Chapter 2: DAWN OF THE NEW ERA
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"Fate brings you where you are now. What happened in the past, what's happening in the present, and what will happen in the future is destined?"
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Stowing away in the space of quiet, standing by calmly for the prey to show up. He limited his admission of air, reducing his quality. Distinctly noticing the environmental factors for any sort of development. It was as of now that a shrub made commotions, shaking as though it contained a being going to break free.
An animal sprung forward, it had branches on its head. A deer, a typical creature found in woodlands, is an ideal object for supper.
The man anticipated his prey to take the trap, watching the deer gradually stroll towards his concealing spot. He hung tight for the right timing, the deer unwittingly bit the fruit, its last meal.
An eating creature will have its watchman down, the man realized that. Utilizing that information, he emerged from hiding and drew his generally stacked bow all in one quick movement. The deer, gotten ignorant could just capitulate to its destiny.
The arrow shot and hit the animal right in the head, piercing its brain. Its body struggled and flailed around on the ground, then it stopped moving altogether.
"Ah shit, I was aiming for the eyes!"
He observed his fallen prey and criticized the shot which was barely within his standards.
"He died in one shot so, silver lining."
Dropped, but there is still a sign of life.
He then cut the animal's throat bursting its blood out. Dragging the dead animal's body and carrying it to his back.
"This should make it until tomorrow."
It is time to go home now.
Raj Lux is a teenage boy who grew up in the province of A Hundred-Acre Wood miles away from the capital city of Cube.
Skinny as he looks with his hidden masculinity. Born with raw strength and talent. Cultivated and practiced through time. The environment matched his greenish hair and emerald eyes.
Hunting for a living in the present moment.
He returns home each time he catches his meat for the day. Raj's standard routine generally, consistently since he was a youngster.
Her grandmother Milazza Rou raised him and was the person who showed him such abilities. In chasing deer, cooking, planting crops, and a tad of beating each time he made an off-base move or an error in each undertaking, yet as time cruised by, he figured out how to avoid and dodge her grandmother's beating swings.
As soon as he arrived home, he was already beginning to see their house at a distance. A bungalow old style fashioned house. Of course, it was her grandma's. As a child, he grew up in this place with a pleasing sense of uneasiness.
Raj felt a weird feeling over him. The kiss of the wind gave him goosebumps. As he witnessed his home in havoc.
What he saw was a stunner. It was unexpected for him to witness such an occurrence. Open scratched doors, broken walls, and fallen ceilings, the debris is everywhere.
The silence then passed him - even the surroundings stayed quiet.
He knew something was wrong.
"Grandma!" Raj exclaimed. And again. "Grandma!! I brought us food!" exclaimed his unmanly voice suiting his skinny look.
Raj is the lone family that her grandmother has.
Raj saw the house was in total catastrophe. Except for the last standing wall that divides his vision in front of him.
He at that point surged into each room regardless of whether its structure its concealed or if there were any left.
Only two walls stand perpendicular to each other. Scanned each part of the house to check for her grandma.
Tears scribbled on his face as he witnessed her grandmother's pale body lying on the floor of his room. Blood dribbles streaming out from her body.
Fending its arms as if it is trying to defend itself from something.
Raj felt an agonizing pain in his chest, it was heavy, and his vision turned dark. He screamed not knowing what he should do. He lifted an agonizing scream that evaporated his voice.
His voice cracked. "GRANDMA!!!" "WHO DID THIS TO YOU? WHAT HAPPENED?!?!"
Not knowing what to do, his mind almost turned blank. Raj tilted his head skeptically. A peep sound of broken debris of tile and wooden branches being stepped in broke the silence.
He runs swiftly towards them.
A masked stranger appeared behind him wearing a dark-colored coat with a gentlemen's hat and a black scarf riding in its shadow-like bear strange creature. Its eyes gaze like of the abyss. Raj gazed upon this creature steadily and its shadow grew more ten times as he looked.
With his emotions hyped up without a doubt he could do nothing less, he directly punches the stranger with his full power. "YOOOOUUUUU!!"
The stranger pointed out his finger lighting up Raj's hand. With just a single finger. He flicked his finger and Raj crashed and flung away towards their broken ceiling down to the broken wall.
Three days passed with him being unconscious. He woke up in a round room with light yellow painted walls made of brick. His stomach moans with hunger. Dizzy, and with a snap he recalled everything "Grandma!".
"Raj already woke up!" One of the sons of the town's chieftain oversaw looking up after Raj while he was still asleep.
"Call the chieftain!". Raj was still on his temperance and was still confused.
"Where am I?"
The chieftain was entering the room with him as the town's quack doctor. The only available doctor in town.
"So, there you are, what happened to you? He was doing fine, and there are not that much of fatal and major injuries that he has, only some scratches and wounds that need little res-".
Before he could finish his sentence Raj immediately got up even though he still had his hazy feeling with him. "Where's my grandma!?"
Disappointment marked their faces. No answer to his call. "You are in the Sr. Soy's house," it was Sr. Soy's caretaker who was also taking care of him. Sr. Soy was the chieftain of the village and the town for several years. No one leads the town better than their family. Even the people chose them and pleaded for him to lead when he was in his retirement.
"…And we brought you here when we heard a noise from your area. There were no doctors, as we told to do so..."
An unknown happening made such disturbing loud noises. It echoes in the silence as the sound travels and reaches them.
"They were the people who brought you in here."
Jan and Rheyl. The two people were also hunting near the forest and heard the noise. Upon hearing it, they immediately went where the sound resonated.
"I NEED TO GO AND SEE GRANDMA!" the look on his face says it all. His eyes began to swell, the tears were flowing cold, yet it was burning with anger.
"We're sorry for you Raj..." Jan came near as he comforted him. The people and villagers gathered around him.
"Your grandma..." The people also mourned for him.
Her grandma was a well-known person to them and quite an image because of the achievements of his father and their family.
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The only family in town who created a name among anyone in town.
His father was a famous scientist who formulated the equation for the success of harnessing the sun's power. It was also his father who found a way to use the energy of the fallen stars.
"Fallen stars" During the early 3000 the Earth experienced a meteorite shower. Fallen stars was the name they gave the event, because of the usual meteor shower form.
But what made this event significant was the size of these meteors and the radiating energy levels of the burning orbs. It echoes even if it is still hanging around the atmosphere. The whole world witnessed this event. His father and his colleagues were the pioneering scientists who studied the meteorites' debris. Coincidentally they were one individual who were close to the shooting stars landing territory.
There was a glowing orb, a core of some kind. It gives an indifferent feeling when you come close to the core.
Romeo Lux carried the name of his hometown after gaining some influence and fame from the discovery of the meteorite. Romeo is the said father of Raj, but no one had ever envisioned her mother.
Romeo was one of the founding members of the expedition a decade ago. After the project expedition had been acquired by the government, with his fellow doctors, archeologists, and scientists, Romeo was the one to find the power they called Quanta.
Three major Quanta energies fell from the skies that they had observed for several days till they landed during the Fallen Stars event.
Using the meteorite's stone, he crafted a box-like chest where he contained the power of the core. They believed that the energy came from a star. A core of a star that has separated in space and was covered with space rocks. The core itself attracted these asteroids compacting itself inside and covering its core. It later then moved into space.
Socrates is one of the discovery members that the government sent to aid Romeo and his colleagues. He helped Romeo craft this chest. He also had a theory that "it was not the full core of the star but a tiny particle that has separated from the original core,"
The team of researchers sensed a strong surge of energy and power even after containing it inside the chest. It was later then left in the hands of Romeo.
After some time, Romeo's colleagues together in the expedition noticed that the energies subside with the non-living things around them. Rocks, brush, pickaxe, and more. This includes the bracelets from his colleagues, they later then surrendered him these bracelets. They fear the energy it contains because of its mysterious nature.
Knowing the potential power and risks that come with the stones they obscured the eyes of the government from its reach. Even Socrates knew what the potential of these ingots could do.
Socrates helped him in search of people to conceal the power. They later then traveled within the continent and left this chest in the hands of the Sugboanons. A native tribe in the continent of Cube.
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Raj then moved out of the bed. "Where are my clothes?!"
Locating them even though he is still unfamiliar with the place. He moved round and round, circulating the area.
"Where are you going?" Some villagers were concerned for him because they knew what kind of person he was.
Quite innocent and emotional.
"You don't care, I don't even know you."
Grabbing his clothes from the chair, grabbed a piece of bread from the table, and poured some water into the glass. Feeding his hunger for days of being asleep. His stomach refrained from complaining. Raj quickly changed and went on his way back to their village top. It was already afternoon when he woke up from his ill-bound experience.
"We know, we can't stop you, but you can come back here anytime."
The villagers explained to him that they already prepared for her burial and everything was set to whatever he would do for her grandmother.
"At least bring this food with you." A villager gives him a lunchbox. Thinking that at least he should catch up with his meals.
He knew he could not have another look at his grandmother's corpse. Raj went back to the top of the village from where the sudden incident happened.
The sound of the breeze welcomed him. It was almost night and the sun was beginning to set. The birds flew to the atmosphere as the sun slowly resided. He continues to walk uphill.
You can still see and sense the green scenery and smell the cooling peppermint fragrance in the air, even when it is dark.
When he arrived tears streamed down his face - a few dropped in the ground. He went closer and knelt sobbing under the moonlit light with the sounds of the insects at night.
"Why me... How could this happen…" Sobbed.
Intuition was telling him that he was weak, and it was okay. That what is meant to happen will happen.
Raj looked at his hands with himself in despair. His fist knows that there is nothing more he can do because it has already happened.
Down, as he was seeing the broken pieces of his home, he saw his grandmother's dried-up blood. He knew it was hers. Raj searched around if there was still something that he could take with him.
A reflection of glinted glass sparkled like drops of dew caught in the sun. It was dark but the scenery was still visible upon his gaze.
He came near to take a closer look. Upon checking it he saw a chest, a blueprint of any sort, an old photo, a bracelet, and a necklace – he kept with him some of these.
Raj felt dizzy as his eyes already bore weight from liberating tears. Before he ultimately passed out, he picked up the pieces of dreck that could warm him from the freezing winds.
The rooster crows and morning came by. There was no other place that he could go so he went back to the villagers, bleary and diffident. He asked for help and everyone greeted him with delight.
"Raj you came back." The people are very happy upon seeing him.
The villagers welcomed him with a smile and a hug but the look on his face was disappointment, not to the villagers but to himself as a child.
There was nothing he could do, and it was very hard for him to accept what happened. He thought of himself "If was it any consequence that happened that led to such events."
Raj arrived at the place of Sr. Soy.
"Where did you bury my grandmother? It is the simplest and the last thing I could do."
The villagers were shocked. "Sorry Mr. Lux when we arrived at the place, we did not see anybody but only the traces of blood."
"We thought it was yours but when we examined you, you did not have any major wounds to spill such puddles of blood."
"So, we knew it was not from you but another person. Your grandmother perhaps."
Raj was left speechless and agonized. The villagers explained more.
"When we arrived, the place was burning. We thought it had already burned."
"You went there yourself, right?"
Raj with a confused look on his face. "Yeah," he then realized in his thoughts "why didn't I notice it, the place was almost in ashes," it was the darkness that limited the colors of his vision.
"But with that fire, it can't turn a corpse into ash,"
"…There should be traces left."
Raj knew something was off. But his uneasiness was left easy.
"It can with a fire like that." One of the villagers who rescued him stepped in. Rheyl.
"I, myself work in the crematorium in this town. It is possible with that kind of fire,"
"I am a cremator, but I never saw any fire of that kind. Even if we are burning temperatures around 800 to a thousand degrees Celsius-" the other person agreed with him.
"Yes, the fire was unusual, it was blue and green, and somehow sparkling with a yellow bright light," said Jan.
"The heat was extreme, but it also felt cold. But I know I'll burn when I touch it."
"I can't understand it myself."
Even though he is yet mourning he secured himself with a straight face and a sure look. He stood with composure.
Months passed by and he was doing well with the villagers. He lived under Sr. Soy's guidance.
He already had smiles on his face, the incident was no longer his main concern. He diverted himself to any activities that would distract him from remembering such an awful experience.
It was yet at the forefront of his thoughts regardless of whether constrained himself to fail to remember it the minutes had effectively turned out to be important for him and his memory.
A few evenings when everybody is snoozing in his new home he tends to overthink and there is nothing he can do except just to show homage himself.
Take a gander at the stars from his windows and just think about the cheerful recollections that he had with him.
One day he was disturbed by what he saw on the chest that he had found in their house. His thoughts were filled with ideas on what he could do and accomplish.
Raj thought maybe he should at least know something about his father. He already realized that he was living in a monotonous life. The feeling that saved him from that monotony was her grandmother with her.
Later, he decides to start a venture within himself.
A star with a crescent was present and was marked integrated on this chest. He did a little research himself with the resources in his town to perceive what he could discover.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Leirth
Leirth I would like to thank my friend Raymundo Alasagas for the quick rewrite and review in the first part of the chapter, and for providing me feedback. It was a great help for me to further improve myself. I know I am not that much of a writer but at least I wanted to write and I write.
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