CHAPTER 14 Last Words
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"Freeze!" Screamed Beast Boy as he pointed the rifle at the Guznal
"There's no need to use weapons, for me the war is over, if I wanted to continue the fight, I will have attacked and killed both of you, without even notice. Everything is done for me and really I don't complain, it worth to come from so far away"
Beast Boy and Raven noticed that the face of the Guznal has lost his smoothness and giving him a serene expression of nobility
"Hand me that sculpture please, in the grace of that artifact are centuries of art"
"That's no sculpture, it's a coffee pot" Raven said as she handed it to him
"I ignore what is that, possibly a domestic use artefact. Do humans realize of all the wonders that surround them, Do they have any idea of how many Inhabited worlds are in the universe, and in how few of them, have similar objects like this?. There in our home planet, we have a similar object; Serves for a very nice ceremony, when the two suns set"
"What is your planet, Guznal" Asked Beast Boy
"The name, won't tell you anything, besides, I have no time to lose with explanations, better to have good time with all this objects. Everything irradiates millenniums of intelligence, millenniums of art, It's a shame not have times to know why this recipient has a cylinder shape, or why the table has four legs, or…"
The Guznal keep talking about the pans, the fridge, it became for him, objects unique, more valuable than things of an ancient Egypt tomb
"Unfortunately, the humans only give value to the rare things, for them a gold nugget is more valuable that a leaf of a tree or a feather of a bird" he said the last part in a low voice
"Why do you speak like that, are you alright?" Asked Raven
"The truth is human, that I m dying"
"But why, it's because the attack of Raven" Said Beast Boy
"No, not by the attack, it's for the fear I fell when I was attacked… to the Guznal, have inserted in the body, when we where kids an artificial gland… When a big danger threats the humans, they are glands in the body who spill on blood certain substances that prepare the body for defence; one of them for example is the adrenaline. To us happens something analogous, but the substances that the terror spills on our blood activate the artificial gland, and that segregates a poison, a poison that kill within minutes"
"But who put his artificial gland that kills you in minutes" Said Raven
"Our masters, human, with that they are sure that we will never take the risk to rebel"
"Can you extirpate it?" Beast Boy asked
"No, is wisely located in the most vital of our organs, the ones who try it, died before; the own fear to cut give them death"
"Wait a minute, you just said that the ones who put that gland are your owners, then aren't you the Guznal the masters of the bugs and the bots" Raven said
The Guznal delayed the answer, maybe because he knew the shock of that answer and just smiled
It took so long that Raven and Beast boy where about to departure, they thought that the Guznal will not speak any more, since his skin was becoming darker
"The Guznal lived on a planet covered by snow, noting more beautiful that our glaciers, whit the light of the two suns over the frozen mountains… But one day They come and conquered us, and they inserted the terror gland on us so we can be their slaves forever they took away form out planet and moved into distant worlds to be use as a shock force to conquer other races like the bugs you have encountered, to everyone They found an occupation, in war or in the mines of their planet. The humans aren't very useful for war, but can be used to work on the mines…"
"Who are They Guznal" Asked Raven
"They are the hate, the cosmic hate, BThey/B want the universe of themselves, we are forced to destroy and kill, us the Guznal, who where a peaceful race
"He seems like a mad man" Noticed Beast Boy
"They transformed the bugs, into killing machines, and they didn't nothing more than live of the juices of the big flowers that grows on their planet.
"Why do you speak so much Guznal, don't you fell that you are dying, who cares about the bugs and They, think in your home, Guznal, in your home so far away, think in the suns, that was beautiful and now I return… mimnio…athesa..eioioio…athesa…eioioio…mimnio…athesa…eioioio…
Form his lips a incomprehensible song came, it had a strange rhythm
"mimio…athesa…eioioio…mimnio
"Seems like a cradle song" Said Beast Boy
"He is cold and the skin is melting" noticed Raven
In that moment of silence, form the outside the sounds of the battle came to them and they decided to return to the stadium, whit more doubts than answers