The Bar Code Prophecy by Suzanne Weyn

Author:Suzanne Weyn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Young Adult, Azizex666
ISBN: 9780545425292
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2012-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The tingling that had rung in Grace’s skull returned full force. Her hands flew to her head and she squeezed her eyes shut. Eutonah’s hand encircled Grace’s wrist and she was traveling once more.

When Grace reopened her eyes, she was once again in the dank, harshly lit subway storage closet. Eutonah and Eric were with her. “The time ran out,” Eutonah explained. “The helmet runs on a timer for our own protection.”

“Do you know the rest of the prophecy?” Grace asked.

“What you heard is all anyone knows,” Eutonah told them. “During the meeting of chieftains, we used the prophecies to lead us to the stone tablet hidden in the mesa wall. Several of the elders interpreted the pictographs, but the tablet was broken. Somewhere there is a missing piece.”

“What do the elders think it means?” Eric asked.

“You are too young to remember this, but back in the year 2012, many people believed that the Mayan calendar had predicted the end of the world would arrive in December of that year,” Eutonah said.

“Obviously it didn’t,” Eric pointed out.

“The date seemed to come and go without event, but there are many of us who believe it was the beginning of the end,” Eutonah countered. “It was the year Jonathan Harriman invented the bar code tattoo and Global-1 first launched it in Asia. It took only another thirteen years for the tattoo to spread through Africa and then Europe before it got to America in 2025.”

“So you’re saying the Mayan prophecy did come to pass, after all?” Grace said.

“Yes. It just happened very quietly,” Eutonah said with a nod. “But there are those among the chieftains who believe that we are in the final stages of the prophecy.”

“What’s supposed to happen?” Eric asked

“No one knows, but much of what happens in the end will be up to the two of you.”

“Us?!” Grace cried.

“We think Eric is the brother mentioned in the prophecies,” Eutonah replied. “He combines the blood of two great Indian nations. His father was descended from a line of Hopi chieftains. On my side he is descended from powerful Cherokee shamans, spiritual men and women with highly developed gifts.”

“And me because my biological father is Jonathan Harriman?” Grace deducted. “Is he really the Master of Destruction?”

“It might not ever have been his intention to harm anyone,” Eutonah allowed, “but the thing he invented and the company that has grown rich and so powerful because of his invention makes him an excellent candidate for the title.”

“What about the heavenly bodies falling from the skies?” Eric asked.

“We don’t know,” Eutonah admitted. “But we do know this: The Hopi believe that the land we were just now on is the center of the universe, and Global-1 is strip-mining it for minerals. Every day they use gallons and gallons of precious water to make a slurry of liquid chemicals and water because it’s the least expensive way to transport the minerals.”

Grace realized Eutonah’s meaning. “The balance of the world is being upset.”

“Of the universe,” Eric amended.

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