Wednesday 25 September 2013

A Child's Dream - Part 7

1 Year later...

Emi still remembered the night where Gerald had told her his true purpose of being with the ambassadorial group, and had tried her best to forget it. It helped, however, that all the team had done for the past year was party.
She still had not been drunk again, though.
It was a celebration called 'Eastar' or something similar... Easter, maybe? She didn't see the point in it. There were a lot of people eating chocolate because a person who lived nearly three thousand years before seemed to have some sort of technology alike to what the Quarians had before.
Quarians worshipped ancestors instead of gods, and they had made a digital imprint of a consciousness before they died and uploaded them into a single database. The Geth had destroyed it, however.
So for what she could understand, a man called Jeezuz or something had technology that could upload his consciousness when he died. And he must have had some sort of drone because apparently he moved a giant rock. That or he had a pet Thresher Maw.
She still didn't understand how that technology could have existed in that rather... primitive, time. But oh well. It must have been some sort of human mythology.
They were having yet another party to celebrate it. The group had even bought her a large Turian 'Easter Eggg' or something. How many G's did Eggg have?
She got lost with the human language sometimes. It just sometimes sounded like a bunch of grunts to her.
The chocolate was... interesting. Slightly addictive too. It was sweet and silky, smooth and soft. She definitely liked it though.
The party was being held in a room at the back of a restaurant. Something called a "function room".
She was starting to worry about the physical health of the people in the ambassadorial group. Drinking so much alcohol and eating so much... well, the food wasn't exactly as healthy as vitamin paste, could not have been good for them. But none of them were showing any ill health effects. Their stomachs weren't even getting larger.
The group was talking amongst themselves at the party, but Emi was fed up so took out her book and began reading. She was on the last page of the book... again. After reading it another ten times in the past year.
"Keli'Ria's hands were taken by the Commander. He squeezed them gently as they looked across the beautiful horizon. The sun was rising above the buildings, casting orange and pink light across the sky.
The End."
Every time she finished the book she wanted love even more. In the previous year she had still not met anyone who she loved or loved her. It seemed Gerald was just pretending - he added some flirting every now and then but most of the time he was just ignoring her. But his eyes never left her, and was looking around the room all the time - as if he was watching out for any possible dangers.
How could she have not noticed it before?
Even though it unnerved her, she tried her best to ignore it. It wasn't causing any harm to her, in fact he was protecting her anyway so...
There was a groaning noise from outside the building that derailed her train of thought. Everyone turned their heads and began looking out of the window at whatever the noise was.
Emi stood up and walked over to the window and saw a large black shape that had landed. It had four giant legs that held a body away from the ground. Two panels on the front of the main part folded outwards, revealing a glowing red light within.
The group looked in shock, but Emi had no idea what it was. Some kind of aerial display?
There was a discharge of energy and a red beam tore through several buildings on the horizon.
It was certainly not an aerial display.
The Earth was under attack.

2 comments:

  1. Ooooh. We're getting close to where we already know the story. ^^

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  2. Dammit. -_- I wrote it once and then the internet failed.

    I said something along the lines of:

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. D:
    This is where they all die, correct? :(

    I like Emi's take on Easter. :P

    You know, I'm going to invent a word called dikewgfjergblergb (don't know how you pronounce it. It was a random keyboard scramble), which means 'brilliantly written', because it gets boring how I say the same thing over and over again. :P
    So:
    It was dikewgfjergblergb, well done! :)

    #ChaseForBookNine

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