Chapter 16

Once I opened my eyes I found myself in front of huge tree trunks and a vast forest, weird I don't remember moving away from Hope and then why am I dreaming? How do i know if this is reality? 

In the distance I heard screams so I immediately rushed in that direction, afraid that something had happened to Hope and instead, once outside I find something similar indeed a civilization of ooman , but it would seem to be back in time. Where did I go oh big paya?

I see many men in armor, women also armed and ready to fight, 'children' , as they call them, running and playing with each other, everything seems to be very strange, why does no one notice my presence? 

I was losing my patience so you roar as loud as I could, but still no one notices my presence, so seized with anger I was about to step forward and confront one of them, until I caught a glimpse of another brother in the distance, I don't think I ever have him seen, his armor is so old and so was his mask, all of bones.

I saw that he was going in a direction so you followed him maybe I could stop him and ask him for an explanation, he took the road back into the forest and so I followed him too, I tried to call his attention, but nothing usually results, nor does he see me too or feel, at this point I can only follow him and see where all this goes, sooner or later someone will notice me.

The strange hunter seemed to arrive in the fighting and training arena and in fact it was, there were hunters young and older who trained, I also noticed that many lowered their heads at the passage of the hunter with the skull mask, it seems to be very respectable .

He kept walking until he came in front of a little ooman, you could see that she was trying to stay hidden by spying on others in their trainings, I thought he would hurt her, but instead he scolded her for running away from her mother and for not performing the rules, she instead asked if she could stay a little longer to see the fights, he accepted and in fact there was a fight, but I did not expect the girl to stay there to look with admiration and then why this ooman called him 'father'  the strange hunter, where the hell have I gone?

Meanwhile the fight was over, the little girl was picked up and taken to her mother's house, arrived there I noticed that she was in strange clothes, with marks on her clothes they were quite indecipherable and she looked very angry, in fact, once the little human was there she was scolded again and I think I heard something like 'magic', 'guardians', but before entering the house, the little one turned to my direction, for a moment I thought she had seen me but it was not so, her expression seemed to be sad and thoughtful.

I also saw that the strange hunter was in relations, unknown to me, with the female, they seemed to have known each other for a long time, she now changed expression and approached him calling him by her name: Th'syra ( skull ).

How strange I have never heard of a brother being called that if for this reason I have never heard of hunters of my kind living so close to ooman , but in a flash I remembered the words of the old and crazy hunter, he surely knew about things and I remember that once he speak of a time back when there were 'the sentinels of the light' will this female be one of them?

If this were the case it would explain the clothes of the female, the relationship between them, even that the hunters are here to train and oomans with armor, it would explain many things, above all that, now I know where I am, it is no longer the time or the place where I landed, here is the past, is the time that the old hunter spoke of, wars and battles will all await them, so he was right, here the oomans were very different, or rather stronger and with skill to me still unknown, but I don't understand how is it possible that I am living this time or why I am reliving it? What does all this have to do with me? Unless it's Hope's memories and dreams ...

I still remember our moment together, I remember having the honor of being the first in everything, but then why do I feel so strange and sore in my neck, the last thing I remember was that I was entering a state of unconsciousness and the last words I remember of her were that the ritual had to begin and that I would have some answers here.

I was about to go back where I came from, but in a moment everything changed, the place in the first place, from a forest full of vegetation now I was in front of an iron bar, the place seemed to be so dark from the stinking smell, the only thing that I could hear were only chains moving.

Turning in that direction I noticed the ooman who was chained, I also understood that I myself was here in the room or rather prison, I approached the ooman , I thought I could have a dialogue or that I could finally have some answers, instead nothing, I continued to be like a shadow for them and now when I get close I also see the face of the ooman , it was the little female I saw a little while ago, she was bigger now, destroyed and dirty, the chains had now ruined all her flesh and skin, why is no one coming to save her or at least why I myself can do nothing but watch? Pauk! ( fck )

I have not yet had the opportunity to think about what to do or how to help that I found myself out again and this time there are other women running away from that place, they too were very badly reduced and had other hunters next to them, my brothers, they were badly reduced, tortured and maimed, some were holding on and all were running as hard as they could from this place, only two females I will stand there looking as if I am waiting for someone, ineffect yes, missing the woman from before that I saw in the cell, so I approached the big door, but before I reach it, the mysterious woman arrived, we were one in front of the other and I think she finally noticed me.

We were separated only by a door, her eyes seemed to notice me and the moment she saw me she said only: "So we'll see you again in the future, huh?" , saying this I saw tears in her eyes, she took a step back and with her came the one who was her companion (?), he put his hand around her waist and in a second everything burst into a huge explosion, the two females were desperate, they knew they had failed to save her, one above all said only the name: "Argentea!" , she screamed at it several times to the void and while the other forced her to get up, the other opposed it since it was over, her enemies would pay her with their own life, maybe that's what the old hunter meant, here the world did not belong to us, the dark and the light fought constantly and we were just a stain in this time.

These were his phrases that he repeated every time to my brothers and the Elders, adding as always the usual phrase like: "The time of the hunters will come soon." No one knew what it meant, but now that I'm reliving this time, I understand that it will have been difficult for them to fit into this world, maybe we weren't so ready, but then what happens? why don't any of my ancestors talk about it? Or why did we leave?

If as the old man said then that also means that Hope and I are, what, destined to find us? to fight together? or to be companions like that other hunter and his female? 

Besides he always spoke of descent and 'powers', does this mean that Hope could also be a descendant of this Argentea? if so then the fate they call them has already decided my path and it is up to me to decide whether to go with her or without, but while I am still drawing conclusions perhaps too hasty, everything seemed to vanish until I found myself in the forest of before, that where I arrived, the one where I met Hope, reality, what foolishness, I am Yautja I do not belong to this world I have my Kv'var ( hunt ) and my Yin'tekai ( honor ) while instead the dream is a dream, what I have lived has passed nothing to that see with me.

What the old man said will have been true I can't deny it, my ancestors will have been close to oomans in some battles, there have certainly been ooman females with some honor and Yeyin ( courage ), but now that's not the case, that old man had to go further in the past, in fact, as you can believe someone like him, he said a lot of bullshit, indeed too imaginative... S'yuit-te ( Pathetic ), this is what I was thinking while I was looking for the way back to my spacecraft, yes exactly I had my mission to accomplish and Hope it was just a distraction, our worlds can't coexist.

I do not deny, however, that the time, even if little, spent with her, I do not regret it, indeed I would do it again and at the very thought I would like to go back to her to take it back like last night and make it mine several times, Cjit ( sh*t ), my whole body vibrates alone imagine penetrating her and releasing my seed inside her ... but everything I was thinking and imagining was interrupted by loud screams and gunshots, so I got alert and started running in that direction, but when I got there it was not what I expected to see.

I see a me lying on the ground, I'm bleeding and slowly dying, while a ooman, a man with weapons and he too bloody, was about to give me the coup de grace, but he stopped and looked at myself with a horrified expression and instead of ending me said: " What the fuck are you? " , I was laughing and started to press buttons to get ready to detonate, but I was interrupted by Hope, she was there in front of me, so what? Will I fail my mission? Will I lose the fight with honor against a ooamn ?

I realized only now that this is still a dream, Hope's dream, I have lived what she dreams every time for a year now, she sees my kind of the past, to then see the present that is of my arrival and of our union until my end, that's why that night when I saved her from drowning in her bathtub, she seemed to be worried and panicked as if she had seen death, she was reliving it all again.

Everything stopped now, I was there, the ooman was astonished by the vision of a ooman female who was next to me, but nothing moved, I moved with caution, still alert and ready to fight, but in the distance I glimpsed something that was moving and a voice calling me to itself, it seemed to be a female voice, it was a very faint voice, while I followed the call, I noticed that everything around was darkening and there was only a strong light in the distance that came from where I also heard the voice.

"You have seen what awaits you hunter, you have lived the past of your ancestors and Hope's ancestor, but Argentea lives inside her and if you want you can give her a new life. It is up to you to decide what to do, but know that if you decide to stay alone, what awaits you is death. She will never come to save you, even if she tries for another 100 years her dream will end in the usual way, with you being left without life. " she said, I noticed that what I saw of her was very little, a lot of white light and only a long white 'dress', what was she supposed to be? I was about to speak but she keep turning to her.

" I know you have a lot of questions, but if you want answers and be stronger than your brothers and sisters, she can help you, Argentea can only give you the answers, I'm just a kind of link, bringing worlds and times together. Instead you have been chosen to be one of the guardians, the story that your old ancestor told was all true, but I cannot tell you more. If you want to see what is yours beyond your death then face this obstacle with honor and courage Hunter Yautja." 

She concluded then vanishing into thin air, until I opened my eyes and saw only the sky and the sun high above me. The dream is over now I'm in reality, but no longer the usual hunter, I feel different and incredibly ready for a new life, why didn't paya show you to give me straight away to continue? or was it you? I didn't get up yet in fact I just turned my head in the direction of what I had next to me, it was Argentea, how is it possible? it seemed to be Hope, but the features were those of Argentea, as if I were one, the only words that came to mind were 'descent' and 'incarnation'.

I think it will be a long day, if it is true that they have 'powers' then we would fight each other, I want to see what is special about this female, 'sentinels of the light', I don't think that as a role it can fit me. 

She will be an exotic enemy and also hoped to be as brave and strong as was my Hope.