The Chosen Ones (10 ratings) by Ken Korczak
Page 3 of 3 At the end of two weeks, the larvae felt the metamorphosis come upon them. They
emerged, overcoming the surface tension of the water to pop out transformed
with wings and the gift of flight. They remained on the surface immobile for a
time as the sun dried and hardened their new bodies. Soon the blood lust was
upon them, so they swarmed and spread across the land.
As they preyed on others for blood meals, they themselves were preyed upon.
Larger winged beings at them by the thousands. Those that crawl and creep also
ate of them. Each time one was ingested by the other, some of the DNA extracted
from the extraordinary blood bag which had stood on the sea was passed along,
and worked its amazing transformation on them. The bigger predators were in
turn eaten by others, larger predators, and so the sacred DNA spread
exponentially throughout the creatures of the land.
Thousand of the children were not eaten, but successfully preyed upon their
hosts. Whenever they stung, they also injected and exchanged fluids. Each
successful blood eater gave, in turn, birth to thousands more of it's kind,
which again spread out to eat and be eaten. Within months, every creature on
the planet had received a tiny biological portion of the blood bag that had
stood on the Sea of Galilee.
Because of the tormenting, stinging pain they inflicted upon their hosts,
and the diseases they passed along, which sickened and killed millions, they
were among the most hated creatures on the planet.
Indeed, the blood bags of the highest order often questioning why the
Creator Blood Bag allowed such creatures to exist. Most philosophied that the
winged blood eaters were the sire of a fallen, Evil Blood Bag, the Anti-Blood
Bag.
Little did they know just the opposite was true. For there is never birth,
or a rebirth, without pain. The blood bag on the Sea of Galilee suffered its
own painful bloody death, only to be reborn and transcend. The winged blood
suckers brought pain and death, but they also brought life. Death is not the
end, but a painful rebirth. Just as the winged blood eaters emerged from their
larvae stage to be transformed into winged beings, so the donor blood bags
died, only to be renewed, not as blood bags, but as winged beings into another
more sublime realm ... where the dance continued.
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