Endless: An Autobiography of an Immortal

Epilogue

292,980 years ago.

Zah-no'ilita was running out of patience. His experiments with the homo sapien's blood was not turning into the discovery he wanted. He flicked his forearm in frustration. He knew he was missing something in his research but didn't know what it was. Standing up he went over to his floating helper and went through his research notes again. Behind him, unknowingly, the palm device dropped to the floor, deactivating it.

Outside the ship the human awoke from his long sleep. He rubbed his eyes and sat up wondering why he was asleep during the middle of the day. His spear was beside him and he grabbed it tight. He heard a noise behind him. A creature was pacing around a cave of sorts. It looked dangerous. Silently the human stood up, aimed carefully and threw his spear with all his might.

Zah-no'ilita had just picked up the vials of blood to store them for another day when he looked up to see the spear flying towards him. There was no time to react as it pierced his abdomen, hitting his heart almost as if the human knew where it was located. Zah-no'ilita screamed in pain but not fear. He knew that his floating helper could help heal him with just a thought. He looked up at it to see it destroying the human in retaliation. Ripping apart every chemical element in its body.

He was about to activate the medical attention setting when he felt a tingling sensation in his torso. He looked down to realize what just happened. The homo sapien's blood was picked up by the spear and lodged directly into his heart. If his heart wasn't dying, it would have dropped. He knew what was about to take place and there was nothing he could do to stop it, not even his helper could at this point. The tingling feeling turned into great pain as the effects of the human's blood started spreading across his body. His skin going from a mauve colour to a dark shade. He was changing from the inside out as the human's DNA spread throughout his body. The ship noticed too.

The craft started to shake violently as it ascended towards the sky. Its security setting flashed from safe to intruder and back again, confused as to which DNA it saw in Zah-no'ilita. During a moment of seeing Zah-no'ilita's natural DNA he shouted for it to go into Failsafe mode. Only coming back in specific cases, like if it was absolutely certain he was going to die. His floating helper was also starting to be confused. Not knowing what to do. Zah-no'ilita grabbed ahold of it and told it to DNA lock to the new one. It flashed purple and deactivated, having again sensed Zah-no'ilita's original DNA. He let it drop to the floor.

The ship continued shaking while the gravity generator and internal dampeners were cutting in and out. Ascending and descending randomly with each strand of DNA read in Zah-no'ilita's body. The deactivated floating helper was knocked out the open door, soon followed by the palm device and sun charger. Zah-no'ilita's mind started getting cloudy. His...mind. With everything going wrong he had forgot to focus on his memories. It was too late. The new brain was too far different to be able to retain his memories in time. He screamed in frustration. This meant his death. Not in body, but of who he was. The ship's light's colour glared, solidifying on intruder status. His eyes widened.

"No!", he bellowed. 

The ship's automatic defense system kicked on and created a forceful blast from within knocking both the substance device and Zah-no'ilita out of the back of the ship. The ship then went invisible as it left the atmosphere, programmed to circle the moon until recalled. Zah-no'ilita fell to the earth. It looked like he was going to hit the water - no - an island. The substance device fell into the water just off the shore. He fell into a field, on an island in the Mediterranean. Naked.