“Why did you come to me at that exact time? Did something happen?”
“You called me yourself and I called you back. Then nothing! And I decided to go to you. Just in time! By the way, you didn't lock the front door, you need to be careful, Olga!!!! I will be there until you are discharged, and later too, until you get stronger! Your fridge is empty. I've already bought everything. I’d stay with you for now, if you don’t mind …
“I object and your wife Zina too!”
“Zina won’t mind. She’d come herself, but she got some urgent work …”
Denis finally left. Olga sighed. She had a surgery, no more children … Yes, with her negative rhesus, to have children were quite difficult, and with her luck, almost impossible!
Olga thought about Julia, her friend, who became sterile after the birth of her mutant child.
Olga herself feared that she could become pregnant from that Indian consul who could be a mutant. Dominic simply fascinated her then, in a completely incomprehensible way.
Julia also did not escape Dominic’s spell. Poor Julia! And Olga just abandoned her, never called …
Olga was finally discharged from the hospital home.
Denis came to pick her up and then looked after her for another day.
Later Olga insisted on Denis’ returning home to his wife. The fact that Zina never called or came was a bad sign.
“How funny it turned out, Denis, you said that mutants are sterile, and then Ray was born! All the women, who got pregnant from “sterile” mutants, then got “sterile” themselves …”
“What are you talking about, Olga?”
“Julia will never have children, and neither will I. Two of a kind!”
“You had something with mutant Ray!?!”
“Denis!! It's impossible to talk to you sometimes!”
“Aww! You think your Indian Dominic is a mutant! I don’t think so! He probably gave you some kind of potion, just like his wife Sylvia!!! They also have witchcraft and drugs are very popular too. Wait!!! Have you become barren? Olga! I'm such a fool!!! Forgive me! I never called you. You have been alone all this time, and I was the one who brought you to this Island.”
Denis hugged Olga, and she clung to him. What a familiar scent, the scent of his childhood!
How strange everything turned out on this island. The beautiful Olga, a secretary and Denis' first love, with whom he flew over here to work on a contract few years ago…
How did she turn into their boss' mistress and even for a while into an English lady?!
How did she later on become the “beloved wife” of the Indian consul Dominic!?
And how did Olga turn up again in the role of a secretary? …
And how did Denis turn up married to a large and lively IT woman Zina, the complete opposite of Olga? …
How!? …
Chapter 3
Is the Golden Zandolie immortal?
Julia was in her beloved “secret garden”, completely immersed in the work on the ending of her new science fiction novel.
The story in her new novel was ending well – all humans and aliens have learned to live happily together, and their mutant children were also able to find their love.
A new race of humans was born, in which the blood of aliens was flowing. They all had negative rhesus and an accelerated metabolism …
Julia thought about it. In reality, everything was quite different.
She herself had a child from a mutant Marley, an alien's son. She was pregnant for few years. Then the “alien seed” suddenly activated, had developed inside rapidly and almost killed her! After the birth of her mutant son Ray, Julia became barren.
How could everything happen on that distant planet from which the alien Golden Zandolie fled to Earth? Maybe those aliens would give birth only once in a lifetime? And only in the most appropriate moment? …
After all, Julia gave birth exactly when her life became calm and successful….
Years have passed since the death of Golden Zandolie. Perhaps there are still women on the Island, who are pregnant from the rebel alien? If their life's full of worries and problems, they would not give birth very soon.
Ray's father, Marley, said that Zandolie was keeping a close eye on women after his sexual intercourse, and was taking away newborn babies. Then it seemed strange to Julia, because he would have to raise babies himself, which should be quite troublesome.
However later, on the example of her own mutant child, she realized, that everything was simple – children were growing up very quickly and were self-taught!
Bang! – and you have a clever muscular giant, with lightning eyes capable of hypnotizing or killing anyone. The perfect soldier! Such as her late lover Marley, such as her son Ray!
Interesting, what was their life expectancy…
Oh, Marley! He died, destroying his father Zandolie for the safety of people … with help from other aliens, who would not tolerate any interbreed with humans …
Sometimes it seemed to Julia, that she was still hearing Marley's voice or feeling his touch. Marley's soul remained with her forever. Sometimes she had the same dream that she was finding Marley in a coma and waking him up with a kiss.
With the spirit of Marley, she had a much warmer relationship, than with the living two heroes – her husband Scott and her mutant son Ray. And Scott and Ray became even closer friends.
They all had a common cause – gold! Black mutants were doing an excellent job of gold mining. Humans could not work in the toxic conditions of a seething acid lake with golden shores.
Julia was worried about too many things in the current situation on the Island.
Not all local residents were happy with the “legalization” of mutants.
Ray, the grandson of Golden Zandolie, gradually became the new owner of the Island – both mutants and humans obeyed him unquestioningly. Ray could always use his superpowers of hypnosis, manipulation and even elimination.
Only Scott, Julia's so lovely and unloved husband, was not afraid of his beloved adopted son. He was not affected by alien hypnosis. …
That what Julia was pondering about …
Her work on the novel has come to a halt, and she decided to call Denis. Sometimes a conversation with him could bring her a new wave of inspiration.
“Denis, hello! How are you? Would you like to visit us? Or should we get together at the Jolly Roger? Long time no see!”
“Oh, Julia! Hey! Yes, long time! Do you know what happened? Olga got sick, I'm with her now!”
“What happened!?”
“She was poisoned by that witch Sylvia, the wife of that Indian Dominic, remember?”
“How did she poison her and why?”
“To get rid of Dominic's child!”
“How horrible! I'll call Olga! No, probably, not now. How is she?”
“She will never, ever have children again! Well, Dominic already has four of them, and this is only from his wife! There, probably, the whole village of his children. He's the chief! You can't refuse such a guy!”
“You can't refuse such a guy indeed! …Poor Olga! So, are you with her now? And Zina?”
“I do not know. I am coming home today.”
“Denis! Come all to visit us. Take Olga with you. She is always alone! I haven't called her for a long time, my bad! Come, we’ll be very happy to see everyone!”
“Julia, did you call to invite us, or did something happen? Is Marley back? Ray disappeared?”
“No-no! Nothing happened. I just wanted to talk. Don't you notice anything odd? Ray has changed … It seems he has hardened somehow. And Scott would never notice. They are happy together. But their joint projects and trips are becoming more… daring. I am scared…”
“Okay, Julie, we will visit you soon. I myself am curious, and Olga should benefit from live interaction and changing places. She's deeply depressed, just like you were, after giving birth to Ray… Oh, I blurted out something bad again! Sorry! Let's better talk in person! I got carried away again! You know me!”
Julia and Denis both laughed and ended the phone conversation.
… Julia continued to sit in front of the laptop in deep thought …
Ray and Scott so quickly rebuilt a new aquaplane – the old one after the UFO attack was no longer recoverable.
Although the new one was not an aquaplane at all… The result exceeded all expectations! It was much better than anything Scott had seen or created before!
Ray was developing a completely new apparatus – it turned out to be something like a transformer, that could turn into an airplane and a submarine! A flying submarine, almost like an alien UFO, or rather a USO (unidentified swimming object)!
Scott was absolutely thrilled!
Ray was overflown with ideas – where did they come from! Although Scott always remembered that Ray's grandfather was an alien, who was quite resourceful and even knew how to control the weather and volcanoes!
Zandolie himself used to build amazing flying machines and even knew how to be invisible.
At first Scott was giving the growing Ray all his knowledge and skills as a sailor, military pilot and mechanic. And now he himself was learning a lot from Ray.
IT specialist Denis also was introducing Ray to a programming crash course, and now the mutant was an ace in electronics.
Julia was carefully observing her husband and son. Pretending to be indifferent, with a bored look, she sometimes was casually dropping general questions and pretending not to listen …
And she herself was secretly taking notes, photographing various new devices and weapons that kept appearing in Scott's workshop – she was collecting material, almost like x-files!
She was also filming her son, which she had never done before – and was carefully studying the time differences in the constantly changing appearance of the mutant.
Ray was even looking more and more like Zandolie. She would need to show everything to Denis, since there was no hope for Scott.
Julia was amazed, how Ray could start the car with a touch of his hand, how he once saved a fisherman by one simple move! It was written about this miracle in the local newspaper.
However, there was no public reaction, people were simply scared. And even more scared was the mother of the mutant, Julia. She herself learned about everything from the newspaper, by reading of the online version.
Julia also did not stop thinking about Golden Zandolie himself. Where did he disappear, did he really die?
That tragic time few years ago Indians saw him near the Steps of the Big Serpent – at the sacred entrance to the cave, leading to the maze of lava tubes. This, according to the beliefs of the Indians, was the kingdom of the dead. The dead were brought here in ancient times and thrown into a poisonous boiling lake in an underground crater …
Where were both, Zandolie and Marley – their bodies were never found!?
Julia seemed to see Marley a couple of times after. She observed an energy clot like ball lightning or a plasmoid – it took the shape of Marley and even spoke to her and touched her…
Were those some kind of audible and sensitive hallucinations? Only she and Ray could see Marley's plasmoid.
Denis explained this by the fact that they had a special connection with Marley – by love.
Good, that Julia was not in love with this horrible blue and puny alien Golden Zandolie! That's who she would never want to see again, especially in the form of the fire ball!
Still, she would love to see some evidence that Golden Zandolie was dead! He couldn’t just burst like a bubble!
Chapter 4
The new quest. To find that UFO and Marley
An old army jeep was rolling on the winding mountain road along the sea. A clear sunny day was pleasing the eye of beholder with splendid colors of the blue water horizon and mountains, covered with green rainforest.
Denis and Olga were in the vehicle. Denis lowered the canvas top of the jeep. And Olga's blonde, almost white hair fluttered freely in the wind.
It's so wonderful life! Olga breathed deeply the smells of a fine tropical day – the salty sea, hot dust, sweet flowers. She wanted to completely surrender to the elements of the warm breeze … How long Olga didn’t go nowhere and didn’t expect anything new… And now she was again in the car with an old friend and going to communicate with other Russians, learn amazing news and open new horizons together…
Olga was surprised that she still had such a strong will for a new life…
She was happy to see Scott's house again. The impregnable high gates silently opened and the jeep drove into the courtyard.
Olga and Denis were immediately greeted by Scott himself with open arms. Julia and Ray, Zina and Alex were already waiting for them in the house. It was Alex who brought Zina, since Denis had her jeep.
All the Russian adventurers were together again! Plus, British hero Scott and the mutant Ray!
Julia jumped out of the house and immediately hugged Olga too. Zina just waved her hand with restraint. Ray smiled from the doorway.
