History of Arikraz
By: Arikraz
The year was 2005, The world was finally calming down after the war finally ended. Let me tell you my story of the day that changed my life entirely.
THE HISTORY OF ARIKRAZ
"Come on son! It's time to wake up!" My dad always seemed to wake me up, but today it seemed later than usual. "Ungh...what time is it dad?" I was still tired from the day before. We had to set up everything for my brother's return home party. "It's about noon. I let you sleep in today since we worked so hard yesterday." I was amazed that my dad ACTUALLY let me sleep in. "Thanks for letting me sleep in dad," I said while stumbling out of my bed, "By the way, what time do we expect Lloyd home today?" Lloyd is my older brother. He's been away for about 2 years now, fighting in the war.
"Oh, around 3. So you better get yourself ready Jayce!" I was slow at getting ready like always. After my dad left the room, I went to my closet to pick out some normal ol' clothes to wear that day. I picked out one of my favorite smartass T-shirts and my baggy blue jeans which constantly needed to be pulled up even with a belt. My hair was a big mess like always. Having long hair was the thing in my neighborhood. My black hair wasn't long enough to be considered long. I had it down to my shoulders and it seemed to look longer than usual that morning. So I put it into a ponytail for once. I walked down stairs to get my bowl of Trix Cereal when my little brother Trey walked by.
"Mornin' Trey!" My brother didn't like the name Trey. He thought it was cruel and unusual punishment. "Mom! How come you named me Trey? You KNOW I hate that name!" Mom just stared at him and smiled. "Well, if you would have told us that when you were born, maybe we could have named you something else!" Dad and I started laughing. No matter how hard Trey tried, he couldn't get his named changed to something else.
"Hey mom, is it alright if I head over to Elly's house? We're gonna try and get that project of ours done today." Elly was my best friend at the time. She and I were always tinkering around with things. Couple months ago we built a remote control that worked on every appliance in the house. It was hilarious when her mom was cooking then all of a sudden, her stove turned off, then right as she was going to get us to fix it, and it started up again! We loved messing around with those things. "Okay! But remember, Lloyd gets here around 3, so be home around 2:30! Okay?" My mom considered Elly to be her daughter. Elly and I had never dated each other, nor did we plan to at that time or any time after that until we felt like the time was right. We just hung out and built things. "Okay mom! I'll see you all then! Bye!" I ran out the door and got onto my bike and headed over to Elly's house. She lived about a Block away and it was a straight-away so I didn't have to worry about having to go downhill or uphill or anything like that. Right as I reached Elly's house, I saw this huge explosion type thing come from Elly's window.
"Whoa, that was huge! I better go check and see what happened!" I knocked on the door like usually until her mom came to the door and told me Elly was in her room waiting for me to come check out the project. Right as I got into her room all I saw was some smoke and a piece of paper with some writing on it. It said:
Jayce! If you or mom is reading this,
that means the project actually worked and
I'm in the past collecting some information for this!
Thanks,
Elly
I was amazed that the project actually worked! We had been working on it for the past 2 years and every time we tested it, it failed. A few minutes later, another huge explosion came and all of a sudden, Elly was right there! "Elly! How did it go! Did it actually work!?" I was so excited that it actually worked. "It was spectacular! I got to see us when we first met! It was the cutest thing! Remember that day?"
I remember that day even now. I would never forget it. I was just moving into town and Elly and I were about 6, we both were born the same month of the same year, and she came over and asked me if I wanted to play over at her house. I said "sure!" so we went over to her house and played with some tinker toys. "Of course I remember that day! How would I ever forget it?" She started to blush.
"Good boy! Now, we have the past setting on this thing done; now we need to test it on the future!" She immediately looked at me. I knew that since I was late, that I had to test this part. "Alright! I'll do it!" I had to be cheerful about it around Elly; otherwise, she would use her female charm on me. "BUT! Only if you come with me as well Elly!" I think I made her feel uneasy about that by the way I said it. "And not in that kind of way!" She immediately calmed down.
I remember how she looked that day. She was a normal sized girl, around 97 lbs; 5; 5", blonde; petite. She was wearing her orange sleeveless leather looking sweater type shirt with her green skin-tight cut-off shorts. She usually has her goggles hanging around her neck, but today, they were over her eyes. I, to this day, still think she was perfect in every way.
"So what year do you want us to go to Jayce?" "I'm thinking around 2828, or so. How about you?" "2828 sounds fine to me! Lets get this thing rolling!" "Wait, one more thing, set the return date to be here at 1:30pm this afternoon." "Okay! Let’s get ready to roll!" Elly left her mom a note saying where we were and when we would be back. I started up the Engines on the machine and we both held hands while walking through the machine. Right as we got to it, we saw the same old explosion and all of a sudden.
We were in the same room in 2828. "Well, I guess it worked! Wow, this place looks desolated!" I was kinda spooked out. The whole house looked demolished. I mean demolished. I looked around and all I could see were these destroyed buildings left and right. I looked over at Elly. She looked sick. "Elly! You alright!?" "Jayce, go look what that sign says over there..." she pointed to this slab type thing leaning up against the only remaining wall in the room. It said:
Jayce and Elly Jardin
Both died by explosion of a reactor
May 1987 to March 2037
May their souls rest in peace.
I felt sick to my stomach. I was happy to see that Elly and I both got married, but the fact that we died in an explosion? That made me feel like I needed to throw up. I looked over at Elly. She was crying badly. I wanted to go home. "Elly, I know this is hard on you and me, but I think we have seen enough of the future. Let's go home Elly."
Elly nodded her head in agreement, and set the coordinates back to home when out of no where, a gorgon came by. Now, at the time, neither Elly nor I knew what a gorgon was, or what kind of machinery it was. Only that it was very big. "What in God's name is that thing Jayce!?" "I don't know, but if we don't get out of here, we won't be here very long to find out!" The gorgon turned over towards us and a hatch opened up and we saw a human inside.
"HEY! ARE YOU TWO ALRIGHT?!" He sounded serious. "YEA! WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND HERE!?" He gave me a look of surprise. "CYBRIDS EVERYWHERE! I SUGGEST THAT YOU COME OVER HERE AND HEAD BACK TO MY BASE ON TITAN WITH ME!" Elly and I stood still, not even stepping one foot toward that huge machine. "COME ON! IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL SURVIVE! THE CYBRIDS ARE GOING TO BE HERE SOON AND THEY WILL KILL YOU UNRELENTLESSLY! NOW HURRY!"
I resisted, but then I noticed Elly walking toward the young man. "Elly!? Where are you going!?" "Jayce, you've seen what happens to us. We can't change the past now. But we can still help save the future." I thought she was going insane, but she actually had a point as well. "Are you sure about this Elly? So what are we going to do?" "Well, we already know we get married, so, why don't we just be who we are in the future?" "Are you saying we should get married right here and now!?" "Why not Jayce? Come on, think about it, we’ve known each other since we were 6, and we've been more than friends for about 4 years now, so why not?" She had me cornered. I had no other choice but to agree. It was a short wedding actually. Quite funny too. I pretended to be the preacher and lowered my voice and started going "Do you Elly, Take Me, Jayce, to be your lawfully wedded husband?" and things like that. Then that guy started talking again.
