Chapter Three

And with that James walked along the road a little, turned to us all and disappeared into the night air.

After all these years of thinking I had missed the “APSU” it was I who was not ready, not ready to acknowledge that what had happened in Japan was real.

James had found me and it was I who should have found him, I knew I couldn`t make that mistake again.

You are right Yemon the person said, you waited and waited for a sign, without believing in what you know and experience, turning I saw Chiyoko and for the first time in many years I felt the power that is Satori.

Come! She said meditate with me, we both knelt down facing each other; here I was looking this person directly in the eyes, this person that travels through time and space knelling in the middle of the road in the middle of this little town I call home.

As we knelt Chiyoko lifted her right hand and placed it in front of my forehead but did not touch me.

I realized that been back at training was going to be tough, and I had dedicated my life to it but had missed the important things that were a part of my journey, now Chiyoko was here to replenish that desire to get back on my path.

Chiyoko was showing me my early path, but I didn`t recognize the places or names, had I lost all my memories?

No she said, you have just been fulfilling areas of your path that have had to be fulfilled as well.

But now, you must stay focused and look again at the places I am showing you.

I see Kenzo and Jimmu and I see many people that recognize me, and are greeting me like an old friend.

Look at yourself Chiyoko says look at yourself, as I glance down I see I am wearing strange clothing that fit me like a glove not loose clothing.

I am walking in a very big building towards a meeting room; there are about thirty people in there, hello I said do I know you all?

The sound of laughter came through, yes of course you do was the many replies.

Stepping forward in front of me was an elder man and woman hello James they said, we have been waiting for you, these are some of the past “APSU” they are ones that have gone before you over many millennium.

It is our first meeting in so long, and we needed you to be here for there are certain issues that need to be resolved.

It was a large room about twenty metres by seventy metres and five metres high we looked so tiny in comparison.

My name is Yemon I said in a much over charged voice, you are James and you are also many other names used over time, all working to the next level and the one after that he said.

What name do you prefer the gentleman asked? Well Yemon! I much prefer.

Ok he said and my name is also James and this here is my partner of many millennium stela, she is the guiding light for us all here, here waiting for the signal that the “Chishiki” has found a host.

With that my stomach tightened, feeling the burden of failure coming crashing down on me, when all of a sudden Chiyoko clapped her hands once and everyone moved toward the centre of the room.

Today she said, as if giving a speech at the United Nations, Today we know the APSU are ready to join with us and announce they are close to discovering where the “Chishiki” is!

That day will be remembered as the day the human race was given its life back.

Without even the slightest sound, not even the faintest utterance could be heard as a figure walked towards us, slowly almost so slow I could sense that a race between this person and a snail would see the snail come out in front.

Draped in a shroud of orange and gold it moved forward my mind was telling me the person must be very old, maybe frail and sickly but as it got closer I could make out the features of a young woman, maybe around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Closer she got until finally I moved back a little fearing she would walk right through me.

Yes Yemon you are right, I could hear Chiyoko saying, she would be able to walk right through you, but you must not allow that to happen.

You would be sent back a millennium and have to return only after you relived all stages of your past lives.

From the woman in the shroud came the words we all waited on, where are the other APSU and where is the “Chishiki”? They must be ready for it is the time!

Our hearts have walked through time its-self, we have moved from one end of the heavens to the other searching never ending always searching, she said.

Stela bought forward a small metal stool for the lady to sit on, how could she be so slow and so tired for that age, not realizing she had now walked directly in front of me, ignoring the stool to rest upon.

She opened her hands face up in front of me and asked what do you see? I gazed down her palms slowly opening up revealing a gash nearly 4 inches long on each hand, the further they opened the more I wanted to move away, from her palms came a very small yellowish light, not more than a inch high, I see a flame coming from each hand I replied, touch the flames she said.

I looked around to see what everyone was doing and found to my amazement we were in a different place. A place surrounded by forty foot high bamboo and a small clear area where we were standing, I have traveled so far and for so long she said, I am tired and need rest but first there is a part of you that is missing, a part that unless put right will hinder our search for the APSU.

Come stand here, as I moved I heard for the first time in years that sound I first heard with Jimmu and Kenzo when Chiyoko appeared.

Listen she said, the sound has words, they are the sounds of the APSU the sounds of the Universe`s heart beat.

My eyes started to close as I became more entrenched in the sounds, there was nothing more than a slight humming that I knew if possible I could sit on and ride through time, no barriers no resistance.

It is how we travel she said smiling slightly and for the first time I felt a little more relaxed, open your palms, once again looking down but at my own hands I could see the small gash’s appear, now place each hand together and clap but very slightly.

All at once there were four shards standing around us, one with a young boy in front of it, James I thought it must be him: there were no sounds or confirmation of my thoughts just a visual conclave of energies swirling around the shards, all omitting a bluish colour.

At around ten foot high they gave of a feeling of long history with their blue look and the beautiful engraving on the front of each one.

It looks like a language I have never seen before.

Yes you are right this young but old woman with no name said, it is the original language of the APSU at a time when they bred with the first inhabitants of this planet.

At a time when the power and knowledge was held by so few, when the APSU first looked for the “Chishiki” in a long forgotten time and place, and where we followed it to this place you call Earth.

As we spoke James came closer to us, in a friendly casual sort of way which reminded me so much of my youth, there is only three more APSU we need to find Yemon he said, we must return to your time and find them, already the shards are growing and won`t stop until the “Chishiki” break their hold.

Each shard has a minder, I am the shard of the west and it is us that must find the three others. As quickly as he spoke his last word James was gone.

The young woman was about to do the same when suddenly one of the shards started to grow, It is time she said, another minder has been born in your time.

Go quickly he is of the East! A clap of her hands and we were back in the large hall where Chiyoko and the others were waiting.

There is no time to talk Chiyoko said we know there is a new birth or a returning birth of an APSU, you will find him but you must find him in the past first, use your power that you have received to travel, but find him!
We will search for the other two.

As I stood there my thoughts were of Jimmu and my understanding that he held the “Chishiki” NO! Came the immediate reply from Jimmu, we lost the “Chishiki” somehow our times have over lapped and we have miscalculated.

It is here but not here.

We have been looking whilst you learned of your powers.

And just how do I use these powers?

Open your hands and concentrate Yemon, when the flames appear and you put your hands together you will receive a vision of the place you want to go, when you have that, clap your hands very slightly and you will be there.

But! Never clap your hands more than once until we know where the exact place the “Chishiki” is.

Each clap you do after the first will take you to anew time and new dimension, you have not been prepared for this.

Yemon together we will meet you in the past; see if you can find the time in your vision, you must be able to see us before you travel.

With that Jimmu and Kenzo were gone.

I felt the turning of a new stage in my life was about to transpire, and with it the chance to help mankind also develop to a new stage.

I opened my palms and saw the flame rise and in that flame I could see Jimmu and Kenzo walking down a very unwelcome road, a road where on either sides were the long gone remains of what appeared to be magnificent mansions.

Somewhere across the bridge I came face to face with God.

We looked at each other and without saying a word; we both embraced and went on our way.

In that briefest of moments there was left upon me a knowledge that would take many lifetimes to unravel.

Go Yemon, Chiyoko said go and meet them they are about to meet someone with information on the east APSU.

As I looked at Chiyoko I was about to ask who the mysterious woman was when she grabbed my hands gently and pushed them together, there was a light sensation and suddenly I was standing beside Jimmu and Kenzo.

Be careful Yemon, Jimmu said, this is an evil place, where once was grand buildings and a grand civilization there is now nothing.

Where once stood the very heart of the birth place of the first APSU there is nothing, feel the air there is no love no feeling no humming.

We know there is someone here that may be able to help us in the right direction to the East APSU, let’s keep walking.

As the minutes turned into hours and we plodded along the same road I was beginning to notice something very different about this road, picture if you can a long straight road where every now and then there is a little green bush a hint of what used to be , maybe!

Now look again and look at the bush in more detail? The bush is not sitting on the ground but slightly above it.

Don`t ask, Jimmu said in a sharp but soft voice, we have walked the length of the road and we are not alone anymore there is a visitor a head of us, do not talk Yemon but stand with Kenzo of to the right of where I stand.

We moved forward another hundred yards and I could make out a person standing in the middle of the road. Kenzo take Yemon to the road side, there is not much time!

The road although looking like a thousand year old road was indeed over five hundred thousand years old Kenzo explained, it was the home of the “Chishiki” when they first arrived here, and where they gave birth to the APSU, to guide the Human race through time and beyond.