"how was your trip my boy?" Nebulous probe gently in my mind.
"Spooky, real and thrilling." I stare around me, when my eyes open.
"oh spooky," Ruby threw herself unto the bed, cuddling beside me, "you are back…" she added breathlessly.
"you look terrible Ruby, what happened to you…".
"oh, I have not bathe for three days. Oh, I didn't know I stink so bad," she said, sniffing at her armpits and turn to go, but I held on to her.
"don't leave me now, my spleen. I love your aromatic scent. You have fulfilled your promise to me…".
"where did you learn to call me that?." "where do you think? I have travel back in time to the very beginning, where it all started. She looked the same.
The emerald eyes, gleaming Rubie's that have the power to suck you in, she is that gem I did been looking for all this while, that Ruby. She is the same woman after all these forgotten years.
"you have seen it all, how it started," Nebulous said, bringing my mind to my environs. He was sitting on a bench facing us on the bed.
"sorry I misjudged you, Nebulous. I feel your pain, your loss and your strivings. I know how it feels now. I…".
"ah, where is the kuga I know? You are beginning to sound boring now. I don't want your sympathy, Kuga. Don't be quick to yield, err kuga. It's not in your nature. I know you still hold your grudges somewhere deep down.
Come out wild, and let's play chess in our squabbles," he laughs, a rich throaty laugh and we laughed together.
"there was something in the tea you gave me, right?" Nebulous nodded at the question.
"it was made by the two lovers to bring realization to them in times such as these. My Makilla gave it to me, but it couldn't work on me, because I am not a Sagittarius. It works on you because you are the embodiment, the very incarnate of kuga, the first," he said proudly.
"I am proud to witness this in my life time Kuga. What an interesting tale it is. I had glimpses of it through you, and it's been wonderful.
And I trust you have a way to deal with the pantheresses when they come for you?" "I am ready for them grandpa."
"be careful Kuga, they may not be bonded to you like they do in the past. They may be corrupted in the sands of time.
And it's been a very longtime… aye! I will leave you now my friend, for your lady here can't wait to have me out of this room.
But know that we are closer than ever, and I will come at your bidden, because we're all bonded by the same oath….". In mortification, Ruby buried her smiling face on the pillows by this comment from Nebulous.
"thank you, old friend, for sticking around to help me through this journey…". He nodded amiably with one of his cocky smiles as he exits the room. Ruby lifted her head from the pillows to fix me an enthralling glance.
Her curly dishevel ebony hair engulfing her lovely narrow face and thin soft lips, only makes her look tempting.
The woman is an addiction, a witch, who bewitch me back in time. I don't want to escape from her, I want her to envelope me in her intricate webs.
Silently, we gaze into each other's eyes without words to share. in only her flimsy camisole, she looked like sex personified.
"stop it spooky"
"what?"
"you are making my inside turn jelly with your lewd speculations," she said.
"am I? then stop looking beautifully sexy Ruby."
"I really have to take a bath spooky, I can smell my own odour."
"fragrance of the panther. I do understand the source of your natural scent now."
"how was it like spooky?"
"it is the most amazing experience I ever had. And your presence there made it more colorful. I can't believe I use only three days to cover a life time of history."
"we were scared you will not make it back, but Nebulous was here in the guest room, and he comes to my aid when the fever rises… " she got from the bed and extended her hand to me, and I took it. I wanted to kiss her but I did want to clean my three days unclean mouth first.
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"Why don't you want us to share a room Ruby? is just... so absurd."
"that's the way it has to be Kuga, at least for now. bare with me a little while..."
"is it about you being panther? you know I don't give a whiff.."
"I know, I need the distance. I found my current reality overwhelming. and there is Wodmax to run."
"I wouldn't use that as an excuse if to someone like me if I where you..."
"will you listen to a girl just for once! there is so much going on in our lives than sex."
"is that what this is about? sex?.... have a good day lady"
"Spooky wait...". I didn't even bother to look back. what is wrong with women? or the trouble is with this particular one?
I went down to the guest room were I now live. Screw the woman.
As weeks turned into months, we kept distance from each other and our lives revolve around Wodmax and the mysteries that lies beneath land and surrounding area.
"the company sits on cave, Kuga. follow me." Nebulous ordered as we approached a rusty private door in the ground floor hundred meters away from the cement warehouses to the South of the company.
"I don't know why I never get curious about this cottage in the company." I said as we came closer to the team of experts who seem to know Nebulous very well.
"this must be your grandson, I think?" a dwarfish powerful built man in lenses, smile at Nebulous while pointing a hand at me.
"You guess right my dear friend. Kuga meet Dr . Gregory, he and his team have studying the nature of the soil beneath this grounds for a while..."
Dr. Gregory hand shake was nothing like his hand features. his palm felt smooth, dry and warm.
"pleasure to meet you Sir"
" pleasure is all mine, please follow me."
"we know one thing for sure, this soil down here have a healing property. I don't want to sound out of the ordinary, but it's source is nothing close to ordinary..."
Dr Gregory voice now echo in the dark tunnel as we approach a clearing, that looked like a roman amphitheatre.
that must be that lab at the corner in the poorly lighted vacuum with a dark cosmic ceiling....
the energy that slumed on face was blistering. This space have harbored meetings of cladestine nature for centuries, and I felt that.
what's that stirring within my marrow, is that promnesia? something big is about to go down here I simply can't guess what.....
I remembered when I lay dying in my past life in the cave of Makilla the fallen. could that have a link to this place. that cave had been on top of a mountain but this one is underground.
"it been a great puzzle to us all my boy, this is one thing your Granma never shared with anyone," Nebulous reiterated.
"Huge mushrooms sprout forth from this soil more than five feet high, follow me".
"This must be the source of the LSD, Nka manufactures and shipped out of the country"
"that's right".
"how long have you known this, Nebulous?"
"I put up this company, how long do you think?"
"that's not what I mean. how long have this experiments been going on, involving Nka?"
"from the very beginning. we have been looking for ways to subvert the curse naturally with the soil and mushrooms, for its unique connection to the panther.
A way to help the maidens not to turned without having to wait for so long for a Sagittarius that will stick all three boxes to appear."
"You started that with grandma Makilla, it worked but killed her slowly. I could feel the cancerous pain eating her life away but she remained joyous throughout her life. it didn't work after all... oh my..."
Dr Gregory smiled evenly, before saying;
" yes, Nka have been busy building an army of pantheresses using the same formulae. His crooked methods are killing this beautiful cat breeds"
"That's why we need you here Kuga, I have been hunting these stray-poisonous infested breeds all this while, and now they have a target, that is you...."