The Keepers Ch3
Jake softly growled at the figure, while Bella felt as though she faint, she was sure she would. The being glowed softly, a feat of its own considering the blazing bright sun. It watched Bella with a soft blue and teal alternating pulsing beat.
"Isabella, they call me Hope, and we are here to help you. You've been selected through divine choice. Your future is a bright one, but I must tell you dear, we must make haste, there is not much time left on this planet of yours."
Bella stood there grabbing Jake's fur tightly with her fingers, her breathing was sharp and exaggerated. When it felt like eon's had passed since the being's last words, her mouth opened and closed several times as she searched hard to try and find the words she wanted to say first.
"I, I am sorry, but… what's going on? Who are you, what do you want with me, I can't go anywhere, my father is sick and I must find something for him before he gets worse?!"
Hope smiled softly at her, pushing her crystalline blue arms out towards Bella as if to give her a hug. Bella noticed that where her eyes should be instead teal opalesque spots shined at her, it made her shiver along her spine. She stepped closer placing a hand on Jake's head and his tongue lapped out of his mouth and fell straight to the snow, snoring, loudly.
The tinkle of what sounded like wind chimes flittered the air as Hope giggled at the beast. A sharp squeal caught her attention.
Bella bent down frightfully worried for her companion. "What did you do to him?!" Her fists gathered at her sides in anger.
Hope gently placed her glass like fingers under Bella's chin. "Do not fret dear one, he is happily dreaming of all things beastly, I promise you no harm will come to him. He's to join you in your next adventure, and he certainly can't do that if he's not at full speed!" She grinned at Bella and it seemed to relax her as she took in his lumpy growly sleeping position.
"What is going on? What's happening, can you tell me please, I don't understand!"
Hope nods in acquiescence. "Yes Isabella, everything will be told to you in time, and as you need it, but for now, you must follow your dear Jake in peaceful slumber. The journey is long, and while you'll be aware of the outside world as we travel, your body will be resting, among other things. Let me tell you a story…."
She then ever so gently touched Bella's forehead with the index finger of her other glass hand, slipping her into a deep but enlightened sleep.
Bella's form slumped over on top of Jake's snoring one. Hope clapped her hands together, then spread them palms forward, fingers spread apart, making a bubble over the pair effectively creating a snow globe around them.
She turned to look at the sun and her brow furrowed, a soft keening sound emanated from her. The six separate crystals one by one eventually came to her and floated about her head.
"Have you accomplished all your tasks?" She asked of the jewels as she took in each of their colors.
They pulsed back at her, she nodded in response for the affirmative understanding.
"We must hurry; the sun is setting at a quicker pace than was predicted. You go on and get your charges in where they need to be, I'll be just behind you."
The crystals then seemed to disappear from the air instantly. She smiled and gathered her new companions in their safety bubble, tapping on it twice and watching the globe reverberate her tapping. The inhabitants stirring just slightly.
With a quick flick of her fingers, they were no longer on Earth. She softly called to Bella, who stirred, but didn't wake.
"Bella dear, I know you can hear me, I am in your dreams now dear one, and you are safe." Her hand waved over the globe and what looked like a picture appeared. Bella gasped softly in her sleep.
"It is not a picture, it's a window Bella. That glowing dot is your sun. I want you to keep an eye on it while we get you further to your new destination, it will help you to understand what is happening to you."
In her sleep her eyes were glued to the window and that spot, she squinted trying to understand what she was seeing. The spot seemed to be glowing brighter and bigger with each pulse, or breath as it looked like it was taking. Then without any warning, it flashed brightly and grew in immensity, then just disappeared from her sight, leaving behind an empty spot of discolored clouds and vapors.
Bella sat with tears in her eyes in her dream state. She felt as if she instinctually knows what just happened.
"My father, everyone left on earth…" she looked to Hope, sadness filled her eyes "are they all gone? Am I to be all alone now?"
Hope shook her head "No Isabella, they are all safe. Your earth is gone, but you are far from alone. Watch the universe go by in all its vastness. Relax, and enjoy the view, we'll only get it once" She winked to her.
Bella laid back onto Jake and watched through the window, beautiful colors and a soft sound like the wind over the snow drifts was floating around inside the bubble. "I just can't understand what is going on, what is happening, how does this all work?" Pointing to Hope and the bubble and the vacuum of space they were currently zipping through.
Hope nodded at her in encouragement. "All your questions, they are smart ones, your inquiries, your curiosity. It is part of why you were chosen dear one."
Bella looked at hope her mouth agape. "Please, explain to me what you mean and how do you mean I was chosen? Who is doing the choosing? Where are we going?"
The tinkling chimes returned as Hope giggled.
"Let me get to that story Isabella"
Bella settled into Jake's tummy, waving a hand at Hope to get started with a smirk on her face.
"Once upon a time, there was nothing. Just a blackness void of any light, color, softness, life. There was a consciousness, but it was if it was nothing but a new babe. Being the new babe, it had to learn everything new. The first thing it learned, like most new babes, is that it didn't like the dark. It was cold, unfriendly, and lonely. The babe decided it wanted to get out of the dark, and just like that a brightness showed to it and it smiled."
Hope grinned at the entranced Bella, then continued with the story.
"As time goes by and the babe learns new skills, it's world gets bigger and bigger. It learns new skills, new talents. It was no longer lonely, having made friends and creatures of all sorts and shapes. Now there was not one consciousness, but an infinity of them."
Bella tilted her head confused, "What happens next?"
Hope continued, "This new consciousness became adults if you will. They made a new set of babes, and look after them. It's a never-ending cycle that as one set end, a new one grows, repairs the worlds and then repeats itself after eons upon eons of time. Dear one, you and yours are the newest babes. The Elder consciousness, they are called the Celestial Guardians, and they have assigned you as the newest cleric or queen if you will of the Astral Keepers."
Bella just stood there looking at Hope with utter disbelief. "That can't' be true, it just doesn't make sense!"
Hope sent a surge of warmth into the bubble, then showed Bella a dream, or vision, just short flashes of pictures and scenes of things in their past and images of her future into her sleeping body.
"It is true Isabella, you are the peoples' new leader, you will work with the other keepers of worlds, restoring the consciousness to what it's supposed to be and you will be a grand one indeed. More will come to you, but for now, since we come to our stop, you need rest, and relaxation. When you awake, your life and body will be much different, and we are positive you will rise to the challenge."
Bella fell swiftly asleep before she was able to glance out of the globe's window one last time.
In a small but cozy room, three forms appeared from seemingly thin air. The blue crystalline figure danced, and morphed into a soft looking blanket shape along the ceiling, emanating a light from within it over the sleeping figures of the two other creatures.
Those forms were in a deep slumber, and as an emerald-eyed Regent Heir looked on them with complete curiosity, their bodies were lit softly in sapphire blue, glowing as the crystal performed her magic to meld itself with these new beings.
He found himself anxiously awaited their awakening.
