The Ark of Humanity by Scott Toney

Author:Scott Toney
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fiction, scifi, coming of age, adventure, action, god, historical fiction, fantasy, christianity, determination, battle, faith, historical, epic, war, good, evil, mermaid, freedom, swimming, morality, what if, christian, dolphin, fish, noah, swim, underwater, merman, ark, noahs ark, mer, trident, breakwater harbor books, scott j toney

The old man sat, silently staring as if lost in a dream, at the wall behind Maanta. His long gray beard rested knotted up in the old man’s fingertips. He wrestled to untangle it.

What a bizarre tale, Maanta thought while staring deep into the man’s eyes. But then so much of this world of air is bizarre to me. His thoughts carried him to how the tale began, the flood, the drowned people and the person who descended upon the village from up above. There was something familiar about it all, which rested on his tongue’s tip. No! It can’t be! he thought. “kkssst… What ssss… is kft… your pft…name?” Maanta held back the urge to cough up blood which churned in the back of his throat while he spoke. The air burned and coiled upon the sores where his gills once were.

The elderly man’s wrinkled eyes withdrew from their dream state and refocused on the reality about him. He smiled at Maanta, a warm smile that a parent would give a child. “There I go, telling a story before properly introducing myself. My name is Noah.”

How can that be? Maanta’s mind raced. His story is so close to the tale mother used to tell me, and his name so similar to the man’s name she spoke of. But we have been generations in the waters since that happening. He would have to find a way to speak. Maanta fought back the urge to choke on his own throat. “kkssstfffk…”

Noah saw him struggling. “Calm yourself, boy. There will be plenty of time for talking later once you have healed more.”

“kkcftkt… Noah? kft… That can’t be.” Maanta could feel his throat adapting to the air. “kkssst… My mother once told me stories kft… much like the one you just told me. A man in them was called Noa and he khhhst… spoke with Gelu before the great drowning of my people. But it has been leagues since we have adapted beneath the depths. How could you be that man and still have life? How old are you, Noah?”

The old man raised his eyebrows in an inquisitive look at the boy, himself both baffled and curious. “I am 926 years of age, young Maanta, and I swear to you all I have spoken to you is the truth. God has blessed me with long life. I assume your people don’t live quite as long where you are from. And you say you were born of the people who drowned beneath the waters on the day God flooded the earth? This confuses me and yet also explains much. When my sons first found you in the ocean you were thrusting your face into the water as if gasping for breath.

“I also thought it odd that I did not recognize you because all men and women on earth are descendants of me and I believed I knew them all. But when God spoke to me he said that every living thing on earth would perish.

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