THE WATCHERS TRILOGY: Caleb (book I)

CHAPTER VII

Sa nanlalabong mga mata ay pilit inaaninag ni Autumn ang paligid niya. Hindi niya alam kung papaano siya nakarating sa lugar na iyon pero pagkamulat niya ng kanyang mga mata ay iyon na ang bumungad sa kanya.

The blurred images in front of her added to the nausea that she was feeling after that long hellish flight. Flight! Yes! She had been flying.

Kahit na nahihirapang iklaro ang kanyang paningin ay pinilit ng dalaga na sipatin kung ano ang mga itim na nakapalibot sa kanya. Nasa isang mataas na bahagi siya sa lugar na iyon. Natatanaw niya ang paligid. The place wasn't open. It was as if she was inside a humongous arena. From her blurred vision, she spotted sime streak of gold, white, silver and black. It reminded her so much of the O2World Arena in London. Except this one was far from being modern.

Unti-unting luminaw ang paningin ni Autumn. She silently cursed for the abrupt change of her vision. She wasn't prepared by the sudden white light that hit her face. Ipinikit niya nang ilang sandali ang mga mata para i-accustom ang kanyang paningin. Unti-unting iminulat ni Autumn ang kanyang mga mata. She raised her hand in attempt to shield her eyes from the light, but there was none. Ibinaba niya ang kamay at inilibot ang tingin sa paligid. Far below her were thousands of black dot-looking beings.

Kung saan siya nakatayo ngayon ay nagmistulang mga langgam ang mga naggagalawang nilalang sa ibaba. Muling iniangat ni Autumn ang kanyang paningin at sinipat ang stadium kung saan siya naroroon. It indeed looked like the O2World Arena since Autumn was able to watch a concert there last last year. Ang pinagkaiba lamang ay ang stadium na ito ay pinalilibutan ng mga dingding na gawa na pinaghalong kulay ng pilak at ginto.

There were carvings on the wall of different images of people with wings. Wings! She decided that they were possibly angels. Pinalibot niya ang tingin sa dingding ng stadium. Iba-iba ang mga eksena na nakakurba sa dingding. Mayroong mga anghel na may dalang mga trompeta, mayroong may mga armas katulad ng espada. Ang sadyang nakakuha ng pansin ni Autumn ay ang nasa isang bahagi ng stadium. Naka-ukit doon ang imahe ng isang anghel at isang nilalang na kung pagbibistahan niya ng husto ay maihahalintulad niya sa alien na napapuod niya sa mga pelikula. The angel was wearing an armor that looked like that from the movies about Ancient Greece while the creature was bare in its naked horror. The two beings in the carving were fighting. Beside that image was the same angel and scary-looking creature. Ang pinagkaiba lamang ay nakabaon na ngayon ang tila matalim na espada ng anghel sa tiyan ng halimaw. A gasp involuntarily escaped Autumn's lips.

Iniwas niya ang tingin mula sa imaheng iyon at muling inilibot ang tingin sa paligid. There were hundreds of carvings on the wall of the stadium considering that the place was extremely large. The whole place looked like a bowl turned upside-down.

In the middle of the stadium's ceiling was not a chandelier but a very familiar symbol. Hanging from the golden ceiling was the symbol she saw in Caleb's arm as well as in his sticky note that Krysalle found in his room! It was a triangle with a cross in the middle. This time, the symbol hanging was in 3D and the triangle was now a pyramid prism.

Caleb said it was a family symbol but seeing it in front of her hanging in the middle of a stadium made Autumn conclude that her best friend was lying.

The symbol hanging was colored gold and the reflection of light from the lamps all around the stadium made Autumn's eyes squint.

Ibinaba ni Autumn ang tingin para makita ulit ang mga 'langgam' sa ilalim niya. She looked so hard down below that the beings from down there made a perfect figure before her eyes. Most of them were male and there torso were exposed revealing before her eyes, thousands of sexy abs. They reminded her so much of Caleb since all of them also has black hair color. Some were females who wore a torn black tank top that showed their tummy. All were wearing shiny pair of leather jeans. What caught her attention was none of them were wearing shoes. Weird.