Chapter 29 Children of the Moon

Chapter 29

Children of the Moon

  Assuming Captain Marks could find plenty to eat and drink on Older’s Bed. Water was in abundance and food was every green thing he saw. Kia and Alex left him there. Dread of what they would find on Wayferra tempted them to linger but that would only put off the inevitable. 

  They had no way of knowing that these alien interlopers would not snap them up as well. Both secretly hoped they would, at least they would know what happened to their friends, and maybe they could even help them.

 So when they sliced away from Older’s Bed and saw a string of silver bowls hanging in the distance just ‘inches’ above the horizon they just shrugged and kept on flying. Fighting these alien beasts was far preferable to wading through the carnage waiting for them at Wayferra.

  At first, the bowls simply hovered in place. However as they drew near they began to separate spreading and rising until they had formed a perfect ring above them. Kia and Alex stopped flying and positioned themselves back to back. They had no weapons but for some unknown reason that did not worry them. But then what else could they do, but watch and wait. They did not have to wait long.

   A bowl a hundred feet from Kia’s right side broke formation and streaked down toward them. Kia spun in its direction, ready to dart away at any moment. She had no idea how fast its’ light weapon was, so when it flashed in her face it had already struck her chest.

  A white -hot bolt of pain burned through her breastbone, bore deep into her heart, then spread though out her body like flames whipping through dry grass.

 Her body bowed. Her mind blinked out then something quite strange happened. Suddenly she was sitting across from Kian in a tube car. His eyes looked right through her, but did not see her. Fearing she was dead and fearing death was about to snatch her away, she lunged toward Kian.

  He fell back against the seat, unconscious. His body slumped. The tube car continued toward the Central Command while on Chimera Kian awoke in Kia’s body.

  “Kia,” he heard a man’s say.

  Kian said no. But Kia said yes. She cracked her eye lids open and realized she was laying in Alexander’s lap, beneath a tall pine tree.

  Alexander could not hear Kian, but he heard Kia.

  “I thought you were dead,” Alexander said, stroking the hair from her face as he spoke.

  Kian could feel his hands on Kia’s face. He did not like it. He jerked away.

  Kia’s body jerked and Kia suddenly knew Kian was inside her.

  “Kian,” She asked.

  “Yes, where am I?” His words echoed through her mind but never made it outside her head.

  Kia pulled away from Alexander, who was utterly perplexed.

 “Kian’s not here,” he said trying to get her to lie back down.

  She shook her head and pushed his hands away. “Oh yes he is Alexander. He’s in my head, as well as my heart. “I heard him Alex.”

 Kia shifted her weight to her knees as Kian took control of her body just long enough to look around.

  “Is it true,” Kian asked, “is Chimera gone?”

  “Yes,” Kia answered. “The Karkins took all of them, they may all be dead. I don’t know!”

  Alexander still did not understand what was happening right in front of him. “Kia, who are you talking to?”

 “Kian Alex, I’m talking to Kian.” She said reclaiming her body as Kian released it.  

 “I’m going to get them,” Kian declared.

  “But the Karkins,” Kia replied answering Kian, “have ships and terrible weapons. We can’t stop them.”

  “Not that terrible Kia,” Alexander said, thinking she was talking to him, “you don’t remember?”

  “Remember what Alexander,” Kia asked sharply, as confusion morphed into irritation.

  “The Bowl, the Karkin ship,” Alex answered, “You blew it apart. It fired a beam at you. Your body sucked it right out of the air. Then your eyes, your beautiful violet eyes turned blood red just before two bright crimson beams shot right out of from them. They struck their ship and obliterated it. Then you passed out, I caught you just before the other ships flew away. You did it Kia.”

  “Yes Alex but not soon enough.” Kia answered as she felt Kian stir deep inside her mind. He was collecting her memories. She wilted back into Alex’s lap as vertigo overcame her.

 “Sorry Kia,” Kian’s voice boomed in her mind. “There is so much I need to learn, before I can set things right. There, I think I got it. The chamber, your transformation took two months. You and Alex are weapons now, and by the way, the Karkins are not aliens just cowardly sadistic technocrats, the Company-The Karkins are just another fiction, another mask for them to hide behind.”

  “Our makers are the Company,” Kia asked. She turned toward Alex. “Yes Kia, they are,” Kian answered then receded, sensing she needed to talk.

  “Alex, now Kian knows everything we do, and so much more,” she hesitated as a smile stretched across her face. She was assuring Kian that he could use his new gift to their advantage and in a very big way. She bowed upward, then fell back into Alex lap, “He’s gone. He has much to do. But we’ll see him soon.”