Chapter Two: A Place Called Earth

 Chapter Two: A Place Called Earth

  I couldn’t move, I knew that I was frozen, but where? The only stuff I saw was the stuff you would see on Alacritas.

Friday, January 15^h, 1999

  “Hey Joe, come look at this, I don’t think this is a fish.”

  “Oh my god John you’re right. It’s not a fish, it’s a man!”

  “I’m gonna try and shake him up and yell. Wake up! Rise and shine!”

  “Try slapping him!”

  “Good idea!”

  These are the things I heard before I awoke, and when I did, I had no idea where I was.

  “Excuse me, are you an inhabitant of Alacritas, because if you are, I would like to speak to Humana immediately.” I said.

  “Are you drunk? Because there ain't no Alacritas and I don’t know who the heck Humana is.” said Joe.

  “What planet am I on?” I asked.

  “Oh my god, he has amnesia! Sir, you are on the planet Earth. This is the United States. You are in El Paso, Texas. We fished you up on our trip to Galveston.” John explained.

  “Earth, Texas, and Galveston are places I’ve never heard of. I am Tihs, leader, creator, and founder of six planets.” I responded. Could it be possible? The scientists on Alacritas said that there can’t possibly be any life on any planet but our six, besides the possible face that the rest of my race is scattered across the universe… “I am going to leave now.” Goodbye Joe Stevens and John Morris III.” Then I left.

  “How the heck did he know our names?” said John Morris III

  “And since when were you the third?”

  When I stepped outside, I took off immediately. I decided to take the shape of a younger, fifteen year old human boy. I flew around looking for somewhere to find out more about this planet when I found a place that was perfect. It had things called “books” and “computers so I could do my research, it was called a school.

  When I walked in, a lady asked me, “Excuse me young man, are you here to enroll?”

  I didn’t know what enroll meant, but I said, “Um…yes, I am.”

  “Where are your parents?” she asked.

  When she said that, all of the sadness came back to me, but nothing happened, since I stored most of my power in my planets.

  “They’re dead. All of them.” I said.

  “So you’re an orphan, are you? I’m sorry to hear about your parents. What is your name?” she asked.

  “Tihs.” I responded.

  “What an interesting name that is, Tihs. You will be in Mr. Animal’s ninth grade class. Is that okay?”

  “Yes it is, but the name Animal, that sounds like my son’s name.”

  “Sure it does. He is in room 104. Now hurry, classes started 5 minutes ago!”

  I decided not to let anyone know of my life before Earth, besides my name, of course.

  When I walked into the classroom, the first thing I saw was a girl like nothing I have seen before. She was sitting down, but she was watching me with a sparkle in here eyes. The way her hair just wrapped around her shoulder. I don’t think anyone noticed except me, but she looked luscious.

  “Well class, it looks like we have a new student in our classroom. Your name is Tihs, correct, and you’re one of the last remaining Temporubi, correct?” Mr. Animal said.

  “Yes, yes I am, but how did you know that? I haven’t even been in this school long enough for my files to be processed into the schools system.” I said.

  “Young Tihs, I know who you are because of your silver shade of skin, your blinding aqua hair, and your piercing crimson eyes.” He said.

  Oh no. He knows who I am. The plan is ruined.

  “You will see soon enough how I know who you are. I have waited over three thousand years for this, Tihs.” Mr. Animal infiltrated my mind. He must be one of the surviving Temporubi.

  “Now, sit down over there right next to Taylor. Taylor, if you could be so kind, raise your hand.” Mr. Animal said.

  When I saw who raised their hand, I swear that my heart stopped beating altogether. It was the blonde girl that I had first seen when I walked through the door. I walked over to the seat, and sat down, not believing what had just happened.

  Taylor leaned over Tihs, and asked him, “What’s a Temporubi?”

  “That is the name of an age old society that was almost wiped out by a mass explosion.” I replied.

  “Oh. So, where did you come from?”

  “That information is classified.” I told her.

  “Is there any way for me to find out? I really want to know.” She said.

  “Nope. I’m sorry; I’m not giving that secret away.”

  “Well then, I didn’t introduce myself right. My name is Taylor. Taylor Read.” She extended her hand towards me, but I didn’t know what to do with it.

  I looked around the hand for some sign of what to do with it. “What am I supposed to do with it?” I asked.

  “Shake it you silly blue jay!” She grabbed my hand, interlocked our fingers, and moved our hands up and down multiple times.

  “Where I came from, out greeting was different from your kind of greeting.” I said.

  “Can you show me?” She asked.

  “I don’t know if your kind does this greeting.”

  “I don’t mind trying new or familiar things.”

  “Here’s how it is. The two people slap each others hands, hold each other around the waist, and interlock lips.” I said.

  “So, it’s like a sort of kiss?”

  “I don’t know what that is, but I would assume it to be.”

  “So would it be, like this?” Then she greeted me like a temporubi, but the teacher saw us and gave us both something called detention.

  Detention wasn’t as bad as most of the kids said. We didn’t have to write one thousand lines, only five hundred. They also said it would take hours, it took me 5 seconds. Taylor couldn’t believe her eyes.

  “Could you do mine also? It would make me very happy.”

  “Sure, why not.” I said.

  “But you have to write it like this.” She put her hand over mine, and taught me how to write like her. It only took me 6 seconds to finish hers.

  When we went up to the teacher and showed her our lines, she was flabbergasted. She sent us out, muttering, “They cheated somehow, but I don’t know how.”

  “Thank you so much; I don’t know how to thank you enough for that.” Taylor told me.

  “It was no problem.” I replied.

  “No, really, I should give you some kind of reward.” She said.

  “What kind of reward?” I wondered.

  “This kind.” She replied.

  Then she gave me another greeting, but a longer one.

  “See you later Tihs.” She said. She gave me a wink, and then walked off.

  Now I had another problem, where was I going to go now? I didn’t have a home on Earth yet. I teleported over to Taylor to ask her for a favor.

  “Taylor, can I ask you something?” I said.

  “How did, when did, how did you get there?”

  “Um…I run really fast.”

  “Sure…so, what did you want to ask me?” She said.

  “Can I stay at your house?” I asked.

  “I’m not sure if my parents would like that…”

  “Don’t worry; I’m a really convincing speaker.”

  “You haven’t met my mother. She hates it if I even mention a boy, let alone bring one home.” She warned.

  “Don’t worry; I know what I’m doing.” I told her.

  Taylor walked me over to her house. When we were right outside it, she asked me, “Are you positive that you know what you’re doing?”

  “Yes.”

  When she opened the door, a tall blonde woman was standing right there, and she did not look happy, she looked madder when she saw me.

  “Who is this?” she said.

  “Hello. My name is Tihs.” “I am also the next guest in your house. You will allow me to sleep in your house as long as I want to, and to date your daughter if the question pops up.” I said, infiltrating her mind.

  “Oh hello Tihs. It is nice to meet you. You can spend the night here if you want to, and date Taylor if the question ever pops up.” Taylor’s mom said in a drowsy voice.

  “Okay mom, if you say so. Let’s go inside until she notices what she just said.” Taylor said.

  “Okay Taylor.” Taylor’s mom said.

  She showed me into her room, and then she said, “Where did you really come from? First, you appear out of nowhere. Second, you write unnaturally fast. Then, you appear out of nowhere in front of me. And now, my mom agrees with you once she looks into your eyes?! You also have silver skin, blue hair, and red eyes. Who has red eyes?”

  She caught me. She’s putting the pieces together really fast. Soon, she would know, whether I told her or not.

  “So, you want to know the truth? Here it is. I am not of this world. I am from a place without time…” So I told her the entire story. Where I came from, my private solar system, everything, even how I got her mom to say yes.

  “Taylor, are you okay?”

  “Yes, I’m fine. I’m just trying to process all of this.” She was quiet for a while, until she said, “So, you want to date me, don’t you?”

  “I never said that.”

  “But you said that you’re the one that changed my mom’s mind, and she mentioned that you can date me if you ever felt like it. Admit it; you have a crush on me.”

  “I do not!”

  “You’re blushing, a pretty pink blush on your pretty silver skin.”

  “That I probably have…”

  “Just admit it. I could go on all night, but you would love that, wouldn’t you, just to watch my lips move, wanting more.”

  “What secret do I have that you don’t know about?”

  “Well guess what, today is your lucky day.”

  “Getting detention and having someone find out all of my secrets doesn’t sound like a lucky day…”

  “Not that you big blue flower. Since you don’t seem to understand, let me show you.”

  Then, she gave me the longest greeting I have ever experienced in my eternal life. When it was over, my hair was everywhere; my clothes were on the wrong way, and I was missing a sock.

  “How did you like that, Tihs, with your first kiss with me as your girlfriend?”

  “It felt amazing, and by the way, you have a little blue streak in your hair.”

  “Really?” She went into the mirror and saw it. “I like it; it looks a little bit like highlights, so that’s what I’ll tell people when they notice. One question Tihs, how do you think Mr. Animal knew about you being one of the last remaining temporubi?”

  “My guess is that he is also one of the temporubi, but is in disguise.”

  “That would be cool; you would have another one of your kind around!” Taylor exclaimed.

  “It depends on who he is. Is he was an old friend, and then it’s good. If he wasn’t…catastrophic things might happen.”

  “Okay then. Well, we should get to bed.”

  “Where will I sleep then?”

  “In my bed, of course, we’re boyfriend and girlfriend now; we can sleep in the same bed.” She told me.

  After that, things started to go on more smoothly. I went to school regularly with my girlfriend Taylor. People loved her “highlights” as she called them, and everything was going good, until I met Andrew.

Tuesday, March 30^th, 1999

  “Tihs, please stop talking and take out your textbook.” Mr. Animal said.

  “Okay, as long as you repay me.”

  “With what?”

  “An A on this pop quiz you’re about to give me.”

  “Sometimes I wonder how you do that.” At least, the class does…

  “Thanks for saving me from another pop quiz.” Taylor said.

  “No problem.”

  “Class, it seems that we have a student transferring from the lower class. This is Andrew Smith, and he is joining our class.” Mr. Animal said.

  Andrew was wearing a shirt that said, “I love aliens,” a baseball cap, and sunglasses. I wondered if he was going to be a nuisance.

  “Does that mean I can’t feel new anymore?” I said out loud.

  Everyone laughed. “No Tihs, you can’t feel new anymore, even though you only came in January. Now Andrew, I want you to sit right behind Tihs. Two new kids by each other, laugh at that Tihs.”

  I laughed. “Hello Andrew. Welcome to room 104, the Animal room.”

  “Hi Tihs. What an odd last name Animal is. Why is your hair blue? Why is your skin gray? Why the heck are your eyes red? Where did you come from?”

  My answers for all of these questions were, “For me to know, and for you to find out.” The only thing that worried me was the fact that the last person that wanted to know my origin found out, and became my girlfriend. Was he going to find out too, and tell the world?

  “So, Andrew, enough about me, what about you?” Taylor gave me a, “You didn’t just do that” look. Andrew came out with an interesting story about how his dad is in the C.I.A. and knows where Area 51 is, but won’t tell Andrew about if there are aliens being dissected or not.

  I eventually turned around to Taylor and asked, “Want school to be over?”

  “How? Are you going to snap your fingers and then school will be over?”

  “That’s exactly what I’m going to do.” I snapped my fingers, and time moved forward to 3:00.

  “Did I ever tell you I love you?” Taylor said.

  “Now look at your work.”

  “It’s done! I love you! I love you! I love you!”

  “And guess what, everyone else just saw us working hard on the paper.”

  “I am so going to marry you when I get older.”

  “I hope you keep that promise.”

  “Hey guys! How’s it going?” A voice behind me said.

  I turned around and wasn’t surprised to see Andrew standing behind me.

  “Oh, hi Andrew. We we’re just going home.” I said.

  “You guys live in the same house? How awesome! Are you guys dating or something?”

  “Yeah. I’ve been dating since the first day I met him.” Taylor said.

  “Wow Tihs. You must have wooed her really well.” Andrew said, surprised.

“Actually, it was more the other way around. Dirty little girl…” I said.

  “Well, we’re going to go home now. Bye Andrew!” Taylor waved goodbye, and we started walking home.

  “Well, he seems nice.” I said.

  “Don’t you see, he’s obsessing over you Tihs. Remember all of the questions?  He’s going to find out someday.” Taylor told me.

  “But until that day, I’m okay.” I said.

  I didn’t know how wrong I was. Two weeks later, he found out. It was during lunch, Taylor her friends and I were talking about how many ways to eat a donut, until they wished they all had some donuts. I decided to do them a favor.

  “If you all want some so badly…” I put my hands under the table, created donuts from thin air, and said, “…why don’t you have some?”

  What I didn’t know was that Andrew was standing behind me, with the happiest look on his face. Taylor said, “I think you should look behind you, I think someone wants to talk to you about...donuts.” She formed the words “I warned you” with her lips, and I left to talk to Andrew.

  “How in the world did you, I didn’t see any, I always felt like you were, who and what are you?”

  “I’m going to assume that you know about the donuts, yes?”

  “I do, I really do.”

  “And you know I’m going to have to kill you now, don’t you?”

  “What? Kill me?” Andrew had the most scared look on his face.

  “I’m just kidding. I’ve been waiting for you to find out so I could use that.”

  “Phew.” Andrew relaxed a little bit.

  “Don’t get comfy now; we have a lot to talk about. What all have you heard?”

  “The first night I found out, 2 ½ months ago, I was with my miniature satellite, searching for alien activity, until I picked up on this frequency. It was a boy telling this girl about where he came from, and it was all so interesting. Then, on my first day in room 104, I noticed that you and Taylor had the same voices as the two on the satellite. So that’s why I bombarded you with all of those questions.”

  “Wow, if I’m right and you heard that conversation, did you hear anything before it?”

  “Yes I did, something about pretty skin and someone’s lucky day, but I didn’t pay much attention to that part.”

  I turned around and motioned for Taylor to come to me.

  When she was right by my side, Andrew blurted out, “God she’s hot.”

  “Watch out what you say, or I’ll melt you with my heat vision.”

  Then Taylor whispered in my ear, “You never mentioned heat vision.”

  “I’m just joking with him.” I whispered.

  “Thank you for noticing. By the way, I’m not hot, I’m on fire.”

  I could tell that this was almost too much for Andrew to handle.

  “Calm down Andrew.”

  “I’m just happy that my theory was right, and I’m wrong a lot!” Andrew exclaimed.

  “You will go crazy when you see this.” I snapped my fingers, and everyone was frozen besides Taylor, Andrew and I.

  “Whoa! You can freeze time too! What can’t you do?”

  “Eat a cat.” I responded. “How would you two like to go to another world where you can’t age unless you’d want to, and come back to Earth at this time and place?

  “Because you can choose to do that now, but be warned, if you come back to Earth without me, you won’t be able to go back.”

  “I would just love to see Alacritas!” Taylor exclaimed.

  “What’s Alacritas?” Andrew asked.

  “Alacritas is the name of one of the planets that Tihs created.” Taylor responded.

  “Wait a second, you created planets?!” Andrew exclaimed.

  “Actually, I implanted most of my incontrollable power into them, but yes, I partially created them.”

  “Well then let’s go!” Andrew exclaimed.

  “Yeah, I want to meet all of the little babies on Omnes!” Taylor exclaimed.

  “Babies? What are babies doing there?”

  “Oh yeah, the babies are a part of the product of what I created, and they are all my children, all 3500 of them.”

  “Wait a second, you have 3500 babies? What have you been doing?” Andrew asked.

  “Can we just go, I’m getting cold.”

  “Okay Taylor. Both of you move back.”

  I focused all of my energy into my palm, and thought of Alacritas. When I opened my eyes, there was a portal with so many colors that I have never seen before.

  “Come on guys, let’s go.” I told them.

  “Andrew, stop looking inside of Chelsea’s shirt and staring at her breasts! Let’s go!

  “Okay, okay. You sound like my mom.”

  We all jumped through the portal at the same time, and landed on the most beautiful place that either Taylor or Andrew had ever seen, Alacritas, and someone came up to me and said, “Welcome back, you’re 3000 years late!”

Chapter One: Babies and Planets

Chapter One: Babies And Planets

I bent down on my knees, placed my hand on the face of the mass, and focused really hard on my energy powers. The feeling was indescribable. I started to feel very calm, and then I froze. I did the same with the other masses, with Water, Air, Life, and Death. As it happened, my body started to glow, and so did the planet. Rocks were moving, the ground was shaking, but it felt good, like a great loss was being lifted, but literally. After the process, I decided to name the planet. I called it Vignis, for Energy.

On the second planet, which I shall now call them, I repeated the process, but something different happened, the planet was liquefying! It happened so fast, I didn’t get to hold my breath, but when I finally was under, I could still breathe. I swam around to see that it was only water, and when I went to the surface, I found out that there was no surface, just atmosphere, and then just, space. I had decided to call it Proluvi, for Water.

On the third planet, something even weird happened, it was shrinking. It shrunk until I was standing on a rock 12 feet in diameter. When I looked up, I saw simply, air. And even though I cannot see it, I knew it was just, there. All I felt around me was air. Air to breathe with, and air to share. I don’t know if it was the call if the wind or the realization, but this place should be, and will be named Zephyrus, for Air.

On the fourth planet, the most peculiar thing of them all happened, the sky turned blue. Water started to come from the ground again. I was hoping that it didn’t end up just like Proluvi, or else I would probably drown this time, but this happened, the water only took up 60 percent of the planet, and it didn’t go past the skies. The next thing that happened was that the formerly hard rock became really soft, and then a heck of a lot of green stuff popped up from it. The only thing that I truly see here is Life. This is Life. This is Alacritas.

On the fifth planet, I started to get the weirdest feeling that I have never felt before, the feeling of death. Already the planet was just a large massive rock, but it started to look like something worse than that. The sky was slowly growing black, and the air around me felt thin. This didn’t feel right; this planet didn’t feel natural, figuratively speaking, because none of these planets are natural, but a place for my power to conceal itself and calm down, to take a break. My skin is normally silver, but now it just looks simply grey. My breathing was getting harder; I was starting to feel like my power was slowly drifting away. I tried to fly away, but I was too weak.

A voice in my head had said, “Hello Lord Tihs, and this is your new and final planet. You created me, so you have the power to name me, and I really do want a name. Your power tastes so good, and I want to expand it. Just give me a name and I will transport you directly out of here and onto the sixth planet.”

In an unbelievably wheezy voice, I responded with, “Well, since I feel like I’m dying, and my power is being drained away, I will name you, Mortalitas, for Death.”

“Mortalitas, yes, I like this name Lord Tihs. Now begone, and say hello to al of the cute little babies for me, would you?”

“Babies? What babies? I have no idea what you are talking-”

And before I could finish that sentence, I felt myself being catapulted across Mortalitas, and I zoomed across all of my fine work, Vignis, Proluvi, Zephyrus and Alacritas. Next, I saw the last planet zooming right toward me, or was I zooming toward it? It didn’t matter, because a crash collision was in both of our futures.

When I landed on the planet, my head was aching, and I was covered in what felt like, white sand. I could still see little patches of brown rock, but they were slowly being converted into pure white sand. I looked around, and I couldn’t believe my eyes; I only saw babies. I flew around until I saw a strange purple aura, so I decided to get closer. The source of the aura was a little boy. I walked up to him and said, “Who are you, and what is this place?”

“Don’t you know,” the boy said, “this is the product of your work on those other planets, Tihs.”

“How do you know my name?” I asked.

“Haven’t you figured it out? We are all a part of you, but I was created when you first placed your hand on the planet Vignis, your Energy planet, and this is Omnes.” The boy responded.

“That explains it, but I have one question, what is your name?” I questioned.

“What is my name, I have no name. It can only be given to me by you.” The boy answered.

“Well then, let me think.” I had never in my eternal life been given a responsibility like this, choosing a name. “Here’s a good name, Animales.” I told him.

“Animales. It fits, since I am the only one with those kinds of powers.” Animales responded.

“Wait a second, you have psychic powers?” And at that moment, I was thrown so far into the sky that I had a cold refreshing drink of cloud. “Was, that you Animales?” I severely asked him.

“Yes Father, it was.” Responded Animales with no sign of fear at all.

“Well don’t do that again…did you just call me Father?” I questioned. Was he my son?

“Yes, I did. Since you are our creator, you are also our Father.” He answered.

“By “our”, do you mean you and all of these babies?!” I was shocked.

“Yes Father, all of these 3050 babies is yours.” He smoothly answered

I can’t believe it. I am a father, and of 3050 babies! What a responsibility, and it makes me wonder what it is like on the other planets.

“Animales, can I trust you to lead over these babies, and be their sole leader?” I asked him.

“Yes Father, you can trust me with your life, but not really. If you die, these six planets and their inhabitants die too.” He responded.

“How do you know all of this?” I asked.

“I was born to be the keeper of this planet, and there are others like me on the other five planets.” Animales answered.

“So, there are more of you?” I wondered.

“Yes, but each with a characteristic of their planet, like Vignis’ keeper has the characteristic of a dragon.

“The keeper of Proluvi, your Water planet, is female and has the characteristics of a water nymph. The keeper of Zephyrus, your Air planet, has the characteristics of a vortex.

“The keeper of Alacritas, your Life planet, just seems like one of the mortal Homo sapiens. And last but not least, the keeper of Mortalitas, the planet of death, looks like both a skeleton and me at the same time.” Explained Animales

“Hold on. This is Omnes. Vignis is Energy, Proluvi is Water, Zephyrus is Air, Alacritas is Life, and Mortalitas is Death. Am I correct?”

“Yes sir, you are.”

“Okay then, to celebrate, I’m going to spend a long period of time on each planet, to get to know all of the babies.”

“Not all of the planets have baby inhabitants, most of them appear to be older than the rest of us but they are not, we are all the same age, except the keepers and I, we are older and wiser than the rest of the civilization.”

“Thank you for the information Animales. I will see you…whenever I visit this place again. Goodbye…son.”

“Goodbye Father.” said Animales

That’s when I set off to meet the inhabitants of the other five planets. I named the keepers of each planet. The keeper of Vignis, Draco, the keeper of Proluvi, Puella, the keeper of Zephyrus, Nimbus, the keeper of Alacritas, Humana, and the keeper of Mortalitas was named Inanis.

Vignis

When I had landed on Vignis for the second time, it was nothing like I had remembered. There were dragons in the sky flying around and…mating. The volcanoes were spitting lava out uncontrollably. There were seas of lava, and the clouds were all of ash. The next thing I saw was a slight bit more pleasant, another little boy with a red aura and a striking resemblance to Animales, but with wings and more scaly.

I went up to him and asked, “Are you the keeper of this planet?”

“Did you create this planet to conceal your uncontrollable power?” he plainly responded.

“From what Animales told me, I can name you keepers. And by your wings, I name you, Draco.”

“How original, Draco, just because I have a dragons wings and scales.” Draco said.

“So…how are the dragons, and volcanoes, and everything else in this death trap?” I asked.

“A death trap you say, and then Mortalitas must be really bad. I heard about you struggling and hacking on Mortalitas. We keepers are all telepathically connected. ‘Well, since I feel like I’m dying, and my power is being drained away, I will name you, Mortalitas, for Death’. How pathetic, and now I wonder how you ended up with all of this power in the first place.”

I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to say that he was right, but he knew what he was talking about. I guess it’s time to pull out the big card, the REALLY big card…

“I AM LORD TIHS, CREATOR OF OMNES, VIGNIS, PROLUVI, ZEPHYRUS, ALACRITUS, AND MORTALITAS. I AM ALSO YOUR FATHER. IF YOU EVER SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT, YOU WILL HAVE A LITTLE TASTE OF MORTALITAS YOURSELF. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?”

“You are not good at that. I show no fear at all. We keepers can live in any condition that we feel like it, even Mortalitas, but yes, I do understand.”

That’s when I left Vignis.

Proluvi

My next stop was Proluvi, the Water planet. I badly hoped that it wouldn’t go as bad as it did on Vignis. When I finally landed IN Proluvi, because of the water, I swam and swam until I saw an aura, a pretty little blue one too.

“Are you Puella, keeper of this planet?” I asked her.

“If my name is now Puella and you are the mighty Lord Tihs, then yes.” Puella answered, back turned.

“Why is your back turned away from me Puella? Are you scared, full of excitement, something else?” I politely asked.

“No, no, it’s not that, it’s just, I’ve been waiting for this day for years, and I can’t believe it has come.” She turned toward me, and I couldn’t believe what I saw. She was the splitting image of me, if I were a young woman, and prettier. If only we weren’t related…

“From that look on your face, I’m guessing you think I’m pretty, but you’re pretty handsome yourself Dad, if I can call you that.” she said.

“Sure, you ca call me whatever you want. Animales calls me Father, and Draco calls me pathetic.” I said.

“Draco never was a nice one, since he was raised in a literal hell…” she said.

“I can see that. Now, how is it here, with all of this Water?” I asked.

“It’s pretty nice, but I do tend to get lonely here. I know this is big to ask you of, but can you make me a…partner, someone to be by my side?” she asked me.

“I thought there were people here, how are you lonely?” I asked.

“There are, but none of them suit, well, me.”

“Well, I’ll try.” I answered.

I didn’t know what to do. I had never intentionally tried to create someone before, but it’s worth a shot. I just need to think. She needs someone that suits her. Hello? Are you there Dad, because if you are, I have a few things that I want my partner to be able to look like and do. I’m going to flash some images into your head for you to build on, okay? Puella thought. Yes, I hear you loud and clear. Commence the flashing!

It was incredible. He looked like an exact twin of me; silver skin, aqua hair, crimson eyes, everything! He could do anything that I can do. This was easy. When I opened my eyes, I had a baby in my hand, then it hit me, this is one of the babies, from Omnes! Now, all I have to do is age it.

“Oh my Tihs, I can talk, and I can breathe underwater, but where am I?” said the other Tihs

“You are in Proluvi, with Tihs (me) and Puella, who wants a partner.” I said.

“But why choose me, I can’t really do anything, I’m just a stupid baby.” said Other Tihs

“When was the last time you looked at your reflection, and attempted something? I have blessed you with a piece of my power enough to create 1000 armies of 1000 dragons (yes, I have more than that much power left), you are a rare one, one that I have blessed with my gift, and to become the partner of a keeper. Do you have a name?”

“Yes, my name is Parc, and I am happy to have been chosen.” He bowed down. When he got up, the expression on his face told me he was serious and happy, seriously happy?

“He is perfect Dad. Thank you very much. Now Parc, we have much to do.” Puella told him.

“Good luck!” I said. After they had left, I was thinking about how Parc was my exact copy, and that everything about him is just like me. Does my hair really look like that?

Zephyrus

I set off for Zephyrus after Parc and Puella were no longer in sight. When I was almost there, it tickled me at how much it looked like a giant bubble, but the thing that scared me, was that there was a barrier covering the entire planet. I flew around to look for a way in, but I couldn’t find one. So, I decided to do two of the things I didn’t to often, shapeshift and teleport.

The barrier was completely transparent, so I could easily see through. The first thing I saw was a creature that looked like a baby dragon. I decided that I would transform into one of those. I concentrated on being inside of the barrier, and looking like a baby dragon. When I opened my eyes, I was falling from inside the planet. I tried to fly, but it was different from being in a humanoid body. I tried flapping my wings like the baby dragons, and surprisingly, it worked!

I looked around for some kind of an aura, and then I found it, a tan aura coming from the small surface of the planet. When I found him, I noticed that I could see through him. When he saw me, I knew he couldn’t tell the difference between me, and the other inhabitants of this planet. He said to me, in a calm voice, “Why aren’t you finding the Baccisaere for Lord Tihs? Animales, Draco, and Puella all contacted me and said Lord Tihs was just on their planets, and that he just left Proluvi and hour ago!” He started to raise his voice at me.

“Is that any way to talk to your father?” I said, revealing myself.

“Oh my Tihs, I am so sorry Father, I didn’t know it was you.”

“It’s ok; at least you didn’t do it knowing it was me, like Draco did.”

“So Father, how long have you known how to shapeshift?” He asked.

“As long as I’ve lived, Nimbus.” I told him.

“Nimbus…Nimbus…I like it, it fits.” Nimbus said.

“Good. So, how is it running Zephyrus?” I asked.

“Easy and hard at the same time. All I have to do is lead them, and make sure they don’t break the barrier, and to not fight about anything.” Nimbus responded.

“One more thing, what the heck is Baccisaere?” I asked.

“It’s a kind of fruit that you have to be very quick to catch. You have to pop it on the top of it to eat it.” Nimbus told me.

“Okay, then is this it?” I showed him this red fruit that I caught in a fraction of a second.

“Yes, yes it is. Father, I have one question for you, are the rumours about what happened on Mortalitas true? I’ve been wondering about that.” He asked.

“Since you are my son, I will tell you the truth. Yes, all of the rumours about what happened on Mortalitas are true.” I said.

“One more question, are you going to go back?”

That question stopped me in my tracks. Was I going to go back, and risk destruction?

“Yes, I am. I am going to teach that talking planet a lesson about spreading rumours. I’m going to leave for Alacritas now. Good luck, and keep up the good work, son.”

Alacritas

When I was about to land on Alacritas, I suddenly looked out into the distance. I saw a horrible dark object in the distance, and I automatically knew what it was, Mortalitas.

I flew as fast and hard as I could to try to land on Alacritas, but I might have gone a little bit too fast, because my body was on fire, and the Alacritians had a system for asteroids, blow it up. As soon as I had the thought, a missile started following me with my plummeting into the waters of Alacritas.

When I hit the water, the missile did too. It had created a gigantic wave, and had splashed all of the Alacritians that were watching. It was fast but I was faster. The moment it was about to hit me, I froze it in mid-water. When I came out of the water, I was soaking wet, but so were the Alacritians from the wave.

“I am Lord Tihs.” I announced. I’m really starting to like that title. “I have come to see my daughter, the keeper of Alacritas.”

Then I took off. I looked around for another aura, similar to the ones on the other planets. I eventually found the green aura I was looking for, and I was shocked by what I saw, someone that looked like the twin of Puella, except less, fishy.

“Humana, since that is now your name, how are you, and how is the planet?” I asked.

“Things are actually going pretty good here, except for the fact that the entire planet of Mortalitas has called war on us.” Humana said, adding a frown.

“Mortalitas has called WHAT on you?” I said, full of surprise.

“War, something that is the opposite of what we want. We simply want peace and harmony, while they just want war and destruction.” She said.

“If they want war and destruction, go to Vignis for all I care…”

“Father! Why would you say that? Why would you wish destruction upon something that you have created?”

“I don’t, it’s just something Draco had said that ticked me off.”

“Was it this; ‘A death trap you say, and then Mortalitas must be really bad. I heard about you struggling and hacking on Mortalitas. We keepers are all telepathically connected. ‘Well, since I feel like I’m dying, and my power is being drained away, I will name you, Mortalitas, for Death’. How pathetic, and now I wonder how you ended up with all of this power in the first place…’ can hear the conversations that go on through life, and that was just simply rude and out of line. I really wish I didn’t have to see him in a year.”

“What happens in a year?” I asked.

“The First “Convention of the Elements”, and you have to be there too.” She told me.

“Oh, that. I should’ve made a better name.” I said.

“What are you going to do?” She suddenly asked me.

“About what?”

“I’ve heard that you’re visiting your planets in element order, so if I’m right, Mortalitas is right after Alacritas. Just so you know, the connection between the keepers in an interesting one. When one keeper wants to connect, all of us are pulled into the connection, but time stops while we connect. For all you know, I could have connected at least 125 times just now. By the way, I’ve connected three just within the past minute. Also, Nimbus has been going on and on about how proud you are of him, while Draco is jeering at the keeper of Mortalitas about how he doesn’t have a name, and they got in a fight. The keeper of Mortalitas won of course, even though he died at least 6 times.”

“Um…wow. What an interesting story. I’m going to go now, and see how Inanis is doing.” I told her.

“Inanis, is that the name for the keeper of Mortalitas? If it is, I’m going to tell the other keepers right now, and tell you their responses. Draco says: It may be horrible, but it fits him. Puella says: Well, I think it’s a cute name for a, not so cute person, even though we all look alike, with minor differences. Nimbus says: It’s really good, but it sounds a little bit like a girls name. And I said: I simply love it. Inanis said: It’s better than nameless-”

“Thanks for the info, and live Life long!”

Mortalitas

Directly after I left Alacritas, I decided to fly while using all of my power, since it’s all going to be drained anyway.

3 Seconds Later

I have just landed on the surface of Mortalitas, and my power is not draining yet. All around me is death. Trees that looked like they once had life are decomposing as I speak. The ground is all hard onyx-colored rock, with no sign of life. I decided to look for some kind of aura, even though it is really hard to see. Miraculously, I actually found a white aura, with another little boy that looked like Animales, but was a lot bonier.

“Inanis, is that you?” I asked.

“It has been 30 seconds. You sure got here fast.” Inanis said.

“I know, I didn’t want to lose any of my power here, so I used all of it to get here.”

“I know exactly why, because of the bedtime story, “Tihs and the Planet of Death.”

“Now it’s a bedtime story?” I asked.

“Yes, it is. Every single living thing on all of your planets knows it. Here’s how it goes, ‘Once upon a time, the Lord Tihs had just finished placing his powers in the cores, and he was just about to place his powers of Death into the core of what would soon be called Mortalitas. Tihs placed his hand upon the surface of the planet, and released his power. As his power was being released, the sky started to grow black and the air grew thin. Tihs’ skin started to grow greyer and his breaths grew harder. He tried to fly away, but his powers were slowly drifting away. A voice said, “Hello Lord Tihs, and this is your new and final planet. You created me, so you have the power to name me, and I really do want a name. Your power tastes so good, and I want to expand it. Just give me a name and I will transport you directly out of here and onto the sixth planet.’ And in an unbelievably wheezy voice, he responded with, “Well, since I feel like I’m dying, and my power is being drained away, I will name you, Mortalitas, for Death.” That’s how Mortalitas got its name. The End. Do you like it, it was made by Mortalitas itself. Out of all of the planets, Mortalitas is the only one that can speak to us, or come to us in a physical form. Isn’t it great?”

“Yes Lord Tihs, isn’t it great?”

I jumped when I heard the voice, but I knew all too well that this was the voice of Mortalitas itself.

“I love the name Mortalitas, it strikes fear into the hearts and souls of other especially my sister, Alacritas. Her people are scared of the war that we will start against them.” Mortalitas said.

“Why are you starting this war Mortalitas?”

“Oh no, I’m not going to start the war as long as you’re around, but if you’re gone for more than 1000 years, Alacritas is finished.”

“Then maybe I will tame your power.” I said, grabbing the face of Mortalitas and throwing him back into the ground.

“Now, the ground is your eternal prison, and Inanis, I forbid you to cause war upon any planet, except for Vignis, I know that planet would survive.

“I don’t think that I will be visiting this planet for another 1000 years or so. If either of you need me, I will be living it us on Omnes. See you two in 1000 years.

That’s when I left Mortalitas, but I didn’t know that I wouldn’t see it for a very long time.

After I was finished touring and meeting the inhabitants of all of the planets, disaster struck. I was hit by a meteor on my way back to Omnes. I fell through space until I landed on another mass of rock. The only difference was that I landed on some strange green stuff. I had made a large crater where I had landed. Then right after my first step, I landed in water, froze myself, then I was trapped for 3000 years on a planet I would soon know as Earth.