That Golden Boy: Collection of Random Short Stories

41: CRONUS PAYS A TRICKY VISIT

Flames rose at once in the fireplace, crackling merrily as though they had been burning for hours. And then in no time it bursts out into emerald-green as Chris poured barium sulfate towards the blaze of fire.

"It somehow ironic that we had the time to entertain ourselves despite of the scenarios happening right there..." Eliza confronted, pointing her index finger to the icy glass windows. "We must do something now."

The entire country seemed cocooned with ice, houses embedded with minty snows, roads masked by heap of frosty crystals and natural habitats were slowly dying making it hard for animals to survive resulting them to migrate across the cities.

I sat bolt upright, taking a moment of thinking how we gonna execute our plan.

The Saturn's phenomenal appearance at the sky, for about nearly same distance as the Moon is totally horrifying.

Scientists said that the Earth's elliptical orbit changed its direction to linear path towards the "Ringed-Planet" Saturn. But the speed remained constant from 67,000 miles per hour.

746 million miles were required to reach that planet that will take one year and three months.

We've been getting farther from the Sun, making the Earth's temperature drop. Most residents had no choice but to leave their homes to go in the places wherein the equator lies, as the temperature there wasn't really affected.

"Nangyayari ba talaga 'to?" Eliza asked out of the blue. "What if we're being manipulated? What if there's someone behind it? I remembered that NASA's project you said months ago," she added.

"May access ka pa ba sa headquarters?" tanong sa'kin ni Chris. Napailing lang ako. "Wala na talaga, ako na nga mismo ang umalis 'di ba?"

I left the headquarters, my Dad forced me to lose my job.

"Maraming sikretong tinatago ang headquarters Athena. My friend died years ago when he discovered something, about a project that will turn the humankind into inevitable chaos. They're intending to put a show. He said that to me over the phone, and then his line glitched. Kinabukasan, nalaman na lang namin sa news na nag-suicide raw ito," mahabang paliwanag ni Dad tungkol sa pagkamatay ng kaniyang kaibigang si Sir Monast.

"Which is not real? It is?"

"Naniniwala akong may kinalaman ang headquarters rito. They're preventing thierselves to be exposed. At kung anuman ang dahilan at purpose nila ay hindi ko alam. Nananatiling malabo ang lahat."

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"MOVE!" Hindi magkamayaw ang mga tao kung saan tutungo, a tremendous snowstorm is approaching, a flock of lifeless birds was lying on the ground due to extremely cold weather condition.

"FASTER! INTO THE AUDITORIUM!" the police officer commanded.

Sa kaba na may mangyari pang masama, sunud-sunod na kaming pumasok sa loob, hinahanap ko sina Chris pero mukhang hindi pa sila nakakarating.

Balot na balot kaming lahat upang labanan ang matinding lamig, marami nang namamatay lalo na yaong mga matatanda at ilang mga batang mahihina ang baga. Kung hindi man sa lamig, ay dahil sa gutom.

Nagsimulang bumagsak ang bilang ng mga food stocks na nilalabas-masok sa iba't ibang bansa dahil unti-unting nagyeyelo ang kabuuan ng lupa't karagatan ngunit hindi no'n mapipigilan ang nakaambang pagsabog ng mga bulkan, lindol, at bagyo sa mga susunod na buwan dahil sa chemical properties na mayroon sa nasabing planeta na makaaapekto sa mundo.

"Saturn's nine times wider and 100 times greater mass than Earth. Once na makalapit tayo sa mga rings nito, we're going to adopt the planet's gravitational pull..." Chris explained, reading an article from the web.