Free Keepers: Blood of The Fallen by Kenneth Toles Jr. Page B

Originally, anyway.”
    “The Navariums…don’t look like ghosts and,”
    “They look like us. They look exactly like us. The difference between us is that they are bloodthirsty, and they do not show regard for others. They are evil. They will kill at will and enjoy it. They explore in other dimensions, and they believe they can create beings, similar to what we have accomplished. Only, their beings are unstable.”
    “Create beings?” Asia asked.
    “Yes. The time of death and the time of life are synchronized here in Alburia, because each being that is not of the High Order are beings that the High Order created, in the Source Energy Chamber. Your dear friend Brama was created in the Source Energy Chamber, and so was Iron, although Iron was created of different energy than Brama.”
    I felt like I was close to figuring out everything that was going on, but I was not quite there. Asia had a look of sureness on her face. After about thirty seconds of awkward silence, I decided to ask my final question. “Can you give us the chance to fix Earth before you destroy it?” What a question that was. He wasn’t ready for that. He sat back in his chair, grumbling. He was so old that I could almost smell his brain as it tried to think of every reaction to his response. He sat up slowly in his seat.
    “How?” He asked. He had a great point. I had no idea how we were going to fix the problem, but I couldn’t see myself letting Earth be destroyed. I wasn’t comfortable with that conclusion to my short life. I thought that maybe we could eradicate all of the Navariums, or at the very least start a coalition that would continue to eradicate the Navariums well after we died. “You do realize that you are surrounded by Navariums on Earth, right?”
    I felt my knees buckle. I knew what was coming next. “You call them humans, and yes, you are half human,” he said, with compassion in his eyes. Asia gripped my hand so tight that I couldn’t feel my fingers. I could hear her breathing getting choppy. I couldn’t believe it. I knew plenty of people that were good people. I knew so many that did great things in their communities. I knew preachers, doctors, police officers, firefighters, and teachers. I didn’t understand how they were evil. I knew I wasn’t evil…
    “How? How are all of those people evil? I know plenty of good people!” Asia shouted.
    “Well Fallen Keeper, those ‘good’ people are no more than living their everyday lives amongst those who are exactly like them. I mean, think about it. If you were a Navarium, would you go around killing Navariums? Nearly everyone on Earth is a Navarium. The one you seek is a Navarium. She is one that they have been using to draw you two out of the crowd. They have several like her that serve the same purpose. You were fooled, like many of us. But you are safe now. We will go through with our plan soon, so you should stay here and prepare for the new dawn on Earth.”
    There was nothing we could do that didn’t involve a global massacre. We couldn’t solve a problem we didn’t believe really existed. The thought of killing people that had been good people their whole lives didn’t sit right with us. “What if the humans don’t know they’re Navariums? What if they are actually just humans? You’re going to kill them off, but what if they are not these evil beings that you think they are? There are evil beings out there, but not all humans are bad.”
    “Would you like to show me?”
    “Yes.”
    “You have ten Earth minutes to prove to me that not all humans are bad.”
    “How?”
    “Bring back five humans that are not evil.”
    We took the deal. He handed Asia a bracelet from his wrist that would allow us to travel through the dimensions with ease, without going to the tunnel. She had to keep the bracelet, because it would only work with the one who could manipulate chi energy; I had no idea how to make it work, but I could see Asia’s. We walked out of the