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D.R.E.K. A Novel for the Open Minded
D.R.E.K. A Novel for the Open Minded
D.R.E.K. A Novel for the Open Minded
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In the near future after global climate change, the population has been given the gift of eternal youth in the form of a new found fruit. With this gift comes limitations on humanity: Procreation has stopped. With the aid of a scientist, the hope that humanity can continue on is the adventures of DREK, and his pursuit to save mankind from extinction.

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PublisherNeil Crenner
Release dateDec 24, 2016
ISBN9781370961832
D.R.E.K. A Novel for the Open Minded
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Neil Crenner

Neil lives in Palm Springs, California with his cat Halo.He enjoys, reading, writing and video games on the PlayStation 4. The gym! Christian!

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    D.R.E.K. A Novel for the Open Minded - Neil Crenner

    D.R.E.K.

    A novel for the open minded

    By Neil Crenner

    Published by Neil Crenner @ Smashwords.com

    Copyright 2013 Neil Crenner

    Smashwords Edition

    This electronic book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This electronic book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    D.R.E.K.

    A novel for the open minded

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    CONTENTS FOUND WITHIN

    PROLOGUE

    1ONE .Our Story Starts Here

    2T00 .Drek Encounters Something New

    3TRE .The Oval Speaks Tonight

    4FOR .Drek Sexualizes

    5FIV .Drek and Adam Depart

    6XXX .San Franco Awaits

    7SVN .Sun Dego Enlightens

    8AYT .Antarctica Awaits

    9NIN .Drek and Adam Arrive in Antarctica

    -0TEN .Time to Leave

    Epilogue

    About the Author

    Also by the Author

    Acknowledgments

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    D.R.E.K.

    A novel for the open minded

    PROLOGUE

    "To wipe away the tears

    No more pain, no fear

    No sorrow or dying

    No waiting or crying

    These former things have passed away

    Another life begins today"

    Revelations 21:4

    1ONE ~ Our Story Starts Here

    1Circa 2187 A.D.

    When Drek woke up he was lying next to the pool of water, his mouth was dry. It was the middle of the day and the sun was straight up in the sky. He rolled over on his stomach and cupped his hands and drew the water to his mouth. He gulped it down over and over again. It was cool to his mouth and the dryness went away. He needed to drink as much as possible as quickly as possible before the Scanners discovered him. What were the Scanners? Why did he call them that?

    He drank one more time and then he heard a loud noise far off. He looked towards it and saw a cloud of smoke rise up to the sky. He knew the Scanners were close. He stood up and grabbed his pack, threw it around his shoulder and scampered towards a small hill. He needed to hide quickly in the hole. The Scanners didn’t see him in the hole when he hid there before. For the past few days he had trekked out daily to this pool of water to drink. It seemed to come from a spring in the ground. It occurred to him that he wanted to discover why and how the spring was there, and then maybe one could be found near his base camp, which was outside the perimeter of the Scanners. The Scanners stopped once they came to the edge of the desert and never went into the forest. He didn't know why he felt this way but he wanted to find out.

    He quickly ran to the hole and climbed in and ducked his head below the surface. He would rest here for a while since there was no way to outrun the Scanners; he had tried the first day and almost lost his life. They would hover past him and be gone. Then he would head back to his base camp. He sat there and thought of the past few days. He had not seen another like him. He had not seen another living thing. He was all alone. He couldn’t remember much of anything at first and then he would have a memory and he would have all these thoughts rushing into his head all at once. He began to understand his surroundings and they were becoming more familiar. Memories came in bits and pieces on the first day, and then on the second day they were coming nonstop. He remembered everything by day three. Almost everything because he still wasn’t sure what he was. That was the strangest feeling.

    He heard the scanner, it stopped at the spring. Oh no, he forgot to cover his tracks, they would be scanned! Just then he heard a strange, loud noise. Water went so high that it splashed near the opening of the hole. Then he heard nothing. He waited a few moments and crawled out of the hole. He looked over towards the spring and the scanner was on the ground near the edge of the water.

    He slowly and quietly walked towards the Scanner. It did not move and he walked up to it He realized it was much larger on the ground than in the air. They usually hovered out of reach and appeared to be smaller. He walked around the disc shaped thing and then he reached down and knocked on it. It was shiny on the top side and soft to the touch. It felt strange when he pushed on it with his fingers and it didn’t seem to be alive. There were no apparent openings and he wondered how it scanned for things.

    He lifted it up from where he stood and saw a dark spot underneath it. He wanted to take it back to his base camp but thought it might be traced back to him. It was light weight, not much lighter than it looked. The size was awkward; it was about as wide as his grip could reach with both arms outstretched. He lifted it up and sat it on his head. It was very light weight indeed. He headed back towards his Base Camp, shaded from the sun.

    When he arrived at his Base Camp he saw that there must have been a visitor. He sat the Scanner down against the large log and then went to check his hut. His small hut had been disturbed. He smiled knowing that they did not find his fruit. He went behind the hut and into the woods and looked up. His fruit was still there hanging high above in the tree. Whatever it was, it didn't take his fruit. Was it searching for fruit he wondered? He went into his hut and lay down on the hammock. He was tired and wanted to sleep. It would be cooler when night came and he would eat then. He would return to the spring in the morning for more water. He closed his eyes and fell asleep and began to dream.

    Drek woke with a start. He heard a noise outside. He grabbed the knife he hid in the hole of one of the hut poles and went to the door and peered out. The Scanner had lit up and was moving about. He opened the door and went to see if it was alive. It hovered just about a few feet above the ground and kept bumping into the large log. It was trying to hover in the direction of the water pool but the large log was in the way. He grabbed it and flipped it over.

    It immediately went dead. He thought it must be in some sort of limp home mode. Why that thought came to him he didn’t know, but he had it. He also knew that whatever made it wanted it back. He sat it down on the log and then took his knife and pried at the dark spot. The knife tip broke and that annoyed him. He pounded on the dark spot with the back of the knife. He felt around the edge and found nothing. It was as if it were one piece of material. He pushed it away from him and scowled. It slide off the log and hit the ground with a thud. It was not alive anymore.

    He walked around the hut and into the woods to the large tree and untied the rope allowing it to slip thru his hand; he caught the bag suspended over the limb and untied it. He walked back to the log and pulled out a container that was white and soft, he pulled on the tab and inside was the fruit and he ate it. He enjoyed it tremendously. It tasted so fresh and he couldn't understand why. Once he opened the containers he had to eat all the fruit. If he let it sit for more than a few minutes it would immediately wilt and dry up.

    He found the containers in a stream on the other side of the forest, which was almost an entire day's walk. There he found the containers floating near the edge of the stream in an eddy, spinning in circles. The first day he had swum up the stream until he came to a large hole in the rock with hard sticks in front of the hole. He didn't know where it led, but it brought him the containers. How he knew they were containers he didn’t remember, but knew that they had fruit inside them. He would collect all the containers floating in the eddy and put them into his bag and then he would take a swim in the stream and cool off. Afterwards, he would trek back to his base camp.

    His base camp had a sign above the door that said Base Camp. The rest of it was worn off. Drek didn't remember how he arrived here. It seemed so strange that he just happened to be here, but where was here he thought? He woke up three days ago lying on the large log in front of this hut that said Base Camp. He had no memory of what he was. He lay on the log a long time trying to remember what he was until his thirst made him get up and go look for water. He found the pond in the desert by the shimmer of the sunlight on it. He somehow knew it was water. He also found the Scanners. Upon returning to his hut that said Base Camp, he saw the rope tied to the large tree and looking up he saw the bag and untied it. Somehow he knew that the bag had fruit inside it.

    The night came and it was cool and before he went to sleep he decided that he would put a large rock on top of the Scanner so that it would not try to get away in the night. He knew that it would try to return to whatever owned it. He climbed into the hammock, shut his eyes and went to sleep in the nude. He would dream about another place. A place where others like him were in a large open place that was very beautiful, with bright colors everywhere. The others laughed and talked to one another. He dreamed this nightly.

    He woke up the next morning. It was once again bright and sunny. He lay there in his hammock waking up and thought about the spring and returning to it for more water. He got up and dressed. He had three outfits to wear, each a different color. He decided to wear the lightest outfit that resembled the color of the trees. It was a very comfortable one piece that he stepped into and then it would close up by itself. It kept him cool out in the desert. He went outside the hut and the Scanner had moved a little in the night, but didn't go far. He took the rock off of it and saw that the dark light had a red glow inside of it. It was alive again. He looked closely at it but couldn't imagine what it would be. He sat it back down on the log and sat the rock back on top of it. He grabbed some fruit from his bag and headed off to the spring.

    It felt hotter today he thought as he trekked out onto the desert plateau. Eating his fruit and tossing the containers into the air behind him. He soon arrived at the pool of water which he believed was caused by a spring. He knelt down and cupped his hands together and drank the water. He had brought his water bag this time and filled it up. He didn't see any Scanners. He headed back to base camp.

    Upon arriving he found that another had come to his hut, and this time they left something. It was a large box. Drek opened it and found it full of objects he had never seen before. There was a flat shiny piece that showed his image in it, a strange thing that had pictures of a face with hair and a face without hair. Some containers of liquid that smelt good. He found a small orb that he picked up and sat it on the shelf. It immediately began to make noise. At first Drek couldn't comprehend what it was, but as he listened to it he began to enjoy it.

    There was a new larger water bag, which would hold more water than the one he had. Now he would not have to go so often to the spring. There was a strange shiny piece. He picked it up and touched it. A picture of himself was before his eyes. He was shocked. He thought when did that happen? Where did that happen? A few moments later, another picture was there of him. Younger though. He stared at the piece, another photo popped up and it was him again, with no face hair and smiling. He did not remember any of these places that he was standing at. He wondered what had happened to him that he couldn't remember these places.

    He had seen his reflection in the pond when it was very still, now he had a tool to cut his facial hair. He looked at the tool that would shave his face. He opened it and looked at the photos. He pressed a button and touched his face. The hair fell from his face, it startled him. He grabbed the shiny piece and looked at his face. He

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