STELLARIUM(BOOK ONE)

Chapter 32: The Crafts III

Xander just walked through the door, it's been eleven months away from Earth X, meaning it's been eleven years since he left the house. He has traveled across all earth realms, he ascended into severe power. It made him look different. His hair got darker, his eyes and now he had tattooed symbols on his body.

         Luna saw a man standing outside with a beard standing outside, she yelled joyfully, "Xander! " She had matured too. Xander smiled, she jumped on his muscular body. Aurora walked out with a kid in her hand, "Eleven years and you got pregnant like that?"

       She hugged him, "This is your sibling, Mara gave birth."

        He just remembered, he lost his mother years back. He forgot. He took the child from her body, he kissed the girl, the little girl asked. " Are you uncle Alex?"

       "Yes I am, and you are?"

     "I'm Lily, Lily Orion. I'm two years old. My brother's name is Luke. Luke Orion."

        "Oh so there's a brother, they had two kids in eleven years."

         Luna replied, "What? It's not long enough to even have ten kids? They're twins by the way. Come in, Dad would be more than glad to have you back."

          They walked through the door, he stared at the house. It's still the same but some things changed in it.

          He met Zephyr at the house. He looked Older as well. Zephyr smiled when he saw him, Xander missed him for some elaborate reason. They hugged so tight.

          Xander felt like kissing him but that would be wrong. And as for Zephyr the feeling was kindly mutual. "Zephyr it's good to see you again, come on there's a lot to talk about right now, it might take a day or more to finish the talk and proper research but anyway. Let's get to it."

         Zephyr walked behind him, Xander dropped his bag and unzipped it. He dropped a bunch of papers with some blood samples of his. He saw the look on Zephyr's face, he could read it immediately. "Look, don't take this personally. I stayed away for eleven years just so I could prepare for a person I've never met or some new journey. You need to take a proper look at this, also… any news? Where's your dad?"

        Zephyr sat by the bed, "Well not much but I realized a lot after you left. Besides missing you a lot."

       "Zephyr, don't be weird. Don't be weird at all. Talk to me, you sound gay."

         He walked straight to his face, "Xander, I don't think I give a fuck about you or your personal opinions right now. We are too old for that, what I'm saying is this. We are cousins."

        Xander didn't understand, "okay I know I didn't see everyone and of course every activity through the mirrors or any portals at all but at least I could, but what you just said right there is nothing but a rumor. You could say that we were cousins, yes I would believe you but not our fathers being brothers."

       "Twin brothers actually."

      Xander stood in awe, "twins!!!" He realized he yelled a bit too loud so he reduced his tone. He said, "How did this happen? How did you get this information?"

      "He said it, I mean my dad. He said it when the lab scientists took off a day to visit Galen."

        "You know what Zephyr, none of this even matters. At least we never kissed or even had sex."

        "At least it almost happened but you never allowed it."

       Xander stared at him disgusted yet mildly upset, he replied, "at least you never even asked for my permission."

       Zephyr sat back on the bed, he responded, "at least you were never my type."

         Ouch!!!

     Xander turned in silence, Zephyr smiled. Xander responded, "go to hell, Zephyr Void. Go to hell and burn in delightful flames."

       Xander brought out his laptop, he cleaned the dust off it. Zephyr stood close to him and said, "I'm sorry, I just hurt you with my words."

       "Zephyr stop, you know we were just messing around. Nothing too serious, anyway. Here's what I need you to know. First starting with the first day I left till this moment of return is what you'll find in that large printed document. Next I need to tell my family about the new discovery Earth HZ. Also I need you to gauge the frequency and the vibrations of the place. We could produce a new theory from it."

         "After all these years, you still have a thing for science?"

       "I guess, what can I say? I'm Galen's son."

    "Speaking of Galen, did you know your father and Aster planned my father and Aurora's coma?"

       Xander turned and said, "Speaking of Aster, who's Aster?"

      "The boyfriend of Astrid, your sister. You know, the man with the fine body and face card."

        "Oh wow, so you cheated on me. Perfect, you just exposed yourself. Just right where I wanted you to."

       Zephyr laughed this time, "I'm serious, I need to know. He caused the portal effect to happen, he even stopped the loophole from malfunctioning. Did you know this?"

         "Look I just returned from wonderland, I nearly died so just give me a break. It's you I should be asking, not me. In between I thought your dad was the evil one."
 
          "I thought you said something about  fighting another person different from my dad?"

        Both of them remain quiet….

    Zephyr took his laptop and turned it on, "Xander while you were away, I got to the tune. You know the one your father had and I got a transcript. It was a person talking, not a sound. A woman. At first I thought it was your mother but she's dead and now I just don't know who it is."

       Xander sat by him, he listened to it while it played. The lady sounded like she was fighting, it felt like two enemies battling for a seat of authority. He heard a familiar voice from it.

      Xander's eyebrows creased, "that voice, the man sounds like Solstice but who's he fighting. I never took note of a woman at the courts… Wait, I noticed there were six chairs, not five. One was empty, it was close to Apex."

        Zephyr said, "that must be it, the woman. She's the one they exiled. That's the person they're afraid of. That's the woman they want you to fight? You are the sacrificial lamb for their past mistakes?! Did you know?"

        Xander's upset, he replied, "no… no I'm not, Apex never said anything like this."