“Sid, being a women does not stop me from being as capable as you! Honestly! MEN!! Always thinking that they are the superior sex. But I'll prove you wrong! I'll solve the mystery of these phantoms. I'll figure out where they came from, and what they want!” I replied back in the same manner.
But before he could answer back, one of those phantoms broke through the hulls of our copper and before I could do something about it, it entered my body, and I fell to the ground.
It was the same dream. I stood there on an open plain, when millions of alien soldiers charged at me. Then when I turned around another race did the same. Strangely enough, I didn't move. I just stood there looking that them, when all of a sudden the battle came to a halt and all they looked up at the sky. I looked too only to see a giant meteor that was about to hit the planet. But before it hit the planet, one alien turned to me and in a low voice it said “use Gaia. save ussss...” and tried to reach out for me.
That's where I woke up with a fright in a room that looked like the lab of our city. So my theory was true: all life is born of Gaia and each life has a sprite. Each sprite is housed in a physical body. Through its experiences on earth, each sprite matures and grows. When the physical body dies, the mature sprite enriched by its life on earth returns to Gaia, bringing with it the experiences enabling Gaia to life and grow.
So I was right all along, those phantoms were mere ghosts who had not made it back to Gaia probably because before they could, sin had destroyed Gaia and shattered it into 8 pieces. The only reason they killed was so that the sprites of the people would return to Gaia giving it enough strength to survive until we found all of Gaia’s pieces and put it back together so they could return to it. They probably just couldn’t cope with the eternal suffering after death. But seeing as they couldn’t return to Gaia on there planet, they came to ours in search for hope.
Now I knew that the professor’s words were true. Gaia’s strength could be fully restored if all the eight pieces were to be found and be put together. Then the aliens would find their peace and the bloodshed will end.
I knew what was to be done, it was my fate to free the Earth and these creatures. I shall find the final piece and restore peace.
I had a feeling where the last piece would be namely the impact crater the creatures had created when they landed. So taking the extracts of all the so far collected Gaia sprites with me, I left the barrier city. But on my way out the Captain stopped me.
“Lara, wherever you‘re going, I‘m coming with you.” said the Captain
“No Sid, It‘s far too dangerous. There‘s no guarantee that we’ll come back alive”
“I don‘t care.”
With that, he showed me to his ship and we left the barrier. As I looked through the window, I wondered if this was the last time I would get to see it. And if I die and Gaia isn’t brought back, will I become a living ghost like those phantoms? Those thoughts filled my mind as we approached the crater.
We landed outside the crater and decided to walk so the phantoms don’t notice us that easily. But it seemed as if they were expecting me, for when we got there they already stood in lines creating a path for us to center of the crater. But as we approached the center, a bright light appeared in the sky. “Oh no the Zeus Cannon,” shouted Sid.
“The what?!” I shouted back.
“While you were unconscious, the Council was deciding whether or not to fire the Zeus Cannon at this crater. Well, it seems that they have decided and I’m not quite happy with the decision,” answered Sid.
The beam was fired and I knew this was the end. I saw my entire life flash through my eyes. But who was to know that all was not over yet. I still had a mission and the sprites weren’t going to let me go before I finished it. So they all jumped into the air and created a layer of protection and they all absorbed the powerful beam that would have destroyed the Earth and Gaia with it. But Zeus was going to attack again and it looked like the sprites were greatly weakened and would not be able to handle another shot, so I had to work fast.
As I got closer to the center the faster my heart was beating. But when I got to the center something strange happened, the Gaia sprites can out of their containers and entered my body. Then a powerful blast of pure energy came out of my body and was aimed directly at the beam. My power, no Gaia’s power was far greater than that of the beam, and so it sent it right back to Alpha 5 Zeus Generator and completely destroyed the Zeus Cannon. As I touched the ground, blue lights came from the ground and touched every phantom on the planet. They were returned to gaia. All the destroyed plains on Earth because to grow flowers and grass. The clouds of darkness lifted from the skies. People could see the sunshine, and peace was restored.
At first I was confused, but as I had touched the ground I understood. The sprite within me was the eighth sprite. Gaia just needed me to come to the right place to recognize it. And now that Gaia has returned, I’ll shall part from this place. Maybe I’ll start planning my further according to what every other women would like to do: get married, have children, and live happily for the rest of their lives. But that’s another story...
