an
avatar.”
It screamed and demanded, “Where is she!”
She winked and said, “Come find us.”
Ariella, Tiffani, Larissa, Gwen and Bill disappeared in
swirling lights. Ariella had to leave Gabe behind, he was already possessed.
Chapter 8
Ariella sighed. She had used a lot of power but managed to
take them from far outside the system. She was now cloaked.
Earth? Why? The humans had incredible potential to give
her energy through sex, but that couldn’t be the reason. She couldn’t actually
remove a Sprisi without killing the host, no matter how much power she had.
Was there a weapon on Earth? Or was it the Humans
themselves, and I was too young to see the possibilities or bring them to
fruition?
Ariella said, “Was the Sprisi right? Is it too late? What
should we do?”
She hated sounding like that, her questions sounded hopeless.
She hated not having an answer.
Bill said confidently, “We go to Earth, and you scan every
inch of it until you find a clue to this. It makes sense actually. I have
been trying to wrap my head around this for a while. I could understand the
Earth forgetting the wider universe over time, but it was obvious to me there
used to be contact. Dragons, Elves, Demons, Angels. All of you appearing in tales
or pieces of religions on my world, with descriptions that match the four of
you. We even have descriptions of evil possessing spirits in all the cultures
of Earth. Even the name differences can be easily explained by the intervening
years.
“What I couldn’t figure out is why the universe forgot about
us. That doesn’t seem possible yet none of you recognized a human as a known
race, that means something was done after that first war so you would forget
us. I still don’t know what, or how, but I know part of why. It was so if or
when the Sprisi tried to invade again, we would be safe unless they came across
our world by accident. So whoever was possessed in early infiltration efforts wouldn’t
know and the Sprisi couldn’t find out.
“It is a big universe after all, I don’t even want to try
and figure the odds on them finding us. It should have at least kept us safe
from them until the ancient Dravii could go to Earth. Then do what they needed
to do, either to, or with us to banish them again back to their planet,
whatever that may be. Unfortunately that is where there plan failed.
“Maybe if we are lucky there is some hint in what happened.
Even if you are too young now, the universe will wait while you grow up. Of
course, that is a worst case scenario, at least on the side of us winning this
somehow. Does that make any sense or am I grasping for shit out of
desperation?”
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Ariella thoughtfully nodded. It’s thin but it fits. Of
course, that assumes they left a record on Earth, they may have just limited
the information to ancient Dravii, if that’s the case… She would have to wait
until she grew up and could figure out what was done. Problem is they would
be hiding a very long time. She wouldn’t be an ancient Dravii for close to
three hundred thousand years. All that time lowered the odds considerably that
the Sprisi would run across the planet before they were ready.
It also stretched the imagination that she accidentally
found the Earth… The one place she needed to go for the help she didn’t even
know she needed yet. Could something have led her there? She found that
thought gave her hope.
She set a roundabout course to Earth that will take weeks of
travel before they arrive. She wanted to make sure they aren’t followed in any
way.
She grins sheepishly and said, “Well, that long distance
teleport took a lot of energy, I could use some…” She just trailed off.
She watched sadly as Bill and Tiffani looked awkwardly at
each other. She could easily read their deep love, they loved each other so
much it hurt, but they were separated by Bill’s
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