Books: One - The Writer

Golden leafs falling from the sky.

Blood path leading my way.

I was going to home in that day. Was Autumn, the leafs are falling all the time. A gold carpet make my way. 

The sky it was clear, nothing abnormal. 

An old man is painting his house. Fullher I think.

"- Do you need some help?"

"- Hum.." He is on the top of a ladder. "- Can you give that basket?"

"- Yes, of course. Wich one? This?"

"- No, no that, the blue one."

"- Ok." I give him the basket with ink and spend all the morning helping him.

It was a funny morning, we paint the whole house in deep-blue, the windows, in sky-black.

"- It's nice." I said. "- But, weird."

"- It was a good work after all. You are a good painter, why don't try this way?"

"- No, thanx."

"- Tea?" He asked me when we enter in the house.

"- Of course." I wait in the living room.

He came with the tea. He don't asked how I want my, but it's ok.

"- You gave a lot of books here." The living room was filled with books. A big table in the corner have some books opened.

"- Ha. I love to read. Some of the books I write by myself."

"- That sounds nice." Books of everything, Maths, Languages, from Egypt to Japan. Some that I don't understand, all books of respect.

"- I like to write. But I never finish something that I start."

"- You should. Maybe you sell and earn some money."

"- Ha, impossible. We are in England. And you know that I'm not from here. I can talk in English without problem, but write it's completely different."

"- You ahead try it? Maybe you can write a good book, a big tale. What you normally write about?"

"- Nothing important, it's always fantasy. Not like..

    .. Oh shit."

The bigger book of the table, a deep-blue with sky-black letters.

"- Blue Dragon: The Tale of an Loyal Evil Dragon that Become a Hero." That was the subject of the book.

"- This was my first book."

"- Can I take a look?"

"- Yes." He answer, then whisper: "- You should take a close look."

Night Bus

The sixth thing about people..

    ..is that they don't!

"- What is red, two floors, and move around in the city?" Says the old woman.

"- I don't know. I I don't wanna know!" I answer. This woman follow me from Soho to Oxford Circus. It's not a long way, but for a deplorable old woman it's a hard way.

All the time ask stupid questions like "- What is black and you pay to take you to home?", in the first time I answer "- It's a Cab.", but she don't hear me, just asked another stupid question.

"- Time to run." The woman stopped when I say that. Then I start to run away from her. She never could fallow me now.

"- Don't enter in the red things or the black thing my son." she still persist, but her voice die in the night while I still running.

Finally I arrive in Oxford Street, then I stop to run and start just walking through the road, looking for a stop to my bus.

I don't have to wait to much time. In feel minutes the bus come, and I enter on it. When the bus start to move I see that old woman looking from the same corner that I came from her.

"I don't believe that she fallow me until here." But, finally she cannot fallow me any more. "- Hope don't see you again." I say in a whisper. The light are off, have just feel people in the first floor.

"- But you will see me again my son. Soon that you imagine." She screamed. This is not good. How she know what I think about, how she hear my whisper when the other people in the silent bus don't.

This don't mater. I'm going home and NOTHING can stop me from this.

The light are off in the second floor as well. No problem, better for me, I can sleep a little, but not to much.

"Yeah, I will go to my home even if I have to cross the seven hells."

*    *    *

When I wake up, the bus still moving. Absolute darkness outside the bus. I look to my watch, broken. 

"- What the hell?" A great fire ball pass by the side of the bus. When I look again, it's not only darkness, have a lot of fire ball moving in everywhere.

Inside the bus, only shadows, how it's illumined by the moon. I move for the first floor, was just me in the bus. My foot don't make any sound when I walk.

"- Excuse me boss." I try to talk with the driver, but a skull look at me, then it smile and turn all the steering wheel to right with great strength, this movement make hit the front door.

"- What the fuck!" And he stop the bus making me fall. When I raised again, he put all the power of the bus to move forward. I easy move to the end of the bus. Looking by the back window I see some fire balls fallowing us.

"- Impossible." The fire balls change to ice spikes. All of then. The darkness leave given space to a.. "- Green field with sun flowers?". But the spikes still moving. Have something wrong with the spikes. The colors, all the time changing, like a rainbow. Like the rainbow that are below the bus as a road.

Mouses enter in the bus, they are in every place. All the shining and life colors are now grey. A white fog is visible outside.

"- Where the hell I am?"

"- Exactly." A strange voice coming from nowhere answer.

"- Very nice, first I strange woman fallow me with stupid questions. Now I'm talking to myself and hearing voices."

"- Next time you hear the woman, so you don't have to hear me."

"- I was just going home."

"- Yes, you was, not any more."

"- I'm going to home even if that is the last thing that I do in my life."

"- Ok ok, if you insist, but be careful with what you desire."

The bus stop from a high velocity to zero. I just fly from the end toward the front window. The glass broken without any sound. I scream, but I don't hear myself.

The way now is like a tunnel. I just see feel steps ahead. 

How many hours, or days I walked? It's impossible to count the time in a place that never change. "My watch still broken."

Some centurys more and a second way open in the left. I stay in the same. The smell is better.

"- This place it's make me crazy." 

After I don't know how many lifes I start to hit, to smash the wall with a large sword.

"- What in the se.." Better stop to make questions. everything become worst when I wish something.

"When all this start?" A light become visible from the role that I open with the sword. Even be a large sword, a big hummer will be better to enlarge the role. so I start to smash with a war Hummer. "I don't know from where this come. I just want to get out from here."

"- As you wish my master." A voice says from nowhere, like before, but now it's a sensual voice.

The wall finally fall and I enter in the new "- Word?".

When I look around I see that I was in a kind of mountain, the role and the tunnel was gone.

This was not a common mountain, this is a flying mountain. everywhere have flying ice mountains. All hit one in another.

"- I'm luck that no one of that hit me until now." But the lucky finished when I talk. A bigger mountain covered with ice and lava is approaching. "- This is not good. No no, Nothing good."

Impossible to escape from the impact I just jump. The fall was more fast that I imagined, In one second I was jumping, in the second I was below the mountains, only in the third that the mountains hit each other. In the fourth, I don't see nothing but clouds. White clouds.

The falling become a fly, I decide to where I going. 

"- I always dream with something like this." Clear sky with some sparse white clouds. The world below me. "- A dream. is that all this are. A dream. A strange and crazy dream."

"- Finally you came to here. I was waiting for you." Said a voice. But, like the two before, this it's not coming from nowhere. Was behind me.

I look around and see a man in black clothes. His hear was black as well, his face white like a dead.

"- So, I'm dreaming?"

"- Now you are." Said the man. "- Come, you just arrive here right now but it's time to leave."

We move through forests and lakes, after a green hill we arrive in a beach. The sand was gold and the sea purple. Night around us but no skies.

"- You take a long way to come to the Dream."

"- How you find me?"

"- My little sister tell me about a strange guy crossing her territory. I just fallow the same way."

"- But you are already here when I arrive."

"- No and yes. This is my kingdom, so I was here before you. But I enter now after you."

"- Ok, I guess I understood.."

"- I don't think so."

"- So, you you get to home, or to the bus."

"- No, I can't do this for you. You have to find the way by yourself. You have to fallow your Destiny."

When he stop to talk I see that we are in a kind of maze, green maze. But he is no longer with me. I am alone again.

"- You will never be alone." Said a voice. Again a voice from everywhere. "Better to move fast from here."

"- Fallow my destiny yeah. Ok, I guess I can do that. Now, let's, I go left."

"- We will meet again, soon.."

When I turn, I just see a door, a wood door. "Should I knock the door first?"

I knocked the door.

"- Come in." A woman voice says. It's a normal room inside the door. 

"- Tea?" She asked. Like the other guy, she was using black clothes and have a black hair.

"- Yes, please."

"- Sugar?"

"- Two please."

"- Cream?"

"- No thanx."

We drink the tea together without any says.

"- Now I'm going to home?"

"- Yeah, I guess so. At least you will go back to the bus."

"- What happen to me today?"

"- Hum.. A lot of things happen with you, not to you. But you will learn and understand everything in the right time."

"- Ok."

"- Come, time to back to your world."

When she said that we are back in the bus. I was seated in the second floor, she was in my side.

So she pressed the stop button. 

"- You should pay attention in what the elders says. They know a lot of thing better then a young man like you."

The she kiss me on the face and leave the bus. Was raining and I could see her going away from the bus with an unarmed umbrella.

"She is a nice woman. Hope see her again."

When my time came, I leave the bus like everyone have to do, even the driver. I take a look on hi before leaving, it's a old lady.

Was 4h54 am, my watch it's not broken. "Next time I take a Cab."

Dreams

The most stupid thing, no, the second one, about humanity is that they can talk.

The real first one is that they think they are smart.

For real, take this sample, one day, actually, one night, I was in the night bus 8. I always seat at the end of the bus, where I can recline myself and, maybe, sleep a little. In that specific day, sorry, night, was impossible. Impossible because it was Sunday Night, and a have a lot of party in the town. So, with party, heave a lot of people, most of all, drunk.

One guy, that was close to me, start to ask to everybody from where they are, and with this, he sad that he don't want fight. "Here we have a perfect sample from the stupid humanity."

Some tell that are from Jamaica, what it is a Lie off course, some tell that are from here, London. When he ask me, I just answer "- I am from Mars."

"- Sorry?" He asked again. "- Mars, the planet beyond the earth. Actually I am what you, Earthlings say Alien." I'm that nobody believe at me. But I insist in the Lie.

"- I'm no Joking. I'm here, in Earth since the end of the Second War, in that time, I was in Japan. Where the two atomic bombs was used only for the USA, the country that rule the world, say, 'You see, we have power, so, do what we want you to do.' And with this, it's the world domination. After that, I move to another country, to Brazil. It's a nice country with serious social problems."

"- So, what you doing here, on Earth?" I blonde girl asked. "- When I arrive here, it suppose to make plans to conquest this planet. But, you folks destruct this at a state that was impossible for us to recover without spend much resources of our planet. And that clearly it's not a valid option. So, we withdraw."

"- What you still doing here?" Somebody asked. "- I am in a kind of vacation. Take a rest. In the time that I spend here I see so many stupid things. I don't know how you don't kill yourself yet."

"- Well, I always think that you are gray, with big heads and big eyes." The same girl from the first question asked, and everybody laugh. "- You say this because your movies. But we are exactly like you. We just have a better tecnology. Roswell, never happen, your governaments never caught one of us."

"- But the pictures from Mars that Nasa releases about your planet, it's all a big desert."

"- Oh yes, that picture. And, off courses, you all thing that all it's true. Our tecnology its better than yours, we just intercept your signal and put images of all own imagination. Maybe you remember, maybe not, but, one of the first pictures of Mars it's a human face. We do that, we try to say, 'boo we are human shaped as well', but you never understood, you just thing that once, many ages ago, our planet are civilized. You will never see our city, our forest, rivers and mountains. After see what you do to your planet, we just decide to hide ourselves. If your people discover the true about this, you will enter in a state of calamity, the first thing that you will tray to do is spaceships full of guns, atomic guns. And we cannot fight against it, we don't have any weapon."

This conversation is short, but, it also take some time, and when this time was gonne, the drunk guy leave the bus. Also do the other people that I was talking.

Before leave, the blonde girl ask me one more question. "- If all that you say it's true, so, how can the natural evolution off two distinct planets have the same result? I mean, how can you, Martians, be the same that us?"

For that, I just answer. "- We are made by the same God, the only God. Don't believe in all that you hear from scientist, they are wrong in the most that their believes. But you, Earthlings forget all that your fathers told you. God have to sand his own son to save you, and you forgot this as well. Your are the first, you are luck because God care about you, but we don't forget God, so He give us great wisdom, from that, our tecnology become better than yours."

The girl finally exit the bus, some stops more and I do the same. By all the Lies that I told in that day, one thing it's true, it's something that I real believe. If have intelligent life in other planets, I imagine they the same like us, because the God is just One, and if He made everything, some, why it's suppose to be different?