Took me 3yrs Enjoy
Chapter 1
It was my first day in LASU when my life changed forever. I had gone to study Science. Not just one little part, but the whole field! My name is Chris Sackette and I was excited to go to school. When I first arrived, I seated myself in the front of the room. There I hoped to be seen taking extra long notes and working hard at every thing I was assigned to do. Before our professor came in, I thought that it was going to be a male teaching us. When the Professor walked in and turned out to be female, I thought I would die. She had black straight hair that hung to about mid back, fair skin and amazing green eyes.
She stood before the new students as if she where judging whether or not we where a class worthy for her to teach. It must have been a yes because after a moment, her face broke into a smile and she introduced herself.
“Welcome class. My name is Professor Lim Ling. I will be your instructor while you take this class. The first thing we need to know about is statistics and probability. Without these, you will not be eligible to pass this class. It is a very important part of all science. You need to use it when working in astronomy clear through chemistry. Another thing is estimation. It is also important in all-”
She stopped in the middle of her sentence and looked at a student at the back of the room. I turned to see who it was that interrupted the class. It was a woman about my age maybe a bit younger. She asked timidly, “Mam, may I ask a question?”
“Yes. What is it?”
“Why do we need to learn all this stuff? We already studied this in high school.”
“Ah, very good question. The reason is because, you have not yet learned the advanced techniques in these areas. Do you know short cuts to make problems easier? I didn’t think so.” She answered to the heads that where saying no.
For the rest of the day Miss Lim Ling scolded us with her straight answers and eyes. When it came time for the class to end, she laughed and said that we wouldn’t ever have this easy of a day again. She dismissed class a few minutes early and surprisingly asked me to stay for a moment.
She came to where I was sitting on one of the desks and pulled one over for herself. When she had finally sat down, she looked at me and said nothing. After a moment of silence, she turned away, breathed deeply and looked back. Then without warning she got up and crossed the room to her desk. There, she took a key from a necklace around her neck and unlocked one of the draws. She took out a small black box. Then, walked back over to where I sat. She handed me the little thing. It only had two buttons on it, a blue one and a red one. There where no other traces of anything else anywhere on the surface of the box.
She said to me then with deep sincerity, “Chris, this may sound strange to you, but you must listen to what I have to say. This box holds something very dear to me and you must face what ever lies ahead of you. The buttons on that box are there for a reason. The red one means future, the blue on the other hand means past. Never push these buttons, understand? I know some things about you that you don’t even know yourself.”
“Why are you telling me these things for? What do they mean?” I asked her bluntly.
“You will learn that there is a time when you need to believe in yourself. When you believe in yourself, that is when you will find power and strength from your heart. You will understand what I mean as time goes on. I must send you on your way because I have a meeting I have to attend to. See you tomorrow.”
I didn’t understand what exactly happened in that classroom, but I defiantly wasn’t prepared for what happened next.
As I walked home thinking about the events of that day and the time with Miss Lim Ling, I was carrying the black box under my arm. I must have accidentally pushed a button because I was suddenly surrounded in a mass of swirling colors. I seemed to be changing. My clothes went from normal to extraordinarily strange. After about fifteen minutes, the swirling mass began to slow and slowly the colors themselves began to fad. Then everything went black.
When I awoke, I was lying under a maple tree in what looked like a park. I got up and found that I was light headed. I leaned against the tree for a few moments while my mind cleared. That is when I noticed that the box was missing. I looked frantically for the little thing for a half an hour before finally giving up. I looked to the sky to find out what time it was for I had taken calculus in high school and knew what time it was by looking at the sun. Yet when I went and caste my eyes to the sky, I be came horrified. There in the sky where one sun once existed, three now shone and a huge moon hung in the background like a huge copy pasted against a 250 mile high
wall!
Dazed at the sight, I had not heard the foot steps that now reached my ears. Before I could hide someone turned and looked me directly in the eyes. They threw what looked like some strange metal devise in my direction. It landed on the ground a sort distance away from my feet. I decided to pick it up for curiosity got the best of me. As I did, it sprang open and metal like cords wrapped around my body. Pining my hands to my sides and bring my legs together causing me to fall. All of a sudden, I began to feel a strange pain surge through my body. I screamed in agony for the pain only grew more and more intense with each passing moment. Then, my world went black.
When I awoke, I was in a blinding white room. With no windows to show the time and it had a evenly cut black shaded window. Probably for observation. I was frightened, I admit that, but once again I was more curious than afraid. I continued to look around the room. When I first noticed that I was tied to what looked like a metal hospital bed was when I saw the door. My hands where conformably tied on both sides of my body and my feet straight. These people obviously didn’t intend on inflecting pain.
Then the doors to the room opened and a young women stepped in. She came to the bed where I lied facing her. She had fair white skin, beautiful green eyes, and deep brown hair that hung about mid back with the last inch to inch and a half oddly enough, pure golden blond. To tell the truth, she was gorges. She pushed a button on a remote control she held in her hands and the bindings around my wrists and ankles came free. I sat up as she asked a question.
“What where you doing in the forbidden lands? No one is to go there not even the environmental scientists.”
I asked pleadingly in return not answering her question, “Please, tell me, where am I? And how can I get home?”
“How did you get here?” she asked gently.
“Miss Lim Ling had given me a small black box. I must have pushed a button. I didn’t mean too!”
“It’s okay. Please allow me to introduce myself? My name is Vony. You are on Earth so please do not fret that the box had taken you to another world; for it has not. It is the year of 4261, and I apologize if we frightened you. We thought that you where an outsider from the lands to the East. Then we noticed you are in civilian clothing, so we brought you here.”
“Who are the outsiders? What has happened over the years?”
“There are many things you do not understand because of the time lapse between your time and this time. The outsiders are the people we have been at war with for the last thousand years. We have been unsuccessful in solving our differences and being able to live in peace.”
“Why are they so upset?”
“They do not approve that we have set in place a law to destroy all weapons that are capable of killing others. They are the decedents of those that had battle running through their veins. Their ancestors where thirsty for blood and eager for battle to arise. My people only want to live in peace, but that is like asking the outsiders to give up their honor. Now, may I ask you a few questions about the box? You already said that it was black. Did it also have two buttons located on the top? A red and blue one?”
“Yes. Why?”
“There is a legend that is told among my people. It tells of a young fair skinned boy with eyes a dazzling green as though they where emeralds, and hair the color of moonlit bark. That when he arrived he would create a long a waited peace for all the people of Earth. They sent a woman back into time 3000 years. There she would remain without aging a day until she found the chosen one. She was told that she would know who he was the instant he was in her sight. That she was to send him immediately and without a warning of any kind. She was not to get to know you for many reasons, but none matter. Do you understand what this means?!”
“Not really.” I answered.
“You are the chosen one! You have been sent here to help deliver us from our differences, and end the war and reunite the people of Earth!”
“That is impossible! It is just a myth!”
“No its not! If it is, how do you explain how you got here! Please say you will stay here and help us create peace? Please?!”
She seemed to plea with all her sincerity. Who was I to turn her away?
“All right. I will stay and do all I can to help your people create peace.”
“Thank you!” she screamed with glee.
That is when a rush of memories came back to me. The last hour that I had spent in my time before I ended up here, Professor Lim Ling had told me one thing. ‘You will learn that there is a time when you need to believe in yourself, and when you believe in yourself, then you will have power within.’ Now I understand why she had told me that. She told me those words because she knew I was the chosen one. That must mean that my Professor is from the future. “No wonder. Why is it Professor Lim Ling and how do you know so much about her?”
“I know so much about her because she is a great grandmother of mine.” She replied with a smile.
Well, that explained the resemblance.
*to be continued*