“I am of the belief that love comes to those who wait.”
“Is that how it happened with you, Your Majesty?” Suddenly Chris stood and turned around quickly and saw a young woman on a bench. He said, “Please excuse me a moment.” He turned and walked quickly to where she was sitting.
She saw him coming and started to teleport away but then he was there standing in front of her. She saw him looking at her with the brightest blue eyes she had ever seen and she saw confusion on his face. “Do I know you?”
She looked up at him, “No, I don’t believe you do.”
“I’m sorry, but I have seen your face in my dreams for so many years that I thought I knew you. I’m sorry for intruding.”
“What do you mean by in your dreams?”
“I’ve tried to quit having that dream but I used to have a dream of being with you in a house with a green roof and a red garden. Please excuse me.”
He turned to go and was suddenly surround by four Red Warriors who grabbed his arms and began pulling him away toward Danielle who had five Red Warriors surrounding her. The young woman jumped up and yelled, “You will release him immediately!”
One of the warriors turned, “Who are you to be giving me orders?”
“My name is Rose Gardner and I am a former Queen of the Realm. If you value your position in the Realm’s military you will release him now!”
The four warriors looked at the woman and didn’t know what to think. The Team Leader said, “Release him.” He then looked at Chris and said, “Don’t move; stay right here.” The leader got on his com and started asking for instructions.”
Tag appeared next to Danielle and said, “What are you doing?”
Then he looked over where Danielle was staring; he was stunned and he began walking toward Rose. Rose saw her father coming and took a deep breath and shook her head. Chris looked at her and said, “Are you really Rose Gardner?” She nodded. “Well, you’re a lot more beautiful than your pictures.”
Rose looked at Chris and could see he meant it, “What color was the fence around the red garden?”
“Blue as the sky.”
“What color was the wood floor?”
“It didn’t have a wood floor; it had burgundy carpet.”
“What kind of flowers were in the Garden?”
Chris thought for a moment and smiled, “Roses.”
Tag arrived at that moment and swept Rose up into his arms and began to cry. Rose held on to him and wept with him. “How could you leave? I’ve missed you every day of my life.”
Rose whispered, “Sometimes we lose our way.”
Danielle walked up and looked at Rose. “Have you decided?”
Rose looked at Danielle and smiled. “Sometimes the greatest gift we can give is our self.” She released her father and walked up to Chris and embraced him and felt the explosion in her heart. Chris felt his heart come alive and was inside Rose’s mind. He was amazed at what he saw. Rose finally felt what she had never experienced; complete connection with another that loved her completely. Chris leaned back and when Rose looked up at him, he kissed her. She knew that the wait was worth all that she suffered. Danielle and Tag moved forward and hugged Rose along with Chris. One minute later Tommy, Cassandra, Sprig, and Twig arrived to embrace the Queen and sister of their youth. The Red Warriors formed a barrier and called in reinforcements to hold back the gathering crowd.
Danielle whispered to Rose, “Your children will have psychic abilities.”
Rose’s eyes widened, “Really?”
“Yes, and I’ve saved your bunnies.”
She hugged Chris tighter and Chris felt alive for the first time in his life. The crowd grew but no one wanted to leave until much, much, later. By the time everyone went to the Castle, the crowd had grown to more than a million, and twenty thousand Red Warriors were needed to hold it away. The word was out and it spread like wild fire through the Realm, Rose was back.
Later that day, Rose and Chris teleported to Al’s bridge and he took them to the last ship. Unlike the others, when they arrived in front of it a brilliant blue glow rushed out and covered the other ships. They all began to glow bright blue and within an hour were completely developed. Al looked on in amazement, “Your ship must be the very last ship.”
Rose smiled as she held on to Chris, “It has waited for me. It had to be.”
The red being flinched, “Did you see that?”
“Yes, where did it originate?”
“Somewhere in the quadrant below the lowest dimension.”
“What was it?”
“I don’t know and I did not get a reading on what caused it. It must have come from the missing universe. We need to focus our search in that quadrant.”
“We are being ordered to do so by the Elders. They also saw it.”
“Do they know what it was?”
“No, but they say it was the color of the creative force.”
“I have never asked you this, but are we stronger than this creative force?”
“Depends on its strength; we won’t know until we go and see.”
“And if we’re not?”
“Then it should be an interesting view.”
Chapter 12
“Matt, I have something that you might be interested in hearing.”
“Where are you Destiny?”
“I’m on my home planet. I’ll send you the coordinates.”
Matt looked at his bracelet and saw the coordinates. He pushed the enable button and appeared in a strange structure that appeared to be made of interwoven white strands. “I see you have used a web to make your home.”
“Yes, it was really easy to build. Come with me.” Destiny walked outside and entered a structure next to his home that was much bigger. “Matt.” Three spiders that were bigger than he remembered ran up and wrapped their front legs around him.
“Hi, guys. What’s going on?”
Edison jumped a foot off the ground, “I think we have found the stuff the Demons use to build their ships.”
“Oh, really; what is it?”
“Einstein actually found it.”
Matt looked at the spider with the smallest fangs, “It figures.”
“I found it in the recording of the entry point’s destruction when the doorway was blocked between our universes. Before it broke out into our universe, I noticed that it was orange in color. I went to the site of the explosion and took samples from some of the ships that had been demolished. It’s pretty dangerous stuff.”
“The Red Demon ships are also orange. What do you know about it?”
“It is the substance that lies in the space between universes. It is similar to null space but occupies a much larger dimension. I’ve discovered that you can move through it to go to another universe but it will not enter a universe without causing a massive explosion. It is the energy that holds all of creation together.”
“I’m not sure I understand.”
“Imagine a space where only the orange energy exists. When a new universe is created, it enters that space as a particle smaller that the smallest atom. It is protected from the orange energy by a protective barrier that
