CYPRIEN

C. C. Waters

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Cyprien grows up in a small country town orphanage and is deeply protective of the people he considers to be his family and friends. There are many obstacles including the unnatural phenomenon that affects him and everything around him when he is emotionally overstressed.
But, events soon force him, unwillingly, into space as he searches for his family kidnapped by a military empire and an entity that is bent on devouring the universe. Unbeknownst to Cyprien, he is guided by two mysterious, timeless watchers but can he retrieve his family?

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• Science Fiction
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 13 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798369492093
• Langue: English

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CYPRIEN
 
 
 
 
 
 
C. C. WATERS
 
Copyright © 2023 by C. C. Waters.
 
Library of Congress Control Number:
2023910481
ISBN:
Hardcover
979-8-3694-9211-6
 
Softcover
979-8-3694-9210-9
 
eBook
979-8-3694-9209-3

 
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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Rev. date: 06/12/2023
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1Cyprien
Chapter 2New Orphanage
Chapter 3Cyprien Enters the Blue Dimension
Chapter 4Cyprien Reunited with Family
Chapter 5In Space
Chapter 6Finding Cocoons
Chapter 7Cyprien Arrives at Space Station Ogimac
Chapter 8Space Station Barkon
Chapter 9Dignitaries
PROLOGUE
There are ancient beings simply called The Co, using the blue fluid space to travel thru in order to explore the next galaxy. They have lived and explored for billions of years in this galaxy. Now they’ve decided to leave the younger species to grow in their own way while they go to explore another galaxy. There are tens of thousands of living ships that range in size from small fighters to Motherships the size of planets.
They are like a big swarm as they cruise past a small abnormality in space. One small ship peeled off to investigate this unusual anomaly of light. When the ship got closer, it found two young beings with the light. There is a small male being holding the ball of light with a small female being holding him.
What amazed The Co was that they were living in Blue Fluid Space without any protection. Only their living ships which were specially engineered could survive in this space and yet the small ones were here. It was sensed that the small beings were very old, even older than their race.
The Co had thought for many millennia that they were the first species of this galaxy, now obviously they are not.
Out of curiosity, all the ships came to a stop and the smaller vessels moved to encircle the small beings. The small male being was heard by every Co, saying, “Greetings. We have been here a very long time with the light that appeared from a vortex just after we arrived and now you are here. Are you good or bad? Answer well or your journey will end here.”
Time passed.
A small shuttle left one of the larger vessels and moved closer. It opened up to reveal a Co surrounded by a skin-tight energy bubble that moved closer to the small beings. The Co looked carefully at the small ones and then respectfully answered, “We are The Co. and we are also an old race. We have made mistakes and are not perfect but we are good. Could we ask who you are and what is your race called?”
“I have no name but this ball of light calls me, Cyp Prien. The other being like me,” he gestured to the female behind, “and the light arrived later. She is called Kist and the ball is called Chloe. I am not part of any race ….I am here and here is me.”
There was a pause.
The Co then invited, “Would you like to come with us?”
The male being responded solemnly, “Yes, we would like that. Before we go, I need to find the other half of the light. Could you look after them while I search for the partner to the light? Then we will travel with you.”
The Co closed her eyes, and she started to glow. In response, all the ships also glowed. She opened her eyes, smiled at the small male being, and said, “We agree and will care for them until you return.”
The small male being nodded, and then a rift appeared in space. Before he left, the Co asked the small male being, “Do you know where the partner of this light is?”
“Yes, before we arrived in this space, I was already on the way towards the system where the light’s partner exists. But there was some kind of time storm, and I was separated from my vessel. She continued on towards our destination. At first, I didn’t know what had happened. I lingered. I watched your species build your tunnels as well as watched other races travelling through them. I learnt many things from them on their travels through. This is how I knew that your words weren’t empty. Then this light and Kist appeared out of a time dimensional vortex. The light gave us images of its partner and home world. I felt I had to stay to protect it and keep it company. Fortunately, I can still sense the direction in which my vessel was travelling, and it is the same time destination as the images we received from the light.”
The young male said goodbye to the light and told S'Tol that he would return. He turned, then disappeared into a rift.
CYPRIEN 1
 
I n the early hours of a warm night with a bright full moon shining, a tall thin fair-skinned nineteen-year-old woman with white hair, silver eyes, and long legs was relaxing in an old bay window sill. With the moonlight illuminating her naked body, she had a hand on her stomach and the opposite leg hanging down as she watched the stars and moon.
An old alarm clock bell was heard, and a nineteen-year-old man reached over to turn it off. The young man with strange deep electrical blue hair and almost glowing blue eyes put his head back down on the pillow but remained silent. He lay there admiring the moment of her sitting there with the grey-blue moonlight hue on her body with the peaceful and content expression on her face. It was like nothing mattered, except for this moment, even though he knew that they needed to start moving soon, in order to get to the beach in time for the show.
The young woman with a serious expression looked straight into the young man’s face. After a few minutes, there was suddenly a sound that broke the silence.
“Why are you looking at me like that for, Flame? I didn’t do that! That was you!”
“No, it was you, Blue,” she replied, trying to keep a serious face.
After a minute of staring at each other, they both started to laugh until they realised it was time to get moving or they would be late. As Flame got off the window sill, she said, “Go take your shower, and I’ll write a note to Mother Hayley letting her know that we’ll be going to see the asteroid shower at the beach and we will be back before breakfast.”
“All right, I’ll be quick,” Blue answered as he went into the small adjoining bathroom. After finishing the note, Flame quietly sneaked into the bathroom and surprised Blue. As the door closed, you could hear Blue saying, “Oh, you’ll get it now,” which was followed by Flame’s high cheerful giggles.
They spent more time in the shower than they planned. They left the orphanage and were on the way to the beach when Flame noticed in the sky that the asteroid show had already started. She was disappointed, but Blue looked up and said, “Oh yeah, it has, but the Stargazers Weekly said that it should last for a while.”
“I would have liked to have been here for the start.”
“Me too, but look, not a cloud in the sky, so we’re still getting an excellent show.”
Flame agreed, and their walking pace slowed as they admired the asteroid display. Shortly they were at the beach setting up and settling in for the remainder of the night with Blue sitting and Flame having her head on his lap as they watched the asteroids streaking through the night sky. Sometime later, Flame fell asleep. Blue smiled and kissed her good night on her forehead. He looked back at the sky and said, “One day I wish we could go out there to the stars.”
Flame, with a soft smile on her face, sleepily replied, “I would love that too.”
Blue kissed Flame again and said in a heroic voice, “All right then, Captain Flame, we’re going to space!”
Flame giggled. “I love you, Cyprien.”
“I love you too, Chloe.”
Chloe went back to sleep, and Cyprien continued to watch the sky until he drifted off to sleep a short time later.

Back at the orphanage, Mother Hayley was doing her morning rounds with a newcomer to the orphanage, Sister Thea. They came to Chloe and Cyprien’s room and knocked on their door. After a minute or two, there was no reply. So Mother Hayley slowly opened the door and in a gentle voice said, “Children, it’s time to wake up now,” but still there was no reply. Mother Hayley and Sister Thea slowly walked into the room. They noticed that the bed was made, and the window was closed. As Mother Hayley opened the window, letting in a light northern breeze, Sister Thea found a letter to Mother Hayley. She gave it to her. However, Mother Hayley found on checking her pockets that she’d left her glasses behind.
She handed it back to Sister Thea, saying, “Would you mind reading this to me as I seem to have misplaced my glasses.”
“Of course, Mother!” Sister Thea started to read.
“Mother Hayley, Blue and I finally finished our storybook last night. We called it . . .