I am in meltdown mode so Imma be posting a lot of new story stuff. Sue me!
You can't I have no money so ha!
Just enjoy it, especially you Rei!
A thousand years.
It's been a thousand years.
I have found you every time.
I've seen you grow up and grow old.
I have seen you die over a dozen deaths.
You never remember me.
But I will always remember you.
One day, you and I will be happy again.
I've been lucky, having you love me every time we meet.
But you don't remember the first time we were together.
It will never be like that first time.
I sigh and close the book, throwing the pen to the side.
"This is stupid, I should be out there looking," I growled. The empty room felt like it was gripping my lungs. The silence was deafening.
"Oh right…I'm alone," I sigh again and get up, stretching my body. I knew I should be searching, but I also knew it took longer than a week for someone to re-incarnate. The process takes about a month at the least, but the way things were currently it might take years. I had eternity to feel utterly alone. Being cursed to be immortal was just that, a curse. A sigh leaves me and I slump into my chair. It was an accident really. She didn't mean to, she was scared. No one knew it would happen. No one could have known.
My head turns to the only other thing in the room besides a desk and chair, a portrait of Queen Elsa of Arendelle. She stood rigid and you could see the slight panic in her face. Her shoulders slightly turned up breaking the square-ness it should have been. Her eyes wide, stopping her from blinking. In her hands she clutched the golden sceptre and orb, a bit tightly than normal. I remember that day. She was shaking, rightfully so, she did not want to disappoint the standards set by our father.
Yes, our father. Elsa was my sister. I was a princess. My arms found their way onto the table as I clutched my head and closed my eyes. What have I become? How had I gone from just wanting to be by my sister's side to wanting to be with the love of my life?
Tears start to prick my eyes. As the years went on and as she kept dying and getting re-incarnated I slowly started to see her as less than my sister and more as an individual I had come to love above all else. Strongly speaking we were no longer related by blood. She still looked the same as back then, but she no longer had her ice abilities. Well, not in the times she had returned. I think it's the universes way of righting its wrong. Or this could be her punishment for freezing my heart so long ago. We both got cursed I'd say.
The year is 2839, for earth anyway, where we are now it is 827 A.E.
The abbreviation stands for After Earth. We've since moved to a planet previously known as Kepler-186f, but now we call it Earth 2.0, original I know. We tried colonizing so many planets, but due to unforeseen circumstances the others failed. Earth itself was no more. 2012 did happen, you guys, like seriously. Just not in how people had thought it would. Most believed it meant the start of a new era or the end of life. What actually happened was more of a mesh of the two. Scientists realised the sun would implode on itself taking out our solar system with it. This forced us into working together to look for inhabitable planets and invent space travel.
We didn't have much time. People were left behind. Mistakes were made. There was so much regret and we paid dearly for it, where we had been 7 billion people strong, we ended up reducing too little over 4 million. Sounds a lot? It's less than the size of New Zealand at the time it happened.
Why am I talking to myself? I might have lost my mind a few hundred years ago. Knowledge is the only thing I gained from living this long. It's the reason I was allowed to leave earth. I was helping the scientists. I am a scientist. My immortality simply explained as an experiment gone wrong. They could find nothing wrong with blood samples or cat scans. After about 30 years of them trying to discover, they eventually gave up. They had to. No one believed in magic anymore, writing it off as folk lore and myths.
A knock on my door kicked me back into reality.
"Anna, come on you've been in there all day," I heard my best friend call. With a sigh I stand and stretch once again. This small room was my only solace. It's where I came to think. I pluck the door open and squint at the blond brute standing in front of me.
"Marshmallow!" I call and hug him. He grunts and steps back making me fall off the small stairs.
"Why do you insist on calling me that?" He asks and I shrug.
"Marshal just sounds…formal," I smile and he rolls his eyes.
"You said you were going to fix the thrusters."
"And I will."
"It's been 3 years!" He growls and I blink.
"It takes time," I said slowly, "we're not going anywhere soon."
"Not if you keep stalling Anna. We need those thrusters fixed."
"Why?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.
"The other colonies are dead Marshal, what difference does it make if I fix them now or in, let's say, 5 years?"
His eyes turned angry.
"You don't know for sure Anna, there could be people stranded there, you don't know if they just lost communications due to disasters or some kind of interference," he scowls and I sigh.
"Look Marshal, I know your family was on one of them, but I can only work with what we have. I sent a party out to go mine some aluminium. It takes time and then I need them to make the parts I need. I can only work as fast as the stuff are available," I saw tears threaten to spill from his eyes.
"How long do you think it will take?" He asked and I sighed.
"With the rate we are going? I'd say…two months maybe, unless we come across a large deposit of the mineral it might take two more with what we currently have."
"What about the unique metals we found when we landed?" He asked. I knew he was trying to come up with other solutions.
"What we found is good, durable, even better than hafnium, or anything else to use for space travel, but because it's so durable we can't bend it into what we want. We haven't found the melting point," I explained and his shoulders sagged.
"I'm sorry Marsh, I'm working as fast as I can," I gave him a slight hug.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm starving!" I smiled and he chuckled.
"You're always hungry," he said and we started walking to the cafeteria. It was big, housing up to a thousand people. I know I said we were just above 4 million people now, but about a million got separated amongst the other planets, the other 3 million are in hyper sleep on a few space ships floating in space.
We down here are working to make living space for everyone. It was supposed to take up to 10 years for specialists to set up houses and farms. It took us 800 years to get here while in hyper sleep. So for 24 years things were fine, until the others started sending SOS signals before going dead. It happened slowly, first the one and then the other and so on over the course of 3 years.
We couldn't respond to help; upon landing a big part of the ship had been damaged. I've been working on fixing it with a handful of others while housing was being built. Now with just this one planet out of 6 it would take up to 60 years. In that time people would die and we'd have to bring abled people here to take over. By the time we're done, not much would be left. In that time there have been over 500 deaths trying to speed up the work on the ship.
Me?
I'm being held accountable for every person here.
"So, um about Elsa," he started and my smiled faded.
"What about Elsa?" I asked and he rubbed the back of his neck.
"It's been a week; you haven't talked about it,"
"Nothing to talk about,"
"Anna, come on, she was your wife for how many years?"
"20."
"You got to be missing her and it wasn't your fault, you know that right?"
"I know that, it was her choice, I couldn't stop her if I tried," I smiled up to him slightly.
"No one knew what would happen, heck, I didn't even know what would happen," I said and looked down at the tray of food we got.
"But thanks to her we now know that we aren't ready to mess with portals," I said and sat down starting to eat. Elsa was a genius, even more so than me. She discovered how to make more powerful fuel that would last far longer than what we had. She made a working portal, but so far all use we have for it now is to transport none sentient things.
We learned that the hard way. She volunteered to be the first human test subject. It ended horribly. She had worked hard in these three years to get a portal to work for humans to make travel faster to the other planets. She was so pure of heart, never losing hope that they were fine.
I miss her so much.
"Anna?" I look to Marshal and he looks empathetic. I bring a hand up to my face and feel the wetness of tears.
"Oh, sorry I was just thinking," I smiled and sniffed, my meal finished.
"I'll get to work on the thrusters," I said and got up before walking away. The thrusters were the only things left to finish and for Marshmallows sake I will finish them.
So there...look out for other stories to follow lol.
My brain just left hehehe.
*derp oreo face*
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