The Emptiness of Mysteries

Long Lost Sadness

She sighed. Anger washing away as numbness took over. The clouds cleared and she saw the brightly sparkling lights from stars millions of light years away. 

She knew but abhorred how in those million years that light took to reach her iris, civilizations ended and people murdered; both advances and huge losses made in history; and, best of all, humanity lost it all.

See, what the stars were hiding were horror. But humans, curious and wonder-filled as they were, provoked the greater species and went to war.

Centuries spent now as that single light traveled surviving like termites squiring in the sunlight. Hatred filled her belly, swelling up like mentos and coke in a bucket.

But, as dumb as humans were, we were still smart enough to make weapons to defend ourselves. For even when a mouse is trapped it becomes a lion in its own right.

Long ago, of centuries gone, scientists made a foolproof plan the first time these aliens made contact. A plan that would not only distroy the enemy but also destroy the world as we both knew and know it. A murder-suicide mission if you will.

The problem, however, was that they shared this plan with a dignitary from the Others. Some people truly are too smart for their own good. The Others now had ways to contain the humans murder-suicide plan.

But if there's anything we're good at, we humans find ways out of the mud like a rain awaiting worm. You see, this young girls great great grandfather stumbled upon the single thing that would eradicate all living things including the Others. He found out that somehow, someway, way down the ancestor line humans mixed with Others and made hybrids.

The single most kept secret in centuries since the Greeks roamed the world. The great-great-grandfather couldn't tell anyone for fear of the information getting to the Others like before. Instead he left his practice and went into seclusion -not hard considering they were in a pandemic- to pinpoint and make corrective weapons that would protect humanity.

Oh but that was a 1000 years ago, back in 2020. The journals detailed everything, and you know what else the journals delved into?

How to travel back.
And survive the plague.