It was not threaten, by what it could sense outside it immediate environment. All it could sense was lot of turmoil, lot of heat and tremendous amounts of violence. Its slumber was deep, and often, a nap would be about a million year, a deep sleep would be 10’s of million years.
Once in a while, It would try and remember, remember its past, the reason for Its existence. But it was not very bothered, beyond the fact that it was not of this planet, and it had travelled for millions of year though the cold and silence of the space encased as part of an asteroid. The asteroid had crashed on to a hot planet. Over a period of time the crater caused by the asteroid was partly filled up, filled up initially with the molten material, and latter on with organic material.
It feed on all the material filling up the crater while it was sleeping, slowing absorbing the matter through its multipurpose exoskeleton, and growing in size from a relatively small creature to a huge animal. The eons were moving on the surface of the planet, the planet was evolving and from tiny one celled organism to huge dinosaurs , the ecology of the planet was experimenting, creature were being brought into existence and getting taken out of existence. None of these intermediate creatures disturbed It.
Then about 2000 year ago, a tiny slice of time for It, It became aware of a species evolving and who seems to be progressing on a path which It defined as a potential treat for It’s existence in the future. For the first time It started to move its huge body in the crater and like a large slug, wriggled to the surface of the crater so far above it, it took the creature a long time to reach the top, as it had to push through all the matter which has filled up in the crater.
It looked around, and was not very impressed with what it saw on the surface of the planet. After laying on the surface for some time and sending out energy from its feelers on the surface of its skin, It was able to sense that though this species was intelligent, it was far from being a treat to it. It goes back into its crater, and this time It ensures that the path to the surface is kept clean.
But the rains and the melting snows of the surrounding mountains soon filled up the crater, but this did not reduce the efficiency of its senses, as it was in tune with the energy of the water.
For a further short period of time there was nothing which excited the thoughts of It.
It felt the electromagnetic waves for the first time and It was really startled by this sudden spurt of energy, from an unknown source, and was immensely excited and at the same time it triggered of a wave of anxiety, an emotion it was feeling for the first time, and It translated it into something which it could understand, fear, which in turn was converted to anger.
It came out of the pit once more. When it start sensing the surroundings, It was shocked when it compared the current readings to that of the last visit, the entire topography was different, one species seems to have become a dominant species and they were dominating the environment in a very suppressive and destructive way. It sent its sensors further out and it could sense that out there it was even more of the same, but a surprising fact it had observed was that the development was not even all over, there were a few patches of planet which seem to be more evolved than the other, and the species seems to feel that it was the only intelligent species in this universe. It made a specific note of this disparity as a possible strategy to overcome the species and return to being the true lord of this planet.
It was really angry now.
It went on a rampage, in its immediate vicinity. Miles of forest around its habitat was vaporized, vaporized totally, as if they had never been in existence.
This event triggered off alarm bells at the various governments and military headquarters, as their different satellite captured this release of enormous electromagnetic radiation, with no accompanying recording of terrestrial tremors, in any of the recording stations at different parts of the world. The geniuses of each country were salivating with the thoughts of a new weapon system which they could build if they got their hand on this technology, and the governments of every country was worried that the country in which this event had taken place was testing out a new weapon, and felt threatened.
All of them focused their satellites on the spot where the event had taken place. All they could see at the epicenter was a deep crater; the devices measured the depth of this crater to about half a mile. The government of the effected country asked the United Nations for help, and a task force of scientist was assembled from all over the world. They reached the place late in the evening, with the best and the latest measuring instruments and probes-electronic and otherwise.
First night all their instruments recorded was an initially vague movement, which all the wisest men on earth could not be sure if it was a movement at all. And then a burst of static on all the recording equipment in the entire spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, and this was discerned only from the remote sensors recording units, the equipment on site was totally melted and fused, nothing could be salvaged from them.
After a hiatus of about two weeks when the brains had sat down to figure out the way forward, they came up with a slightly different plan to monitor the crater. The word was put out to the powers that be that they needed a launch freighter space craft, while this was being organized the scientists had in the meantime started work on a satellite version of the monitoring equipment and were programming the software to control all the measuring instruments.
This was launched into orbit without much fanfare or noise, and the equipment was positioned in space above the crater, in the movement of crisis the brains had come up with a system of camouflaging the electronic waves used to monitor, as normal cosmic waves.
Over a period of time they found out amazing amount of information about It, without It being aware of it. The humans called it the E.S, a play on E.T. and E.S stood for Enormous Slug. Guess the brains are entitled to be childish. The information on the E.S was slowly building. The brains, they had initially guessed that this could be a non terrestrial being, were thrilled when this was confirmed and supported by the bio-geneticist.
What now? Was the question flowing through the minds.
Then suddenly for a period of about three years there was absolutely no activity observed at the crater, it was as if nothing had ever happened.
It was tapping into the electronic networks of the planet, and imbibing a vast amount of data about the planet, info about evolution of science, philosophy, generally about everything. No security device detected the intrusion by It.
With a total awareness of what the dominant organism of this planet was capable of and with the knowledge of what minerals and technology the planet possessed.
It could project into the future to see what that organism was capable of and It saw that there was a medium probability that the planet would be wiped out of existence.
It made a plan.
It thought through what it wanted to do. Then it made its intentions know to the dominant species, by modifying and rebroadcasting all the television and satellite transmission to the entire world from the pit. It gave the world 24 hours to vacate a large area around Its pit.
The people were not ready. It made its move.
Its craft took off from earth in a huge blast.
Many years have passed since, the few of us who survive, still remember the noise which reverberated around the world that day.
That was the day Yellowstone Park got vaporized and turned into a huge sheet of glass, and that was the day earth tilted off its axis by about 4 degrees.
This warlord went by the name of Dreadgranger.
I remember my mother telling me as I grew older, that for some strange reason, she was strangely attracted to the warlord, and this attraction was tinged with awe and respect along with a bit of sexual stirring.
The genetic material of my father was so strong that even as a child I was a soldier. My skills in tracking and hunting were renowned. I could feel the killing lust flow in me even then.
I was considered to be one of the most vicious of the hunters known to the Bragalians. This reputation I had got when I was 3 years old.
At around this time I came across a strange monk , Crepovani. He was a silent one, real quite. For some strange reason when one night in the tavern, he took me to his table and started communicating with me silently. This was the my first feel of telepathic powers of the Creambic mystics.
My blood froze and my heart stood still for a moment when I felt the monk's powers, but at the same time I strangely understood that he was restraining himself , and displaying just a fraction of his magic.
After this strange encounter, the monk left. And a few weeks later he just turned up at the tavern
and I followed him. I was initiated into the arcane art of Creambic mystics. The next few years after I followed
Crepovani, was an intense learning experience. He took me on all his travels, and each minute of my life was a involved with learning. The arcane art of Creambic martial arts. Which involved the mind as much as the body. I had become invincible by the age of four.
I was initiated into a test of strength in the Creambic way, I fought the then champion of the Creambic clan and I beat him in a short time. The Creambic elders silently applauded my skills in their telepathic way, and they spoke among themselves and observed that I would one day be the most dreaded warrior ......
it was a few years ago while i was still a bumbling youngster, in the prime of my life, more spirit than sense, that i came across a bamboo hut during a walk through the forest.
on my first glance, i disregard the place as a potential night shelter for myself. the structure looked too flimsy to offer any protection from what i was expecting latter on that night. the dark clouds looked foreboding.
while i was walking away , I heard a sound which chilled my blood. made me quickly glance behind me. I giggled when I realized that it was just a strange man laughing crazy, it was a crackling rising laugh, it sounded out worldly. It was only latter that he told me that I was the first human he had seen in a number of years, strange.
i wondered what was wrong with him. He started talking to me. At least I think he was trying to talk to me. But all I heard was strange rumbling sounds coming out of the man.
i decided to stay there that night and see what this was all about.
after a few day I slowly began to understand the words the man was talking, was surprised to realize this was a language I had spoke from the time of my birth. He started telling me his story and what a strange story it was.
what I am putting down today, on the papyrus is just part of this man’s strange story.
“I do not remember the name my biological parents had given me” he told me. “as far as my memory goes I remember being called the Alchemist” . I shuddered when I heard this. For this was a name which I have heard brave men whisper in dread.
this dread was not the dread mere mortal feel. This was a supernatural dread. A dread which is allied with the night terrors.
he continued “I was given the name Alchemist by my master, when I was less than a year old, for he had sensed and seem what my future holds for me”
“from then on, all that my master talked to me was on how to awaken the strange power which were innately part of my life. These were magical moments of my life, the joy of learning the secrets of controlling my telekinetic and clairvoyance powers”
“I became really good with the sword and I had gone beyond what the best of the martial arts students knew, why I had gone beyond what the masters knew of martial arts, and all this before I was 5”.
The Krita Yuga, the First and Perfect Age, as described in the Mahabharata, an old Hindu epic:
[...] Men neither bought nor sold; there were no poor and no rich;there was no need to labour, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will; the chief virtue was the abandonment of all worldly desires. The Krita Yuga was without disease; there was no lessening with the years; there was no hatred or vanity, or evil thought whatsoever; no sorrow, no fear. All mankind could attain to supreme blessedness. [...]
