Nibiru Returns

by Tod Eten

  So it was that the Neteru fled their home world and settled on Earth where they created a beautiful city that stood for all that the Neteru held true’ Aya said with a faraway look in her eye. ‘The city was truly a beautiful place that gave all who lived there peace and happiness. But the Neteru did not all remain within the city walls. A few left the city to help the humans. You see the Neteru knew that this was not their world, for humans had already established themselves here. So the Neteru agreed that they would stay only as guests on this world and that in return for this they must help the humans. So it was agreed that some Neteru would go out amongst the humans teaching them how to grow crops and heal themselves, which allowed them to multiply and prosper. The Neteru taught humans many things, about agriculture, writing, mathematics and building they even taught a few men and women the secrets of the old magic. These Neteru who walked among humans also taught them the best places to build their cities and how to create a society. The humans in return began to worship those same Neteru as gods giving them gifts and making sacrifices. Sadly these Neteru were not as pure as they had believed they were! Soon the temptation of the old ways began to poison them. As they were treated more and more like gods amd goddesses by the humans the more their Anunnaki heritage began to surface. Soon these Neteru started to turn back to the old ways seeking power for themselves, glorying in the adulation of their worshippers. Great temples they made their worshipers build in their honour in which sacrifices and prayers were offered to them. So it was that the Neteru grew ever vainer. Soon these Neteru started looking at the cities of their fellow brothers and sisters with jealous eyes. Some Neteru taught their worshipers about warfare and showed them how to create armies and weapons. Then those same Neteru commanded their followers to capture and destroy the neighbouring cities and towns. This was the greatest of sins for in this way were the humans turned into a mirror image of the Anunnaki!

  Aya paused a great sadness in her eyes ‘but not all the Neteru were so easily swayed. Those that had remained in the great Neteru city looked with abhorrence at what their brothers and sisters had done. They demanded that their brethren turn from their wicked ways. But their commands was rejected. So it was that those Neteru who had used man for their own gain were cast out and called the Demos and war was declared on them. Great battles raged over the face of the Earth between the Neteru and the Demos and great was the destruction. At the start it was the Demoss who had the upper hand for they now had their own armies of worshippers with which to fight the Neteru. So it was that the Neteru were driven back. But the Neteru were skilled in what you today call genetics and they created monsters that they called pets to fight against the Demos. The Neteru set their pets against the Demos and their followers and the Demos in turn created their own pets to fight for them. So it seemed that the Earth and everything on it would be laid to waste. But some of the Demos seeing the misfortune that now befell their own followers realised how evil they had become! They repented joining once more with the Neteru and together they defeated and drove out the remaining Demos and their pets and a new order was established’ Aya paused. ‘So it was that another era was begun on Earth an age of peace where the Neteru now remained apart from humans allowing them to be master of their own destiny. Now these pets can only be sustained by the planet Nibiru. When Nibiru last left this solar system the pets went to sleep

  ‘So ..so ‘stammered Gagan ‘that thing’ he pointed out at the forest ‘that thing is what? A pet of one of these aliens, is that what you were saying’

  ‘The Neteru and Demoss created many pets that they could command for their protection or amusement some were good but many were evil.’ Aya nodded.

  ‘What sort of pets exactly?’ Gagan pushed.

  ‘Well if you look at the old myths and folk tales a lot of these were based on our pets’ Aya answered.

  ‘Like the Loch Ness monster?’ Aaron asked.

  ‘Yes like that Aaron’ Aya smiled weakly.

  ‘Like giants and dragons!’ Caleb exclaimed in excitement to which Aya sadly shook her head.

  ‘You are saying that those things actually exist!’ Ela said in amazement.

  ‘With the coming of the planet they will all awake. So you could say they are about to exist again’.

  ‘So these things are now all waking up’ Gagan said looking at the forest.

  ‘Yes Gagan ’ Aya confirmed.

  ‘And these Neteru and the Demos do they have super human powers?’ Gagan continued.

  Again Aya nodded.

  ‘Then you’ Gagan pointed at Aya ‘You. You are....’ Gagan stopped lost for words.

  ‘Yes Gagan’ Aya finished for him ‘I am one of the Neteru’

  ‘You are one of them, my god’ Demitri exclaimed.

  ‘You can do magic!’ Seth now interrupted.

  ‘Please’ Aya said raising her hands for silence, ‘I will tell you all everything but first we should make ourselves comfortable as we will have to remain here till morning’ Aya looked around at the stunned group of companions. ‘Aiden and Seth both of you come with me and help me gather some firewood’.

  Both Aiden and Seth looked uncertainly at each other.

  ‘It’s OK they have all gone now’ Aya said and taking the torch from an unresisting Demitri she strode purposefully out of the circle.

  ‘Did she say they!’ Seth looked at Aiden ‘You mean there was more than one of those things out there!’

  Aiden shook his head and despite his reservations followed behind Aya.

  They made a camp fire with the wood that that they gathered and Demitri made a light meal from the food he in his back pack which everyone ate in silence. Once they had all finished eating they sat in awkward silence around the camp fire.

  ‘OK Aya who are you exactly?’ Gagan asked Charmine finally plucking up the courage to ask the question that they all wanted to know.

  The rest of the group except Skyla who was asleep on her mother’s lap and Caleb who was half asleep next to Faith stopped whatever they were doing and looked at Aya.

  Aya paused for a moment trying to order her thoughts. ‘Well I guess I better start at the beginning much of this I have already now told you. The Neteru as I said were once part of the Anunnaki but we renounced their way of life. But we were prisoners on our own world in constant fear for our lives and hiding like prey in wastelands. Like my brothers and sisters I too hid from the Anunnaki and we coped as best we could. At first we got just enough food to keep us alive. But we slowly learnt to adapt to our surroundings and the more we adapted so the stronger we grew and eventually we even built a city, safe from the prying eyes of our enemy. But still we were trapped, we could not venture out from our home for if the Anunnaki discovered us we would have been slaughtered. So our hearts grew heavy for we longed for freedom. Then we saw Earth and our hope for salvation, for we knew that if we were able to reach that place we would be free from our tormentors. So it was that throughout the next turn of our world we laboured long and hard to create machines that would take us to Earth and when our planet next passed close by we used our machines to come to this planet. When we arrived here your ancestors were a nomadic people travelling from hunting ground to hunting ground. These humans we saw looked like us and though their ways were primitive it was how they lived life that we most admired, for it was how we sought to live ourselves! You see your ancestors were at one with the world, they killed only that which they needed to eat. They killed not for sport, taking only the weak and the lame animals for food and the animals they hunted they in turn worshipped and protected. For us this seemed strange but wonderful for there was no bloodlust, no unnecessary killing. Even more amazing to us were your tribes, who instead of attacking each other on sight actually lived in peace even helping each other in times of need. For the Neteru the humans seemed to have found the peace we had been looking for! All the Neteru agreed that the humans would always be the masters of this world despite our greater knowledge and power and that we the Neteru as
repayment for being guests would aid humans with our knowledge.’

  Aya paused shaking her head sadly ‘such was our arrogance for we did not see the dangers we would create. In aiding your ancestors it made us look like Gods and Goddesses and soon some of us began to believe we were gods and goddesses.’ Aya looked around the group. ‘Even me!’

  ‘Are you a Goddess!’ Caleb asked sleepily

  ‘No Caleb I am not’ Aya replied for the first time smiling at the young boy.

  ‘But what was that stuff you did earlier with that thing in the forest’ Faith said pointing to where the creature had been earlier trapped.

  ‘Well I guess you would call it magic, but for us it is just something we can do! You see our home world gives us a power, the ability to make certain things happen with our minds. Some of us are better than others. But we all have these abilities to some degree. We can use our thoughts to bend certain things to our will’

  ‘But you said you were a Goddess’ Caleb protested drowsily.

  ‘Well yes I was in a way’ Aya’s face took on a pained expression, ‘I was no better than any of the others. I was one of the Neteru sent into the world of humans to help them prosper. I taught my humans, I thought of them as my children really! I taught them how to grow and harvest crops and found them a place to start a village. I told them how to tame and breed animals so that they would no longer need to hunt for food. I taught them how to create a society with rules so that people knew what their duties were, this and more did I teach them’. Aya paused remembering the past. ‘Soon the village became a town and the town a city. So fast did my children grow and my children they worshiped me. They built temples to honour me and sacrificed animals for me and I was pleased for you see the love and prayers of my children as well as the blood of the sacrifices strengthened me in similar way as my home world did. This was the same for all the Neteru who were worshipped by humans and like a drug it was addictive for us. I grew proud and vain of the city of my children. It was beautiful city full of white marble and crystal and it shone and sparkled like a jewel in the sun full of music and laughter’ Aya smiled to herself. ‘This was our first age on Earth, but it did not last! You see as I said before, we, the Neteru who had gone out into the world of man had forgotten what was in our nature. We may have renounced the ways of the Anunnaki but that did not mean we were a changed race, for deep down within all the Neteru the old traits of the Anunnaki still lurk waiting for their chance to rise up once more. So it was that the bloodlust grew in these Neteru. They started to look with jealous eyes at what their brothers and sisters had achieved. As I said they started to teach their followers how to make and use weapons and how to become soldiers. They then sent these soldiers out to conquer and destroy their neighbours whose cities they coveted. But really they wanted to see blood spilt! So it was that I too taught my children the ways of war, for my kingdom was one of the greatest in the world and many of my brothers and sisters looked on it with hunger’ Aya sighed. ‘At the beginning I only meant for my armies to protect our lands but the ways of the Anunnaki had been woken in us all and soon we gloried in the lust for battle and the more blood that was spilt the more hungry we became. We called those days the Muri Gud the time of the blood warrior when we gloried in death and destruction ‘ Aya sighed once more. ‘But our actions as I said had not gone unnoticed. The Neteru who had stayed within the city we had built saw what we were doing and demanded that we stop and return at once to the city. But we would not listen to them, the old ways of the Anunnaki singing too loudly in our veins. So it was that war was made between the Neteru of the city and those of us who were now made out cast and called the Demos. But we the Demos had grown more powerful with the worshiping of our followers and we also had our armies to aid us. So it was that we the Demos proved to be stronger than the Neteru. But the Neteru as I said were not yet defeated. They created their pets and terrible they were, so monstrous where some of their creations that they could destroy a city with one blow. Their pets laid waste to the land and destroyed the cities. My beautiful city was also destroyed and my children were killed and scattered to the four winds. As I gazed upon the destruction of my city and the ruined bodies of my children my eyes filled with bitter tears for I realised that it was because of my actions that this had come to pass. In my remorse I gave myself to the Neteru for them to do with me as they wished but instead of killing me they accepted me back as one of their own again, as they did with all the Demos who repented as I had done. Together we now fought the remaining Demos who refused to change their ways and as the Demos and their armies were now greatly weakened they were soon defeated and the world was quiet once more. As I told you earlier the Anunnaki then arrived on this world in search of us and the Earth was shattered once more in the battles that followed. It was during that time that the great flood happened which killed most of mankind. But the Anunnaki were also defeated and what remained of the Neteru was spread about the face to the earth no longer to interfere with man except in order to protect them from the few Demoss that still remained. Aya stopped deep in thought once more.

  ‘So you are telling us that you are thousands of years old!’ Seth exclaimed.

  ‘We age differently to humans Seth we can live many thousands of turns of our own world we usually only die in battle. So yes for us our life span is far greater than yours’ Aya agreed

  ‘Well my dear you certainly look good for your age I must say’ Demetri said with a twinkle in his eye trying to lighten the mood.

  ‘Demetri!’ Oleska scolded her husband, ‘please forgive my husband’s stupidity your highness’ Oleska said bowing her head.

  ‘Please Oleska I am no Goddess and thank you Demitri’ Aya now bowed her head in thanks

  ‘But you are no ordinary person either’ Elden pointed out ‘So why are we here, why us?’ Elden waved his hand at the people gathered around the fire.

  ‘Well yes that is a good question’ Aya said looking at each of them individually ‘You see when we defeated the Anunnaki we had hoped that that would be the end of the danger they posed. But one of our great scholars, you would call him a prophet, warned us that the Anunnaki would return at the next coming of Nibiru and there would once more be a great battle which would break the world. This would bring a time of great sorrow that he named Dugaistu, when an eternal night would fall on this world. Amyris for that was the scholars name said that only the Etlud Shahadaku, the Sun Sword Warrior could prevent this from happening together with the coming together of the three’.

  ‘Who is this warrior?’ Aaron asked

  ‘He is lost to us for the time being’ Aya sighed once more. ‘But you asked me why you are here Elden? Well as I said the time of the Dugaistu has been foretold and it could mean the destruction of this world and all of man with it. So the Neteru created a sanctuary called Eden where we could save man as was our sworn duty and when the time came we would help guide as many as we could to this sanctuary’.

  ‘So is this Dugaistu is about to happen?’ Gagan asked.

  ‘The time is on us now yes’ Aya nodded ‘Both the Neteru and the Demos are awake and their pets are now awakening too! Yes the time of the Dugaistu is upon us all, the time of Eternal night draws near’.

  ‘Why didn’t you just tell us all this at the start’ Seth demanded.

  ‘Yes why didn’t you tell us this at the start, what about our family and friends we must tell them we can’t just leave them’ Faith clutched at Aaron’s arm ‘We must go back and get them all’ Faith implored.

  ‘And tell them what Faith? Do you think they will believe you! You ask why I did not tell you all this at the start. Well would any of you have believed me if I did’ Aya replied looking at each one of them in turn. ‘No I thought not!’ Aya said when no one answered.

  ‘But we must go back and get the others’ Faith said almost in tears ‘We cannot leave them, you can tell them what is going to happen and we will back you up’

  ‘Faith I can only guide those wh
o freely chose to come themselves. I vowed never again to interfere with your race. All of You’ Aya waved her hand at the group, ‘you all chose to follow me there were others who did not’ Aya finished sadly.

  ‘But we can’t just leave them Aya!’ Faith begged.

  ‘It is too late Faith even if I could go back and convince all to follow me there would simply not be enough time to reach Eden. In fact the time for us to get to Eden is now far shorter than I first thought.'

  ‘Maybe it won’t be as bad as you think’ Gagan said ‘don’t forget we are no longer the simple race that you once knew. We have moved on from bows and arrows. We now have powerful weapons that would be a match for anything that would attack us’ Gagan continued with murmurs of agreement from the others.

  ‘Yes maybe so’ Aya conceded ‘But the enemy you face is nothing like you have ever faced before, not for many many millennia at least.’ Aya shook her head.

  ‘But you beat these Anunnaki last time, why can’t you do it again?’ Seth exclaimed.

  ‘It is foretold that there will be many more Anunnaki that will come to Earth on this turn, too many for us to have a hope against and there are now far fewer of Neteru left since the last battles’ Aya shook her head.