10- Cherry Blossom

"Its the most beautiful thing I've ever see."

Those are the word that lizzie said as she stared at the last Cherry Blossom in Earth. Her expression showed that she was trying not to cry as she stared at it mid bloom.

This is why I wanted to bring you here. This is the season in which it blooms and I didn't want you to miss it. Plus I kinda missed this tree.

This tree is the prettiest thing on Earth. How did you guys plant this here? How has it stayed up this long?

Well you see, we planted this tree about 5 years into our journey to beat Shadowfrost. Today marks her 48th birthday. And shes stayed up all this time because of a special coating on the bark. It is like a instant healer. Over time as it gets chopped at or the weather gets to it, the bark strengthens. I'd say at this point it could handle a house falling on it with ease.

How did you guys even get that kind of material? Wouldn't it be very expensive?

We actually made the material ourselves. Believe it or not, but me and my friends are some of the smartest people on the planet right now. We worked in a lab preparing a machine that was supposed to change the world for the better if used by the right people.

I believe your one of the smartest people. Your also kind and loving. But what if it wasn't used by the right people?

When it's not used by the right people you get a place like this. Shadowfrost is the one who made the world like this.

So he really is a bad guy huh? I hope you dont mind me asking what the world was like before?

No not at all, when I was alive in my original life, humanity was at the peak of what Earth could provide us. We were colonizing other planets at this time. The human population reached an astounding 15 billion in 2100. About 13 billion still lived on Earth. The world was overpopulated, so we had built a machine that would provide endless amounts of resources for Earth. We were gonna make it so that nobody would go hungry until they found a home on another planet. Everything was great, the economy was booming, everyone was happy and then he ruined it.

Were there any Cherry Blossoms in your time?

You bet! We had whole forests of Cherry Blossoms. Everybody seemed to have one in their own backyard. Alas, this is the last one in existence for now.

What do you mean for now?

Well what I'm hoping is that soon the seeds from this tree will soon sprout a forest of them. So that all could enjoy their beauty. You know in my time these trees were a symbol of love.

I hope they can come back. I would love to see a forest of them.

Yeah...well it's getting dark, we should set up camp and leave in the morning so we cant make it back on schedule.

I set up the bed for us, then I lit the fire for dinner. While we were eating we discussed what we were gonna do when we got back to the village. I told her that I'll probably have a lot of work to do for the chief. Gone four days and all hell will break lose. She laughed at that, but then she said that she thinks I have too much responsibility for a 14 year old. I understand what shes saying, but I cant just sit back and do nothing while people are suffering by the hands of him. After dinner we went to bed, she snuggled up in my arms again and said goodnight. As I said goodnight back, we both fell asleep.