What's up, everyone! Scorpion here, bringing you another chapter of A Mother's Love.
It is strange how writing a story can be so... investing. Which is funny because when I HAVE to write, it makes me groan. I'm not bad at it (I have the grades to prove it), but writing was not my favorite subject, especially research papers. Which is funny, considering the amount of research need to make this story and another one I am working on.
What? 'You could care less about that'? WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT!?
You're right. Sowwy! :-)
Technical stuff: Rosie. Lumas. Nintendo. Get it? Got it? Good!
With that out of the way *coughs* (jeez, baby talk can take a toll on the pipes), Chapter 12...
The Search
The young girl traveled for what felt like hours, checking every asteroid for her lost luma. With each one turning up nothing, her heart-felt heavy and began to ache. She knew she promised that she would return and that everything would be alright, those words hid the sad truth.
She had no idea what to do, and was as scared as the lumas were.
The asteroid field was vast, and the idea of searching it all was daunting. How her little luma managed to gain so much ground between itself and the Observatory was hard to figure out. Asteroid after asteroid, she went farther away from the main ship and the other lumas, who by now were missing her. That thought came and went through her head quickly, but it festered in her mind.
More hours passed as she began to fight back the tears that started to well. "I must have checked a hundred asteroids, why can't I find you?"
That's when she saw a group of asteroids coming towards her. This group was the last one before there was nothing but space. She wondered if the young luma was compelled to come this far. "I mustn't give up. I will find him and bring him back home!" she said as she went in to the field.
More hours passed. She must have been gone a full day as she found it hard to keep her eyes open and her hopes up. Her frantic search of the field came up empty and was minutes away from giving up.
"Maybe he returned to the ship," she thought in her exhausted state. A small glimmer of hope shown itself as she began to turn the ship around and head for home. "That's right! He must have gotten hungry and returned home for some star bits. They all must be worried about me. Maybe they started a new game while they are waiting for me…"
Her thoughts trailed off as a horrible realization came to mind. What if he didn't return? What if the luma was still hiding, or got lost, or is hurt? What if she returned home to find that he wasn't there? What if the other luma felt that she abandoned them, if they will thing that she abandoned him, if she would lose them in the future, if they will leave her because they thought she didn't care…
…What if she was leaving him, all of them, alone? Like her mother left her…
She stopped the ship in the middle of the asteroid field. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," the girl said.
The confidence that she held so dearly to faded. The sadness overtook her. For the first time in a while, she began to cry.
Rough being a mother, huh?
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Well, that's it for today. Expect a new chapter next week. Maybe earlier, depending on how I feel.
Thanks for taking a moment of your time to read this. And, if you have a chance, don't forget to check my other stories (or story, in this case).
This is Scorpion, signing out! T.T.F.N! (Ta ta, for now, for my non-Pooh readers)