The Theron Residency (Brides of Theron Book 4)

by Anthony Lorino, Rebecca

  “Please don’t feel the need to retire on my account. I am thrilled to be here under your command. I’m sure that I will learn a great deal from working with you. I have learned much from working with your son.” He picked up a small figurine of a fighter craft he had made long ago, adding it to the collection of items he held in his arms now.

  “Actually Ceran, you might just find that I will be learning a great deal from you. I want you to know that I am honored to have you on this ship.” He rose from the desk to empty his box on the side table and handed the empty box to Ceran. “Here use this for now, but don’t get too comfortable where you are going. You will be back in here before you know it.”

  “Yes, sir,” Ceran said. He put the last of his belongings in the box and walked out the door to make his way to his quarters. The staterooms on the ship were pretty standard. All of them had similar basic furnishings and wall colors. If you wanted, you could furnish your quarters any way you wished. Laura brought their things this morning when she reported to sick bay. He walked into the bedroom to find the closets open and his uniforms hanging next to hers. She had put all the toiletries on the bed to be put away later. He started to unpack them and put everything in its place. If what Zirlo said was true, this would be the last time he would set out on a mission in this room. It was still an honor to be here even if his commander changed his mind.

  Before setting out to see Laura in sick bay, he made two lunches and packed them into a small bag. He took one last look around. “You’ll be a commander soon,” he said to himself as he walked out the door.

  Laura was doing an inventory of supplies. She picked up her communicator, “Aida, I am sending you a list of supplies we will need. Have them assembled and brought up in the next hour.” When she turned around, she gasped when she found Ceran standing behind her.

  “Hungry?” Ceran asked.

  “Starving! I have been so focused on these checklists that I finally found myself in the zone.” She replied and took the bag from him unwrapping the sandwiches that it contained and placing them on either side of the exam table. She took a swig of her water and said, “How did it go with Zirlo?”

  “As well as it could, I guess,” he was trying not to seem so disappointed but failing miserably from the look of his face.

  “This will be your ship soon enough. I overheard him tell Zeb and Zane that he plans to retire from the fleet after this mission,” she said just before she took a bite of her sandwich.

  “He said so much when I went to collect my stuff from my…his office.” He bit into his sandwich so he wouldn’t have to talk about it further. She continued to smile sweetly at him between bites of her own.

  “Hi Ceran, Laura. I hope I’m not disturbing you.” Zane said. A small woman with long white blonde hair that almost reached the floor followed behind him. Her eyes were the color of blue sea glass and her dress was white and simple but exquisite. Laura could feel the energy in the room increase as she walked further into the room.

  “No, not at all. What can we help you with?” Ceran said as he put his sandwich down on the wrapper.

  “I wanted to introduce you to Anora. She is a representative from the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds. She is an ally under Ashtar Command, who happens to be in charge of the planets that are located in Laura’s former solar system.” He turned to Anora while pointing at Laura and said, “This is Laura, the one you wished to see.”

  Anora smiled sweetly at Laura, “I am from Agartha. You may not know this, but Agartha is located inside the inner space of Earth.” She must have noticed the look that Laura gave her because she quickly replied, “There really is an inner Earth. There may not be Hobbits and Orcs, but there are giants and many other people that live there. Your government has known about us for a while now and has selectively chosen to keep our identity a secret. You see you may know my people by other names. For example, the Scots call us Fae.” Anora chuckled, but it did nothing to put Ceran at ease.

  Caran looked over to Anora, who had yet to acknowledge his presence. “What is your business here, Anora?” It was as if she finally noticed him sitting there for the first time. She wrinkled her brow considering him and carefully chose her next words.

  “I have need of your mate. I must take her with me for specialized training. She’ll need what I must teach her on the mission you have ahead.”

  “Zane, what is she talking about?” Ceran exclaimed.

  “Ceran, you must let Laura go with Anora. It is necessary for our future relations with the Interdimensional Federation as well as with Ashtar Command. They are sending a fleet of ships to help us with our mission on Drylon.” What Zane said did little to put Ceran at ease.

  “How long will I be gone?” Laura asked.

  “Where we are going, time is not a factor,” Anora said cryptically.

  Laura looked at Zane and then to him. “Is this an order, sir?” she asked Zane.

  “Yes, Laura, it is. You are to report to the electronportation room as soon as you have packed up some of your belongings,” Zane said and turned to leave with Anora.

  “Wait, do I get any say in this?” He felt the sickening feeling of his heart weighing heavily in his throat. “If she has to go, I am going with her.”

  Anora looked sharply at him, “I am sorry, but this is something Laura has to accomplish alone. You will only prove to be a distraction. Don’t worry lover boy, she will be back to warm your bed before you know it.”

  Laura looked as if she was thinking hard and put her hand over his. “It’s alright Ceran. She’s right. I am pretty sure that I should go with her.” Laura stood and looked over at him, “Why don’t you come with me while I pack my things.”

  “That is a good idea, dear. You can explain it to him on the way.” Anora said as she turned on her heel and walked out into the hallway with Zane.

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  “What is going on here Laura? Do you know her? How do you know that you can trust her?” Ceran firing off questions at her rapidly, not giving her time in between them to answer them until she interrupted.

  “Ceran, enough!” As she came to the door to their quarters. She placed her palm on the keypad and the door slid open. “She told me why I have to go with her telepathically. She said that I have forgotten how to access my innate gifts, the same healing gifts that I was given to awaken on Earth in order to help my home planet. She said that I have to learn how to access this ability before we go on this mission to free the prison camps, because there is an individual that will die without my help.”

  “Did she say who?” Ceran said incredulously.

  “Mattie, Brylon’s mom,” Laura said as she removed a bag from the closet and put in a couple of uniforms and a nightgown. “But, she said there would be many others. Zane is only equipped to do so much. I have the necessary skills to save these people. Because of that, it is my duty.” Ceran sat slowly on the bed rubbing the palm of his hands against his temples as she went to gather her toothpaste and toothbrush as well as other things she may need.

  The communicator on his uniform beeped, “This is Ceran,” He spoke into the transmitter.

  “Ceran, please come to my office as soon as you can. I’ve received word from the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds. Apparently, they need to take you with them for special training.” Zeb said.

  “I’m intrigued, I am on my way to the electronportation room to send my mate away. I will be in your office after.” Ceran tapped his badge to disconnect and looked at Laura, “Did she tell you why they needed to train me?”

  She smiled, “No, but it seems that we are both needed. I trust her Ceran. She feels…I don’t know…kindred to me. I feel like I know her from somewhere or sometime in my life. I want to go with her.”

  Ceran shook his head and exhaled forcefully. “I trust you, not her. If you are determined to go, I won’t stop you. Just promise me that you will be very careful. I don’t want to lose you. You’re a part of me now that I can’
t replace. Promise you will come back to me.”

  She stroked his face with her fingertips and ran them through his hair clutching the back of his neck. “I know I will be back. You are a part of me, too.” She pulled him down to her lips and kissed him with a passion that would hopefully last with him for a couple of days. “I’ll be back, I promise.”

  He reached for her bag and grabbed her hand. “Well, I guess we should go.”

  She said nothing, only nodded as they made their way down the hall.

  Chapter 16

  Laura watched Ceran as she faded out of the electronportation room and reanimated inside a dark cave lit by glowing crystal torches. It was hard to remain optimistic. Already she was feeling the distance that separated her and her mate. Anora seemed to pick up on her discomfort. “Where we are going, time doesn’t exist as it does on this plane of existence. Third-dimensional beings tend to place thoughts and beliefs in a linear fashion where time exists. We will travel to a destination in the fifth dimension. Most of inner-earth is in a fifth-dimensional plane of existence.”

  “Where are we?” Laura surveyed the cave and asked Anora who happened to be fiddling around with a slab of rock surrounded by an ornate circular threshold.

  “We are still on Theron. This is a star gate that exists on this planet.” Anora said through her thoughts.

  “How do you do that? Talk without using your voice?” Laura asked as she stepped over a stretch of uneven ground.

  “All you need to do is have a conscious thought and send it out. It really is relatively easy. By the time you leave and rejoin your mate, you will have mastered speaking this way to whoever is open to receive you. If you wish, or if it makes you uncomfortable, I can talk aloud?” As if receiving Laura’s answer, she spoke using her voice, “Come with me.” The glowing circular gate that was embedded into a rock wall became brighter as Anora approached.

  She closed her eyes before it and a couple of seconds later a symbol appeared. It was a closed circle crossed with lines that connected north to south and west to east. Essentially, it was a plus sign inside of a circle. “This is the symbol for earth. I need to clarify where we need to go so I will add a second and third symbol.” She closed her eyes again and two circles spaced evenly in a triad underneath the symbol for earth. The first one was filled with 6 lightning bolts crisscrossing in the center of the circle, and the second was simply three dots that looked like a clover without a stem. “The fourth symbol at the bottom will represent where we are coming from.” She closed her eyes and a fourth circle enclosing a heart with an infinity symbol crossing over it appeared. The symbols radiated brightly until they were absorbed by the stone and the stone became translucent as they began to fade. Inside the gate, a substance that rippled like water replaced the smooth stone that used to be inside frame.

  “Wow, that is amazing. What do we do now?” She looked to Anora, who now pushed her long hair behind her delicate pointed ear. Yes, they are pointed, she thought to herself as she took another look for confirmation. What would she see when she walked through the Stargate?

  “We step through my daughter. Take my hand.” Anora reached out and Laura grabbed her hand without hesitation. “I am going to take you to my home. On more than one occasion, you happened to call it your home as well. Once we there, I will tell you more about who you are.”

  Anora pushed through the iridescent liquid pulling Laura behind her. The material was thick and dense for a couple of steps. At first, she did not know how long she would have to walk through this viscous substance and started to panic as she held her breath. She felt Anora give her arm a quick yank and she was sucked out of the Stargate and her hands planted on the hard cold stone floor. They were inside a building that was illuminated with the golden light of glowing crystals of uniform size that were placed on ledges toward the tops of the walls. She turned on her hands and knees and pushed herself up to standing. “What is this place?”

  Anora smiled sweetly, “Welcome to inner Earth. We are now in the capital headquarters located in Shamballa, otherwise known as capital of Agartha. Shamballa is located just under or opposite from the Tibetan mountains in relation to the surface of the planet. In Shamballa, you will see that the streets are paved with gold, the houses are made of marble, and there is beautiful music playing all the time. Come, we have much work to do.”

  As they walked out of the room that held the stargate, they entered an enormous lobby of sorts. The marble pillars were twice the size of the largest person there. That was impressive because many of the people standing around her stood 10 to 15 feet tall. She could see the auras of spiritual beings all around her but couldn’t make out their physical bodies. She assumed that they must have been ghosts. Anora said, “You are very perceptive, and can tell that you know that there is more to be seen here. You can see their auras surrounding them, but not their bodies. They are not ghosts or spirits of the dead like you have observed on the surface, but fifth-dimensional beings. Most of them are elementals. If you can learn as much as I hope to teach you, you will see them before you leave here.”

  “How long will I be here? The way you are talking about how we have so much to do, it doesn’t seem like I will have enough time. We are supposed to be on the ship to leave for Drylon in less than 36 hours. I think that should be almost equivalent to earth time.” Laura looked at her wrist for the watch that she had abandoned about a month ago out of force of habit.

  “Oh child, I told you when we left. Time does not exist on this plane of existence in a linear fashion. It may seem like you have been here for days or weeks, but when you return you would find that only hours have passed. Believe me, you will be back before they make the trek to the Mithuna System. If it takes longer than anticipated, we will just have to bend time. Trust me when I say, that is much easier to do when time does not exist.” Anora led her out the 20 foot tall doors that seemed to open on their own, but Laura wasn’t fooled. She could see the auras of the attendants on either side of the door as Anora nodded to each of the ghostly beings on the way out. “Shamballa is inhabited by mostly fifth-dimensional beings. I am going to take you to a city that houses many third-dimensional beings until such time that you can expand your own consciousness. I have a feeling that you’ll be more comfortable there. I have already contacted Adama to prepare a dwelling for us. Come along.”

  They walked out on gold paved streets and Anora was right. The streets were filled with the sound of people singing, dancing, and laughing. The golden light of the sun as it bathed her in warm golden light. Was it a sun if it was in the middle of the earth?

  Anora said, “The core of the earth is our sun. It doesn’t beam down radiation and ultraviolet rays like the one you have on the surface, it radiates electromagnetic energy that makes much of everything you see here possible. All of the electricity here in the inner earth is free, just like the food. We even manufacture our own clothing by thought. You see, being isolated here in the inner world away from all the negativity and destruction you see on the surface of the planet helped our people evolve at a much faster rate. However, the people on the surface are about to awaken. It’s one of the reasons you are here with us at this time. You signed a soul contract to be incarnated to help with the ascension process of Earth, but the Theron people took you before I could awaken you. We saw them hiding behind the moon and were ordered by Lord Ashtar, not to interfere. We are only allowed to influence what goes on around us, you see, never enforce.”

  They approached a large metallic hovercraft. It could hold over 60 people if necessary. The ramp came down and they entered. No one else was on the craft. It almost seemed a waste of fuel and energy to transport them alone. Anora said, “Here we respect Mother Earth and we only use renewable resources. There are rules here that we must go over before you leave this craft. We fly these transport vehicles using intention. You just think where you want to go and they take you there. No coordinates needed.” The hovercraft took off at an alarming speed and Laura fel
l back into the seat. Anora didn’t even flinch at this but remained standing.

  “In Agartha, we are strictly vegetarian. Everything we eat comes from the highest energy sources. We grow all food organically and use no pesticides or fertilizer. We respect Mother Earth and she gives us food in abundance. You may have noticed that many people here hover over the ground. This is because grass and stones are alive just as we are. We never pick flowers or cut down trees. There are specially trained individuals that do that for us using special blessings and requests to gain the plant’s permission. We respect all living things. All living things, no matter how small, have a soul. Even the tiny bugs, spiders, and the tiny grains of sand on the beach. With that said, I know that you have many questions and I would be happy to answer them now if you wish.”

  “Why am I here?” Laura said softly.

  “Laura, you are my daughter. We have done this many times, you and me. You incarnate on the surface and I come to wake you to fulfill your soul contract. Maybe, for you to get a better understanding, I should start at the beginning of this story. The part when you first came into existence on this planet.” She sat across from Laura and smoothed out her skirt. “I have never been as brave as you. You see, when a soul is incarnated into the third-dimensional plane of existence, they have no memories until they are able to activate the DNA that your scientist on the surface call junk. There are 12 strands of DNA that encode all the memories and records of your existence from the time of the creation of your spiritual-self stored inside you. Your entire soul’s story is inside of you, but you just don’t know how to access it.”

  “It wasn’t always like this. All of us used to experience an immortal life. That is until the tower of Babel was struck down and those on the surface began to speak different languages and go to war with one another over petty arguments and discriminations. There was a great flood on the surface of the earth that destroyed Atlantis among other great advanced races of beings due to war. There was one of the civilizations among those more evolved beings, Lemuria, that chose to flee to the center of the Earth. Here, we chose to be isolated from the negative and lower vibrational frequencies of the surface in order to continue to evolve at a faster pace.”