True love waits

True love waits   Part I                                                                                                                                    By John Wood                                                                                                                                             Chapter 1 The new world order     “He is gone. I can’t feel him anymore,” said a tearful Sara.     Many years had passed since the arrival of the God.SED, who changed the known map of the Earth completely for humankind by reattaching the continents together. He created a new world map and a new world order and began his reign over humanity. He spent most of his time at his Temple of Love[1], located in the centre of the super continent[2]. Numerous lost battles were fought against him, countless human lives were lost, and the survival of human race became unpredictable. Knowing that humans had lost hope and began believing that he was the awaited god, God.SED used his supernatural powers to manipulate all humankind to obey his every command without any objections. However, despite his unchallengeable authority and influence over humanity, he failed to gain absolute control of all humans as some managed to keep their faith in one true god by staying in disguise, waiting for a rescuer to arrive and save them all.       John was semi-awake and talking to himself while lying on the bed in his room. “When you know you’re sexy,” he said, yawning. “When you know you’ve got a girl that half of the world is desperately waiting to get their hands on. When you know the money never ends no matter what you do, why are you still in bed, jackass?” He stretched and cramped his back. “Oh, my ass! Oh, my ass! I mean back.” He stretched again then got off the bed. “It’s going to be a good day. Same clothes, same job, same people, same food, same life, what else could a person want?” He removed a cracked picture of a cross from underneath his pillow and began looking at it. He’d been given the picture by a strange old woman on his way home the day before “Wow, no matter how much I look at this thing, I don’t understand the meaning of these two pieces of wood attached together in this way,” said John, curiously. “Why did she give this to me? Why?” There were two knocks on the bedroom door, which was then opened. John hid behind the curtains, as an elderly woman entered the room. “Your highness,” she said, smiling. “Nanny, how many times have I told you to please triple check everything before opening my door?” asked John. “And how many times did I tell you to have your underwear on when you sleep?” she replied. “Do you know that…” “Yes! Yes!” John interrupted. “It’s bad manners to have the thick pipe hanging out.” “Thick or tiny, you always need to cover your private part,” said Nanny.            John grabbed his underwear from the floor beside him while still holding the curtains and put the underwear on. He then put on his other clothes, as he looked at the tray that Nanny was holding. “Woman, what time do you wake up in order to make such an exclusive breakfast for me, have your hair and make-up done, and wear such well pressed outfit? Are you on Sola-Hola?[3]” said John. “That stuff has enough caffeine in it to rip your body apart, woman.”            He walked over to Nanny, kissed her on the forehead, before taking the tray and placing it on his wooden desk. “You know I love you, right?” Nanny was about to reply but just nodded her head while rolling her eyes.            John put wore his sunglasses and raised his left eyebrow. “You like what you see, woman?” he asked. “I worked very hard to get these biceps this size.” “Alright, alright, we get it, you workout very hard. Good for you.” said Nanny. She looked at the picture of cross with concern, picked it up from the mattress then looked at John. “What’s this?” asked Nanny.  “A woman gave it to me yesterday then she tried to say something, but the Arms[4] got her.” “Did they see you?” asked Nanny. “Did they see you?” “No, they didn’t but what’s wrong? It’s just a picture,” John replied. “What did she look like?” asked Nanny. “I don’t know,” John replied. “She was just a very strange homeless looking elder lady. There are so many of them on the streets these days but this one looked different,” “They used to be well known people in my time,” said Nanny, rubbing her finger on the picture. “They walked free and lived free, they believed in the true god, the one who created the Earth and heavens.” “My love, I swear I know the entire story, but maybe, just maybe accept that God.SED is the one who these poor people actually worshiped from the beginning. After he arrived, they fought against him, were defeated, and now they’re being judged. I think it’s pretty fair to live such a miserable life for disobeying the god that needed to be worshiped just like before.” John put his finger on the picture. “However, you didn’t clarify. What is this? Was this thing of any significant? Did this symbolize something of the god that people worshiped in the past? All I know is that people worshiped the true god and God.SED isn’t the one but you never tell me the rest, I … I had a dream of this thing being burnt recently. “At last!” Nanny exclaimed. “It took so long for you to see it. This thing’s a cross, the symbol of the believers! The warrior is coming! They are coming!” John was confused and puzzled by all the excitement. He slowly reached out to the tray, grabbed a slice of bread, sliced a boiled egg in half, placed one half on the bread, then held the bread in both hands and began eating. “So, its name is cross, huh?” John continued chewing his food. “Cross of what? And why should I care?” He ate some more of his breakfast. “Sweetheart, if this cross thing is about a true god coming, no one’s coming. Those who wanted to come are already here, so what are you fussing about?” Nanny began dancing and humming a song. “They’re coming. It’s been so long. That poor woman sacrificed herself to give you a heads-up. Nanny placed her hands on John’s cheeks. “If they haven’t seen you, if you’re with me, you’ll be safe, my dear boy! But you’re not to say a word to anyone about this picture.” John tried to interject but she cut him off. “Not even Sara,” said Nanny. “John, sit down. I have to make sure you hear the next words I say properly.” John sat on the chair, while Nanny sat on the bed. “The cross is the symbol of Christianity, one of the religions of the past,” Nanny began. “The cross is the symbol of Jesus Christ, the holy son of the creator. You remember nothing about it because you’ve become blinded by the power of SED and his purple mist[5] and I didn’t tell you about it because I knew that the time wasn’t right, but soon, when your eyes truly see again, you’ll remember everything. For now, you need to stay focused so don’t let anyone know about this. Once the time comes, you’ll be given instructions and you’ll have your confusion cleared.”            John drank some milk from his cup while Nanny was talking.            “Did you watch The Bird Rider[6]?” said John. “You sound like you did. I’d say you need a vacation. I’ll take care of the house with Sara until you come back. Who knows, we might ask SED to bless us with a child then you can have time to worry about the baby instead of watching action-packed movies that led you talk like this, my lady.”            Nanny smiled and hugged him. “Perhaps I do need that vacation, my dear,” said Nanny. “We actually talked about it with Sara, but before I leave, I need to make sure that you understand how important it is for you to keep this a secret until the right day arrives.” John nodded his head. “Alright,” she said. “I’m going to pack things up and go on that vacation.”            “Are you serious?” asked John. “I was just joking. When did you guys talk about you going on vacation again?”            “Yes, I’m serious, my dear,” replied Nanny, smiling. “I need some time alone to relax and you two need some time alone together to challenge your faith. I wanted to mention this after Sara and I spoke but I forgot. I’m an old woman, after all. Things get forgotten lately.”            “Very well then,” said John. “We’ll keep things under control, but one more thing, who’s Jesus? His name’s familiar,”            “As long as you stay the way you are, you’ll reach the gift that’s been promised to humans,” Nanny replied.            “Your English sucks today,” said John. “I can’t understand a bloody word you say, woman. What kind of English is this?”            Nanny laughed, as he nodded his head and took a bite of the banana that he took from the tray            “Do you want me to help you with the luggage and stuff or with anything?” asked John. “What an unusual morning.”            Nanny stood up and walked toward the door. “No dear, I’ll be fine,” she replied. “You sure?” asked John. “Yes dear,” said Nanny. John took a deep breath. “Indeed, this is an interesting morning. Alright then, just make sure to let us know your location, wherever that’s going to be, then if anything goes crazy, we’ll just end up sending units there.”            “I’m going to the beach,” said Nanny. “Don’t forget to water the plants. If I get back home and see them in weird shapes, we’ll have serious problems, Mr. Seventh.”            John raised his eyebrows.            “Oh! The beach! Ooh la la! No wonder you want to go there alone. The plants will be fine, just please keep us updated, okay? And have fun tanning.” John smiled. “That’s the plan and I will, dear,” said Nanny, before leaving the bedroom.   John walked to the closet, looked at the clothes he wanted to wear later that day, took them out and placed them on the bed. He then grabbed his towel and went to bathroom.            His cell phone rang. John noted that the caller was Sara, so he answered. “I love you,” said Sara. “I love you too” John replied. “How come you’re not at home? Where are you right now?” “I’m actually buying the hat you wanted for the acting scene,” she said. “Does it need to be completely purple?” “Sara! You’ve got to be kidding me! That place is dangerous! It’s East-Lands[7], for God.SED sake! Are you alone? Who’s with you?” “I’m alone, and scared. Please come here, Johnny. Oh no! I’m going to be taken away. No! No! John, I’m fine! Nothing’s going to happen to me, don’t worry. Justice folks are around so don’t be so overprotective, it’s annoying. Now tell me, purple or black?” asked Sara. “Sara,” said John, clearing his throat. “Love, a hot piece of meat like you shouldn’t wander around in such area alone. We all know what happens in there. Men are predators. I’m coming there.” “Shish!” she exclaimed. “Not all the men in here are like that. There are decent ones too, like the one selling me the hat. So, purple or black?” “Whichever you think is better,” replied John. “I’ll get purple then. I feel like it’s much more attractive. No, you didn’t? John! Why did you send Safe Guards[8]?” asked Sara. “Sara, that’s east side, I’d send Justice Folks if I had to. Please get the hat and come back,” said John. “Oh, come on John, you always ruin the day when I’m alone,” she said. “You’re kind of becoming like SED, a control freak. I have a life too, you know.” “Sweetheart, I love you and I can’t think…” “Yes, I’m fine, sir. My fucker’s just overreacting. John, they’re here!’” said Sara, angrily. “Get the hat and come back please,” said John. “Okay! Okay! But this is bullshit, John. This isn’t fair. You can’t always look after me like this. You can’t treat me like this, you know?” “I’m sorry, I’m just … “ “Just shut up, John,” she said, interrupting him again. “I’m coming home. There’s your money sir, thank you.” Sarah then hung up.            “f**k this!” said John, in frustration. “This girl will give me a heart attack one day. I don’t understand why she does this every time.” He walked into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. “Am I a control freak? Of course not! I just don’t want her to get hurt, damn it! Let’s put on some music.” John clapped his hands and flute music began to play. He then began taking a shower.   After his shower, John dressed and got ready to go out to work. He looked at the spherical camera on his desk, picked it up, and switched the camera on.  “Here we go,” he said, as he sat on the bed looking at the lens. “Hmm, I don’t know where to begin really, but while taking shower I thought I’d make a little documentary about what’s going on in the world and just give a little information about my current life. Why am I doing this? I don’t honestly know. I’ve been feeling weird lately about the world and I just … you know? I want people to have some sort of record if anything happens to the world again. You know, anything weirder.” He cleared his throat. “Alright! My name is John Seventh. Yes, it’s a number, don’t ask me why. I don’t even know why it’s a number, but it is, so just go on with it. I can’t remember my childhood. Most people my age can’t remember either, because when God.SED arrived there was a war between good and evil apparently. Many lost their lives and those that survived lost their memories, or at least that’s what we’ve been told so far by Nanny and others. Like, I just remember portions of the past. Basically, I woke up and I knew that I had to go to work and my job was to entertain people through making films. Is this something I need to be concerned about? Yes, of course! But I’m rich so I don’t give a s**t. This memory loss is like a fashion trend these days. Not knowing your past is fine and not knowing anything is even better, but frankly, I just wish that I could remember something about my past to share with you guys at this moment. That way we could all know who I used to be and how I used to live and stuff like that. It’s not about only me, but all of us living in this time and age. But, oh well, God.SED doesn’t want us to remember our terrible pasts to preserve a better future, so that’s all that matters for now.” He paused before continuing. “I live with my Nanny, the one who’s been with me since I opened my eyes, as she says. She’s pretty much everything that I have in this life, beside my lovely f**k receiver who I don’t even f**k, Miss Sara Thomson. She joined me and Nanny through the Love Blast[9] adoption centre, according to what Nanny says.”  He held his cell phone close to the camera, displaying a picture of Sara. “There she is, the one and only. I can’t live without her. There’s this thing between us, this more than love thing, it’s, it’s er … some sort of a bond. It’s like I feel her presence all the time without even having her around me. If she gets hurt, I know, and if I get hurt, she knows. It’s something magical, yet it’s more than that. I don’t know how else to explain it. I hope when you guys fall in love, you’ll know what I mean right now.” He put his cell phone back in his pocket and smiled. “Yeah, she’s something isn’t she? What’s my occupation? I’m a director, producer, writer, performer and a dashing man.” He received a text message from Arms of Justice, asking him if there was any threat facing the person who was being escorted, so that they could escort Sara back home rather than involving other units. John simply replied that there were no threats and thanked them for their services. John then held his cellphone toward the camera again. “Even if people fart these days, Arm of Justice units will know about it. I asked bodyguards to escort Sara from other side of the Earth to here and these guys have already found out about it and wanted to get on the case, which meant that my cellphone was and is being heavily monitored. You know how they can track anyone at anytime with ease? It’s because we all have tracking chips in our wrists. Our entire status and history are available in those chips. The arms simply need to scan the wrist or just track down where the chips were scanned previously and then find out about everything about an individual in no time. Pathetic! There’s no privacy left in this world at all. It’s total control over what and when we do anything.” He put the cellphone back in his pocket. “Arms of Justice are the law enforcers of today’s world. They can be very friendly or very ruthless, depending on when and how your path crosses theirs. Sara’s a nurse and works at the Twin Cancer Hospital[10]. All types of cancers are cured now. The cure is God.SED himself. You take the one who has cancer to him and he blesses them and bam! Everything becomes normal again. However, Twin Cancer patients are also those that have been infected by the curse of God.SED.” John put on his glasses. “You see, these patients have two separate beings or characters living in one living body. If you’re thinking about dissociative personality disorder at this moment, you’re dead wrong because that disorder is cured. However, these patients are extremely dangerous and very violent because the two characters mostly don’t get along with each other at all. As the result, one usually begins to overpower the other, which results in severe consequences. The affected kids aren’t usually that bad, even though they’re often more deadly than the adult ones. This curse is a form of punishment to those that disobey or disrespect God.SED. He exhales in their mouths and gives them the second being. Nanny says they’re possessed by demons and things that people believed in years ago, but these beings look way worse than what she usually describes. Anyways, Sara works there, she loves her job, and she’s damn good at it. What she does for these semi-curable individuals is give them hope. Her job’s basically all about mental health. She knows how to control beasts using whatever skills she has. She can make you kneel before her using some sort of mental power technique stuff. It’s very cool and magical. T.C patients don’t live for long though because two beings can’t live in the same body, or at least not in a human body. It’s quite sad but this horror has kept the world running on a proper cycle for generations apparently and peace has never been broken for as long as God.SED has reigned, so far. Everyone’s afraid of getting cursed so everyone keeps on living without complaining all the time. Everyone follows the new world order as it’s implemented by God.SED, except for these mysterious protestors. They appear out of nowhere, keep telling people about things that everyone later forgets and then vanish into no one knows where, as if they’d never been existed. Some of them were successfully captured by the A.O.J in the past, but they’re still out there without anyone being able to see them. The interesting part is that they never ever give up, despite knowing that if they get caught, they’ll have to face the wrath of God.SED. I don’t understand what these crazy people really want? And the current world’s completely different from what it looked like in the past, according to what Nanny says. The continents are attached again and they’re all connected by Divine Rails[11], a large tube containing round glass cabins that can quickly transport you from one corner of the world to another. After all, we’ve been living under a giant firmament and on a disk that didn’t let us go out until God.SED came along. The big continent [12] is divided into five main lands. These are North, South, West, East, and Middle Earth or the Center, very much like the same shape it was apparently, just with the continents now forming a giant landscape. Middle Earth is where God.SED lives in his temple, protected by his massive army. Some people asked why he needed such an army when he was and is the god and in return they were either eaten alive or cursed. By being eaten alive, I literally mean alive. They were chewed to death by the army in front of our eyes on one crazy-scary day. God.SED mentioned that no one must ever ask him an unwelcome question such as that. Since then no one has dared to ask him any questions at all. So, let’s just assume that, in order to govern the entire universe, even a god needs some forces to help him out.”            John looked out of the window. “The seasons change when God.SED desires. If he likes to have snow, people may have snow in middle of the hot summer. People may end up dying of heatstroke after an entire year of high temperature but might also freeze to death because God.SED doesn’t want the area to warm up for them. There’s a place where always snows and people around there have a giant bridge made of ice on the new map. I'll be able to visit it with Sara one day soon. God.SED controls the weather, the seasons, and any natural, or it’s better to say any earthly environmental cycles, and we must simply live with it. It’s not like we can really do anything about it. After all, he is the all-seeing eye. John scoffed and nodded his head. “Apparently, this thing happened in the past through a project called geo-engineering. Nanny says those that tried to make others aware were popped, go figure that out. Weird world. Anyways, back to God.SED. He has tremendous powers, such as resurrecting the dead or farting that smells like flowers, but those that come back to life, aren’t like they were before. They remember nothing and they only live to serve him.”  He raised his eyebrows. “Yeah, fun stuff. God.SED’s quite a character. To be honest, I don’t give a s**t. I just want to stay alive, entertain people, and put smile on their faces then wake up seeing Sara’s beautiful blue eyes. That’s all I personally live for.  I have to give you a little bit more information about God.SED, from a deeper perspective. According to Nanny, he arrived on Earth in complete darkness. Apparently, there was a total eclipse when he landed. Nanny says that before God.SED arrived, people lived in a world of chaos and injustice. They turned against each other without reason. Violence became the meaning of life and death became the goal to achieve. During this anarchy that was caused by New World Order, the entire planet suddenly turned dark and a shining object resembling a sword entered the Earth’s atmosphere from the firmament and landed in the Mediterranean Sea. The phenomenon put the global chaos on hold for a while, halting the destruction that humans were causing on Earth. After the darkness disappeared and people clearly saw the object, things began to get worse, as from the impact site countless Arms of Justice units were released and countless men and women that fought against them were brutally terminated worldwide. Countries of that time united together and fought for days and nights against the overwhelming forces but frankly speaking, you can’t defeat supernatural beings that gain more power when they’re attacked. A.O.J units can’t be killed by human weapons. They regenerate more power every time a man-made object is thrown at them. They feed on the hatred of humans and anything that’s done by hate and because in war you don’t fight with love, these beings grew into massive destructive machines in a very short period. They’re about eight feet tall, extremely physically built, flames come out of their eyes every time they don’t wear their shades, and they have a large mouth filled with countless sharp little teeth. That’s the best short description of them now.” [1] Temple of Love: The main headquarters of GodSED. [2] Super continent: The new continent created when God.SED joined all the Earth’s landmasses together.   [3] Sola-Hola: An enriched caffeine drink.   [4] Arms of Justice (A.O.J): The new law enforcers.   [5] Purple mist: A purple gas that caused sudden loss of past memories. The gas was released by God.SED to erase the memories of the previous lives of humans. [6] The Bird Rider: A hit action science fiction movie.   [7] East-Lands: The eastern territories of the super continent. [8] Safe Guards: A Special Forces Company that provides highly trained bodyguards for important people. The guards only protect the rich people in society.     [9] Love Blast: An orphanage where Sara is believed to have been taken from. [10] Twin Cancer Hospital: Where Sara works as a nurse. [11] Divine Rails: An ultrasonic continental train that moves around the super continent. Travelers can go from one side of the super continent to the other in a very short period of time. [12] Big continent: The new super continent.