Hidden memories.
Odd and Zoe chased each other through the wood on the way to their special clearing. What ever was there would hold the answer to their past, they just knew it.
Soon they reached the clearing and began to search for the tree in the drawing.
"Found it!" called Odd.
Zoe rushed to where he was and saw the tree from the picture, then it hit her.
"What now." she said.
"Good question." said Odd.
Zoe looked up the tree and got an idea. With expert grace she climbed the tree and Odd quickly followed. They finally got to a tree branch which had a hole in it.
"Go on then." Zoe said to Odd.
"Why me?" said Odd.
"Because you know you can't say no to me." said Zoe giving Puppy dog eyes to him.
Odd finally broke.
"Fine but next time your doing it."
Odd rolled up his sleeve and put his arm down the hole. He finally pulled out holding a small package wrapped in plastic and covered in dirt. Zoe opened the plastic and took out the package which happed to be a small jewellery box, she opened it and found a external hard drive addressed to her and Odd and 2 small devices with 2 coloured buttons on each. I had a small not attached saying `Only play when alone.`
Once Odd and Zoe were in his room and all Odd's family were out Odd opened his laptop and plugged the external hard drive into it. A window popped up asking for a password.
"Dam we need a password."
They thought long and hard on what the password could be, suddenly Odd got an idea.
"Project Nikolai." Odd said as he typed it into the box in number form.(1)
He pressed enter and the password was accepted. A video file immediately came up and Odd pressed it and another window popped up asking for a password.
"Chandrakant." said Zoe this time and typed it in number form.(2)
The password was accepted and the video began to play. Odd and Zoe were surprised to see their 10 old selves on the screen.
"Your probably wondering what's going on, let us explain." said the Zoe from the video.
Odd and Zoe stared at the screen speechless as it continued to play.
"You see we, meaning you 2 were once part of a secret organisation started for the purpose of exploring new worlds and making peace. We can't explain in case someone else is watching this but our organisation was a good one and not for war. We were betrayed by someone with the intention of turning our society into a weapon for conquest, we and others were not swayed though and we escaped and blew up the base and equipment. All those who were not swayed separated for everyone's own good and had our memories blocked of everything to do with it, before hand we integrated ourselves into the families you have now. But we knew the memory block would eventually fail so we set up this for when we remember." said the Odd from the video.
"But we want to give our selves a choice. The 2 devices that you found with the hard drive will control your memory. The blue button will destroy the rest of the memory block and allow you access to your memories no matter how painful, the red button on the other hand will strengthen the memory block and you'll forget again and about what your seeing now. It's your choice, remember and become the people you once were or forget and lead an ordinary life. Oh and by the way the buttons are keyed in to only your DNA signature so if someone else has them they're useless to them." said the Zoe in the video then it ended.
Odd and Zoe gaped, how could this be true. Then again they did fight an evil computer AI so really anything could be possible.
"Do we believe it." asked Odd.
"Well there were the dreams and that we knew the passwords." said Zoe.
"Should we?"
"What ever you decide I'll do as well."
"But what if it's a trick?"
"I don't think it is."
"Fine on the count of 3."
Odd and Zoe picked up the devices and their thumbs hovered over the blue buttons.
"1...2...3." they both said then pressed the buttons.
The devices created an electric shock that travelled up their arms and towards the brain. Both saw a flash of light as they fell unconscious and began to remember.
(1)- I mean by this as in like 1=A, 2=B, 3=C and so on.
(2)- Just to let you know if you want to Chandrakant means Beloved by the moon according to the book I got it from.
Anyway tell me if I should make the next few chapters Odd and Zoe's memories or have it built up through what they and others like them say and remember. If I do the second one I do a separate story which will be a prequel containing the 3 missing years.