The Other Side of Time

The eels were used by a certain religious sector of nuns that electrified the water, making it holy. Not only can they talk, they could sing. Neptune had become so dark that people would walk for days underneath the trance of the electrified singing, just to hear them. Inside their golden tank their electric bodies not only provided light, but a entire sound system surrounded by circular mirrors. Lighting up by their electrical current of voltage was a spectacular sight to see. It was the job of the eighth planet to give hope and to test others if they went in the wrong direction. Their world was a murky sea of methane that was only breathable to their physical structure As a fish has gills to breathe, they had lungs that breathed in methane. They lived in a castle that peaked high in the cyan clouds while the land surface was rich in minerals. It wasn’t difficult to see other planets with their high powered telescopes at the top of the castle, pointing it on the third planet watching constantly a waring obstruction that became the topic of discussion at the round table. King & Queen & knights assembled to discuss the atrocity of the situation. The kingdom had advanced since the methane wars of the dark ages, while inventions such as the telescope were treasured and powered by the electricity of the eels. The castle was well lit with burning torches and candles as the round table was grim with serious expressions. The Queen sat with her crown of sea jewels, her robe of silkworm trailed from her chair. King Neptune, who was also Poseidon, choose not to wear his crown preferring a common look of a dress of chain mail to match his knights. What can we do from here? We have no long range weapons! The knights wanted to know. The Queen shook her head in disagreement, That is not true, we have the power of the time bomb. Her solemn eyes gleamed like jewels in the candlelight. The king said it was true, the device could be used. How so? Asked one tall Nordic knight. It can be manipulated from space. The Queen explained. We can move it to their home world and alter their time. Where is the device now? The knight’s clenched face’s began to show interest. It is hidden deep within this chamber. The king informed his men. We have never heard of it’s existence. The knights shook their heads in agreement. We’d like to take a look at the device. The awareness of the situation weighed heavily on the men. Even though they were living on the eighth planet, the solar system had rules of codes of honor to not disrupt the galaxy. Violent acts of weaponry that were wiping out humanity in high ratios was disturbing. The king motioned for his footman to retrieve the device. The eels in the lighted tank began to sing chants of excitement. It was a mesmerizing aquarium having two golden seahorses holding each end. Next to the eel tank was another round tank that held sea monkeys that danced to the eel songs while the men at the round table waited. The planet had other races of methane people, crossbreeds of both eel & man as with the footman. When he returned with the device, one could see his eel features of silvery green skin. Wheeling in the time device upon a mechanical trolley the knights stood up to gather around while the Queen sat and did her embroidery. They could see a round titanium orb that intrigued the knights who asked to learn how it worked. The king touched his hand to the orb where a interior light lit up displaying a tiny screen. On its screen one could see images of time as symbols from different time millenniums that could be set like a clock. Once set, it could project the time onto a dimension through a ripple in space, allowing a time warp to occur. It can only alter a planet’s history, going back in time, never forward since the future hasn’t happened. What’s it used for? The knights murmured. For the science of understanding history as it keeps a record of time, and for warfare. How for war? The knights gleamed at the orb. It makes a good camouflage confusing the enemy since he would be transported to a different time dimension. The knights roared with laughter. Well, let’s deliver it to their world right away! The men became merry while the Queen informed that a flagship had already been summoned. They were to set sail the following day. The knights bowed and bid the King & Queen goodnight, as they knew as warriors they would need a good night’s sleep for tomorrow’s journey. The vessel was a airship of a strong magnetic steel that was mined deep in the methane tunnels. It loomed and breathed like a mechanical dragon with a ion generator that pounded to the rhythm of the marching warriors. The Queen bid them farewell as she understood this was entirely a man’s mission. The king stood proudly at the helm, stirring the iron wheel across the methane sea. It’s blue green gasses rising up, making it look like a mechanical Viking ship flying over a swampy mystical world. At this very sight, the Queen cried while clutching her glass necklace that held her precious sea monkeys within a frail globe. She whispered a prayer as the airship dissolved into the mist. The journey took many days of traveling through the silence of space, yet it was what the men lived for. Putting adrenaline in their veins, a adventure to defeat the obstruction. Once at their destination, above the third planet, they sat in silence waiting as a Trojan horse until the king gave his signal. A single cannon was loaded with only the time bomb, once set the King motioned to fire. Once in motion it immediately began to alter time and space that set the planet spinning backwards until it stopped at the destination of the beginning of civilization. Everything threatening shifted into what looked like a more peaceful world, while the time device swam back like a boomerang in the quietness of a silent war. Weapons of destruction were no more! The warriors shouted with gratifying grins. The King called for a celebration as they set sail for their home. The mast of the airship holding the figurehead of their God Thor, sailing onward with its mission accomplished. No one would miss the regression of lost milestones the Earth had forgotten. Time began again as a different perspective as the Quantum time device had rearranged and altered the once doomed reality. Off into the distant space one could hear the eels song..Take a trip into the Sun, where are bodies are as one…feel our electricity inside, take a airship through the sky…now we are forever high..We create music deep inside…The feeling inside…