The warm air rushing inside the room made me feel like I was being boiled like a damm egg, the cooler was working overtime but still can't do much about this heat. I headed towards my table, arranged my notes, pen and what not inside my bag so I can head to school, I was still wearing my pajama, I walked to the other corner of the room towards the huge mirror near my closet and watched myself in the reflection, my black hair looking unruly and slightly long, my facial features....well there isn't much worth mentioning other than my brownish eyes, as for my height that's the only thing I can be proud of which last time I checked I was 188 cm which is pretty tall considering am only 16,is it coz of genetics? I won't know. Speaking about genetics both my parents are overseas working so I live alone here in this nation called Kapniá. Before I knew it I was ready to head for school, I grabbed an instant bar for breakfast and ran with my rapid shoes towards the shuttle service which would leave in my school's direction in a few minutes. "Fuck I won't make it in time" I complained to myself, 'I hope there isn't any polis ahead of me' I prayed in hopes of I won't get caught for what I am about to do. I hit my left shoe's inner side with my right shoe which activated its hovering feature and now I was floating in air, I adjusted my posture so that I can move faster, normally these shoes have a speed limit for anyone under 19 years of age but what can I say I like to fuck around with stuff so I removed the speed limit. Now am moving at 48 km/h speed which is only allowed for the adults, I looked around my surroundings and enjoyed the so called view which is something I see everyday in this neighborhood which was pretty common in my eyes, the streets were pretty clean, there is the usual stores I visit, that hot lady who just swims on her pool most of the time, the mechanic shop run by my father's friend, overall it's the same old boring views. I checked my watch to see the time and map and realised I was pretty close to the shuttle station now "Sigh...I knew I had to do this or else I would have been late" I smiled knowing I won't get yelled for being late and suddenly a sounded warning popped up on my watch's screen, "Earthquake Alert - Earthquake Alert, Tectonic plates activity detected near you, Please take shelter". I stopped completely on my tracks "Oh comeon now am definitely getting late" I said and looked for any shelters near me through the watch but a huge ripple passed through my entire body, I felt like a huge ocean wave has hit me, my shoes suddenly started to smoke and sparks started to pop off, I turned them off and looked at my watch which was also in a similar state 'Is it the shockwave of the quakes? , what do I do? ' I pondered. Another ripple hit me but this time it wasn't like before, this time I felt like I was being drowned by some sort of pressure. My vision went blank for a second and I saw colours around me, dotted colours in the air then it went away." What the hell is happening to me" I panicked 'Am I about to die? Is this how you feel when you are about to die' such thoughts arose but it was suddenly crushed as another ripple hit me and I saw it again those colours but this time it was easier to handle it, the specks of colour vanished, no it went inside me and I felt a warm sensation throughout my body and my ears were ringing like hell, like I was alive but that doesn't make any sense I was already alive to begin with. "Did I ate something weird?" I asked to myself panting.
"Hey kid are you alright?" A delivery man carrying his bag came running to me, I coughed "Yea am alright... but what was that just now?", "You mean the earthquake alert? I guess it was a false alarm but man my shoes are fried" he said, I turned my face to him in confusion "No not that I was asking about those ripples just now and the colours.. ", I watched his face giving me a doubtful look "Ripples? Colours? What are you talking about kid?" he asked me in the same doubtful expression. 'No way did no one else felt that? Or did i really just ate something weird?' I need to check again "Mister, are you saying you really didn't felt that shockwave just now?", 'I have to clear it up' I thought "How many times do I have to keep telling you, I didn't felt anything, are you high or something brat" he was looking really mad and I wanted to avoid a verbal confrontation at the moment "Sorry Mister..." I paused "I guess I was in shock when that alert came" I said with a convincing follow up laugh, "Is that so? Well you better take care of yourself kid" he shrugged and left, I guess he didn't wanted to deal with me. I checked my watch's screen it was still buffering for a few seconds and then it restarted back to normal. I saw the time hitting 9:17 AM, "Great now am late for class-" my vision went blank again, there it is again this overwhelming pressure like someone is trying to suffocate me, that warm hot feeling inside my chest and on top of that those weird specks of colours around me, 'There is something definitely wrong with me' I realised. The pressure went away so did the heat, without wasting time I looked up for a nearby Hospital and ran towards the shuttle station, my phone started to ring I took it out of my right pocket and it was my friend Liam calling. I didnt thought much and answered the call "Hey, wassup buddy" I asked in a nonchalant manner "What do you mean 'Wassup buddy' do you have any idea what time it is, dude where the heck are you?", 'From his tone he ain't nonchalant enough' I thought, "Yea about that something urgent came up so am heading off to somewhere else, I will call you later" I said hurriedly and ended the call then I folded the phone back into its size of a pen. Honestly I feel bad not telling it to Liam, he is one of the few guys whom you can genuinely call the word friend, but even so I wouldn't want him to worry about me, atleast not yet anyway.
The shuttle was bustling with passengers mostly adults thankfully I managed to get a window seat, I needed some air and my mind wandered back to those moments over and over again. I closed my eyes to visualise the scenario from my memory hoping that I could find some answers if I tried hard enough. I thought about those waves that passed through my body, the colours I saw and finally that warm sensation inside my chest. I kept focusing on these feelings 'What might be it? Was I hallucinating? Is something wrong with me?' such thoughts ringed inside my head like endless streams of water rushing through a dam. "H#s!", what was that, a sound? "He##%!", I feel like someone is calling me but who? "HEY YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!", my eyes snapped open and I was greeted with the vision of passengers in the shuttle looking at me like they saw a wild animal, they all looked up at me like I was some rare sight to see. As I adjusted my eyes something doesn't made sense, the roof of the shuttle was closer to me, I slowly looked down at myself and saw that "I am flying?". The words slipped out of my mind, "How the hell is he doing that?", "Is it a new rapid shoe perhaps?", "He looks kinda weird too right?", a chatter broke out among the passengers. Some were recording the whole thing and others were just gossiping with each other, I looked around myself and confirmed whether I was hallucinating again or did my Rapid shoes really activated unknowingly but it didn't. I was truly flying on my own, I laughed a bit but suddenly I came crashing down on the shuttle's floor "What the hell?" I questioned this bizarre experience. Everyone around was looking at me like am some sort of a creep and I also wanted to bail out of this mess "Sorry for the trouble guys my shoes have been acting up since this morning", I apologised and got back into my seat hoping that they all will buy that lie. After some time the shuttle stopped near the medical centre, I checked the time before heading inside but something caught my attention as there was a crowd inside the medical centre 'Why are there so many people inside?, Did something happened ?' I thought. "STAY AWAY FROM ME!!" a scream caught my attention, it was coming from the crowd and suddenly I saw red lightning flash through and the crowd getting blasted into small pieces. I saw flesh and blood scattering away like they have been hit by an explosive at close range, heads, limbs even organs scattered around the vicinity, my insides started to curl up as I wanted to puke at the sight in front of me. I was on all four as I puked sweating when another wave of red lightning came crashing at me, I closed my eyes in panic but I felt nothing, hesitant I opened my eyes to see that the whole city was upside down surrounded by water as if the world has sunken into the waters.
...Term and World Guides below.....
Rapid Shoes - In simple words shoes that can help us fly and move around faster
° The planet we are currently on is called Mitéra Gaia.
° There are stories of how the first bearer of light came beyond the sky.