my brother

This journey is exhausting me.

It's been only like an hour till we started from our kingdom, and I am already half-baked.

Argh…. I can't stop scratching myself. This heat has literally left me filled with sweat, and I am itching all over.

I think I have developed rashes everywhere; I mean literally everywhere.

These desert conditions are not suitable for me. I have found a way to change this. There is no problem in this world which science can't solve… But what I have literally planned to do requires a mix of science and magic.

I can't say it is magic because after reading the book on magic, I feel like magic here is linked to science.

Even though we have been travelling on the Dune riders, this is pretty hard.

My brother made sure that I wore some strange clothes to help me survive the heat.

I was wearing a maroon turban on my head, brown scarf to cover my face and white colored light clothes aptly fitting my body. He also wore the same outfit as me.

Riding a Dune rider looked like riding a horse, but in reality it was hard, and I had never ridden any horse in my lifetime and riding thus lizard even like a passenger was pretty strange for me.

Even though these lizards had small legs, they sure moved fast.

My brother sat in the front controlling the Dune rider, while I sat in the back, holding on to him using one hand and scratching myself using my other hand.

He was coolly whistling and smoothly making the lizard move on the sand.

In my world, my brother had a strange habit of spending his time in places with extreme conditions.

When he was eighteen, a research group and adventurers wanted to travel to the remains of Antarctica.

It was for research regarding some hidden world believing the hollow Earth theory and was searching for young volunteers, and my brother was the only volunteer from my high school.

He called me out of the blue and informed me that he was going to Antarctica and asked me to come with him.

I was doing an internship at MASA at that time.

When I asked him why he was going.

He told me, 'I am not going for the research opportunity, I am going for the thrills brother, but Jacob always remember this,

This world out there is filled with adventures, they don't come to you, you should go in search of them.'

I didn't want to go with him as I didn't like taking unnecessary risks in areas which I have no experience. But I knew I couldn't stop him from going there, neither could my parents.

So he went and spent about a month there and returned fit as a fiddle, whereas the rest of the crew got sick, I mean literally very sick and took about 6 months to recover.

My brother, he went to school the next day he returned from the trip.

This is not the only insane trip he went.

He spent a year after he finished his high school and before joining the military searching for adventures, by climbing Mount Everest, exploring the Amazon Rainforest, scuba diving in shark zones, climbing up volcanoes et cetera.

In a year, he became a popular topic for the media and became a celebrity, he quickly left all of this and went into the military as this helped him gain easy access to the military..... Well that's a different story.

When you look at him, you may wonder how a normal-looking man can accomplish all these things.

If we stand side by side, you will never notice the difference between us.

But once you take his shirt off, you can see an eight pack abs and well toned muscles, whereas for me all you can see is flaps of fat everywhere.

I was lean, but I didn't have well-developed muscles like him. He looked like a junior Brude Lee.

We were both handsome, we had black wavy hair, a well-placed nose, rosy lips, raven black eyes and golden brown skin.

I had a mole in the middle of my right palm, whereas he had no such moles.

Except for my Mom, no one can identify us without checking for the mole, that too if we wore the same outfit and stood together without speaking, no one can tell a difference.

I had a soft voice, whereas my brother had a sound rough voice as if he were a great general.....

I always have set my brother in high standards and always loved him, and I was happy he was the same here as he was in the real timeline.

Don't think I am a crazy brother fanatic, but I think it's better if you know the difference between both of us. It's like fire and air, both of us had our advantages and disadvantages, but together we were invincible.

I looked at the sun, it was standing still on the top of our heads.

Even though we didn't have watches or clocks in this world, by seeing the sun I could say it was already afternoon.

It felt like an eternity.

[Are we there yet?]

I asked him slowly

[No brother, we have not yet reached half the distance, the fun part is soon about to begin…. My training spot is just about to arrive.]

[Fun part, what is there to enjoy in this sand filled hell, All I can see is sand sand sand and sand]

[You will know when you see it]

He gave an ominous smile, a smile which he only gives when he is excited and is about to do something which will creep and shake the soul out of someone's body.

I felt like getting off the Dune rider and running back home after looking at his smile.

But I couldn't do it, or rather I felt so tired and exhausted my muscles wouldn't move a bit.

I was stuck with him for the rest of the journey, I don't know what horror I am going to face.

It felt like another hour passed by.

I started hearing some strange clicking sounds.

*click-clack click-clack*

[Brother, do you hear the clicking sounds?]

I saw a blurry image rise out of the sand, and the clicking sounds were increasing.

My brother suddenly stopped the Dune rider.

[They are here, my precious little training buddies are here.]

[Training buddies..... I don't see any humans here…]

[They are not humans, brother, look closely over there.]

I used my hands and rubbed my eyes, I couldn't believe what I was seeing in front of me.

The sand rose up, and two huge claws rose from it, the claws soon made their way up.

The entire figure came up quickly.

It was a monster, a big freaky monster. It was at least 6'10 (ca. 2 m).

Furthermore, it was purple and stood in its hind legs, which was shaped like a camel's legs.

It had a sting on its back and two claws as its hands. Its entire torso was getting covered by a strong shell like lustrous armor.

It was a huge hideous freaking scorpion which was standing on its hind legs like a grizzly bear.