Wooden Ships (5 page)

Chapter – Six

A
t about 2:00 AM in the morning, standing near the closet of their bedroom, a faint shimmering of two beings materialized.

“Adam is deep asleep, it’s time for the final dream sequence,” thought E-1.

To start Adam’s dream sequence E-2 raised his left hand and pointed a finger in the direction of Adam’s head. A faint blue beam of light started to extend and slowly grow in length until it reached Adam’s head. As soon as the beam of light touched, his forehead there was a very faint flash and then the light disappeared.

Adam rolled over on his back; his eyes started to dart back and forth under his eyelids then he began to dream...

He emerged from a thick cloud and found himself walking down a long hallway that was dimly illuminated. Suddenly the illumination brightened, and Adam was able to see the walls of this hallway. What he saw was a mural of a beautiful mountain scene and lush forest. In this mural, he could clearly see a stream emptying into a large lake. In the sky were delicate puffy white clouds – it was the most beautiful landscape he had ever seen. As Adam stepped back to marvel at what he was seeing, he realized the mural spanned the entire length of the hallway, which looked about twenty feet long. He stepped forward again to take a closer look. It seemed to have depth to it, and if he didn’t know better he would have thought he could see the trees swaying gently in the breeze. How could that be he thought? With trepidation, he slowly touched the surface of the mural but gasped loudly, and quickly pulled his hand back when it felt cold and squishy to the touch. The surface undulated like Jell-O. Staring at the mural as he wiped his hand on his pants he thought, “What is the mural made of?” Slowly he stepped back and looked up and down the hallway to see the whole mural; he then realized the mural was on the ceiling. Here he saw a beautiful sky and more billowy white clouds, and as he stared, he actually thought he saw them slowly moving. Adam quickly turned around and was surprised to see the mural was also on the back of the wall. “Wow!” He said to himself, “It’s as if I’m in a transparent tunnel that goes through this beautiful lush forest; it looks like a Garden of Eden.” Slowly the illumination in the hall dimmed. Wide-eyed and feeling a little nervous, he continued to walk though the hallway.

He heard the echo of his footsteps as he walked. Thinking he might have heard extra footsteps, he stopped for a moment to listen, but the footsteps stopped. Slowly he turned around and looked; he was afraid that someone was standing behind him. However, he was alone. Looking forward again, he suddenly realized he was standing in a doorway of a larger room that was completely empty. There were no distinguishable corners, walls, ceiling, or floor; it was a white void.

There was something very familiar about this place, as if he had been here before. Not wanting to go into this room, he turned to go back the way he came, but the hallway disappeared. Now positioned inside this white void, he kept thinking, “Where am I?” Hoping there was someone here to explain, Adam said, “Hello? Is there anybody here?” The
hello
echoed within the void. He continued to think, “This is not making any sense. I feel like I’m floating.” His body didn’t cast a shadow within the white void, he was just there.

Adam sensed someone was standing next to him and as he turned and looked, he was shocked to see it was his old friend Scott. He was all dressed up in a dark grey suit with a white shirt and tie. Adam thought, “Scott never dressed up before in his life, why is he all dressed up now?” Then Adam said, “Wait, you’re dead! You died several years ago,” but Scott just peacefully smiled. Adam had so many questions he wanted to ask him but Scott started writing on a piece of paper. Feeling this had happened to him before, Adam just stood there puzzled and watched! Without saying anything, Scott handed him the paper. He reached for it and read what Scott wrote...

It read –

“This is not a dream…”

Not fully understanding the message, he read it again.

“This is not a dream…”

Adam chuckled as he repeated the message again. He looked up and Scott suddenly split into two Scotts. At first, Adam stood there dumbfounded trying to make sense of what he saw, but then panic shot through him like electricity, and he started shaking. His heart started beating so fast that it felt as if it were going to explode in his chest. His breathing became very rapid and he began to feel slightly light-headed. As he tried to catch his breath, he could feel perspiration profusely pouring from his forehead. Standing right in front of him were two individuals who looked exactly like Scott. They were mirror images.

“Wha-wha-what the hell is going on?” Adam muttered incoherently, “And what do you mean this is not a dream?”

Adam began to hear a peculiar sound, an oscillation that started very low, and as it continued to go higher in pitch, it became a rapid – “
wah-wah-wah.”
It was deafening and very painful, so Adam covered his ears hoping it would help deaden the pain.

Instantly there was a bright flash and then the oscillation stopped. The two individuals that looked exactly like Scott changed or shape-shifted into two of the most unusual-looking creatures Adam had ever seen. Standing before him were E-1 and E-2.

Then the room turned pitch black and there was complete silence as if someone turned off the sound. Images began scrolling in both vertical and horizontal directions that surrounded Adam and these two creatures standing before him. The scrolling images looked as if they were floating in mid-air and not projected from a display screen that could have been hanging from a wall, because there didn’t seem to be any walls. The images were numbers and letters, occasionally there were pictures and short video clips and everything was in vivid color. He looked around at this spectacle, the information seemed random, and strange, he wondered what it all meant.

His attention now focused on the two creatures standing before him. They were both very tall with slender builds and looked almost like stick figures. Adam was five feet eleven inches tall and these beings towered over him by at least two feet. They looked as if they had human features, but what he saw resembled a mannequin, with no ears and just an impression of eyes, mouth and a nose. Their faces were as smooth as glass with a highly polished silver Mylar appearance to it. They were wearing what looked like a skin-tight one-piece jump suit made of a tan colored linen material that had a dark blue stripe that ran down the entire length of their bodies from their shoulders, under their thin arms down the side of their legs to their... “Wait they don’t have any feet.” Looking down he saw their legs came to a blunt point, which he guessed they were standing on. They stood about three feet away from him, and looking up at their faces, he could see his distorted reflection. In this reflection Adam looked shocked, his eyes and mouth were wide open.

“Adam.” E-1 inquired.

Adam heard his name spoken in his mind. The feeling felt strange and it had a slight metallic sound quality to it. Staring at both these strange looking creatures, Adam saw characters and images flash across the surface of one of these creatures’s face and then stop. It appeared their faces were some sort of a display screen.

“Adam, can you hear me?” E-1 inquired again as more images and characters flashed across its face.

“Oh Wow! This is starting to freak me out!” thought Adam.

He wasn’t able to comprehend this weird situation anymore; shocked and scared to death he began screaming at the top of his lungs in fear – “AHHhhhh! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? AHHhhhh!”

“Adam, do not be afraid,” stated E-2.

“Adam, calm yourself,” stated E-1. “There is a lot of important information we need to convey to you – information that is of the utmost importance to you and all humanity on Earth.”

Adam wasn’t listening and continued to scream, “AHHhhhh!” E-1 had no choice; it raised its hand above Adam’s head and by doing this, even though he continued to try, Adam suddenly stopped screaming.

E-1 had placed Adam into a state of suspension. He was unable to speak or move, he just stood there frozen, and his eyes were wide open, darting back and forth between the two strange looking creatures.

“Adam we have information that you need to know. Our species have been instrumental in the development and advancement of human beings on your planet that you refer to as
Earth
. We have had an influence on your species for over 400,000 years and have watched as your species went from hanging from trees to landing men on the Moon. There is a very appealing quality in most humans and there are some humans who are still evolving.” E-1 paused to see how Adam was accepting this information so far.

Adam appeared to be calm but his wide eyes were still nervously darting from E-1 to E-2 and back again.

“Adam, shall we continue with our message?” asked E-2.

Adam took a deep breath as perspiration dripped from his forehead, and shook his head up and down for
yes
.

Instead of towering over him, and to be less intimidating the two entities elevated Adam so he was now at eye level to them.

“An evil alien species is traveling to your solar system as we communicate with you. They come here to plunder Earth’s resources for their own selfish purpose. They have no regard for the devastating effect it will have on life. When they have finished they will search the universe for another suitable planet. They will travel there with the same purpose of stripping that planet of its resources. Before they do, they will destroy your solar system by detonating the Sun. This will cause it to Supernova. The shockwave from this Supernova will fill their huge solar sails that will tow all their spacecrafts to their next destination. This is how they travel from one solar system to the next. The shockwave will completely obliterate every planet in your solar system.” E-1 paused allowing Adam to absorb this information.

Taking another deep breath Adam finally found his voice: “WHAT? Is this a joke? This has to be a nightmare! Somebody please wake me up.”

Not being able to express any sort of emotion both E-1 and E-2 just paused; to calculate their next string of information they would convey to Adam they conferred with each other.

This brief pause gave Adam some time to comprehend the situation he was in, and little by little, he began to accept what he was experiencing.

Visibly shaken and tired of these two creatures using his brain as their playground, Adam said, “Wait, before you two
creatures
start telling me more stories, I have a few questions of my own!”

As images flashed on their faces, both Entities responded with a slight sound of harmony: “Please ask your questions,” then their faces went blank.

“Where are we?” Adam was being a bit more assertive now.

“Adam, years ago a microscopic crystal was implanted in your brain. This crystal allows us to communicate with you. This experience is occurring in your brain. To you, you are asleep and this seems like a dream, but this is not a dream.” E-2 continued, “What you saw in the hallway was a glimpse of a new Earth we created for all humans. The city landscape you witnessed is what your new species will be able to create from thought.”

Shaking his head, not believing what he heard, Adam said, “OK, then who and what the hell, are you?”

“We understand this must be a bit overwhelming for you Adam. Therefore, we shall explain who and what we are. Our species are from a planet that is approximately nineteen-quadrics from your solar system.” E-1 explained.

“Wait! How far from my solar system did you say?” Adam now looked confused.

“You do not understand the distance of quadrics. Therefore we shall convert to light-years for your understanding; nineteen -quadrics is equivalent to 1.5 billion light-years away.” E-2 explained.

Adam’s jaw dropped when he heard this; quickly calculating in his head what this meant. With a bewildered look Adam said; “this means if you traveled at the speed of light, it would have taken you 1.5 billon years to get here, which is hard for me to believe!”

“Adam, there is a lot of information we need to convey to you. There is no time to discuss the details of our existence and how we instantly travel through the universe, we shall give you a device especially created for you. You can activate it at a later time; it will give you all the information you wish to know about our species.” E-1 stated with urgency.

Instantly a device appeared before Adam’s face. As it floated, it began to tumble and turn so Adam could see the device from all angles; it had a familiar look to it as if Adam had seen it before. This device was about 2 by 3 inches in size and about
¼
inch thick; the whole device was semi-transparent and had a pale bluish tint to it.