Stories -Adam

Adam's golden hair blew slightly in the breeze. He held a wooden rod in his hand, and in his eyes was a calm, determined look that made him appear solemn, almost desperate. Adam had lived nineteen years by himself, or so it seemed, on a green planet lush with vegetation. No one knew of this planet or this strange boy, because there was no one else. He was all alone. Adam's love for his home and his mysterious planet was very strange. It was almost as if he were trying to keep himself from finding out the truth. "Adam, Adam " a strong voice brought him out of his silence with a smile.

"Yes, what is it you wish of me?" Adam half bowed and called jokingly. He need not have called out for the voice was inside his head. The one he was speaking to was telepathic.

"Adam, come and look at what we have made for you."

"Tell me, Tan what is it this time?" Adam walked down the gradual slope of the hill, with a small mischievous look on his happy face. At the bottom of the hill, within a ring of purple-gray, was a beautiful new cloak.

"Oh, what a surprise for me! " Adam said sarcastically. He had been getting the same kind of cloak all of his life. As Adam put on the new cloak, his spirits dampened.

"Why does nothing ever change?" he asked. Only silence came as his answer. He hated times like this when Tan, the life of the earth, and Tresh, the life of the water, and Sancrina, the life of the wind and sky, wouldn't speak. Sancrina's voice was so beautiful. Tan was so powerful. Tresh was so good. Adam hated when it was like this. It seemed as though something was blocking their voices from his mind, because the only sound he ever heard with his ears was the rushing of the river, the rain and the wind blowing through the trees. Then all at once he could hear them again - Sancrina's sweet voice going on idly, and Tresh, and Tan. Then Adam was happy again, for a little while. He ate some fruit and slept.

The sun was shining down on Adam - warm and bright, when he woke up around mid morning. He didn't usually sleep in the day time and he had a little bit of a headache, but otherwise he felt great.

"Oh Tan, it's so beautiful here," Adam said, wondering what he could do to amuse himself.

"Why don't you come swimming?" asked Tresh. "Play with me, Adam us!"

"All right! I'm coming! " he said, laughing and dashing toward the river's edge. Then he dived into the cold water that was so clear you could see the bottom even where it was really deep.

"Ah, I love to swim! " Adam cried.

"Sancrina, come and play with us," Tresh said. And soon big waves rolled along the river as Adam swam and dived and played with his two friends. After hours and hours of playing, Adam was neither tired nor hungry, but it was getting dark and he didn't want to stop. The sun was setting in the west, casting a golden glow and making the clouds pink like the whole sky was filled with cotton candy.

"Don't let the sun set, " Adam said selfishly, ignoring all the beauty in it. "I don't want to stop swimming. Please Tan! "

"I have no power over the sun."

"Sancrina, " Adam said, still splashing and playing, "please don't let it get dark now. "

"I can't help it Adam. The sun isn't part of us."

"Oh well, he sighed,l guess I'll get out then."

"Adam, there will be a nice warm fire in the ring of stones for you," Tan said soothingly.

"O. K."

He struggled out of the water, cold and wet. Then slowly, still slightly disappointed, he walked toward the fire. Adam wrapped his cloak around his shoulders and lay down. He watched the fire flicker and burn, casting shadows all around. After he closed his tired eyes, he fell into a dreamless sleep.

When the sun came up and the dew was wet on the grass, Adam slept on. The fire was blazing and the smoke drifted up through the tall, tall pines into the sky. And Adam didn't see it. Later that day, when the sun was high in the sky and the fire was only glowing embers, Sancrina came, but she couldn't wake him. Then Tan and Tresh both tried to reach him, but Adam slept on. When Adam finally awoke from his dreamless state, it was night once again.

"Tan! Where are you? Tan! " he called into the darkness, and in his heart he was very afraid because he knew it was one of those times when he couldn't hear them - the voices of the Earth, Wind and Water. "This never used to happen to me! Where are you!?!" Adam screamed, tears streaming down his face. Then suddenly he stopped. He heard something. There was a difference in the way the air felt. Some strange force was present.

Choking back a sob, Adam asked timidly, "Is anyone there?"

"Yes, I AM Here." Said a deep rich voice unlike any he had ever heard.

"Who are you?" asked Adam.

"I AM Who I AM."

"Please, where are Sancrina and Tresh? And where is Tan!?! I'm so afraid..."

"Shh, Adam, Listen To Me."

"No! Where's Tan!?!" Tan!" Adam cried desperately. And then the strange presence was gone. Tan was back in his mind, soothing him back into his peaceful delusions while, all the while, Adam was quite unheeding of the real danger he was in.

"Who was that, Tan?"

"Who was what?"

"I heard a voice, Tan, a strange voice. Who was it?"

"There was no voice, Adam. There couldn't have been," Tan said in a slow hypnotic way that made it seem true.

"Really Tan? I guess...there was no voice." Adam was confused. His head hurt.

"There now, it's O.K. Adam. Would you like me to make you a fire?"

"Could I build the fire?" he asked, wanting to be able to do something for himself.

"No, no, Adam I'll do it. You don't know how," Tan said convincingly. Adam accepted it and slowly walked back to the ring of stones. He sat down by the fire which Tan had made. But that night, he felt no joy in it. He stretched out his hands toward the fire, but he felt no warmth. Adam leaned closer and found to his surprise that the fire gave no heat.

"Tan, what's wrong with the fire?" And yet again he couldn't hear them. Adam brought his knees up to his chin and wrapped his arms around himself. Then he began to cry. He had always loved Tresh, Tan, and Sancrina. He'd been so close to them. This never used to happen at all. Adam thought back and he found it strange. He couldn't really remember what things used to like. But the thought never occurred to him to wonder why he couldn't or how he got to be on that planet all alone.

"Tan?...Sancrina?...Tresh?...", Adam called for the last time and then he slept. This time he dreamed.

Adam saw the darkness of his planet spinning through space all alone. Never a pin point of light in the night sky. Was there ever? Adam saw the unreal stillness and silence of his planet. There used to be noise...didn't there? Not just the wind blowing through the trees or the waves of the river. Something else. Adam suddenly felt there was something very wrong.

"Where am I?" he demanded.

Nothing stirred and there wasn't a sound anywhere. He struggled to remember the life he once knew.

"Adam." In front of him was a man whose eyes glowed red, like fire, and his hair was white as snow, but his face... wrinkle less and ageless. The man was standing about five meters away- his arms stretched out to wards Adam.

"I Will Help You. Come To Me, Adam."

"I'm afraid to," he whispered. Then there was the sound of a million screams shattering the silence of the night. Adam looked around in fear. There was nothing out there but the trees and the darkness and the man. He wore a long robe down to his feet and a gold sash. His face shone like the sun. Adam took a step to wards him. A ice cold hand touched his shoulder and quickly pulled him back. Adam swung around. There was no one there. He turned back to the man and again he heard the screams that made a cold shiver run through him.

"Quickly, Come To Me." Adam took a step and another and another. For every step he took, the man took one also. Then another scream rang out. Adam looked around and his eyes opened wide with fear. His heart started to pound loudly in his chest. He wanted to run but they were everywhere. Shadows, moving just beyond the first row of trees. They were getting closer. Horrible... Ugly...Adam looked at the man.

"Come On," He insisted. Adam's feet seemed to be made of lead but slowly he started walking toward the man while the creatures came nearer and nearer. Then he put his arms out to wards the man. Just when their fingers were almost touching, the creatures screamed. They were so close and so hideous. Their eyes were oval and sickly yellow in color with glowing red centers. Their bodies were shriveled and wet with something dark... Blood! It ran down their deformed bodies, making pools were they now stood. For a second, Adam felt sorry for them. They were so pitiful. He took a step closer to one of them who seemed to be whimpering in pain.

Then it collapsed.

"Please help me," the creature spoke in a whisper. It put its hand out. As Adam reached over to help it, he looked at its claws. Underneath its nails were huge pieces of torn flesh. Adam took a surprised step back. The creature wasn't bleeding...it was covered in someone else's blood.

"Adam!" called a pure, compelling voice. Adam turned back to the strange man with the glowing eyes.

"Come Adam, I Can Only Save You If You Come To Me."

Adam was less than meter away. He took a small step, then a bigger step and he touched the man and he...woke up. He was lying by the warm fire in the ring of purple stones, listening to the sound of the rushing river and the wind blowing through the trees. Tan came back into his mind, softly telling him that it was only a dream. This could be the end, and Adam could go on believing that he really lived on a planet with no other life. He could make himself think he was content and happy. I could tell you the now Sancrina, Tresh, and Tan never leave him and that he lives there still with them in happiness and peace and will live like that for evermore... But that's not true... It's not real.

"Stranger!" Adam called into the night.

"Shh, Adam. There is no stranger here," Tan said calmly.

"I don't care what you say. I know he's real."

"Adam, Adam, Adam. It was just a bad dream. Dreams aren't true," Tan said. "You know that."

"Stranger!" Adam called out louder. "I know you are true. Help me!"

"Adam!" Sancrina said. Her sweet voice was edged with an anger that he'd never heard before.

"What?"

"Don't be a fool, Adam. You're happy." She sounded so evil. He shook his head.

"No I'm not. Stranger!"

"Shut up." He heard Tresh in his mind now. "Shut up. You don't need him. You don't want him."

"Yes I need him," Adam said. "I need you, whoever you are," Adam said, calling out to the stranger again.

"I'm Here." Adam looked over and saw him standing just beyond the fire light. His brightness made it seem very dim. Slowly the man started walking toward him.

Then he heard Tan screech, "Adam, no!" in a very familiar way. It was the voice of the creature.

"You're a demon!" Adam screamed in terror.

"Adam," called the man with the golden sash. "Come Here. Trust Me."

"I can't!" Adam sobbed. Panic seized his mind and he ran into the forest.

He didn't understand. He had thought Tan was good, but he wasn't. Adam knew he should have trusted the stranger. He stopped running.

Suddenly, lightning flashed across the black night sky, splitting it in two. Thunder shook the ground beneath his feet. Then it started to rain. Cold, cold rain. He heard voices and spun around, but no one was there.

"You should have listened to us. You should have listened to us. You should have listened to us," they taunted.

But Adam was alone in the darkness...or so he thought.

"Adam." He turned. He saw the stranger. They were standing so close together.

"I Am The Sun," He said, "And The Son Of God. I Am Jesus. None Has Power Over Me, And Nothing Can Hurt Anyone Who Trusts In Me. Adam, I Want To Save You. I Love You."

"I trust you, Jesus! I love you." Adam flung his arms around the man with the eyes of fire. He cried tears of grief and of joy as he just held on. And GOD held him.

Slowly he opened his eyes. He was lying in a bed, and standing close by was a lady dressed in white.

"Where am I?" Adam asked.

"You're in the hospital, the nurse replied. You were in a car accident two weeks ago and you've been on life support systems ever since. All the doctors thought that you would die. But I knew you wouldn't. I was praying that GOD would help you so you wouldn't die and go to Hell." Then she hurried out of the room to get the doctor. Alone in the room, he remembered two different lives. One was a life lived on Earth with his parents and two younger brothers, a life where he went to school and had lots of friends. The other life was the one from which he had just awakened. As Adam lay in his soft warm bed, he tried to remember the one true reality. He heard a small voice in his mind telling him that everything was fine and that it was only a dream. But suddenly, it all came back to him. The one truth...Jesus. The only way and the only truth. He is GOD...and Adam knew it. He was filled with joy.

Now, finally, Adam knew why Tan and the other demons didn't want him to know the stranger...to know Jesus. It was because they wanted him to die so they could drag him down to hell. They never wanted him to know the truth.

"Adam Avery ?" Adam looked up. A doctor stood by the bed, staring down at him with widened eyes. He examined Adam, and to his amazement, found him to be in perfect health. The doctor then told Adam that his parents had at last reluctantly decided to pull the plug of the machines that had been keeping him alive for the last two weeks. This day was to have been his last.

Adam smiled. "Everything is O.K. now Doctor...But do you think you could find me a Bible? I want to know how the real story of Adam goes!"