Jarzen Tadel - Echoes of Alchemy (eBook)

CHAPTER ONE

NOT AGAIN

Three and one half amazing, love filled, solar months had passed since Shara and Jarzen’s return home to Elapsis from the Ardmen-Dos Solar System. Over breakfast, Shara received a teleported, if however, strange message from Zalla and Jimm. A message, which contained no obvious message at all; only a voluminous cloud of an incredibly foul smelling purple smoke; which quickly spread to fill the entire room when Shara opened the small decorative box in which it came; leaving only the worsening stench.

Jarzen had been standing next to Shara when she opened the overly ornate box. As the smoke vanished and the stink worsened; Jarzen Triple E attacked the horrible smell. He thought the thought to immediately eliminate the smell and the entire dining room of the Aza Beach residences erupted in a strange kind of silver purple kinetic electrical lightening, yet, it definitely was not electric power charged lightening….

As a result of Jarzen’s intervention; the purple cloud reappeared, and the foul smell intensified. Jarzen again Triple E tried to remove the overpowering, pungent, putrid, pong, however, his renewed effort only antagonizes the electrified, and now thoroughly contaminated atmosphere in the converted dining room. Deep in his mind Jarzen hears the urgent demand that he reach out into deep space to gather and store Cosmic Ion Energy. As Jarzen’s mind expands, Rzen, his self-named subconscious mind identity exhorts urgency; then he imperiously takes over the initiated process of gathering and storing ion energy. And in an urgent onslaught of thoughts from his subconscious mind; Jarzen is urged to prepare an ion energy boosted mind shot to totally eliminate the now overwhelming, unbearable, yet still escalating and intensifying foul purple cloud stench.

Without comment or complaint Jarzen quickly complied. The resulting Triple E mind-shot crated an incredible explosive reaction. Only the personal Triple E force fields of Shara and Jarzen saved their lives. The entire Aza Beach residence was exploded into nothingness. No trace of the dwelling remained. Not even the in-ground hot spring pool survived the blast. Shara and Jarzen now stood naked; in shock and in utter bewilderment; on the location of beachfront that had been their cherished beach side love-nest residence. There sitting on the ground was the small, empty, ornate box, a gift from Zalla, and Jimm?

Jarzen put his arm across Shara’s bare shoulder and she collapsed into his enfolding embrace. Shara stifled back a sob, and then she angrily said, “What just happened?”

Intensifying his hold on Shara; Jarzen, while shaking his head mumbled, “I don’t Know.” Standing up tall and erect, “Jarzen said, But, I intend to find out.” Jarzen surveying the vacant area their love nest had occupied; at length said, “Are you certain that message was from Zalla?”

Shara nodded in the affirmative. She reached down to retrieve the box as she said, “Yes. I easily recognized Zalla’s distinctive hand writing on the address label.”

Movious, Transed in quickly followed by Ticious, Oreious, Shrah, and Atin; in the next few solar seconds Garious, Racho, Rilious, Bmom, and Q-Tan materialized forming a complete circle around Jarzen and Shara. Seemingly in the same instant, however, via the amnet, the powerful mental presence of QUANTES was to be heard echoing in everyone’s mind; Q was asking the same question; what had happened?

When no one answered; Q repeated his question, amneting again, what now seemed more like a demand than a question: what has just happened? Then QUANTES added; he had just recorded a most unusual, yet incredibly powerful, if quite strange; matter/anti-matter explosion at the Aza Beach location. Almost as an afterthought; in a noticeably softer thought inquiry, Q amneted, I trust Shara and Jarzen are unharmed? Someone please respond.

Shara amneted for all to hear, yes Q, we are unharmed. The Aza Beach residence is, well it’s gone; totally and completely gone.

Q via the amnet asked for verification, the Aza Beach residence is gone? … Gone how? Gone where?

Jarzen answered, yes Q, gone, blown into nothingness. I cannot explain it any better ….

There was an unusually long silent pause, then Q amneted; tell me everything. Go back to before the explosion and tell me everything.

Shara gave an incredibly detailed and accurate report with Jarzen only adding two minor factoids. When Shara had finished; Q said he would have to get back to them, as at this time he also was at a loss to explain what had happened. Via the amnet Q thought: stating the obvious; your message package from Zalla indisputably played a major part in this event.

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Varian’s amnet filled the growing silence that had become the quiet void created by Q’s abrupt departure from their minds. Varian amneted that Jarzen’s master suite on board the Valarian was ready for his arrival, and then he trailed off offering … in as much as you are now down to one planet side home….

When Jarzen did not immediately answer; Varian went on the tell Jarzen et al that he had tried to make contact with the Little Wanderer; or L-W as Jarzen had been referring to the smaller intergalactic ship. Jarzen had given L-W to Zalla and Jimm as a Life-Mate bonding gift. Varian added he was still trying unsuccessfully to make contact.

As it had turned out Zalla and Jimm did not get sole custody of the exact duplicate of Jarzen’s ship the Valarian, aptly named the Wanderer. As all of Jarzen’s children, who were still unaware of their ability to travel the universe on the own, by use of their Triple E abilities; wanted to make use of the amazing replica of the Valarian. This was a totally unexpected circumstance, which Jarzen quickly remedied by Triple E creating from live Zagged Crystal another new, yet smaller vessel. The Little Wanderer. An intergalactic/inter atmosphere ship measuring ninety galactic feet in length, by forty feet in width, by forty eight feet in height on three decks. Two decks each with a ceiling twelve feet high; leaving the remaining twenty four feet for the shuttle bay and cargo deck. This intergalactic ship would serve Zalla and Jimm well as they traveled on their self-selected farm-aid mission throughout the universe.

Shara broke the silence, when she asked out loud, “What do you mean you cannot reach Zalla and Jimm?”

Varian, still via the amnet responded: just that. We are unable to make contact with the Little Wanderer. And all of our attempts to contact Zalla and Jimm personally; including our attempts to reach their AM-Us Alla or Trox; have also failed. I have sent two ships from the Crystal Fleet, the Pearl and the Diamond to Zalla’s last know location.

Jarzen had been listening, standing motionless, in silent thought; when suddenly they were all, once again, standing in the dining room of the Aza Beach Residence, which Jarzen had just restored in every detail but one. He had increased the size of the entire residence by fifty percent. Shara and Jarzen were now dressed in their Valarian combat uniforms and Jarzen said, “We will board the Valarian within the solar hour. Make all preparation to get under way; and plan for an extended trip.”

As expected all of the AM-Us immediately requested permission to come along, even Q-Tan. Holding up his hand for silence, Jarzen thanked Q-Tan and dismissed him to return to Q. To the remainder Jarzen said, “The following AM-Us, Movious, Ticious, Oreious, Shrah, Atin plus Garious, Rilious, Racho, and Bmom will be joining us on our search for Zalla and Jimm. Those of you with new permanent responsibilities; notify your command to immediately detach you for extended duty with Shara and me.

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When Jarzen and Shara Transed on board the Valarian, their nine member private AM-U army was already onboard and busily assisting Varian with settling the twenty-five galactic tons of supplies and equipment that Q had Transed on board the Valarian.

Jarzen addressed Varian, the captain of the Valarian, “Are we ready to get underway?”

Varian responded that the ship was indeed ready to depart but he was in need of a destination.

Jarzen replied that QUANTES had determined Zalla and Jimm’s last known location was the planet Siltor in the Belken Solar system; so they would start their search there.

Jarzen could just barely detect the Valarian’s forward movement when he experienced the anticipated life-blink. The loveliness of Elapsis, which had filled the floor to ceiling forward optical lens, had changed; an odd looking planet with very little water in evidence now filled his view.

Varian, announcing the obvious; stated that they were currently in orbit ten thousand galactic miles above the planet Siltor; continuing his report Varian informed all present that he was both calling for and scanning for any sign of Zalla, Jimm, Alla, Trox, or the Little Wanderer. Concluding his update, Varian answered the unspoken question, which was top of mind for everyone; no, the searches of the Crystal Pearl and the Crystal Diamond had not found any trace of Zalla’s group or the Little Wanderer?

Movious had been seated at the captain’s bridge command desk. Emerging first from the group’s collective silence, Movious instructed Varian to order the Diamond and the Pearl to uncouple and begin a new grid search based on the information he was forwarding. By separating the two conjoined quadrivessels; including the Valarian they would now have a total of nine ships to search for Zalla, Jimm and the...