The Crystal Odyssey

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The Crystal Odyssey

Chapter One: The Day The Earth Stood Still!
July the eighth; my birthday! The world itself seemed to mourn that morning. The clouds were a dull slate with dark patches of iron looming over the earth. The wind was still yet I felt an eerie breeze lurking in my heart. Maybe it was a warning? A way to deter me from interacting with my surroundings, but still, if the universe knew the event was going to take place; wouldn’t it want to go out with a bang?
“I want to do it!” I smiled stretching my lanky arms into the air. I was determined to be the first to try it out, the weapon that would send my whole world into a spiral of disaster. It seemed so harmless at the time, a simple glowing rock that seemed to refract light to a degree I had never seen before. “Ok! Arc, you can go first,” my teacher Miss Onzaen replied “. Remember, be very careful. We are very lucky to be the first people to see this rock and Arc you will be the very first to actually touch it,” she continued. 

I know you are probably wondering how such a powerful device got into a normal school, but you see at the time scientists thought it was a useless piece of rock. The only reason we got the rock was because my teacher’s brother worked at the University that discovered it; no one had physically touched the rock without gloves yet, and no one knew the sinister power it contained. I was just a normal school boy who wanted to be first. Simple as that, but I guess that wasn’t enough...

I walked up to the stool where the rock had been placed and slowly reached my hand out to touch it. I wasn’t scared, but I wanted to build up some tension in my class. I could feel the gaze of my fellow class mates, enviously starring at me. The closer I got the quieter it seemed to get in the room. At about 3mm from touching the rock, time itself seemed to have slowed down for me, it would be the start of my sixty seconds of fame, but for everyone else it would be the day silence fell.

My fingertip finally grazed the surface of the crystal. For banter, I thought I'd scare the rest of my class, so I jumped around and cried “BOO!”  But no one was there...

Chapter Two: The Rapture!
Everybody had disappeared, everyone except eight other students. They all looked at me as if I was crazy. They had not yet realized that more than half of the class had disappeared. That’s when I understood that there was something far more bizarre taking place behind me. I swiftly turned round to observe this for myself. The rock was glowing: blinding, florescent blue light. My eyes felt like they were going blind, yet somehow the burning I was expecting felt bearable. “What’s going on?” I heard a voice shriek from behind me, “What’s going on?” I wanted to turn away and run but I couldn’t. I was trapped. No matter how hard I tried my body simply would not obey. After a few seconds, a darker light started seeping from the rock. I didn’t understand how but it was a darkness that possessed the ability to shine. It began to spread, engulfing the blue light and finally taking its place, slowly spreading...closer...and closer to me. I was helpless. Eventually the darkness had engulfed the room, taking me and what was left of my class with it.

It felt strange; there was an eerie sense of nothingness all around me. No up, no down. I was standing, yet I could not see any foundation supporting me. I had become a floating ball of unconsciousness just drifting in an empty space. I was all alone, no one would ever find me, and not because I didn't know where I was, but because I just knew that there was nobody left to find me. “Arc!”  I heard a loud yet distant call. I suddenly felt a surge of hope overcome me: I wasn't alone. “Arc!” I heard the voice again. I tried to answer but I didn't know how to. I started to panic. If I couldn't talk, no one would ever find me. My hope began to dwindle. Feelings of despair and loneliness radiated around me. I had giving up on hope, but hope hadn't given up on me.
I small light pierced the darkness that had engulfed me. “Arc!”  I heard the voice again, but this time is was closer. “Arc!” It kept repeating, getting louder and louder, closer and closer, and with every sound, the light spread, eradicating the demonic darkness and restoring hope once again. Soon the darkness was gone and I was completely surrounded by the light. My body felt warm and at peace. I didn’t understand what was happening, but right now it felt good and that’s all that mattered.