The Eucronia (Episode 1) (by Rika)

The Eucronia
(Episode 1)

“ Hey mate, let’s visit Boozy, I bet he’s still working on those wings of his”.
“Hah?, I can’t understand that boy, why in the world he’s working his heart out on something that stupid”.
“Well, let’s just go there”
The girl he calls Myra then push some buttons on her watch, and…. the bluish watch immediately illuminates purple light …. Then, in only few seconds…. They arrive at a yard of a house where a boy is busy with a pair of wings, not too wide but so well-shaped.
“Boozy ..my man! I can’t believe you’re still playing around with those things”
The boy who took the instant trip with Myra said loudly.
“Stay out of my business, Rick”
“But I think Rick has a point there Boozy, why do you have to go all that trouble fixing something that we don’t really need anymore… after all we do have ‘the watch’ that can take us anywhere we want in just seconds…. So we don’t need to fly around and waste the time”
“Well I don’t know Myra, I guess ……… I just love to fly”
Then Boozy got occupied again with his wings, while his two friends decided to have something fun to do at a lake nearby. The silver-colored lake is their favorite spot, since all the others have golden color.
“Let’s swim Myra!”
“Yeah….let’s do that, this is a lovely day for a nice splash”
Then they push one of the buttons on their shirt and …..they are in their swimsuits instantly. Not waiting another second, they both jump into the lake …… swim …… and splash the water around. It turns out that they are not the only living things in the lake that day as some other creatures join the fun moment. Fishes with colorful wings jump around the lake so high ….creating big silver splash……..so that make the day even better. But however…. it is still an ordinary day in Eucronia.

While the children are playing happily at the lake, a light illuminates out of no where in an excluded spot not too far away. As the light vanishes…six men and five women in iron vests appear. They have something on their hands …… a gun-shaped weapon….. it is the view that is not so ordinary here…..in Eucronia. They seem having a very serious discussion…. but what they do not know is that a pair of eyes are watching them, a pair of ears are listening to their conversation, and a pair of legs shaking trying to keep still and make no noise. The shaking legs then hurriedly on the move as the men and women vanish in a glaring light.
"Myra….Rick!!” ..... a shout in a whispering kind of way stop the children’s activity at the lake, and they decide to come out of the lake and approach the source of the shout.
“What is it Boozy?” And why are you shaking and trembling like that?” Asked Myra.
“Don’t tell me you got scared of those snakes again, no snakes here are poisonous anymore ….I’ve told you that million of times” Feeling irritated, Rick responded.
“No Guys…. No snakes will ever make me this scared.”
“So… what’s wrong then?” asked Myra again.
“Well, I was on my way to you …..and there they were ……in scary vests and with scary guns…Guns! Can you imagine that? those dangerous things are illegal here, right?”
“What? Who are you talking about?”
“Wait…..you haven’t heard the whole story yet”
“Spit it out already!!!” Rick yelled anxiously.
“They were talking about ‘annihilation’ “
“What ‘annihilation’? Rick and Myra asked at the same time.
“They are planning to kill every one here, in Eucronia…… and after that they are going to make a new community ….their own community….. a community with guns and no rules…. And the worst thing is a community without us…. the present community in Eucronia!”
“What?? ….you can’t be serious Boozy! Tell me that you’re just joking” said Rick angrily.
“Rick…I never gave jokes… not ever….and certainly not now”
“But…why? Who are they? Where do they come from?” Myra asked very worriedly.
“They come from ‘The Outside’……. A place where our ancestors came from…….I remember once my grandmother told me that my great great grandfather lived there once…..and at that time people there are violent and they hurt their own kinds with guns and weapons….then he and some other people including your great great grandparents discovered this world, “The Eucronia” ……our world. As pretty as it may seem at the very fist time they set their foot here….it has been getting prettier since they and their descendants including us have lived in peace and harmony.”
“Yeah….my grandparents also have told me that story…..but I’ve just never really believed it. They told me that things are very much different there in ‘The Outside’. Different trees, different animals, different people, but this is what I don’t understand, my dad tells me that ever since we’ve got the technology we need along time ago…..this place is untouchable for other people from “The Outside”….but if that’s true….how come they’re here now?”
“How should I know Rick?, I just wanted to join you guys for a swim”
“We have to do something about this….we just have to……but what?? What should we do?” asked Myra who wasn't really asking since she already knows that her two friends do not have the answer just yet. Then….all three of them think quietly and the story goes…here in Eucronia.
To be continued ...............................
(Rika, rikacintara@gmail.com)