The Mountain Man - Volume One - Discovering The Power of the Marina Stone

“I had jumped right in, and said, ‘that’s right, not only are we willing to help in any way possible.  Why, I bet this whole village would come running to help, if we told them you, or Marina needed help. So let us help you.’” 

“I paused for a moment, and continued, ‘you still have to tell me what price the little people asked for unfreezing Marina, and for bringing her back to life.  What ever it is, and my family would agree, we will find a way to pay it.  We will all chip in what ever we have.  Just tell us what they want.’”

“The Mountain Man bent his head, and stared at the floor, and said,  ‘I was planning to tell you Michael, when I returned with Marina.  The debt I must pay them is due at, 9pm, 29 February, 1856.’ 

‘That gives me a month to get there, and get back, then to get back there again.  I cannot be late to pay this debt because I gave my word.  I really don’t call it a debt, because I would rather have it this way, than to live with the torment if I don’t.’ 

‘By the way, the little people have a name, they are called Zolines (zoe-lee-knees) and live in two underground wolrds here on earth.  They are from a planet called Zolina (zoe-lee-na), and they are no bigger than my thumb.  Zolina is the biggest planet in the Universe.  More than ten thousand times the size of our sun.  It has suns, and planets that orbit around their planet, and their planet has sunshine 60 hours a day with no nights.  Counting the Zolines, there are people in the underground worlds from five planets that are way more advanced than us.  ‘The Zolines have the most powerful minds of all of them, and can do magic, or what seems like magic.  They said magic is just a word us humans use, because we cannot understand the science behind things.   In any case they can do powerful things with their minds.  Other than the Zolines, there are people called Aquariners, from the planet Aquarina which is a planet with water covering 99 percent of its surface.  They look like us, but live under the sea in cities, and are the most developed scientifically.  Another is called Starlets who are from the planet Starlet.  They are half our size, look like us, and live in under water cities, but can breathe in fresh water like a fish.  Another is called the Sparkingtons, from the planet Spark.  They are just like us, and live in the underground world, and are the most developed physically.  They draw their energy from sun light, and can travel at the speed of light.  If they travel at night they begin to spark, and within 30 seconds of continuous darkness they could die.  Then there are the Triangletons. from the planet Triangle which is the only triangle shaped planet in the universe.  Their face is similar to that of a triangle, but other than that, they are just like us.  They are almost as advanced as the Aquariners.’

As I mentioned earlier, there are two underground worlds on Earth.  One with an entrance here, and one with an entrance by Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA.  These underground worlds stay lit 24 hours a day like noon day.  There are strange animals there, and strange tasty fruit.  The underground world is like late Spring, to early Summer in Siberia.  Everything stays green all the time.’

‘There are beautiful plants, trees, flowers, animals, fish, insects, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, oceans, and cliffs.  Their cities are on land, in trees, in rocks, and in the water.  Some cities were suspended in air over land, some over water, and my favorites are the ones suspended over beautiful flowing lava, with lava falls, much like water falls, and boiling lava lakes.  In the center of each floating city above the lava, which I call lava cities, there is a big spiral of lava flowing upwards from the lava lake into the bottom of each city, and the lava is used to power the city.   The cities are a comfortable temperature, even though they are right above the hot lava.’

‘It is an awesome sight to look at these cities from a distance.   From a distance you see the bright orange, yellow, white, blue and red lava.  Then the lava falls, and lakes.  Then the bright lava spirals flowing upwards, to these magnificent glass cities; each about two miles in radius, with clouds suspended on them, and over them.  Then the rain, oh the rain fall on these lava cities is spectacular.  To watch the rain fall on these glass cities, and then hit the hot lava below, is a sight you will never forget.  The rain hits the hot lava, and makes a musical hissing sound, then sends up a big cloud of steam which hides the glass cities, and at the same time, washes them clean.  Unless you were looking for the cities at a certain time of the day, you would never see it.  It is like now you see it, and now you don’t.   You have to wait for the misty steam to clear before the lava city slowly, and breathtakingly, reappears.  During the entire slow process of these cities being revealed, they are crisscrossed by long, wide, an