The 7 Words of Creation. Book 1. Meckron Seraph

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      The old man hesitated for a while, then grabbed Joshua`s arm with an iron grip, like he had no time for this.

      Josh saw the fool`s-golden ring, with an engraving of a snake, on his finger of that hand that trapped him and destroyed all the kind feelings towards that hobo.

      In a struggle, Joshua pulled the glittering Watch against his chest and suddenly he saw how everything went blurry and cold. The big threatening arm, which Joshua held on to, started to fade, but the ring got clearer and brighter. Josh felt the frosty shiver, everything started to freeze around him. The trees, the pavement, the deep sky – everything started to fade on edges and coldness entered into his bones. Josh looked around – everything looked the same, except… He felt unwilling to move in the coldness where things had lost their inner “juice”. Everything felt dead and to move his lips took an enormous strength.

      “Aah…” Joshua was freezing his words off.

      Josh didn`t know what to do next, when he heard behind him the freezing girl`s dim voice that scared him:

      "…Eldren… Eldren…"

      As he tried to breathe, the girl floated around him, and he saw that this was the same girl from the cafeteria. She was a bit older than he was. They both were freezing.

      The timeless cold started to consume Josh`s thoughts and without thinking he took his strength and pushed the Watch away from him.

      He felt a pull. Everything went warm, twisted and turned and he felt like he was sucked from one dream to another, finding himself staring at the same street he was on before.

      "Josh! Come inside!" he heard his dad. Joshua was outside his house again. The hobo was gone.

      "Dad!? I thought you`re on a ship already!"

      "What ship?" Andrew asked.

      Joshua looked at the watch in his hands, thinking if he had changed the past. What now? What are the Seven Words of Creation? Who was that girl? And who is Eldren?

      CHAPTER I:

      THE MONDAY

      Joshua slept through colorful dreams. His hand, wandering in dreams, never stranded from the watch, until the early hours of promising morning, when he had to stray his humble footsteps towards the school.

      He was late. The time wasn`t exactly the same, as it used to be. How to look at everything the same, when all is changed and changing in every glimpse? How to sit in history class and wait until the end of it, when there is no time? What is there, anyway, beside's the change?

      Josh observed a patient raindrops tapping on a class window, like the assembly line workers, reacting according the change. It seemed to stop raining, as the harmonic windy vortexes played lightly, when the teacher explained the Greek mythology to the class:

      "Then the titan, Kronos, defeated his father Uranus, who ruled the sky…"

      "Wait! Go back!"

      The classmates peered at Joshua, who involuntary burst that word-fall on the slide show.

      "Yes? Joshua?" the elderly grandmother-like teacher asked. She was very fond of her students, because of the lost luck to be a mother herself. She reimbursed it with her kindness.

      "That watch… it`s… special." Joshua referred to an old painting of an Old-Greek mythology – the mythology that was baptized as a topic of today`s class. Josh shoved the Watch secretly into his pocket. It was the same Watch! With engravings and all!

      "You have a very good eye,” the kind teacher said. “These are all symbols. Yes. Every detail carries a referral to the myths.”

      "So that watch represented the rule over time and the scythe…"

      His teacher didn`t have an answer. "Kronos was the god of the heaven, not time," she finally said.

      The other students still looked at Josh unbelievably.

      "Maybe," she tried to comfort Joshua, "when Kronos fell, the other gods came and divided the duties of the sky-god between them? His son Zeus, got the duty to rule the lightning, and someone had to rule the time, the rain, clouds, forests, lakes and so on."

      "Good job, Joe," one of the chubby arrogant classmates poked Joshua on the shoulder. "You just added another question in the KGB`s test." That was the nickname of the history teacher.

      Very subtle but a prompt ring sounded from the corridor. Students stood up with satisfaction and some of them wringed.

      "Thank the sky-god for the solar eclipse," said the boy from another desk, being unnaturally tall for his age, on Josh`s right. His name was Nick Lander. Everyone called him The Ladder. "The sitting in physics class would`ve un-Einsteined us all. See you outside." Nick scooped all the content of his desk into his back-pack with one move and left, leaving Josh memorizing the picture on that slide-show.

      As Joshua was leaving the class, the questions ran through his head – was that Watch eternal? A time-traveling Word of Creation? And how much did it have to do with the course of the history as we know it? Is there a history at all, if one can change it every second?

      The light in the corridor felt brighter than the sun outside. The solar eclipse was about to hit its climax.

      “Hey Toe-Joe,” the chubby arrogant classmate waited him around the corner, next to the lockers. His name was Percy. One of these rich kids who hadn`t had much love in their childhood and it was compensated with flashy things his parents thought helped the situation. He had his two tails with him – Jim and that French kid everyone called Fort. The last one laughed too loudly to the “Toe-Joe” joke.

      Percy had called Joshua Toe-Joe since the second grade, when they hid his shoes and Joshua had to come to class on his bare feet. He tried to ignore them now, as always, but they moved on his way, blocking it.

      “What up, nerd? Are you trying to flunk us in history class?” Percy wasn`t really mad, he just wanted to pick a fight, faking the anger.

      Josh said nothing and tried to pass. He tried to do it nicely, because everyone knew that Percy and his goons were intimate with their fists like chimpanzees.

      As he stepped on the side, trying to avoid the conflict, Percy pushed him the way that Joshua fell during the ode of the goons laughing, desecrating the hall with their bad personality.

      Sitting down there on the floor, he remembered his Watch. He wanted to make himself disappear. Maybe it was shame that spawned that wish – the shame that he was afraid of them. He has always thought himself as a great hero, like in the video games, but when it came to real life, it made him mad that even those three classmates scare him.

      He put his hand to a fist and got up. His anger over his own weakness consumed his thoughts and even the will to use the Watch. He found himself being too afraid to show them the thing. He still was a captive of the fear that they would just laugh at him even more. Maybe it was the last night attack by the hobo, which his body remembered and tried to avoid.

      He just walked away, towards the exit, while those three shouted through laughs from behind:

      “We`ll see you outside. IN THE DARK!”

      Joshua just ignored them. There СКАЧАТЬ