Chapter 11 - The Ghosts Of Another World

Black.

It was black.

Everything.

Everything was black.

How long has this lasted.

How long will it last.

The black.

Slowly. Slowly but surely. It did. Well, it's not that the blackness disappeared. But small white lights. Slowly came into view. They were moving slowly across Jane's vision. It seemed to go on forever. Like a piece of artwork. The start slowly flowed past, top to bottom. Jane couldn't tell how long it went on for. But it could have been a millennium. She felt compelled to turn her head. As she did there was a planet. It was a ringed planet, but not Saturn. The rings were different. And the colours. The colours were fantastic. Rather than the greens, blues and yellows of earth it was pinks, purples, colours she couldn't even describe, colours she hadn't seen before. It was beautiful.

Over the horizon of the planet there was a star. It looked like the main sun of this planet. But it wasn't a sun. It was swirly like a corkscrew. For some reason the areas in between the sun were not illuminated they were absolutely pitch black. As black as it had been before this crazy… Vision started.

She floated towards the planet. There was a warming feeling. Her vision seemed to glow. It gave Jane a giddy attitude to the vision.

This isn't a feeling. I'm entering the atmosphere. I should be on fire.

The warming feeling disappeared. She was now floating around the planet. Molten silver lakes. Shimmering hills of purple. The oddest flora and fauna. Weirder than her deepest imagination. Tentacle plants of a colour similar to magenta but not a colour she had ever seen. Large six legged dinosaur like creatures roaming across hills in a heard. Giant spider like things rolling around in a ball to then stop and uncurl and eat some smaller thing. In the distance absolutely ginormous long legs strolled slowly across the horizon, going up into the clouds out of sight before you could see what was on the top of them. The clouds were a sulphur like colour and even, despite being vapour like ours, still seemed to have that porous, matte quality to them. Everything else had a shiny metallic glaze to it. Even the creatures.

Jane floated out over one of the silver lakes. Once again she felt compelled to look down and did.

What she saw looking back at her in the reflection of this lake was a bird, whale thing. Like a blue whale but with a rounded tail and a longer, thinner neck. It's wings were also rounded. It's skin was the deepest black. It was flying across the sky. It was magnificent.

Behind it was five or six smaller versions but they had little white dots on them. The flock of whale birds seemed to stick out weirdly in the environment. Everything else seemed to be from the same colour scheme.

Camouflage! They fly in space. Space whales!

The largest one, which seemed to be her vantage point in this alien world. Had the head of venom. Large white eyes, big mouth with a jaw that went back oddly far and was covered in the green slime.

Suddenly, the blackness returned.

Then cleared. Quicker than before. But still an indeterminate amount of time had past.

The sky above her glowed purple. Stretched out in front of her were hundreds of thousands of humanoid creatures. In a long thin valley that seemed to go on forever. They were Lankier with a deep green, leathery skin. They had animalistic faces, kind of like a coyote but their teeth seemed to be part of their skin. They held spears, maybe they were guns, the weapons were halfway in between.

Jane held up her arms and let out an alien scream. Her arms were extremely muscled and extremely long. All the things in front of her did a similar thing. Some jumping, some shaking, a handful, especially near the front remained still and stowic.

Jane's movements felt like they were hers, but it was more of a led movement, like she didn't have a choice. It's just sort of happened.

Still with her arms in the air, she turned around. What stood, towering overher was a statue, made out of the shiniest gold. It stood out dramatically from the purple and dark areas around her. It was of a figure similar to the crowd, now behind her. Again it had venom's head. But it had about 12 pairs of boobs, of steadily decreasing size down the front of its body.

Suddenly, the blackness returned.

Then cleared. Quicker than before. But still an indeterminate amount of time had past.

Her adrenaline shot up. She was surrounded by spider like creatures, they were a brilliant pink and seemed big. She didn't know what gave her that feeling. She was stabbing one of them with her arm. It was black. She held out another three arms and three balls of black goo shot out, covering three of the creatures. Then they jumped onto another one. As they left their previous creatures, they were now curled up in a ball. She felt smug. The fourth one curled up into a ball. And the three black globs combined into a single one and the shot back towards Jane, merging back into her arm. She then had a small feeling of pleasure. Which turned quickly to anger, she span around quickly extending four of her arms, they were more blade like than they were before. She beheaded and sliced off some of the arms and several of the creatures heads. Again she felt what can only be described as pleasure.

Suddenly, the blackness returned.

Then cleared. Quicker than before.

Jane was once again floating through space. In front of her was a cloud. It seemed like it was glowing. Time seemed different, she didn't know why. The stars in the background seemed to move quickly. The cloud started crumbling together, very slowly. It was forming a lump in the middle. The ball in the middle got bigger and bigger. Once it got to a certain size it sparked into a bright light. About half of the dust was left, it slowly formed a disc. Then several balls formed till all the dust was used up.

The formation of a solar system, right before my eyes.

The planets orbited at an extremely fast rate. It lasted what seemed like a few minutes. Then the sun started getting bigger and bigger it absorbed a few of the inner planets. It kept getting bigger and bigger and steadily more orange. A couple more planets disappeared. Then it became a deep beautiful red. Then it shrunk… a cloud of dust was dispersed away. And it's became a cold white dwarf.

Jane was left there, hanging in the dark of space again.

Then black.

Jane was next to an orange… what could only be described as a blob. It came closer to her. It attached to her and her to it. Very quickly she felt an organic sensation, all over her body, like she was cuming from everywhere. Then a gleeful feeling. Black tendrils came out of her in loads of spikes. Stabbing through the orange blob and seemingly absorbing it. Jane felt powerful. Like she could destroy the world.

Black again.

She was shooting through space again. Much faster than the space whale. But she had the strangest feeling of deja vu. Catapulting past galaxies, stars, neutron stars, black holes. Something familiar was visible.

My solar system

Jane shot through all of it quite quickly. And plummeted into earth.