Light from Sky to Earth Part 2

The doctor had meticulously prepared everything. Traveling to a certain place in Germany, acquiring clothing from the era to mix with the inhabitants so no one would notice his presence. Arthur had always shown to be a patient being, taking his time with the implementation of his plans. Seven years passed in a blink of an eye for an Anunnaki. Living among the people of Germany; secretly keeping an eye on a special boy. It wasn't difficult to find him, even with dark hair he was a spitting image of someone beloved to the doctor. Observing from a distance all the happiness and tragedies of the boy known as Lucian.

Until that night. That fateful moment he knew would transpire. A blue glow emanating from the cuff of his coat; his wrist watch warning that the time had come. Following as usual, only this time he pursued the boy hastily. On his chase he could feel his watch pulsing; warning him the moment was coming to fruition. A shiver ran down his body, Arthur could already feel the electricity crawling over his flesh. White blinding light illuminated the zone when lightning fell on Lucian with a loud rumbling crash. Arthur paused momentarily, shuddering; the scales on his body visible thanks to the energy that spread over the ground. "Bloody hell..." The doctor whispered as he walked towards the boy, the watch pulsed madly. This was the moment; a moment his decisions could alter time, or let it continue it's course. Heart beating wildly, he crouched down, a hand slipping over the boy's already white hair. Should he?

"I should." He whispered, and so did all the dark voices in his head "You should." The watch felt so hot, the light turning nearly white. Carefully slipping his arms beneath the boy's body and lifting him...this time instead of taking him to the hospital...The doctor made his way to his hideout. This moment the decision was made the first step was taken his watch went silent. Only a small buzz being heard, the device letting him know that a new time line had been created.

Thunder rumbled in the sky overhead, a heavy rain falling over the town as Arthur made his way with the Lucian through protective darkness. The hideout was located outside the town, an old church no one came near; hidden down in an improvised basement where he had arranged all the technology he brought from the modern era. Carefully laying the boy on a soft bed, hospital white lights shining over his body. Arthur smirked, tilting his head as he realized what he had done. "So...it begins." He whispered as he took a seat in the shadows; watching and planning what to do with his new catch.

Only when another high pitched alarm broke his thoughts, "Oh, bloody hell!" Arthur exclaimed, standing up. The lights illuminating Lucian's body weren't regular lights, but a bit of his home planet's technology, built and used to monitor the vital signs and health of other species and those hybrids that couldn't heal as fast as the Anunnaki. The boy would die quickly if his injuries weren't treated. Not wasting time; kneeling close to the boy, he ripped the boy's clothes off, chuckling when he noticed the dual sexuality of Lucian, something that wasn't out of the ordinary to the doctor. Brushing his hand over the flat seemingly male chest, digits applying a cream to treat burns. Carefully he injected a IV needle into Lucian's arm, shortly after introducing a little of morphine to the IV drip. Reaching off to the side, Arthur took a hold of another piece of Anunnaki technology; a small apparatus, silver and shiny, a screen that could show an instant image of what was happening inside a body. The doctor's brow furrowed, the injuries weren't only exterior, but interior. Tonight, he knew he wouldn't sleep. He had to keep Lucian alive.

Shallow intake of breath, the boy laying on his side, as the doctor treated his wounds. Any touch to burned flesh causing pain, whimpering escaping Lucian; faintly aware he could smell the burns. The worst of his injury was on his back, third degree burns, and severe nerve damage. Lucian was teetering on the edge of going into a coma. Bright lights, not enough sense to even think about the fact they were to bright; lingering awareness of warm hands, the shadowed profile with illumination shining from behind. Morphine slipping through his blood making him swim, the pain dulling to an ache. Pale blues fluttering. Perhaps he was in a hospital, perhaps he was dead? He heard the male speaking, but could tell that German wasn't the doctor's native language. Unable to think clearly, “Am I dead...?” Lucian struggled to speak, words coming out choked and muttering.

Vision blurred, light playing tricks on his senses, as the doctor's profile morphed, became translucent, semi-corporeal, hands appeared to have four digits instead of five. Unsure of what to make of this, whether hallucination, or true, Lucian was more afraid of dying than of what he perceived. Tears staining his cheeks. With confusion, pain and delirium induced haze, Lucian's spirit began to detach, to pull free, floating... He was looking down at his near broken nude form with the strange doctor leaning over him. He was dying, but not yet dead. From the outside looking in Lucian did see the strange equipment, the flashing lights of technology he did not recognize, like things out of a science fiction novel...or his dreams. Such strange dreams. Something felt familiar about the doctor, a faint lingering sense of familiarity forming as he stared at the male's face. It did not occur to him that perhaps the doctor could see him in this state.

By now Arthur had peeled his human facade away. His features had changed, pale skin, silver blonde hair, eyes bigger and his long four fingered hands touching the boy. Hues were of such shiny blue that one might think they were staring into stars. The doctor then grabbed a small metal box, opening it and retrieving what seemed long patches of cloth. They were in reality a little something he had brought back with him from his home planet. The "cloths" were made of nano-technology, something made to help out the other species and hybrids that lived among the Anunnaki. The technology could make a body create cells in a more accelerated pace, and so make healing of wounds faster. Of course, because of this acceleration, visible scars were more common. Carefully Arthur rolled Lucian's body onto his stomach. With care he started to place the cloth all over his back, then rolling him back, to wrap his arms with it. Every little wound and burn was covered.

Leaning in, he examined the boy's features, before giving him a bit more of antibiotics and morphine. "I'm not sure if you'll remember any of this, when you wake up..." Arthur spoke, his alien form turning to stare at the boy's astral projection,"But whatever you see. Don't panic."

“I'm trying to keep you alive, you see...” His mind whispered, moving his hand to show the pale boy laying on the white bed, his naked body wrapped with the cloth, machines monitoring his vital signs. “The hospital. The hospitals these days are terrible...you would have died. Everything inside you...has burns. Your heart. Your liver, your lungs...but I can try to cure you.” Arthur looked at the boy, sighing and biting on his lower lip...as he couldn't stop seeing his beloved Nerthuz in him.

The spirit of Lucian  in observation of the alien creature in his actions. With his astral gaze he could see that the cloth bindings were more than they appeared. Tiny flecks of light swarming in on his body, an intriguing sight and not something he had ever seen before. Again he felt as if he were dreaming. Outside of his body he was indeed calm, only faintly detached from his situation as an observer might be. While he did believe when the doctor said he was trying to save his life, he was unsure as to whether he trusted this situation.

But, he was intrigued,  immensely. He recognized Arthur as being otherworldly, no longer as naive as he once had been, he didn't see an angel nor a god. No, this was something different, yet the similarities would be striking to anyone. Yes this must be a dream, because it should be utterly mind blowing. Lucian's spirit smiled “I remember everything, even if buried deep and difficult to recall.” His lips did not move, telepathy innate to the astral form. His spiritual form faded as it moved back into his body, Lucian's eyes fluttering, a faint gasp for breath, but the boy was beginning to drift off into sleep. For now the doctor's work was sustaining him. It would take many days for him to recover enough to eat solid foods again, but a matter of days was nothing. Drug induced sleep was deep, but never dreamless. As the boy had an ever restless spirit that traversed of it's own volition.

Arthur watched, unsurprisingly, how the boy's ghostly shape vanished. Shaking his head, he gave Lucian more morphine; another dose of medicine and more antibiotics. He was making sure his body could hold while the doctor was away. For a second he paused, wondering if he could give the same soothing relief Nerthuz did to him...but Arthur quickly ignored the idea. There were dark things in his mind and he didn't want the boy to face them. Not yet. Not yet.

Taking a deep breath, he moved away, turning off the lights and only leaving the life scans on. The little green lights and lines beeping quietly as Arthur retired to sit by his desk. It was late already and the rain had stopped. The clouds dispersing to allow the starry sky to shine over the town. The doctor leaning against his seat started to slowly succumb to fatigue and sleep...eyes closing slowly, his mind and soul drifting away.

As soon as he fell in deep sleep the universe unfolded before him. The light of the stars, the nebula’s and galaxies, suns and planets, they all moved and shined before him. From time to time he would allow himself to travel in astral form, to visit places beyond the dimension of the earthlings, or even his. Sometimes, indeed, as the dark forces behind his madness would always try to drag him away in the end. He was shinning, so bright, blue light as the being drifted among the world around him...that until he noticed another shining being, over there, the boy he had in a bed. Brandr stared at him with curiosity, his big blue eyes blinking slowly as he approached the boy...curious, so curious to see what he was dreaming about.

Stars wheeled overhead slowly, yet faster than would be usual in reality, this in Lucian's personal Dreaming was a vast world of his own making. It was not flat, but round, and though from here not all of it could be seen, one could feel there were very few details left out. It was dark now, which made the stars all the more bright. His astral dreaming shape shimmered and glowed, Lucian perching in a tree with veins of glowing life twisting up from its roots up through it's branches and leaves. There were a variety of colorful birds perched through out the tree's boughs, one of which perched on Lu's arm, plucking a berry from the boy's parted lips, chirping softly. He was whispering, speaking to the bird as if to share something secret.

With the approach of the Anunnaki male, the birds fluttered their wings causing the leaves to rustle in the tree, wind swirling around them, and shadows wavering with a new source of light. The bird on Lu's arm took flight, finding itself a place to perch among its own kind, chirping faint annoyance as birds do when disturbed. From his own perch he was looking down at the rather tall alien being smiling, curiously. “Are you of the Star People, stranger?” He whispered telepathically, but also making his best attempt to speak Anunnaki, which was a touch clumsy, because he only knew it from his dreams of being someone else. “I recognize your face and your soul from a long ago dream... You are...that strange doctor who has saved my life?” Pale blues flickering with light softly as he spoke. Lucian was calm, unworried and content in his Dreaming space.