Ch. 9 "HISTORY BOOKS pt. 2"

"Commander Hugo, why are these words unreadable except for the one you have access to?"

Ashley asked as she stared closely to the figures imprinted on each of the books.

"According to the Directors the original had only those figures written on it, which means all the content that is written had the same kind of figures. But these ones that were sent to the four domes were modified copies"

Hugo answered.

"Why don't we take a seat here, my legs got weak from standing up to long"

Rei shouted as he sat on the chair opposite to the books. Everyone including Commander Hugo looked at Rei and at the place where he was supposed to be standing, to their surprise Rei moved their unnoticed. All of them walked towards Rei and sat down.

"Commander, mind telling us the things you have read from those books?"

Ken asked as stared directly at the commanders eyes indicating that he wants to know everything.

"Do you think all of you are capable of learning these knowledge?"

The stared back at Ken not being fazed by his cold blue eyes.

"*Yawn* Please wake me up when were going back okay?"

Rei said before placing his head on the desk and slept which slightly irritated Kurt.

"So where should I begin..."

"Why not tell us what is happening?"

Ashley suddenly uttered as she played with Rei's hair.

Commander Hugo stood up and took a book from the glass box and brought it to the table, he looked at the door then around the room acting all suspicious.

"What are you looking at Commander?"

Claire asked, the Commander continued to scan the room with his eyes as he held on to the book. After a few minutes he placed the book he was holding on the table and then opened it, but inside were only figures and unreadable content.

"Do we have to decipher this?"

Ken asked, the room was then filled with silence. The Commander placed his left hand on the book and started to whisper words as he lowered his head. After a few minutes the book started flashing bright white rays of light, the Commander lifted his hand and then the book started to change pages with more and more rays of light coming out from it. As the book was reaching its last page the commander took out a small box, the very moment the last page was turned he immediately place the box above the book where it floated and the rays of light started to only point itself to the small box. 

As the box received the rays of light words started to form on top of it in a holographic way, which made everyone stand up and walk back, except for Rei who was peacefully sleeping.

"Can you read it now?"

The Commander asked, as he saw the stunned faces of the people around him, yet he wondered why one of them seemed like he was not disturbed by the rays of light. The commander  then grabbed back the box and closed the book, as the holographs began to disappear he began speaking.

"According to this book, Earth was one of multiple planets that exists around a giant burning sphere of plasma which was called the Sun and it was also the center of a Solar System which our planet currently resides in. Our planet was the only planet to be habitable in this solar system of ours and the area where our planet resides in is called the Goldilocks Zone an area in the solar system which is not to near nor far from the Sun which provides sunlight for our planet which all of us needs. And the Sun is a S..."

The commander stopped talking when Claire suddenly slammed the table with her palms, she stared directly at the commander.

"WE ALREADY KNOW THESE THINGS! WHY ARE YOU TELLING US THESE TRIVIAL FACTS WHEN WE ASKED YOU TO TELL US ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR WORLD AT THIS VERY MOMEN!! TELL US THE TRUTH!! WHY THE HELL ARE WE FIGHTING SOME ALIEN LIKE CREATURES! WHY ARE THERE DOMES WHERE PEOPLE LIVE! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON"

Claire screamed asking for a different explanation her voice was frustrated and her eyes were about to cry, Cecilia stood up and calmly asked her to sit down.

"Please tell us the truth.." 

Claire said as her tears began to fall from the side of her eyes. Kurt looked at the commander and moved his hand asking the Commander to continue, Hugo took a deep breath before he sighed.

"This world is Dying"

The commander said with a straight face, everyone was in disbelief to what he has spoken. After hearing those words Ken placed his shoulders on the table with his hands close together he then asked.

"So what are we fighting for?"

Everyone bowed their head in this belief that Kurt has his hands Clenched under the table ready to burst out anger. The Commander opened the book on the 100th page and then read a phrase.

"The Earth will Die whether we like it or not, but that does not mean the earth will be destroyed. The earth has a core, if in a million years humans were to invent something that could heat up the earth and replace its core then earth maybe able to live with artificial life"

Ken glanced at the book, yet some of the words were still unreadable which he thought that somehow there were missing links to what was written on those phrases.

"And will that ever come to reality" 

Ashley asked while she was still playing Rei's hair. The room was slowly filled with silence that only Claire who sobbing can be heard.

"The chances creating something like that with this war going on is only 4.00021%, which means that if we were to stop fighting those things there will not even be a single percent of a chance for an invention like that to ever be built"

The commander said, but deep inside he knew that the 4.00021% was a lie, he knew that the only person who had the capability of doing that has disappeared with no signs of him ever being alive.

"So if destroy ever last one of those things our chances will rise and that our world will survive right?"

Claire suddenly spoke with a slight joyous voice, but her aura displayed a thirst for destroying all those things that Cecilia was slowly being frightened.

"Prob-"

The commander was about to answer when Ken suddenly spoke not allowing the commander to finish his sentence.

"No, the chances will not change, no wait... It will NEVER change even if every last one of those beings were to be destroyed, Am I incorrect?"

Ken said with an expressionless face. 

"Ah you are right, whether we like it or not the chances of that invention to ever happen will never change, but it does not mean that we should stop fighting."

The commander proclaimed, yet those around him were still baffle to learning such small information.

"Commander, do you have any idea how our planet used to be?"

Kurt asked with a desperate voice trying to change the subject to a more comforting one.

"Our planet used to have 7 different continents, each of those having different races, different language, and different cultures"

The atmosphere in the room began to lighten as the words were now different from earlier.

"Tell us more about the the past"

Cecilia said persuading the commander to just speak more about the worlds history. The commander looked at the book and began changing its pages.

"Well according to our ancestors earth was the only habitable planet which means this is the only place where there are animals and humans, and even though we have these many parts of our planet is still unexplored, such as the depths of the oceans. According to the Ancestors only a small percent of the oceans were ever to be explored, and that their technology had no power to endure the strong pressure of the ocean depth. But they have said that long ago before humans were to exist there were large animals that used to roam around the world they were known as Dinosaurs gigantic creatures that live for millions of years which means that our planet has live for more than a billion years ago. They also said that many things always happened to the past world, such as this planet had only one continent before and was split apart after the extinction of the dinosaurs"

The Commanders tone suddenly shifted at the end of his sentence, it was a scary voice which no one would like to hear.

"I know that many things had been taught to all of you at your schools, but there are things that was hidden from all of you..."

Ashley suddenly froze after hearing those words she slowly turned her head towards the commander which the others also did.

"Your schools never told you the fact that even before these creatures appeared, our world had constantly been in war and what is happening now is a relic to our past"

"No way that's true"

Kurt said in disbelief but he saw in the commanders eyes that he was not lying nor was he trying to scare them.

"Humans are greedy creatures wanting everything for themselves, they would steal if they wanted to, they would destroy things if they wanted to, more importantly humans will KILL! if they wanted to. But that isn't the worst part of our ancestors lives, there were humans who disguise themselves as people who will fight for their country, but behind those words were dark desires, such as massacring millions of people, destroying other countries for the sake of becoming stronger they were monsters beyond comparison. Those greedy humans and the beings beyond our walls are very much alike they kill and destroy everything without feeling any guilt"

The commanders words sunk into Ashley's brain triggering her to remember a past she always wanted to forget. Ashley's horrifying past triggered that all the emotions she was supposed to feel back then were happening at the very moment. 

Ashley then scream as she moved her hand around her body, she kept rocking her chair back and forth until she fell down which surprised everyone that they were all dumbfounded, Ashley started hallucination figures trying to grab her, she desperately crawled back as she hit the bookshelf behind her hitting her foot and arm making her unable to move, she screamed and screamed trying to make them go away, she took the books that was around her and started throwing it.

Everyone was dumb founded that they only watched as she screamed, Kurt stood up and tried to walk towards her while asking her to calm down but all he received were books to his face. Rei suddenly stood up and walked  towards Kurt at the moment Ashley was about to throw a thin book with a very sharp edge towards Kurt where rei was able to catch it inches away from hitting Kurt's right eye.

"You should go sit back down"

Rei said, Kurt thanked him and walked back to the table until he realized something. He suddenly felt his body shaking, he slowly looked back at Rei to only see him standing in front of Ashley deliberately receiving books to his body. At the moment Kurt realized that when he caught a glance at Rei's face when he caught the book that was supposed to hit him, Rei had both of his eyes closed.

"What was that??"

Kurt whispered as he walked back to the table. Rei then sat down in front of Ashley who was crying.

"Please go away! Please leave me alone! Please stop!"

Ashley begged to the figures she was hallucinating, she kept begging and begging until she finally became weak unable to even lift a book. But she still desperately kept on begging, Rei then lent his hand to her but she was still scared as she held on the her body, Rei slowly moved his hand and placed it on her head. As the tears on her eyes started to disappear and the blurry figured she taught was her enemy looked at her with a smiling faces.

"You can stop crying now, it's alright I'm here"

Rei said, after finishing her sentence Ashley suddenly hugged him tightly sobbing on his shoulders. Rei slowly moved her back placing her to her former position and then sitting beside her, as she then shoved her face on his shoulder while whispering.

"Don't leave me, Please! Please don't ever leave me!"

Rei glanced at everyone on the table and then gave a thumbs up with big smile on his face saying that its fine. Everyone was silent not having an idea on what to talk about after witnessing what had happened to Ashley.

"Since this has happened I might as well tell you the few things I know from the others"

The commander said as the attention from everyone was now on him.

"What are the contents of the book of humans?"

Cecilia asked, then followed Kurt who asked about the book of stars, and lastly Kurt who asked about the book of war.

"These answers of mine are not 100% accurate so I think you should clarify things with those who possess more knowledge about the books"

The commander said before he took the book of earth and returned it to the glass box, he then began explaining as he walked towards the table.

"The book of humans had information on how humans had evolve from centuries ago, stating that humans started gaining higher I.Q before the demons were to even appear, It was also stated there that the humans always have wanted to play Gods, thinking that they are the the only beings that are supposed to be on top of everything. In the book of Stars, I have minimal information about it, all I know is that the Star gear appeared when the humans had to face The Great Apocalypse which was when the 7 continents began moving towards each other shattering many land forms and buildings created by humans and also killed millions of lives, and then when the world has turned into a new single continent that was named "The New Earth" the humans had began having disagreements on their beliefs and cultures. That where the book of War comes in, every since there were seven continents humans had always been in war, but the war became a huge loss after the continents moved together as the disagreements made it easier for all of them to kill each other. But all those had to stop and humans from different races had to work together when those black creature called "Demons" appeared, at first they were only mindless creatures that would destroy everything around them, then the time came when humans had to create the Domes where they were to live in and that others were to fight the demons outside of the dome. Time past and humans gained a long year of break from those monstrous creatures which had killed millions of people who were defending the domes"

The Commander paused for a while when he suddenly receive a call from the Professor.

"Commander Hugo"

"Yes Professor?"

"We are to start the experiment with those three right now, send them to the experiment lab"

The professor sounded in a hurry, which made the commander curious but he knew that curiosity would not do him any good. He then stood up before glancing at everyone around the room.

"I wish all of you luck"

He whispered to himself as started to walk towards the door.

[Chapter End]