Creators of the Galaxy: The Nether Souls, #1

By Rebecca Jose

Gatu is a new soul created in the land of The Nether. He came into the world with magical abilities that he does not understand.  Even his creator does not understand how he came into these mysterious powers. Can Gatu learn to control his magical abilities in time to save his love and the Nether souls, or will his actions lead to the destruction of the entire galaxy?  Find out in the first installment of The Nether Souls Series, Creators of the Galaxy...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca Jose
• Release date: Jan 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393960577

Rebecca Jose

Rebecca Jose enjoys a simple life with her family in Kentucky.  She has enjoyed writing since she was young, and is working on a full-time career as a writer.  Her legacy as a writer of fiction is something she would like to leave to her children, grandchildren, and all of her family and friends who supported her through her entire career.

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Creators of the Galaxy

The Nether Souls series Book One

Written by: Rebecca Jose

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

This book is dedicated to all my family and friends who supported me through this entire process.

Special thanks goes out to my wonderful daughter, Meshara Hampton, who spent many long hours proofreading and dealing with a two-year-old at the same time.

Contents

PROLOUGE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

EPILOGUE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PROLOUGE

Iopen my newborn eyes and see the doctors fussing over my sister.  She was born just a few minutes after I was.  I could hear my sister crying in the incubator beside my plastic hospital crib, and I knew she was dying.  Nothing the doctors did would help.  She was dying, and only I could help her.

I did not know how I knew this, I just did.  I knew that if I could touch my sister that I could heal her.  I did not know how I knew this either.  I just did.  I tried to form words, as the doctors did.  I could hear them talking, and I could understand what they were saying.  I tried to talk like that, but the only thing that came out of my mouth were whimpers, sounds, and cries of frustration as I tried and tried to make my mouth form the words I so desperately needed to say.

Give her to me!  Let me touch her!  I kept trying to say, but I just kept whimpering and crying.  My cries became so loud that, eventually, a nurse picked me up from my crib and rocked me as she cooed in a soothing manner.  This did not help.  It only made me more frustrated, because I could not talk to her and tell her what I wanted to say.

After a few long minutes, the doctors stopped working on my sister and concentrated on me.  My sister was deemed in stable condition by the doctors, and she lay quietly in the incubator and did not cry again.  They had hooked her up to some tubes, and wires snaked from patches they had placed along her body.  I could hear the steady "beep...beep...beep" of the monitors as her heart continued to beat and I knew that she was definitely not in stable condition.

The doctors cleaned me up and swaddled me into a cozy blanket.  It did not console me, however because my sister was slowly fading away.  I knew she had some time, but she was suffering nonetheless.  I did not want her to suffer any longer than necessary.  All I had to do was touch her and she would heal.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, they gently picked up my sister and set her in a little plastic crib like the one I had lain in.  They hung the bags of liquids that were attached to the tubes coming out of her body to a rod that was attached to her crib, and they attached the monitor to the crib as well, so it would move with the crib.  The nurse that was holding me put me back into my little plastic crib, and we were both wheeled into another room. 

There, a woman lay in a hospital bed.  She looked worn and tired, but her eyes lit up with happiness as we were brought to her.  They picked up my sister first and gently placed her into the woman’s arms.  The doctor took a minute to explain all the wires and tubes coming from her, and the numbers on the monitor and what they meant.  The woman’s eyes turned sad for a second, until the doctor picked me up and gently placed me in her other arm.

Meet your mother, the doctor told me as he laid me in the crook of the woman’s other arm opposite my sister.

I looked up into her sad eyes, and tried to motion towards my sister.  Let me touch her and I will fix her, I tried to say to her, but it just came out in a soft coo.  This made the woman smile, and tears welled up in her eyes.  She lifted me towards her face and placed a gentle kiss on my forehead.

As she lifted me, and this put me in close proximity to the quiet baby in the crook of my mother’s other arm.  I tried to reach out and touch her, but my arm would not cooperate.  It waved up and down swiftly, and I could not get the muscles to respond.  Mother lifted my sister up even closer as she placed a soft kiss on her forehead as well, and when she did my arm brushed against my sister’s arm in a split second.

Just that second was all I needed.  I thought, Heal!  Live!

The second I thought those words, a tremendous pain shot through my entire tiny body.  It felt like I was being torn apart from the inside.  I cried loudly, and my mother made shushing sounds at me and cuddled me closer to her cheek.  The pain subsided after a brief moment, and my sister started crying as well. 

A man came and gently lifted each one of us off mother in turn, and placed us back into our cribs.  My sister stopped crying after a moment, and her head turned in my direction.  I could see in her eyes that she understood what had happened, and I knew her thoughts just as if they were my own.

Thank you.  I am a part of you now, she thought at me.  And I heard her! Her voice was in my head, and I heard it!

This was my last thought as blackness started to swirl around my vision and through my fuzzy brain.  The dream faded into the blackness of the night, and I awoke safe in my bed.  I have had this dream on and off during this entire second life.  The dream comes from my first life.  This dream is the very first memories I have of existence.

I am eighty-one years old.  I have been alone for this life.  I did what I needed to do to live, but not much else from that.  I gave up on having a family, or associating with the family I was born to.  After my first life, I saw no need to burden myself if I was only going to go back to the Nether when I died.

When I was placed into the newborn body in this life, I remembered everything.  I remembered being placed into that first body and coming into existence.  I remembered my life with my family and sister. I remembered the pain I felt when we lost our mother at a very young age to cancer.  I remembered how close my sister and I were, and how we never lost that connection to talk to each other with our thoughts.

I remember the horrible death of my sister when she drown in a lake on a camping trip with her friends at the young age of 16.  I remember hearing her call for me in my head, asking for help and being so terrified, and the horrible helplessness I felt for not being able to get to her to help her in time.  By the time I had gotten there, it had been too late.

I remember the tremendous feelings of grief and pain of loss, and being so depressed that I wanted to die.  I remember the girl from college, and how she made the pain feel better.  I remember falling in love, getting married, and having two children.  A girl and a boy.  I remember going to work at the hospital where I worked as a doctor.  I had wanted to save lives to make up for not being able to save my sister.

I remember the day that I never came home.  All that pain and suffering I had to go through to get to the happy life I had, and it had all been taken away in one fatal moment on the highway.   I had only been 35 years old at that time.

It was especially hard when I had to go through that painful death of the car crash.  The pain was excruciating.  I was considered dead on arrival, but my brain was still functioning, and I could still feel everything. 

My brain was beginning to function on a different frequency, and was preparing my life force to be taken to my waiting soul body in the other plane of existence called the Nether.  The reunification process (the process of leaving the human body and entering the soul body) is complex.  There is supposed to be this light tunnel or portal of some kind, and it is supposed to be comforting and lessen the pain of dying.  When the portal opened for me and I entered it, I still felt intense pain.  I was in pain until I opened my eyes in my soul body in the Nether.

I am a new soul.  I have been told by the other souls that I met while I was in the Nether that living lives on the planet Earth is a great adventure.  They also told me that I would not remember anything beyond my most recent life.  They told me that you do not remember anything about the Nether when you are on Earth in your human body, and you do not remember any of your past lives.

This had made me feel a little better.  I would live another life and not remember anything from this first short and painful life.  Overall, I had some happy moments and times, but the death of my sister had still haunted me and I would be glad when I forgot.

They were wrong.  I remembered everything when I entered this life.  I remembered losing my sister, the pain of death, and everything I had learned while I was in the Nether.  There was a lot to learn about the Nether and it would be quite a while before I learned everything, but my knowledge of the Nether was sufficient to know that when I came to the Planetal plane and entered my earthly body I was not supposed to remember the Nether or my first life.

What I have learned so far is that there are two eternal cities for the planet Earth in the Nether, and they house many souls.  The souls spend their time learning, training, working, and resting.  The ones that journey to Earth spend their time preparing for their return to their next Earthly body and their next adventure. 

There are many different planets, and each one has their own two eternal cities that co-exist with their planets on a different plane.  Each solar system has a light and dark city as well, and each of those cities has its own leader.  The leaders of the light and dark cities of the solar system are considered the leaders of the entire solar system and all the planets therein.

I came from the city of Zendawiss, the light city of the planet Earth in one of the solar systems in the Milky Way galaxy.  The leader there is Khanya.  The dark city, Nochetawah, is ruled by Pimedus.  Khanya and Pimedus teach their souls about the universal harmony and balance, and how everything must follow that balance.  Hence, light and dark cities. 

Light and dark does not necessarily mean good and evil, because there are good and bad light souls, and vice versa.  The other plane of existence (the Nether) exists in complete harmony and balance with the Planetal plane (the plane of the planets).  It is connected to the Planetal plane through energy (as is everything in the universe), and operates on a different frequency of energy that is so high that the Planetal creatures cannot see, feel, or hear it. 

Some humans, one of the Planetal creatures of the planet Earth, are sensitive to this frequency very slightly, and they can catch glimpses, sounds, or smells of souls.  It is said that the humans of Earth are the most advanced creatures in the solar system and the most favored vessel to live in on Earth, but I have heard tales that there are more advanced creatures on other planets in the other solar systems of the Milky Way.

All of this was explained and taught to me by Khanya and Pimedus and other souls.  I spent quite a lot of time there after my first life.  When I entered my second life, I was surprised when I realized that I had forgotten nothing.  That is why I lived this life alone.  I did not want to live through all that pain again.  I needed to have a serious talk with Khanya about this when I returned to Zendawiss.

Nevertheless, I would have to wait...

Wait to die...

I just hope it is soon.  I want to go home.

CHAPTER 1

Ifinally made it.  That same night, after I had awoken from the nightmare and went back to sleep, I had a heart attack.  I realized that if you died while asleep the process was a lot less painful.  The light tunnel portal made my pain fade as fast as it had begun as I drifted out of my human body and into the Nether.

Why had it worked this time when it did not work before?  Just another question I had to ask when I got back to Zendawiss.

I awoke in my soul body in one of the receiving rooms of Zendawiss, with Khanya standing over me.  Welcome back Gatu, she said with a welcoming smile.

Khanya, I’m so glad to be home.  I missed home.

Liar, she replied playfully still smiling.  How can you miss something you do not even remember?

The smile left her face suddenly at my reply.  My voice stayed calm as I said, Yes, you said I would forget.  I didn’t forget.  I remember everything from my first life and my second life.  I still remember everything from the moment I was placed into that first body until this moment.  I remember it all.  I took a cleansing breath as I finished.  I was afraid of her response.  Were there others like me and, if so, why had I not been warned? 

Her face stayed neutral, and I could not tell what she was thinking.  Finally, after a long moment, she answered, Gatu, I do not have any answers for you.  My heart sank as she continued, this is definitely a very unique situation.  I have never heard of such a thing.  Are you sure you remember everything? 

I’m very sure and I’ll prove it.  I went on to tell Khanya about my first life, skimming over it but adding in details here and there.  I made sure to accentuate the pain of losing my sister and still missing her to this day.

After I was finished speaking, Khanya turned to another soul in the room who had been standing by my bed.  The soul simply nodded with a serious expression on her face.  This soul was my watcher and every soul had one. 

A watcher is a soul that watches over another soul while they are living on the Planetal plane.  These souls can enter the Planetal plane in their soul bodies, an ability called Planetal travel.  The watcher will report to the leader if there are any problems or if an imbalance is suspected during their charges’ lives.  Sometimes, a watcher will watch two or more souls, but usually no more than four.

Khanya's silvery voice drew me out of my thoughts as she replied, I was wondering why you pushed everyone away in this life.  Now I understand.  This is quite unusual.  I need to discuss this with the other leaders and I will get back to you.  Maybe there is another soul out there like you, and maybe there is not.  Either way, I think it would be best if you stayed here in the Nether until this situation is resolved.

She looked at my watcher and said, It looks like Gatu will not need you for a while.

My watcher smiled at me, a smile of good-bye, and I smiled back at her sadly. 

Don’t be so sad, Gatu.  I’ll see you around, she said sweetly as she left the room.

Khanya watched her until she was completely out of the door before she spoke.  I will go make my first call.  You wait here for a bit and I will be back soon.

Are you gonna tell Pimedus, I asked softly?  I knew this would be a sore subject, and I had only asked so that I would know what to say and what not to say if Pimedus visited.

Khanya’s voice was vehement as she replied, Why would I not tell him?  Even though I do not want to, it would be better if he knew.  He did create you, after all.  I will return later with more news. She walked out without a backwards glance, and I had a twinge of guilt thinking that she may be angry with me.

I had learned a lot during my time in Zendawiss between my first and second lives.  One of the more surprising things that I had learned was that I was not supposed to be in Zendawiss.  I was supposed to have been in Nochetawah with Pimedus.  Pimedus had created me, yet I had ended up in Zendawiss when I left earth and entered the Nether.

Pimedus created dark souls that were blessed with dark powers.  The leaders blessed the souls with powers to maintain the balance on both planes.  In the Planetal plane, the soul retained the energy from their power.  The more powerful the power, the more energy it creates in the Planetal plane, thus if a big balance of dark energy was needed, a soul with a great power was sent.  In the Nether, our powers were part of our everyday lives.  We learn how to use them and we use them when we can. 

I was created with the power to manipulate darkness, which was a very powerful dark power.  Pimedus himself had the same power.   I could do a lot in the Nether.  I could hide in shadow and no soul could see me.  I could create a ball of darkness that could blind a soul so completely, but I could still see inside the darkness.  Of course, on the Planetal plane the power is not manifested so completely since Planetal bodies do not operate on the same frequency as a soul body in the Nether.

I had never tried to use my powers on earth intentionally, because I did not even know they had existed in my first life, and in my second life, I never had the interest.  Some souls have told me that there are humans on our planet earth who believe they can do magic, but since a soul does not remember the Nether or their past lives, I doubted that they could use their powers intentionally.  I am sure that if they could remember then they could use their powers since I used a power unintentionally, and it was not a power that I should have had.

I ended up gaining healing powers somehow, and when I healed my sister, my soul had attracted so much light energy that the original dark energy had been overtaken.  I ended up being a doctor in my adult life, which attracted even more light energy, so when I had died I ended up in Zendawiss with Khanya. 

No one knows how this happened.  Khanya and Pimedus had many discussions and many meetings about how I had come to possess additional powers.  Pimedus had only given me the one power when he created me, and he had placed me directly into the waiting body, so there was no time to grow and develop a new power for me.  I was brand new, so it should have been impossible, and what made it even more improbable was the fact that I had used a light power even though I was supposed to have been a dark soul.

Some souls become filled with opposite energy depending on the events of their Planetal lives.  Situations like these can throw off the delicate balance of the planet.  There are souls called balancers that can put things back into balance in the Planetal plane and balance the energies inside another soul.  These souls possess both light and dark energy, and can live in either city of their choosing.  They do not necessarily have to inhabit a Planetal body to restore the balance.  It is a skill that is learned by a soul that possesses both energies if they chose to become a balancer.

For some reason that is still unknown, the balance was not thrown off in the slightest when I became filled with light; therefore, no balancer was sent, and I came to Zendawiss with Khanya when I entered the Nether from the Planetal plane.  The balance in the Nether stayed stable as well.  This ended up leaving Khanya and Pimedus to believe that I may have held on to some of my dark energy and would be a great balancer.  To test this theory, however, I would have to go to Earth when the time came to balance out the energies, and now it seemed that that test would have to wait if Khanya got her way.

Khanya and Pimedus usually work together to take care of the Earth.  Khanya takes her role seriously, and tries her best to maintain the delicate balance in the world.  It is said that Pimedus always wants to wait for nature to take its course, because the universe takes care of itself.  Balancers should only be used to avoid catastrophes on a grand scale.  Their differences in opinion cause many fights between them, but they are usually resolved in time.

There is definitely history between Khanya and Pimedus, though.  I have seen them interact with each other, and while Pimedus seems aloof and Khanya seems disinterested in his aloofness, I have seen the looks they throw at each other when they think no one is looking.

I do not know how much time passed as I sat contemplating everything that had happened and everything I had learned so far.  There were still so many questions that needed answered, and I had no idea who to ask, who had answers, or if there even were any.  So far, my existence had been one big unanswered question after another.  There was still so much to learn as well, because there were many different types of souls with many different powers and abilities.  The biggest question of all was where do I fit in?

Khanya entering my room interrupted my thinking.  Her smile had returned during her absence, but it was more of an encouraging one than a happy one.  I studied her features as she moved toward my bed. 

She was tall with a thin frame, but she had an ample bust, which was accentuated by the v-shaped neckline of her sweater.  Her unblemished skin was a pale yellow-gold color that shimmered and glowed like the sun on a summer day.  The copper colored sequins of her sweater made her skin color stand out even more as they shimmered when she moved. 

Her large, tri-colored eyes had a kindness about them that made one immediately like and trust her.  They shined colors of brown, green, and light brown as she smiled encouragingly at me.  Her sculpted, heart-shaped face housed a set of full, voluptuous lips. 

Her long, flowing, red hair with its black highlights was wavy and shiny and looked like garnets and onyxes were spun into her silky locks. Wisps of curls framed her face making the jade green color stand out among the brown colors in her eyes.  She brushed the wisps behind one delicate, slightly pointed ear as she continued across the room towards me. 

Her long, thin legs showed beneath the hem of her copper colored skirt as she walked across the floor like a graceful dancer.  Her voluptuous hips of her hourglass figure swung side to side as she walked, and I secretly envisioned how mesmerizing the swing of her full bottom would look like from behind.  

She was definitely a beauty, but a dangerous one.  It would be too easy to fall in love with her, and just as easy to spend eternity heartbroken and yearning.  She reserved her love for her planet, the human creatures, and her souls.  Some believed she was secretly in love with Pimedus, but I do not believe she would ever admit it or act on it.

Her smile slipped away, and her brows furrowed together in concern.  Gatu, are you listening to me?

I started at her words, not realizing that she had been speaking.  I’m sorry, Khanya.  I was distracted by your outstanding beauty. 

She giggled musically and shook her head at me as she replied, I see your sparkling sense of humor has returned.  She paused to smile at me before she repeated her earlier statement.  I said that we have a new visitor coming.  Drysu from Nahastu has never visited Zendawiss, but he is very interested in meeting you.  I am going to hold a welcome banquet for him, and I would like you to sit by my side.

Nahastu?  Isn’t that the city of darkness for Jupiter, I asked?

Indeed it is, she answered with a confused smile.  Someone has been taking lessons.  She sat down at the foot of my bed, and looked at me expectantly with her eyebrows raised.  I had not taken lessons.   Only the most powerful souls were required to take these lessons.  Other souls could take them upon request.

I fit into neither category, but I had read a few books here and there.  I did