The Queen Her Beast and the Creature: An Unusual Love Affair

By Art Abrams and Myra L. Rothschild

This unusual love story is about two people unexpectedly meeting and discovering a deep connection of desire and friendship. They decide to go hiking and spend the night making love when they discover there is more to them than meets the eye. Both have been disturbed dreams of animal-like creatures, both have experienced desires of savagery. Their act of love making kick starts their evolutionary change and a quest to discover who and what they are. This action packed thriller has all the hallmarks of suspense and desire that will keep you reading to the end, an end that is just the beginning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329107694

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Prologue

Its 30,000 BC, the weather is hot and very sultry, a sign of approaching global change. There is a menacing breeze in the air signifying an approaching storm, yet she doesn't care.

She is running as fast as she can along the golden sands beside the edge of an ancient sea. She is scared, very scared; she had never seen its like before. It isn't animal, and it isn't plant; all she is aware of, is the foul smell and the pus-like fluid oozing from its many pores. She screams for help, she is so close to her village, yet this thing is gaining on her.

She knows her death is imminent and tears flow down her soft pink cheeks. She senses a sting on the back of her neck and feels an intense pain shooting down her spine through her hips down to her very toes. She convulses but still running she knows her end is nigh. She begins to vomit up all she has in her stomach, and her lungs start to sear with excruciating pain. She slows as paralysis sets in.

Its slimy sucker-like tentacles grab at her back and slowly she feels herself being dragged back into its foul-smelling embrace. Her screams are of a dying woman so desperate, and with such fear, she succumbs to its deathly rancid touch.

She feels it enter her, a sharp and painful thrust up into her groin and she slowly feels her insides being sucked out through the gurgling, slurping tentacle-like tube that has penetrated her. As she fades, screaming her way to eternity, she senses this thing is pleasuring itself on her very life force, and that was her last thought before oblivion.

Its final blow smashed through her eye and drained her grey matter through its tentacle, sucking it into its very being. All that was left of her was a skin sack emptied of all content.

Satisfied with the kill, it looked up, and with a cry of conquest, it vibrated a melodious tune that attracted many of its kind to begin their savage consumption of the villagers just beyond the rise.

The attack on the village was equally brutal. No one survived, no child, no dogs, not even plant life, all were ingested by these foul creatures of a bygone era. All that was left were empty husks of mammal and plant remains.

Creation

Back at the beginning of time when the first embers of the new earth were being formed, there lay dormant a species of an alien artifact. It thrived upon the heat of molten lava and the nutrients released from the billowing clouds of sulfuric acid that lingered over the rugged terrain.

In this hostile landscape, the formation of the first species was not of this world. In fact with the creation of the earth and the continuous bombardment of meteors, many remnants of alien life forms descended from the heavens. However, few could survive the hostile terrain of this newly formed planet called Earth.

But one did, it had an essence of pure survival. It was as if God had banished this essence to roam the stars stranded within the cold metallic confines of a meteor prison. Unfortunately, this meteor came to rest on Earth exposing the fragment of this fallen angel, an ancient alien artifact of pure evil.

Many eons later, as the Earth cooled, natural evolution took hold and carbon-based life-forms sprang into existence nourished by airborne and sea bacteria. The amoeba formed - as was told over time - and soon the earth was populated with reptiles, mammals, and plants, up to the advent of man - the hominid.

Even in those brutal times, where savagery was prolific, and the strong survived as the weak perished, there was still a sense of balance within the world. No single life form could dominate all others. Even with the advent of Stone Age man in the Paleolithic era the alien artifact was still in its dormant state. Only in the Neolithic period did it begin to stir.

Man by this time had evolved as the dominant species. Though less physically strong than many of his fierce adversaries his brain was far superior to anything that existed. His speed, his skills, and his cunning made him a deadly foe. Man soon began to dominate his surroundings with no one or thing that could challenge his vast intellect. Until now!

As the climate warmed and life on Earth proliferated the ancient artifact 'stirred'. The genetic material from this ancient race was intact causing the evolution of a single living cell from the life-giving energy of the indigenous bacteria. The cell divided, consumed and then reformed once more like an advanced single cell organism. Cell division accelerated and so did its reformation into a larger more dominant organism, consuming vast quantities of bacteria that infested its location. After a decade of consuming all that it could, the single cell organism started to differentiate from within. These newly formed cells were now the alien's stem cells of life.

After years of splitting and devouring, the stem cells began to form shape. The silicon-carbon-based cells multiplied, growing exponentially. Every living cell within the cells' reach was being absorbed at a faster and faster rate until nothing was living within range of the newly formed ectoplasmic blob.

This contiguous blob of gelatinous ectoplasm began to move. It slowly mutated into a form that could efficiently manage the terrain. Short, sharp claws evolved over time to allow it to move quickly and rip to shreds anything that came into its path, whether mammal, reptile or plant.

Quickly the alien being grew and evolved into a cellular birthing machine that replicated living independent organisms. The cells multiplied and developed into the first stage: gelatinous blobs. The replication rate expanded and soon the whole landscape was filled with evolving silicon-carbon-based formless blobs eating all. These energy leviathans absorbed all that they could as they began their slow process to transcendence. Soon the landscape had been stripped of most carbon-based life which triggered the second stage of its evolution.

The ectoplasmic blobs stopped their procreation, and over time they began to harden into husks of translucent mounds. Below the surface of the shells, cellular activity continued at a faster rate. For over a year these formless husks worked endlessly until the day of their release. The hardened shells cracked slowly allowing the things inside to taste and feel the sweet air. Spurred on by the need to feed, the ancient relics burst from their captive husks.

The creatures were immense, fearful and highly intelligent. Their strength and agility was no match for any human. The armory of nearly impenetrable skin with their deadly array of biological weapons and ripping claws made them merciless killing machines, with one driving force, the need to feed.

The resulting devastation of Stone Age villages was an indicator of the things to come. No single mammal, reptile or plant was safe from them. These ancient artifacts absorbed them all without guilt or pity.

The decimation of the local human, animal and plant populations continued unabated for years to the point of near extinction, specifically the humanoids. The alien beings dominated the land and continued their unmerciful assault on all living carbon life-forms.

However, one of them sensed that their demise had been foretold. This creature's foreboding made its own need for survival paramount, and it telepathically communicated its desire to survive to its fellow companions. They systematically evaluated all ways to insert their seed into the remaining mammals. Unfortunately, the insemination created immediate convulsions followed by death to all that were injected or ingested. The silicon part of the silicon–carbon-based aliens was not compatible with the carbon only life forms of this planet.

In one last ditch effort, one of the aliens injected its seed into the belly of a pregnant humanoid. The seed remained in the amniotic fluid and was slowly ingested by the mother's fetus through the umbilical cord. The slow digestion allowed elements of the silicon-carbon gene to be absorbed into the newly forming genes of the young embryo.

Several weeks later as the aliens continued their unabated consumption the days began to darken as a result of a large dark object which was hurtling towards the earth. The impact of that object in the northern regions of Earth was felt by all, causing immediate foreboding.

The humans and animals went into hiding and watched as the sky continued to darken. The alien forms moved to cover and waited in trepidation. They sought shelter in caves below a nearside lake as the temperature dropped, a result of a nuclear winter induced by the meteor impact. The humans and animals could handle the intense cold, but the aliens struggled due to their need for continuous heat - a vital source of energy for the silicon components of the life forms.

Slowly the cold air seeped into the caves, and the creatures succumbed to its deathly grip. Deeper and deeper they went until the last form remained motionless. Their survival technique had served them well eons ago, a method that allowed them to survive long periods of cold. Slowly the stationary creatures formed husks around their bodies. The creature's body mass decreased as they folded themselves into umbilical-like fetuses wrapped in their dense body husk.

Motionless but not dead, the creatures waited out the desolation of the cooling planet only requiring small amounts of the blood source to once more activate them in warmer times. The blood source that now just a few humans carried as part of their genetic code.

The humans survived the nuclear winter effect and thrived. The pregnant women that had the creature's seed, gave birth to twins, a boy, and a girl both of whom had unusual eye color and skin form. But in those days, childbirth was a gift and treasured as it gave life to the tribe and so their survival.

Unbeknownst to all, the seed of the alien race had been successfully integrated into the human gene pool through the twins as a recessive gene. All further procreation appeared as healthy as the silicon genes blended deep within the human gene pool. So 'deep' was the silicon mutation that it was unlikely to be ever accessed, as this area of the human gene was no longer needed due to man's evolution from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon.

Man once more dominated the Earth, and to this date the eradication of these aliens was lost to all eternity, frozen in time and discarded to the 'remote corners' of the human gene pool never to be accessed by modern man. Or was it?

Evolution of a Long Dead Forgotten Gene

Peter

It was late in the evening, and Peter was up but restless. His wife was asleep in their marital bed, and their children were all gone. His life was happy yet restless. Peter, now in his early fifties, was having unusual dreams, dreams of a savage and vicious nature. There was always some kind of being involved that showed little mercy to those it met. Strangely he felt he was this beast, but in his dreams, he could not control its behavior.

The dreams started the day he was laid off from his highly paid job. A Pharmaceutical IT executive, he traveled the world and had a lover in most ports of call. Yes, those were good days, the obedient, loving wife at home to come back to, yet he had the needed sexual diversity to help manage his stress and add to his desire for variety.

It was only after he was laid-off that the vicious, weird dreams re-appeared, with force and venom. He needed a release from these odd dreams and so began his quest to find a woman that understood him and could quell his thirst for sex, an irresistible hunger to mate with someone other than his wife, was now driving his every move.

He spent many evenings scrolling through websites. He met many women for coffee, yet none satisfied his need. As time progressed, he imagined meeting women taking them to bed and then systematically killing them in a savage driven blood-lust attack. He often awoke from his dreams sweating with exertion and fear; it was as if his thoughts were becoming real in his mind. His wife frequently woke him, disturbed by his ranting and flailing arms and legs. She was getting worried about the onset of his worsening dreams. She was beginning to feel frightened being near him.

The more Peter met women, the