Sunday, 12 January 2014

A very short distopian story ( It is how I define a distopian society)


" Ionization is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons..." Professor Athena was reading out loud what was Ionization. Being an eight, Ionization was still too easy for me. I, like my classmates, were more interested in the topics that the top grades were taught. Our society's motto: Age is nothing, knowledge and learning is all.
 
  Since all the people in our society were intelligent, our society was made perfect. There were no crimes in these 50 years, no stealing, no murdering and no... My parents always told me to be focus in lessons, why would I be not focus in lessons? Every time I received the knowledge well in lessons, I had a sense of satisfaction.
 
  I loved my timetable. Fourteen hours learning and remaining hours for knowledge and feeling sharing and sleep. Since I was two, I already had ten hours learning, learning about how people minds could change easily. How people could betray you. It was all written in the history, at least it was how it told us. I was grateful that I was chipped, so that I could store more knowledge, and learn more about the weakness of human's mind.
 
  After all the lessons, essentially, I said goodbye to my classmates and teachers, then headed back home.
 
  When I was forty more meters away from home, I heard someone groaning. Without hesitation, I  went towards the source and found a boy at my age moaning in the grass. From his clothing, he was not from our society, because all clothes of us had the motto, but he didn't. However, my intelligence told me to carry him back to home.
 
  This was the first time I ever used medication on others. I expected he would not ache soon and could sit up and talked to me, and it matched my calculation. I stretched out a hand to show friendliness to him, he looked at me with an odd face, but he shook it. If he was from my society, this hand shaking would be impropriate, as he shook four instead of three. I then politely some questions like," How are you now? Are you feeling okay?" Then, we exchanged our name and some other information. He was called James, and he was from another society. He looked around and suddenly said in awe," wow, you get so many books. I keep many books, though it was less than yours by half, I thought." He read a book without my permission and exclaimed," wow, this book was so difficult. There are lots of words that I don't know, and what is it talking about?" I was stunned as I read this when I was three. I explained, " it is about the elements of universe, this is the periodic table."
 
  I was suddenly curious about his society and him, so I asked, " can you please tell me about your society and you and your family?" He looked at me and nodded. " My society is wonderful. We have to go to school to learn stuffs for eight hours since five, including lunch and breakfast and two recess." I was suddenly aware that I didn't know the word 'recess'. A word that this boy know but I don't know? " Recess?" I asked. " You don't know what recess is." he said, obviously surprised. " We don't have it. Even in dictionary." I said, searching for the word in the brain," can you explain it?" He then explained," there is a time period between two lessons and it is called recess. It is a time for people to relax, play and have fun." Yes, there is a time period between one lesson, but it was not... never mind, it was for you to rethink of how you were doing in class, and what you unwisely did. I really have problems in these words: have fun and play.
 
  I knew relax, it was to read books, another way to gain knowledge. I was now very curious," what is 'have fun' and 'play'?" He exclaimed again," what? You don't know how to have fun and play?" I shook. " Ummm, we play hide-and-seek and other things like sliding down a hill with a sled!" He said, smiling broadly, I wondered if I had ever smiled like this one," but you don't know what is hide-and-seek, right?" I shook again, but I said," from the three words, I can see that there is a group hiding and a group seeking for them." He looked surprised, but it quickly disappeared," hard to talk with the too-clever guys. Yeah, it is something like it. You will be excited and happy if you seek someone and caught him. You will be excited and happy if you are unnoticed by the ones who are seeking you when they are really close to you. But how to show it to you?"
 
  Then, he said," go back to where you find me, I have a phone there." He crawled out of my house and was back soon with a very old type of phone (in our society). He touched the screen and many videos and photos were shown. He selected one of them. " Mom, you are filming us." a boy, obviously the younger version of him, yelled at the camera. Then, he giggled as another boy was chasing him, trying to catch him. Then he laughed," C'mon Ben, you are going to catch me." Then, they tumbled with each other as they were laughing loudly. Then stood up quickly, both with a big smile over their face. Some other videos were shown too, and I realized something. They look so...so innocent. " You were stupid. You don't know how people minds are, they are always changeable." I didn't know if I was matching the title, but then explained my lessons to him and he shook his head," yes, I was innocent. However, we were all innocent. We just want to play with each other, and be happy. There is another thing that you may not know. My teacher always stressed on a sentence:  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." The word "love" made me shock again. There were no examples of "love" in my society, not even a example sentence. " Love?" I asked, with so much curiosity and bravery. " Love, just like this." Then he picked up his phone again and selected a passage, and gave the phone to me.
 
  I quickly finished it and it stunned me. It made me start to believe in something that I was trying not to believe. It made me start to think of the knowledge I learnt, all those scientific facts, all those inventions and all those skills. It started to make some of the knowledge collapse in my brain. It made me think of the true meaning of this word.
 
  Just look at the title, it shook me. Greatest Love: Mother died to save her son. " The lady was holding her three-year-old son in her arms while rocks falling down the hill in a landslide. The life-saving workers later heard crying and found the lifeless mother and her crying son."
 
  It is a sacrifice, and there is nothing like this in our society. In the last flooding, a woman knew that if she tied her daughter who was only 2-year-old on the lamp, she might survive. So she did, tying the innocent girl on the lamp, and stood on her, so she could breathe and yelled for the workers to save her. Of course, her daughter died, but she didn't care really much. Then I thought of myself, would I do the same thing? Probably yes, I would not take the risk, I would let myself survive first. It was stupid to sacrifice myself for the girl, at least that was what the professor told us. We all know how people minds change easily, so there is no more trust, or no much trust. " Trust would bring you to hell sometimes." As the book said. Even my dad and mum do not completely trust in each other, I could tell it by their habit. They never tried to share their money, they would not help each other. When I asked them, they said they could manage their things.
 
  I suddenly came with a horrible thought, what if we are not that intelligent. Our knowledge seemed so small in front of " love". Love, seemed so difficult to taste completely. Maybe no sacrifice, no love. No trust, no love. No caring, no love. I always thought our society was the best of all, knowing all sort of things. And the truth was revealed during my conversation with this kid from another society.
 
  " Hey, smart boy, deep in thought again, huh?" He chuckled.
  " Don't call me smart boy, how do you call each other?" I said, after my deep thought broke.
  " Um, I will say " hey, dude" when I see someone?" he said.
  "Hey dude" wasn't a formal English, but it sounded so...so friendly. I would love to be called like this.
  Friendly...friendship.
  "Can I be a friend of you?" I asked.
  He glared at me, and said," okay, dude."
  And for the first time, I smiled broadly.
  For the first time, I would love to go away from my society, and go with my friend. I would learn to play, no, I would play there.
  Crossed the river, then I would be away from this endless sleep forever... 

Friday, 3 January 2014

Halloween and the demons attack


The moon was hanging high in the sky. Its gleaming light symbolized that everything was quiet, but not Mike and Beckett. Beckett managed to sneak out of his house and now he was having a private party with Mike in the garden behind Mike's house. Both of them loved this period of time. For Mike, he could bully Beckett as much as he wanted. For Beckett, it was the nicest time for him to trick the bully when he was bullying him. And Mike was always impulsive to revenge. However, their parents wouldn't allow them to meet each other. And now Mike's parents went to foreign countries, so night would be the nicest time for them to meet.

 

  Beckett was pushed and thumped on the mud. " I bet you don't have the gut to punch me." He said to the bully. Mike was annoyed, and so he raised his fist, ready to strike. " do you want to make the painful punch on the iron board again?" Beckett giggled. Mike hesitated, then he snarled,"  You will suffer soon, begging me to stop the punching." His fist soared through the air, making the leaves on the tree beside him flutter. 

 

  Beckett was ready for it, and so he rolled towards Mike and poked the stem of roses onto his leg. Then, he covered Mike with mud so that Mike would not yell it out. Mike spat out the brown mud and looked down at Beckett. He poked Beckett shoulder and said," you are just lucky." But they both know it was a wrong statement, as Beckett has outwitted Mike many times.

 

  That was when they saw a thing poked out from the mud between them, or you can say, from underground.

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Waffu the demon was having a lesson, which was taught by Professor Nikk. They were all about how bloodthirsty humans kill them with their bows, swords. How they destroyed many of their habitats. How they torture demons when the demons were captured by them. And the most important thing, the big plan to destroy the humans. Oh, these things happened seven thousands years ago. For heaven's sake, why wouldn't they have changed now.   And with all these brainwashing lessons, the only advantage was to make the team spirits high.

 

" Dismiss, imps." Professor Nikk roared. He walked. out of the gate of the brick building and walked towards a tree.  He sat under it, trying to digest what the Professor has said. No wonder I have my head ached, he thought, the things he said were total mixture or rubbish. He looked at the steel bridge which was fixed beyond a moat of magma. The bridge would reach the 'airport' which was full of crafts. The crafts were powered by magma flares and push the passengers up to the Earth surface.

 

I would try to figure all the things about humans out, he thought. 

 

When it was night, he sneaked out of his tent ( each imp got a tent to sleep in.) , easily got past the drunken demon security, and arrived at the airport at last. Now it was the difficult part, there were many guards in the airport, How was he supposed to get past them. He looked around, searching for something to distract them. Then he saw the emergency bell, and so he picked up a broken brick beside him and threw. The brick penetrated the glass and hit the bell. A high pitch was immediately produced, which attracted the guards. He was hiding behind a craft when the guards were checking what's wrong. 

 

He quickly got into the craft and magma flares caught it just in time, sending it straight upwards. When it was half way through, the craft was suddenly tilted. Oh gosh, they have already got control of the craft and he was about to day. The craft was shaking vigorously. The outer wall was colliding with the earth, making ' bang bang bang' sound. There were no lights and electricity then. With too much resistance, it finally stopped.

 

He crawled out of the craft, spitting earth. He needed oxygen now or he would die, and the fastest way was to go upwards. He dug crazily, his sight was already blurring, he couldn't hear things and his front hands were already sour. 

 

Then, fresh air ran into his big mouth, down his throat and to his lung. For once, the legendary warlock, Banik, casted a time spell which made the time of the living place of demons and humans different. Lucky for him, the time spell has already faded out  during these seven thousand years, so when he stuck his head out of the earth, his head wasn't crushed by the original time difference.

 

 But there was a problem, there are four eyes looking at him.

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Mike and Beckett was unable to explain what was happening. With the moonlight, they saw a thing with two horns, so the thing might be a bull's head. They both wondered why there was a bull underground. Then the thing spoke something, definitely not 'moo', but another language. "Do you speak English?" They asked quietly. 

 

The thing answered," no, I don't." in perfect English. " Are you playing around with me, thing?" Mike asked in a threatening way. "Did I just speak English, my friend?" The thing said. " you did. And lucky you did. If you don't speak English, we will hand you to NASA." Beckett said while he was trying to stop Mike hitting it. " and what are you?" The demon muttered," for sure, seven-thousands years, how can the humans recognize us without seeing us for seven-thousand years. Um, I am a demon or imp. My name is Waffu. Nice to meet you, glad to meet you, it is great to see you." Beckett then said," no need to say so many greetings, it is a bit unnatural in human world." Mike then interrupted," too many greetings annoy me, demon." as he smiled viciously at Waffu. " ignore him." Beckett  said while he was trying to push Mike aside, but failed.

 

Waffu suddenly felt that what Professor Nikk said was true. That big muscular boy was really aggressive and. Impulsive, lack of thinking.

But then, the skinny human beside him was nice and kind. His soft voice made a big contrast to the adult demons, which were sometimes even worse than Mike ." Why are you wandering up here? " Beckett asked softly. Waffu looked around and whispered," the adult demons are going to destroy the human race. Few of them has magic, most of them are good at bows and swords. Everyone of them was born with a special skill and they need a magic source. I can be invisible at any time. My dad can blurt acid. The best way for them to destroy the human race was to assault and slaughter." Then, he told them the entire plan.

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IN LIMPO the demon world.

 

  The leader of the guards in the airport always longed to visit other places rather than staying in the airport. Now he got the chance, as he was demanded to go to visit the counselor hall to report and explain the case just happened to the politic leaders and generals.

 

   The counselor hall was freaking beautiful, with lights shining on the golden wall. The golden wall reflected a warm bright gold light and the leader thought he was in paradise. " First time seeing wall which is made of gold, huh?" A hoarse voice came from his side. " Yes." He grunted, and he immediately added ' your mighty.' because if he didn't say it, he would be sentenced to jail because of disrespect to powerful elders.

 

  " Now, please tell us what just happened." One of the generals requested. So he told them from the signal of the emergency bell to the halt of the craft. Then, all the leaders discussed for some time. Finally, a general brought a question out," General Bikk, do you think we need to change the plan?" General Bikk hesitated and answered," no, we can't. We are running out of time." However, everyone knew that demons weren't good at thinking. All the battles they won in the past were led by an intelligent creature, centaur. However, the last politic leader was so stupid in speaking that he broke the relationship between them up.

 

" We keep the plan as the traitor might have died during the crash. Even if he survived, they have no time to form a counter-plan. Tell the soldiers to prepare their weapons and have more training. We are going to war soon." General Bikk finally concluded.  

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Two small humans and a shifted human were running towards a police station. Of course, they were Waffu, Beckett and Mike. They were going to tell the police about the plan.

 

When they arrived at the reception room, they immediately found a sergeant standing beside the door. Waffu showed his real self while Beckett told the sergeant about the plan. He spoke seriously but the sergeant laughed. He said," first, I have no excessive time now. And I want to say that I was always fooled in Halloween, so don't try to fool me anymore.  Finally, your costume was really good." He said with his finger pointing at Waffu.

 

After he had left, Beckett hit his head. He should have remembered that these seven days were Halloween holiday. Also, after Waffu had heard Beckett's explanation, he was horrified. He later explained that shifting needed magic, and there was always a certain amount of magic. With less magic used, the more magic they could save for their special skills.

A bad beginning for they three.

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IN LIMPO the demon world

 

General Bikk has just done his last revision of the plan and the last motivation. He was stunned by the roar of the demons crowd but then happy. In the battle of Tökun, which happened seven thousand years ago, never the demons were so united. This time, they will win, they must win and they have to win. He thought. In his mind, he was already celebrating the imaginary winning of the war.

 

The soldiers were then moved to the airport. Since they haven't been departed yet, so they were having their combat. Fireballs and ice spears bumped into each other in midair, vaporizing when they met, leaving a fizzling sound. Slashing of swords was like lightening, but the movements of fighting warriors were likely to be faster than light. There was not a bruise on the warriors' body. Arrows soared through the air and cut the flies which were flying in mid air a hundred miles away from the archers into half.

 

Oh, it worked so well. My soldiers are all elite. General Bikk thought joyfully.

 

Then, the elites were on board and the crafts were waiting for  fierce flares to send these fierce demons up to the surface.

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On the surface, they sat on a grassland behind the police station. Beckett and Waffu were trying to figure a counter plan out ( while Mike was practicing his fighting skills and his shooting accuracy.)They have marked all the possibilities of the places that the crafts would stick its head out. According to the plan, the demons would surround this place. The demons had whole bunch of armies while they had three because it was the Halloween holiday.

 

"We could set up some bombs beside the places that the crafts would stick their head out." Mike said, with the position of the Thinker. " Um, Thinker, this might work if the time is stopped. In two hours, all of them will be surfaced on the ground. Humans would be killed or demons would be killed."  Waffu was suddenly attracted by the phrase: Demons would be killed. So he asked," why? Demons are fast, fierce and brave." Beckett answered," machines are cold-blood, no-live things. Maybe I should show you something about gun." He thought for a while and pointed at Waffu.

" You said you could be invisible, right?" Beckett said. Waffu nodded, unable to see what his partner was going to do.

 

" You will have to go into the police station and take some guns for me. They are like this." Then he fumbled for his IPhone and searched for the photos of various kinds of guns that the police used. " Now we will go into the police station to find the directional signs for the whole building." Burglar, I am going to be a burglar, Waffu thought.

 

Then they ran into the police station again and do illegal things in it. They all thought, I won't miss this sarcasm.

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Soon, they found the directional sign, and they knew the weapons-storing room was on third floor. 

 

Now, the ten-year-old mastermind quickly formed a plan and explained it to Waffu.

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Waffu patiently waited for Beckett to finish his explanation. He was stunned. Never met a thing shorter than me that could think of a centaur plan. Delighted, he waited for the lift door to open.

 

He walked in the lift with two policemen on his left, of course he was unnoticed. Unfortunately, they didn't go for third floor. For three rounds, finally, he was able to get out the lift, safely reaching third floor. He was blown by cool air-condition breeze, he covered his mouth to prevent doing the stupid thing--yelling. 

 

Now he waited for the chaos.

 

Suddenly, there was an announcement. " B1, B2 team, pick your weapons and get to coordinates E4."  

 

" Ah, the human did it." He said under his breath, seeing some police officers rushing out of rooms and entered the weapons room almost immediately. He followed them, and he was the last to go in. He picked up  two guns, a long one and a short one. He sniffed for human's scent. Good, no one was here. He opened the door and shifted to be a naive boy, then he casted a image of a police officer, and grabbed the image's hand. This image could cause a large magic loss to me, he thought bitterly. 

 

He got to the emergency staircases and be invisible again. Now he waited again when he reached ground floor. He peeped through the window and saw Beckett and Mike laughing. Suddenly, they went to take something, and it revealed to be six large boxes, which could hold an adult demon. Adult demons were big, always with lots of muscles and some of them even reached two hundred and fifty centimeters. They stacked up the boxes and presented it proudly to the sergeant. The sergeant was enraged by these 'stupid' children and shouted at them," kids! This is police station, not a playground!"

 

In these few seconds, Waffu has already disappeared with his weapons. Beckett had said," when the officer shouts at us, you will have already go beside me under the cover of the stacked up boxes, which block the officer's sight. Then, before we close the empty boxes and seal them, you will have already put the two weapons in the boxes. Then you walked out of the door first when we dragged those boxes out. And the camera would -n't see the weapons as we have already sealed the boxes. Remember, we have you, the invisible demon, and we have two ten-year-children, and we have that image, so the police will not suspect we have sneaked the weapons past them."

 

And they succeeded.

 

Of course, the police would have the child, which was the demon and the image of policeman on the wanted list. And for several years, there haven't been anyone arrested.

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COUNTRYSIDE, 1.5 km far from the police station

" Now I have to make sure one thing." Beckett took the weapons out, the long one was an assault rifle while the short one was a pistol. He carefully unloaded the clips and found it was full of bullets, pistol with ten bullets and assault rifle with thirty bullets. He muttered a praise to himself, then explained." I had deduced that the guns are already with bullets inside because of convenience. And it turned out to be right."

 

" Can you please stop praising yourself? We only have forty five minutes left." Mike urged in a very threatening way, noticing he was almost useless in this adventure, and decided to earn some attention now.

 

" We will now see if the bullets work." He told the others, as Mike picked up the guns. Then Waffu piled two scales like armor off his body and placed them on the grass which was 30 meters far from their standing position.

 

Mike aimed carefully at the targets with a professional assassin's gesture.

After a stunning 'bang', Waffu dashed towards his scales and horrified to see there was a hole on two scales as they were connected by a string.

There was nothing in our world that can penetrate two scaled at one second. Even sharp swords in demon world could not cut a scale off the body. And if the demons fought the humans, demons species must extinct.

 

Someone tapped his back and he said," I deduce that demons have shortcomings like humans too, they are scared of death." It was Beckett. " And now we have to figure a plan to attract all the demons at the same place." Waffu looked at Beckett for a while and said guiltily," I think I can offer this help to you. Beckett smiled and said," please speak."

 

It was proved to be useful later.

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The demon armies were still waiting for the flares and General Bikk gave the last notice to the armies.  

 

" Who are we first going for?" He yelled to the crowd.

" The traitor!" They roared and opened their big mouth. Their big mouth was likely to eat a full grown bull.

" How do we find him?"

" We smell him out."

" Then what are we doing?"

" We surround humans, slaughter humans and retake our land."

 

Then, he stepped out of the armies' sight. The traitor spell was so good. Once the demon was considered to be a traitor by the generals and leaders, the traitor's body would be smelly to demons. He thought with delight, the traitor and all the humans would be slaughtered, and there would only be peace since the victory.

 

He looked at the flares underneath him and was delighted to see the flares coming towards him fast. The spirit of Lukos is helping us too, he thought and he yelled at the armies, instructing them to board the crafts now.

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Mike and Beckett were standing on a grassland behind a museum which stored antique things. Waffu was in the museum, still in his mission. The moonlight shone faintly on the two humans. Beckett looked nice and childish with his confident grin while Mike looked terrifying with his pistol in his holster and his assault rifle on his hands. If he put on a cowboy hat, it would be perfect.

 

Suddenly, there were stomping and roaring sound coming towards them. Beckett looked at his watch, it was six minutes earlier than what they heard from Waffu. Beckett started figuring out a plan to delay the tragedy.

 

As Waffu mentioned, being a traitor to his own kind, all the demons would come to him first.

 

At first, only several heads with horn appeared. Then, thousands of heads came in their sight. Moonlight shone on their sky-pointing silver swords and bows, making them glitter in the dark. It was surely beautiful, beautiful in an united way, but there was something more important at stake.

 

" You two, aren't you scared of us? So get out of our way now. No...wait for a second, did the traitor tell you everything about our plan?" Unfortunately, General Bikk said it in Demonese, their language. 

 

" Can you please say it in English, or we can't stop you demons from being slaughtered by the humans?" Mike shouted to the General, with a script on his hand.

 

Of course, this sentence was to make them halt and to pay attention on them. General Bikk surely understood it, as demons were good at any tongues. How could he bear such challenge? Did the filthy human say that humans can defeat them, no, slaughter them?

 

" No way, you guys are so short and humans  don't even have the strength to lift one of our swords." He shouted threateningly, three times louder than Mike, forcing Mike and Beckett to step back for three steps. Beckett was covering his ear, wondering if he had heard a flash bang beside him.

 

Mike then forced a chuckle and shouted again." Humans have changed, some of us are nicer now. Only few of us remain cruel. Humans have something that you don't know and you don't want to face." He halted for the General's reaction. 

 

As expected, General was furious. He stomped his feet twice and shouted," what is it?" 

 

" It is called guns, which could penetrate your armor scales. If you don't believe it, please peel off one of your scales and holds it in the air and walk towards us and stop when we called. Be careful not to form a straight line with it, or you may be hurt." Mike read out the instructions.

 

Enraged, General Bikk picked a demon up and peeled four scales off. He ran towards them. Then, Mike told him to halt. Without hesitation, he shot twice. General Bikk was sent staggering back by the force and he was shocked to see that big holes were on the scales. He suddenly shivered.It is bad, and general shouldn't shiver in battles. He stood straighter, and stomped the ground twice. He raised his hand, and yelled," soldiers, we are to kill the traitor and the humans now!"

 

Then, a cold but loud voice came behind Beckett and Mike," No, you aren't going to destroy the human race. And the traitor is not a traitor."

And the voice didn't belong to Waffu.

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20 MINUTES EARLIER

The two little men and the demon leaped off the bus and dashed towards the museum which exhibited antiques. They came behind the museum and Beckett told Waffu," good luck, I will be waiting for you here." Mike was beside them, trying to heard any piece of information. He is bullying me now, with his dull thinking, he thought.

 

Without a minute, Beckett disarmed all the alarms, cameras and sensors with his super IPone. Waffu was then climbing the outer wall of the museum with his moisture on his hands and feet. He finally reached the window. Shifting into an ant, he was able to get through the small gap beneath the window. 

 

The room was quiet, because the statue would be exhibited after Halloween holiday has passed. Once he shifted back to his original demon, he took a close look at the statue. 

 

The statue was like a demon. He shone the torch towards the statue. Under the light, the statue revealed to be a slim demon, which its height reached two meters. He looked at its horns, one blue and one green.

He had seen these horns in the history textbook. The figure in the caption was named,"legendary demon: Banik the time master" Banik was said to had been lost in the last battle which took place seven thousand years ago, but when he was going to die, he successfully conjured a time spell that separated humans and demons.

 

He looked at Banik's eyes, which were grey at the moment. Then, some words came into his mind:Touch my palm and send magic to me, little demon. Who was talking to my mind, Waffu thought. I am Banik and I am right in front of you. I need magic source to release my body from these freaking rocks.  I can sense danger around me, a old general has come here. I can sense him.  Without hesitation, he sent magic into the old demon's body. As he had used magic before in the police station incidents, there wasn't much magic in his body now.

 

His sight was blurring. He felt weak. Seeing the rocks cracking through his blurring sight, he had his last thought, thanks to Beckett's fortune, he picked up a magazine which had the cover of the statue of Banik. Thanks to his sharp sight, his eyes caught the cover instantly and he believed that Banik was found by humans. Hope Banik would stop the tragedy from happening.

 

The dark spread from the corner of his eye like malignant computer virus, drifting him into a sleep.

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NOW, BEHIND THE MUSEUM

Beckett and Mike turned towards the place where the cold voice came from. There stood a tall figure, at least 2 meters tall. He was holding unconscious Waffu in his arms. Even Waffu was not too heavy, but the demon's hands were shaking under Waffu's weight.

 

Words suddenly burst out from the demon armies. " Is he the time master, Banik?" " Is this real?" " Wasn't he lost in the last battle with humans?"

 

The old demon, Bandik, waved his hand twice, making the crowd quiet. Then he focused his eyes on General Bikk.

 

" Brig Bikk, why are you here? ( "Ah, his first name was Brig." said the crowd.) And why the demons behind you are having weapons on their hands?" 

 

" Ummmmm....."

 

" To destroy the human race!" said the crowd of demons and Beckett and Mike, then the demons added," so to complete the wish of the dead warriors in the last battle." 

 

" I think we had discussed not to take any revenge to humans in the last battle, Brig. And I still remember it was you who buried me in the rocks, which forced me to take the 'long rest' to prevent dying." He said firmly. Those words were convincing, thought all the demons except Bikk.

 

Bikk cleared his throat and shouted at the demon armies," after such a long sleep, our legendary Banik must have some crazy thoughts or wrong memories."

 

" I have already seen the history textbook content from the memory of this little demon, which is in my arms now. First of all, the obvious mistake was that we didn't wish for a revenge to the humans, but have peace. Also, the ten great warriors which included you and me in the last battle have words stenciled on their right arm, but it misses it. I still have the stenciled words on my right hand. I bet you have them on your right arm too. (You must be stunned by how old can a demon be, for example, Bikk was already over seven-thousand-year-old)" Banik said to the demons.

 

The demon armies looked at each other and nodded, no one had ever touched or seen Bikk's right arm, which was hidden beneath a layer of special armor, there must be some secret beneath it.

 

" Also, humans haven't discovered you all yet, of course, except us, but we will keep the secret. Humans have things that can kill you all in several minutes. Please obey the old and intelligent demon, do not take revenge to the humans." Beckett added.

 

" Strong human boy, come with me and guard me." Banik said to Mike. Mike was respected now, so he took hold tightly of his assault rifle and walked with the demon warrior. " Now, show your right hand to the army now." Banik said to Bikk.

 

Bikk then said," Um, it would be too painful to take it off my arm. After all these years, it might have glued with my arm."

 

" I will help you." Banik said softly to Bikk. Bikk knew what he was going to do, he would do the time-reversing spell on his special armor, reversing it to the time which the special armor hadn't been made yet. He quietly fumbled for his special-made spear which could penetrate any demons' armor. Mike was sensitive to movements, he leaped and landed on Banik. However, at this very moment, Banik realized what was happening and cast a time stopping spell on Bikk. As Mike and Bikk were wrestling each other, so both of them drifted to the second space.

 

" Oops, this is really bad, really bad. I have to spend a few minutes to send them both back to current space-time." Banik said regretfully, casting more and more time spells.

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IN THE SECOND SPACE TIME

Mike and Bikk was aware of the force which was pulling to another space-time. The space-time drifting nearly made them vomit. After they had recovered, they were curious of their surrounding.

The place wasn't changed, they were still standing on the grassland behind the museum. However, the demons and human surrounding them were motionless, as they all stopped at this particular space-time.

 

Bikk first charged. He was fast, like traveling light. Mike just stood there, as he knew the enemy would have to come near his body. When the blur was near, he kicked straight at it, sending the blur flying. The blur later revealed to be Bikk. His eyes were red, and his voice was layered with magic," Kill yourself, now." Special skill since a demon was born, I see that, he managed to think freely at this moment. Then, the next moment, his shaking hands were going for his pistol ( his assault rifle had lost during the space-time travel) and the demon's demand was irresistible. The red eyes, no eye contact! he thought through gritted teeth. He fumbled for his gun and pointed the barrel to Bikk, pretending to kill himself, no eye contact for sure. However, he was weak, he couldn't even lift the pistol.

 

Bikk stopped beside him and picked up the pistol and pointed the barrel to himself, as he thought Mike was trying to kill himself with the barrel was pointing at him, the General. He said, amused," kill by human machines, sarcasm, huh?" He searched for the trigger while Mike was pretending to be painful to accept his fate. " Ahhh, finally, I find it." he said as he pulled the trigger. The bullet sent the demon flying backwards. Mike stood up, and walked towards the motionless demon General with his exhausted and tired body.

 

He sat beside the corpse. The bullet had crush a part of the demon's skull, leaving a hole on his forehead. The last gleeful but evil smile still etched on his face.

 

He waited until another force pulled him to an unknown world.

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The time master created a Time Circle and mouthed a spell. Within a second, Mike and Bikk appeared again. Mike was sitting on the ground while Bikk was lying on the ground, green liquid oozing down his head.

 

" Oh, General Bikk is dead!" "The human killed the General..." The crowd spoke to the ones beside them. Banik then silenced them and said," firstly, this little demon was not our traitor, he was a good friend to us. Secondly, Bikk was the one who wanted to lead you all to your death, but we were lucky to meet these humans. They help us, so our breed will not extinct."

 

He turned and bowed to Mike and Beckett, and the demons followed him.

 

" The sun is rising, we must go now." He said, facing east. He turned to face the two kids and said," we aren't supposed to make friends with humans, but bow, my thought and my mind has changed. Thank you, our friend." Then he board the craft and disappeared.

 

" How did you beat the General?" Beckett asked.

Mike told the whole story to Beckett.

Beckett chuckled after Mike finished his story," I would like to tape the story, and name it: Mike uses his brain for the first time."