Imagina Shorts (Year 4)

Imagina Shorts #306

Imagina Shorts #306

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Welcome to Zenith. A continent where Zenith civilization grew. It looks like one of the most developed places in the world. It didn't disappoint our expectations. A utopia it is, a place of mixed technology and magic.

Zenith is divided into three countries. Magnam, Sethear, and Killeon. Magnam is the mining industry of the three country. This place can be found on the top-left of the continent. Rich of interesting minerals like... you can discover that your own ;) Sethear is where Phy Academy is. Sethear is on the bottom-center of the continent. This country is the most developed and educated among the three with only low difference among the other two. Only like 6% more developed than them. Killeon that can befound on not-so-bottom-but-so-so-right is also a mining industry, but only rich with the specific mineral; Zebrenium. Zebrenium in the discovery is by far the least electrical conductivity among the metals. This metal is also the toughest. That is one of the metals and minerals that is found in Zenith.

This place can be simlpy defined as "old utopia" for the reason that they still uses steam engines on most of their things. It's not that they are late in development, hell this is what would happen if steam era developed hard. With bountiful of metals in here — that's why they are so strong that even beasts can't topple any building here; even the streetlights!

This also explains why they are still using blimps.

Luna: Fury! Look!
Fury: *goes beside Luna* Oh.
Luna: Are we here?
Fury: I... guess so.

The slow descent of this blimp hints that this seems to be the right place.

Fury: (This... seems to be the next chapter of my life.)
Luna: Woah...
Sola: (wind~) ^-^

Alex: Hmh. Seems like our messiah is enjoying the view.
Nyla: Yeah. Just let them be.
Jade: (They literally don't know what they are going for.)
Aurora: (Mhhh... Luna and Sola... What even is a happy life...)

Your two daughters are enjoying the breeze.

Aurora: (Even though you're doing the impossible, I still have hopes for you... Matthew...)

Fury: ...
Luna: What are you worried about, Fury?
Fury: Huh?
Luna: I know you. You're always worried about things like this.
Fury: Things like what?
Luna: Changes.
Fury: ah. (What am I surprised about? My very old freind knows me well? That is no surprise at all, but...) I'll be alright.
Luna: Hm?
Fury: I'll be alright ^-^ *headpats Luna*
Luna: ^-^
Sola: Mama's watching.
Fury: !!! •-•;;

Aurora is indeed watching. Her face seems daydreaming. Better not to bring her any attention.

Fury: *still giving Luna headpat*
Luna: Because I am here with you?
Fury: ^-^
Sola: -.-

This blimp may be slow, but it don't have an engine with high restriction. Errors are seldom and if there are, the engine is flexible. They now descended not on the airport but somewhere a bit far from that.

The blimp is almost touching the buildings. Not the blimp's fault, but the buildings are just so big. Here they are now, landed on a strange place.

Charlotte: You gotta take care of our messiah, okay?
Jade: I know, I know...

Charlotte and the other class left the blimp. Viper, Akhann, and Genome however went on a different direction with their container they had before. Nyla and Joaquin also went on a different direction.

Jade: Follow me.

Fury, Luna, Sola, and Aurora followed Jade.

Silently walking along. This place is quieter than the Zenith we saw before. This place seems hidden; especially we had to go over a mountain just to be here. This place also seems not the Phy Academy we are talking about. The buildings here doesn't look like a classroom. There are also no students here. Well, it is late afternoon, so...

Crickets are now on their schedule to do the evening ambiance.

Jade went inside a room.

Jade: Hey. Can you enroll this one? I mean; *whispers*
Encoder 1: ... oh... uhuh... oh-kay...
Jade: And these two too.
Encoder 1: Ah. Sit down, please.

Fury sat down near the desk.

Upon sitting there, Fury waas asked about his name, his parent... oh.

Fury: About that...
Jade: Sighhh... Just choose someone you know.

Fury looked at Jade, but that face is showing a feeble "no". Fury looked at the seat where Aurora and the twin is, but Aurora's face is showing a big "NO". Luna seems interested and having a face of "Yes!", but no.

Fury: !!! Dr. D...
Sola: Try calling him.
Luna: Yeah!

Fury tried calling Dr. D.

durururu. durururu... duru-

Dr. D: Ye̱̔͢s̛͙̆?̐͏̗
Fury: Doc! I... can you be my parent?
Dr. D: H̴̻̚a̛͎̽h̵͈̑!͙̒̀ See? You w̸a̢n͏t͢ ̴m̧e͞ ͟t͘o͏ ̢b͜e͘ your p̢a͟r̕e̛n͡t҉ ͢àf̢t̵e̴̲̚r̵͍̋ ̱̏͞ą͚̒l͓̚͢l̺͊́!̧̲̍
Fury: It's about my enrollment >~<
Dr. D: Enrollment?
Fury: Yeah! Y'see; it's... ah... a-I am enrolling to be a student on... an academy. I-
Dr. D: Uḣu̡͋h̸͈̾.̈́
Fury: I-I need a guardian for this.
Dr. D: Ṷ̒́ḧ̢̤́u̴̪̅ḧ̶̳́.̡̺ͨ
Fury: I'll put your name here. Your full name?
Dr. D: Natha̢̰͋n͕͗͜i̵͈̓e̢͇ͭl̛̲̽ ̸̙̓D̸͍ͪȃ̧̖w͊͏̪k̴̟͆s̴̼̈́ő̘͘n͗͏̠.̻̀͡
Fury: What?
Dr. D: N̸͢͢à̷̶t̕͢͝h͏̕͢ą̷̀ņ̷͞ì̶̕e͏̵̴l͜͜͠ ̛͢͠D̵̵͏̢̡á̧͏̶͡ẃ̵̧̛͞k̷̡̧͘͞s̛̛̛͘͡ơ͠͠҉̡n̴̵̛͟͝.̸̸̴̵̡
Fury: I can't understand. What's the signal there?
Dr. D: N̷͏́,҉̢͟ A͏̸͟,̢̕͜ T̷͏̨,̷̶͢ H̶̵̀...
Fury: Where are you?
Dr. D: À̷͜,̕҉͘ Ǹ̸͞,͏̵͘ I͞͏҉,̷́͟ Ȩ̷̧...
Fury: oh god...

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Dr. D: O, N... You got it? ... Okay. Great. *ends call* Huff...

Dr. D is somewhere underground. There is also this railroad on the path.

Dr. D. Where do this tunnel go?

-

Fury: Rrrright. In the contacts.

His full name is Nathaniel Dawkson.

Fury: Ehehe ^-^;;

There is this paper with a word written "Nathiel Daukson". He tried.

-

The enrollment is now done. The three new freshman and freshwomen had a tattoo on their hip (exclusive for this type of scholarship). They also have a copy of their fake documents because why not have a copy?

Jade: Ugh. It's a bit late now, but I'll still lead you to your appartment. Well, I guess a condo since it is "free".

On a train they go. Phy Academy is indeed not that place.

Fury: >~<

Did he cringed or something?

Fury: (Thank God. Luna is here.)
Jade: Even though we are important people, we still take public transportation, huh?
Fury / Luna / Sola / Aurora: ...

Even with the dead silence between the four (and the other passengers), the joke made it in just to tickle their sense of humour.

-

They are now on the station they needed to be.

Fury: •-•
Jade: *bought an L-sized coffee drink* Let's go.

They moved on to the outside; a city of Sethear.

Fury: •—•

Somehow, this city feels like cyborg. Half old industrial age, half information age. Kinda like medieval-looking people but with phones, but not just phones. Kinda hard to explain.

A busy evening it is. Very loud also. Engines are clankin' and vroomin' and steamin'. Alot of stuff, y'know.

After taking the cab lift (which is like gondola lift), they are now at the subdivision where our scholars are gonna stay.

Looking around; this place is actually huge! There are indeed alot of division in this subdivision — divisions that are narrow and broad. It is all chaotic. Don't get lost, okay?

Jade seems he already know where their unit is. Oh wait. He has the key already. Truly the preparation for our messiah, huh?

Jade: Rrrright. Three people per unit. We gonna get you another one, Fury. *gave Aurora the apartment key*
Aurora: *receives*
Jade: Let's go, Fury.
Fury: Oh. I got to go wiith him.

There goes Jade and Fury buying a new apartment.

Aurora: *looks at the key*

The tag says "D-074-4".

Aurora: *unlocks the apartment*

A messy room it is. Not that messy in stuffs, but messy in style. (The inside is clean actually.) What's a surprise if the outside is this messy too?

Sola: (Totally unbearable.)
Luna: (This place seems like it's about to explode! >~<)
Aurora: This is nice.

They all walked in... (without their footwear.)

Inspection, inspection... That's what we do in an unfamiliar place. We have this L-shaped room. Wait. We can think of this like a 4-by-4 grid. (The square with shaded square are the indicated.)

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(This is the open room. The entrance is on the bottom-right-ish.)

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(This is the supposed kitchen.)

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(This is the restroom.)

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(This is somewhat the dining room? I don't know. A free room maybe. It also has a door to the balcony.)

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(This is the bedroom.)

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(This is the balcony.)

Aurora: What do you want for dinner, you two?
Luna: Uhh...
Sola: Hmmm...

They haven't eaten anything yet!

Aurora: I'll just go to the convenience store and buy anything there. I don't know human food -~-

Aurora left, letting her intuition find the nearest convenience store.

Luna: ...
Sola: ...
Luna: *reveals an instant noodles* Let's eat!
Sola: What! Luna! Where did you get that?
Luna: At the kitchen.
Sola: Well... It could've been left here!
Luna: *went to the kitchen*

Sola followed Luna concerningly.

Luna: Huh. How do you use this thing...

It is an advanced electric kettle.

Luna: Hmmm... *plugs the kettle up*

Vroooom! It has this spiral tube where it releases steam. Done!

Luna: Oh. That was quick.

Luna opened up the instant noodles, added up the seasonings, poured hot steaming water on it, then closed the lid.

Sola: *lifted the cup of noodles*
Luna: ...?
Sola: 12,021? What year is now exactly?
Luna: I... dunno.
Sola: (Oof! Hot!) *puts down the cup* (Even if it is a big number, it could still be expired for years now. Really hard to tell.)

... What year? Huh.

Luna: Mmmaybe it is done too. (Assuming that the kettle boiled that water quickly too.) *opens up the lid*

It was overcooked.

Luna: -_-

The noodles are all soggy and the seasonings are escaping with the steam.

Luna: I'm not hungry.
Sola: I'm not gonna eat that!

-

Luna and Sola is at the balcony.

Luna: (Compared to the tree house, this place is more noisy and don't have a good view.) ,_,
Sola: (I don't know why but I miss seeing everything just from my room. Having rooms higher than us is...) ,_,
Luna: Hey! There they are!

It is Jade and Fury. They are going on a different building... Just right next to Luna's building.

Luna: !!! Fury's my neighborhood!
Sola: *goes outside*

Sola went to the entrance to see Fury. Luna did too.

Luna: Fury! ^-^
Fury: *waves* ^-^

They are climbing up the stairs now. And then they stopped.

Luna: (And he get to be my balcony-hood too!) >u<
Sola: *gets inside*

-

Jade: I'll give you a tour tomorrow on the academy.
Fury: Uhuh.
Jade: *gave Fury the apartment key, then leaves*
Fury: ...

Jade left them on their apartment now.

Fury: *started looking around*

Just the same layout like Luna's.

Fury: (Wait. How about my stuffs back home? Are-Are we staying here now? I thought we were just having a tour! ... I'll just ask Jade tomorrow.) Huff.

Fury familiarized himself on the room layout. There are these appliances that needs like a year of Zenith citizenship to be familiarized of.

Fury: I can't believe I'll be living alone... At least it's better than having someone... Ugh...

Fury checked the balcony. Luna is just right at the next balcony waiting for him.

Luna: Fury!
Fury: Hello.
Luna: Cheer up, buddy!
Fury: (At least Luna is here.)
Luna: *looks to her right*

Sola is sleeping.

Luna: Hmmm... (I should've told mama to buy two cans of corn.)
Fury: *stomach gurgle* Oh. Hey, Luna. You want something? I'm gonna buy food.
Luna: Mama's already buying for us.
Fury: Oh. Okay.
Luna: Ey! Wait!
Fury: ???
Luna: Can you buy two cans of corn? ;)
Fury: Oh... kay... *leaves*

Luna's corn obsession is something.

Aurora: Hah! Here you go, you two!

Aurora bought three huge meat buns.

Aurora: Where is your sis?
Luna: Ah. Sola's sleeping.
Aurora: Oh. This one is for her.

One meat bun stepped aside; the two ate their individual meat bun.

Luna: *takes a bite* !!!

Just right when the dough was ripped, an entropic steam escaped the bun.

Luna: >~<
Aurora: Woah? *takes a bite*

Aurora's meat bun released hot steam too.

Aurora: >~<
Luna: This place is full of steam, huh?
Aurora: Hehe. Yeah.

The good part is the meat bun has alot of meat in it. You could literally buy it, eat it, and call it a lunch.

Luna and Aurora enjoyed their food.

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Fury: (W-Where the hell am I?)

Good luck and have fun, Fury!