Dusk

Chapter 16

"Mother?!" "Parker?!" We run over to each other and hugged each other. A tear comes to my face when I say "I thought you were dead? I thought you were gone!" "I thought I'd never see you again?!" She says after me. "What are you doing here Parker? How did you get here?" "Jacob brought me. Speaking of which, do you both care to explain everything to me." "Yes of course. Jacob is my son. I know what your thinking. Since he's older than you then i cheated on your father. Well I did. It was a Co worker at work who stayed with me for a couple years then left for no reason so I was left with Jacob and your other brother. I'm so sorry I left you. I wanted to take you too, but I thought your sister would take care of you. I guess she couldn't take being around your father either. After you were in the hospital I lost you." Wait did she say other brother? "Other brother?" I ask "Oh, I forgot you didn't know. Neither did he I guess. He ran away so I never told him. His name is Nick, but he goes by Neon now. By the time I knew where he was, he was with you. So i decided he was in good hands." "Neon is my brother?! And Why did you think he was in good hands?!" "Because your special, you can do things nobody else can, you have the will power and the mind to do anything you want. I knew this would happen, because you've always been like me. Caring, forgiving, strong willed and unique." "I'm not sure what to think of all this, it's alot to take in." "Here let me show you around."

We walk out of her office and down some hallways. My mom's wearing a uniform I've never seen, there's a symbol on her arm, it has the words Leader and Elite on it. Jacob wearing a similar uniform, but his says Commander and Elite on it. With an infinity symbol on both of them. "We are called the Elite, we search for peace on this earth. Yes most of it is destroyed, but, it can all be fixed, but not until the ones destroying it are gone. That's what we do. We eliminate the ones deliberately destroying it." "Eliminate?" "It's only for the good of this earth." "But eliminating people is not the answer!" "Then what do you suppose is." She says with a soft, calm voice. "I don't think you should just destroy the people who cause destruction, that's impossible. This earth is done, it's had its time. It's time we find a new planet. Somewhere where we can thrive." She looks at me and smiles. "What?" I ask slightly confused. We walk to a door where she slides a card and it unlocks, we walk on and its a big room with screens on all sides, a giant table in the middle. "I was hoping you would say that. I lied about eliminating people. Killing is never the answer, life comes from life, not from death. You were right to say that this earth has had its time. Yes it is almost all dead. We will leave it for now, but we will return. We will rebuild and we will thrive. Until then though. We have had our scientists working on something incredible. We have been working on portals. We've got close. We've sent a probe through one and it sent it to a new solar system, a new galaxy." Jacob stands by her at the table presses a button on it and it places a hologram of the new solar system. Incredible. Their huge. "We found a planet thriving with new life and beautiful jungles. We've been sending supplies there for when we go there and start building." She zooms into the planet and it shows all the beautiful thick jungle. "We call the planet Neonic. The creatures their are so unique. Incredible something like them exist." He swipes the air and presses something and it pops up a creature. A giant beast. Incredible. It's bigger than a 5 story building. It's eyes glow with neon colors, you can see the liquid flowing through it. Scales all over it, many teeth. Long strong arms. "This is the biggest creature on the planet. There's not very many of them, but that's a good thing because their extremely aggressive. The reason being because of the people hunting them for the liquid inside." "I thought you said you found this planet." "Not exactly, your father found it and has been making expeditions there to harvest all of the venom inside these magnificent creatures. It's what's inside you. The thing that's made you the way you are. The 'venom' isn't really venom. They called it that because they thought the creatures were born with it and that it was made for killing the other creatures by injecting it with venom, but when in reality, it's not. The animals there are peaceful, not a killer on that planet. This 'venom' us actually a liquid that's in the ground. You'll find pools of it everywhere, it's why this beautiful planet glows with all its bright colors. As soon as they realize it, they'll destroy that planet as well. Now we just need to figure out how to send people through like they have. Come with me." He turns the hologram off and we both follow her. We leave the room and walk down another hallway and into a door on my right we walk through. It goes into a biosphere. It looks exactly like the planet I just saw. "This is direct from the planet. You see this will grow in any environment. That's why it's so unique."

I stand there in amazement gazing at such beauty. I hear something big, really big, running through the jungle, coming straight to us. Finally, this giant wolf like creature glowing with neon colors in him, his coat is pure white, glowing almost. I walk over to it and he backs up gets low to the ground and growls this terrifying sound, not a normal wolf growl, something even more terrifying. His white coat turns the darkest black I've ever seen, his eyes turn red. His eyes locked on mine. My mother just watches us with her hands behind her back. I look at this beast and I slowly creep towards him. He slightly steps back. I reach my hand out. I don't say a word. Our eyes still locked. Jacob moves to almost stop me but my mom puts her hand out. Finally I'm inches away from is head. His coat slowly turning white. I close my eyes. I keep my hand there not moving it any further when he pushes his head into my hand. His eyes close. He calms himself. I pet his head softly. He opens his eyes and their green again. I open my eyes and his coat slowly turns white again. He walks in a circle around me. Studying me. Then all at once he pounces on me, sending me to the ground. He pins me to the ground with his giant paws, as big as my head, and starts licking my face. He finally stops and I sit there on the ground petting him. He's so big! It's just incredible! "Someone seems to like you." My mother says "Which is incredible because he doesn't like anyone, not even his other pack members. He's stronger than any other I've seen before." Jacob says, then my mom continues and says "Beautiful isn't he. Do you want to name him?" "Shouldn't the people who own him do that?" "Well he seems to only respond to you so i guess he's chosen you to be his. If you'd like anyway?" "Yeah I don't see why not. It'll be cool having a giant alien wolf thing as a pet. Let's call you.....Dusk!" I name him that because he can become as dark as night at will. He looks up at me like he knew what I said. "So dusk it is." "Can I take him with me? For protection?" "Well where are you going?" "Back to Carter to tell him i found you and to tell Kota and to get Brea. I'll have to tell Neon about us being brothers and " She stops me and says, "You can't tell anyone we're here. Carters base isn't secure. One of them is a spy." "Kota? A spy, as if.....well..... she is in a secret society that fights crime so i guess anything is possible. What about Brea? I at least need to bring her back here. To be safe. Please, all I want is her safe." "You trust her?" "I love her." "But do you trust her?" She asks again. "....Yes....I do..." "Then you can bring her here. Don't let anyone else know where you went except for that you escaped.  Don't tell them what you saw there. We'll deal with them. Tell them you need to get away for a while. Take everything in." "Ok, where's my ship?" "I'll take you to it. Also Jacob has to go with you. For your own protection." "Protection?" "Hey even though I barely met you, your still my little brother and I'm gonna go with you and make sure nothing happens to you." "What though makes you think I need protection?" "Last time I remember i broke you out of a highly guarded facility. And also, you really think you could take me?" My mom finally interrupts us and says "No time for arguing. Go on, get to it, I'll see you both back soon. Be careful." Then she walks away.