Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

Forget the questions for the moment and come here,” Evan said, trying to contain the emotions flooding in him. He stepped closer and reached out and the two embraced. Evan shouted thanks to God in his head and held his son in his arms.

They turned and released each other as they heard a sound come from behind. Eileen had gone down to two of the bedrooms when she had reached the top of the stairs. She returned with Trance’s siblings. “Trance you’re here!” they exclaimed excitedly as they saw and recognized him. They rushed up and hugged him also.

“Trance, why don’t you sit down and I’ll fix you something to eat and drink and you can tell us about where you’ve been and how you are,” said his mother as she went to the open kitchen and retrieved sandwich supplies.

Suddenly the door was opened and up the stairs came a youth about a year older than Trance in appearance. The older boy came into the dining room and stopped in his tracks at the sight of Trance. He knew him immediately; however, Trance didn’t know this youth at all. Then he slowly figured it out, this must be Kyle, Zak and Bear’s friend.

The older boy took one look at the newcomer in his house and knew at once whom he was. He had seen enough pictures of Trance to know him by sight. “Whose war horse is outside in the drive? I was told that I had a special leave, and I should be here today. Now I know why. You must be my brother Trance. I’ve heard a lot about you,” he explained. “Oh, my name is Kyle.” He then went and hugged and kissed his mother and greeted his dad and other siblings.

“Mom, dad, who is this?” Trance asked, still slightly confused as to who this young man was. “What happened to our ship? What and how has everyone been doing?”

“Trance, sit down and I’ll explain,” said Eileen as she brought the sandwich supplies and set them on the table. And then she started to explain in a soothing voice. “Your father has learned what happened to our ship and how we arrived here. Apparently our ship was attacked and destroyed by a group of Boulthorian space battleships. Well, when the ship’s computers detected the danger it activated the emergency systems, which expelled us from the ship in our deep sleep chambers. So far everyone has been accounted for, except you. We were afraid that something terrible had happened to you.

“Anyway your father woke up near here and I landed just a few miles away. Within a week we were reunited, and soon found Heather and Sammy. We bought this house, and your father has become quite an important man to the king. He’s now one of the top astronomers here on Althora. We’ve made friends here in this neighborhood. In a surprise attack by the Boulthorians, a family near us was killed. Kyle survived and we have adopted him. Enough about us later, now what about you? Where have you been?”

“Well first off, the horse out there is mine now. Princess Corena gave him to me as a thank you for saving her life. I’ll get to that in a few minutes. My deep sleep chamber landed about two hundred miles away from here. I awoke at the edge of a forest bordering a farmer’s field. The farmer’s name is Chorus Markem. This started my life here on this planet,” said Trance as he started telling his exciting tale.

When he was finished the family got together to organize a place for Trance to sleep and to go get him some new clothes. His mother took his clothes that he was wearing and had with him to wash them. Kyle went to his closet and volunteered some clothes for Trance to wear till his were clean and he had some new clothes. Also Trance would need school supplies since the new school year was just a week from starting. During the family discussions more was explained and talked about. Eileen was going to take Trance to the store and buy his clothes, Evan went to the school to get the school registration, and Kyle would take Heather and Sammy and go find the school supplies.

When the Sondersons got back to their home, Trance found an empty stall in the garage for Odin. The family then went in and helped Trance get situated in the remaining empty bedroom upstairs. Their parents had a master bedroom downstairs. Kyle volunteered to help Trance pick out classes and fill out the registration form. Trance decided on Math, a combination of Algebra with other higher math, Science, planet science, biology, and astronomy, band, because he enjoyed it and found that by a strange miracle his trombone had been recovered in the debris from the Sparrow XIV, Language Arts, a language class that was very similar to German, Geography, a study hall, and a government class. Two more classes would fill his required courses, and they would be History, and a sports class. Trance looked the sheet over and saw he could take just one more class; he immediately chose the Knight class.

“Hey Kyle, I need help filling out this part for the Knight class,” he said to his new brother.

“Sure, what do you need help with?” asked Kyle who was ready and willing to help his new brother.

“Well, I’m not sure how to fill it out.”

“Here,” Kyle said as he plucked the paper from Trance, “Let me see. Alright, what do you want to be, a knight, or a pawn?”

“A knight,” Trance answered almost automatically.

“Okay,” Kyle said as he marked it down on the paper. Then he asked, “Now, what weapon do you want as your primary weapon?”

“Sword,” Trance answered again. He also chose the ax as his second weapon, and then he spotted another line. “What’s that line for?”

“That is for a third weapon, but usually nobody fills that in. The only