Grenwer. Higher Guardian

Grenwer is Sionn's friend and colleague. He is the

person who takes over when Sionn is away.

I wanted to sleep and relay back to Grenwer what had occurred, but there simply was no time!

‘Will we meet any more enemies?’ I said.

‘Probably, but they can`t have realized as yet about the enormity of what has happened or there would be mayhem!’

By this time there were more and more Yalton coming to greet us. Before long there were more Yalton than the space would allow so we had to stop and make our way to another large cavern room. This one was gigantic, bigger than a cathedral were more Yalton were waiting. The whole place was brighter than outside and my eyes were starting to hurt. Fagil said,

‘You will get used to it in a while; also we have only two hours to reach Sionn. We know he is still alive as we are still receiving his mental signals.’

I said, ‘Can you pick up anything relating to Kallo?’

‘No.’

‘Right' I said, 'Where exactly is Sionn?’

‘He is being kept in a small dungeon type room which is heavily guarded, but we cannot take the chance of storming it as it would take too long and Sionn would be lost before we could get to him.’

‘Oh, great,’ I said, ‘What are we going to do.’

‘There is a secret tunnel we made years ago that is right under his cell. In fact there are tunnels under most of the cells as we had the foresight to hope that something like this would happen one day! All you have to do is climb the steps we made to the underside of his cell and break your way in. There are only a few feet of soil which is held up by scaffolding and then of course the cell floor. You will have to use your axe!’

‘OK,’ I said, ‘let’s get on with it.’

‘No,’ replied Fagil. ‘First let us pray.’ I stood in the middle of the Yalton and cantered my thoughts. The light and sound was incredible. I felt I could take on an army!

‘When you break through you will have to be very quick to stop the guards coming in; also take the isolation leads off Sionn’s head!’

‘What?' I said.

‘Sionn will be isolated. That means his consciousness will be put into an isolation vessel if we are not quick enough.’

‘Wait a minute,’ I said. ‘Do you mean Kallo has found a way to steal some ones consciousness?’

‘Yes, and once he is in there Kallo could transfer him anywhere as his prisoner!’

Oh, this keeps getting worse, I thought.

‘Once you reach Sionn you will know if he is aware of you and whether he is himself. Don`t forget the blaster, you will certainly need it!

‘Wait a minute.’ I said, ‘There will have to be a change of plan.’

‘What?’ Fagil said.

‘You will just have to trust me. Is there a way to the central guardroom?’

‘Yes, but why do you ask?’

‘I have an overwhelming desire to go there!’

‘But that is the one place we don`t want to go to!’

‘Yes, I said and that is the last place they will expect us to go. Let us lose no more time.’

In less than half an hour we were underneath the guardroom. We had to be very quiet as I knew Kallo was near, in fact he was in the guard room; I just knew it!

I said, 'There is now less than an hour to reach Sionn, right?'

‘Yes,’ said Fagil.

‘Then Kallo will obviously be expecting us.’

‘Yes, but we don`t even know where he is!’

‘I do.’ I said.

Fagil and the others looked stunned.

‘Where is he?’ they asked.

‘He’s in the guardroom!’ I said.

Before they could say anything I swung into action. The stairway led right up to the underside of the guardroom floor. I gripped the axe with both my hands and smashed the scaffold away then in seconds I swung it upwards. The rubble came down, and I leapt into the room already holding my blaster, I killed three of the guards before they could react, at this point I wasn`t bothered whether it was on stun or kill! I couldn’t believe my luck as Kallo was running for the console, but I knew I could beat him to it. I grabbed him by the throat and just held him in the air with one hand while I blasted the console. I could now see the other guards were surrendering. So I flicked the blaster on to stun with one hand and fired. They fell were they stood. I knew Kallo’s little trick of using his finger to kill me wouldn`t work this time as I was now much too strong for that, also the instrument panel was useless now. I knew this was a momentous event as there was a great cheer from underground passages, and also from other areas. With the system destroyed I knew Kallo was vulnerable now. His light-suit was programmed into the far-station system. He could kill himself maybe, but I wasn’t bothered either way as I had him in my grip, and I was elated. He would now be put in a secure place where he belonged. The Guardians would now be able to access Far-Station, or as we could now call it, Yalton.

I wanted to sleep and relay back to Grenwer what had occurred, but there simply was no time!