4 comments/ 8015 views/ 1 favorites A Dragon's Tail Ch. 04-05 By: OldHideki DISCLAIMERS: Any person involved in a sexual act is above the age of 18. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This story contains some supernatural events, but is not intended to disrespect any religion. This story also has fictitious members of the Imperial family of Japan. Presently, there are two unmarried princes in the royal family, ages 6 and 62. My characters are not the same ages as existing members of the royal family. I have made up two unmarried brothers, ages 18 and 26, whose mother is now a widow, or dowager princess. There are presently no dowager princesses in the royal family, either. I am hoping that I have treated the royal family, even my fictitious members, with respect. As for sex, there is little in this one. It has some graphic descriptions, because the main character goes through an involuntary Transgendering from a man to a woman. I am posting it here because I am not sure how it would go over on a non-sexual literature posting site. The story is meant to be open ended, so that the character can be used in many additional stories. Chapter 4 -- Home and Warmth Somewhere in the Amori Prefecture, Japan. As we crunch through the falling snow, the only light I can see is the beam of the flashlight. There are no street lights, and the road reflectors have been covered up by the snow. We are near the end of the road, and I look around for a house. The only thing I could see was a sealed up tunnel. "Where is your house, Ahiko?" Ahiko points at the tunnel, "Straight ahead." I look forward again. The road stops just before the tunnel. The tunnel is crudely carved, and there are metal doors covering the entrance. There is water is flowing under the door, running down the hill, and into the river. Steam is rising from the water, as if flows into the river. I again use my flashlight to check to either side of the tunnel entrance, but I don't see a thing. "The tunnel? There's water running out! You can't possibly live in there!" "You're right! The main tunnel was flooded when an underground thermal spring was hit. I live in the upper service passageways. They are about three meters wide, and it goes clear thought the hill. It's winter, so I'm living in the lower one, because it's closer to the thermal spring." I am still puzzled, but she continues to push the wheelchair to the end of the road and down a small walkway that goes towards the tunnel. Near the entrance to the tunnel, we turn and zig-zag around a corner. We then go up a concealed ramp and to a door that was hidden from view by some red pines. She unlocks and opens the door and pushes me through. After she closes the door, she turns on a small light and checks me again for vital signs. "I don't have very big batteries, so we can't use this light for very long. I have a cooking fire in the main area, and it will be warmer there. You need to let you eyes get accustomed to the light in here." I look around the service tunnel. The walls are wet, and there are channels cut into the floor along each wall to catch and drain off the water dripping down. There seems like an endless series of greenhouses going down the tunnel, and water drops are hitting the top and sides of the greenhouses and dripping into the channels. The greenhouses are the plastic kit type that one would purchase at the home improvement store. After she checks me again, she turns off the entry light, and my eyes start to adjust. There are little night lights on each section of greenhouse that give off a soft amber glow. The dripping sound is similar to a spring rain, with an echo of course. The amber glow gives a warm cast to everything. She walks down to the first glowing light and turns around. "Each of these lights uses only 1/20 of a watt each. I have 400 of these things, so I am using the same amount of energy to light my home as that 20 watt light we used in the entry." "How long did it take your father do all of this, Ahiko?" She looked back with a hurt and puzzled look. "I did it all myself. It's not bad, is it?" "Oh! It's wonderful! You are a very smart girl! But where are your parents?" I had struck a nerve. She starts to cry again. "I work very hard! I'm a big person, and I can take care of myself!" She reaches into her coat, pulls out her doll, and hugs it. I try my best to recover, "And you're doing a very good job, Ahiko. Would you like to come over and let me hug you? I'm thankful for being helped by a wonderful lady like you." She sniffles as she walks back. She takes off her coat and gently leans over the wheelchair. I reached around her and gave her a gentle hug. Something was strange about the hug. I felt around a bit and felt two bony lumps below her shoulder blades. Oh, my! She's deformed! She gently hugged me back. Ahiko feels my hands touch the lumps on her back. "It's OK; I have several genetic defects, and have a second pair of shoulder blades, along with a few other things. I call them my wing pods. You can call me angel if you want. I like that. We can go now, you're not bleeding, but one of your legs is hurt. I'd like to clean you up and fully examine your leg." She pushes me down the tunnel, and I noticed several openings to either side. Openings on one side lead to a railing that overlooks the main tunnel. I can hear the water splashing and flowing down into the main tunnel. Most of openings on the other side opened up to small chambers, but there is one with a ramp going up. We stopped at one of the openings that overlooks to the main tunnel where water was bubbling out of the wall. A stone wall had been constructed to form a huge bath and the excess water cascades like a waterfall into the main tunnel. Seats and reclining positions had been carefully formed into the walls. There were many safety bars placed throughout the pool. "Did you make this too?" This time she was beaming with pride. "Yup, it took a while to get the temperature right, there's a hot pool, closer to the spring, and a cool pool that's over here. I want you to use the cool pool after we wash the blood off your body. It's just below body temperature. The hot pool may cause your leg to swell up. Will you excuse me while I get us some towels, and fresh clothes to wear? "Why sure dear, you're being a perfect hostess". She walked down thirty meters and knocked on a piece of wood on one of the outer chamber walls. "Hello, I'm back now. I did find a lady in the car, and I brought her here. I'm going to clean her up and treat her wounds now. I will then make dinner for the three of us. Sir, do you need anything before I do this?.....Yes, she was bleeding, but I think she's OK now. Do you need to go to the bathroom?.....Are you sure?......OK?....I caught two fish today, so we'll have some protein other than bean curd. I am going to add some wood to the fire and grab some towels and some clean clothes. I'll be back in a little while to cook." Ahiko then went into a side chamber and returned shortly with the towels and some clothes. Oh my, she must be taking care of her father. I looked around the bath. It is set up for someone in a wheelchair to use. The safety railings were everywhere, and seats were set up around the bath so that it was easy to transfer out of the wheelchair and bathe oneself before entering the bath. She quickly moves me out of the wheelchair and onto a seat. When she goes over to the bath to draw some water, I look at the wheelchair and notice that it is small. It is a child's wheelchair. She must be taking care of her brother. Why did she call her brother sir? How can she do all this? She's just a little child herself! She came back and carefully removed my clothing, washed my body, and examined my leg. "Your right ankle is twisted. It will be OK to walk on in a day or two. I'll fix that before we go to bed. I want to help you with the cuts on your face right now. Do I have your permission to treat them?" I nodded. She gently placed her hands on either side of my face. "I want you to stay calm. Please don't be frightened at what you see. Can you do that for me?" I wasn't ready for that. My face must be a mess. I have not looked into a mirror yet. I must look hideous! Yet, Ahiko had not made a face or winced once when she looked at me. The only thing I see in her eyes was concern for my well being. I take a deep breath, and slowly let it out. OK, I can do this. I nodded and looked into her eyes. "You're going to be a great doctor someday." "I already am." She smiled and her hands became warm. A golden glow appeared around Ahiko, expecially around her head. I looked forward and cracks started to form on Ahiko's face. Even when blood started to drip from the cracks, she simply smiled and gazed at me with those soulful and caring eyes. In the end, I can only see a smile and two cheerful golden eyes, surrounded by a golden aura of light. Even as the glow around Ahiko subsided, and I see that she has blood dripping from her face, she continued to smile at me. Her hands cooled down, and she removed them from my face, grabbed a washcloth, and started dabbing the blood from her face. She handed a mirror to me, along with another washcloth. I looked into the mirror and found small red lines of blood on my face, a mirror image of the bloody cracks that appeared on Ahiko's face. I dipped the washcloth into the water and started cleaning my face. The cracks washed off, and my face was clean of marks. I looked over at Ahiko's face and see that she now has scars all over hers. What have I done to this child? My hands started to shake, and tears started to run down my face, but she stops me. She holds my hand and smiles back at me. "I am an empathic healer, and my body regenerates quickly. These scars will be gone in the morning. I still need to walk around and cook dinner, so I will heal of your ankle before we go to bed. I will heal the ankle only a little bit, so that I will be able to walk and take care of you tomorrow. My ankle will be completely healed before tomorrow afternoon, and I will be able to go fishing again. "My word, you ARE an angel!" She smiled back. "I like being called an angel sometimes, but I am a simple shrine maiden. I tend a shrine near here, and I go on pilgrimages to other shrines. I have been given the power to heal, and to see spirits. I get frightened by crowds. And if I see too many spirits, I get frightened, so I live by myself in this tunnel." "Were you talking to a spirit when you went for the towels?" She shook her head, "No, that was some local boy who I don't recognize. He is lying to me about his identity. I am healing his leg right now. He has a double fracture on his right leg. There is a spirit that led me to him, and the same spirit led me to you. He's here right now." I grabbed a towel and covered my body. "He's watching us right now? He can see me naked?" Ahiko gets up, walks a few paces, turns around to face me, and holds out her hand. A dull image starts to appear. "Yeah, he's got a dirty mind, and he wants me to do something that I won't do, but he does have a good heart, and he helped me save you and the boy in there, so I think he's OK. You may have frozen to death in the car, so I think you owe him a bit of gratitude for saving your life." The image slowly became clearer and more familiar to me. "Father? Is that you?" The spirit bowed. Ahiko looked over at the spirit. "You know this lady? Are you really her father? I'm sorry lady. I didn't mean to disrespect your father by telling you he has a dirty mind. Please accept my sincere apology." With that, Ahiko bowed at me. I bowed back at Ahiko, but kept my towel around me, covering my privates. Today was turning out to be more than I could take. I started to review the past three hours of my life, because my world had just been stood on end. It was hard enough to comprehend that this little girl had pulled me out of a car wreck, but now she was some sort of psychic healer, and she made my father's ghost appear before me. I stared at the ghost and reviewed the information a second time, trying to remember everything that Ahiko had just said, it was important. "Ahiko, did you say that the boy in the other room has a broken leg? And that you don't recognize him?" Ahiko smiled at me and nodded. The ghost pointed first down the hall where the boy was, and then at me, and then positioned his arm like he was holding a baby. "Do you sometimes call yourself the 'Angel of the Mountain'?" Again, she nodded. She turned sideways and placed her free hand on her back. "Sometimes I use that name. I was told not to use my real name. I have these things on my back. Wait....Did I already tell you about my wing pods?" "Yes, you did." I fished into the pocket of my coat that was neatly folded up next to me. I pulled out a piece of paper, opened it up, and showed it to her. "An officer found this flyer, and I've been looking for you. The boy on this flyer is my son. Did he by any chance tell you his name? Did he tell you he was Prince Takeshi?" It was time for Ahiko to take a moment to reflect on the last three hours. Ahiko turned and looked at the ghost and then at me, her eyes widened and her jaw started to quiver. "I though he was pulling my leg! Is he really a prince? He's your son? B.b.but that would m.m.mean, th.th.that you are the Empress!" The image of my father faded out as Ahiko lost her grip on the ghost and immediately prostrated before me. "I'm sorry! Please forgive me, your highness! I didn't believe him! I...I...I have never met royalty before. I'm sorry. Oh, No! I just lied to you. I have never met LIVE royalty before. I didn't believe he was telling the truth!" "Please don't kneel, Ahiko. I accept your apology, it was just a misunderstanding. You are a wonderful and kind little girl. If you rescued and healed my son like you did me, then I am grateful to you for your acts of kindness." Ahiko had pulled out her doll again and was hugged it, she looked up at me and then quickly returned to the floor, clutched her doll, and shivered before me. "This is my fault! I should have believed him! Bad! Bad! Bad!" "Ahiko, please look up. That's better. I am not the empress. My husband died in an accident, when the helicopter he was riding in crashed, and I am a widow princess. I want to thank you." I dropped the towel and drop to one knee. I then reached for her and caressed her shoulders. "Can I have another one of your wonderful hugs?" Ahiko lunged forward and grabbed me around the waist and nestled her head against my chest. I held her as she cried and stroked her long golden hair for about a minute before she settled down and relaxed. "Ahiko, can I see my father again? I think you were right, and I need to thank him for helping you save my son." She nods, but continues to hug me for a while. Slowly, Ahiko released her grip, helped me back into the seat, and returned the towel to me. As I cover myself back up, she walked back over and held my father's hand. "Were you an emperor?...Were you a prince?...You are not royalty...So, your daughter MARRIED a prince, and SHE became royalty...And the boy is your grandson?...OK." She turned back to me. She talked to the spirit like it was an everyday occurrence. I bowed forward. "Father, please accept my gratitude for watching over my son." The spirit bowed back. "Ahiko, you mentioned my father wanted you to do something, can you tell me what he wanted you to do?" Ahiko blushed and lowered her head. "Please don't ask me to tell you that." At this point, the spirit did what Ahiko would not do. He pointed at the other room that my son was in, then masturbated an imaginary penis, and then rubbed his hand in Ahiko's groin area. "I think he wants me to inseminate myself with you son's seed." The spirit gave a nod and bowed. I could only drop my jaw in shock. My father wanted her to do this? Ahiko was blushing and not looking up at me, but continued her story, "Your son was bleeding from his thingy. And... and... I was cleaning up your son and...and... I was healing him when he... well... HE DID IT. I didn't mean to make you son do it, and I didn't do what the spirit wanted me to do, either. I did make his thingy bigger, and that made the prince very happy." She turned and glared at the ghost. "I would have desecrated the Royal Family with this...this...this...MUTANT BODY!" Ahiko let go of my father's spirit and buried her face in her hands, and start to cry again. My father's image faded out when Ahiko moved her hands, but reappeared when he touched her shoulder. "Ahiko, you're right! My father IS a dirty old man! Why would you want this child to do such an act! She is clearly under the age of consent." Both father and Ahiko shook their heads. "I'm old enough. Your son looks be over 13 years old, and that means he is over the age to have consensual sex here in Japan. I didn't think it would be right to take the boys seed because he is below the age of 20, so he was not an adult." "Ahiko, Just how old are you?" She looked down at her feet and clutched her doll again "Do I have to answer that question?" Her eyes looked towards my father's image for a moment as if to get an assurance, and returned back to looking at her feet. While Ahiko fidgeted, I looked around at the bath, and the hallway with the series of greenhouses that were connected together. She had built all of this, and she had been here a while. This must have taken years for one person to do. Other than her emotional reaction to her doll, she acted in a very mature way. The officer that gave me the paper had even said that the 'Angel of the Mountain' was a local legend, and that this was just a prank flyer. If she was a legend, than she must have been here for many years. "Ahiko, are you an adult? Are you above the age of twenty? " She nodded in consent. "Please don't ask me anymore about that. That's a secret." It was my second time to have my jaw drop. Her body was not aging! She could have looked like a nine year old for the past five hundred years for all I knew. I looked at the child, who was really NOT a child, and then back to my father, who was trying to console her. "Tell me father. Why would you want her to do that?" The spirit first placed his hand on Ahiko's chest and slowly drew his hand slightly away and cupped them, once on each side. Ahiko looked down at the motions. "Yes, my breasts may grow, and I will have a baby and have to nurse it." The spirit waved his hand around and shook his head. The spirit then placed his free hand on top of Ahiko's head, and then slowly raised it up until it was the same height as the top of his head. Ahiko tried to follow his actions, but could not see what he was doing. The spirit repeated the action and Ahiko shook her head in confusion. "I can't see what you are doing, but I will have a baby." The spirit shook his head, and again, repeated the action. I tried to guess at his motions. "She won't have a child, but she will get taller? Is that what you are trying to tell us? Will she mature into a woman?" The spirit nodded and then bowed to me. Ahiko's face lit up. "Is it true? I finally get to grow up? Can I do this with any boy?" The spirit shook his head, and pointed in the direction of my son. Her face scrunched up, and she shook her head. "It is still wrong. The boy is not an adult. I've waited this long, I can wait a few more years until he's old enough." She turned to me. "Princess, I think I should start on dinner now. Please allow me to help you into the bath, and I will come back to get you when dinner is ready. Is it possible for me to visit your son in a few years?" I was astounded at the change I saw in her. She had made her decision about what was right course of action, and turned her attention to the immediate matters at hand. Once again, I thought back to when I was a nine year old, and couldn't fathom myself acting so mature. She helped me get into the bath and then went off to make dinner. A Dragon's Tail Ch. 04-05 I was left to contemplate my little savior, and her convictions. I picked up the mirror again and looked at my face. I looked at a face that had smashed into the windshield, and then was cured by a girl who could not age. This was the same girl who had also saved my son. Somehow, I knew that the red string of fate had brought us together, and that I had a debt to this girl that had to be paid. I also knew the payment that my father wanted me to pay, but I could not rationalize how this could ever make Ahiko mature into a woman. I was left to ponder while the little angel prepared dinner. Chapter 5 -- Another Victim Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, in a supersonic transport. Janice Williams continues with her briefing. "Before we took off, I gave you the simple physical elements of Robert, and the emotional elements. I am about to give you information about what is happening scientifically, and our current understanding of the nature of the Universe. I was Roberts Psychologist, and I am not one of the Physicists who worked with him. I will do my best to explain this stuff to you." This information is thirty years old, so some things may have changed. We would not be assembling three teams of agents to try to find him if there wasn't more to this. Robert IS very special. Robert has a more powerful soul than other humans. His soul can actually alter the physical properties of the world around him. I want to mention that there is a difference between a man's ego and a man's soul at this point. While I worked with Robert, his ego and self worth were pretty much shot, but his convictions and heart were unquestionable. This is an extremely honorable man, and you will have to treat him with dignity and respect. Like I said, treat him like he was an actual living breathing angel, and you will be OK." "We believe Robert is actually manipulating cosmic strings. If you don't know string theory, these are the things that make up sub-atomic particles, like quarks. String theory says that space-time has eleven dimensions. I am not going to try to explain Calabi-Yau manifolds, or anything like that. Here is my basic knowledge of what is going on. Time is one dimension, and our normal three dimensions are called the physical plane, but there are also additional parallel three dimensional planes. We now believe that dark matter exists in these parallel planes, and that our actual souls are made up of this dark matter. So, we actually exist in at least six dimensions at the same time. We have a real body, made of normal matter, in physical plane of existence; and a real soul, made of dark matter, in the spiritual plane of existence, and they are attached to each other. This may sound weird, but we believe this because Robert can actually see and pull energy from the spiritual plane." Click. An acupuncture chart appears. "We believe that we have isolated a nerve cluster, made of eleven neurons, that forms throughout our nervous system. This cluster is what attaches our physical body to our soul made of dark matter. You each have hundreds of these clusters in your brain, but you also have clusters at the points in this chart. We now believe that acupuncture works by targeting these nerve clusters. As weird as it sounds, acupuncture now seems to have validity in science. A person going through a rebirth gains an additional set of these nerve clusters. Robert has three complete sets, so he had triple the number clusters that you or I have. We think the additional clusters mean that he now has tripled the amount of dark matter that composes his soul, and that is what gives him enhanced abilities." Click. An image appears of Robert holding the hand of a spirit, an angel with wings. "I know, this sounds like ghosts, and goblins, and weird paranormal stuff. Robert talked about having hallucinations, or, what we thought were hallucinations. I had a hard time believing until Robert touched and 'activated' a dark matter spirit. Spirits are real, and using Robert, we could see them. A ghost or spirit is composed of only dark matter. When we blindfolded him, he was still able identify any one of us, and point to any person by seeing our soul made of dark matter, even through walls. The walls around you are made of physical matter, and not dark matter, so dark matter sight is not blocked. Don't try to talk to Robert using rooms with one way mirrors, he will close his eyes and identify the people right through the glass. I have personally seen Robert illuminate the soul of the Virgin Mary. So through Robert, I have seen the Virgin Mary, and this reason alone is enough for me to treat him with the reverence of an angel." Click. An image appears of Robert and a much younger Janice holding hands, both with a visible aura, but especially their heads are surrounded by a halo of energy. "This is Robert fully illuminating the edge of our dark matter spirits. You will notice that Robert's spirit is considerably larger than mine, but that we both appear to have a halo. All of you have a soul, so if any of you were to be fully illuminated, you would appear to have a halo. I want to repeat this, WE ALL HAVE HALOS! As I told you before, the brain had hundreds of these clusters, so your own spirit extends past your physical form. A full spirit, with its enlarged head, actually looks like a space alien to me. We actually believe that the alien image that people claim they see is a fully illuminated dark matter soul. Usually, when a spirit appears, they will usually not illuminate their complete form, but only the boundary that was their once physical form had. We call this a partial illumination." Janice turned to Bob. "I would now like to introduce to you Bob Alexander. He is FY3105, and also has the ability to see the spiritual plane, just like Robert does. I will let him talk about the spiritual part of this." Bob came up and nodded to the group. "I know, my name is also Robert, but please call me Bob, so as to not cause confusion. We have called this talent of seeing the spiritual plane clairvision. There are two other clairvisionaries working on this case, and they are already in route to Japan. I am here to report on paranormal activity, and in this case, there is a lot of non-activity. Your war room was devoid of spirits, which is rare. There should have been three or four spirits milling around, but I saw none. There are two transports full of equipment and technicians are already airborne and on their way to Japan. The two clairvisionaries got onto the same transport plane, and reported two jackals getting onto the other transport. It seems that they are interested in our activity, but giving us a wide birth. Janice walked forward, "Thank you, Bob. I guess I'll have to explain what a jackel is now." Janice went to the computer, and after a little searching pulled up a new image. It was a drawing of a half man, half wolf. It appeared to be a man's torso and arms, with the legs and head of a wolf. "This is a drawing of the Egyptian god Anubis. He is half man, and half jackel. He is the leader of the Egyptian army of the dead, so he has considerable power in the spiritual world. We refer to any spirit of this race as a jackal, just like we refer to members of another race of spirits with wings as angels. Jackals can be good or bad, and I should not have to remind you that angels, too, can be good or bad. I need to remind you right now that Lucifer... is an angel." "Let me repeat that, Lucifer is an angel. I need that to sink in a bit. After that gets through your head, and simmer for a while, you'll figure out that just like humans, we have to treat each entity we meet on a case by case basis. The two jackals that got on the transport are probable watchers, and will not actively help or hinder our progress. The fact that the war room was clear of spirits means that this case is incredibly sensitive. Even the spirit world is treating this search and recovery mission with kid gloves." "Get out of you mind that these are flesh eating violent werewolves, and that they are bad. The Japanese call these creatures kitsune, and believe that they guard the material world from an invasion from the demon world. Kitsune is fox in Japanese, and even though they consider these creatures playful and pranksters, they also recognize them as vigilant defenders of the human world. The Egyptians also recognized this, and they believe these people will form the army of the dead. We believe that at the future battle of Armageddon, most jackals will choose the side of light against the darkness, and will act as our ground forces. We also believe that most angels will also be on the side of light, but several angels, such as Lucifer will be on the side of darkness. While on this mission, we should probably refer to these creatures as kitsune." Janice started to notice that the men were starting to have their eyes glaze over. She had seen this many times, when introducing the paranormal as a known commodity. She had dealt with the concepts of angels, jackals, and a man who could vaporize a person, for over thirty years now. It was sometimes hard to take it all at once. She knew that these men would be returning home to a different world than when they got up to this morning. She decided to give them a break, and try to make this seem more normal to them, possibly by going into traditional folklore for reference. "I now need to get back to some basic information." "You may have some notion of ghosts and spirits being cold, and may have heard of accounts of people being chilled as a ghost passes through them. That is the effect of a spirit pulling energy from the physical place into the spiritual plane. That has a chilling effect. Robert can pull matter the opposite way, so he generates heat or light. When there is a light component, which accounts for the halo or aura of light that many of you have seen in paintings of angels and divine beings. Robert usually has a halo when pulls energy into our universe, even if he is trying to pull only heat." "We know he has three paranormal abilities. The first is regeneration, his body heals itself, we think this is the only reason he survived this disease. The second is his ability to see into the spiritual plane of existence. The third is his ability to exchange energy between the two planes of existence, that's how we were able to see spirits, and this process generates heat. We have some theories as to why Robert's body doesn't burn up, we have termed this phenomenon the burning bush effect, but we have no idea what's really going on. As you can tell, we are naming some of the effects to explain biblical phenomenon with Robert." Click. A video of a restaurant plays in a loop. Several families are shown eating. Robert enters from the left side of the image, walks by the tables, and disappears out of frame to the right. The video repeats itself every fifteen seconds. "I want you to know that Robert is being followed by a spirit. Robert told us that he was present and told us to make this video when he got up to go to the bathroom, so he could prove that he was not hallucinating. It is an angel, and it is floating above and behind him. I want you to pay attention to the babies seated at the tables. The babies will seem distracted, and will track an object above and behind Robert. This was early in the testing, before we went to Area 51. Robert was not able to illuminate spirits at this point, and we thought he was having hallucinations. It clearly shows the three infants tracking an unseen object." "I am showing you this because we believe that all of us have these abilities to some degree. Robert went through the rebirths, so his are amplified. We believe that every one of you had the ability to see spirits when you were in your mother's womb. It is pretty dark in the womb, and your normal vision will not produce results, but dark matter vision would work. We believe that every child imprints on their mother's soul in the womb. After you are born, the ability fades away, slowly. We believe this allows a baby to recognize its mother, until it can get used to seeing their mother in normal light. This might also explain why little children see monsters under their beds; they are actually seeing spirits that we can no longer see." Janice waited for a while, until she felt that every member could see the babies tracking the unseen angel in the video clip. The agents could possibly imagine that they, too, had at one time, the ability to see the spiritual plane of existence. It was important that they feel connected to this phenomenon. That they too, had this ability, and possibly, could have it again. "As for the other two abilities, like healing and transferring energy, we also have that, to some extent. If we get a cut in our skin, we can heal it. Robert's ability is just enhanced. As for the transferring energy ability, the nerve clusters that we all have can somehow attach to dark matter, so in that vein, our nerve clusters in our bodies are pulling on the spiritual universe, and attaching to the dark matter to our physical bodies. Robert just has our pulling ability enhanced." "We now believe that the biblical accounts of Sodom and Gomorrah can be explained by two individuals like Robert. We also believe that if Robert were to land in Antarctica, turn himself on, and took a little walk; that he could easily melt enough snow and ice to cause it to rain for forty days and forty nights, worldwide. With his growth of the additional shoulder blades, we also believe that this virus may also have converted other individuals into things seen in other religions from around the world, such as the multi armed gods and goddesses of Hinduism." "The last day I saw Robert, we were testing his ability to generate heat. He was submersed in a tank of water and his body was vaporizing the water into steam. We ran the steam into steam turbines to generate electricity at a power plant and fed the condensed steam back into the tank. And YES, you heard me correctly, Robert can power a small city. He was generating over 50 megawatts of power when the return water supply couldn't keep up with the heat he was producing. We had a cascade failure, equivalent to a meltdown. The remaining water in the tank vaporized. The rubber tubes delivering breathable air to his lungs melted, producing a superheated sulfuric acid steam that attacked the walls of the tank. On total, 8 scientists died that afternoon, and many others like me ended up with permanent damage. As I said before, we believe that Robert blames himself for the deaths at the lab, and ran away". "Here is the reason we want him back. We actually want to hire him, give him a purpose in life, and use him to figure out the details of string theory. We want to rerun the tests, but not in a tank. We thing we can place him in the river below Hoover dam, and just let him vaporize the river. We should be able to estimate the amount of energy that he is producing by the amount of water being released by Hoover dam. If we can duplicate his ability to transfer energy between planes of existence, we would have an unlimited clean power source. We would solve our energy crisis and global warming at the same time. The only thing we have managed to do in the five years with Robert is build a detector that allows us to detect when Robert is manipulating strings. He does this naturally during rebirth, so four months out of the year; we can use this device as a 'Robert Detector'. We currently use these devices to detect and recover new victims of the virus." Click. An image of an 18 year old Prince Takashi appears. "We currently think he is using his ranger survival skills to live in a cave in Japan. He used these skills successfully to evade us in Vietnam, by using some of the old tunnel systems the Viet Cong used. Robert was a Tunnel Rat, so he knew where many of these tunnels were. One of the members of the Japanese Imperial family, Prince Takeshi, has gone missing on a retreat. He is currently fifth in line to become the Emperor of Japan, and is a nephew to the current Emperor. He is on a side branch of the royal family, and will likely be passed over when one of the emperor's sons has male offspring. Prince Takeshi's blood was found on a trail at the retreat. The Prince probably just crawled in to the cave, and thinks he is with a child. We don't think Robert has actually kidnapped the prince, but is extremely lonely and using Prince Takeshi as a companion. Our goal is to find the two and return the prince to his mother, and Robert back to the United States." Janice holds up her disfigured hand again. "THIS IS IMPORTANT! You are to not engage Robert physically under any circumstance. Robert can go from 98.6 degrees to over 5000 degrees within a few seconds. We do not know how hot he can become, and he may be the only human that can survive on the surface of the sun. You are 98% water, and it is possible that he could boil you off and leave a pile of salt. I want you to treat him as if he was a real angel, because he may actually be able to pull off the Sodom and Gomorra thing and vaporize a city. You need to tell him the accident was not his fault, and that he is free to come home. DO NOT, and I want to repeat this, DO NOT try to force Robert to do anything." "I also want you to think about the failure of this mission. He can generate a halo, and can easily pass as a supernatural being, and is using the term 'Angel' to describe himself. We are having enough troubles with Islamic extremists calling us the 'Evil Empire', and we don't need to give them any fuel to add to their hatred of America. I now want you to imagine that you are the leader of an Islamic Sect, and want to spin stories of hatred and fear of the United States. I want you to imagine what you can do with the fact that we may have held an angel in Area 51. Robert asked us to amputate his extra set of shoulder blades, and we did, only to have them grow back. Imagine what an Islamic extremist would say if you knew we had surgically removed the shoulder blades pf an angel. This can be the worst event for homeland security, and we could be made into the true 'Evil Empire' in the eyes of the world. It won't matter that he is an American citizen, or that he served as a ranger in the United States Army, or that he willingly authorized the amputation of his shoulder blades, twice. We will lose, Period!" "I have one final note before we land. Since I have been linking some things to biblical events, I probably need to bring this up. In the book of Revelations, it speaks of seven plagues before the apocalypse. We believe that the FY virus could be one of the seven plagues, because it strengthens the soul. Each plague is supposed to kill off 75% of the world's population. If this virus strengthens ones soul, it would be a logical step to have every person contract this virus before undergoing rapture and entering the spiritual plane of existence. If we can understand how Robert was able to survive, we may be able to help others to survive this virus, when it mutates into a form that is easily contracted. We need to figure out how to increase the survivability of the human race from this plague. This virus is global, and people are succumbing to this disease on every continent. This is a race, and I don't think we want to lose." "You are on this case because you are America's best intelligence gatherers. We need your help in finding Robert, as discretely as possible. It is not just America that needs you, the world needs you to perform at your best. I hope I can count on you." *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** United State Forces Japan Headquarters, Yokota Air Base, Fussa Prefecture, 30 kilometers west of Tokyo. The first of two waves of specialists arrived in Japan. The supersonic transports from Nevada didn't need a briefing before departing. The technicians promptly set up their base equipment and started to outfit three vans as mobile tracking units. Three helicopters were immediately dispatched with additional base stations. The first to be set up was at the Atsugi Naval Air Facility in the Kanagawa prefecture. Two hours later, base units were also running at the Misawa Air Base in the Aomiri Prefecture, and at the Iwakuni Marine Corp Air Station in the Yamaguchi prefecture. A Dragon's Tail Ch. 04-05 As soon as the initial base station was set up, its detectors showed activity towards Toyko. As soon as the first van was equipped, a scientist, two technicians, an interpreter, and two members of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, were dispatched to investigate. As the van neared the location, the energy readings spiked and went out. The crew in the van went to the apartment building, and asked the apartment manager if they would be allowed to do inquiries at each apartment. When the crew could not get an answer from an apartment of a Hikikomori, a shut in, the apartment manager let them it. The crew recovered the body of the victim. The victim had dropped out of college, and was living off a small stipend from her parents. The interpreter helped look through the books that were on the shelves and all first year textbooks were vacuumed for dust. The dust sample, containing skin cells from five years earlier was brought to the van, along with samples from the least charred part of the victim's body, a finger. The genetic sequencers showed an 11% reduction in genetic material, and case FY6136 was logged. The Japanese Police force gave consent to non-invasive testing of the body at Yokota Air Base, but required that at least two members of the Japanese Self-Defense Force be present until the body was delivered to the morgue at Aiiku Hospital. The body was taken to the Air Base, and a CAT scan performed to look for anomalies. ***** ***** For a brief period of time, maybe only two minutes, a small signal was detected to the north. The base station in Misawa was not set up to help triangulate the position. ***** ***** A message was received from the U.S.S. Greywhale. "We have been able to translate humpback greeting number 5. The rough translation is: I'm willing and available. Come and take me, lover boy! We suggest that it NOT be used in future encounters with humpbacks. We have sustained damage, but are continuing the mission." The male humpback had ripped the outer layer of ship, trying to mate with the articulated submarine. The outer hull was dented, and two of the power cords to the superconducting capacitors were damaged, taking them off line. This left the U.S.S. Greywhale with only four weeks of available energy to complete its mission. ***** ***** Thank You, for reading my story. This is part two out of four. More to come...