A Day in the Life

By William T. Wilhite

A Day in the Life is the story of a half-human little girl who has a day of all days. The story begins in a jungle far, far from her home planet of Hetrae on the planet Saduje. Elbib, her brother Yloh, and her twin ten-year-old brother and her sister were in the southern region of the planet, much like the Amazon on earth. Cifus, the Karrponian, attacks the children and takes Yloh prisoner after he allows her and the twins to escape. This starts a day that keeps getting worse. Soon her parents, grandparents, uncle, and cousin were caught up in the terrible day. The quest for the Glencarin Crystal begins, and there are many helping the family, including a group of intergalactic warriors known as Defenders, Eedeed from Sky City; Teetee the Sky Elf; Lem, Asil, and Tirips from the village of Dynas; and the Landosian family, Chas, Jade, Eisus, and Ettenot. In one day, Elbib fights for her life, as well as her twin siblings and Yloh many times. Finally, after a day, the crystal is secured by the coalition, but something unexpected happened when Mada and Eve touched the crystal together. Thus begins the next adventureThe Crystal and the Gem: The Fight between Light and Darkness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524565596

William T. Wilhite

I have always enjoyed writing things. Over the years, I have written many projects, a video production called a Dance-Drama. "Where Does it Stop", an alternative school program, a business plan, and numerous grants. I always had something that motivated me to write. Back in June of 2012, I was about to get laid off from my job of nearly 15yrs. It was the 4th. time in as many years. I told myself that I was so sick of putting my life in someone's else's hands, and that made a flash go off in my head. I thought of something I could do without anyone, or anything except me. I asked myself, what could I do that required no place I had to drive, no money, and took nothing but me. That was in June, and in that month we had a bad storm that knocked out my power out. As I sat on my porch and was in Total darkness, I watched as my neighbors power started to come back on, but mine didn't. I asked myself this question, "How On Earth " can we have all this technology, and I can't get my power back on in a timely fashion. I thought of something I could do without anyone but me. As I said, I have written a lot, but never for the pleasure of writing. This is my first attempt. That night, this story came to me, all three books, I even knew the title of all three books. I knew everything about the story told in three books. The first ten pages were written by candlelight, and a bottle of Crown Royal, but the story you have here is the one that came to me that night, I hope you enjoy it.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 The Myth

Chapter 2 Crystal City

Chapter 3 The Village of Landos

Chapter 4 The Village of Karrpon

Chapter 5 Devastation of Landos

Chapter 6 We Are Here for Elbib

Chapter 7 Battles, Beloved, Betrayed

Chapter 8 Unbelievable Day in the Life Of…

Chapter 9 Transporting: In with the New

Chapter 10 This Is War

Chapter 11 What a Day!

Chapter 12 The End, the Beginning, and Something Else

Main character list

Oracle/Magnus

Lem and Asil of the village of Dynas

Their daughter, Tirips

Chas and Jade of the village of Landos

Their children, Eisus and Ettenot—the twins of Landos

G-Nik, ruler on the planet Hetrae and family: wife, Latina, and her father, Latin; their children, Yloh, oldest son, twenty-two years; Elbib, oldest daughter, thirteen; and the twins, Eve and Mada. G-Nik’s mother, Evig, and his brother, Emos, his wife, Dogo, and their children, Sussej, twenty-two, Nhoj, thirteen, and Boj, ten

Cifus of the village of Karrpon (Karrponian)

Three members of coalition: Del, Nylkoorb, and Eedeed

Mitor of the planet Rackeen and his butler, Toddel

Saduje planet

Main city: Crystal City

Star: Nadroj

Secondary characters: Captain Mazee of the Transporter Amre; Carr; Eedeed of Sky City; Teetee, the Sky elf; Commander Zom from the planet Wicken, a rogue planet; Wickenian, his army; and Yrrej, a Wicken soldier

Jumpers: small ship, like a car, that can fly high altitudes

Defenders: Naeb, Lee-ze, Cole, Javna, Kulla, Potoc, Sinka, Komac, Navis, Orron, San, Regor

Preface

I t has been many years since G-Nik’s friends and family returned to the Milky Way, twenty-three to be exact. G-Nik and Latina have had four beautiful children. There is Yloh, the oldest son, and then Elbib, their oldest daughter, and then the twins, Mada and Eve. G-Nik, as a Defender, had traveled to many planets and star systems during his travels. Latina had also been part of G-Nik’s adventures until motherhood of four children prevented her. As a Defender, Latina missed her adventures with G-Nik but ensured that her children never missed an opportunity to travel outside their own comfort zone. Latina believes in her heart that it was useful because of what had happened to her and G-Nik immediately after their rite of passage. Yloh first has been through the ROP and had become a Defender, like his mother and father before him. He grew up listening to the wild stories told to him by his parents. Yloh had also grown up in a very close, loving family, and G-Nik’s siblings went on many adventures of their own, together and apart. On this day, adventure, love, and friendship will go way beyond anything one could image.

A very special crystal will change life as all of them know forever.

Chapter 1

The Myth

T he day was cloudy but warm. It was midafternoon on the planet of Saduje. Saduje was in the Adonf Star System. Saduje had many villages surrounding eleven major cities on the planet. Saduje also had large forests and jungles throughout. The planet was the largest in its star system. These wild exotic creatures roam freely. The planet was home to them, and the inhabitants living on it, humanlike intelligent or exotic wild, only took life to protect or to survive. The large planet also had beautiful oceans, rivers, and lakes. This was due to large storms, rain, and wind. To provide powered energy to the entire planet, many machines had been built. The power was like electricity on Earth, but as on Earth, it was not available to all. Some of the developing villages worked hard to maintain uninterrupted energy to theirs. This itself was very, very hard because of these large green areas on Saduje. One could compare the forests and jungles on Saduje to the deepest darkest parts of the Amazon forest and the Congo in Africa on Earth. There were massive plants of all kinds, and many bore fruit, but many that presented a long-standing problem, they were obstacles when machines needed to be in their exact location. Storms were very common, and the damage caused by them was routine, as was discovering them and repairing them.

Mada, Eve, I’m not kidding, come on! Mother and Father will be angry. We must go. Come on! I’m sorry I yelled at you. Please don’t hide. Yloh is waiting. Mada… Eve . . .

Elbib is thirteen years old and second born to a ruler on Hetrae. She looks so much like her mother at thirteen. Her salt-and-pepper hair was longer, but all else, almost identical to Latina. Elbib looked forward to the rite of passage coming up in three years, and she and Yloh thought it would be a good idea to take the twins exploring while their parents worked. Elbib was a little over four meters tall, slender, with white, smooth, pale skin, and was very outgoing. She was quite protective of her family and loved them all unconditionally. But today, today she got angry and hurt her little brother’s feelings.

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean what I said.

Although Elbib had been calling out to Mada and Eve, there was no answer, and she began to worry. She continued to look around. Moments later, the heavy brush opened, and her brother Yloh appeared.

Something is wrong, Yloh. I’ve searched everywhere. I cannot find them.

OK, don’t worry. They could not have gone far in this place.

You will never offer to show your little brother and sisters around after today, will you?

Are you kidding? Our family lives for this kinda thing. Don’t worry, Elbib. We will find them. This way, the tower is this way. Maybe they wandered there?

The towers are actually giant transformers. Yloh stood tall in his Defender uniform, very handsome, and slightly more rugged than his father and somewhat thicker. Yloh led the way through the heavy brush. He led his sister to an opening. As they approached, Elbib could see the huge transformer that had been blown over by the great windstorm the day before. The storm had been the reason for the visit to Saduje. G-Nik and Latina were there to give support to rebuild transformers vital to communication to Hetrae. Since there was no current threat of any kind, G-Nik and Latina thought it would be good for their children to visit a new planet in a new star system for them. Yloh had visited Saduje, and Elbib and the twins had not. Yloh was supposed to survey the damage for his father and offered to take his younger brother and sisters exploring. His parents saw no reason not to let a Hetrae Defender show his younger siblings a somewhat newly discovered star system planet. This was only the second time the twins had ever left their home planet of Hetrae.

When Yloh and Elbib stepped into the opening, Yloh could see the look on Elbib’s face. The first time he saw the colossal transformers designed for this planet, he could not believe the enormous size of one of these machines. It was the size of most of the villages on the planet. Elbib looked in amazement of this mammoth machine.

By the ghost of Saturn. I have never seen them close up. They are monstrous.

I have only saw them from a distance. Saturn was a great ruler on Hetrae millions of years ago.

Elbib stood in awe of the magnificent structure. Mighty as the transformer was, the wind on Saduje was ruler on this planet. The previous day’s wind blew the giant transformer over like a small tree.

Elbib could see all the damage caused to the jungle as it fell and the large crater left in the exact location of where the base anchored to the floor of the thick green area.

As Elbib scanned the site, a flash of reflection from the Nadroj-less day, off the clouds that blocked it—Nadroj is to Saduje what the sun is to the Earth.

Nadroj is the star in which the transformer collected its energy to distribute it to the villages in that region of the planet, but there was no Nadroj, just clouds upon clouds. The dull light provided reflects something near the crater’s edge. For a moment, Elbib was caught up in her thoughts about the weather but began to focus on the source of that reflection. Soon, it became very apparent to her why Eve or Mada may not have answered earlier. The twins were nearly inseparable, yet Eve was standing on the edge of the crater left by the transformer. The reflection had come from a necklace given to Eve and Elbib by their mother. The necklaces were only given to Elbib and Eve. Latina told them both of the story behind the necklaces. She told them both of the long line of women in their family that had worn the crystal on the end of it. The crystals were from Mount Nomac, a great mountain on Hetrae. Latina told them of how the crystal could reflect the faintness light. She told them both of the first young girl to receive one and how it became tradition for thousands and thousands of years for every ten-year-old Doronian girl to wear it.

The story told to Elbib and Eve was of a ten-year-old Doronian girl named Camara. Camara was given a crystal on a necklace much like the two girls’. Camara’s father had found the crystal in a mine deep, deep in a mountain. He claimed that this crystal created its own light and led him from the bowls of the mountain where he would have surely died. He wanted his most precious gift to have his magic crystal. Camara was his most precious gift and was given the crystal to protect her, as it had been there to protect her father. Shortly after receiving the gift, Camara and most of the Doronian women and children were placed in dungeons when war had broken out.

An evil warlord thought that by kidnapping the rulers’ women and children, the rulers would have no choice but to give in to his demands. After Camara’s father and the other rulers defeated the warlord, they searched all of Hetrae. Ironically, Camara and the others were kept in the exact mountain her father had found the small crystal around Camara’s neck. Again in the darkest of the cave, the crystal’s light shone faintly through the blackness, and again lives were saved because of the crystal. After that time, it became tradition for all ten-year-old Doronian girls to receive this crystal and the story of Camara.

Now, Elbib believed in that story more than she ever had before. She started to run toward her sister, calling out her name frantically, Eve!

Yloh responded immediately by following his sister. Eve! Eve! Don’t move. We’re coming. Although the two were shouting at their little sister, they were too far, and no matter how loud they screamed, little Eve could not hear them. Moments later, Eve’s brother and sister were close enough that she could barely see them but still could not hear them. She could see them waving their arms, running toward her. In her mind, she was frightened about what she knows that they do not. In little Eve’s mind, she knew that her brother Mada was in a fight for his life at that very moment. As Elbib and Yloh got closer to Eve, she began to hear her older brother and sister.

Eve! Eve! Do not move. We are going to get you, OK? Elbib calmly added.

Hey, do not worry, little sister. We are here, and you are going to be safe, right? Yloh slowly spoke. At that same time, both Elbib and Yloh began to walk closer to Eve. They had nearly fallen in a sinkhole approaching their sister minutes before.

Hey, sis, you OK? Where’s your brother? Yloh said in sort of a joking manner.

Yloh, I am frightened.

Hey, my little sister, Princess Eve, have I ever let you down?

No.

Well, I am not about to start now, Yloh said calmly.

Eve, where’s Mada? Elbib said lovingly.

Eve responded to Elbib, nearly crying. I told him not to go, but he would not listen.

OK, OK, it’s going to be OK. Where is Mada?

Eve did not respond with words but pointed down into the crater. Seconds later, Elbib and Yloh reached their sister and could see for themselves the danger faced by their little brother. After reaching her, both looked over the edge of the crater to see Mada on a dirt ledge that was slowly crumbling away. The twins shared a mental connection that allowed them to communicate with each other in mind alone.

Hold on, brother, we will get you, Eve said to Mada mentally.

The stone, Eve. I need to get the stone. It is important.

The stone. He needs to get the stone, Eve said out loud.

Stone? What stone?

The stone we found when Mada fell in the hole.

We have no time for stones, little sister. This ground is unstable, and it could give any minute. We must hurry. Why is this stone so important?

It is the only one of its kind.

Only one stone? Surely there are others like it.

He will not come out without it.

Mada, listen to reason. We must leave this place. It is not stable.

He said this stone will be important to Father, Eve said to her older brother. He said to hurry. The ledge is nearly gone.

Where is this all-important stone?

At the bottom of the hole.

At the bottom! Is he insane? This ground could bury him in seconds. How will he expect to find one stone at the bottom of this?

He said he will and that you will find a way—you always do.

My little brother has such faith.

We both do.

Make that three.

Hold on, Mada. Yloh thought of how he could do as his little brother insisted. Quickly, he used his wristband issued to all Defenders. The wristband is a mini particle generator. Its limit to produce any substance in the universe is only the skill of the user. Yloh put the measurements and ingredients for five hundred meters of braided rope. He pressed the Produce button, and braided rope began to ooze out of a nozzle. Elbib took Eve to more stable ground and waited.

Mada, take the rope. I’m going to try and ease you to the bottom. I hope it is true about this stone of yours.

You will see that I speak true, big brother.

Yloh, maybe we should contact Mother and Father?

Yloh had lain down and continued to ease the rope to his brother. "On, Elbib. I have this. No need to contact Mother or Father. Elbib knew her brother was very serious; he used the Hetrae word for no." Yloh used Hetraeian Language in these moments of extreme pressure. When he had in the past, whatever the pressure, her brother always performed flawlessly, and the matter was handled, just as G-Nik would. She knew her brother, and if he said do not contact Mother and Father, there was no need.

I have the rope. Let me down.

I have you. Hurry, Mada.

Slowly, Mada started the descent to the bottom of the deep crevice. Gradually, going down, it became darker and darker. Mada could not hear or see Yloh. He could not see the bottom but was hoping it was close. Yloh could see the ledge Mada was on, and, suddenly, the entire mound was gone. The large mound of dirt fell into the very darkness he had a minute earlier lowered his brother.

Mada!

Mada could not hear his brother’s screams and did not see the huge amount of soil falling his way. Within seconds, the dirt struck Mada, and down he went. At the top of the crater, Yloh’s rope that was tight with the weight of his brother now went limp.

Mada! Mada! Eve, is our brother OK?

Eve attempted to mentally contact Mada. Mada, get up, get up.

He’s asleep, he will not wake up.

Eve, is he . . .

No, he is not dead, she said out loud.

Mada, wake up, wake up. You need to find the stone. You need to wake up.

Mada lay at the bottom of the crater in unconsciousness. The dirt had plunged to the bottom and had him partially buried. Mada was fortunate to be only meters from the bottom when all the dirt came down on him. As he lay there half buried, he could hear Eve. Mada, wake up. You need to find the stone. Mada, wake up.

Slowly, Mada came to consciousness. Eve, is that you?

Yes, Mada. You must find the stone.

He is waking up now, Eve said aloud to Elbib and Yloh.

Tell him to hurry. It will be dark soon, and our parents will worry, and I have not been in this part of the planet at night. We must make it back to the jumper to get back to Crystal City.

Mada, wake up, now!

In that second, Mada snapped to consciousness as if his sister was standing right next to him, screaming in his ear. Eve, I am awake.

He is awake now, Eve said aloud to Elbib and Yloh.

Find the stone.

Slowly, Mada uncovered himself and got to his feet. He fumbled in the dark to find Yloh’s rope. Once he found it, he tugged on it to let Yloh know he was OK. He continued to fumble around through the dirt. He started to dig by hand, first, in his immediate area and then short distances around him. Mada could feel the stone in the darkness and was just about ready to grab the stone when, suddenly, the ground swallowed them both.

I had it, Eve. Now I am looking again, he mentally said to Eve, who quickly repeated her brother’s words out loud. Time stood still waiting for Mada.

Elbib thought to herself, Mada, please hurry. I have a bad feeling about this place. She was not alone; all four of G-Nik’s and Latina’s children had identical feelings, but no one had said it out loud. Although none of them knew why, all had the same bad feeling.

Mada continued to search and became very discouraged. He began to frantically throw dirt from all over the bottom of the crater in every direction. I cannot find it, Eve, he said in his mind.

You must, Mada. We must get the stone to Father.

Suddenly, as Eve spoke, her lucky crystal began to glow. It had never done that. Elbib’s also started to glow. She also had never seen the crystal glow. The two looked at each other in strange amazement. At the same moment, Mada could see a strange glow coming out of the dirt; it was as if a rainbow had been placed in the ground. The colors shone out like the light of a star. As Mada uncovered it, the light and colors became even more brilliant and beautiful, and a beam of multicolor shot straight up to the sky. Yloh had his back to the girls and did not see the crystal on their necklaces glow, but he could see the glow of Mada’s stone and the beam come out of the crater into the sky. It was fantastic, the likes he had never seen. He knew at that moment his little brother was right; this stone was different, beautiful, and special. As Mada held the stone in his hand, the glow was gone, and his sisters’ crystals’ glow, too, was gone.

I have it.

Mada has the stone, Yloh.

Mada tugged on the rope to let his brother know he was ready to be retrieved from the crater. Yloh engaged the recoil on the wristband, which is more like a forearm band. Slowly, the rope recoiled, disappearing into the device, and, slowly, Mada’s face came into view. Yloh was very happy when he had Mada standing safely beside him, the stone in hand. Before he could get the words out of his mouth, We need to leave this place.

It was already too late. Yloh turned with Mada to walk toward Elbib and Eve and saw a large burly creature coming a distance behind them. He and Mada rushed over to the girls just before the petal creature walked up to the group. Yloh placed the girls and Mada behind him and stood center to the creature. The creature stood much taller and thicker than Yloh, with smooth, tight leatherlike skin, olive green in color, with red fiery eyes. The creature stood on legs, but the legs were deformed, his arms the same. It was though each limb started growing one direction, and then another and then another. It looked like it would hurt to walk around as this creature ran through Eve’s mind and then Mada’s. The creature had slits for nostrils and a human-size mouth with pointed humanlike teeth.

Yloh stood for a moment and then spoke. Identify yourself and state your business with me and my family. The creature stood there in silence but appeared to understand Yloh. Yloh moved his brother and sisters further back behind and then reached to engage his weapons system. I say again, who are you, and what do you want?

The creature finally answered. I am Cifus, and I believe you have something that belongs to me.

You must be mistaken. I have nothing belonging to you. I just now met you. How could I have anything belonging to you?

The small one there,—and pointed to Mada—he has it.

No, odd one—Cifus, you say. There must be some kind of misunderstanding. You see, my brother has nothing that belongs to you or anyone else.

The light, it came from there. His deformed arm pointed toward the crater. The small one came from there, yes?

Yes, but what does that matter to you?

What the small one has is very important, important to us all.

Look, Cifus, we do not want any trouble. We were about to leave. You are standing in our way.

We are standing in your way. Cifus raised both his weirdly deformed arms, and several dozen like him appeared from every unseen rock, bush, and blind spot around the group of four.

Although extremely put on high alert in his mind, Yloh did not show this on the outside. He now had to get his brother and sisters back to his parents. Yloh knew he was their only hope of leaving that site. As Yloh had earlier, he began to speak his native Hetraeian language. Yloh never looked away from Cifus when he spoke. Seod enoyreve evah no rieht layor stsev? (Does everyone have on their royal vests?)

The rulers of Hetrae and their families were given royal vests. The vest was not really a vest at all; it was a belt. This belt, however, puts an impenetrable force field around the wearer. Yloh could not remember a time when his little sisters or brother ever had to engage his vest. G-Nik and Latina drilled the four constantly about when it should be engaged. This situation right at this moment would be at the top of that list