Chapter 1 - Start of the Journey
"Goodbye, Brother."
The young girl smiles to me. Knowing this is my last encounter with her, I smile to her in that dark laboratory.
"Goodbye, Sister. We will meet again one day."
I lay in that tube. The button is pressed. Liquid soon fill that mechanical tube. The liquid swirls around me.
As i was drowned into the fabric of time and space...
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My name is Makoto. I'm a time traveler with a mission to save my world. Inside my time-traveler suit, I circle around amidst the particles of space & time. The world where I live before had fallen into World War IV. Lasers, projectiles, ballista, missiles, they rained down just like a storm occupying the entire sky. Skycrapers were falling to the ground, cities were torn down into warzone wasteland.
Year 2156, the only future I know now.
I'm looking for something. A
/Someone, certain somebody../
The whole thing is a mess, as even I do not have clear object of why am I coming here. But I know something will be waiting for me there.
I floated past the glowing lines in the shadow portal-tunnel. Across the timeline of the ages, through empty spaces of another dimension...
The numbers on my sleeves ticked. Numbers represented on a screen made of made of Armadillo scale. That number is the remaining power that my suit has left. Power that enables you to travel across time, as every number represent a power enough to go past one century.
/100 years, 200 years, 300 years…/
I close my eyes. The button is pressed. I am thrown through the flow of space and time. Attracted by the current through the parallel circuit of the ages. Crossing the lines of the network. Towards an unknown world. An unprecedented series of realm.
To a time in the past...
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A black hole with glowing streaks form on top the grassfield. I fell from inside that black hole.
"Aaaw!"
My butt landed on the ground. I hold my butt.
"Aaaw… my butt…"
I hold my hurted butt while touching the grass under me. Oh my God, grass! I haven't touch grass for a long time. People in 2156 always says that grass taste really good, as our legend acknowledge grass as essential ingredient in making delicious salad. That's the folklore of the future. My stomach rumble quite a bit, so I decided to chew that grass.
Bleh! It doesn't taste good! Where the hell that folklore coming from!?
The folklore says grass will taste even better if you chew them right from the ground. A goat silently look at me, as he chew his grass right beside me. His eating position.. exactly like me..
You folklore liars...
I shook my head. I've lived too long as an introvert. I stood up, looking around me. I didn't see the skyscrapers on the horizon, nor did I see the war jets passing overhead. If this isn't the Nazi era, it must be the Medieval Age. I saw some birds passing by. Their chirping is soothing. The sky soon is approaching evening.
I didn't see a pterodactyl, or any other flying amazing beast around here. Seeing no sign of peculiarity, I call off the Comm on the screen on my sleeve.
"Comm, did we really land at the right time period?"
Comm is an artificial intelligence I developed that's installed on the scale of my suit's sleeve. My suit is a time-traveler's suit, a leather suit made from the skin of a Dragon Hybrid Armadillo Diamond. An amazing beast that came extinct millions of years ago. My time-traveler device extracts the isotopes released by the genetic record of those fossils. The more ancient the fossil, the further the time-travel it can reach. For every 100,000 years the fossil's lifespan, this suit can send me 10 years into the past.
"Yes, we have arrived at the right time, Mr.Makoto. Your task now is to locate the Yellow Dragon and extract the Core from inside its neck. You might want to do it fast, because I get bored around here."
Why the hell you get so annoying these last few weeks?/
A circular iron falls on my head from nowhere.
"Ow, hey!"
What is that!?
I look at the the thing that just crush upon my skull. I look at that thing. It is a thick circle made of iron, tempered with various of mechanical parts. There is a small clock soldered on its edge, and it also had an expandable slit in the center of the circle.
Oh, turns out that is the time-traveling tool I left behind.
In order to time travel, I need the genetic record of a high-class creature, ranging from hundreds of thousands years old to millions of years old. But at the same time, that genetic record is not enough. Genetic record shows the time-traveling device where it must time-travel. It sets a direction. It also provide the power to actually reach that certain time period.
But to start up the engine, we need a catalyst.
Blue Liquid and Yellow Liquid, from the rarest creatures in every age and every era.
"Are you sure they exist in this era?"
"Yes. Walk 500 meters north and you will find the Blue Dragon and Yellow Dragon that we are looking for."
"Comm, 500 meters from here is a rock."
It's literally a giant rock standing there among other smaller rocks. Comm only goes silent.
…
"Sorry, I forgot Google Map don't run around here."
I slap my forehead.
"By the way, also" Comm says again. "I'm going to run out of electricity in 3 hours, Mr. Makoto. So I'm going to shutdown now. If you ever need to call me again, you need to invent electricity first, considering Medieval Age do not hold electric socket of any kind to charge here."
"What!?"
"Okay, I will shutdown now. Good luck, Mr. Makoto."
"Hey, what do you mean I have to find electricity!? Do you think I'm Zeus!? Hey, answer me! Hey, heyyy!!!"
She already shuts dead.
Ergh.. I'm never supposed to teach you how to act more human...
As I put my palm upon my face, I recalled upon my mission.
I must go to find the Yellow Dragon, retrieve the Core inside of him, then return to the future and use that Core to stop World War IV.
Okay, the sun is about to set. I don't want to end my journey here being eaten by wolves. That's not cool. So I wrap the mechanical circle around my left arm and decided to walk into the forest to find settlement to drop of.
Cmon, we must go to save the world.
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