Through the Great Filter | Completed ✔

The Flowers of Love

She stopped the floating disk vehicle in a foot of a mountain. We turn left in one of the roads along the main colorful highway leading to this rough countryside road. The soil here is also colorful. It ranges from a mix of cyan and peach making it look as if the soil is painted. Even the stones are brightly displayed. It just look weird now beacause colors symbolizes happiness and joy where in fact this color filled planet prohibits emotions and almost all of its people are naive and do not even know how to smile. Well, at least that is base to her story because until now, no any signs of other Szxuveeks can be seen. There is still only the two of us walking through this colorful world.

Right beside where we stopped is a wide land of at least 8 feet tall flower field. There are hundreds of giant flowers planted. These flowers are even larger than the Earth's biggest one. They are properly plotted through the wide cyan field in rows and columns. But it seems that all of the flowers are dead. They withered and dried. Another interesting thing is the fact that none of them are bloomed. They are all still a flower bud. I walk to one of the flowers to take a closer look and inside of this very huge flower is a structure something like a thin egg shell. Inside of the shell is ... ... what? ... Is that a baby?

Amazing right? -She suddenly speak, almost causing my heart to skip a beat.

What? ... What is this?

That is how we are made.

Huh?

When a female Szxuveek reach 20 years old or whe she reached her maturing age mostly 18 to 24 years of age, she will released a circular orange seed from her reproductive organ, this happens only ones in her lifetime. This seed shall be planted in a special type of soil called fertile lane. There, the seed should grow into a big glowing plant up to 4 feet then a small bud will grow from the center of the glowing plant. Male Szxuveeks of the same age will then released a viscous blue liquid from their reproductive organ and this shall be watered to the bud in the center of the plant for the process to continue. The glowing plant with small bud has only 15 days to wait for the sperm to be watered upon. If no sperm is watered in the said time, the plant will die, if it is watered then, the colorful bud will grow larger and larger almost taking over the whole plant. The fetus then develops inside the flowers petals and for 5 months, the little Szxuveek will grow until the flower's petals bloom. After it blooms the first cry of the baby Szxuveek will be heard. The government will take him/her and assigned his/her proper code number and will put her to the training.

So, ... that is why you keep on saying "from the moment they bloom" because you were not born but instead you bloomed from a flower.

Yes. And these flowers are called #÷×% or "Flowers of Love". How ironic right? Every Szxuveek came from a flower of love but they grew up not being allowed to feel and to know what even love is.

Are they meant to be this dry?

No. They are all dead.

What? You mean all of these babies ... are ... dead?

Yes.

WHY?!

Because of a very felonious act commited by the Szxuveeks ourselves.

What do you mean?

Let us go. We are running out of time.

She did not answer my question and instead started walking through the mountain with a slight pinkish soil.

Do not tell me that we will - She did not let me finish my question once again

I told you to eat well right? Here is where all your stored energy will be wasted. We will climb this mountain and I will let you see something in the top.

But ...

She look back at me and started to raise her cream colored eyebrows.

No buts.

That is pretty stiff and I'm no good at hiking.

We ... WILL CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN.

She is starting to get irritated but I have no any plans to climb that freaking mountain.

You can go alone. I will just wait for you here.

You want to know your mission right?

Uhmmm ... Is my mission related to the  mountain?

I will tell you your mission once we reach the top of the mountain.

Why? Just tell it right now.

I have to let you see something.

Oh come on, I do not want to climb that mountain.

I SAID WE WILL GO TO THE TOP, SAMUEL HUDSON!!!

I choked after she shouted my name. Her eyes are now burning in fierce and her hands are clenched as if she will punch me anytime soon.  I have no plans of getting killed or whatsoever. I want to go back home safely. So, without wasting any moment I followed her to the mountain and we climb it together.

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Edit: Hello there, Intellectual Organism! Do you think, it will be better if humans reproduce through flowers of love🤔?
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