LARC Transmissions - An Anki Legacies Science Fantasy Anthology for Young Adults

heir scuffle had distracted the massive jellyfish fro

in, Christy could see a dead Enceladan being slowly digested in its belly. Tentacles coiled Christy together

" she sc

o spurted out as the limb severed. The Enceladan raced to the aid of its partner

flexed. It was indifferent to the loss of l

one of the En

dless of the risk within, the four swam desperately into the hot water with t

began to scald. They swam along the heat line. Christy hoped the giant would be dete

nough for the unlikely foursome to hunker into. Tentacles threatened to drag them out. Pincers snipped and stone laden fists

moon, and sent the beast flying into the frozen void of space. The water temperature cooled to somet

, " Christy said, break

d Earth. That is why we kept you after the other Enceladans kn

se, " Rob said. "We are here to explore after all. Come an

sea grass unless they ask, " Chr

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intended the Nefilim for conquest. My kind dominated an entire planet's sp

heir excrement, and civilize. In return, as generations came and passed, their people began to revere my kind

ments in Babylon's libraries, and the basis for Egyptian, Greek, and Aztec

creators developed their society. The success of my kind allowed for the crea

ole had been assigned to the gods of Sumer. The loyal conquistadors of

tors had neither whim nor necessity to name the countless remainder. The Tablet of Destiny compelled

o watch the water when it flowed level with the entry, I watched until it plunged underfoot

e hull during the voyage. Weeks passed as I awaited the Tablet of Destiny's new

or an insubstantial existence it should only have been a day's pursuit. I regar

agmuku. It was eerily reminiscent of Atlantis, the vessel that arrived on E

ad conquest drawn my predecessors and the creators away from Earth? I

vessel paused to examine the steps I had etched out in the cliff face to reach the

ith the slightest awareness of their doom. My arms stretched wide and a bone shattering crunch to either side s