Chapter 25

"Pa.. Part of the machine? What do you mean, what are you talking about Sara?" Kelly asked nervously. She felt the pit of her stomach fall, the same uncomfortable sensation she experienced on roller coasters.

Sara gave her a soft smile that helped to calm her nerves a little. "Don't worry Kelly, it's not a bad thing. Your body and brains functions wont be harmed in anyway. Actually the whole reason that the machine chose you, is because you already have such a unique brain"

"Unique brain? What is going on here, please! For once someone tell me everything! Im sick of getting half stories and answers that leave me with more questions then I had before!" Kelly said, her voice rising with frustration until she was practically screaming the last words. Seth shifted uncomfortably, he hadn't revealed a lot of information to Kelly, but at the time it had just been for her own protection, but now, it was time she knew everything, including why she had the brain powers of his people and the ability to control the ancient machine.

Seth took in a deep breath. "Sara and myself, we're guardians. Descendants of the original creators of the weapon, the weapon I refer to is so powerful, my ancestors took the machine and broke it into three pieces"-

Jack interrupted, "Wait a minute, hold on" he said holding up his hands. "Wasn't this weapon created to destroy Talenieras? And I don't understand, how long was he trapped inside the black hole"?

"Talenieras?" Kelly questioned shooting a glance to Alex,

who quickly filled her in on what I had told them.

"In answer to your question Jack, Talenieras was trapped in the black hole for close to 300 years" I informed

Jack let out a low whistle, "That about long enough to send anyone insane and drive them on a killing spree". I nodded. Sara interrupted, "But it isn't relevant to the weapon, the weapon was created long before Talenieras was even trapped. It was created with the intent to do well, to protect our planet and the planets in our universe that supported intelligent life. But it could also be used for great violence, so our ancestors sent the three pieces to different planets, concealing their location to everyone but the small group of people who helped build it, and would later protect and guard the pieces from others"

Alex held up a halting hand. "Wait I'm confused, before this you'd only mentioned two pieces, what' the third?". Seth glanced at Kelly who had now drifted over to her bed and was leaning her head heavily into her hands, he felt sorry for the girl, she'd asked for truth unknowing of how devastating and confronting it would be, and her part in it was even bigger then she yet knew.

For a second Seth hesitated, but she'd asked for the truth, the whole truth, and it wouldn't be safe to not tell her it now.

"Yes two pieces were made of metal and lights and are able to be touched. The third was entrusted entirely to the guardians, as something that could not be seen, touched or heard." I took in a deep breath, dreading the impact my next words would have on Kelly and her family.

"Pause for effect.." mumbled Zack, Alex sent him a stern look.

"No he's right Alex, what im about to tell you will have a large effect on your lives, especially Kelly's" I gestured to the girl on the bed who hadn't taken her head from her hands and made sign that she had heard me.

"The third piece was the gift of mind, the what you might call controller, like to one of the entertainment systems you humans use, except it is located in our mind, as our race has the ability of telekinesis. It lay dormant in the brain, until the weapon had need to be activated, passed down from parent to child, and only one person in that generation had the gift. In our generation, that person was Sara"

I looked at Sara, who shuffled her feet.

"Okay, So Sara is the chosen one? But how does that work, you said Kelly was the one" Jack said clearly struggling to understand. I nodded again speaking slowly, 'Yes, but when we were on earth last, Sara gave you the power to hear animals, and at the same time, she unknowingly gave you control of the machine. We didn't know until we got back to our planet, and then of course, when Alex gave birth to the twins, Kelly inherited the gift".