When Kendric stepped through the wormhole, it went as quick as sitting in a rollercoaster. His body flew through some sort of tunnel of light for a few seconds. It wasn't as the wormhole in the golden messhall where they instantly went through within a millisecond.
He passed by all sorts of stars and planets. Just like the ceiling, just breathtaking. Suddenly he stood in a huge dormitory filled with big white, round bunk beds and in the middle of the dormitory they've created some kind of futuristic lounge. White with turquoise sofa's and beanbags in the same colour with 3D printing. There was some kind of projection but Kendric couldn't find any beamer. He wondered where the projection was originated from. It just floated in the middle without any tv screen or something and there were boys playing what looked like a playstation but than one which comes out in 10 years or so. It looked very futuristic with some sort of hologram function. Two boys were wearing body suits with 4D glasses and it looked like they were shooting at something with their hands holding an imaginairy gun. Kendric looked at the holographic projection and saw the two boys running in a jungle with high tech weapons but in reality they just stood still. It looked awesome and he couldn't wait to check this game out!
He looked around further and it seemed there were no walls. Where normally supposed to be walls, here there were only big glass windows with LED colourchanging strips surrounding them. The view was spectacular, you could see the whole universe through it. Kendric wondered again or this was real or just another projection.
One of the boys was now cheering out loud. Apperently they had a winner and the two boys took their body suits of. One tall dude congratulated the other one. The next ones were already standing in line, ready for take of. They were definitely holding a competition amongst each other.
Zuberi and Marcellus walked to their bunk beds, they were neighbours. Marcellus got his laptop out and placed it on his bed. He claimed the top bed. Zuberi had the bed right of Marcellus and slept in the bottom bunk bed. He made a handgesture that Kendric should join him. When he entered their sleepingzone Zuberi pointed to the bed above him.
'Take it brother, it isn't taken yet.'
Marcellus put his thumb up: 'Believe me, it has the best view,' and he chuckled.
'You know all sound goes up right? There is nothing better than to fall a sleep with all the guys snoring. Oh the joy!' Zuberi made an impression of a drooling Marcellus and snored so loud that now some boys were watching them. But Zuberi couldn't care less and continued his own stand up comedian show.
Kendric smiled, but then he realised he didn't had anything with him. It came all so unexpected. It wasn't that he had the chance to pack a suitcase first, and even if he had one with him, there were no closets. Kendric looked confused and Zuberi noticed that Kendric was totally lost. Zuberi put his hand in front of the leftside of his bed and a closet rolled out of the bed.
'You don't need your clothes, we recieve clothes and shoes from here. Apperently it changes to your size,' and Zuberi took his pajamas out. He pointed out to the right side of the bunk bed and Kendric put his hand in front of the bed. As soon as he did his closet rolled out with everything in it, but it was all coloured in white. No jeans, no sweaters. It looked like all body suits and one robe.
Zuberi lauged: 'You suppose to wear it to class every day but tomorrow we need to wear the white robe for the ceremony.''What do you mean by "class"?''Well it is a highschool remember brother?''What will they be teaching us than?''I forgot that you missed out on the introduction and tour today, you were with master Uruk to recieve the knowledge. It's ok, we will tell you what you need to know. I don't know everything but if I understand correctly they will start teaching us to meditate and how to access our powers.'
Kendric was annoyed, apperently he missed out the whole point of this school and the tour. He depended on Zuberi because he didn't know anything about this school, all he got was the knowledge. Whatever it supposed to be, for now it just felt like he recieved a harddisc which got uploaded to his brain with some history lessons on it. He didn't want to ask more about those classes they'll suppose to attend, he decided to just wait and see.
'How do you guys take a shower here or brush your teeth?' he asked confused while scanning the place for a bathroom.
'We have a super sonic shower, you only have to go in and the shower does the rest and in front of the mirror you can touch the toothbrush sign and the computer tells you what to do. He cleans your mouth and teeth for you. Everything goes automatically. How cool is that? You want to try it out?' Marcellus talked very fast and Kendric decided to say yes since he got the feeling that Marcellus wouldn't stop talking about it otherwise.
He took his pajamas out the closet and followed Marcellus to the bathroom, while Zuberi joined them.
It was all the way in the back of the dorm hided behind some kind of veil between two white pillars which led to the bathroom. Marcellus stepped through and Zuberi and Kendric followed. The bathroom was decorated with turqouise printed tiles imprinted with white foreign symbols on it. Kendric focused on the symbols and was amazed he could read them. It were different symbols than those in the messhall though. He started to read them one by one: 'For those to be pure, it is water they need.'
Marcellus and Zuberi looked at Kendric with their mouths wide open.'Brother don't tell me you can read those alien symbols?'
'Alien?'
'Alien or whatever symbols, they don't look like any symbols I've ever seen on this planet.'
Kendric looked at the symbols. He didn't saw any alien looking symbols, he just saw them as clear as if he was reading the alphabet.
It must be the knowledge I've recieved from the source, therefor only I can read them and seperate them from other languages like those in the messhall.
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Kendric told them that he didn't know where the languages came from but that he could seperate them from one and another.
'Can you read and speak Italian to?' Marcellus asked enthousiasticly.
'To be honest, I don't know. I just read symbols but I don't even know if I can pronouce those symbols. I don't even know how, I just can explain what's standing there.'
How did this work?
He thought to translate a sentence.
I like hamburgers.
While he stared at the symbols, just nothing happened. No foreign language came up, no Italian, no alien or whatsoever.
Marcellus said something which sounded Italian: 'Well?'
Kendric pulled his shoulders up, he didn't had any clue what Marcellus just told him.
'Zuberi you have to try, say something in that Tanzania thingy!'
Zuberi laughed out loud at Marcellus.
'You're funny Mario,' he then continued in some African language. At least that's how it sounded to Kendric but he didn't understand one word.
'Wait, you guys speak Swahili, don't you?' Kendric was proud that he could remember it. That was from the tales from uncle Jerry, he had bin to Tanzania when he traveled a great part of Africa. Zuberi put his big smile on again and patted Kendric on the shoulder.
'Smart ass!'
Kendric knew it was meant to be disparaging and he followed Zuberi to the sink. It was a big white pillar with mirrors surrounding it. Kendric stood in front of the mirror and he saw they were touchscreens as the ones in the messhall. Just like the foodbars. He tapped the toothbrush symbol. A textballoon came up: Open your mouth please. Kendric opened his mouth, through a small opening in the pillar some kind of dentist looking tool came out. 'What the heck is this?' And he jumped back from fright but the tool just moved forward to his mouth.The tool had a blue ledlight on it which was shining into his mouth. Another text balloon appeared:
You need a heavy cleaning, please keep your mouth open while I continue.
The tool made a sound as if it was blowing air but he didn't feel anything. A timer appeared on the touchscreen with 25 seconds and was counting down. After 25 seconds the tool went back in the pillar and on the touchscreen appeared a flapping finish flag.
Marcellus used the touchscreen on the left from Kendric and he appeared to be done as well.
'Cool isn't it? Depending on how much work there is to be done in your mouth it will take a few seconds, but there was this one guy standing here today he needed like 5 minutes or so!'
Marcellus made a woozy face with it. He kinda looked like the woozy emoji. Zuberi and Kendric both laughed out loud. Marcellus had some great facial expressions, like a true Italian he spoke with his whole body and specificly with his face.
They went to the next whitepillar. This one was much thicker and was standing in the back. Another set of touchscreens where hanging on the pillar. He pressed the showersymbol and another textmessage appeared: Undress please.
A veil surrounded him now, he could look through it but he guessed it worked as a curtain.
A drawer opened up out of the pillar, he undressed and placed them in the drawer. He heard a noise coming out which sounded like a washingmachine but than not nearly as loud as a washingmachine would be. Another textmessage appeared on the touchscreen. This time he was given four options:
- Sahara dessert
- Jungle fever
- Icelander
- Carwash
Kendric noticed he was making a woozy face himself now.
'I had the carwash just because it looked funny, believe me it wasn't!!! It was a real carwash!' Kendric could see Marcellus standig through the veil and he looked painfull.
Wait, if the carwash was letterly a carwash than the others must be like that as well. So Icelander must be like jumping into an ice cloud, sahara dessert must be steamy hot and jungle dessert...
'Zuberi took the jungle dessert today,' and Marcellus laughed out loud again. Zuberi was putting his payamas on in one of the weird looking changing rooms. They also were made of veils and you could see through it when no one was in one of them but as soon as one entered the changing room the veil made some kind of projection. It almost looked like a hologram of the universe. Though it was transparent, it was reminding Kendric of the anti see through stickers on a window. It blinded one from looking through it in detail.
Kendric could desperately use a steamy shower and he decided to take the sahara dessert and while pressed the button he squeezed his eyes. As soon as he hit the sahara dessert option button, a blue light projected on him from out of the ceiling. Again that airblowing noise but no wind to be found.
The blue light surrounded his whole body and all of a sudden he felt sand scrubbing his body till it almost started to burn. He prepared himself to scream for help, afraid how long this scrub would continue. But then a sensation followed as if he was laying in a mudbad and he cooled of inmediatly. It was very softning, not that he had ever bin in a mudbad. He felt the touch of warm water like he was in the spa in a nice hottub. But the air was getting hotter, like someone threw water on the hot coals in the sauna.
Kendric never could stand a sauna, uncle Jerry took him once and he couldn't even stand the heat longer than for 5 minutes when uncle Jerry threw extra water on the coales. But this had some weird smell, eucalyptus if he wasn't mistaken.
He wanted to get out but didn't see any escape button. He desperately looked around, but the veil wasn't a curtain you could just pull aside. It felt solid as a rock. He panicked a bit but than a hard breeze surrounded him like a big hairdryer and it smelled like his father's shower gel. It went on for a few seconds and felt actually very refreshing.
The noice stopped and the drawer opened again. Kendric put his payamas on and took out the clothes he had on that day. They smelled fresh, they were folded and ironed it appeared. The veil automatically disappeared as soon as he had his clothes on.
Zuberi and Marcellus were standing right next to him full of exitement.
Kendric rolled his eyes: 'Sandshower!' And he walked out of the bathroom through the same veil he came in. He heard them laughing behind him.
Although the shower was pleasant and awfull at the same time he felt more fresh than he ever did. Like he just spend one month in a spa. He opened his closet and put his freshed washed clothes in it and climbed up his bed. He crawled under his duvet and laid down on his pillow.
'Feels like heaven doesn't it brother?'
Kendric looked down and smiled at Zuberi. It was indeed a bed made out of a little piece of heaven. The pillow and duvet were so soft and the matras. It was like he layed in a bed made of feathers.
'Good night my new friends,' and he waved at Marcellus and Zuberi. He closed his eyes but his mind wasn't resting at all. He wondered how worried his parents must be. Not knowing where he was. They must have called the police by now. Where was his iPhone, did he drop it when he passed out in uncle Jerry's garten? He couldn't remember anymore. He wanted to ask Zuberi but he heard him snorring.
That was fast!
Marcellus sat on his bed but he had his headphones on. Tomorrow he would ask them, he couldn't be the only one with these questions right? Maybe it was discussed in the introduction that he missed out on and was everything arranged by the school. For now, this thought was satisfying enough for him. A veil slowly surrounded his bunk bed and no light or sound was coming through anymore, no lights from Marcellus laptop, no sound from the boys that were still playing around, or snorring. Just peace and quiet...