Mike

Talking to Kim came so easily to me now. I was more handsome than I'd been since I hit puberty (and all my hair started falling out), more energetic too. This was the best shape I'd ever been in. I felt like a kid again, it was great. Kim seems to have noticed the change, and likes it too. The kids have been giving us a hard time about spending to much time together, but it doesn't bother me.

After a long talk, we decided to go see what everyone else was doing. We walked into the other room just as Daila said, "they're all making out somewhere." Ivar appeared out of nowhere and questioned the remark at the same time I did.

Jared ignored the comments and went on with the conversation, "let's see what kind of trouble we can stir up."

"No, daddy! Don't." Kindra pleaded. "I don't want that scary boy to come after us. If he finds us, he will kill us all." she was fidgeting in his arms and wrapping her arms very tightly around his neck as she buried her head in his chest.

"Don't worry, we won't let them hurt you."

"No, daddy! No! he's much too powerful. He's not human."

Rain tried to suppress a laugh "none of us are human."

"No, you don't understand!" she was difficult to understand through her tears, "he followed Sterling here. He's from his planet."

"What? That's impossible." Sterling limped in from the other room.

All eyes were on him, he was much taller than he'd been the day before.

"I was alone, completely and utterly alone. For hundreds of years. Trust me, I checked a hundred thousand times, no one was every there. I would have loved to have had someone to talk to."

"He hid himself from your view."

Sterling's eyes got wide, he nearly fell over as Rain helped him into a soft chair. "If he's who I think he is, we've got trouble. Big trouble. I suggest we listen to Kindra. Let's all band together to create another dimension. That should hide us for a while."

"But he'll find us again, won't he uncle Sterling?"

"I'm afraid so, sweetie." he stroked Kindra's hair. "He's a very bad man. He's the one who manipulated my father into sending me away so that he could inherit the kingdom. I bet he slaughtered millions of people."

My blood ran cold, "Even if we all band together, he will still be able to kill us all?"

"Yes, and he will show us no mercy. You must realize, to him I am only a baby. He was 400 years old when I was sent away. That would easily make him 1000 by now."

"But I didn't think our kind could live that long." Jared was confused.

"You're kind cannot, but on my planet there are some with powers that can increase (or degrease) the length of someone's life. He is one of those people, so obviously he would make himself nearly invincible. He is what you would call a God on your planet."