ARC OF THE IMMORTALS/ Book 1

Pursuit: 14 / Jac versus Jac

Recap: Touzdae started a mission to find a safe place for the Lingham Stone. Jac created an environment in his distant ancestral past to -

Recap (continued): — fight P-Jac. It was without laser blasters and other sophisticated weaponry. Jac taunted P-Jac. Touzdae traveled back in time millions of years to the sacred moon of Entu. It was one of three moons orbiting Altarian.

[Contains scenes of violence.]

The eight other Jacs merged into the one Jac as he neared the end of the corridor. Jac leapt over the balcony into the mote and swam to the outer bank. His clothes dried in moments. He ran along the marbled ornamental fence meant to warn of the bottomless bit. He leapt up onto the foot-wide banister saber at the ready. Jac thrust his blade towards Pursuer Jack’s shoulder. He missed running and tumbling back and up into a readiness thrust position.

“Hah,” Pursuer Jac shouted. “At last no more tricks.”

Their swords clashed as Pursuer Jac pushed Jack back.

Jac lunged and sliced through some of Pursuer Jac’s tunic.

P-Jac infuriated as Jac’s saber scraped his skin and shredded his shirt. He parried Jac back to the railing overlooking the central vent of the fusion reactor.

Crul Bahj oozed up the side below Jac as he teetered on the edge. P-Jac swiped at Jack’s feet as he pranced backward along the fat railing. A tentacle whacked Pursuer on the shoulder from below, and he fell inside the short marble wall.

Jac jumped down ready with his saber.

The Emmons Sisterhood conferred while Touzdae waited. While she waited she used the 27-breath exercise to slow anticipation. Waves of peace passed through her body, heart, and mind.

“She is far from an Honored One,” the Crone Seer said in a blunt and final manner.

“Agreed,” the lead Sister proclaimed. The eight agreed with head nodding. The lowering of laser pens into cups extinguishing their lights. This was the formal agreement.

“How will we advise her?” the youngest sister ventured.

They all turned towards the Seer.

“She must find the Mu and stow it safe there without their knowledge. It is there she will need her machine of deception.”

“Does that settle the matter?” the lead Sister asked.

They all agreed.

“Invite her in for our further counsel.”

Pursuer Jac vaulted over the ornate marbled wall and almost cut Jac in half.

They parried along the wide lip of the banister and down to the lip of the edge of the bottomless pit.

“May I make a statement?” Touzdae asked.

The lead sister Arua nodded and said, “Be brief, child.”

“Bhantu called me an Honored One. I know that I am not an Honored One. I seek your guidance, my wise women ancestors.”

She bowed.

The group of nine sisters pulled together exchanging glances and telepathic thoughtforms.

“We appreciate your honesty and genuine humility; sit,” Arua said.

Touzdae sat on the empty stool. She listened with her heart, body, mind, and spirit as the group bestowed their counsel.

Jac flipped backward and up over the banister. Crul Bahj grabbed both his ankles with two tentacles and pulled him as far as the wall. P-Jac jumped down into the thick of the melee. His feet, mixed with tentacles, tripped him. P-Jac cut a tentacle with his razor-sharp blade and flung it over the side. Jac moved his sword towards his target. He stabbed P-Jac’s shoulder. It bled.

P-Jac thrust his blade into Jac’s thigh. Jac teetered on the edge of the banister and fell backward on top of Crul Bahj. Both dropped into the fusion reactor.

All nine sisters watched as Touzdae piloted the ship off the moon and in orbit folded-space, and was gone.

“She may well be on her way to becoming the Honored One,” the Seer Crone spoke, “if she can face the crime against herself.”

“Oh my Spirits,” P-Jac exclaimed! “I won and I bested the beast too. Not as I would have killed him, but good enough.” Red and putrid green blood sprayed upward from the fusion reactor. Jac was gone.

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