Intergalactic

CHAPTER 4: Meet the Lost Atlantis

It has been about five minutes that Heather has been following the alien. She doesn't know why, but what she does know is that he is the only one she has met through the last few hours that at least looks like a human. Also, her mission is to save him and his people...probably. She can't do that without meeting their civilization.

At some point Daròn decides to brake the silence:

"You hungry?" The alien asks.

"I'm always hungry," Heather answers. Then she stops, and for a few seconds she just stands there trying to realize what had just happened. Suddenly she turns her head towards him and says:

"You can talk!"

The alien looks at her in question.

"Obviously I can talk."

Heather steps back and points at him.

"Yeah, but...you can talk in English," she says in joy.

The poor alien doesn't know what to answer so he just smiles and moves forward naturally. Heather on the other side is so speechless that only after some seconds she realizes that the alien has moved forward and she remembers to follow him.

While doing so she bombards him with questions.

"How do you know how to speak English? You - you have no contact with Earth...You're an alien!"

"What makes you think that I'm an alien?" He says with a knowing look.

Heather opens her eyes widely and stays speechless not knowing where to start from.

"I don't know...Maybe the fact that you are on a different planet?"

"You're on a different planet as well, but I didn't call you an alien."

Heather doesn't know what to answer. He is smart. But she is smarter. At least that's what she thinks.

"Technically, I am an alien to you, because I'm not from here," she says trying to find logic in this conversation.

"Me neither." This man was talking with such a natural expression that it could be described as funny for a third person.

The girl feels she is at an impasse of words. So she sarcastically laughs and continues with an underwhelmed voice.

"So, you're telling me you are from Earth, now?"

"Maybe."

That's it with the ambiguous answers.

The man while walking, picks some kind of a coconut from a tree, brakes it and gives the one half to her.

"What is this?" She says while examining its inside, which was blue.

"An alien coconut." The man says emphasizing the word 'alien' sarcastically. Heather takes notice of that and hesitantly smiles at him.

Daròn then starts talking, while Heather is trying to eat the coconut.

"What do you know about Atlantis?"

Heather looks at him with a weird look.

"All I know is that it was a city that was lost in the sea, never to be found."

"Well...you just found it."

Daròn then moves some plants from their way making it possible for Heather to see through them...the city of Atlantis. It is about a mile away.

This caused thrills to Heather. After a few seconds, having let this sentence sink in to her mind she laughs while observing the city in awe, and then looks back at Daròn. He smiles at her.