The Lunarian

CHAPTER ONE

(Our story starts many light years away with several Journal logs from our main protagonist Rika, she's recording her logs on her computer but we are seeing her in a digitized format as though we are looking at an hologram.)

        "Hello unfamiliar!"

(Strange...it's almost like she's looking right at us.)

    "My name is Rika and I'm from the 242nd Lunar Quadrant of Ikelos-7. In layman's terms, that's a small living quarters on the 7th moon of NeQuaria that myself, my family, and a few hundred others reside in. Where you're from you may refer to it as a Tenement or a Slum. But for me, it's home and I'm grateful for it. But I do dream of living on the planetary surface one day. I've heard so many wonderful stories of NeQuaria from other residents of the Quad. Stories of bigger living quarters and fancy hovering modules, how the cuisines are so extravagant and the fashions are to die for. I could only imagine."

    "I mean, we aren't totally disconnected from the news and media from the surface. But it is so dated. We're years behind in technical and technological resources. They send us stuff occasionally, but it's mostly old tech and things of that nature. The elders have done a good job to make us self sufficient enough not to rely on resources from the surface, as they are far and few in between on the shipments."

    "My brother Riku and I are technophiles/inventors. We live with our Uncle who works at the import/export docks and he brings us many cool things back to use. We're currently fixing up an old holographic projections station to mount in our hover modules as a basic comms system. It's going to be so cool. Uncle Dan always encourages us to be innovative and we try. We've gone through many trial and error phases and have had many successful projects as well as many not so successful ones. But as the old saying goes, If at first you don't succeed, get up off you ass and get back at it. Or was that just Uncle Dan. Anyway you get the point, right."

(Her Uncle has the right idea, I guess.)
(In a later log:)

     "I've been dreaming about Mom and Dad recently. Riku says he used to, but hasn't for some time now. I miss them so much. It's been 7 years since the accident and I remember it like it was yesterday. The dream is always the same though. I almost feel like Mom is trying to tell me something and then I wake up. Anyways, I'm such a mess right now, that's enough for today."

(Interesting)
(Let's skip through a few logs, here we go:)

     "So you'll never guess what me and Riku finished working on today. We totally finished working on the HoloComms. I'm so excited, I so can't wait to show Uncle Dan. He's going to love how we revamped the interface too. It's 10 times better than the original. We recoded the entire thing. I can't wait to show him."

(Very next log is short and sweet:)

     "He loved it"

(Okay, here's another interesting one:)

     "Today was the worst, Riku can be such a jerk sometimes. Ugh. Big Dork...It's hard to stay mad at him long though. His Stupid Face. So we were at the pentarium when-" (Uncle Dan calls out to Rika.) "Coming, End Recording"

(The story resumes and we now see an undigitized version of our 15 yr old main character with her slender semi-tall stature standing in the door way eyes wide open blinking inquisitively.)

Rika:
     "Yes Uncle Dan"

Uncle Dan:
     "I need you and Riku to head over to the market to pick up a few things for dinner."

Rika:
      (Sarcastically unenthused)"Sure"

Uncle Dan:
     "I mean we don't have to eat tonight if you'd prefer.

(She turns and walks down the hall to Riku's Room)

Rika:
     "Riku! Are you awake you big dummy?"

(She pushes the door open, Riku lifts his head up and replies)

Riku:
    "So you're talking to me now?"

Rika:
     "Shut up, Uncle Dan wants us to go to the Market"

Riku:
     "Yes, I heard"

(Riku looks back down at his desk and continues his tinkering)

Rika:
     "Shut up, what are you doing anyway?"

Riku:
      "I'm working on a- hold up, I thought you were mad at me and weren't talking to me anymore.

Rika:
     "Can you not! Clearly I'm talking to you dummy.

Riku:
     "If you say so. I'm trying to decode this locket for Liam.

Rika:
     "Whoa, Wait?!? Liam? I thought Liam moved to the 103rd Quad of Pletunia.

Riku:
     "Uh Yeah he did. But you know we have these things called mailboxes.

Rika:
     "You don't have to be a smart ass.

Riku:
     "I'm just saying"(laughing)

Rika:
     "So what's he been up to?

Riku:
     "Same old stuff. They've got much better tech over there Sis. And tons of it. Like this little fella.

Rika:
    "So why'd he send this to you of all people?"(Sarcastically)

Riku:
     "Ha ha, real funny. You know I'm a pretty smart guy. You'll realize this one day.

Rika:
     "Yeah, you're pretty smart. But I'm so much smarter. If he really wanted results he should've sent it to me."

Riku:
     "Really? You think so?"

Rika:
    "Uh yeah, I know so."

Riku:
    "Yeah, whatever"

(Uncle Dan pops in the door way)

Uncle Dan:
     "Did you 2 forget something?"

Rika & Riku:
    "Sorry Uncle Dan"

(Riku & Rika proceed to get up quickly and make their way out of the flat.)

(To be continued...)