The author is waiting for his pizza delivery, it takes about 30 minutes for the pizza man to deliver his spaghetti, pizza and new spiced drumlets.
So there was this 5 year old boy, at this young age, he is already addicted to playing computer games.
He is called Adam, and he loves free to pay games, or should I say, pay to win games.
He is given unlimited real money to buy as much packages or loot crates as he wants, nobody is limiting him anything.
He is called experiment #001.
In the not too distant of humanity in year 2300, humanity have evolved into an ugly blob and spheres, or should I say devolved.
In this age, humans have lost their motivation to strive for excellency, compete for money, handsome, fame and significant others.
Humans are pretty much lying around, like on the floor, their butts, stomachs and heads turns into soft blobs in order to reduce friction and improve comfort.
You might think this is a bad future for mankind, but because everyone is so lazy, people do not even bother to buy a house, they literally just sleep in parks, shopping centers, libraries and carparks. This caused a huge crash in economy, whereby, human needs are easily obtainable because a lot of resources, workload and technology is now being diverted into basic needs like foods, clothing, water and electricity.
But, the government is not sastified with how lazy humans have become, thus they started to clone humans from the year 2020, which was thought to be when the humans are at the most hard working decade.
Eventually, Adam is not being given any more money to buy his favourite pay to win games' items and dlcs.
He was so angry, he decided to fight against his "father" which is actually just another scientist and not his real father.
Adam was a very intelligent guy, he knows how to kill his father, but he decided not to, he lay down his sharp object from his hands, the other scientists in the observation room noted down.
Adam asked his father if there is any other way he could receive money.
His father says, you will need to reach 15 years old and start working, and you receive tons of money every month, but you will not have enough time and energy to play computer games.
Adam smiled, because he believes he can just play computer games during his night sleep time instead.
It was a long and hard 10 years, Adam simply played stuffed toys, board games with the other "kids" and exercise daily.
His whole life, he was living inside a research laboratory.
At 15 years old, he came out of his den and looked at the real world, shapeless humans all lying across the streets and the cars are moving haphazardly and "Bam!" a human just got crushed underneath a car. But Adam did not feel any grief or sadness for the victim, he felt that his life was not worth living either.
Adam came to a forested area with the other grown up kids, they are given all kinds of tools to restart humanity, each month they survive, they are given real money, computers and computer games. However, the kids went missing in less than a year.
All the scientists are so sad, they searched the whole forest buy found no traces.
The scientists have no choice but to abandon this whole research for they did not know what went wrong.
Eventually humans declined to a fault, they stopped doing the adult thing and no more kids are born.
Then, the cloned humans came out of the forest with primitive tools, sign language and powerful muscular bodies.
They signalled to each other, humans' intelligence have made humans extinct ironically.
They entered the metroplis and overtook the city and rekindle the hope of human survival, this time, not by intelligence, not by technology, not by peacefulness, not by experiments, not by nuclear energy.
This time, they are going to live like wild animals, strengthen their raw body, their quick thinking, their adaptability and their independency.
The air vibrates, the terrain is cold, the animals are missing but the clouds still kept drifting.
10 kilometers deep underground or should i say 56179 bananas deep beneath the grass lays a monolith.
Spirals and spirals of cables smother the gigantic rock, two rows of blue capsules are in front of it.
Inside the capsules are human adults hugging their legs, they looked alive, but this area is dark and empty.
Gorging the pepperoni pizza, the slice delivers the most intense flavour that one could want.
The red, hot spices burns the lung and the yellow cheese runs through the top of the mouth, then melts downwards into the stomach.
A deliver of ice cream knocks out the author cold.
When he woke up, it felt like a year have already passed.
It was a confusing moment, because it seems like a year did actually passed.
His family did not wake him up, his pets did not wake him up, his alarm did not wake him up.
Because he lives alone and is jobless.
His body is in tip top condition, his mind is racing with adrenaline.
His childhood runs through from start to end and repeat again with further details.
He was like a computer that have been given a better graphic card, or should I say, cpu.
A walk down the street shows that everything have their price increased, but it was no matter to him.
He does not need to spend a lot of money, he can just sleep for another year.
But I, my lonely heart is feeling a void, feeling a tinge of misery.
Because I am not part of the society, I am not giving anything to other humans, I am just taking everything from other humans.
In short, I am jobless.
My world is upside down.
And yet, I still do not feel like working.
So, no matter how far the author walks down the crowded street with neon signs and big tvs on top of shopping centers.
There is only one destination for him, back home.
He cannot answer the meaning to his life.
And at night, the same routine repeats, 6848 8034, rings, rings...
"May I have your pizza order, sir?"
Anxiously waiting for his arriving meal, he snacks on tidbits and chocolates, a cold reminder of his school life.
Many people like to give him lover's gifts like candies and chocolates and ask him to deliver to their secret other.
But I did not help these secret admirers, I gorge down all the sweets and they tasted pretty damn good.
In a very cold room with very dim light, a computer booted up with blue screen with a hologram that is actually an interface, sorta like a computer mouse.
A blue slimy tentacles grab the hologram mouse and stop the test.
"Test stop declined"
"Error 500."
"Please shutdown manually."
"All your work and progress will be lost, are you sure you want to continue?"
She throws ice cream sticks onto castles made of erasers.
The erasers have the flags of various countries as their theme.
The first "arrow" did not budge the fortified castle, and she threw it again with a greater force.
The castle walls finally crumbled under the weight of gigantic erasers.
However, it was unsastifying, she wanted to destroy the whole castle and the side tower.
The main hall of the castle have many erasers lying down and stacking upwards into an undefeatable building.
The side tower is tall and easily struck, however, with only 3 ice cream sticks, one must throw carefully and strategically to hit the whole castle and the side tower to make the walls crumble.
So, she pick up a remote control and press a button.
The fallen erasers starts to levitate one by one, and they moved back to their original state of position 5 minutes ago.
To her surprise, her father accidentally watched her play this childish game.
Her father look bamboozled which turned into anger.
"How did you make the castle erasers rebuild themselves?"
"It was not me, it was the remote controller."
"Tell me the truth! How did you do that magic? Who have you been talking to? Since when have you gained this ability?"
The girl mistook the questions as scoldings and got upset visibly with tears climbing on her tear duct.
The sun almost sets, it was always at this time, the ordinary person entered the barber shop.
It was the same old haircutter, an old man with decades of job experience.
The customer quickly sat down and whispered "Cut short".
The old man started his job using scissors and making huge triangles on the front hair of the customer.
Then the haircut continued a slow rotation towards the back of the head.
A sharp noise alerts the customer by a little bit, the big black shaver slighly touched the edges of the hair which is close to the skin.
It was a rejuvenating moment for the customer, even massage does not feels this comfortable for him.
Every day, he have to go to the police station with his heavy hair that seemingly grows too fast.
So he started to cut twice a month, and it was a good decision, since the haircutting was dirt cheap anyway.
The haircutter flashed out a bigger scissor, this time, he aggressively haircut towards the top of the head.
But like I said, this haircutter have the skills, as he cuts, he is creating multiple layers of hair.
Even when the policeman's hair have been mostly cut away, he does not looks bald or ugly, the layers of hair have helped to make his head looks plump. Well, that is why he keeps coming back to this same barbershop.
But a scary thought came in, this haircutter is old, how long will he still live?
Who is going to help me cut my hair after he have passed away.
The uncle took out a mirror and showed the customer the back of his head and it was cut properly.
He proceeded to do a final shave of the hair, making it less voluminous but retaining the same hairstyle.
Then he took out a dangerous sharp razor and slowly scratch the sideburn and the back of the head.
He was slowly oozing out the short tiny hair and particles that those big scissors and shavers couldn't remove.
The session was quickly done and he paid the haircutter in full.
The crying girl wisened up and took up her remote control and "click" on her dad.
Her dad started moving backwards, the hands of the clock started moving anti-clockwise.
There was a ding-dong bell which she heard this time alerting her that her parents are back home.
When her father peeked into her daughter's toy room, it was a huge mess, erasers everywhere, ice cream sticks everywhere.
The girl named blame started telling her father that just now the remote control can cleanaway the mess and rebuild the castle, but now it is not working anymore.
The loving dad carries her daughter easily as though he was carrying a feather.
"I am sorry blame, we have been working for so long, making you so lonely."
"This is why you are seeking attention now, right?"
"Guess what, disney park have 50% discount and we are going there this weekend."
Blame started to get excited and kick her legs around causing her father to put her back down on the floor.
"Please do not let your mum clean up your toys every time, okay?"
A desperate man sitting in front of the giant statue of Guan Xi, a bronze woman wearing robes and standing patiently to listen to her devotees.
The scent of the foul smell of the incense awakens the inner spiritual of the begging man.
The ceiling of the asian temple is so high that it looks like the sky but the bamboo walls kept the shrine dark and dim.
All one could see are the bronze statues of holy beings as their bronze radiates in the presence of candles light.
Flashback in 5 years, a disheveled father keeps chanting,"I want medicines, I need to see the world be rid of sickness."
Mother Red comforts her husband,"Who is sick now? Who is sick now?"
The son peered at his father with a guilty conscience.
The father keeps searching the kitchen's cupboard for more oriental herbs and wildlife essences,"Where are my medicines?"
Mother Red ensures her husband,"Didn't you took it? What did you used it for?"
The son feels shameless but kept eating his plain rice.
The father goes towards his son,"Are you sick? Why are you eating only plain rice?"
The son responded,"Pa, I realized it is my mistake, I should have insisted your medicines were not effective on me when I was young."
"Foolish son, you became healthier when you ate my medicines." The strange father keeps walking around the house like he is drunk.
"I lied to you that I became better, pa. Otherwise you could be giving me another medicine to treat me." said the son disgruntledly.
"Oh, I worry that it seems like you have some memory issues, but fear not, I have just the right medicine for that."
The father walked on all fours and starts searching for herbs underneath the sofa, underneath the bed and underneath the dining table.
The nurturing mum said,"Are you not hungry, my love? You could always search for your medicines after you have eaten."
Flashback in 10 years, the cousins have encountered a deadly illness which have claimed many lives.
Laying flat on the hospital beds, they claim not for healthiness but for friends.
In this busy world, everybody keeps working their whole life long, one does not have time to socialize.
But in this cold world, there are still warmth.
The cousins and far-distant cousins have all came for their uncle and auntie.
They helped them pay their medical bills and bring fruits and supportive messages.
The day grew and became night, the light grew weak as their pulses stopped.
The doctors detected an abnormal substance in their blood and called upon the relatives.
"Do you know that it is illegal to give medicines if you are not a doctor? I can keep this a secret but this cannot happen again." The stern doctor gives a stark warning.
Everyone avoids looking at the father, the father was the one whom kept advises his relatives what medicines is good for what illnesses.
But everyone knows he is just a medicine delivery man, not even close to a nurse, and definitely not a doctor.
Because he failed almost all of his basic education school exams.
But nobody blamed or scolded him for it is his passion.
Flashback in 15 years.
He started pacing up and down, breathing in heavily, he almost behaved like a dog.
But his father returned back from job and started helping his sick son.
"This is not good, I will brew a solution for you."
The son looked better but said,"It is bitter."
The next day, his father brewed herbs with noodles but the son does not wants to eat.
The son said he is full so his father gave him more medicines directly.
The next day, the son is just lying on his bed but the panicking dad rushed to him and gave him more medicines.
The son simply didn't care,"I do not feel better after your medicines."
The father got enlightened and prepared a different type of medicine.
The son finally drank it and said,"I feel better, dad."
But the son laid on his bed until his school holidays ends.
When the school opens, he walks to school with a white face.
He couldn't hear his teachers talk.
He couldn't see the whiteboard writings.
His brain have shutdown temporarily until he gets better on his own in a few months.
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
The angry man sitting in front of the statue have become a gold statue himself.
The frustrated man now have a face of calmness and serenity.
The sorrowful man now have let go of his pleading hands and is just putting both of his hands clasped together solemnly.
The tall statue of Guan Xi, still did not moved.
Guan Xi is still looking at her devotee patiently.
Guan Xi is still waiting for more devotees.
His request did not make him rich or obtain godly powers.
His gold skin have become a symbol of a regret of a lifetime.
Just like many other gold statues sitting in the room along with him.
The curious man walks into the tall office, he was looking for a part time job.
Another man quickly let him inside the recruitment office.
The recruiter fires questions at him rapidly and he was quite impressed at the answers.
But the intervieweeeee firmly expressed his desire for a part time job.
The conversation ended with, "We are only looking full timers, this job is so important that we cannot just change to another part timer."
The intervieweeeee left the office with hope, because he still have other job offers.
But this event really changed his mind, maybe, he should just go all out and have fun, then he would br ready to accept a full time job.
So, the next day, before the ravens wake up, he was buying a lottery ticket.
The ticket queue is always so long when the sun breaks the clouds.
Then, he treated all of his friends to an arcade gaming session.
"Ping! Ping!" They played the space ping pongs.
"Bom, Bom" They played the soccer kick, all the friends celebrated Pear for getting the top score of the day.
Pear did not felt enough, he invited his friends to a beach resort next week, they could go to the beach and swim all day long.
His friends declined, as much as they loved an outing, they could not resort to emptying their best friend's wallet.
Pear did not understood their rejection, but anyway, he travelled to many european countries instead. He looked at castles and scenic rivers.
He rode gallant horses, he wores medieval armours and took selfies at popular places that have been on medieval war movies.
Then, a mysterious call made him took an early flight back to his home country.
All of his prepaid travelling packages are forfeited and he have to pay additional flight fares to change to an earlier flight date.
What could be so important to Pear?
On the crowded booth, there are many circus dancers and lion dancers.
Pear with a mask walked quickly and redeemed his prize of $2 million dollars.
All the cameras kept flashing at the disguised Pear.
"Last year, nobody won the grand prize, so the prize have been forwarded to this year. 1+1= $2 million dollars."
The emcee made the crowd excited but Pear was nowhere to be seen.
At the nearby carpark, Pear was wearing the lion costume, he then thew away into the bin.
He bought the lion costume from the lion dancers for 1 gold bar.
Ah, yes. His $2 million dollars was in the form of gold bars, he bag them in the convenience store, using those big black plastic bag that are sold for $1.
Phew, the bag weights 39 KG and he traded away 1 KG.
He is walking discreetly like a conman, he kept looking at the suspicious passerbys.
Even the security guards found him to be behaving so awkwardly.
Due to security reasons, all big bags will be checked before allowed to enter the public transport.
Pear have no choice but to take a taxi. It was afternoon time at 3pm but there was no sight of taxi.
He kept walking down the main road, getting closer to his house, 100 meters by 100 meters.
His hands is unfortunately getting bruised and his feets is burning hot.
He is drinking his sweat but he have no choice but to continue on his endeavour.
"Take a photo of me," Jisoo asked her boyfriend.
Parker kneel on the floor and quickly take a good shot, folded dress and delightful smile filled the screen.
They went into a coffee bar to take a short break.
The aroma of the cappucino whets one's appetite.
Coupled with a strawberry brioche, their lunch is sastified.
Then, Jisoo requested for another photo.
Parker bend his body forward for a close-up shot, he didn't want to take a photo of the lunch plate with messy bread crumps.
Other couples looked at them, the girl was jealous and hit her boyfriend in a jokingly manner, insinulating why he can't be romantic like that.
But for Parker, he have been taking photos of Jisoo everytime they go on a date.
He was more like a personal cameraman, these type of relationship are commonly known as a selfie "boyfriend".
Even Parker's friend warned him,"Does she likes you or does she loves herself?"
Ditching the negative thought, they went to a movie theater.
And once again, there was a sculpture of a famous movie star, Jack, Parker was already standing in place for the camera shot.
No doubt, Jisoo stood elegantly and posed with her head looking upwards instead of the famous movie star, it was a for fun camera shot.
2 hours of movie, Jisoo did not spoke a single word to Parker.
Parker felt unstable, but he knows he cannot expose his insecurity and make Jisoo uncomfortable.
Then, they went to an amusement park.
Oh, it was more beautiful at night, the colorful lanterns make the whole park looks like a disco and a kids' playground blended together.
Definitely, Parker will have to take a lot more photo shots tonight and indeed he did.
They went to the roller coaster ride and screamed their lungs out.
They went to the haunted room and got bored of the cartoony ghosts.
They went to the toilet and waited for each other, they are probably tired at this point since it was really late at night.
They decided to take a last ride, the ferris wheel ride.
The ferris wheel ride was just beside the koi pond capturing tent.
Many kids were trying to capture the big kois with their tiny nets, it was obviously a money scam booth.
But who is to blame, when the kids were having so much fun disturbing the colorful kois.
As they finally reached their queue turn, they aboard the slow and gentle ferris wheel.
It was the biggest ferris wheel in the country.
Parker tried to talk about school days and the meals in the amusement park but Jisoo gave a nonchalant reply to most of them.
Then Parker tried to bring back the happy mood with his KonKon 2000 limited edition camera gifted by Jisoo.
And, indeed Jisoo smiled happily while posing with the beautiful night scene from outside the windows of the ferris wheel.
One could see the entire forest, the high rising office buildings, the scary dark sea and the whole of the amusement park.
When, at the the peak of the ferris wheel, the machine malfunctioned, it literally grinded to a stop.
They looked at each other, surprised at what to do, but their simplistic discussion was never going to solve anything.
It actually felt more like Jisoo was complaining, Parker sighed.
But emotions cannot fill the bottle. Jisoo finally started a chat,"Why do you always come on a date with me?"
It was like a question to fill the boredom but it is hidden with a lethal intention.
Parker raised his camera again and took photo of his girlfriend,"So, I could be your cameraman."
The anxious girl asked again,"What do you like about me?"
Parker finally was appeased,"I like that you are being just yourself and not pretending to be someone else."
The shyly girl finally gathered her courage and leaned in for a kiss.
When the lips pressed together, the ferris wheel suddenly moves again.
They were bouncing at the momentum and laughed at the situation.
The girl finally explained,"I do not know why, but this only happens with you. For some reason, I always get shy when I am with you, so I am filling the blanks with camera shots."
Parker did not say anything for he is bewitched by her beautiful floral dress, dazzling eyes and slim arms.
Judge 1 said,"They love each other, so they should be able to have a child."
Judge 2 said,"Loving each other does not means that they have the means to be raising a child, they just got out of the school only."
Judge 3 said,"Well, the records showed that they knew each other for 10 years already, 3 years past the 7 years taboo, therefore, I think they are safe."
Judge 4 said,"You guys are being too easy, remember why we are here. Our parents abandoned us and we became orphans, we are here to help the world, to reduce the number of abandoned babies and kids."
Judge 1 said,"We have lots of couples to decide on their future, we will not have the time to revisit this couple and change our decision."
Judge 2 said,"I feel like the girl does not loves her boyfriend as much as he loves her, all she does was... asking for more selfies."
Judge 3 said,"But, it seems like the boyfriend is happy, so where is the problem?"
Judge 4 said,"I actually think the boyfriend does not like her enough, otherwise he would be more proactive and keep chit chatting with her."
Judge 1 said,"I think we should just give them a future, they should be responsible for what they do."
Judge 2 said,"Well, the big data shows that there are more and more abandoned babies and kids, I think maybe we should make them infertile and let them adopt kids instead, that would be a one big happy ending."
Judge 3 said,"You are just forcing someone else to take responsibility of someone else's mistake, I cannot agree with that."
Judge 4 said,"Did you guys not see that they kissed each other? If that is not love, I do not know what love is."
Pear was dragging his gold bars hidden in a black bag along the dirty floor.
His shoulders slouched and his motivations sinks.
He grips his teeth and iron through his will, he forces himself to walk another 100 meters.
He could have called upon his family to fetch him back home, but if his family ever found his fortune, he would have to share.
If he does not share, his relationship with his family would sour to the point of staying away from each other, living at two different houses.
His ambition to carry through this hardship is powerful enough to make him walk further and further.
He realized that there were no taxis because the government allowed private taxis, therefore, many company based taxi drivers turned into private taxi drivers in order to avoid the company tax and fees, earning them an extra 15% more salary per month.
But for Pear, carrying 38 KG of gold bars into a private taxi is as risky as it sounds, if he got kidnapped or robbed, nobody would ever know, there are no company security cameras and no GPS records for the police to track any criminal activities.
So, Pear stopped and rest. He swings his bag of gold backwards and fowards to throw it.
Pear walks towards the bag, then stops for a break. He then swings his bag of gold backwards and forwards to throw it again.
Amused bypassers then tried to help out Pear, they offered to carry the bag on a bicycle.
Pear was left confused when the bypasser directly helped without asking, after some distance, he quickly said he is going in another direction and took his gold bag back but he was surprised at the good samaritan, he smiled and thanks him.
After some time, more bypassers then tried to carry the bag together with Pear, Pear then quickly declined and shows his confidence in carrying the bag.
Perhaps, he should stop throwing the bag, it attracts attention and the bottom of the bag is starting to break, leaving a hole big enough for the gold bar to slip through or be seen by others.
The night descends but the victor smiles, he was only 100 meters away from his home.
He knows his shoulders have been overused and his legs have been tortured, but his sweet prize pot of a whooping $2 million dollars was pushing him forwards.
His family just arrived back at the house at the same time. they tried to helped Pear but Pear declined as though it was something precious.
"These are my friends' wine, I take it myself." Pear explained with a shrewd face.
The next 10 years, Pear enjoyed overseas travelling, properties purchasing and reselling, he was like playing monopoly in real life.
Pear went to a high end restaurant, the restaurant happens to be celebrating an event, it turns out to be a free meal for Pear.
Pear went to university, his school fees are apparently free, someone donated to the school and the school transferred the money to the current students to pay for their school fees instead. Pear gave money to his friends to open up buisnesses, and they all succeeded and become bosses of their own life, they started to repay all the money given to them with an additional 10% interest and 10% inflation extra fee.
Pear started to invest in random shares and stocks, but this time round, he incurred huge losses.
It was a sad day for Pear, it felt like he have achieved almost everything in life but yet, he did not work a single day.
He went back to his old full time job interview and funnily, the job is still looking for a worker.
It was the same recruiter, the same questions and he got the job.
But it was weird because he does not know what he would be doing on his full time job.
The recruiter said,"You will become a deity of luck, you will help all those who work hard and is not paid fairly, you will help people that have nobody to ask for help, you will help people to secure their own money for their own expenses and luxuries."
The little kid rumbles down the staircase, heads into the kitchen, with a terrifying fright, he heard human voices.
The voices stops and the footsteps moves away from the little kid.
The little kid hurried into the toilet and locked it.
In about 3 hours, the little kid puts his ear on the wooden door, he heard no more sound.
He is ready to open it, but then, bam! bam!
Someone knocked on the door, who could it be?
"Gem, it is mommy."
Gem unlocked the door and told his mother what had happened but his mother seems to misinterpret it as a ghost encounter.
Gem becomes a very quiet kid in school, at home and during family outings.
Jenny discussed about the kid's quiet behaviour in school with her husband, danny.
Her husband was complacent and said,"Dear, I was like that when I was a school boy back then."
Jenny tried to capture her husband's concern,"Today is the graduation day, there was a carnival but Gem was just standing at the canteen, he only watches the other kids playing around at the carnival."
Danny retorted,"I did not even have a carnival back in my days..."
Jenny said,"That is not the point, alright, nevermind."
Danny turned off the lights, he went to Gem's room so his wife wouldn't over worry about it.
Danny asked,"What story do you want me to read today?"
Gem said no politely.
Danny insist,"The three little piggies? The tortoise and the hare?"
Gem explained,"I read every single one of the books on the shelf, dad."
Danny curls his son's hair and stayed until the candle weathers away.
In the morning, the chirping birds were singing at the huge backyard.
The backyard was filled with a water fountain, tea bonsais, flower bushes and coconut trees.
The aroma of the fried eggs zoom through the air, Jenny was both the mom and the maid of the house.
Grandpa and grandma walked slowly down the staircase and reached for their morning deluxe.
Jenny walked up the stairs but could not find her husband, but at the windows, she saw Danny was digging the soil with a hoe.
Jenny knocked on her son's room, then entered but she found no one.
She wrapped up the blanket and tidied the room.
The computer was still on and Jenny's curiousity caught on her.
Click, click, click and click.
She found nothing, then Gem entered the room.
"Breakfast is ready." said Jenny.
"I have eaten with grandparents, they are now watching television." said Gem.
The grandmother have painful knees, even just walking down the stairs pains her terribly, she is definitely not walking up until night falls.
The grandfather walked out to the backyard and see what Danny is doing.
Danny was roughing out the soil so the plants' roots can grow better but grandfather could never understand such tedious methods.
Grandmother sitting on her big comfortable chair peered out through the big windowed door.
She was more interested in what they were doing rather than what was showing on the television.
She grumbles and walks up to the center of the mansion, there was a statue of a deity, she burns some joss sticks and offers her prayers to her grandparents, and then, the deity of luck.
The whole family appeared soon enough, everyone take turns to keep their eyes closed and bow at their ancestors and the deity.
There is a big clock guarding the doorway, the bird came out and "koo koo".
The grandmother asked the grandfather, is he going out today when she already knows the answer.
The grandmother walked him to the door and waved a big goodbye.
The grandfather said,"I will buy something nice for you."
Despite the mansion having two well-polished cars, the grandfather walked on foot instead.
Despite there is a bus stop nearby the pathway, he walked on foot instead.
Despite there is a shortcut of the car road side path, he walked through the nature park instead.
He bids good morning to the big eyed flying creature on the tree.
He bids good morning to the crowd of monkeys snatching from each other, from what seems to be a soft drink bottle.
He bids good morning to the early park visitors.
Then, he reached his destination, right beside the church, there are many coffeshops and merchant shops lined up side by side.
It was a crowded day as usual, for the freshest fishes and meat are sold in the morning.
But, he was not here for the market, he went to the coffee shop instead.
The son, Gem, groaned,"Why do I have to pray to the deity?"
His mother said,"Even if you do not want to pray for yourself, you should help your ancestors to pray for the deity of luck."
This confuses Gem even more.
His mother then said,"The deity of luck blessed your ancestors, so they were able to buy this mansion and the land we are standing on."
Gen wowed,"Even the land belongs to us? Well, if I am staying in this house, it means I am blessed too."
The father, Danny, told them to bath, they are going on a shopping trip, he was excited to buy home a gaming console at the pretense of buying for Gem.
But when they drove their car there, Gem looks uninterested in anything.
The parents sat down and rest, then suddenly, Gem went to a shop, the parents later came along.
It was newly opened, hamsters riding wheels and birds boasting their colorful feathers.
The father decided to buy his son a hamster but he said no.
He likes the tiny puppy even more, its golden ears flapped down, its round, beady eyes, his short body, it almost looked like a soft cushion animal toy.
But it moved and it eyed at Gem whom stared back at it.
Gem begged for his parents to buy it.
His parents was at lost at what to do, will the dog bite them? How big will the dog grow? What if the dog mate with other dogs?
The father, Danny in his tiny office room inside a very tall office building.
He opens the app, paint and keep drawing stickmans, coloring the background.
Then he opens the video app and watch other artists drawing natural lanscape and house designs.
He tried to imitate all that on a free app using an unreliable drawing tool and a computer mouse.
He found a trick and is able to clear up mushes by scrolling in, then he could see the pixels and remove the offending drawn pixels, one by one.
Now, he drew a beautiful tree, the tree have branches growing in diagonals, overlapping each other.
The leaves were shape in spade with many tiny lines crossing each other.
Then, he looked at the online reviews of art tutorial books, drawing magazines and the price of gaming consoles.
The time flies and it was already time to return home.
He knocked on the boss's office,"I am going home, I have already completed half the task."
The boss smiled and bids goodbye,"Keep up the good work."
Danny was always lazing around in the office but he was no fool, he had already done all his tasks, he have even done tasks that his boss had not given him yet because he could already predicts what tasks his boss would give him later on, because all the tasks are like chapters within a project, and from the office computer, he could see all the projects done in the past, he would copy and rephrased it, he was quite surprised when he found those project files too.
The mother, Jenny works in the engineer department.
But she was not just an engineer, she considered herself an inventor, a designer and an engineer.
This time round, she was tasked to make a fan for the gundam board room.
The gundam board room is where the pilot drives the gundam and shoot missiles, but it is undeniably small and crampy.
That smallness of the room makes the heat grows rapidly, there was nothing to cool it down, there was no air vent because the entire room is fully covered, if the gundam ever reaches space, the lack of oxygen would kill the pilot if there was an air vent.
Jenny complained about the dynamics of air flow to his colleague, Tam.
Tam agreed in all and all,"This is mission impossible."
Jenny then said,"If there is no air flow for the heat to leave the board room, it will never be able to cool down efficiently."
Tam, then showed Jenny his board room's chair prototype, it was so tiny, that no human could ever sit on it while not falling down.
"Like, who are they designing these gundams for? Tiny dwarfs? Kids?"
Jenny laughed but later they both suffer in pain at their impossible task.
Grandmother wanted to take a stroll but she was tired, she kept thinking about where did grandfather went to.
Grandmother turned on the television but she was not interested in the drama, it is the same old drama that have been replaying for ages, families quarrelling each other, solving the problems and loving each other again. Different actors, same story, different background, same ending.
Her legs keep shriveling, her arms becomes droopy, she wishes to eat the breadcrumbs from the kitchen but is too lazy to do so.
Anyway, grandfather will bring home some better treats anyway.
She remembered back when she was young, she would go outing with grandfather every weekend, like today.
They watched so many movies that she lost count of how many movies they have watched.
They have travelled to many countries, walk for long distances, they visited snake temples, golden buildings, river village and a skiing resort.
But, now she is confined to this chair, it feels very painful to move. In order to fix the muscles, the doctor said one needs to exercise.
It was no solution but endless pain for grandmother, then she falls asleep on her big and comfortable chair.
The grandfather bought his coconut rice and chicken wings, bamboo rolls and fish soup for $22, he gave $50 and received $28 change for it.
He sat down and took a break but something caught his attention, someone else paid $50 but received a $65 change, he told the customer,"You have earned it."
The customer was in denial, he said,"This is not $50."
The grandfather looked at the $50, it featured a squid face and was mostly blue in colour.
The customer explained,"This is $100, if you fold the dollar note and it have two perfect squid face, it will double in value."
No way! The grandfather was so surprised at this big news, he immediately tried the method by buying more food and it worked, the coffeeshop seller gave him much more change for his folded $50.
The customer then explained,"The more you fold, the more value it will have."
The customer then do a trick and showed it to the grandpa step by step,"Now this is worth $2500."
The grandfather almost fainted in a dramatic way, he tried to do it so despite the customer discouraging him to do so.
The customer then lamented,"See, there is a small tear here, the squid's face here is bigger than the squid's face there."
The grandfather then asked a curious question,"Then how much is it worth now?"
The customer expressed sadly,"It is now worth $0, it is now just garbage, but I was the one that entices you to do this trick so I could buy it from you."
The grandfather then traded his $50 folded like a durian with a brand new $50 from the customer's wallet.
Then the customer went to a nearby vendor, the man with a mysterious hat that was helping to exchange money from different countries.
The customer gave the $50 that was folded heavily and unfolds it, the man with the mysterious hat gave $5000 to him.
The grandfather angrily approached him,"Hey! You cheated me out of my money."
The customer then tried to prove that he is not the scammer and asked the money exchanger how much is the folded $50 worth?
The money exchanger said,"Exactly $0."
The grandfather argued,"Then, why did you gave him $5000?"
Then, the money exchanger explained,"Because he unfolded the dollar note and it showed a serial number 777 7777."
The grandfather realized his mistake and apologized for his rashful behaviour.
It seemed like the money exchange rate have a lot more things he did not knew of.
The son, Gem played with the puppy until it became a large sized dog.
He have to remove the dog's waste, bath it everyday, bring it out for walk, mop away the furs dropping on the mansion's floor.
Coupled with his high school homework, he was crushed like underneath a rock.
He tried to shove his pet to his mother, but his mother was busy at work, same for his father.
He tried to shove his pet to his grandmother, but she was always just sitting in the same old chair and not moving.
He tried to shove his pet to his grandfather, but he was always going out to nowhere.
His near coming exam is driving him to an edge.
If he fails this, he will not be able to enter the college that everyone is going to, he will be going to a private school instead, that will not look good on you when you go for a job interview, and this might means the end of his career.
Right now, he have to make a decision, or rather, he have already made, he just needs to choose the right time for it.
Late at night, he thought he heard some voices, but it was nobody, he opened the gates and let out the dog, he ran along the neighbourhood, so did the dog followed. It was weird to see a teenager and a dog running late at night with only the street lamps glowing.
But the dog lost his owner, or rather, he was abandoned.
Gem took a bus back home, alone.
Soon, the exams came, he didn't scored well as he was still distracted by his abandoned dog, but the free time he gained helped him a lot, he managed to get into college with a decent score.
The father, Danny woke up in the morning and kept searching for the dog.
Because he had to work monday to friday, he tried to ask his family to help search for the missing dog.
Gem found it, he looked around and saw that his family was not nearby.
He pretended he did not knew the dog and slid through the lift and escaped away.
The dog noticed Gem, but it did not recognized its owner anymore.
When the dog was a puppy, his owner looked at it with loving eyes, this person was not the same person he met long ago.
The dog understood and ran faraway, to the grass plains, to underneath the benches of the park, to the bushes beside the playground.
Its stomach was growling, the night is falling and it does not know what future is holding for it.
Danny tried to celebrate Gem's exam passes and reduce the sadness of the missing dog by buying a gaming console, okay, alright, it was more like, for himself.
The game art was fanciful and caught everyone's attention, the whole family kept playing it but within a week, they got bored of it.
Danny realized he loved the game art and not the gameplay itself.
As the rain pour and pour endlessly, the forgotten dog walks up to a small roof, the rain stopped within the circular roof and he smelled a familiar scent.
The dog's eyes looked up and widen, it pulls out its tongue and started panting and wagging its tail.
The mother, Jenny was holding an umbrella for the wild dog.
She took the dog to an abandoned pets facility named pets' paradise and abandoned it there.
The dog was left confused, why again?
The dog played with the other dogs, chinchillas and birds of paradise but when it thought about its original owner, Gem that played with him from young till adult, it was a memory that could never be erased from its mind. So sometimes, it sits on the dog's long cushion and looked out the metal grills, waiting for someone to come for it.
And, someone did came, the mother, Jenny always came, donated some money and played with it along with the other dogs.
Jenny shuffled the dog's head and the dog smiled.
The grandmother was excited at the new gaming console but she was so bad at technology.
Today, the grandfather took a break and kept chatting with the grandmother.
He realized the grandmother needs to know how to start the gaming console and asked the father, Danny for help.
Danny, easily flipped on the switches and showed them an example on how to click the settings.
It turned out, the sedentary grandma started jumping up and down, then bend her upper body to the left and right.
On the tv screen, there is a rowing boat cruising down the river with many obstacles.
The gaming console was capturing the grandma's position and interacting with the gameplay itself.
The grandfather was amused at the sight and joined in the game.
They now share many more moments in life together.
The grandmother's muscles started to become healthier and her vitality slowly returned, redness started to return to her face.
Seeing that grandmother is now active again, grandfather asked mother to plan for a family outing again.
They went to a bird park, the path slope feels like a mountain and there were many animal enclosures.
The vibrant birds flew through the shoulders of the visitors.
The sneaky cranes walks past the behind of visitors.
The little monkeys climb the top vines where nobody is looking at.
The ostrich stared at Gem and Gem stared right back at it, it looks so majestic and dinosaur alike.
The family outing ended with a parrot flight show, where the parrots flew through hula hoops placed at the corners of the arena.
Mother, Jenny said,"This bird park is newly opened. Is it fun?"
Gem, looking at the white tiger enclosure said,"This is much easier than having a pet, there is no need to feed, bathe, clean and walk it."
Father, Danny said,"True, we can come here anytime you want to."
Grandmother said,"Well, you could always donate at the animal shelter and play with the abandoned pets there."
Grandfather said,"Or, you could be a zookeeper."
Gem shook his head,"You guys think too highly of me.", then he realized he told nobody about the truth of his missing pet.
Mother, Jenny, her colleague, Tam and many other engineers and staffs stood in rows in front of the gundams.
A horde of dogs entered through the grand hall protected by an electronic device that requires the correct bark.
The dogs marched in line and turned towards the gundams, each of them have their own gundam and beside each gundam have an engineer or staff.
A black dog with long legs walked towards Tam, then Tam pets the intimidating dog.
A chihuahua walked towards to Jenny and waited.
"Pet the dog."Whispered Tam.
Jenny felt so weird, she have no connection with this dog but she have to pet it but it actually seems like it was waiting for it.
Jenny pet the chihuahua's head and it was smooth and soft.
The MC walked up the royal stage and made an announcement.
It seems like all the gundam human pilots are now exchanged to dogs because of suitability and loyalness.
But it is important for the dog pilot's caretakers to take care of them.
Tam nods his head in disagreement,"I have no idea how to handle pets."
Jenny comforts him,"Dun worry, my family owns a pet dog before, I can help you."
The MC and an alone dog walks down the stage and leaving the grand hall.
As the alone dog walks pass Jenny, she pets the dog's head and the dog growls furiously.
Everyone in the grand hall holds their breath.
Tam started to pull Jenny back,"That is general McKrazy, you do not pet the general McKrazy."
Jenny realized her stupidity and the MC warned without using his speaker,"You really should read your emails, lieutenant Jenny."
Grandfather passed away peacefully.
Father, Danny finally took his childhood hobby seriously and redecorate one of the mansion's room into a painting room.
Son, Gem found many friends in computer games, but they all left sooner or later, even if he felt lonely inside, he is not going to buy another pet anymore because he knows it is wrong if you cannot take care of them.
Grandmother asked mother, Jenny to visit the animal shelter and handed her donation money discreetly.
Jenny was curious and asked,"Back then, how did you knew about Gem abandoning the dog."
Grandmother said plainly,"Sometimes, I fell asleep on this chair, and that night I saw Gem leaving the house with the dog. But how did you find the dog?"
Jenny responded,"I checked his bus card records and search around those places."
Grandmother said,"Shouldn't we bring back the dog and just pretend we found the dog and take care of it ourselves?"
Jenny said in a serious tone,"The dog will be more happy with its other dog friends there."
Grandmother nags,"Even if "go", you still must make sure the clock is not spoiled, repair it when broken. And everyday, never fail to pray for our ancestors and the deity of luck, place food and gifts on it, alright?"
Jenny asked,"Gem had a trauma when he was kid, was it you who was in the kitchen?"
Grandmother explained,"It was not me, I am always sitting on the chair, you need to know we are not the only ones living in this mansion."
The girl with flushed red face wearing a proper school uniform jumped over the fences, then ran like an athlete.
She was travelling on the side of the car road, it was dangerous because you cannot see the cars driving towards you as they appear from behing your backs.
The calm boy in school uniform and a black tie with diamond designs rode on a bicycle, he was moving at the same speed as the schoolgirl even though he was not pedaling hard.
There were some cats fighting along the street when one of them suddenly pounced in the air making a nearby kid fall down.
The kid slammed so hard onto the hard floor that his arms became bruised but all he does was looking around nervously.
The schoolgirl have no choice but to help the injured kid back on his feet and bring him back to his parents which was a nearby house with the gates accidentally left opened.
The parents tried to thank the schoolgirl but she was gone along with the wind. It was examination day and she is going to be late at this rate.
But what annoyed her more is that the schoolboy was riding a bicycle on the other side of the car road without breaking a sweat, if only, she knows how to ride a bike.
At the car road section densed with traffic lights, the schoolgirl got a chance to run faster than the schoolboy as cyclists have to wait for green light in order to continue riding. But right at this moment, there was a traffic jam, probably because many other parents are driving their schoolchildren to school as well.
The school girl saw that there are some strange pots and debris blocking half of the main road, she immediately carried and removed the wreckage.
She sighed as the schoolboy went past ahead of her again.
It was so annoying that the schoolboy did not helped her lift the debris even though he have more muscles than her.
Her shoe laces got untied and she immediately fixed it by inserting them into the shoes instead of tying them properly, only to have them come out whenever she lifts her legs while running.
The sun have risen which is a bad sign as this means it is 7 am and her exam is taking place at 7am as well, probably there would be some 5 minutes preparation and 10 minutes reading of examination papers before the test will be started but this is really looking bad for her as she might lose out 15 minutes if she needs time to prepare or the examination papers have very long questions.
The cyclist pedalled even harder and was out of reach of the school girl.
When almost near the school gates, the schoolgirl saw a partially blind elderly getting lost.
The old man was always looking for the food shop but his poor eyesight always trick him to go to the school food shop instead, which is usually not a problem, since he can just eat there, but today is school examination day, the school food shop is closed today and there will not be anybody there to tell the old man that.
The schoolgirl patiently explained to the old man and bring him to the correct walking path leading to a nearby takoyaki mini food stall.
The schoolgirl is very angry at herself and is now rushing towards the school gates, apparently she caught up with the cyclist because the cyclist still have to park and lock his bicycle. She shouted at the schoolboy, "Hurry up."
When they enter the examination hall, the teacher stopped them.
The teacher then promptly talked to the schoolboy,"Timmy, you are the school role model, why are you late?"
The teacher then quickly made up some excuses,"You are helping some grandma crossing the road right? There can only be the reason why a smart and nice student like you got late. Please enter the hall and take your exams."
The same teacher stopped the schoolgirl,"Oh no, you are late, we cannot let you disturb the other students. You do recall that we already told all the students that latecomers will not be able to take the exam, right?"
The schoolgirl got angry and helpless, she tried to explained what happened along the way but the teacher did not even looked at her.
The schoolboy, Timmy brought out his phone and showed the teacher, videos of the schoolgirl helping out the injured kid, clearing away the road blockage and showing the partially blind elderly where to go.
The teacher was very pleased and let the schoolgirl took the exams as well.
But there was no point because after 1 month when the school results come out, the schoolgirl failed in all of her exams while Timmy have gotten straight As in different subjects and was appointed the school's role model of the year again.
Real life: Damn, the pizza delivery man came faster this time, I am going to rush up the story.
While the schoolgirl was eating with many other schoolgirls in the school food shop, Timmy came forward and said he wants to help the schoolgirl with her studies.
The other schoolgirls were whispering as though they are witnessing a school romance.
The schoolgirl got annoyed, she remembered that Timmy did not helped with any of the people along the way during the examination day, so why is he trying to help her now.
The schoolgirl then asked Timmy why does he wants to help her with her studies?
Timmy then asked the schoolgirl why did she helped the people along the way during the school examination day?
The schoolgirl said,"I do not need a reason to help people."
Timmy said,"Same as you.".
The other schoolgirls realized he was just a study companion and the rumours fizzled off.
On the year 2364, humanity has startrd to decay. Nothing id left of planet earth other than a lifeless, burning wotld, pretty much like venus. One of the last humans in the solar system, a young boy called Stacks, was trying to find a new home at an affordable price for his family. Yet he had no luck, his family was very poor and the colonization ships were expensive to board.
"Oh, shut! Here we go again!" He said.
He sneaked in and stole 3 tickets, but he was csught again. "Ih, so it's you again, you little and puny idiot!?" Said the guard.
"I want to get my family a new home" Replied Stacks. "I don't believe yoi" Said the guard and hit Stacks in the face.
The same scenario repeated every night at midnight. But one day, he found an old man eith 3 spare tickets. "For you, I don't need them, and you look like you need them more than I do" Said the old man. "Thanks!" Answered Stacks. The next day, the family boarded the huge spaceship. And he and his family managed to leave the horrible place their home had become. The end? Now the writer heard something.
"Ding dpng!"
His mail was there.
The end.
Btw, yes, the young boy is me, I like to make the main character as a self-insert whenever I write a story.
Adapted from a story I wrote when I was
a teenager.
I had a nightmare about chameleons last
night.
That moment we returned to wasted
district X on planet Earth, we realized every civilized buildings got
swallowed up by the giant forests. We dropped down from the ropes
hanging from the helicopters and we dived straight right into the
heart of Nirvana. Nirvana is a nature area that have been preserved
for 1000 years, therefore it is less likely to have any nuclear
contamination, however our mission is to double confirm it.
There were strange stone statues of
chameleons appearing everywhere which was unexpected as there could
be no humans here to have ever forged them. Or perhaps, these statues
were crafted way before 1000 years old because they do indeed looks
ancient.
As we trek deeper into the Solace
pathway, the chameleon statues turned into nightmare creatures, their
rigid looking stone skin started moving like real flesh and muscles.
They yawned and flaunt their gigantic mouths and spiky teeths. Within
a hesitation, one chameleon have already started chewing on a human
agent's leg. We immediately armed ourselves with proton guns, these
bullets are effective as they defy gravity however they requires
recharging from natural sunlight. The silent jungle turns into a loud
and noisy battlefield, awakening even more monsters within the
territory.
A chameleon with a very big protruding
eye sidewalk like a crab towards me. It looks like its head is
splitting into half, but actually it was just the lizard opening his
triangular mouth. The powerful tongue smashed towards a boulder as I
dodged that hit. I was petrified, I have never prepared for such a
scary mission. It was supposed to be more of a scholarly missions
with tasks like taking samples and recording instruments. But then,
the flashback came in and all the events starts to makes sense,
especially when the science chief handed us military grade weapons
back when we were on the space station 1105. I am out, seriously, I
am quitting, I am abandoning everyone. I duck and rolled into a snake
tunnel. As I claw my way deeper into the tunnel, the tunnel becomes
wider and wider and soon, it looks like a sanctuary filled with
religious writings and tools. It was quite serene in here unlike
above ground.
On the battlefield, a senior started
throwing taser bombs which spits rainbow electricity after three loud
beats. The radiance blinded both the human agents and lizardy beasts.
The lizards amazingly disappeared but the humans are smart enough to
know that it is just a camouflage trick and they are still within a
threatening radius. The humans speeds up their gait while being
leaded by the senior Patchan. They arrived into a spacious white
temple with tall vases and pillars. Everyone lights up their blue
electronic shoes and jumped down the center of the temple ground
which is a big crescent hole, like the shape of the moon. The lights
from the shoes exposed the camouflaging chameleons inside the dark
hole, many photon beams blasted in all angles as friendly fire from
these guns are not lethal. As the smoke leaves the giant hole, they
know it is getting dark and their gun will lose the ability to
recharge ammunition. The crew stopped pointing guns and started
running underground. They were being chased by 8 fat chameleons, they
were so competitive that they ended up charging into each other
whilst chasing their dinner. But as some humans got tired and slowed
down, many giant pink tongues flew across the hallway and wrap the
humans like presents, then they were forcibly dragged back. The
beasts are salivating and sastified to have such a packed meal.
Eventually, the underground paths
crossed ways and I met up with the team again. We are now surrounded
by many doors of different colours, they are unopenable, Senior
Patchan quickly grabbed my photon gun away from me and fired at those
doors. I entered the white door, some entered the other doors and
half the battalion stand guard outside the doors waiting for further
instructions. I was dumbfounded, I saw food sacks everywhere, flat
beds, weaponry and maps. If these are not evidence for human
activities, what could they be? And indeed, high up the wall, there
is a ventilation hole, inside it, a woman with a pale face started to
gesture me into climbing into this hole. I did so and crawled my way
into a secret chamber. I was finally safe as I started to pile up the
furnitures and grains to fill the ventilation hole, blocking any
humans or beasts from entering this chamber. Soon, I started choking,
I realized the room is running out of oxygen but the woman seems used
to it, so I just calm my anxiety and waited on the empty floor.
Several
hours later, probably at the darkest hour of the night, the
chameleons formed an army and started barging into the temple's hole.
The scent of human blood and meat awakens the primal instinct of the
beasts. I could heard faint screamings, “Help Me! Help Me!” but I
could not see anything from this completely sealed secret chamber.
The silence afterwards pretty much demonstrated who is the king of
Nirvana. But somehow, afterwards, human chattering can be heard.
Could the human agents have won the battle? Even without photon guns'
ammunition? Did they carried other secret bombs or weaponry? I felt
so cheated, it was like I am a guinea pig, a sacrifice, a cheap
soldier brought into this hell spot. Or perhaps, I was fighting over
my guilt of abandoning my teammates, lying around in this cozy spot.
Most of the humans have disappeared, when a new wave of soldiers
arrived, they entered the same temple's hole, they were confused by
the multiple exits of different coloured doors too. Corpses and blood
stained the hallway, there was no sign of where to go. The fresh
recruits with clean clothes started exploring the doorways and
unfortunately, most of them got ambushed. The surviving chameleons
from previous battle have cleverly camouflaged into different colours
right inside these different exits. But what exposed their position
was the tragic sound of hunger from their stomachs. Nevertheless, the
chameleons easily overwhelmed the soldiers as the narrow pathways
makes it difficult for a gunfight. The sweet juice pouring through
the marble and the room is filled with a scent of terror. The bodies
are getting trampled on like grassy dirt. The humans that found the
correct exit started to break down the door and started blasting 5
holes into the center of the door, this is a sign to let the future
recon know that this is the correct exit.
A night have probably passed and I find
it much more easy to breathe, not realizing the woman have cleared
the ventilation hole of debris. It was said that 1000 years ago,
humans left Earth because of a Nuclear disaster, does this explains
the monsters? Or was everything a lie?What is my real mission? And
why are humans back on Earth, are life on space stations not
sustainable? The more questions I ask myself, the more questions I
have. Then I started hearing a stomach growling, I laughed as I
thought it was my tummy but it was more of an echo, the true sound
comes from the woman with pale face. I realized I have never thanked
her yet as I decided how to approach her. Her movements looks
sluggish and heavy, her human hands started turning green. Her
delicate head started to have big fish eyes protruding outwards and
her slender unclothed legs started to show off some unnaturally
packed muscles. I am not going to wait for the full transformation
and started to dive towards the ventilation hole, but somehow there
is now a metal gate at the end of the burrow. I do not want to
experience this but a strong and powerful hands grabbed my feet
whilst I am stuck in the ventilation hole. Every inch it pulled, it
lead me backwards into the secret chamber which was once my safe
house.
The author is waiting for his pizza delivery, it takes about 30 minutes for the pizza man to deliver his spaghetti, pizza and new spiced drumlets.
So there was this 5 year old boy, at this young age, he is already addicted to playing computer games.
He is called Adam, and he loves free to pay games, or should I say, pay to win games.
He is given unlimited real money to buy as much packages or loot crates as he wants, nobody is limiting him anything.
He is called experiment #001.
In the not too distant of humanity in year 2300, humanity have evolved into an ugly blob and spheres, or should I say devolved.
In this age, humans have lost their motivation to strive for excellency, compete for money, handsome, fame and significant others.
Humans are pretty much lying around, like on the floor, their butts, stomachs and heads turns into soft blobs in order to reduce friction and improve comfort.
You might think this is a bad future for mankind, but because everyone is so lazy, people do not even bother to buy a house, they literally just sleep in parks, shopping centers, libraries and carparks. This caused a huge crash in economy, whereby, human needs are easily obtainable because a lot of resources, workload and technology is now being diverted into basic needs like foods, clothing, water and electricity.
But, the government is not sastified with how lazy humans have become, thus they started to clone humans from the year 2020, which was thought to be when the humans are at the most hard working decade.
Eventually, Adam is not being given any more money to buy his favourite pay to win games' items and dlcs.
He was so angry, he decided to fight against his "father" which is actually just another scientist and not his real father.
Adam was a very intelligent guy, he knows how to kill his father, but he decided not to, he lay down his sharp object from his hands, the other scientists in the observation room noted down.
Adam asked his father if there is any other way he could receive money.
His father says, you will need to reach 15 years old and start working, and you receive tons of money every month, but you will not have enough time and energy to play computer games.
Adam smiled, because he believes he can just play computer games during his night sleep time instead.
It was a long and hard 10 years, Adam simply played stuffed toys, board games with the other "kids" and exercise daily.
His whole life, he was living inside a research laboratory.
At 15 years old, he came out of his den and looked at the real world, shapeless humans all lying across the streets and the cars are moving haphazardly and "Bam!" a human just got crushed underneath a car. But Adam did not feel any grief or sadness for the victim, he felt that his life was not worth living either.
Adam came to a forested area with the other grown up kids, they are given all kinds of tools to restart humanity, each month they survive, they are given real money, computers and computer games. However, the kids went missing in less than a year.
All the scientists are so sad, they searched the whole forest buy found no traces.
The scientists have no choice but to abandon this whole research for they did not know what went wrong.
Eventually humans declined to a fault, they stopped doing the adult thing and no more kids are born.
Then, the cloned humans came out of the forest with primitive tools, sign language and powerful muscular bodies.
They signalled to each other, humans' intelligence have made humans extinct ironically.
They entered the metroplis and overtook the city and rekindle the hope of human survival, this time, not by intelligence, not by technology, not by peacefulness, not by experiments, not by nuclear energy.
This time, they are going to live like wild animals, strengthen their raw body, their quick thinking, their adaptability and their independency.
Nah, my pizza is still not here yet.
The air vibrates, the terrain is cold, the animals are missing but the clouds still kept drifting.
10 kilometers deep underground or should i say 56179 bananas deep beneath the grass lays a monolith.
Spirals and spirals of cables smother the gigantic rock, two rows of blue capsules are in front of it.
Inside the capsules are human adults hugging their legs, they looked alive, but this area is dark and empty.
Gorging the pepperoni pizza, the slice delivers the most intense flavour that one could want.
The red, hot spices burns the lung and the yellow cheese runs through the top of the mouth, then melts downwards into the stomach.
A deliver of ice cream knocks out the author cold.
When he woke up, it felt like a year have already passed.
It was a confusing moment, because it seems like a year did actually passed.
His family did not wake him up, his pets did not wake him up, his alarm did not wake him up.
Because he lives alone and is jobless.
His body is in tip top condition, his mind is racing with adrenaline.
His childhood runs through from start to end and repeat again with further details.
He was like a computer that have been given a better graphic card, or should I say, cpu.
A walk down the street shows that everything have their price increased, but it was no matter to him.
He does not need to spend a lot of money, he can just sleep for another year.
But I, my lonely heart is feeling a void, feeling a tinge of misery.
Because I am not part of the society, I am not giving anything to other humans, I am just taking everything from other humans.
In short, I am jobless.
My world is upside down.
And yet, I still do not feel like working.
So, no matter how far the author walks down the crowded street with neon signs and big tvs on top of shopping centers.
There is only one destination for him, back home.
He cannot answer the meaning to his life.
And at night, the same routine repeats, 6848 8034, rings, rings...
"May I have your pizza order, sir?"
Anxiously waiting for his arriving meal, he snacks on tidbits and chocolates, a cold reminder of his school life.
Many people like to give him lover's gifts like candies and chocolates and ask him to deliver to their secret other.
But I did not help these secret admirers, I gorge down all the sweets and they tasted pretty damn good.
In a very cold room with very dim light, a computer booted up with blue screen with a hologram that is actually an interface, sorta like a computer mouse.
A blue slimy tentacles grab the hologram mouse and stop the test.
"Test stop declined"
"Error 500."
"Please shutdown manually."
"All your work and progress will be lost, are you sure you want to continue?"
The octopus entity, as tall as a human, sigh.
She was wearing plain white clothes.
She throws ice cream sticks onto castles made of erasers.
The erasers have the flags of various countries as their theme.
The first "arrow" did not budge the fortified castle, and she threw it again with a greater force.
The castle walls finally crumbled under the weight of gigantic erasers.
However, it was unsastifying, she wanted to destroy the whole castle and the side tower.
The main hall of the castle have many erasers lying down and stacking upwards into an undefeatable building.
The side tower is tall and easily struck, however, with only 3 ice cream sticks, one must throw carefully and strategically to hit the whole castle and the side tower to make the walls crumble.
So, she pick up a remote control and press a button.
The fallen erasers starts to levitate one by one, and they moved back to their original state of position 5 minutes ago.
To her surprise, her father accidentally watched her play this childish game.
Her father look bamboozled which turned into anger.
"How did you make the castle erasers rebuild themselves?"
"It was not me, it was the remote controller."
"Tell me the truth! How did you do that magic? Who have you been talking to? Since when have you gained this ability?"
The girl mistook the questions as scoldings and got upset visibly with tears climbing on her tear duct.
The sun almost sets, it was always at this time, the ordinary person entered the barber shop.
It was the same old haircutter, an old man with decades of job experience.
The customer quickly sat down and whispered "Cut short".
The old man started his job using scissors and making huge triangles on the front hair of the customer.
Then the haircut continued a slow rotation towards the back of the head.
A sharp noise alerts the customer by a little bit, the big black shaver slighly touched the edges of the hair which is close to the skin.
It was a rejuvenating moment for the customer, even massage does not feels this comfortable for him.
Every day, he have to go to the police station with his heavy hair that seemingly grows too fast.
So he started to cut twice a month, and it was a good decision, since the haircutting was dirt cheap anyway.
The haircutter flashed out a bigger scissor, this time, he aggressively haircut towards the top of the head.
But like I said, this haircutter have the skills, as he cuts, he is creating multiple layers of hair.
Even when the policeman's hair have been mostly cut away, he does not looks bald or ugly, the layers of hair have helped to make his head looks plump. Well, that is why he keeps coming back to this same barbershop.
But a scary thought came in, this haircutter is old, how long will he still live?
Who is going to help me cut my hair after he have passed away.
The uncle took out a mirror and showed the customer the back of his head and it was cut properly.
He proceeded to do a final shave of the hair, making it less voluminous but retaining the same hairstyle.
Then he took out a dangerous sharp razor and slowly scratch the sideburn and the back of the head.
He was slowly oozing out the short tiny hair and particles that those big scissors and shavers couldn't remove.
The session was quickly done and he paid the haircutter in full.
The crying girl wisened up and took up her remote control and "click" on her dad.
Her dad started moving backwards, the hands of the clock started moving anti-clockwise.
There was a ding-dong bell which she heard this time alerting her that her parents are back home.
When her father peeked into her daughter's toy room, it was a huge mess, erasers everywhere, ice cream sticks everywhere.
The girl named blame started telling her father that just now the remote control can cleanaway the mess and rebuild the castle, but now it is not working anymore.
The loving dad carries her daughter easily as though he was carrying a feather.
"I am sorry blame, we have been working for so long, making you so lonely."
"This is why you are seeking attention now, right?"
"Guess what, disney park have 50% discount and we are going there this weekend."
Blame started to get excited and kick her legs around causing her father to put her back down on the floor.
"Please do not let your mum clean up your toys every time, okay?"
Blame nodded her head and said "I love this dad".
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
A desperate man sitting in front of the giant statue of Guan Xi, a bronze woman wearing robes and standing patiently to listen to her devotees.
The scent of the foul smell of the incense awakens the inner spiritual of the begging man.
The ceiling of the asian temple is so high that it looks like the sky but the bamboo walls kept the shrine dark and dim.
All one could see are the bronze statues of holy beings as their bronze radiates in the presence of candles light.
Flashback in 5 years, a disheveled father keeps chanting,"I want medicines, I need to see the world be rid of sickness."
Mother Red comforts her husband,"Who is sick now? Who is sick now?"
The son peered at his father with a guilty conscience.
The father keeps searching the kitchen's cupboard for more oriental herbs and wildlife essences,"Where are my medicines?"
Mother Red ensures her husband,"Didn't you took it? What did you used it for?"
The son feels shameless but kept eating his plain rice.
The father goes towards his son,"Are you sick? Why are you eating only plain rice?"
The son responded,"Pa, I realized it is my mistake, I should have insisted your medicines were not effective on me when I was young."
"Foolish son, you became healthier when you ate my medicines." The strange father keeps walking around the house like he is drunk.
"I lied to you that I became better, pa. Otherwise you could be giving me another medicine to treat me." said the son disgruntledly.
"Oh, I worry that it seems like you have some memory issues, but fear not, I have just the right medicine for that."
The father walked on all fours and starts searching for herbs underneath the sofa, underneath the bed and underneath the dining table.
The nurturing mum said,"Are you not hungry, my love? You could always search for your medicines after you have eaten."
Flashback in 10 years, the cousins have encountered a deadly illness which have claimed many lives.
Laying flat on the hospital beds, they claim not for healthiness but for friends.
In this busy world, everybody keeps working their whole life long, one does not have time to socialize.
But in this cold world, there are still warmth.
The cousins and far-distant cousins have all came for their uncle and auntie.
They helped them pay their medical bills and bring fruits and supportive messages.
The day grew and became night, the light grew weak as their pulses stopped.
The doctors detected an abnormal substance in their blood and called upon the relatives.
"Do you know that it is illegal to give medicines if you are not a doctor? I can keep this a secret but this cannot happen again." The stern doctor gives a stark warning.
Everyone avoids looking at the father, the father was the one whom kept advises his relatives what medicines is good for what illnesses.
But everyone knows he is just a medicine delivery man, not even close to a nurse, and definitely not a doctor.
Because he failed almost all of his basic education school exams.
But nobody blamed or scolded him for it is his passion.
Flashback in 15 years.
He started pacing up and down, breathing in heavily, he almost behaved like a dog.
But his father returned back from job and started helping his sick son.
"This is not good, I will brew a solution for you."
The son looked better but said,"It is bitter."
The next day, his father brewed herbs with noodles but the son does not wants to eat.
The son said he is full so his father gave him more medicines directly.
The next day, the son is just lying on his bed but the panicking dad rushed to him and gave him more medicines.
The son simply didn't care,"I do not feel better after your medicines."
The father got enlightened and prepared a different type of medicine.
The son finally drank it and said,"I feel better, dad."
But the son laid on his bed until his school holidays ends.
When the school opens, he walks to school with a white face.
He couldn't hear his teachers talk.
He couldn't see the whiteboard writings.
His brain have shutdown temporarily until he gets better on his own in a few months.
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
Amitabha Amitabha
The angry man sitting in front of the statue have become a gold statue himself.
The frustrated man now have a face of calmness and serenity.
The sorrowful man now have let go of his pleading hands and is just putting both of his hands clasped together solemnly.
The tall statue of Guan Xi, still did not moved.
Guan Xi is still looking at her devotee patiently.
Guan Xi is still waiting for more devotees.
His request did not make him rich or obtain godly powers.
His gold skin have become a symbol of a regret of a lifetime.
Just like many other gold statues sitting in the room along with him.
The curious man walks into the tall office, he was looking for a part time job.
Another man quickly let him inside the recruitment office.
The recruiter fires questions at him rapidly and he was quite impressed at the answers.
But the intervieweeeee firmly expressed his desire for a part time job.
The conversation ended with, "We are only looking full timers, this job is so important that we cannot just change to another part timer."
The intervieweeeee left the office with hope, because he still have other job offers.
But this event really changed his mind, maybe, he should just go all out and have fun, then he would br ready to accept a full time job.
So, the next day, before the ravens wake up, he was buying a lottery ticket.
The ticket queue is always so long when the sun breaks the clouds.
Then, he treated all of his friends to an arcade gaming session.
"Ping! Ping!" They played the space ping pongs.
"Bom, Bom" They played the soccer kick, all the friends celebrated Pear for getting the top score of the day.
Pear did not felt enough, he invited his friends to a beach resort next week, they could go to the beach and swim all day long.
His friends declined, as much as they loved an outing, they could not resort to emptying their best friend's wallet.
Pear did not understood their rejection, but anyway, he travelled to many european countries instead. He looked at castles and scenic rivers.
He rode gallant horses, he wores medieval armours and took selfies at popular places that have been on medieval war movies.
Then, a mysterious call made him took an early flight back to his home country.
All of his prepaid travelling packages are forfeited and he have to pay additional flight fares to change to an earlier flight date.
What could be so important to Pear?
On the crowded booth, there are many circus dancers and lion dancers.
Pear with a mask walked quickly and redeemed his prize of $2 million dollars.
All the cameras kept flashing at the disguised Pear.
"Last year, nobody won the grand prize, so the prize have been forwarded to this year. 1+1= $2 million dollars."
The emcee made the crowd excited but Pear was nowhere to be seen.
At the nearby carpark, Pear was wearing the lion costume, he then thew away into the bin.
He bought the lion costume from the lion dancers for 1 gold bar.
Ah, yes. His $2 million dollars was in the form of gold bars, he bag them in the convenience store, using those big black plastic bag that are sold for $1.
Phew, the bag weights 39 KG and he traded away 1 KG.
He is walking discreetly like a conman, he kept looking at the suspicious passerbys.
Even the security guards found him to be behaving so awkwardly.
Due to security reasons, all big bags will be checked before allowed to enter the public transport.
Pear have no choice but to take a taxi. It was afternoon time at 3pm but there was no sight of taxi.
He kept walking down the main road, getting closer to his house, 100 meters by 100 meters.
His hands is unfortunately getting bruised and his feets is burning hot.
He is drinking his sweat but he have no choice but to continue on his endeavour.
"Take a photo of me," Jisoo asked her boyfriend.
Parker kneel on the floor and quickly take a good shot, folded dress and delightful smile filled the screen.
They went into a coffee bar to take a short break.
The aroma of the cappucino whets one's appetite.
Coupled with a strawberry brioche, their lunch is sastified.
Then, Jisoo requested for another photo.
Parker bend his body forward for a close-up shot, he didn't want to take a photo of the lunch plate with messy bread crumps.
Other couples looked at them, the girl was jealous and hit her boyfriend in a jokingly manner, insinulating why he can't be romantic like that.
But for Parker, he have been taking photos of Jisoo everytime they go on a date.
He was more like a personal cameraman, these type of relationship are commonly known as a selfie "boyfriend".
Even Parker's friend warned him,"Does she likes you or does she loves herself?"
Ditching the negative thought, they went to a movie theater.
And once again, there was a sculpture of a famous movie star, Jack, Parker was already standing in place for the camera shot.
No doubt, Jisoo stood elegantly and posed with her head looking upwards instead of the famous movie star, it was a for fun camera shot.
2 hours of movie, Jisoo did not spoke a single word to Parker.
Parker felt unstable, but he knows he cannot expose his insecurity and make Jisoo uncomfortable.
Then, they went to an amusement park.
Oh, it was more beautiful at night, the colorful lanterns make the whole park looks like a disco and a kids' playground blended together.
Definitely, Parker will have to take a lot more photo shots tonight and indeed he did.
They went to the roller coaster ride and screamed their lungs out.
They went to the haunted room and got bored of the cartoony ghosts.
They went to the toilet and waited for each other, they are probably tired at this point since it was really late at night.
They decided to take a last ride, the ferris wheel ride.
The ferris wheel ride was just beside the koi pond capturing tent.
Many kids were trying to capture the big kois with their tiny nets, it was obviously a money scam booth.
But who is to blame, when the kids were having so much fun disturbing the colorful kois.
As they finally reached their queue turn, they aboard the slow and gentle ferris wheel.
It was the biggest ferris wheel in the country.
Parker tried to talk about school days and the meals in the amusement park but Jisoo gave a nonchalant reply to most of them.
Then Parker tried to bring back the happy mood with his KonKon 2000 limited edition camera gifted by Jisoo.
And, indeed Jisoo smiled happily while posing with the beautiful night scene from outside the windows of the ferris wheel.
One could see the entire forest, the high rising office buildings, the scary dark sea and the whole of the amusement park.
When, at the the peak of the ferris wheel, the machine malfunctioned, it literally grinded to a stop.
They looked at each other, surprised at what to do, but their simplistic discussion was never going to solve anything.
It actually felt more like Jisoo was complaining, Parker sighed.
But emotions cannot fill the bottle. Jisoo finally started a chat,"Why do you always come on a date with me?"
It was like a question to fill the boredom but it is hidden with a lethal intention.
Parker raised his camera again and took photo of his girlfriend,"So, I could be your cameraman."
The anxious girl asked again,"What do you like about me?"
Parker finally was appeased,"I like that you are being just yourself and not pretending to be someone else."
The shyly girl finally gathered her courage and leaned in for a kiss.
When the lips pressed together, the ferris wheel suddenly moves again.
They were bouncing at the momentum and laughed at the situation.
The girl finally explained,"I do not know why, but this only happens with you. For some reason, I always get shy when I am with you, so I am filling the blanks with camera shots."
Parker did not say anything for he is bewitched by her beautiful floral dress, dazzling eyes and slim arms.
Judge 1 said,"They love each other, so they should be able to have a child."
Judge 2 said,"Loving each other does not means that they have the means to be raising a child, they just got out of the school only."
Judge 3 said,"Well, the records showed that they knew each other for 10 years already, 3 years past the 7 years taboo, therefore, I think they are safe."
Judge 4 said,"You guys are being too easy, remember why we are here. Our parents abandoned us and we became orphans, we are here to help the world, to reduce the number of abandoned babies and kids."
Judge 1 said,"We have lots of couples to decide on their future, we will not have the time to revisit this couple and change our decision."
Judge 2 said,"I feel like the girl does not loves her boyfriend as much as he loves her, all she does was... asking for more selfies."
Judge 3 said,"But, it seems like the boyfriend is happy, so where is the problem?"
Judge 4 said,"I actually think the boyfriend does not like her enough, otherwise he would be more proactive and keep chit chatting with her."
Judge 1 said,"I think we should just give them a future, they should be responsible for what they do."
Judge 2 said,"Well, the big data shows that there are more and more abandoned babies and kids, I think maybe we should make them infertile and let them adopt kids instead, that would be a one big happy ending."
Judge 3 said,"You are just forcing someone else to take responsibility of someone else's mistake, I cannot agree with that."
Judge 4 said,"Did you guys not see that they kissed each other? If that is not love, I do not know what love is."
Pear was dragging his gold bars hidden in a black bag along the dirty floor.
His shoulders slouched and his motivations sinks.
He grips his teeth and iron through his will, he forces himself to walk another 100 meters.
He could have called upon his family to fetch him back home, but if his family ever found his fortune, he would have to share.
If he does not share, his relationship with his family would sour to the point of staying away from each other, living at two different houses.
His ambition to carry through this hardship is powerful enough to make him walk further and further.
He realized that there were no taxis because the government allowed private taxis, therefore, many company based taxi drivers turned into private taxi drivers in order to avoid the company tax and fees, earning them an extra 15% more salary per month.
But for Pear, carrying 38 KG of gold bars into a private taxi is as risky as it sounds, if he got kidnapped or robbed, nobody would ever know, there are no company security cameras and no GPS records for the police to track any criminal activities.
So, Pear stopped and rest. He swings his bag of gold backwards and fowards to throw it.
Pear walks towards the bag, then stops for a break. He then swings his bag of gold backwards and forwards to throw it again.
Amused bypassers then tried to help out Pear, they offered to carry the bag on a bicycle.
Pear was left confused when the bypasser directly helped without asking, after some distance, he quickly said he is going in another direction and took his gold bag back but he was surprised at the good samaritan, he smiled and thanks him.
After some time, more bypassers then tried to carry the bag together with Pear, Pear then quickly declined and shows his confidence in carrying the bag.
Perhaps, he should stop throwing the bag, it attracts attention and the bottom of the bag is starting to break, leaving a hole big enough for the gold bar to slip through or be seen by others.
The night descends but the victor smiles, he was only 100 meters away from his home.
He knows his shoulders have been overused and his legs have been tortured, but his sweet prize pot of a whooping $2 million dollars was pushing him forwards.
His family just arrived back at the house at the same time. they tried to helped Pear but Pear declined as though it was something precious.
"These are my friends' wine, I take it myself." Pear explained with a shrewd face.
The next 10 years, Pear enjoyed overseas travelling, properties purchasing and reselling, he was like playing monopoly in real life.
Pear went to a high end restaurant, the restaurant happens to be celebrating an event, it turns out to be a free meal for Pear.
Pear went to university, his school fees are apparently free, someone donated to the school and the school transferred the money to the current students to pay for their school fees instead. Pear gave money to his friends to open up buisnesses, and they all succeeded and become bosses of their own life, they started to repay all the money given to them with an additional 10% interest and 10% inflation extra fee.
Pear started to invest in random shares and stocks, but this time round, he incurred huge losses.
It was a sad day for Pear, it felt like he have achieved almost everything in life but yet, he did not work a single day.
He went back to his old full time job interview and funnily, the job is still looking for a worker.
It was the same recruiter, the same questions and he got the job.
But it was weird because he does not know what he would be doing on his full time job.
The recruiter said,"You will become a deity of luck, you will help all those who work hard and is not paid fairly, you will help people that have nobody to ask for help, you will help people to secure their own money for their own expenses and luxuries."
The little kid rumbles down the staircase, heads into the kitchen, with a terrifying fright, he heard human voices.
The voices stops and the footsteps moves away from the little kid.
The little kid hurried into the toilet and locked it.
In about 3 hours, the little kid puts his ear on the wooden door, he heard no more sound.
He is ready to open it, but then, bam! bam!
Someone knocked on the door, who could it be?
"Gem, it is mommy."
Gem unlocked the door and told his mother what had happened but his mother seems to misinterpret it as a ghost encounter.
Gem becomes a very quiet kid in school, at home and during family outings.
Jenny discussed about the kid's quiet behaviour in school with her husband, danny.
Her husband was complacent and said,"Dear, I was like that when I was a school boy back then."
Jenny tried to capture her husband's concern,"Today is the graduation day, there was a carnival but Gem was just standing at the canteen, he only watches the other kids playing around at the carnival."
Danny retorted,"I did not even have a carnival back in my days..."
Jenny said,"That is not the point, alright, nevermind."
Danny turned off the lights, he went to Gem's room so his wife wouldn't over worry about it.
Danny asked,"What story do you want me to read today?"
Gem said no politely.
Danny insist,"The three little piggies? The tortoise and the hare?"
Gem explained,"I read every single one of the books on the shelf, dad."
Danny curls his son's hair and stayed until the candle weathers away.
In the morning, the chirping birds were singing at the huge backyard.
The backyard was filled with a water fountain, tea bonsais, flower bushes and coconut trees.
The aroma of the fried eggs zoom through the air, Jenny was both the mom and the maid of the house.
Grandpa and grandma walked slowly down the staircase and reached for their morning deluxe.
Jenny walked up the stairs but could not find her husband, but at the windows, she saw Danny was digging the soil with a hoe.
Jenny knocked on her son's room, then entered but she found no one.
She wrapped up the blanket and tidied the room.
The computer was still on and Jenny's curiousity caught on her.
Click, click, click and click.
She found nothing, then Gem entered the room.
"Breakfast is ready." said Jenny.
"I have eaten with grandparents, they are now watching television." said Gem.
The grandmother have painful knees, even just walking down the stairs pains her terribly, she is definitely not walking up until night falls.
The grandfather walked out to the backyard and see what Danny is doing.
Danny was roughing out the soil so the plants' roots can grow better but grandfather could never understand such tedious methods.
Grandmother sitting on her big comfortable chair peered out through the big windowed door.
She was more interested in what they were doing rather than what was showing on the television.
She grumbles and walks up to the center of the mansion, there was a statue of a deity, she burns some joss sticks and offers her prayers to her grandparents, and then, the deity of luck.
The whole family appeared soon enough, everyone take turns to keep their eyes closed and bow at their ancestors and the deity.
There is a big clock guarding the doorway, the bird came out and "koo koo".
The grandmother asked the grandfather, is he going out today when she already knows the answer.
The grandmother walked him to the door and waved a big goodbye.
The grandfather said,"I will buy something nice for you."
Despite the mansion having two well-polished cars, the grandfather walked on foot instead.
Despite there is a bus stop nearby the pathway, he walked on foot instead.
Despite there is a shortcut of the car road side path, he walked through the nature park instead.
He bids good morning to the big eyed flying creature on the tree.
He bids good morning to the crowd of monkeys snatching from each other, from what seems to be a soft drink bottle.
He bids good morning to the early park visitors.
Then, he reached his destination, right beside the church, there are many coffeshops and merchant shops lined up side by side.
It was a crowded day as usual, for the freshest fishes and meat are sold in the morning.
But, he was not here for the market, he went to the coffee shop instead.
The son, Gem, groaned,"Why do I have to pray to the deity?"
His mother said,"Even if you do not want to pray for yourself, you should help your ancestors to pray for the deity of luck."
This confuses Gem even more.
His mother then said,"The deity of luck blessed your ancestors, so they were able to buy this mansion and the land we are standing on."
Gen wowed,"Even the land belongs to us? Well, if I am staying in this house, it means I am blessed too."
The father, Danny, told them to bath, they are going on a shopping trip, he was excited to buy home a gaming console at the pretense of buying for Gem.
But when they drove their car there, Gem looks uninterested in anything.
The parents sat down and rest, then suddenly, Gem went to a shop, the parents later came along.
It was newly opened, hamsters riding wheels and birds boasting their colorful feathers.
The father decided to buy his son a hamster but he said no.
He likes the tiny puppy even more, its golden ears flapped down, its round, beady eyes, his short body, it almost looked like a soft cushion animal toy.
But it moved and it eyed at Gem whom stared back at it.
Gem begged for his parents to buy it.
His parents was at lost at what to do, will the dog bite them? How big will the dog grow? What if the dog mate with other dogs?
The father, Danny in his tiny office room inside a very tall office building.
He opens the app, paint and keep drawing stickmans, coloring the background.
Then he opens the video app and watch other artists drawing natural lanscape and house designs.
He tried to imitate all that on a free app using an unreliable drawing tool and a computer mouse.
He found a trick and is able to clear up mushes by scrolling in, then he could see the pixels and remove the offending drawn pixels, one by one.
Now, he drew a beautiful tree, the tree have branches growing in diagonals, overlapping each other.
The leaves were shape in spade with many tiny lines crossing each other.
Then, he looked at the online reviews of art tutorial books, drawing magazines and the price of gaming consoles.
The time flies and it was already time to return home.
He knocked on the boss's office,"I am going home, I have already completed half the task."
The boss smiled and bids goodbye,"Keep up the good work."
Danny was always lazing around in the office but he was no fool, he had already done all his tasks, he have even done tasks that his boss had not given him yet because he could already predicts what tasks his boss would give him later on, because all the tasks are like chapters within a project, and from the office computer, he could see all the projects done in the past, he would copy and rephrased it, he was quite surprised when he found those project files too.
The mother, Jenny works in the engineer department.
But she was not just an engineer, she considered herself an inventor, a designer and an engineer.
This time round, she was tasked to make a fan for the gundam board room.
The gundam board room is where the pilot drives the gundam and shoot missiles, but it is undeniably small and crampy.
That smallness of the room makes the heat grows rapidly, there was nothing to cool it down, there was no air vent because the entire room is fully covered, if the gundam ever reaches space, the lack of oxygen would kill the pilot if there was an air vent.
Jenny complained about the dynamics of air flow to his colleague, Tam.
Tam agreed in all and all,"This is mission impossible."
Jenny then said,"If there is no air flow for the heat to leave the board room, it will never be able to cool down efficiently."
Tam, then showed Jenny his board room's chair prototype, it was so tiny, that no human could ever sit on it while not falling down.
"Like, who are they designing these gundams for? Tiny dwarfs? Kids?"
Jenny laughed but later they both suffer in pain at their impossible task.
Grandmother wanted to take a stroll but she was tired, she kept thinking about where did grandfather went to.
Grandmother turned on the television but she was not interested in the drama, it is the same old drama that have been replaying for ages, families quarrelling each other, solving the problems and loving each other again. Different actors, same story, different background, same ending.
Her legs keep shriveling, her arms becomes droopy, she wishes to eat the breadcrumbs from the kitchen but is too lazy to do so.
Anyway, grandfather will bring home some better treats anyway.
She remembered back when she was young, she would go outing with grandfather every weekend, like today.
They watched so many movies that she lost count of how many movies they have watched.
They have travelled to many countries, walk for long distances, they visited snake temples, golden buildings, river village and a skiing resort.
But, now she is confined to this chair, it feels very painful to move. In order to fix the muscles, the doctor said one needs to exercise.
It was no solution but endless pain for grandmother, then she falls asleep on her big and comfortable chair.
The grandfather bought his coconut rice and chicken wings, bamboo rolls and fish soup for $22, he gave $50 and received $28 change for it.
He sat down and took a break but something caught his attention, someone else paid $50 but received a $65 change, he told the customer,"You have earned it."
The customer was in denial, he said,"This is not $50."
The grandfather looked at the $50, it featured a squid face and was mostly blue in colour.
The customer explained,"This is $100, if you fold the dollar note and it have two perfect squid face, it will double in value."
No way! The grandfather was so surprised at this big news, he immediately tried the method by buying more food and it worked, the coffeeshop seller gave him much more change for his folded $50.
The customer then explained,"The more you fold, the more value it will have."
The customer then do a trick and showed it to the grandpa step by step,"Now this is worth $2500."
The grandfather almost fainted in a dramatic way, he tried to do it so despite the customer discouraging him to do so.
The customer then lamented,"See, there is a small tear here, the squid's face here is bigger than the squid's face there."
The grandfather then asked a curious question,"Then how much is it worth now?"
The customer expressed sadly,"It is now worth $0, it is now just garbage, but I was the one that entices you to do this trick so I could buy it from you."
The grandfather then traded his $50 folded like a durian with a brand new $50 from the customer's wallet.
Then the customer went to a nearby vendor, the man with a mysterious hat that was helping to exchange money from different countries.
The customer gave the $50 that was folded heavily and unfolds it, the man with the mysterious hat gave $5000 to him.
The grandfather angrily approached him,"Hey! You cheated me out of my money."
The customer then tried to prove that he is not the scammer and asked the money exchanger how much is the folded $50 worth?
The money exchanger said,"Exactly $0."
The grandfather argued,"Then, why did you gave him $5000?"
Then, the money exchanger explained,"Because he unfolded the dollar note and it showed a serial number 777 7777."
The grandfather realized his mistake and apologized for his rashful behaviour.
It seemed like the money exchange rate have a lot more things he did not knew of.
The son, Gem played with the puppy until it became a large sized dog.
He have to remove the dog's waste, bath it everyday, bring it out for walk, mop away the furs dropping on the mansion's floor.
Coupled with his high school homework, he was crushed like underneath a rock.
He tried to shove his pet to his mother, but his mother was busy at work, same for his father.
He tried to shove his pet to his grandmother, but she was always just sitting in the same old chair and not moving.
He tried to shove his pet to his grandfather, but he was always going out to nowhere.
His near coming exam is driving him to an edge.
If he fails this, he will not be able to enter the college that everyone is going to, he will be going to a private school instead, that will not look good on you when you go for a job interview, and this might means the end of his career.
Right now, he have to make a decision, or rather, he have already made, he just needs to choose the right time for it.
Late at night, he thought he heard some voices, but it was nobody, he opened the gates and let out the dog, he ran along the neighbourhood, so did the dog followed. It was weird to see a teenager and a dog running late at night with only the street lamps glowing.
But the dog lost his owner, or rather, he was abandoned.
Gem took a bus back home, alone.
Soon, the exams came, he didn't scored well as he was still distracted by his abandoned dog, but the free time he gained helped him a lot, he managed to get into college with a decent score.
The father, Danny woke up in the morning and kept searching for the dog.
Because he had to work monday to friday, he tried to ask his family to help search for the missing dog.
Gem found it, he looked around and saw that his family was not nearby.
He pretended he did not knew the dog and slid through the lift and escaped away.
The dog noticed Gem, but it did not recognized its owner anymore.
When the dog was a puppy, his owner looked at it with loving eyes, this person was not the same person he met long ago.
The dog understood and ran faraway, to the grass plains, to underneath the benches of the park, to the bushes beside the playground.
Its stomach was growling, the night is falling and it does not know what future is holding for it.
Danny tried to celebrate Gem's exam passes and reduce the sadness of the missing dog by buying a gaming console, okay, alright, it was more like, for himself.
The game art was fanciful and caught everyone's attention, the whole family kept playing it but within a week, they got bored of it.
Danny realized he loved the game art and not the gameplay itself.
As the rain pour and pour endlessly, the forgotten dog walks up to a small roof, the rain stopped within the circular roof and he smelled a familiar scent.
The dog's eyes looked up and widen, it pulls out its tongue and started panting and wagging its tail.
The mother, Jenny was holding an umbrella for the wild dog.
She took the dog to an abandoned pets facility named pets' paradise and abandoned it there.
The dog was left confused, why again?
The dog played with the other dogs, chinchillas and birds of paradise but when it thought about its original owner, Gem that played with him from young till adult, it was a memory that could never be erased from its mind. So sometimes, it sits on the dog's long cushion and looked out the metal grills, waiting for someone to come for it.
And, someone did came, the mother, Jenny always came, donated some money and played with it along with the other dogs.
Jenny shuffled the dog's head and the dog smiled.
The grandmother was excited at the new gaming console but she was so bad at technology.
Today, the grandfather took a break and kept chatting with the grandmother.
He realized the grandmother needs to know how to start the gaming console and asked the father, Danny for help.
Danny, easily flipped on the switches and showed them an example on how to click the settings.
It turned out, the sedentary grandma started jumping up and down, then bend her upper body to the left and right.
On the tv screen, there is a rowing boat cruising down the river with many obstacles.
The gaming console was capturing the grandma's position and interacting with the gameplay itself.
The grandfather was amused at the sight and joined in the game.
They now share many more moments in life together.
The grandmother's muscles started to become healthier and her vitality slowly returned, redness started to return to her face.
Seeing that grandmother is now active again, grandfather asked mother to plan for a family outing again.
They went to a bird park, the path slope feels like a mountain and there were many animal enclosures.
The vibrant birds flew through the shoulders of the visitors.
The sneaky cranes walks past the behind of visitors.
The little monkeys climb the top vines where nobody is looking at.
The ostrich stared at Gem and Gem stared right back at it, it looks so majestic and dinosaur alike.
The family outing ended with a parrot flight show, where the parrots flew through hula hoops placed at the corners of the arena.
Mother, Jenny said,"This bird park is newly opened. Is it fun?"
Gem, looking at the white tiger enclosure said,"This is much easier than having a pet, there is no need to feed, bathe, clean and walk it."
Father, Danny said,"True, we can come here anytime you want to."
Grandmother said,"Well, you could always donate at the animal shelter and play with the abandoned pets there."
Grandfather said,"Or, you could be a zookeeper."
Gem shook his head,"You guys think too highly of me.", then he realized he told nobody about the truth of his missing pet.
Mother, Jenny, her colleague, Tam and many other engineers and staffs stood in rows in front of the gundams.
A horde of dogs entered through the grand hall protected by an electronic device that requires the correct bark.
The dogs marched in line and turned towards the gundams, each of them have their own gundam and beside each gundam have an engineer or staff.
A black dog with long legs walked towards Tam, then Tam pets the intimidating dog.
A chihuahua walked towards to Jenny and waited.
"Pet the dog."Whispered Tam.
Jenny felt so weird, she have no connection with this dog but she have to pet it but it actually seems like it was waiting for it.
Jenny pet the chihuahua's head and it was smooth and soft.
The MC walked up the royal stage and made an announcement.
It seems like all the gundam human pilots are now exchanged to dogs because of suitability and loyalness.
But it is important for the dog pilot's caretakers to take care of them.
Tam nods his head in disagreement,"I have no idea how to handle pets."
Jenny comforts him,"Dun worry, my family owns a pet dog before, I can help you."
The MC and an alone dog walks down the stage and leaving the grand hall.
As the alone dog walks pass Jenny, she pets the dog's head and the dog growls furiously.
Everyone in the grand hall holds their breath.
Tam started to pull Jenny back,"That is general McKrazy, you do not pet the general McKrazy."
Jenny realized her stupidity and the MC warned without using his speaker,"You really should read your emails, lieutenant Jenny."
Grandfather passed away peacefully.
Father, Danny finally took his childhood hobby seriously and redecorate one of the mansion's room into a painting room.
Son, Gem found many friends in computer games, but they all left sooner or later, even if he felt lonely inside, he is not going to buy another pet anymore because he knows it is wrong if you cannot take care of them.
Grandmother asked mother, Jenny to visit the animal shelter and handed her donation money discreetly.
Jenny was curious and asked,"Back then, how did you knew about Gem abandoning the dog."
Grandmother said plainly,"Sometimes, I fell asleep on this chair, and that night I saw Gem leaving the house with the dog. But how did you find the dog?"
Jenny responded,"I checked his bus card records and search around those places."
Grandmother said,"Shouldn't we bring back the dog and just pretend we found the dog and take care of it ourselves?"
Jenny said in a serious tone,"The dog will be more happy with its other dog friends there."
Grandmother nags,"Even if "go", you still must make sure the clock is not spoiled, repair it when broken. And everyday, never fail to pray for our ancestors and the deity of luck, place food and gifts on it, alright?"
Jenny asked,"Gem had a trauma when he was kid, was it you who was in the kitchen?"
Grandmother explained,"It was not me, I am always sitting on the chair, you need to know we are not the only ones living in this mansion."
And the grandmother hands Jenny a platinum key.
The girl with flushed red face wearing a proper school uniform jumped over the fences, then ran like an athlete.
She was travelling on the side of the car road, it was dangerous because you cannot see the cars driving towards you as they appear from behing your backs.
The calm boy in school uniform and a black tie with diamond designs rode on a bicycle, he was moving at the same speed as the schoolgirl even though he was not pedaling hard.
There were some cats fighting along the street when one of them suddenly pounced in the air making a nearby kid fall down.
The kid slammed so hard onto the hard floor that his arms became bruised but all he does was looking around nervously.
The schoolgirl have no choice but to help the injured kid back on his feet and bring him back to his parents which was a nearby house with the gates accidentally left opened.
The parents tried to thank the schoolgirl but she was gone along with the wind. It was examination day and she is going to be late at this rate.
But what annoyed her more is that the schoolboy was riding a bicycle on the other side of the car road without breaking a sweat, if only, she knows how to ride a bike.
At the car road section densed with traffic lights, the schoolgirl got a chance to run faster than the schoolboy as cyclists have to wait for green light in order to continue riding. But right at this moment, there was a traffic jam, probably because many other parents are driving their schoolchildren to school as well.
The school girl saw that there are some strange pots and debris blocking half of the main road, she immediately carried and removed the wreckage.
She sighed as the schoolboy went past ahead of her again.
It was so annoying that the schoolboy did not helped her lift the debris even though he have more muscles than her.
Her shoe laces got untied and she immediately fixed it by inserting them into the shoes instead of tying them properly, only to have them come out whenever she lifts her legs while running.
The sun have risen which is a bad sign as this means it is 7 am and her exam is taking place at 7am as well, probably there would be some 5 minutes preparation and 10 minutes reading of examination papers before the test will be started but this is really looking bad for her as she might lose out 15 minutes if she needs time to prepare or the examination papers have very long questions.
The cyclist pedalled even harder and was out of reach of the school girl.
When almost near the school gates, the schoolgirl saw a partially blind elderly getting lost.
The old man was always looking for the food shop but his poor eyesight always trick him to go to the school food shop instead, which is usually not a problem, since he can just eat there, but today is school examination day, the school food shop is closed today and there will not be anybody there to tell the old man that.
The schoolgirl patiently explained to the old man and bring him to the correct walking path leading to a nearby takoyaki mini food stall.
The schoolgirl is very angry at herself and is now rushing towards the school gates, apparently she caught up with the cyclist because the cyclist still have to park and lock his bicycle. She shouted at the schoolboy, "Hurry up."
When they enter the examination hall, the teacher stopped them.
The teacher then promptly talked to the schoolboy,"Timmy, you are the school role model, why are you late?"
The teacher then quickly made up some excuses,"You are helping some grandma crossing the road right? There can only be the reason why a smart and nice student like you got late. Please enter the hall and take your exams."
The same teacher stopped the schoolgirl,"Oh no, you are late, we cannot let you disturb the other students. You do recall that we already told all the students that latecomers will not be able to take the exam, right?"
The schoolgirl got angry and helpless, she tried to explained what happened along the way but the teacher did not even looked at her.
The schoolboy, Timmy brought out his phone and showed the teacher, videos of the schoolgirl helping out the injured kid, clearing away the road blockage and showing the partially blind elderly where to go.
The teacher was very pleased and let the schoolgirl took the exams as well.
But there was no point because after 1 month when the school results come out, the schoolgirl failed in all of her exams while Timmy have gotten straight As in different subjects and was appointed the school's role model of the year again.
Real life: Damn, the pizza delivery man came faster this time, I am going to rush up the story.
While the schoolgirl was eating with many other schoolgirls in the school food shop, Timmy came forward and said he wants to help the schoolgirl with her studies.
The other schoolgirls were whispering as though they are witnessing a school romance.
The schoolgirl got annoyed, she remembered that Timmy did not helped with any of the people along the way during the examination day, so why is he trying to help her now.
The schoolgirl then asked Timmy why does he wants to help her with her studies?
Timmy then asked the schoolgirl why did she helped the people along the way during the school examination day?
The schoolgirl said,"I do not need a reason to help people."
Timmy said,"Same as you.".
The other schoolgirls realized he was just a study companion and the rumours fizzled off.
This is too realistic for comfort lol.
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I'm feeling inspired...
The writer was waiting for the mail to arrive.
Then he made up a story.
On the year 2364, humanity has startrd to decay. Nothing id left of planet earth other than a lifeless, burning wotld, pretty much like venus. One of the last humans in the solar system, a young boy called Stacks, was trying to find a new home at an affordable price for his family. Yet he had no luck, his family was very poor and the colonization ships were expensive to board.
"Oh, shut! Here we go again!" He said.
He sneaked in and stole 3 tickets, but he was csught again. "Ih, so it's you again, you little and puny idiot!?" Said the guard.
"I want to get my family a new home" Replied Stacks. "I don't believe yoi" Said the guard and hit Stacks in the face.
The same scenario repeated every night at midnight. But one day, he found an old man eith 3 spare tickets. "For you, I don't need them, and you look like you need them more than I do" Said the old man. "Thanks!" Answered Stacks. The next day, the family boarded the huge spaceship. And he and his family managed to leave the horrible place their home had become. The end? Now the writer heard something.
"Ding dpng!"
His mail was there.
The end.
Btw, yes, the young boy is me, I like to make the main character as a self-insert whenever I write a story.
Not even my hello world works :'C
(But powerpoint does xd)
Btw what does api stand for?
Hunter Zen
Adapted from a story I wrote when I was
a teenager.
I had a nightmare about chameleons last
night.
That moment we returned to wasted
district X on planet Earth, we realized every civilized buildings got
swallowed up by the giant forests. We dropped down from the ropes
hanging from the helicopters and we dived straight right into the
heart of Nirvana. Nirvana is a nature area that have been preserved
for 1000 years, therefore it is less likely to have any nuclear
contamination, however our mission is to double confirm it.
There were strange stone statues of
chameleons appearing everywhere which was unexpected as there could
be no humans here to have ever forged them. Or perhaps, these statues
were crafted way before 1000 years old because they do indeed looks
ancient.
As we trek deeper into the Solace
pathway, the chameleon statues turned into nightmare creatures, their
rigid looking stone skin started moving like real flesh and muscles.
They yawned and flaunt their gigantic mouths and spiky teeths. Within
a hesitation, one chameleon have already started chewing on a human
agent's leg. We immediately armed ourselves with proton guns, these
bullets are effective as they defy gravity however they requires
recharging from natural sunlight. The silent jungle turns into a loud
and noisy battlefield, awakening even more monsters within the
territory.
A chameleon with a very big protruding
eye sidewalk like a crab towards me. It looks like its head is
splitting into half, but actually it was just the lizard opening his
triangular mouth. The powerful tongue smashed towards a boulder as I
dodged that hit. I was petrified, I have never prepared for such a
scary mission. It was supposed to be more of a scholarly missions
with tasks like taking samples and recording instruments. But then,
the flashback came in and all the events starts to makes sense,
especially when the science chief handed us military grade weapons
back when we were on the space station 1105. I am out, seriously, I
am quitting, I am abandoning everyone. I duck and rolled into a snake
tunnel. As I claw my way deeper into the tunnel, the tunnel becomes
wider and wider and soon, it looks like a sanctuary filled with
religious writings and tools. It was quite serene in here unlike
above ground.
On the battlefield, a senior started
throwing taser bombs which spits rainbow electricity after three loud
beats. The radiance blinded both the human agents and lizardy beasts.
The lizards amazingly disappeared but the humans are smart enough to
know that it is just a camouflage trick and they are still within a
threatening radius. The humans speeds up their gait while being
leaded by the senior Patchan. They arrived into a spacious white
temple with tall vases and pillars. Everyone lights up their blue
electronic shoes and jumped down the center of the temple ground
which is a big crescent hole, like the shape of the moon. The lights
from the shoes exposed the camouflaging chameleons inside the dark
hole, many photon beams blasted in all angles as friendly fire from
these guns are not lethal. As the smoke leaves the giant hole, they
know it is getting dark and their gun will lose the ability to
recharge ammunition. The crew stopped pointing guns and started
running underground. They were being chased by 8 fat chameleons, they
were so competitive that they ended up charging into each other
whilst chasing their dinner. But as some humans got tired and slowed
down, many giant pink tongues flew across the hallway and wrap the
humans like presents, then they were forcibly dragged back. The
beasts are salivating and sastified to have such a packed meal.
Eventually, the underground paths
crossed ways and I met up with the team again. We are now surrounded
by many doors of different colours, they are unopenable, Senior
Patchan quickly grabbed my photon gun away from me and fired at those
doors. I entered the white door, some entered the other doors and
half the battalion stand guard outside the doors waiting for further
instructions. I was dumbfounded, I saw food sacks everywhere, flat
beds, weaponry and maps. If these are not evidence for human
activities, what could they be? And indeed, high up the wall, there
is a ventilation hole, inside it, a woman with a pale face started to
gesture me into climbing into this hole. I did so and crawled my way
into a secret chamber. I was finally safe as I started to pile up the
furnitures and grains to fill the ventilation hole, blocking any
humans or beasts from entering this chamber. Soon, I started choking,
I realized the room is running out of oxygen but the woman seems used
to it, so I just calm my anxiety and waited on the empty floor.
Several
hours later, probably at the darkest hour of the night, the
chameleons formed an army and started barging into the temple's hole.
The scent of human blood and meat awakens the primal instinct of the
beasts. I could heard faint screamings, “Help Me! Help Me!” but I
could not see anything from this completely sealed secret chamber.
The silence afterwards pretty much demonstrated who is the king of
Nirvana. But somehow, afterwards, human chattering can be heard.
Could the human agents have won the battle? Even without photon guns'
ammunition? Did they carried other secret bombs or weaponry? I felt
so cheated, it was like I am a guinea pig, a sacrifice, a cheap
soldier brought into this hell spot. Or perhaps, I was fighting over
my guilt of abandoning my teammates, lying around in this cozy spot.
Most of the humans have disappeared, when a new wave of soldiers
arrived, they entered the same temple's hole, they were confused by
the multiple exits of different coloured doors too. Corpses and blood
stained the hallway, there was no sign of where to go. The fresh
recruits with clean clothes started exploring the doorways and
unfortunately, most of them got ambushed. The surviving chameleons
from previous battle have cleverly camouflaged into different colours
right inside these different exits. But what exposed their position
was the tragic sound of hunger from their stomachs. Nevertheless, the
chameleons easily overwhelmed the soldiers as the narrow pathways
makes it difficult for a gunfight. The sweet juice pouring through
the marble and the room is filled with a scent of terror. The bodies
are getting trampled on like grassy dirt. The humans that found the
correct exit started to break down the door and started blasting 5
holes into the center of the door, this is a sign to let the future
recon know that this is the correct exit.
A night have probably passed and I find
it much more easy to breathe, not realizing the woman have cleared
the ventilation hole of debris. It was said that 1000 years ago,
humans left Earth because of a Nuclear disaster, does this explains
the monsters? Or was everything a lie?What is my real mission? And
why are humans back on Earth, are life on space stations not
sustainable? The more questions I ask myself, the more questions I
have. Then I started hearing a stomach growling, I laughed as I
thought it was my tummy but it was more of an echo, the true sound
comes from the woman with pale face. I realized I have never thanked
her yet as I decided how to approach her. Her movements looks
sluggish and heavy, her human hands started turning green. Her
delicate head started to have big fish eyes protruding outwards and
her slender unclothed legs started to show off some unnaturally
packed muscles. I am not going to wait for the full transformation
and started to dive towards the ventilation hole, but somehow there
is now a metal gate at the end of the burrow. I do not want to
experience this but a strong and powerful hands grabbed my feet
whilst I am stuck in the ventilation hole. Every inch it pulled, it
lead me backwards into the secret chamber which was once my safe
house.