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  Simone’s lips twitched. “My hero.”

  It took a lot of self-control for Caleb not to let Simone notice how that simple statement affected him. A lifetime ago, she had called him a big hero all the time. “The thousand messages he’s going to leave you, I can’t do anything about. Your brother’s idea is solid, though.”

  Simone’s smiled faintly. “Thank you.”

  Caleb walked over to the door that led into the house, knocking three times before he pushed it open. The intense set of his blue eyes stayed on Simone, though, even as he pushed open the door. “Anytime.”

  Vasco watched the interaction between his sister and Caleb. Behind the natural veil of steel that hid his emotions, fond amusement lived. They would have been good for each other this lifetime, too. He would allow them a small taste of that soon, but not yet.

  Inside the house, Tony DeMarco was waiting. When the triplets filed in, hugs were given and introductions were made.

  “You DeMarcos are pretty slick, staying so close to the inside all these years,” Lucien said as he took a seat at the dining room table.

  “Bet your ass we are. You Terenzios aren’t the only ones who can hustle people,” Tony said, turning his laptop around to face the triplets.

  “Your place?” Simone asked idly, admiring the huge china cabinet that dominated one wall of the small dining room. Across from it was a row of bay windows. The entire house had a very elegant, old feel to it, as if nothing much had been changed over its decades of existence.

  “No. It was actually owned by the grandmother of a famous writer. When I need a really obscure spot for something, she lets me use it,” Tony said.

  “What have you got for us, Tony?” Vasco asked, pulling out one of the high-backed chairs and lowering himself into it.

  “A lot, and not a lot of time. But first, I think a li’l history lesson would be pretty prudent. I doubt even you were told this much by the Anunnaki when you were working with them in your last lifetime, Vasco.” Tony looked at the eldest.

  Vasco shook his head. “As far as their history on this planet, no, they didn’t tell me much. But, I didn’t particularly care at the time either.”

  “Figures. All right, look, a few millennia ago…”

  Chapter 3

  “Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”

  -William Blake

  Before The 2nd Great Flood – Time does not exist yet

  E.Den Medical Facility

  Mt. Sahand

  The floors glowed underneath the weight of his steps. His large, white wings were tucked in against his back, but easily visible over the deep purple robe that covered his muscled, flawless skin. His long black hair flowed over his shoulders. He passed through the lab’s doors instead of opening them, his movement causing what looked like solid steel to ripple like water.

  The entire complex was a flurry of activity, but in this lab, the organized chaos ceased. The lights were bright, but not obtrusive on their sensitive eyes. Stainless steel surfaces gleamed. Pyramid-shaped crystals sat on each table, along with rows of test tubes. At the longest table, in the center of the room, an Anunnaki stood in front of an LCD screen, a long green finger sliding with expert familiarity over the touch screen.

  “Noah is on the way,” Lucifer said to Enki.

  Noah was Enki’s most trusted, most loyal, and most intelligent creation out of the thousands. A short time ago, the explosion of the planet Atlantis damaged the atmosphere of the Anunnaki’s home, Nibiru, and knocked it into a much longer orbital path around the sun. In order to sustain life on their planet, the Anunnaki had to find more gold in order to create a reflective shield. The great ship Babel, which looked like two massive towers connected by a walkway through their center, had been dispatched to find a planet nearby that could provide plenty of the natural resource that was scarce on Nibiru.

  They had found an abundance of those resources on a planet the Anunnaki called Terra. When they had landed, they had discovered the planet mostly uninhabited, expect for a very primitive version of what they had named Man. The Supreme Anunnaki Council had decided that they would task their geneticists with turning Man into a capable worker who could mine the gold for them.

  It had worked. They created them by the thousands, and after the initial bugs were worked out, gave them their own ability to reproduce. While the more war-like and dictatorial members of the Anunnaki had taken control of the planet’s activities, the geneticists had been fascinated by the many life forms on the planet. They had dabbled and created many, many others. The varied DNA of Man, some giants as tall as the Anunnaki, others dark skinned, were all in the test tubes that surrounded Enki.

  But Man was given limitations in their knowledge. It was important to the ruling class of the Anunnaki that the many slaves never realize that they, too, had the capacity to be like what they had come to call their Gods.

  Enki turned and nodded at Lucifer, a friend who looked so different than himself. Lucifer was an Angel. Enki, like the others of his race, was tall, with small black wings. His skin was dark green, and leather-like. His hands were more like claws, though their razor sharp points only extended in battle. His reptilian eyes were expressive, but penetrating, and his serpent-like tongue often tickled his lips as he spoke. “You are sure there is a greater plan at work here?”

  “Yes. I have felt it in my own connection with the Source. When the flood waters clear away what has been broken, Terra will be known as Earth, and the experiment to bring spirit down into form with all the powers of creation will begin again.”

  “The Atlanteans attempted such a thing, and they destroyed their planet. Their race would be extinct if not for the small group that escaped and is scattered across the sands of Mars.”

  “It is suspected that some are on Terra as well, but no matter. Limitations are being set forth for the new souls that will inhabit the vessels we have created. For example, upon arrival into physicality, they will forget from whence they came.”

  Enki tapped his clawed fingers against his chin. “Your race experienced the same disconnection and look how you began.”

  Lucifer smiled. “A good point, but they are not us. It’s necessary until the energy of the planet is high enough that creation comes through love and not fear,” Lucifer said. “We will play the roles of villains, for a time.”

  “My family is villains.”

  “No.” Lucifer stepped forward. “Simply misguided. They will come to understand, too, but for now, their control over what they call the Brotherhood will help ensure that humans do not ascend until they are ready.”

  “I hope you are right. No life should be treated as we treat them.” Enki opened a large chest and waved his hand, guiding the test tubes to float into it and slide into their marked places

  “I have absolute faith in the great universal intelligence that speaks through us all, when we can listen. And if that is the plan, then it is a good plan.” He patted Enki on the shoulder, and then turned. “I will not see you again for quite some time, I’m afraid.”

  “I will miss our conversations, Lucifer.”

  “So will I. We will have them again, when this grand experiment is done.”

  “I look forward to it. May I call upon you in my times of questions?”

  “As always, brother. Namaste.” Lucifer bowed to Enki before he made the door slide open this time. A young man stood in front of him, pale and dirty from his work within the mines. The human clasped his hands together, and bowed low to Lucifer when he saw him.

  “Grand Master Magi,” Noah whispered reverently.

  Lucifer’s eyes were kind as he ruffled Noah’s dirty hair and continued on his way.

  Enki turned as Noah appeared and motioned him closer. “My best student. I am going to task you with a burden that is far greater than any labor, or strike of the whip. But I trust no other to do it.”

  Once more, the young human bowed. “How may I serve you, great God?”


  Enki sighed at the term. All were Gods in a sense, because all came from the Source. All had the ability to do such amazing things. The power of creation was given at birth; its use must simply be learned. “A great flood is coming, and it will kill many of your kind. Your family will be spared. I have built you a great ship that will sustain you, and within that ship you must guard these.” He motioned at the chest and the test tubes contained within. “When the waters recede, you will receive a sign. Then, you will follow my instruction to the letter, and spread these different life forms across the whole of your planet. Do you understand?”

  Noah slowly nodded. “I will do you ask.”

  §

  June 12, 2012 - 11:44 AM

  Alexandria, VA

  Commonwealth Avenue

  “Time out. Are you telling me I’ve been created by some alien race?” Lucien stared at Tony.

  A smirk cornered Tony’s lips. “Kinda. Enki and his geneticists tinkered with Neanderthals and made Homo Sapiens Sapiens, aka Cro-Magnon. Neanderthals had the perfect body build to do the mining, but were a little too primitive to work as efficiently as the Anunnaki wanted. Without the rest of the Anunnaki knowing, Enki also created our current version, Homo Sapiens. And would you rather believe you came from a monkey?”

  Vasco glanced at his brother. “He has a point. But if Enki’s brother believed that the flood was to wipe out humans entirely, how did Enki get away with continuing the species?”

  “Anu, their father, was a little smarter and more in touch with the Source than anyone gave him credit for. Certain things were kept from the Anunnaki Supreme Council. When the Anunnaki returned to Earth, a few thousand Earth years had passed and civilizations were flourishing. Instead of trying to wipe them all out again, they agreed to start interfering.”

  “And the thirteen bloodlines were created from…?” Simone asked.

  Tony glanced over at her. “There were about twenty human civilizations alive on the Earth when the Anunnaki came back. The Anunnaki visited each one, and pretty much demanded obedience or threatened extinction. Some of the first wars fought on this planet were between the races of man that chose to side with the Anunnaki and those that didn’t. Enki liked helping the side that told the Anunnaki to go fuck themselves, and nuclear weapons of a sort were used. That’s what the abnormal radiation levels in the Black Sea are from. ”

  “I have a hard time wrapping my mind around Lucifer being this benevolent alien.” Simone’s lips twisted wryly.

  Tony chuckled. “Weird, I know. But the worship of Lucifer is a lot different than the worship of Satan. At the end of the day, it’s all a fuckin’ PR scam. All Freemasons, once you get into the higher degrees, become Illuminati, a.k.a enlightened. If you ask them, they’ll tell you it’s Christian but that’s a load of B.S. They worship Luciferian ideals, and the heart of that lesson is all the metaphysical shit about the power of consciousness. “

  “No wonder they’ve stayed in power so long. They’re the only ones around controlling reality,” Lucien mused, scratching his cheek. “What a con.”

  “Yeah, it is,” Tony agreed. “And we’re about to bust it wide open.”

  “Last question: what’s a Leumerian Crystal?” Lucien asked.

  “Decent question. Leumeria was the first civilization on Earth, and I’m told the first Ascension experiment.”

  “Atlantis wasn’t the first one?” Simone quirked a brow.

  Tony shook his head. “No, the second. Leumeria was the first. It didn’t end quite as badly as Atlantis did, but it got wiped away by volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. The islands of Hawaii are what is left of Leumeria.”

  “Who made the Leumerians?” Lucien asked.

  “The Pleiadians,” Tony said. “They’re a race primarily made of pure light, but when they take form, they kinda look like us. Except their crown chakras are so open, they always have a halo of light around their heads.”

  The triplets exchanged amused glances. “We’ve just got everything fucking wrong,” Lucien chuckled.

  “Information is twisted on purpose, so don’t take it personally.” Tony patted him on the shoulder.

  “How do you know all this Tony?” Simone asked.

  “Alex. He and Enki are close.”

  “How do you want us to handle this?” Vasco asked.

  “There’s a lot to do, and not a lot of time.” Tony pressed a button on the computer, bringing up a map of the United States. “In six months, about half the world’s population is going to be put in concentration camps.”

  The triplets blinked. Even Caleb looked surprised.

  “We need your men ready to break people out of the camps when the time comes. Also, both the Club of Rome and Bohemian Grove usually have their annual parties over the summer. This year, because of the energies, they’re going to wait.”

  “Pushed back to December 21, 2012, right?” Lucien asked, studying the map.

  “Yeah. A great day to celebrate what they think will be their victory. Alex and I have our people ready to take care of the one in Rome. That will remove seven ruling families of the Brotherhood from form on Earth. We need you all to do Bohemian Grove, and make sure that ELMINT doesn’t activate.”

  Vasco raised his eyes from the screen to look at Tony. “What is ELMINT?”

  “Electro Magnetic Intelligence. It looks like a big ray gun. It’s going to block the surge of energy we’re going to receive from the center of the Milky Way when the Galactic Alignment occurs.”

  “And I bet that surge of energy is what’s supposed to help us humans get a clue, right?” Lucien asked.

  Tony nodded. “That combined with opening the Cave of creation. You’ve got a lot more detail in the USB drive I’m going to leave with you.”

  Simone looked over at Tony. “How are you and Alex able to operate under the radar like this?”

  “We’ve got help from Enki and his father. A few other species are helping out, too.”

  “More aliens up in their spaceships, huh?” Lucien shook his head.

  “If you want to be ignorant and call it that.”

  Lucien quirked a brow. “What the fuck would I call it, then?”

  “An interdimensional traveling vessel. And they’re not aliens—”

  Simone rolled her eyes. “Can we stop with the pronoun wars, please?”

  Caleb hid a chuckle behind his hand and a forced cough.

  “What? We’re already the rednecks of the galaxy. I’m just trying to educate him.” Tony shrugged.

  Lucien glared at Tony and rubbed his middle finger across his cheek.

  Vasco studied the map on the screen. The locations of all the concentration camps built and ready for prisoners in the U.S. were marked with red dots. A slow smile touched his lips. “Not one person I’ve put into play has been a disappointment.”

  Simone smirked at her brother, before she glanced down at the map. After a moment, she started laughing lightly. “It’s no coincidence that we have SVT Offices within a twenty to thirty mile radius of these camps, is it?”

  “Do you ever stop plotting or do you do that in your sleep, too?” Lucien asked

  Vasco winked at his brother. “Marcello was responsible for SVT Security expansion, but Stefano might have put an idea or two in his head. We’ll handle our end, Tony.” He flicked his gray eyes over to his siblings. “Lucien, you’re on ELMINT. Simone, concentration camps and underground bases. I’ll take care of Bohemian Grove.”

  “Why does it sound like he’s got the easy job?” Lucien pulled a pack of smokes out of his suit jacket pocket.

  “Because he does.” Simone reached over and stole the cigarette he shook out of the pack.

  “Nobody can fail. If any point breaks down the Ascension has a real good chance of not occurring, even if your scientist do get to the Cave of Creation in time.” Tony cautioned.

  “What exactly is the Cave of Creation?” Simone asked, leaning into the light Lucien gave her.

  “Nobody knows
. Well, somebody knows, but they’re not telling us.” Tony pulled the USB drive out of his computer and handed it to Vasco. “Here. Oh, last thing you should know, Caesar Medicci, Kayla’s boyfriend –“

  “She reports to him, and he reports to you.” Vasco finished for him.

  Tony nodded, looking at Vasco. “You’ll find this last phase of the game is just full of reincarnated souls. He’s one of them. You two knew each other, Vasco.”

  Vasco canted his head slightly, regarding Tony in questioning silence. Then, it hit him, and with it came a full barrage of memories and emotions that thickened the steel of his eyes. Instinctively his hands balled into fists at his sides. “Roman,” he growled the word.

  “Yeah, Roman. Have fun with that,” Tony said.

  “When you’ve got unfinished business, you’ve got unfinished business.” Lucien rose to his feet.

  “I’m going to Denver, now, to give Caesar new instructions.” Tony closed his laptop. “Originally, he was coming back to the Island to have Kayla kill you three. Enki has stopped that order.”

  “Does Enki’s brother know he’s stopped that order?” Vasco asked.

  “Most likely. That would be a little difficult to hide.” Tony extended his hand. “We won’t meet again. Anything that comes from Alex and I now will get routed to you all through Xavier.”

  Simone took his hand first and leaned in to kiss his cheek. “Thank you, Tony.”

  “It’s what I do sweetheart.” Tony returned her kiss, and then hugged both Lucien and Vasco.

  Minutes later, the triplets were back inside the SUV, and Caleb was taking them to the private airfield outside of Crystal City.

  “I like how we’re not only saving the world, but attempting to not get murdered by our own family before we can pull it off,” Lucien mused, staring out the window. “It really pisses me off that Amadeo and Olivia are on the wrong side.”