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 Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:46 am
She was afraid of heights. Okay, "afraid" was an understatement. Sheryl was horridly, tremendously, inexplicitly terrified of standing on anything taller than approximately six feet tall. So why she was staring down the empty elevator shaft, feeling the world echo around her, was really beyond her comprehension.
But it's like a horror film. You know you shouldn't see it, that you won't be able to sleep without a night light for weeks. And being scared is part of the fun! Frozen from fear, but unable to stop herself, Sheryl leaned more and more out into the dark hole to peer to the bottom, at the waste land below.
So she was only on the second floor...but it's still so high! It made her stomach churn, her heart press and pulse against her rib cage, and her hands slick with sweat.
Yeah. Slippery flesh plus metal equals really, really bad idea. She didn't even have the ability, nor the chance, to scream. She tumbled head first, falling 16 or so feet in the dark, and landing with a sickeningly dead thud that echoed all the way to the top of the elevator shaft.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:13 am
The spirits we are all oh so familiar with who arrange these deaths had done something very odd for this death. They'd only had to cause a minor malfunction in the elevators doors-allowing it to open when the elevator was on another floor and also give her the desire to lean forward into the shaft. Either way she'd have ended up dead. Either she'd have fallen or the elevator would have taken her head off going to her floor. So now it was time to do their ever usual job of repairing the body and cleaning up the blood spatter.
After she'd been vanished to their realm-a weird place it's true-it was time to separate the soul and body to send them off to their needed places with much to do. The soul was taken to be bonded with a soul that had been obsconded from a place in it's home no where near rome and sent back to gaia rebonded. And the body was left on a ship quite far from anywhere she'd ever been. On a ship she'd wake up in a bed that she was placed in to rest until such time as then. And while this lady did sleep and bond, a child came to greet her-as cute as WTL is..blonde. When three gods did choose her-a rarity it was-they went back to her body, like one usually does. And the relic on the chain, held all the three younger souls to keep Sheryl from feeling head pain. Now we see her waking to see this boy who was the age of four plus three. And I'm getting sick of this business of rhyme so I'll save that kinda thing for another time.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:32 am
(( ...I don't know whether to glomp you or hit you with a baseball bat. xD ))
"Well, hi there," Sheryl started off rather...nervously, but gently. There was definitely a little voice in her head spazzing, not quite understanding why she wasn't dead now. This was definitely not what she thought the after life would look like...unless the afterlife was more like the Matrix than anyone really ever expected.
"Is Mom or Dad around...or any adult I can talk to?" He was just a kid, and talking to him probably wasn't going to do her much good in the long run.
But then again, Mom or Dad or an adult may not want to do much talking. "Do...do you know where I am?" She glanced around, motioning to the bed that was under her and the strange walls around them.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:51 am
"Mommy is busy today. Everyone's busy today. So I'm here to help. Mommy says if I do good I get a cookie." the boy said with a nod. "You are on a space ship called the Samadueanna. You're gonna be a Mommy!"
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:58 am
"Pardon?" Sheryl's eyes bugged. She'd been abducted, impregnated by an alien race...and was now carrying alien spawn in her belly! Dear lord, she was going to die! They were going to eat away at her inner lining and then crawl their way out through her esophagus...
"I...I..." She was starting to hyper-ventilate. Her breath came in short gasps, faster and faster...and the world spun before going black again.
Sheryl had promptly passed out.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:01 am
Diyaka had learned from Dartie what to do when people passed out while he was "interogating" them which he thought was a fancy word for talking to them. Walking into the bathroom he grabbed a large glass of cold water and poured it down her shirt, promptly waking the woman up. "You're silly. Want a towel?" the boy offered, holding up a big fluffy white towel.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:10 am
With a yelp, Sheryl sat up in the bed, sitting with the soaking shirt and looking around again, wide eyed, before noticing the child...
Child...with child...she was pregnant, with alien babies.
"Why me?" It was all she could think of. Why pick her, out of all the other people in Gaia, to do this to? But then that left her to ponder...was she the only one? Surely not. You didn't just run one experiment, you ran several. Hundreds, if not thousands, to deduce a collective agreeable answer.
"How many more are there like me?" Maybe she could find them...and together, they could rid themselves of these parasites!
Oh, who was she kidding? She was dead as soon as the little worms finished growing.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:14 am
"I unno. Let me look." the boy poked the small PDA type device that he held and found a list of how many guardians there were. "About 50 give or take this thing says." he told her with a smile. "Mommy's one of them. That's what I am. You're going to have a little baby in 2 days!" he told her happily.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:30 am
Two days??? Two days...and he was one of them? Well, on second thought, of course he was one of them. He was here, wasn't he? That statement made perfect sense.
But if his mother was still alive...maybe you didn't die? Maybe you just gave birth and that was the end of it?
Then again, if his mother was an alien maybe her body was made to repair itself after giving birth. And if there was one thing Sheryl was sure of, it was that her body didn't regenerate itself.
But what about those other people? Certainly wasn't a lot of them...this must have just started, getting under way in order to take over Gaia! And then, the world!
Sheryl's head was starting to hurt. "It just...doesn't make any sense," she muttered, sounding defeated, slumping against the pillows on the bed.
"Will I ever get to go home again?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:33 am
"Well yeah. We're taking you home now. You just got put here so it takes us a while to find your proper location." the boy told her with a nod. Then he thought for a sec. "I didn't tell you what the baby is yet did I?" he said, blinking a few times.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:40 am
Well...then...if they were taking her home now, did that mean that they'd just wait until she had the baby, come and take it, and then leave her alone? Maybe...maybe she could go to a hypnotist and just forget this whole event ever happened! Yes, yes...maybe there was a light at the end of this tunnel! She wouldn't remember this little, polite and sweet monstrosity and this alien invasion...
But while she was there at the hypnotist, she made the note, that she would have to be made to not be afraid when their undoubtedly evil plan came full term and the aliens destroyed Gaia.
"No," she muttered meekly, but then rested her chin upon her knees as she hugged her arms around her legs. "What sort of alien...infant...am I going to give birth to?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:45 am
"Um............I dunno really. A godling I know that much. Maybe the funny computer thing will tell us what deity your relic is a symbol of and we can look them up in the book." Dia said, climbing onto the bed and poking buttons on the PDA causing relics to flash by till one that looked like the relic around Sheryl's neck came up. The relic's picture then shrunk, showing it's information.
Dia looked at it. Dartie had taught him a few words and things. "I can't read it. I think that's a 3 though." he said looking close. "Can you read it?"
The page said as follows-
Number of Souls Contained: 3
Deity(ies) Over: Whim, Inspiration and Muse
Guardian: Sheryl
Genders: Female(Whim), Male(Inspiration), and Female(Muse)
Dia poked it. "I think that says you're gonna have 3."
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:26 pm
"Three...what?" Relics, deities, godlings...not words Sheryl had expected to hear from the little mouth of a alien child spawn. When she leaned over to peer at the PDA, she felt the relic poking into her collar bone.
"This just doesn't make any sense," she muttered, glancing up as the image of her newest jewelry addition faded away for the information. A quick scan, she'd glance at the little boy with a very perplexed look on her face.
"So...you're not aliens?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:39 pm
"What's an alien?" Diyaka asked, bouncing his pointy ears. He'd never heard the word before really. This woman was silly.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:54 pm
"Evidently, not you," Sheryl muttered quietly, looking again at the PDA. Ok, so if they weren't aliens then what were they? Children, evidently, that someone was expecting her to raise. Three of them no less...did all these forced parenting episodes end this way? Mildly she wondered if she had a choice in the matter. Then again, if she hadn't had a choice when they were aliens, why would she assume she had a choice now?
"You said there was a book around here about these guys, right?" She fiddled again the the relic around her neck. "Can I see it please?"
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