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...
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The Crystal Odyssey
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