Chapter 1 The Guardians

I shall start this story the day it all started, although Matilda ’ s whole life had been



leading up to it.



A shaft of light pieced the darkness of Melissa's bedroom and woke her from her sleep.



She momentarily opened her eyes and looked up at the ceiling. The beam of light was



just catching the outer edge of the rotating orbs that floated above her bed



every night.



She watched as another gently spinning blue orb gently rotated round,



catching in the light briefly, followed by a pale red orb. Although these orbs had



guarded Melissa’s soul threw time and her many lives, she had not been able to see



them until she had recently become a reiki healer at master level.



As orbs are transparent, she could however only see them in dim light and there was



some light catching their outer edge.  She knew they were orbs of ghost cats and one



of them was the ghost of her cat, because  occasionally it materialised in front of the fire



on a cold night. This green orb Venus that had been her cat, would sit on her lap. The



other six  orbs cats would materialised into much large cats. There was because they 



were from an ancient race of cats that had lived, before time started, as you know it.



In orb form each was a slightly different colour and size, so Matlida could tell them



apart. They moved about Matilda’s house by gently rotating around the largest one



who stayed in the centre.



It was for this reason and that one was already called Venus, Matilda had knicked



them her “Planets “ and had name each of the others also after a planet.



The orbs  spent most their time resting in the day in the airing cupboard. They would



come out in the evening and go around in a little group together, spinning as they



went.





This morning after watching them briefly she went back to sleep, but was awaken



again by her living cats Anubis, patting her on the cheek to gently wake her.



Anubis had also been sent to guard Melissa too. Melissa  had  found him thin and



emaciated on her doorstep near death. I say this but Annubis is , was, is ?  an immortal



cat that cannot die, unless. Unless I say, because at this point in my story I did not



know that an immortal cat could be killed. However I do know as I tell this story, but to



tell you how would be giving too much away, which I already have !It seems that I



must though. or you would have no idea what I am talking about.



Back to my story . It was the morning after she had moved in to the house she now



lived in, that she had found Anubis on her doorstep.





What Matilda found intriguing, was he was wearing a beautiful blue collar,



with a tiny gold statue dangling on it. This was of Anubis the egyption guardian to the



underworld.



      What Malilda did not know, was that this was real gold and of a high carat.



If she had known,  she might have tried harder to find his owner. After a few weeks



had gone by, and nobody had come for him, she had decided to name him after this



gold Anubis. She did thin  it could have been his real name, since he



actually came to it. Of course this was not his real name. He had been told by his



real master that his name would change many times while working in the different



dimensions. I would not be able to begin to prenouce his real name. For it is more of a



summoning from his master in a tone and vibration you and me cannot hear. For only



part of it can travel into your physical dimension.



                As with every night, Anubis had sat on the windowsill all night gazing out



at the night sky. Listening intently in to the darkness and watching the rabbits hopping



around the garden in the moonlight. They new they were being watched by him.



However they had by now, realised he would never come out to hunt them, at least, 



not at night.



  Ever since he had arrived,  though he was exhausted from starvation, he had sat on



guard all night and every night. Unknown to Melissa, who would find him lying almost





by the foot of her bed every morning. She would pick him up and put him on her bed.



She kept a bowl of water and food near by, so he did not have to walk far, while he



was recovering.



Over a few weeks she had nursed him back to health with tasty snacks. She had also



used  Reiki healing energy to speed his recovery.



Melissa was a reiki healer recently reaching the master level and now



having greater healing powers than she had ever had before. She used the healing



energy on all her pets, plants and even inanimate objects.  With the reiki healing



Anubis recovered quickly. He soon had a coat that glistened with health in the slightest



light .



This morning as with every morning Anubis carefully negotiated the many



plants in pots on the windowsill before jumping down to the ground. He glanced over



at another of Melissa,s cats Tarot ( who was sitting watching him threw a half opened



eye),  and then strolled over to Melissa’s bed. Tarot is a white cat with the most



beautiful soft fluffy coat and huge saucer sized blue eyes .



This is Melissa's only white cat, the other two being jet black.  Tarot too had



arrived on the door step only a few months  after Anubis had. He had also been



very thin and seemly homeless. Every night, he too guarded Melissa



by lying by her bedroom door.  He would appear to be asleep, but infact



he only had his eyes closed and was totally aware of all his surroundings.



Sencing the darkness all the time with his whiskers and listening for the slightest



sound. Seeing that Anubis was now no longer on duty he too felt he could let his guard



down. Letting another of Melissa's three cats  Pluto, take over the job of keeping



lookout. He followed Anubis,  springing  up onto  Matilda's bed and



sat next to him. Anubis was by now gently patting his owner’s face with his soft paw.



Melissa was woken up every morning in the same way.



She reacted in the usual way, by pulling the sheet over her face and



turning over and going back to sleep. To this Anubis and Tarot would always lay down



somewhere on her bed and wait until she woke up, as they did this morning.  They



soon went to sleep, tired after their night watch, while outside, the birds finished their



dawn chorus.



About an hour later, the silenced was shattered by the alarm. Anubis, and



Tarot hardly stared. They had now been joined by another of  Melissa's cat



Pluto.  Now Pluto also guarded Matilda, but seemed to spend a lot of his time playing



with the orb cats, who seemed to be their favorite out of Matilda’s three living cats.



He had boundless energy and would chase the orbs threw the house when they were



not floating above Matilda’s bed or resting in the airing cubboard.



A playful cat with the character of a kitten, who  also took guard



every night, coming into Melissa's bedroom after she had gone to sleep.





He would sit on the small bookcase amongst all the indoor plants that were kept on top



of it. This bookcase was opposite the window and had shade loving plants growing in



pots on top of it, since it never caught any sunshine. Pluto would sit amongst the pots,



occasionally chewing on a fern leaf or the end of a spider plant leaf. He new he was



not allowed to do this, but could not help himself from grabbing hold of one , when a



slight vibration from bookcase made the leafs move about. Some times Venus and his



gang would hide among the leaves and send Pluto crazy, and he would occaisonally



knock of a plant, which would go crushing to the floor. The orb or ghost cats loved him



the best for his playfulness. They were ignored by Tarot who took his guard duties very



seriously and treated them as though they were just annoying flies. Pluto and Anubis



were the only ones of Melissa’s



cats in physical form that paid them any attention.



As with the other cats Melissa did not know he was guarding her either. She would



find him asleep on her bed every morning with the other two cats. Pluto was one of her



original cats that had moved with her from her apartment. He had only started to guard



her when she had moved to her new home, in the country. Although he was



pleased to be in the countryside, he too_like the other cats knew he must



protect Melissa from the danger that existed all around her new home. Danger that



could come from any direction and indeed was going to.



          A while after the alarm started going off, Melissa reached her hand



out of the bed and  pushed the button down to turn off the alarm. Doing this



without looking, she knocked the alarm onto the floor. This steered her to



sit up in bed and  then reach to the floor to pick up the alarm. She picked



up the alarm and then decided she might as well get up, as she was







Sencing the darkness all the time with his whiskers and listening for the slightest



sound. Seeing that Anubis was now no longer on duty he too felt he could let his guard



down.  He followed Anubis,  springing  up onto  Melissa's bed and



sat next to him. Anubis was by now gently patting his owner’s face with



A playful cat with the character of a kitten, who  also took guard



every night, coming into Melissa's bedroom after she had gone to sleep.





He would sit on the small bookcase amongst all the indoor plants that were kept on top



of it. This bookcase was opposite the window and had shade loving plants growing in



pots on top of it, since it never caught any sunshine. Pluto would sit amongst the pots,



occasionally chewing on a fern leaf or the end of a spider plant leaf. He new he was



not allowed to do this, but could not help himself from grabbing hold of one , when a



slight vibration from bookcase made the leafs move about. Some times Venus and his



gang would hide among the leaves and send Pluto crazy, and he would occaisionaly



knock of a plant, which would go crushing to the floor. The orb or ghost cats loved him



the best for his playfulness. Some of the other cats took their work very seriously and



ignored them as though they were just annoying flies. Pluto and Annubis were the only



ones of Melissa,s cats in physical form that paid them any attention.



They spent most their time resting in the day in the airing cupboard. They would come



out in the evening and go around in a little group together. They liked to be with Pluto



most of the time and he liked to be with them. He had boundless energy and chase



them threw the house most of the night. When he was on duty guarding Melissa the



ghost cats left him alone. From here he could guard the inside of Melissa,s bedroom 



As with the other cats Melissa did not know he was guarding her either. She would find



him asleep on her bed every morning with the other two cats. Pluto was one of her



original cats that had moved with her from her apartment. He had only started to guard



her when she had moved to her new home, in the country. Although he was



pleased to be in the countryside, he too_like the other cats knew he must



protect Melissa from the danger that existed all around her new home. Danger that



could come from any direction and indeed was going to.



          A while after the alarm started going off, Melissa reached her hand



out of the bed and  pushed the button down to turn off the alarm. Doing this



without looking, she knocked the alarm onto the floor. This steered her to



sit up in bed and  then reach to the floor to pick up the alarm. She picked



up the alarm and then decided she might as well get up, as she was



now more  or less vertical.



As she got up, she noticed the usual pile of sleeping cats at the bottom of



her bed. She stroked each of them, but they did not stir.  She noticed



how  beautiful Tarot looked against her new violet bedspread. This had



come from one of the charity shops in town. When she saw it she had



thought how well it would go in her bedroom, which was painted lilac.



Indeed the whole house was lilac, with purple and violet curtains all over



the house. This had not been Melissa’s choice, this color scheme was



already in the house when she brought it.



‘ You lot have had a busy night I take it ‘ she said to the cats as she stroked



them. They only moved their bodies in tune with her hand, as she run her hands down



their backs. Their eyes remained tightly shut.



        While Melissa looked for something to wear, she thought she should really have



done  some healing on herself and had a shower. However, since always loving



her sleep, she usually chose to sleep in rather than to get up earlier. Being a reiki



healer at the master level she should spend at least half an hour healing



herself, as well as have a shower every day. This was to cleanse her auras.Since



energies and enter-ties that are actually making the everyday people ill,  are



naturally drawn to reiki healers.



              Now that Melissa was at master level,  her channels were now a magnet



to anything from the unseen worlds existing in the same space and time as our



physical world. Melissa too had the knowledge to travel to any dimension



in her grasp and she could certainly send anything in our physical world back to where



it came from. She  was also had the power, but not yet the knowledge to herself travel



to any of these unseen worlds or dimensions. A fact that, many other energy



beings and inter-dimensional  travellers,  would soon become aware of.  When they 



did they would try to stop her. Since the beginning of time they had been keeping



humans in the physical dimension they come from. For should humans also become



inter dimensional travellers they would learn too much. The beings that controlled



them would no longer be able to control them  and the balance that had rained in the



universe since before the of time would be turned around.  Melissa new nothing of this,



except that she new the was some battle going on.



The fact that she had not healed herself or showered to cleanse her auras this



morning , did not concern Melissa. This was because she knew all they could do would



make her feel a bit tired, well for the first 48 hours anyway. As long as she showed and



cleansed herself every other day, she should be all right.



A day was not long enough for anything to get hold of her and make her ill.





So she never bothered to do any of the cleansing rituals before she went to her part



time job which she attended every other day.



Instead she preferred to have a little lie-in, since she loved to sleep, before her tiring



day at work.



So this morning as usual she got up  and got dressed without a shower.



She had a very ecelectic way of dressing which had a hippy emphasis and resulted in



a completely frumpish look. She felt she was rebelling against her mother,



who dressed in trampish way. Wearing low cut tops , short skirts and



stiletto heels. Melissa thought of her, as very much, mutton dressed as



lamb. Her mother was extremely rich and wore designer cloths. She lived



in the biggest house in the town. She also wore real furs, which Millissa  so,



did not approve of, and she made a point of telling her, every time she saw



her. She had masses of expensive jewelry, but Melissa chose to wear



none.



She eventually decided on a blue flowery dress she had found in a



charity shop a few days ago. It was a big baggy dress which she pulled in



at the waist with a plaited leather belt, This was  also brought from the charity



shop, where she brought pretty much all her cloths. After dressing she



went over to the window and drew the curtains carefully, so as not to



knock over any of the plants which crowded the windowsill. Melissa had endless



house plants growing in every available space. They were all extremely



healthy since Melissa used reiki energy on them to help them flourish.



Since she had become a reiki healer she had become very tidy. Although her plants



looked untidy, they helped to keep the room clear of negitive energies, which was the



whole point of being tidy. Negative or bad  energies can hide behind and cling to



objects. However they do keep clear of healthy plants, as the energy of healthy plant 



cansuck them up.



            As she drew the curtains something purple caught her eye through the



window. From her window she could see that the purple was from



a small patch of spring crocuses. It was the start of spring and plants



were just starting to sprout after the winter months. Melissa did not know what



exactly would be coming up in her garden, as she had only been there for the winter



months. She should perhaps have known, since she had seen this cute little bungalow



since she was a little girl. However she had not seen the house  for many years,



because she too, like her cats could sense the danger. The danger that



seemed to emanate from her closest neighbour.  She  often wondered



wether she was actually doing the right thing buying this house,



considering the bad feeling she got anytime she was near the location her new



house was in. She had kept away from it most of her adult life, but now



had  actually  brought it and was even living in it.  She had to keep



running over in her mind the reasons why she had brought it. These were ,



for one, the meditations that she had done, where the image of the



house kept appearing to her. For another, the fact that although sensing the



danger she was still  very drawn to it and had been for as long as she could



remember.  For another, that the Reiki  master who had taught her, had told



her she would never come across anything in her life, that  she could not be



able to deal with. So she felt she would be able to deal with the threat next door



should it ever threaten her.Indeed she completely believed she had the powers within



her to deal with anything that the universe would throw at her.



So she did not worry too much (well only for a few seconds) that there was someone



something bad living next door. Reiki healers are taught that there is no point in



worrying and indeed it is one of their rules not to worry. A most difficult rule to keep.





Another reason for her not to worry was that her Reiki master had told her, that she sensed it was Melissa's destiny



to live in this house.





As she looked out of the window her thoughts dwelled again on these reasons, but  these were suddenly interrupted



by the sight of her neighbour's car coming at great speed down her lane. The sight of it made her feel sick with fear.



It was a very old classic black ford car that shook all over the place on the unmade up road.