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After days of us flying around the world helping with the problems we'd caused, I finally caught a break. I sat alone in my room beneath Michael's manor as I fiddled with Trik's glowing green memory nodes that hung as a pendant around my neck.
Everyone else had gone back to their homes and resumed their lives while we had a break as the humans tried to adjust to our existence. Their governments were undoubtedly trying to figure out contingency plans for each of us, but I doubt they were bold enough to bother us unprovoked.
I had contemplated using some of the money I had stored away from the earnings Trik and I received from Las Vegas and the prize money from Arne's SVVL the previous year to purchase a home, but if I'm being honest, I was afraid of living alone. It was supposed to be Trik and I's home...
Thankfully, Michael didn't mind me occupying one of his rooms until I found the courage. With his traveling, he was hardly ever there anyway. As thanks, I promised I'd use Construct to rebuild the destroyed parts of his manor.
Later in the evening, I lay there on my bed. Without Trik's bantering, the weight of missions from my family, or a problem I needed to solve, I felt kinda...useless. I'd gone so long moving daily with a directive in mind that I didn't know what to do with my free time.
Bored, I sat up and closed my eyes in concentration.
Have you taken up meditation? Viraa asked.
"I've been curious about how far I can see into the future now. Don't worry; I'm not trying to see anything specific. When I first accidentally accessed your power, I was bombarded with flashes of the future, but I didn't have any control," I stated as I activated Temporal Sight. I pushed its boundaries as far as I could, and my mind was filled with a view of an unidentified energy that spiraled around me and shot me forward.
The scenery around me was indescribable. It was like the universe was put in fast-forward until everything was blurred as I was pushed through. Then, everything abruptly turned black, and I stopped moving. I reached out and tried to will myself forward, but the dark presence prevented me from doing so. In the next instant, my mind snapped back to the present.
"What was that?" I asked aloud.
I do not know...that has never happened to me.
"Does that mean I'll die?" I asked, slightly concerned. "I mean, judging from the sensation I felt, that was at least centuries into the future. Guess I should be grateful I live for that long."
I am not so sure that darkness indicated your death, Viraa voiced, her tone serious and thoughtful. If it were simply your death, you would have been able to witness it. That presence felt more like someone blocked your vision, did it not?
"Now that you mention it, yeah. There's someone who can do that?"
Not that I am aware of...
"How do we find them?" I asked, eager to put my mind on this new mystery.
Unfortunately, I do not have that answer. Someone does not want you seeing beyond a certain point and has the power to block your vision. You will likely not find such an individual. They will find you. Until then, there is nothing we can do.
"That could be decades or even centuries from now," I complained. "Patience isn't my strong suit."
It is a skill you will be forced to learn then, Viraa gave one of her instructing chuckles.
"Haaa, I'm beginning to think living long won't be as fun as I imagined as a kid," I exhaled impatiently as I laid back down and got under the covers. "Good night...and thanks for always being there for me."
Of course, Viraa responded dotingly.
13 months later (February 24, 3047)
For a while, there was relative peace across the planet. No wars threatened to break out with us around—plus, as far as we could tell, JANUS was dead—and natural disasters were less life-threatening so long as one of us was there to help. Sure, there were still plenty of shady movements behind the scenes, but the world as a whole had gotten much less cutthroat than it was back when I first began my mission as a Watcher.
Then, out of nowhere, for about two weeks, there had been a series of natural phenomena that began to spring up. Deep sea geysers were bursting, water levels were rising, record-high tsunamis were popping up across the globe, and extended downpours led to floods. It was like a biblical catastrophe was impending.
You'll just have to freeze as much of the coast as you can, I told Naomi, who'd just arrived in south Japan where another massive tsunami was rushing toward the coast. Once we've ensured everyone's safety, we can let Za'Fia melt it.
At this rate, every body of water will need to be frozen, Arne remarked as they flew up America's east coast, erecting reinforced stone walls in their wake.
That'll be impossible if we can't stop these underwater geysers from erupting, Damien mentioned from somewhere deep within the Pacific Ocean.
Damien's helped me block as many of these geysers with metal, but if we don't figure out what's causing this, we won't be able to prevent these volcanoes from erupting too, Za'Fia told everyone. My control over fire doesn't extend to lava.
You think it could be Wren? Tymon questioned from Mexico as he continued his efforts to locate survivors from floods we couldn't prevent.
Her power isn't this far-reaching, Michael said as he raced across Africa to do the same and heal those he found.
Whatever this is, it isn't normal, I thought as I cast a city-wide Stasis Field over a city in Hawaii suffering from unnatural heavy rain from a passing storm.
Suddenly, my body shivered as we all sensed an unbelievably enormous source of power approaching the planet. I observed as the water outside my Stasis Field began to rise instead of fall.
Please tell me everyone feels that, Naomi sent out.
Is that real..., Za'Fia said in disbelief.
We're intercepting it, I declared, not wanting whatever that thing was to make things worse by encountering a populated area. Its trajectory is toward the Atlantic. That's where we'll meet.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, gained altitude, and then transformed before bolting off. We all met on the beach of a desolate island where it seemed the source of power would crash. The water at the beach was also reacting abnormally as some of it broke from the ocean and rose into the air.
Before we could question what was happening before us, the source of the unfathomable energy crashed into the water, creating tidal waves that took the combination of my telekinesis, Naomi's ice, and Za'Fia's flames to contain. When the steam subsided, the ocean went still momentarily before a twenty-foot figure of water rose from the water.
We watched in stunned silence as the figure shrunk until it was the size of a man who walked across the ocean's surface, each step sending a ripple across the water.
Before I could react, the figure had blinked from where it was to stand right in front of me.
I couldn't keep track of its movements at all....Was it sheer speed? No, it was something else...
As the figure looked down at me with eyes that glowed completely blue, its fluid head tilted as it spoke. Initially, its language was foreign to me, but my brain almost immediately translated its words.
"Alas, Viraa, I have found you..." the figure spoke.
End of the Earthly Ties Saga. To be continued in the Legacies Saga's first novel, The Primordials: New World...
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