TARTERUS - HELL

ELEVEN.

Anus 11/ YEAR TWO- Tartarus years

Two things happened that changed in our household. One was when the babies were born. Grandpa made Ma go to his place to have them. Neither Red nor I were allowed to go. Pa took me home. I hadn't been back since Ma first took me to her place. It hadn't changed except Pa had spruced up my bedroom. He added a better shower with the blowers. The study had been widened to accommodate more cupboards to hold books for studying UOL 'University on Line' Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry and a few Celestial studies. I missed Georgina and her family, but they had moved on. It was mainly because Year Two was Celestial year, not Earth Year which meant many years had gone by. My mother's pregnancy was different to human, because it wasn't the forty weeks, but many years. When I asked Pa, he said very seldom did a Celestial give birth via the birth canal because they weren't really made to have a baby like that. But my mother managed to do just that. Ma and I chatted on Celestial wave, much to my surprise. She had blown out to being huge. John was a big man and by the look of Ma the kids were going to be also. Pa was super busy because of all the dudes who kept blowing themselves and others up. It was all to do with religion of one sort or another. It not only happened on the little blue planet a few around the cosmos were fighting for land, power and beliefs. Pa barely saw us, but he always came for dinner and chat. Red also had grown and he was nearly as tall as Pa. He never wanted to leave home even when Pa asked if he wanted to go to school on another plane. Red said he could learn everything where he was. The teacher, he said, was pretty good. Pa gushed and patted his hand. Red could be very persuasive when he wanted. He had developed a lot of Pa's talents. Not much of Ma was evident. Red matured early his Adam's apple became more noticeable and his voice became deeper, especially when he was lecturing some dude about his wicked ways before he zapped him with his fiery gaze. Sometime later Red became restless so Pa sent him to Military Academy on a planet in another Galaxy to Earth's. He and his band of misbehavers were often sent into extremely dangerous places. They would clean up the bad environment with their huge artillery. Of course, they had one really good thing going for them, my brother. He could do things others only dreamed of, but that didn't stop them going together into one hell of an environment after another. Red graduated with honours and was made a captain of a unit only after a few years. When I say years, I'm using the term loosely. The time difference wasn't the same as Tarterus or Earth. It was longer than Earth time, but shorter than home. When he returned, he was a mature, young and handsome man. He also had found himself a girlfriend along the way. She was in his unit and her name was Alfredon. According to her photo on Red's phone she was his height and coloring. She came from a long line of Celestials from another Universe. Grandpa had been busy once again. She never came to our place the whole time I lived with Pa. I don't know why and never found out. Red was extremely vague when it came to her and where she lived.