"When I grow up, I'm gonna build a Time Machine. And If I couldn't do that, I wanna build at least an Inter Galactic Spaceship to travel between different planets and galaxies based on some solid fuel technology that I would discover sometime in the future.
If I couldn't succeed in doing any of the above two then maybe, I'll get into bio-technology, to build a super compressed energy food, which will let us move in space without worrying about oxygen in the space."
I was so hopeful about the upcoming future that I would spend my days thinking and drawing about stuff to solve the current technological and biological blocks that was hindering our current progress in Science and Tech.
"Dying on a planet in some corner of our universe with a dying red star wouldn't be so bad, would it?"
I wished for a future like that.
But that future never arrived.
From the very young age, I was really super interested in Science and Technology. Almost nine out of ten days of my life when I was a kid were filled with the thoughts of time travel and inter galactic space travel. Just like any other kid, I too used to watch a lot of Japanese cartoons and anime, which made me very hopeful about the future and upcoming years of my life.
My plan was quite simple. I was gonna learn japanese and move to Japan as soon as I grow up. I even had my notebooks filled with Katakana and Hiranaga letters repeatedly in order to learn japanese and interact with the folks there.
But when I grew up, my thoughts, feelings, circumstances and understandings suddenly started to change. From moving on to Japan and contribute my whole life to science and tech, my thoughts took a 180 degree U turn and now I was struggling to adjust within my reality.
Forget moving to Japan, even living in my own village now started to feel difficult.
Thanks to my family, I could maintain my sanity, otherwise, if it were someone else's parents, I might would have become a vagabond or something.
There was nothing really wrong with my reality, yet everything felt suffocating.
From, "I would discover time travel" and what not, to "How to get full marks in exams?" Had become daily routine.
Nothing what they taught us in my school had anything to do with what I wanted to become.
Schools became boring and now I had lost total interest in studying and becoming someone who would achieve something remarkable in my future and earn a big name. All of it felt like a waste.
"Ria, Tell us, What is an atomic number", Mr. Roy clasping tightly the book in his hands which he had previously grasped from my study table, asked her.
Just as he finished asking that question, a cold figure, lean and slim beauty, emerged from the right corner of our classroom. Her hands were as pale as a dead ghosts' and her long slender fingers moving across the thick dark text on her heavy textbook attracted the whole attention of our classroom.
"It is the total number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom".
She gently rested the science textbook she had held in her hands on her wooden desk and sat back on her place just like an ice cold figure devoid of any emotions.
"Yeah, right. Good job".
Mr. Roy was satisfied with her answer, it seemed.
Once again our science teacher a big, healthy man probably in his early thirties, started scanning the whole classroom with what seemed like his X-ray vision to choose his next target.
After scanning the whole room full of students who were desperately trying to avoid direct eye contact with him, his eyes landed on me.
Just like any other day, I was just too bored in this class asking about atomic number and protons and neutrons definitions which I had already read once even before I started attending classes of ninth standard in this f****** school.
"Hey Anxsh get up", Mr. Roy called out to me who was still lost in his thoughts of how do I get the build the equipment to manually change the number of protons and electrons inside atom.
"Hey, Mr. Roy is asking you a question, get up"
Just as I got distracted from the though process by this dumb brown haired guy sitting next to me, elbowing me, to tell about something important or what it seemed like, I turned around to look back at what was happening in the classroom, I noticed the stares of the whole classroom directed at me. I looked around and looked at the front of our classroom sitting a guy in his early thirties, looking at me while feeling somewhat amused because of what was going around me, he said with a scornful laugh,
"Hey pretty boy, are you awake or still sleeping in the classroom", Mr. Roy said while full knowingly that I wasn't really asleep or anything at all.
The whole classroom burst out in laughter at the sudden "pretty boy" comment of Mr. Roy. Obviously, because it wasn't the first time it had happened, it was a everyday farce.
Most of my school days, I would suddenly get caught be the teachers sitting in quite a daze thinking about something else while looking outside of the window, all the students and all my teachers already knew that I never paid attention in any of my classes, so, it was always a laughing matter for them to caught me in a sudden daze whenever I got lost in sudden thoughts in our classroom.
"Yes, sir", I responded while trying to understand what he was laughing at or why this guy was looking mockingly at me.
"Tell us, What is Mass Number of an atom?"
"Umm..", I stood up while grabbing the book from my deskmate who was sitting besides me.
I halfheartedly opened the book and not knowing what they were reading or probably discussing about, tried to recall what he just asked me.
In my head I thought, ["Mass Number was it? Or what?"]
My gaze shifted a little towards the girls sitting on my right side and there she was the girl who was previously being questioned about atomic number.
She tilted her book a little towards me and without even looking at me gave me the hint about what everyone was reading at the moment.
["So Mass Number was it".}
I clasped the book tightly in my hands and without even looking at the book gave the answer in a heavy adolescent voice,
"Total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom", I rested the book I had in my hands and looked at the teacher who was kind of satisfied with my answer, it seemed.
I sat back in my place and suddenly my gaze fell on the same girl who helped me earlier by tilting her book. She was looking down on her book but suddenly our eyes met. As soon our eyes made a contact from far away, she gave me a little smile looking shyly.
That sudden smile full of shyness triggered something in my heart and suddenly the world in front of my eyes started feeling flickered. The reality in front of my eyes suddenly glitched and a started to hear a sudden voice that seemed to cause me a sudden headache.
"Captain! Captain! Get up! How long are you gonna daze up for?"
A voice seemed to call me and my body started to feel a little heavy and aching as I opened my eyes in front me I saw a guy probably in his early twenties with a blood rusted sword in his hands panting and breathing heavily like a horse.
"Umm..", I tried to stretch my body which was feeling a little heavy and bulky.
"Wow, this feels fresh", I spouted these words out of mouth. Hearing this, the red haired guy who seemed probably of my age started shaking me violently while resting the sword heavily on the ground.
"Wake up Captain, stop day dreaming, we are still in the middle of the battle" as he said this, two more guys ran towards him and started asking him questions,
"Hey Ronin, Is the captain awake?"
"Nahh, I think he hit his head hard on the ground with that last strike"
"Oh, here, take this, throw some water on his face, he will wake up"
"You, throw it you bastard, I'm not gonna take the risk of getting beaten by captain"
This sudden commotion around me irritated me and woke me up. As I opened my eyes and tried to stand on my feet, all three guys who were chatting earlier so close to me, backed down in a sudden fear.
"Hey you f******, what's your problem, huh?", I asked irritatingly to the guy with the red hair standing in front of the other two.
The red haired guy who seemed somewhat like 23 years old hesitatingly and with a little fear and hurry in his eyes, started speaking timidly and hurriedly,
"Captain, that big wolf is still half alive, we need to hurry, before we get suffer more casualties", Ronin retreated back after speaking few words and grabbing the blood soaked sword in his hands tightly.
The other two guys nodded in agreement and started moving out before uttering a few words loudly,
"Captain, we're gonna go back to our positions, come back as soon as possible".
After saying these words they rode on their horses back to the battlefield.
"Captain we need to hurry, we cannot hold our frontlines without you for much longer".
Ronin handed me the glass of water which Vlerick and Thomas were discussing to throw on me face earlier to wake me up.
"Ahhhh! So boring! Okay, let's go and finish this", I grabbed the glass of water, drank it whole and hurriedly sat on my horse while getting ready to charge onto the battlefield.
"Hey Ronin, Where's my Luciana", I asked Leon while searching for my dear sword all around me sitting highly on my horse.
"Captain, You just put it on your waist, just now, how could you forget it so easily", Leon sighed while pointing at the sword hanging on my waist.
"Shut up! You idiot.", I shouted at him and then started patting my horse, Lowell.
"Alright then onto the battlefield", I press the saddle hanging on my horse Lowell and marched onto the battlefield alongside Ronin.
"So, What's the situation on the battlefield Ronin?", I asked Ronin who was riding by my right side on his brown horse.
"There should be twenty to twenty five left depending on how much others have slain in the meantime you were out cold", Ronin asked with a worried look on his face.
"Ah! Well, I see. I'll take the right side, down the mountain and help whoever I can, meanwhile, you should go and inform Cedric to get some little rest now that I'm here, he can relax".
"That guy might have overworked himself while I was away desperately holding onto the battlefield alone".
"Yes Sir", Ronin disappeared in a flash.
"Alright then, Who wants a piece of me, huh?"
"Here I come"
"Glory to Silgardia", I pulled the leather reins of my horse Lowell and in a thunderous flash charged at the monster slicing into half from down, below the neck which Gideon was barely holding onto.
"Gideon, go help Thomas and Bronn, they seem to be struggling a little"
"Yes Captain", Gideon ran quickly towards Thomas and Bronn who were barely holding onto the wolves that were twice their size.
I raised my voice as loud as i could and spoke on top of my lungs to increase the morale of my fellow kin's ,
"Listen up, you crow foods!"
Everyone's attention shifted towards me as they were holding weapons with their last breaths.
"The party is not over yet. So, Don't you dare to drop dead on me"
Everyone was completely tired, drained out of energy, but still fighting on, holdings monsters as they struggle to hold on any longer.
"I can understand that you all are feeling tired but"
"The table is nearly clear. So, clean up the leftovers!"
Just as I finished saying this, a new life force was suddenly filled into the squad members and they started roaring again in unison.
"Glory to Silgardia", someone shouted on top of their lungs and when I looked in that direction, it was Vlerick, slicing the monster he was struggling with just a few seconds ago.
I quickly realised the mood of the battleground and moved on myself too after seeing their energetic faces yet once again.
"Glory to SilGardia", I raised the slogan in the name of our goddess Silphine and charged ahead.
"We are down to the last eighteen", a slim fit guy with long blue hair sitting on top of a tree started shouting to me while I kept killing those wolf type 15 feet high monsters.
"With that we are down to the last 16 captain"
"Cedric is fighting on the very front of the battlefield, barely holding himself, while Flynn and Clara are heavily wounded and receiving medical care from Kyleen. Liana and Cassandra are fighting and helping the wounded,and the rest of them are right in front of your eyes here. That concludes my report here".
The young guy named Cole left after giving me the overview of the battlefield.
With a feral roar I charged at the monsters swarming my vanguard and with my blade swinging in a brutal, horizontal arc, sliced through the monsters flesh, spilling splashes of dark black blood mixed with intestines, felt like charging into a gutter full of filth.
Fully soaked in that dark filth blood, I kept slicing through monsters as hard as I could and killed three monsters one by one, which my vanguard members were barely holding onto.
I jumped from my horse and dashed towards the monster in front of me, which Ronin was holding onto, diving my sword deep down into the flesh of the monster's neck, and then mercilessly pulling it towards his neck below, slicing his neck into half and killing him in on the spot.
"Good job, holding onto it. Let's move fast".
I launched towards the last few monsters remaining on the battlefield and in just few more minutes, it was almost over.
"Captain, You finally arrived onto the battlefield huh?", said the guy mockingly.
His black hair as dark as the blood soaked onto his clothes. His body was covered with wounds from the wolves claws and some red blood seemed to seep through his wounds, mixing into the monsters blood soaked onto his clothes, making it artistically beautiful.
"You MotherF*****, Who was cleaning up the mess you were leading into the county, huh?", I joked mockingly, while showing no anger on my face.
It was a daily banter between us that used to happen between us to laugh mockingly each other and making weird jokes. If some other person sees it for the first time, it might seem like a real argument to them, but the people standing here knew that it was nothing but just some jokes to eaten the stiff mood at the battlefield.
Cedric drove his twin blades deep into the monsters body from below and I lunged forward making a high jump, moving my blade horizontally as to tore the flesh of the monster as soon as it comes in contact with it.
"Hah! You cannot do anything without me huh Cedric?", I said while laughing and panting dripping in monsters blood.
"Without you Captain, I wouldn't even come to fight into this Hell of a battlefield", Cedric said with a smile on his face before collapsing on to the ground.
I held him from his shoulder before he could fall onto the ground.
"Ronin, Take him to Kyleen and get him treated". Ronin and Bronn, holding Cedric one from each side took him away to see the medic.
I wiped the blood on my sword, and stepped onto the chest of the big monster that I slayed along with Cedric.
"Look at you bastards", I shouted in my roaring crispy voice, carrying over the quite battlefield.
"Take a good look around. This is what we fight for. For our lands, for our nation, for the safety of our families and the countless others that are living in our country and our Goddess Silphine, who keeps watching over us and blessing us so that we always triumph over the Evil"
"Now collect the remains of our fallen brethren and as we pray for their fallen souls, we will keep fighting in their place so their deaths won't be meaningless sacrifices"
"For our fallen brethren's, for our nation"
"Glory to Silgardia, Glory to Goddess Silphine"
"Glory to Silgardia, Glory to Goddess Silphine"
The silent battlefield roared in one last warrior cry, yet once again.