Hunter Legacy 5 Hail the Hero by Timothy Ellis Page A

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touching down stopped your heart. You were dead before your body hit the
deck.”
    I stared at her, then back to the screen. A
trolley was approaching at an insane speed.
    I looked back to them.
    “Where am I? And who are you?”
    “You’re in your Ready Room of course.
We thought we’d borrow it to provide you with familiar surroundings.”
    “But who are you?”
    “Don’t you recognize us?” said
the man.
    The trolley had stopped, and I watched Jane
scoop up my body, dump me on the flatbed, force the girls on to hold me steady,
and jump back into the driver’s seat. The trolley took off down the ramp as
fast as it could go.
    I looked back at them. My vision started to
clear.
    The first thing I noticed was they both had
four arms. And what was wrong with the man’s face?
    I squinted at them, but it didn’t help.
    The man waved a hand, and I suddenly saw
them clearly. My breath would have caught in my throat, only I realized I
wasn’t breathing.
    The man had an elephant’s trunk for a nose.
    The woman was dressed in antique robes that
vaguely reminded me of hollo’s of the ancient Indian deities.
    My eyes opened wide as I made the
connection.
    “Kali?”
    She nodded.
    “Ganesha?”
    He nodded. I looked at her.
    “Shit! You’re the one who’s been
talking to me all these years.”
    “Now you’re getting it,” Kali
said with a laugh.
    The Norse and the Egyptians had their gods.
The Indian’s had their Deities. I was face to face with two of them.
    People were diving out of the way of the
trolley moving at an insane speed through the station, which only an AI was
capable of doing safely. It pulled up outside a hospital. Jane jumped off,
picked me up, and raced me inside. The girls followed.
    “They won’t be able to do
anything,” said Ganesha.
    “You code locked your suit,” said
Kali. “They won’t be able to get it off you.”
    A medical team took my body, and started to
work frantically on reviving me. The suit hindered them. Alison was distraught,
and the twins had to pull her away. One of the doctors gave my chest a solid
thump.
    I looked back at the two Deities.
    “So,” I said. “What’s the
deal? Why am I here?”
    “There’s no deal Jon,” said Kali.
“You’re here because it’s the only way we could get your attention fully.
Up until now, you’ve not really been paying attention to us.”
    “I always follow what you say to
me.”
    “Jon, you only hear me when I shout at
you. You never hear anything we say normally.”
    “Why don’t I?”
    “Your head is still too
cluttered,” said Ganesha.
    “You do your releases,” she said,
“but you never take them to the next level and work on what else your mind
is full of. Didn’t you listen the day they taught you all this? Or was your
mind in your computer game at the time?”
    I looked sheepish. It sounded about right
for me.
    “You needed a clear head Jon,” he
said. “Only then would you be able to hear those of us trying to help you.
You muddle by as humans do, but you were capable of so much more.”
    “Capable?”
    “You were special Jon,” she said.
“You carry my Sceptre.”
    “You’re what?”
    “Sceptre.”
    “I know something of Kali, and she’s
never been depicted with a sceptre.”
    “Very true. Do you want to know why?”
    “Yes.”
    “Because the only time I carry my Sceptre
is when I bring destruction at a cosmic level. For humans, this would be
terminal. The species would end in a blink of my eye.”
    I looked at her in awe.
    “So that’s why you’re called Kali the
Destroyer?”
    “He’s getting it,” said Ganesha
with a grin.
    “What do you mean I carry your
sceptre?”
    “A human is gifted with the Sceptre
for one lifetime,” said Kali. “Whoever accepts this burden is granted
wisdom and power beyond their wildest imaginings. But it’s only given to those
of pure heart.”
    “Many die young,” said Ganesha.
“The burden is too great for them.”
    “So I failed,” I