Fulfilling Destiny (First of The Genesis Saga)
Authors Note 1: In this timeline, Kivar was killed by Isabel, when he tried to take her back to Antar. Alex is alive and Jesse is not around. Tess was never evil, and although she was instructed by Nasedo to hand Max, Michael, and Isabel over to Kivar, she decided against it.
Authors Note 2: Antarians have a tolerance for alcohol and they can drink it.
Authors Note 3: Special thanks to Island Breezes, who writes the amazing Altered Time Series (A Roswell Saga), and to David J. Duncan, The King of Crossovers, they were the inspirations for this series
Chapter 2: Into the Unknown
Previously
"Alright, everyone of Antarian blood, grab hold of a human!" Tess yelled and took Kyle's hand. Max grabbed Liz, Michael took Maria's, Isabel grasped Alex's, Ava held onto
Sean, and Courtney grabbed Brody's. Green tendril coils shot out from inside the Granolith, snaring the aliens, their luggage and the person that they were holding onto, drawing them in. Within a matter of milliseconds, all twelve of them were inside the Granolith, looking out. Then it blasted off into the sky.
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The Granolith was much bigger on the inside. It was actually a ship that was quite large, in comparison to the six foot diamond sphere in the chamber. Tess let go of Kyle's hand and looked out what appeared to be a small window that showed the inside of the chamber. She glanced at the countdown clock on the outside, wondering why they hadn't moved.
"We've gone back five minutes in time." Tess announced, "Which means that we have a few minutes to find something to secure ourselves down before we take off."
Isabel, Alex, Max, Liz, and Ava started towards what appeared to be the head of the ship. Courtney, Brody, Tess, and Kyle started looking through the rooms nearby where they had entered the ship. Sean looked from Michael to Maria and back again.
"Exactly what is going on here? What is this place?" He demanded, confused.
"This is the Granolith, and its gonna take us to Max, Michael, Isabelle, Tess, Ava, and Courtney's homeworld, Antar." Maria told her cousin.
"You're an alien?" Sean asked Michael incredulously.
"The broad strokes, yeah." Michael said. "There's now point in hiding it from you now."
"I think I'm gonna go find someplace to lie down for a while." Sean announced, looking dazed, and walked off in the direction that Max and the others went. Michael and Maria watched him go and started looking for the cockpit or what ever this thing had that passed for a cockpit.
Max opens a door at the head of a long corridor and steps into what appears to be the bridge of the Granolith. He turns to Ava and tells her to go find the others. She nods and runs back the way that they came.
Max leads Liz, Isabel and Alex down a small set of stairs that goes down to the main floor of the bridge, where all the flight equipment and controls are arranged. There are also several seats with straps to harness people down.
Alex glances at the stuff in awe.
"I feel like I'm on an episode of Star Trek or something." He remarks.
"I think that we should get strapped in, cause I have no idea how hard this thing will kick off and I kinda like being able to walk." Liz says, and the others nod in agreement. Just then, Ava returns with the others.
"Oh, wow!" Kyle exclaims, "This is amazing."
"We can explore later, we need to strap ourselves down to something." Max instructed, noting the five chairs spread out in front of various pieces of equipment that looked important and two rows of ten seats lined up against the back east and west walls. Everyone rushed to get a seat and strapped themselves in. After a few minutes they felt the ship begin to tremble and then a huge explosion went off and they felt the ship shooting skyward. After about ten minutes of turbulence, the ship slowed down.
"Okay, I think its safe to get up now." He announced and unstrapped himself from the seat he was in. The others followed his lead and got up as well. Ava walked over to the back window in the room.
"Ya can't barely ev'n see Earth no more." She observed, and Courtney walked over to check it out as well.
"She's right, it looks like a small blue ball. We've gotta be at least a couple thousand miles away. This thing sure has a kick to it." She remarked.
'Courtney, you remember Antar, how long will it take to get there from here?" Michael asked.
"Um.. Given our rapid take off speed, I'd say about three or four days, six at the most." She replied.
"Six days? We do have food and water on this hunk of metal right?" Kyle asked.
"Uh… I don't know." Max said.
"I'm gonna go see what I can find." Kyle stated and walked up the stairs, Tess and Sean in his wake.
The rest of them began to disperse and explore their temporary home. They quickly discovered that the ship was a multi-level craft.
Soon After
Isabel and Alex walked up a flight of stairs, unsure of what awaited them at the top. TheY found themselves in a small corridor, with two doors on both the left and the right, and a sliding glass door at the end of the hallway. Intrigued by the glass doors they headed down to the end of the hall, and found that an Arboretum on the other side of the glass.behind them.
The arboretum was quite a sight to see, there was several gardens and a pond with a small waterfall off to the side of it. Isabel and Alex stood in shock at the sight in front of them.
"Oh my god, This is so beautiful." Isabel said in awe.
Tess, Kyle and Sean searched the rooms on the main floor, looking for something to eat.
They walked into what seemed like a pantry. Sean and Kyle immediately began to search the cabinets, and Tess began to riffle through some boxes on the floor.
"I think I found something." Tess announced, pulling out what appeared to be a box of Antarian rice.
"Do we know if it's any good?" Kyle asked.
"It says that it doesn't expire." Tess says, scanning the side of the box.
Sean pulled a can out of the cabinet he was looking through. "Hey what the hell is this!" He exclaimed.
"Lemme see." Tess told him and took the can. It had an illustration of what appeared to be some kind of small dog.
"Okay, that's really gross." Tess remarked in disgust, tossing the can into a nearby trash container.
Michael and Maria walked into a what appeared to be a lounge with a couple of sofas, several television monitors and what appeared to be a computer. Michael turned on the tv and started flicking through the channels, trying to find a sports game, but all the channels were speaking in what the pair of them guessed was Antarian. Michael slouched on the couch and Maria settled down next to him.
"Any regrets?" Michael asked.
"I'm probably not gonna see my mom ever again, but other than that, nope." Maria answered. "Who would have thought I'd fall in love with an alien warrior?"
"Where we're going, you're gonna be the alien pixygirl." Michael reminded her.
"Oh right." Maria realized.
Ava sat down on the bed in the room she had chosen for herself. She had scoped out many of the bedrooms, and took the smallest one, not wanting to stir up a conflict in the shaky friendship she had with the others if one of them had wanted one of the larger ones she could have taken..
She spotted a bookcase of to the side of the bed and walked over to it. Dusting off one of the books, she skimmed through it trying to make sense of what it said, but was unsuccessful.
"Whats have I's gots myself into?" She wondered.
Courtney climbed up a ladder that led to the secret observatory, a place she had heard about from Nicolas back before she had left the other skins. She reached the top and was met with a small hatch and she had to feel around for the handle to it. She found it after about a minute of grasping and opened it with a creak. She climbed up into the room and looked around. There was a old leather sofa and a couple of chairs and a desk, with a fairly large window to the outside.
"I think I'll use this as my quarters until we arrive on Antar. That way I'll have my own secret spot as well." Courtney decided.
Max and Liz stood in the bridge of the ship, staring out at the stars.
"Do you think we can see Antar from here?" Liz asked.
"Maybe, but I wouldn't know which way to look. The ship seems to be on autopilot or something like that." Max replied.
"I can't wait to see your world, think of all the different species that must live there. And the technology.." Liz babbled, going into scientist mode.
Max listened to her with a grin on his face.
"Yes!" She shrieked.
"I haven't asked you asked." Max said quickly. "Vision?"
"Yeah, sorry." Liz admitted
"Well I might as well get it over with then." Max said, getting down on one knee. "Elizabeth Jane Parker, will you marry me?"
"YESSSSSS!" Liz exclaimed happily, and Max pulled out a diamond band and placed it on her ring finger.
The group was all overjoyed at the news of Max and Liz's engagement and threw a small party for the couple. Tess and Kyle brought some Antarian champaighne up from the pantry that they had searched, and Sean brought what appeared to be junkfood. They celebrated until dawn, then they went their separate ways to get some rest. Tess led Kyle into a room that she had picked out earlier and closed the door swiftly behind them. Sean found himself a small room near where Ava's was, Courtney went back up to her secret observatory, Michael and Maria took a large room across the hall from where Max and Liz went in. Isabel and Alex found a nice little den near where the arboretum was, and Brody, who had woken up from Larek's influence a few hours before and had been filled in on the origins of Max, Michael, Isabel, Tess, Courtney and Ava, took a small room that overlooked the bridge.
The next couple of days went by very fast, and everyone was anticipating the arrival on Antar. They weren't sure what would be waiting for them, but they knew at least Kivar was gone. Isabel had seen to that earlier in the year, when he had tried to take Isabel back to Antar through a portal. They assumed that they would be welcolmed with open arms and warm greetings from the Antarians.
Finally, after five days of traveling, Antar came into view.
The whole gang was in the bridge, watching the skies.
"There it is!" Courtney exclaimed, pointing at a gray speck in the distance. "We should be in the airspace of Antar in a few hours." She told them and the groupl let out a collective whoop of joy. They were all getting tired of being stuck on the ship, beautiful and spacious as it was.
Sure enough, the ship entered Antar's airspace. Almost immeadiately upon entering, the bridge window became a vid screen.
"This is Chancellor Garev of Antar. What is your business here?" Garev said into the view screen. "King Zan? Is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me. Where should we land?" Max replied.
"I'll send a couple of our diplomat cruisers to guide you in." Garev said, and turned to someone off to the side. "Est valia fentis Zan, mesi Vilandra, mesi Ava, jootin cern Rath. Veriticle granolith haribe. It is King Zan, Lady Vilandra, Lady Ava, and Lord Rath. They have returned with the Granolith. Hakar Fernali etal drin serid gulva hidik firo jootin gival jod coltic arictid Leesa Vail Have Fernali send some of his pilots to intercept them and lead them to the landing space. Zan, the ships should reach you in about ten minutes or so. Follow them into the port and I will meet you there. How many are with you?"
"Twelve, myself, Rath, Ava, Vilandra, Ava's double, a rogue skin named Courtney, as well as six humans; Liz Parker, Maria Deluca, Alex Whitman, Kyle Valenti, Sean Deluca and Brody Davis." Max said, indicating each person as he said their name.
"Okay, we will make the necessary arrangements at the royal palace Your return has been highly anticipated since Vilandra rid us of Kivar six months ago." Garev informed them. Then he turned to someone off to the side. "Gredick vaz lecta rivel pacee! Prepare twelve rooms at the palace"
Max and the others shared a glance as the view screen reverted to it's previous state of being a window. After a few minutes, two Antarian diplomat cruisers approached them, and the view screen came back up. A blond man came into view and addressed Max and the others.
"King Zan, I presume?" The Antarian pilot inquired.
"That is correct, captain….?" Max replied.
"Captain Galen of the Redemption." The captain replied, "I'm here to lead you back into the port, then you will be brought to the palace, your new home."
TBC……