The Astronaut

The rocket started to thrust upwards, the engine started roaring loudly that made the astronauts inside pushed down as being thumped by 25 elephants at the same time.

Jinta started to hold his screams, as he is still a newbie by standards. Never in his time of training was seen these unimaginable power being stood upon him.

But his superiors seemed to be able to hold on, yet also holding up tears in the process.

They were embarking on at least 10 years journey to discover hopefully until Jupiter, where no man even went to Mars in the first place.

A group of astronauts, from the US, Russia, and Jinta, the celebrated scientist turns into astronaut to fulfill his father's dreams.

It was never in his wildest dreams that he was chosen to embark to this daring journey. His family awaits their son release into the almighty nothingness.

"Son, you'll be fine. This is nothing. It's still only the beginning." The captain spoke, as he's been to the moon a dozen times, a testament to his passion of discovery.

"Boy I wish I was younger! Hahahaha! My backs killing me now." Said the lady who's the geologist from the US.

Jinta, trying to process these informations inside his head, is able to hold his screams, which turns into nosebleed.

"Don't worry son, soon we'll reach heaven." Said the daring captain, never too old for a new challenge.

"Ahhhhhhjhh!!!"

Then he wakes into his gregarious dream, where lilies and jasmines were thrown up on a stupendous hill. He's imagining the future, when he's back, because deeply he knows that it might take at least 50 years of earths timeline to be back again.

He deeply knows this, as he's projected to be the main male for a new colony in Mars.

The board from the Space Engineering Network wouldn't say a thing, but to defeat the enemy across the globe, to prevent the imminent danger of global war, a daring space challenge is to be attempted.

This is very dangerous, and could cost a lot of money if it's burn into ashes.

Jinta loves discovery, he always loved Sci-Fi books, especially the ones with interplanetary achievements. His dream now; meeting the love of his life on that top of the lonely hill.

Full of strawberries, he's beginning to take a climb, of how he progressed to lose every kind of sense. Every inch of humanity.

"Jinta. Kaerimashio."

Jinta. Go home.

As he reaches the top, the images from his dear life came into projection.

"Hey! jinta! Let's play!" Said Ken, his best friend and football club rival fan, when he's 10 years old. The long and near forgotten memory when he's happy, playing outside when schools over.

"Hahahah, Jinta! Good tackle!"
"Jinta! Pass it to me! Don't be selfish!"
"See you tomorrow!"

He waved goodbye to the golden piece that was stored in his mind scape.

"Jinta, I'm sorry, I can't accept your confession."
"But we can be better together." Jinta says it to Kurumi, the first true love that he cherish evermore.

"I'm sorry Jinta." Kurumi walks away, and from that point on, he never got in touch again. Jinta kneels down, from his highschool days, and promise not to hope on love ever again.

"Jinta, your dad, he's gotten into an accident!" His mother called him when he's studying in Switzerland. Trying to get his masters degree in Aerospace Engineering.

"Dad, that tickles!" Jinta's dad keeps teasing him.
"Dad! See, your club sucks! I rather pick the white one!" Said Jinta when he's watching his first Champions League.

"Jinta, go achieve your dreams. Just know that your family will always be here." Said his father when they are sitting together beside the Edo river.

"Are you sure dad? I'm going to be leaving for at least 10 years."

"Jinta. You're creating a good name for our family. What can a dad ask for more than that to his son?"

They watched as a nearby seagull catches a fish in the middle of the river.

"Just go." His dad smiled.

"Dad, I'm sure. I'll be back to see you again."

The screams continued. His dream is trying to hold on. The pressure of departing the planet, the single habitable planet for humankind, truly puts the best of the best even in agony.

"AHHHHHH!!"

"Jinta. Make us proud."

He wakes up, and now the crew are all ready to embark on a journey to the unknown.

Jinta looks back at the big blue, and he couldn't hold back his tears and cries aloud, knowing that the regret, now that he's left, has been multiplied into infinity.

Jinta kept screaming, hysterical, the crew tries to hold on to him.

Now he is gone, leaving his love of life to evermore.