Finding out that the whole reason we are able to keep your fiancé alive is because he’s plugged up into a spaceship. Are you really sure you are ok? I’m pretty sure most people would be losing their minds right about now,” Rebecca smirked, “no not you, you and him, you really are soul mates, he’s in there fighting to find a way home and you are here fighting to find your way inside.”
“Its bigger than that and you know it,” Ellie said, “though I wouldn’t be doing this if I couldn’t see Adam again.”
“Yeah I know, the whole exploring the galaxy thing is pretty cool incentive, not to mention settling a new world, but if this works you won’t wake up in this world again, this reality…” Rebecca paused, “god dammit, this shit really turned science on its head didn’t it, parallel worlds, daemons, space travel, I never should have signed up for this,” Rebecca finished smiling, “you love it, I’m sure I’ll see you in there,” said Ellie.
“You’re right, if I was compatible I would be there in an instant,” Rebecca said a tear rolling down her eye.
“You’re getting soft on me, I thought you were a cold blooded lizard,” said Ellie smiling.
“I am, its just something in my eye,” said Rebecca taking a needle and jamming it inside Ellie’s arm.
“Sleep now princess, you’ll see your prince soon,” Rebecca smiled.
Alexander woke up standing inside a small tank in a dark room. He was naked with an orange liquid draining out from below his feet. He had dozens of wires running down throughout his body and he was malnourished. He felt like he only weighed a hundred pounds. He punched the glass that led to the outside hoping the glass would break but nothing happened. For the first time in a long time he was weak too weak to break anything. The last thing he remembered was being killed inside his palace inside the Valley of Decay. He felt for the hole in his chest but there was nothing there. The glass tank opened up and he fell to the ground the wires ripping out from his skin as he fell. His eyes slowly adjusted to the blue hue that surrounded him.
“Where am I?” he said aloud.
A female voice in the darkness whispered, “Home, Alexander, Home.”
A strange creature that looked like a cross between a dog and a spider monkey appeared before Alex. The creature licked his face and Alex remembered the creatures name.
“Erlen, its been very long time,” Alex said smiling.
Alex reached out and patted the creature on the head before it ran back into the darkness fetching a scythe and brining it forward to Alex. Alex moved his hand down the scythe’s surface and used it to pick himself up.
“How could I forget about this place?” he said.
“You haven’t forgotten, this is your home,” a voice whispered.
“Who are you?” Alex asked walking forward in the direction of the darkness. As he walked forward he saw the silhouette of a small child. A young girl wearing a black sundress.
“Big brother, how have you forgotten me,” said Julie Luyten.
“I’m not your big brother,” Alex said.
“Come on, you know I was just kidding,” she said, “some clothes are next to you, put them on and follow me, you look like death but the master wants to see you now, he’s not very pleased,” she said.
“Master?” Alex said to himself.
“Come on, you didn’t think you were really a god out there did you? You are home now, its time for you to remember where you came from,” Julie said.
Alex put on his clothes and walked out towards the darkness. From the doorway he paused and looked back at the tank he had woken from.
“Last life,” he said, “no more second chances.”
Inspired by video games, anime, science fiction, survival horror, Stephen Landry is a scifi survival horror and gamelit author living in Nashville, TN. Besides writing Stephen Landry is a graphic designer with credits in film and spends most days working in a lumber yard when not spending time with family and friends.
Other works by Stephen Landry
Deep Darkness Series
Pull (1)
Trigger (2)
Slow Burn
Wound (3)
Convergence Series
Sleepers (0)
Glimmer, A Throne of Souls (1)
Devour, Moon Fire (2) - 2018
Croon, A Bards Tale (3)- 2018
Promised Dawn (4) - 2018
Other
Project Aspire
Small Dragons - A Secret Santa Initiative
Brave New Girls Stories of Girls Who Science and Scheme
Nial Parkinson’s No Sight for the Saved
An Atlas to Time, Space, and Bonfires
Beyond The Horizon
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