Author’s Note:
This is just the opening scene of the first movie in The WCU “Whalen Cinematic Universe.”
All ten characters will eventually have their own origin stories.
The Ten all converged on a spot in a heavily wooded area. As always, since birth, they obeyed the Formless Voice in their heads and went where they were told.
There they found white steps leading up to a white platform.
They climbed the steps. The platform was above the highest tree, at least 300 feet high.
It had no railing.
The Ten were silently told to spread out and form a line.
The Formless Voice spoke directly to The Ten’s minds simultaneously. As always, he did not physically appear.
“You’re all here because you were chosen long ago to represent the ten life groups. Take a look around at the 9 others standing on this platform.
In time you will realize that although you are outwardly different, you share specific commonalities and were born for the events that are about to take place.
I am the one who you have seen and heard in your dreams since your youth.
Those vivid dreams, that you tried to convince the world were much more real than mere nocturnal fantasies.
Mine is the voice that you could not quiet. I am the one who has been pushing you to prepare for this moment.
Soon, your decades of torment will make sense. All of the things that you have been doing your entire lives and that have made most of you outcasts from your life groups will show their true meaning and purpose.
I have been preparing you for the work you were born to undertake. Most of you realized long ago that your lives were not your own and that forces were at work inside your mind and body of which you had no control.
Two of you were committed to psychiatric facilities for more than two decades. 7 of you lived removed from your life groups with very little life group contact, and one of you was able to seamlessly blend into their life groups, never giving away her true nature.
She had friends, a marriage, and children. This person was able to fool the world into believing that she was a normal being who belonged within the heart of her life group.
This person will be your leader. It will be just those abilities that will guide you. Learn from her. Listen to her. Obey her.
Your life groups cannot continue if you do not.
I leave you to your true leader.”
The new leader spoke.
She was confused and frightened. “I have no idea what I need to lead them away from, to, or against.”
The Formless Voice said: "It will all be made very clear in a few moments. I wish you the best of luck, my children.
My work is done. You will no longer feel my presence in your beings. You will never hear my voice again."
With that, the being that had lived in their mind since birth, and guided their every action, was gone forever.
The Ten felt a tremendous sense of loss and a true loneliness. It was as if their mother's bosom they had napped against since birth was suddenly torn away.
Their leader moved to face the remaining nine. No words were spoken. She approached each one and stood face to face.
She measured each of them carefully and slowly, one by one.
She turned her back to them when she was done.
In unison, and without forethought, they slowly turned their faces upwards to the night sky.
There was no wind, or animal sounds. They continued to look upward. It was truly the most peaceful moment any of The Ten had ever experienced.
Suddenly, the heavens opened, the sky became black as pitch
and they were set upon.
To be continued….
