PROLOGUE

                                     A Prophecy Is Born

The Creator’s apprentice, the Overseer, a novice in the affairs of the Universe, had made errors that had left the Creator’s dreams in disarray.

The Creator had wished for a more exciting universe and had ordered a new galaxy to be made.

It had been the Overseer’s task to create it.

It had used the Sphere of Creation, a mystical stone of great power capable of reproducing life in outer space. But programming the stone had been an architectural nightmare and after the stone had completed its planet-forming tasks the Overseer had realised only eight planets had been created instead of nine.

The Creator had been furious and its wrath had echoed around the cosmos. This omission would seriously affect the emerging life forms and encourage disorder and conflict throughout the universe. The Creator had been forced to intervene and correct the Overseer’s mistake before chaos took control.

It had ordered the Overseer to find and collect all the left over fragments from the Sphere Of Creation and place them next to a black hole. Out of these pieces it would try to create the missing planet and stabilise the universe.

The Overseer had set about its task immediately, eager to regain favour and atone for its mistake. But in its enthusiasm to please one of the fragments went undetected and was left floating through space.

Fate creates many alternatives and had the Creator known of the stone’s existence, it would have retrieved it and Earth might have been spared its fate but the stone went unobserved and drifted towards an unused Birth Star.

 Destiny directed the Birth Star to the rock’s surface and in a hailstorm of fire created life. But without the Creator’s guidance it journeyed around the cosmos mutating.

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Less than one hundred and thirty million kilometres away, on the surface of a dying planet, sat Cerberus, a planetary Mutoid. Around him swirled particles of dust, scorched red by the rays of the sun. On the horizon dust storms swept the landscape lingering in the air giving the planet an eerie red glow.

Mutoids were evolutionary misfits created from genetic abnormalities found in Birth Stars. These, unscheduled monstrosities, had been rejected by the Creator. Forced into obscurity and sent to live on a nearby planet they’d grown angry and resentful and vowed revenge for their rejection.

Cerberus and his fellow rejects lived beneath the surface in a labyrinth of dried up riverbeds. They’d outlived all other life forms and were now the only species on the planet. Cerberus guarded the entrance to their underground lair keeping a watchful eye on the stars above. Ancient prophecies spoke of a an immortal creature who would one day come from the stars and deliver them out of exile.

Cerberus stood up and stretched its legs. He yawed and each of its six heads mimicked the other.

Night Watch had become a routine.

He flopped back down, lowering his heads on his outstretch paws. He was just drifting off to sleep when a strange noise startled him.

He looked up.

Above him, a fiery ball of light shot through the sky blazing a trail of fire through the stars. So bright was its brilliance he was forced to close his eyes and shield him self from the heat.  He remained like this for several seconds, the heat from the overhead object scorching his skin. Gradually the heat diminished and he opened his eyes. The comet was disappearing into the night its brightness fading into starlight.        

Cerberus waited until the burning rock had became yet another star amongst millions and returned to his nightly vigil.

In the starry blackness of space, over thirty million kilometres away, the galaxy braced itself for the birth of a planet.

On its voyage across the Cosmos the comet’s liquid interior would cool and evolve and with every millennium that passed the life form inside would grow and mutate.

 Eventually, a million millenniums in the future, it would return and fulfil the Prophecy...

TO BE CONTINUED...

AVAILABLE..... AUGUST 2008