Nido Awakens
Written by Nidonemo
"Nido..."
"...huh?"
"Nido...are...you?"
"What?"
"...is...safe?"
Nido awoke to find himself lying in a glass sphere, atop a strangely comfortable cushion made of some unknown material. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He felt as if he was asleep for ages! After stretching a little he looked around him. He was in a sterile white room, inside what appeared to be a large glass sphere. Beside him lay a small doll-like replica of a Moogle. He could hear a muffled soft melody playing somewhere outside his sphere.
After taking in his surroundings, the small Tarutaru curiously crawled up to the side of his sphere and reached out to touch it. Before his little hand could come into contact with anything, a hole just larger than his hand appeared in the side. Nido snapped his hand back and the hole vanished. He reached out again and the hole reappeared! Nido smiled and took his hand back once more, making the hole vanish again. The Tarutaru giggled and repeatedly waved his hand back and forth, making the hole appear and disappear again and again! This was fun! After having a few minutes of simple merriment, Nido crawled closer and the hole became wider, allowing him to climb out and down to the floor. Nido smiled and started to leave the sphere, but looked behind him at the motionless Moogle doll.
Nido smiled and picked up the Moogle doll and hugged it. It made him feel safe, so he decided to keep it. Nido climbed out of the sphere and stepped out on the floor below. It felt cold and plain beneath his bare feet. The Tarutaru hugged the Moogle doll closer and looked around the room.
Above him was a tiled ceiling with lots of tiny holes in the white squares high above. The wall ahead of him had a plain white door, above which was a large window. He could see someone moving around up there, but he couldn't make out who it was. Nido then looked at himself, he wasn't in his battle clothes anymore, and he was dressed in a white robe which felt like a towel.
Nido headed towards the door in front of him, as he neared it, he found that the doorknob was much too high to reach, even after jumping it was almost a grasp away. The Tarutaru frowned and looked around for something to boost himself up, but there was nothing but himself, the sphere and the Moogle doll in his arms. The Tarutaru thought a moment and headed back to the sphere. He climbed back inside and found a small blanket, perfect! He grabbed the blanket and headed back to the door. Nido placed the Moogle doll on the floor and swung the blanket at the doorknob, snagging it. He gently pulled down and the door opened, much to his joy.
Smiling triumphantly, Nido picked up his doll and exited his room. As the door closed behind him he looked around this new room. It was much smaller and had lots of strange machines with small lights and buttons. One had a weird square with a jagged line that would jump up and down then go flat, then jump up and down again. Another machine had a steady flow of a sheet of paper with similar jagged-flat lines drawn on it.
There was another door at the end of this room, so Nido headed toward it, however before he could reach it, the door opened and a tall Hume entered. Nido was startled and jumped back, however the Hume smiled and waved. He had brown hair, pale skin, and had two different colored eyes. He was dressed in a blue shirt and was wearing short pants made out of a material Nido had never seen before. He didn't wear normal-looking boots or sandals, he had socks on and strange shoe-looking things on his feet, but they had strings on them, and they were tied in a bow.
"Hello, my name is Zachary. It's nice to meet you, Nido." the hume said with a gentle smile. Nido's eyes widened. Who was this guy? How did he know his name?
"Uh, hello, nice to...meet you Zachary." Nido responded slowly, giving a small, yet cautious bow. Zachary smiled warmly and Nido tried to relax.
"I apologize if I have startled you at all. The truth is we've been watching you for quite a while now, and we had deemed it necessary to, well, 'meet and greet' you." Zachary explained. Nido looked confused and gazed around the room once more, hugging the Moogle doll closer.
"Where...am I?" Nido asked, resting his curious gaze upon Zachary, who simply smiled once more.
"Well, believe it or not...you're on Earth." he said.
TO BE CONTINUED
