Attention Readers,
For those who have already read this chapter, pardon the sudden changes. As I worked on the stories, I have the urge to do some editing on the drafts and place or replace new words on each story paragraph so that readers can enjoy the story. During the process, I will do some more editing and write more chapters on the way and I hope you'll like the "movie" story.
P.S. for bearvalley3365, I don't know what's with you and pandas and gorillas, but for you, I'll add a panda character in the story. I know Big is a cat, with his big ears, he looked more like a hare, that's all.
Peace.
A colorful round stained glass window with a sun icon on it glowed inside a quiet cathedral. Several glorious radiance gave out from the other stained windows in the aisles of the holy church room, brightening the nave where people were sitting on pews. They were all wearing white cloaks with the same symbol of the sun on the stained glass window and each were holding a lit candle, including a child. A man in a priest's clothing was standing on a platform and giving a sermon. Behind him is the same sun symbol painted on the wall. A old man played the organ. This cathedral must be a place of worship of a celestrial blazing star. A religious service was being attended.
"My brothers and sisters," the priest said. "We gathered round here to give thanks to our holy sun spirit, the great and powerful god, Solaris." Above him, a dome described a picture of a mysterious golden shapeshifting bird-like creature with five segments of wings, ruling all of the universe, their eternal Sun God of their town, Solaris.
"For millenniums, he's been watching over us, nourishing our souls with his fiery wings. Giving us life and our happiness. He also had warmed and brightened our planet with his kind loving flames of light. What he gave to us, we will give in return. Brothers and sisters, let us pray now for his eternal light and guidance so that we may continue to live in peace and harmony. God of the Sun, watch over us and keep the world and universe in balance."
The priest approached the alter with a torch cup on it under the Solaris dome. He placed a candle over it and the flames spread over to the cup. "Children of the Solaris, return to your father so that we may reuse his holy sun power again."
The attendees got up from their seats and approached the alter. Their heads bowed their heads in prayer as they too deposited their flames into the torch cup. They chanted their prayers in Latin for peace and fortune. The flames formed into one big ember, brightening up the dome of the sun god. One last one left is a child who tried to reach over the tall alter. The priest picked her up and she laid her flame in the cup, creating a big completed flame that flickered through the dome. The picture now glittered lively. The girl smiled in satisfaction. The priest patted her on the head. He looked up as his sun emblem necklace glowed ember orange as reaction to the flames. He touched it.
"That concludes my sermon. May our eternal sun god watch over you, my siblings."
A couple of guys shook his hands in gratitude. An old man finished playing the organ. A mother held on her child adorably. The attendees began to chatter quietly. The priest left the service room, walked down the hallway, and entered his office. There he found his expectant wife sitting in his desk.
"My dear wife, whatever are you doing in here?" The priest asked. "You know I don't like to be bothered at work."
"Really, hon? Is that any way to greet your wife whenever she wanted to see you?" The wife replied. She got up from the chair, revealing her round belly, pregnant with their first child. Her hands are on her hips. "Especially when his baby is due any day?"
"Of course not, love. You're right. Forgive me, I was just working too hard," the priest replied, approaching his soon-to-be-mommy wife. "My love, have I ever told you that you look more radiant than ever?"
"Oh, you're just saying that because of my little condition. I have been getting around the waist, haven't I?" The wife said, rubbing her belly.
"Nonsense, you and our baby are as beautiful as ever. Soon we will became parents."
His wife chuckled. "We'll be a family. I demand a good happy one."
The priest smiled and nodded in agreement. "Come, love. I must show you something." He took his wife's hand over to a portrait. He removed it, opened a safe, and revealed a golden wand with a glowering orb attached to its end.
The wife peered at it with curiosity. "Ooohh. It's so sparkling and pretty. What is it?"
Her husband pulled it out of the safe. "That, my dear, is what we called the Scepter of Light." He explained.
The wife looked at it with curiosity. "The Scepter of Light?"
"The miracle of all inventions. With the sun's help, I designed it myself out of the minerals of life." He said. He pointed to the bulb on the tip of the wand. "This orb right here contains the spark of Solaris, a piece of a solar flame taken from sun by the astronauts during a prominence eruption."
"The astronauts went too close to the sun to get a flame?" The wife asked with concern. "They could have gotten burned!"
"No of course not, silly! What I meant is that the SDO sent a burn-proof space probe to the sun during its solar eruption. Thanks to our corperate special advanced technology, it was able to take samples from the sun without getting blazed into ashes. We obtained this tiny flame, Solaris' seed into this wand!" He presented the Scepter of Light proudly to his wife. She smiled in amusement.
"Since the sun is center of the universe and orbits all the planets, day and night, Solaris is also the god of time and space." He continued. "With his amazing power, this wand will be able to allow us to travel through time and space to correct all of humanly mistakes and errors from the yore pasts. We could prevent terrible disasters from happening. We can also alternate reality to bring eternal happiness and sinless lives to the people of Sunny Town. With the other solar flame samples, we will create a time machine that will allow anyone to cross over the realms of time and reality to erase their errs. There will never be pain and misery again. It's like recreating Eden. My invention and the Scepter of Light will change ours and our baby's lives forever."
The wife was fascinated. "That's amazing! Do you really think that will work? Can we really travel through time and space?"
"That's right, my dear. Not only will we observe the historic moments up close, but you will even be able see your mother once more."
The wife was excited. "Did you hear that, little one?" She whispered to her belly. "You get to see Grandma!" She rubbed her tummy.
The priest put his hand on her stomach to feel his child move. He place down the flame wand on his desk and laid his other hand on her tummy, and rubbed it. "I can feel him kicking. No doubt it'll be a boy." He said. "We must think of a name for this baby."
"I don't know," the wife replied. "What if it turned out to be a girl? But either way, I'll be so happy." The couple chuckled and both sighed happily. Then the wife turned away in worry. "Ohh..." She sighed.
"What's the matter?" Her husband asked.
"Oh, Honey, why do I have this terrible feeling that something bad will happened? What if something goes wrong? What if your invention malfunctions and creates a horrible catastrophe to the town? What if Solaris gets angry and sends his wrath upon us?" Her hands are on her face with worry.
"It won't, baby, I promised. Rest assure you that everything will be fine. Nothing bad is going to happen. Our child will be safe. Sunny Town will sleep soundly tonight. What's the worst possible thing that could happen? Besides, we got to concentrate on the most important thing."
"What's that?"
"How to be good parents."
Their matching sun necklaces sparkled as they got close together, holding each other in comfort and tenderness. As the couple continued caressing each other, the flame in the orb flickered softly.
Suddenly, just like wife presaged, the fire spark exploded from the scepter during a science experiment, creating a body of massive flames that madly spread and burned the entire lab, the trees, and eventually half of the town! It seems that the solar flame, sampled from the sun, gained so much radioactive energy from the engines, its electrons mutated and formed into a giant living lava monster, also created from the darkness of voids of space. The fiery demon raged throughout the entire world, engulfing it into flames, filling up the gaps and ends with terror and destruction. Soon, the peaceful world was no more. The beginning of a brand new age had embarked...An new age of darkness...