(Present day September, 21st, 2018, Earth)
"Phweee! Phweeeee! Phweeeeeeeee! Ok boys time to hit the showers good work and great job. With that much effort every practice we might just keep our winning streak going of late." Said coach Lennen head coach for the Lowland Wolves at Lowland High. A tall but big bellied guy like most football coaches who are also gym teachers but at least this one became a teacher after playing in the NFL for three years and didn't have a receding hair line with his brown hair like others. Now just getting close to retirement as a teacher he was happy to see his next four year's would be with a great junior team following him out on his last year 4 years at the school. Of course he would give it his all with the other teams to come and the seniors but he felt this one had a good chance at having all of them go to college on scholarships for football. Plus going out with a team that was undefeated since starting high school was a coach's dream.
"Hey Kaito you up for going down to the Raid we got about 6 of us going. Plus Dan said some of the cheerleaders might make their way down too after they finish practicing routines." Said James the lead running back and kicker for the team. He was a big kid for only being 14 at 6ft 2 inches all ready. Most people wouldn't think he would be good at running back do to his size but he sure could run, he almost broke the record at the school for end to end sprints. The best part about him was that because he was so big once he got the ball it was all the other teams could do to stop him. At least right now since they only played junior teams and the average 14-15 year old wasn't so big.
"Nah I can't gota go to Sam's tonight and work on our science project for the science fair in a month. Told me if I didn't show up tonight I would regret it, kept talking about this major breakthrough he had happen the other day and wanted to show me. From the sounds of it all the only time you'll see of me for a while is when I'm at practice and class." Replied Kaito who was the lead Quarter-Back for the team.
Kaito was a tall young teen at 5'7" but decently built for only being 14 with very light blonde hair that was almost white at times. And strikingly blue eyes that were at times as light blue as the sky and other time as dark as the ocean based on his feelings at the time making his emotions plain to see usually. Kaito had a very angular and athletic face and would make you think he was a runner and he was he ran at least 5 kilometers a day when he got up and then had football practice every 2 days. So he was very fit and from that he was able to be a guy that most girls would call handsome with a fit body and nice face. Most girls at the school said it gave him the look of looking at you like he was a predator and you his prey. But for some reason he hadn't really found anyone at the school he could really mesh with in his town though he had some great friends who were both guys and girls.
As James and Kaito were talking they had stopped cleaning the equipment up in the field and as their coach was leaving the field he saw that and decided to remind his quarter back of an old tradition for the team that had yet to be skipped.
"OH! Hey Kaito be sure to pick up the equipment with the line backers gotta keep that clean up tradition going boys after all it does build character, and James doesn't look like you're doing much either go give them a hand too." Coach Lennen told them with an evil glint in his eye since the line backer's had to push the sleds up a steep hill to put them away in the shed. It was one of the most dreaded parts of practice since the sleds weighed about 600lbs and there were 3 of them.
The worst part about the sleds was they were designed to help a player practice tackling or pushing and so only had 3 spots where you could really get a grip on them there was a rope that could be used to pull but most players found it easier to tackle the 3 faces together as a group of two on each one. By doing it this way and pushing together it was really only a hundred pounds each player had to push and made the job much easier. Somehow this lead to the tradition of having the quarter back and line backers working together. But mostly it was just done out of habit now for most of them however the coach liked to make sure they knew it was tradition.
"Kay coach." replied both Kaito and James dreading the push since they knew if they didn't hurry all but one of them would be put away and then the last three people to make it there would have to put the one sled away with only 3 people on it.
"Come on James hurry or were going to be stuck pushing that sucker up the hill on our own!" Hollered Kaito as he ran to the shed with the pads from practice that he had gathered up.
James seeing this didn't reply just grabbed the last of the pads and made a dash to the shed with the last of the pads. Too worried that if they were late he would get stuck in the middle again were the most weight was when pushing. As he got closer to the shed he saw that today he was out of luck and was going to be stuck pushing the sucker up the hill with only 3 people as the others saw their chance and hurried to put away the other sleds before they arrived. Just as the other kids finished and they left for the change room to get changed they saw that only Kaito, James and the Scrawny line backer on the team Fred would be the ones pushing the last sled up the hill on their own. James arrived just as the others said good luck to them while some left just laughing as with who they had it was going to take them about 10 minutes to push the sled up and another 5 to do a final check of the field and lock up.
"See you guys down at the Raid, have fun with that sucker though I guess you and Kaito are used to it James. After all you and Kaito always have to clean up the pads before helping us." Dan said to them since he always was able to push the first one up with the others due to being head of the line backers.
"Yeah yeah see you there since you'll probably be gone by the time we get to the change room don't think I won't remember this when I own your ass in pool tonight Dan." Yelled James to Dan as he left. Looking at the sled he saw that it was the oldest and heaviest on they had covered in mud from the practice that day. "Man this is going to suck you up for it guys?"
"Hmph" replied Fred. "Let's get this done with I gota go home and get the cows in the barn for their afternoon milking." He said as he was anxious to be done and back at his family's farm with his dog and horse.
"Hahh" Sighed Kaito. "This is going to put a big kink in my plans tonight well let's get this done were all going to be late getting to where we wana go now anyways might as well not delay it any longer. Fred you take the middle you're the shortest well put me and James on the outside and go real low on it if we pick it up enough we might be able to get it up in two or three bursts." As Kaito told them what to do he got low in the front left side of the sled and down low so he could hit it running full out and get as much speed on it as possible. "On three. One!" As the others heard this they got low and ready to run at the sled too. "Two!" As the other boys heard this got took a deep breath to get ready to push the sled up the steep hill. "! THREE! Uhh HAAAA!" The three of them of them screamed and yelled as they pushed the sled up the hill as they were reaching the middle of the hill they got slower and slower knowing that they were not going to get it much further they let the sled drop down and they took a minute to rest.
"HA" Panted James as they took a minute to rest. "Uh feels like this gets heavier by the end of the day every time what the hell." While he leaned on the sled to catch his breath he saw that the others had also ran out of breath while pushing it too.
"You guys ready I really need to get home or the cows might get sick if we don't get them milked." Asked Fred as he was anxious to get his chores done at home likely so he could go riding with his black colt at home. The others agreed that they were ready and wanted to finish the push too as everyone had something to do.
"K same as last time on three. One. Two. Three." Said Kaito.
As they pushed the sled up the hill they found they had gotten lucky with only having to push the sled twice instead of the normal 3-4 times it would usually take.
"Well let's lock up and go shower maybe I won't be too late to the RAID tonight after all. You must be happy Fred you'll get to get home at a decent time now too." James spoke and they were finishing up the last check of the field. And headed into the change room once in there they went to their lockers and threw their stuff in to them and grabbed towels to go to the showers with.
"Yeah it will be good to get home and get the chores done especially since I'll be going up into the woods tonight to go hunting with stalker. I haven't been able to get up there of late do to the calves all needing to be weaned and separated for inspection by the vet. This was a good year we were able to keep most of them for milking instead of raising them for sale like we usually do with them." Replied Fred as he went over to the showers too.
As Kaito got in to the change room with the others he had a look at the clock and seeing that it was almost 5:30 already. He threw his stuff off and got dressed instead of heading to the showers too like the others and headed for the door outside to the field.
"Hey guys see you Monday I gota get over too Sam's like now or I'm gona miss supper there later." Kaito yelled as he heard the showers turn on and he headed for the door to go.
"Later!" Both James and Fred yelled as they were showering though Kaito didn't hear them as he was already out of the change room.
As Kaito got out of the locker room he started running to the back of the school field and climbed over the fence to cut across the empty construction zone to get to the street Sam lived on. The students had been told many times not to go into the construction area but there was little the teachers could do when school was over. So it was mostly ignored and allowed.
As Kaito got on the street he made a straight run for about 5 minutes to get to Sam's house and was covered in sweat all over again from running to the house. Once at the house he went up and rang the doorbell and sat down on the swing that was on the front porch of the small brown brick two floor house. Like most suburb houses it had a brick face that wrapped around the sides a bit and then had a brown siding for the rest of the house to give the place the appearance of a nice little cottage home but we all know what suburbs are really like and if you don't well I hope you never know it's boring and will give you a taste of hell.
As Kaito sat there and cooled off while waiting for Sam or his parents to get the door he thought. "AHH when will I figure out what I want to do in life I mean I vaguely know go to college or university work a 9-5 job, get a wife have kids and grow old not bad really. But I want to...... I want....... Ahh I don't even know what I want........ I just don't want to make my life about just a few things........ AHHH I hate this........ feeling like I can't do anything every time I come and visit Sam I get like this it's just he knows what he wants to do with life and is working towards that goal already............Hah guess I'll just have to do the best I can for the next four years in high school and hope I find what it is I can and want to do with my life .... ............ ........... ............... ......................"
While Kaito kept thinking about how he couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with his life he started to get a blank look and became oblivious to everything around him that was going on but that's normal for any teen looking at what's ahead of them in life and trying to plan for it while being unable to decide what he wants to do in life.
While he was starring he didn't even hear or notice the front door opening on the house as his friend Sam came out the front door looking for who rang the doorbell. After looking around he saw Kaito siting on the swing not even noticing him even though he opened the door to his house seeing this Sam gave an evil smirk. The Brown haired and green eyed boy decided to get low and scare his friend since he hadn't noticed the door opening and with his small and lean frame coming in around 140 pounds 5'4'' tall he could sneak behind the swing and give Kaito a good scare. Trying to keep low and not bothering to close the door so as to not alert Kaito Sam made his way over the porch while keeping to the side of the house and snuck right up behind Kaito while he sat on the swing. Sam got right behind the unaware Kaito and whispered to him in his softest voice while trying to make it sound feminine.
"Hey come here often?" Whispered Sam to Kaito while brushing Kaito's ear gently with his hand.
"Huh! wah? AAHHH!!" It took Kaito a second to process it but when he did he practically jumped off the front porch in his fright as he didn't realize anyone was behind him and shoved the swing backwards fast in his rush to get away. In his rush to get off the of the porch he heard laughter of someone and looked behind himself to see Sam on the ground laughing while crying at the same time with a big red mark on his forehead.
"HAhahahah owwh! HAhahaha! Ughh! Hahahaha! Hehhhh. Man that hurt. Aahahaha! But still so worth it. Ahahah! I can't breathe. Ahahah! I can't breathe! Oh Oh heh. Man you jumped at least 5 feet in the air." Said Sam to Kaito as he rolled on the ground laughing and holding his ribs from the pain of laughing too hard.
"What the hell you trying to kill me man? I couldn't breathe there for a minute. I mean that was one the freakiest things I've experienced. Gah I'm gona have frigging nightmares from that." Kaito Exclaimed as he got off the rail and tried to get his mind back in order after having been pranked.
"Haha oh man sorry but you had it coming after being late and not even noticing I was there with the door open. Anyways get in here were about to have supper in 10 minutes I'll show you the project were working on after we eat." Replied Sam as he got up off the ground rubbing the mark on his head and trying to hold in his laughing from his funny yet sick prank.
"You're sick in the head you know that if you weren't so smart I bet Anna and Jack would send you to a psychiatrist for help. God at least I know that it wasn't some random person from of the street pulling that stunt." Kaito told Sam as he headed into his friend's house from the porch starting to chuckle to himself as he got over being scared.
"Ha they did that when I was 10 gave up after the first session though when the guy came running out of his office screaming that he quit and was going to retire that day. Not much they can do to help me when I've made them leave the room before we even got started." Shot back Sam as he smelled Kaito when he came closer.
"And man you stink go up and have a shower supper will be ready after you're done." Sam said as he headed over to the kitchen to set the table and tell his mom Anna that Kaito would be staying for supper too.
(Heh I can't tell if he's lying or telling the truth with him though it might just be the truth anyways might as well go have that shower or I probably won't be having supper tonight.) Thought Kaito as he made his way up to the bathroom upstairs and proceeded to have a shower. He wasn't bothering to say hi to Anna because he had been over so much when he was a kid that he knew she preferred that he not smell when he got off practice back then with Sam and to either of their houses to hang out.
............ (Half an hour later after showering having supper and talking with Sam and his parents)........
"Come on man hurry up I wana show you what I was working on for the last two weeks and what were gona do for the science fair this year. I think your gona like it so let's go." Sam said as he got up off the table and took his dishes over to the dishwasher and then headed to the basement where he worked on most of his projects.
"Ya Ya give me a second I'll be down after putting my dishes away. Thanks for supper Anna it was good" Kaito said as he cleaned up his dishes and put them away and headed over to the basement door form the kitchen.
"Don't worry Dear it was a pleasure and you know you've been here enough to not have to say that. Beside's I'm sure you were starved after having practice today. It is sad that Sam decided to give up the sport when he started high school though but I guess it can't be helped after all he always loved working with technology and computers more." Replied Anna remembering when her kid used to play football with the other kids before high school.
"I know but still thanks from the sounds of things with how excited Sam is about this I don't think hell regret not playing sports anymore he's really into the computers and stuff now. Ah before I forget I might be staying over I'll call home later if that's okay with you." Kaito said back as headed down the stairs he stopped to hear what Anna was saying. He never really needed to ask since both families had known each other before the boys were even born and made Anna and Jack basically two more parents for Kaito. Which he didn't mind as it helped his mom who had lost his dad to a mining accident up in Saskatchewan before he was born.
"That's fine have fun and make sure he doesn't do anything serious without having the fire extinguisher nearby it took a month to get the smoke stench out of the house from the last time he had an accident and set fire to the basement." Anna said to him while glaring at him with suspicious eyes.
"Aheheh. Yah? That was Sam anyways gota go give him a hand later Anna." Kaito said as he headed down the stairs to the basement with a bit more hurry than he had before.
As Kaito made his way down into the basement he saw that everything was taken down and pushed to the sides of the room. Sitting in the middle of the room was a small pedestal that came up to the waist on him and had a clear and smooth surface like glass and could be seen through with lots of wire and lenses in the center. There were a bunch of magnetic metal plates on the sides just around the wall under the surface of the glass. It was about 6 inches in diameter and the machine had several wires running in circles 6 feet out around it to take up the slack but seemed to be in that spot for a reason and then went into the machine.
Looking around the room he saw Sam over at the work table with his computer on with all 5 screens running. 3 looked like programs of some sort one was clearly Eve Online Sam's favorite game and the last one was an anime most likely the new season of Boruto the anime after Naruto. He also saw Sam had his soldering needle out and was working on attaching some wires into one of the 6 projectors he had placed on or by the table. On the shelf above the table was a silver canister with lots of cautions and warnings as to the handling of the product inside plus about six or seven fire extinguishers were hanging or lying around the room with clear notes saying good to use or spent on them.
"Hey man I'm down here seems like your mom is kinda down about you giving up football but I guess that's to be expected maybe you should stop by some time for a practice I'm sure the coach wouldn't mid more people for practice." Kaito said as he got off the stairs but seeing Sam not even listening he thought to himself. ("Why did I even bother he so focused on the computer he didn't even hear me aw-well guess it's to be expected he really grown to love working with them and his gadget's"). Deciding to get Sam's attention Kaito went over to Sam and tapped him on the shoulder to get him to stop what he was doing at the computer/ work bench and look up.
"Sooo Sam what are we doing all it looks like is that you have pushed everything back right now and are getting ready to blow up something again. And just so you know if that is what we're doing I'm leaving your mom still thinks it was me that caused that fire last year." Kaito asked cautiously worried that if he spooked Sam there actually might be a fire or at least a trip to the hospital again for electrocution.
"Huh oh hey get over here grab the drill there and put those ceiling mounts up were I marked them. I'm just gona finish soldering these wires and then add the last refocuser into the last two of these projectors then well start putting them up. And don't worry were not blowing stuff up this time I hope but as you can see I've bin going around and getting more extinguisher's just in case from the stores and yard sales." Said Sam as he worked away at the projector in front of him and pointed to the ready and finished modified projectors.
"Zzzzt spark." Went a wire as it sparked when touch to the circuit board of the projector.
"Okay?" Said Kaito as he grabbed the drill and mounts to put up in the ceiling. "So Sam what are you doing there that's making that spark so much thought you weren't supposed to work on tech anymore when it's live since your last trip to the hospital."
While Kaito grabbed the ladder so he could set up the mounts for the projectors and looked for the positioning of were the mounts were supposed to go on the ceiling. He saw that they were to be put in a circle around the pedestal and matched the circle of wires on the ground in distance from the pedestal. He realized the wires were there to power and hook up the projectors to Sam's computer.
"Oh don't worry I'm just running power after I connect the wires to test the join not when I'm soldering the wires together like that time. Besides I'm not gona make that mistake again and shock myself while soldering I mean damn that hurt and I don't wana have some fat nurse wake me up every hour or two just to see if I'm alive again. You done with those mounts yet in a minute were gona see if we can do a twist on the idea for a hologram." Sam replied as he finished up the last of the solders and put the focusers in it.
"Yeah I'm just about done with the mounts you need me to put those projectors up or are you going to do it?" Kaito asked as he finished putting the last mount up for the projectors.
"Nah you do it I'm gona shut down my bitcoin miners and open up the project specs and the projecting program and get this canister open so we can start with the test. Put the projectors in the numbered order and face them towards the receiving stand in the center once I'm done here well put the some of the liquid on top and run a simulation." Sam said as he worked the lid off the canister marked with all the caution labels and warnings. He was working the lid in a counter clockwise rotation with a long wrench and a pair of long tongs holding the body of the canister.
Once he undid the lid he used the tongs holding the body of the canister to carry the now open canister to the stand and poured the liquid inside onto the pedestal's flat surface. Now when most liquids are poured onto flat surface they will run off that flat surface. However for a strange reason this liquid didn't run off the pedestal but focused in the center like a pile of pudding even though the liquid was more like water than pudding. The liquid was dull grey in color and had small flecks in it that gave of a golden glow and poured like water but piled up in the center of the pedestal like a pudding in a bowl or mud that was really wet.
As Kaito finished putting up the projectors and connecting the HDMI, power cables, plus 2 other ports with taped notes saying connect to blue stickered port and connect to red stickered port. He saw what Sam was doing with the liquid and decided to get some answers before going any further sick of Sam leaving him out of the loop.
"That's it Sam tell me what's going on now or I'm leaving and you can do this mad science experiment without me. You aren't making do this again this was exactly how you set your house on fire last time by not telling anyone what you were doing so start explaining or I'm going home." Kaito told Sam as he put the tools away at the work bench and went over to get his sweater to leave.
"Fine I'll tell you jeez figured you prefer seeing an example of it than listening to me explain but whatever. Where going to make a hologram that you can touch so it won't be 3d but 4d with the capability to touch it. The stand will receive the projections from all 6 of the projectors and can be focused to be tight or wide with the adjustments I made on them. The stand is used to absorb any extra light as well as manipulate the liquid. The liquid will be manipulated with the magnets just under the glass by projecting their magnetic fields up wards toward the liquid and that's also why the liquid hasn't flowed off its being suspended already. The liquid will then form the skin or surface of the image were making when activated it won't feel like liquid but solid like any normal object. That solve things for you Kaito and can we continue with the tests it's getting late." Said Sam after he finished pouring the liquid onto the stand and put the canister lid back on.
"Fine let's get this done but where did you get that liquid from it's glowing and I'm thinking its mercury but it's not is it?" Kaito asked Sam as he finally stopped pushing and let Sam do what he wanted to do. However he was still worried something might explode or by the looks of the glowing liquid and the cautions for it expose them to something (AGAIN?).
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"AHH eheheh I got it from a guy of the net said this was a natural and rare magnetic fluid and that this was the only bit he had ever found in his years of travel as a geologist. The guy was under hard times and after having him agree to take it back if he was lying about it being magnetic I bought for fifty bucks off him and had him mail it to me. Figured if it was dangerous the mail people wouldn't let me have it but here it is and I guess it really is magnetic which is good." Sam replied to Kaito as he got back over to his computer and started turning on the projectors.
"Ok the test image should be of a flower lots of those images floating around on the net specially 3d ones but I had to spend a week making a editing program that could adapt it so the liquid will form it. Any ways seems everything fine on this side and on standby now let's run the program flower should be a daisy simple enough." Sam said as he worked his computer which was really powerful do to him making it himself and stealing parts from the dumpsters of stores, the junkyard, and the dump.
As he did this Kaito had got tired of standing and had move over onto the couch by the stairs watching the stand. (Pedestal to him do to how it looked) Sitting there he saw that the fluid was slowly starting to rise into a stem with a few bumps on it and then into the flower of the daisy. The remaining liquid then flowed down to the base of the flower and formed dirt around the stem and the sat before Kaito's eyes a daisy on top of the stand in dirt.
"I think it worked you got a flower sitting here but couldn't you have picked something cooler to do man." Kaito asked Sam as he sat on the couch and watched it form he was to amazed to notice that Sam had been watching too and had a look of amazement just like Kaito.
"It worked." Sam said as he sat there looking at it he only knew the projectors would work but didn't think the fluid program would even work the first time. As he had gotten it of the net on a sketchy tech site but it looked sound so he figured he would give it a shot. He figured him and Kaito would be spending the whole weekend working on the problem of how to get it to work and would have bin building attachments with more magnets on them to help the containment of the liquid.
"I'll be damned it worked the first try yah!" shouted Sam as he spun in his chair happy to see the program work the first time and now wanting to try something else to see if it wasn't a fluke.
"K let's give this a try you want cool image I'm gona run the program for my Armageddon battle ship let's see if it can do that." He said eager to see his prized ship from EVE online get made out of the fluid.
As Sam was uploading the info for building the ship with the liquid he removed the last image from the program. In doing that he made the liquid lose its shape as it returned to a neutral position since it had nothing to do. As he put the last few commands into the computer to have the liquid start taking the shape and form of the ship. The computer froze up when he pressed enter to run the program because of the demand that was being put on it. Sam did not notice this though as he had finished his fast typing and moved onto watching the liquid form the ship. But not many computers could even handle this much less actually process the images and if Sam had done his research on where he got this info. He would have known that he had been lucky to even get a flower as it took an experimental super computer being developed with the program in a TV industry's lab to do that fine of work with magnetic liquid.
But when his computer froze the liquid had been in the process of forming the ship but couldn't build it do to Sam's computer freezing. As Sam's computer unfroze and began processing the data again Sam still watching the stand hadn't noticed that because of the freeze there had been corruption to the file for the data which had randomly been mixed up and changed. However something was made but as it took shape both boys saw that it was clearly not the ship they had both been expecting. What was formed by pure chance but also by a bit of fate and magic from a place unknown to them. That the code Sam had used was changed and what formed was instead of a Armageddon Battle ship. What formed was a bright silver egg that looked like it had been made of feathers that were all silver and each unique in their own way also the egg was surrounded by a blue liquid that flowed very slowly to the right moving the egg with it.
Sitting before the two boys was an egg and both were shocked to see this but mostly figured it could have been a one in a million or probably trillion fluke. However for about 10 minutes they just sat there amazed at what the saw before them because of it beauty and intricate detail. After a while Sam was the first to snap out of it and come to his senses and as he spoke it snapped Kaito out of it too.
"What is that that's clearly not the Armageddon I was trying to build? Ughhhhh!" Sam said as he looked at what was before him and went to his computer to see why this happened what he saw made him curse his computer and still think in gamer terms. "WTF?" (What the fuck)
(might use this more just so people know I wana keep the rating down and not R but it might have to be R for what I have planned though just a heads up sry. Also I'm trying to write this from memory since I lost my hand written story from high school plus I'm older now and want to make it more like what would happen in real life if this did happen sry for the disruption won't happen again.)
"Well that's so not a damn space ship man were you pulling my leg because I don't think you can get an accident like that in real life." Kaito asked Sam As he looked at what must have been one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen in his life it almost made him want to touch it but he decided to wait and see what Sam thought first.
"Yeah it wasn't a joke that's for sure man and what I'm seeing on the computer has me even more baffled because it shows just a bunch of jumbled data and not what we're seeing here." Sam said. While saying that though he decided to save the data and reset the system to get rid of the current image and try again. As he shut down the computer thinking that it just needed to be reset due to all the bitcoin mining he did with it he looked over his shoulder to see if the fluid was still contained, but did a double take when he saw what was still there. As when even after his computer was shut down and the projectors and magnets powered down because of the computer being off the egg made of silver feathers and surrounded by blue liquid was still there.
"Fuck what's going on here this isn't right what the fuck." Sam cursed as he saw what couldn't be possible. That even with everything off the silver feathered egg was still there floating and rotating slowly this shocked him a lot as normally Sam wouldn't swear like he was.
"What's wrong man you sound really pissed? OHH! Well fuck that's weird." Kaito asked him but as he looked over at Sam he saw the computer was off and that meant the projectors and stand had no power so there shouldn't even be an image still there.
"Weird and fucking cool at the same." Sam replied back still staring at the image that was defying physics so excited he wasn't even trying to look at his computer which had a small amount of smoke coming out of it even though it was off.
"Holy shit! Am I dreaming man or is this real cause if it is that is fucking so cool I need a new word to describe how cool this fucking is." Kaito told Sam so amazed was he that he just couldn't describe it or understand what he was even felling at that moment since they were both probably the first people to ever experience this.
"You're telling me man that is literally not possible like were defying the laws of physics right now literally. I'll be back in a second I'm gona go get my mom's camera kay?" Sam said as he ran upstairs grabbed his moms camera stand and video recorder and then ran back down stairs to set it up and take a few pictures of the egg or whatever it was that was floating there for proof.
"Holy crap man what are we gona do like this is fucking unreal I mean this shouldn't even be possible right ugh I can't think straight I mean how are we even going to approach this nothing like this has ever happened before I mean ever." Kaito said to Sam who was setting up the camera and taking pictures for proof of it in case it was just the liquid stuck but you could clearly tell it wasn't that and that the projectors were off so at the least is should have looked like a blob if it was just that.
"I don't know man but I gota get my computer going if I got that I might be able to figure something out and look at this right. But right now I can't even think straight once my computers on I will be able to have a look at that data again but till then we won't know what happened." Sam said as he went over to his computer and turned it on after letting it cool for a couple minutes however he didn't notice that it was very overheated from the stress on it and would have needed a few hours to cool down at least before starting it.
Both boys were shocked at what had just happened and couldn't really think straight after what happened for what could the two boys do they were both senseless. At least they were trying to figure out the problem and trying to approach the problem logically. But like Sam had said without reviewing his computer logs they wouldn't be able to find the answer so the boys both stared at the egg or sphere in amazement and waited for the computer to start. But as the computer was running up something happened and sparks went flying everywhere from the modem and tower as a fire started inside the tower due to all the heat that had built up.
"ZZZZZT! Boom! ZZZT ZZT ZZZZZT!"
"Shit Kaito grab a fire extinguisher and help me put this out I don't want my mom to wake up and come down here right now with this going on." Sam shouted as he ran to the nearest knight table and grabbed the fire extinguisher and pulled the safety of it and sprayed the open side of his tower where he could see the flames.
"AAAAHHH Fuck!" Kaito said as he got scared for the second time that day but still grabbed one of the other extinguishers pulled the safety and tried to spray the computer too but his was only able to shoot for a second or two and was then done.
"Shit mines out why do you even have a dead fire extinguisher here man." He said. Kaito then threw the extinguisher down and looked for another one to use in the smoke that had started to build up but couldn't find one close to him.
"Quit looking for another extinguisher man pull the extension cord it's an electrical fire it's still going cause there's power going to the computer. If you pull the cord the fire will go out I got it under control get the cord!" Sam shouted to Kaito as he sprayed the flame to just keep it from spreading.
Hearing this Kaito ran over to the breaker switch by the stairs as he didn't want to get burned and flipped it to shut the power to the whole room off. The switch was put in by Sam's parents to make sure he would go to bed at a decent time they had it altered however so that it couldn't be flipped back on for eight hours to ensure their boy got a decent sleep. After he flipped it Kaito fell on his but and watched as Sam finished putting the fire out now that it had no power.
"PSShhh PShh PSHhhh PPPPPPsSSSSSSHHHHHHH." The extinguisher went as Sam finished up the fire once it was out he looked around the room and saw that it was really hazy from smoke and the fire extinguisher.
"Cough. Cough. Hough. Damn there goes my computer now we won't be able to check that data till sometime tomorrow if I even have it still, Hah guess we might as well open the windows and then go shower again to get the smoke off us and out of the room. Only nice thing is my mom's asleep right now so were not gona get caught yet." Sam said sounding a little depressed and tired after almost burning his house down again new discovery or not if his mom found out about another fire in the basement he was going to never be getting within looking distance of it whether or not it was life changing.
"Hah. Look it. Let's count this as good luck sneak upstairs to bed and hope your mom doesn't see this till we've cleaned up. Each of us can try and think of a plan of attack for this tomorrow. I mean yeah its cool but you can't do anything without your computer and it's done for right now. We can get up tomorrow and look at this from a different angle tomorrow plus I really don't want to get caught with all this smoke down here especially with a blown up computer that wasn't fun the first time it happened." Kaito said worried Sam's mom might come and check on them after all that noise just now. After shutting off the power he went over to the computer and pulled the power cords so that the fire wouldn't start up when the power came back on.
"Yeah let's go I'll need to get parts for the computer and see what I can even save tomorrow. Like you said better to not let my parents know go to bed now and clean up in the morning. If we're lucky well be able to hide this disaster from my mom at least till I go asking for a new computer." Sam said as he put the fire extinguisher away and headed for the stairs looking back one last time at the cause of all this trouble now determined to figure out where it came from.
Both boys had now bin able to calm down and relax for a minute they had bin so excited that they hadn't even noticed the computer was that hot. Both of them realizing that there excitement had made them get into this situation tried to calm themselves down so that they wouldn't at least screw up the house any more than they had. After calming down and losing their adrenalin rush both from the discovery and the fire they both felt really exhausted and wanted to just go to sleep so they could recover.
"So that's why I had an empty tank." Kaito thought to himself as he made his way back over to the stairs he couldn't help looking at the egg trapped in the blue liquid. It felt as though it was drawing him in like there was something connecting him to it something he couldn't really describe just one of those gut feelings you get about things from time to time. After looking at the egg one last time he headed up the stairs to go to sleep and worry about what's going on later.
........ Later that night: (3AM) .........
After heading upstairs and having a quick shower both boys had went to Sam's room and went to sleep. Sam was sleeping in his bed like always and Kaito was sleeping on the mini single person mattress on the floor in just his track pants as he didn't like to wear a shirt to bed. Normally Kaito would have went home and came back in the morning but he didn't feel like leaving and doing the hour of walking to get home since he couldn't get a hold of his mom. And he didn't mind sleeping on the floor once in a while if it meant being able to see something cool.
("Just sucks that the guest room and bathroom are being renovated haven't slept on the ground since I went camping last year."). Kaito thought not able to sleep on the floor any longer at the moment decided to get up and go to the bathroom down stairs since the bathroom was out of commission upstairs where he was.
Once he was down stairs he went to the bathroom and then went over to the kitchen to get a drink of water. While he was walking down the hall to the kitchen he saw that there was a blue light coming from the basement and seeing that remembered what had happened that night.
("Was that real? I mean it was so amazing that it couldn't have possibly been real right?). Thinking this Kaito went over to the door to the basement intent on going down and seeing if it wasn't just a dream. But paused at the door before heading down wondering if he should really go down to the basement alone if the egg was real. However that didn't really matter as he already knew deep down that he had to go down because he felt drawn too it as if it were calling out too him. For him it felt like the egg was something he was connected to and with every minute since the egg had come from wherever it had been before it had been a growing feeling deep inside of him, growing from just a spark of feeling to this now burning desire to see it again.
He had to see it he had to know if this feeling was fake or real and why he was feeling it. This feeling of attachment and connection was driving him mad it made him wonder and think to himself ("Am I crazy is this feeling real how is this even possible to feel connected to something not real"). But he knew the feeling was there and he couldn't ignore it to him it was all he could think of at the moment and so with these thoughts on his mind he opened the door to the basement and went down.
As he made his way down to the basement Kaito kept trying to figure out why he felt this way and wondering why he didn't just ignore it and go back to bed. After all Sam would be pissed if something happened and he wasn't there to see it but at the moment Kaito just couldn't really care he had to be near the egg and so he went to it.
Like a moth to a flame he went to it past all the junk in the room and ignoring the last bit of smoke in the room until he was only a few feet away from the silver feathered egg trapped and spinning slowly in the blue liquid. He was there and yet he still felt drawn to it as if it wanted him closer than he already was though he wasn't sure if being so close already was okay, as it was already he could feel the pull still. But now that he was close to the egg it was less and so he just stood there and watched the egg.
While standing there and watching the silver egg he finally noticed there was a bit of smoke in the room still, not much but just enough to see. However as he was watching the smoke he saw a bit of the smoke moving slowly as if there was a wind towards the silver egg and the blue liquid and going into the liquid as if being drawn in by it.
"What the hell that is weird." He thought out loud and as he moved his head closer he could even feel the air that was being pulled in to the liquid. "What's going on here is that even possible then again there is an egg here floating in the air so I guess we've crossed that line already." Speaking to himself do to just being baffled about what was going on.
Deciding to try something with a bit of effort as he didn't want to go away from the egg he went over to Sam's desk and looked around for a pen or pencil finding a pen he went back over to the egg. Now that he had something that wasn't his own body he took the pen and poked the blue liquid that surrounded the silver feathered egg. When he poked the liquid the pen went in as if it was water till it encountered the surface about two inches in of the egg, letting it sit there Kaito felt through the pen the grooves and bumps of the egg's intricate feather design as it slowly rotated with the pen resting on it.
After a bit Kaito decided to pull the pen back out of the liquid though it went in easy he found it a little harder to pull it back out but he did. Once the pen was out Kaito had a look at it and saw that there was a silver speck on the tip with a bit of wetness on the pen too where it had been in the liquid.
Not really thinking about how he was holding the pen and trying to get a better look at the silver speck on the tip he held the tip up towards his eye. While this gave him a better look at the speck which he now saw was a very small piece of the egg he didn't notice that the liquid had accumulated into a drop and rolled down onto his hand.
The instant the blue liquid touched Kaito he fell to his knees and let the pen slip though his grip exposing him to the rest of the liquid on the pen. The silver speck that was on the tip came off as it fell through his hand and moved onto his palm from it sliding through his closed right hand that he held it in. As the pen fell to the ground Kaito didn't even notice or care for suddenly he could feel the desire to be near the egg in his mind become even stronger he had to be closer he had to be able to see it better.
He knew it wouldn't end good for him and yet and so a part of him tried with everything it had to pull him away have him forget the egg and deal with it in the morning. However as he looked at his hand that had the liquid and speck touch it and he knew that the part in him that wanted to be near the egg had already won for whatever it was in him that wanted to be closer was already moving his body.
("I shouldn't get any closer but this egg it is something to me and I want to know.). Thought Kaito as he got closer to it bit by bit step by step he got closer till he was no more than an inch away from the egg than the distance he was before so close that it would take no more than a nudge to touch the egg with his hand.Standing so close he could see the very ridges of the feathers that made up the egg Kaito still felt he needed to be closer.
("What's wrong with me if I go any closer and I will be touching the egg. ........... ........... ............. Is that what it wants for me to touch it I can't it's too risky."). He thought and decided to go back to bed and ignore what he was feeling but as he thought that he became overcome again with need he didn't know where it was coming from be he needed to know what exactly he was feeling but he tried to fight and ignore it .
("What is this felling its coming from the egg. ....... ........ ......... It wants me to. ....... ........... I have too. ....... Too? ........ Too? ....... Agh! FUCK IT !! ......... Fine I give up"). As Kaito had stood there debating what he should do but knowing what was going to happen inevitably the feeling of connection he had been getting had other feeling starting to mix with it like anger and impatience and need pure need for him to touch it to put hand on it so strong any other thought had become lost to him. But now he could tell whatever it was it wasn't him causing it these emotions these feelings weren't coming from him but the egg. But even knowing this he didn't care he had to know he had too it was too late to go back the feeling he had in him even if they weren't his had taken control.
Lifting up his right hand the speck had fallen on he slowly brought nearer and nearer to the egg and when he touched the liquid it felt cold at first and then he didn't feel the cold as once his hand traveled the little distance left to the egg and his hand rested on it.
With his hand in the egg he felt some stir in the egg just a small bit of movement but it was there like something in it was leaning closer to him to be closer to his hand on the egg. Suprise Kaito tried to pull his hand back but couldn't.
"What the fuck. Nghhh!! Nggghhhhh!!" As he tried to pull his hand away after feeling the movement in the egg he found it was stuck and no matter how hard he tried to pull back he couldn't. "Nghhh!! What the hell?" Kaito yelled as he kept trying to pull his hand away trying harder each time. Whatever had clouded his mind before was completely gone as now he was scared and wanted to know what was happening to him with this thing.
As he kept trying to pull his hand away getting more and more desperate he felt something new that was definitely not in his head he felt even more movement in the egg. Feeling that he stopped trying to struggle and get his hand out from the liquid and looked at the egg. ("Was it you that made me touch you?"). He thought to himself hoping he wasn't right.
Kaito was still scared but at that moment he felt not from himself but from somewhere else.
FEAR............. True and utter fear of being alone and left so much so and for so long that you lost count and have lost focus on what is real. Feeling this he felt himself fall to the ground for these emotions these thoughts were making him sick to his stomach.
And as suddenly as the fear was there it was gone the fear was still there but now less and in the place of fear was curiosity and worry.
("What the hell its worried about me now?") Kaito thought as he got back up and looked at the egg. He was scared himself still but to think that an egg had emotions and was scared. He started to feel a bit un-afraid of it and more friendly and compassionate with it.
"It's okay little fella you're not in danger here or alone don't be scared." He said as he rubbed the egg with his hand. He felt the fear leave as he rubbed it and then be replaced with joy and happiness. As this happened Kaito finally realized his hand wasn't stuck and so pulled again to try and get his hand back this time he got it just off the egg but then it got pulled back onto the egg.
He was still stuck wand trying to pull his hand out of the egg again not caring what it thought just wanting to get away when he heard it. A soft low and beautifully light sound not out loud but in his head but rough in an animal like way he couldn't place what animal he thought it was though.
"What is that sound its ........ its beautiful." Kaito said listening to the sound grow more and more wondering why it was growing even though it was being sung out loud but in his head. As the song finished Kaito looked at the egg and thought to himself ("Was that this egg that was beautiful."). He then felt great joy from the egg almost as if it understood him but it didn't it just picked up on his joy and wonder.
As the song was finishing Kaito finally noticed than below him a pentagon had formed inside two circles that had glyphs of some sort between them and was starting to glow brighter and brighter as the song was coming to an end. And then he noticed that the blue liquid that had his hand stuck was coming up his arm now more and more as the light got brighter and brighter. As the liquid and light grew and moved further up his body he started to feel the coldness of the liquid again and became scared again. ("What's happening hey quit it! Quit it!") He thought to the egg trying and wanting to get whatever was going on to stop but it didn't and the cold liquid kept flowing over his body.
Just before it enveloped his head he found he could move his body in the liquid but he was so cold it seemed like it didn't matter he was going to die here and he was scared.("No! No! Not like this not because I was stupid and touched that egg? Please?"). As If to answer his thoughts he felt something warm in his hand that now held the egg and at the same time felts its fear and worry. ("So you got me into this but still you're so warm ill forgive you if you stay like that please I don't want to die.").
Like the egg had understood him he felt motion in it and the egg grow just a bit warmer and then his head was covered and he was so cold he pulled the egg and his body into a ball around the egg. Just before he blacked out from the cold he held the egg even closer and then the song stopped and even with his eyes closed the light was getting through but the he felt himself falling and falling.
While he fell he felt a growing pain from his very core growing more and more out from his bones making him pull the egg even closer to himself from the pain trying to endure or wish it away but it kept growing. ("Aaaah! AAAHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"). Kaito screamed in his mind since he couldn't scream out loud as when he tried the liquid had gone into his mouth and kept coming in so he couldn't breathe or even talk. The egg tried to soothe him with kind feelings but he was in so much pain that it had to block itself from him for it was too much. The pain just kept growing to the point that it felt like he could feel every cell in his body be ripped apart but then it reached its peak and he passed out. But the change that was going on kept happening and he could still feel it even passed out as he was just that the pain was a little less like that so he didn't care.
What he didn't see as he had closed his eyes as he pulled himself into the ball was that the blue liquid had made a perfect sphere around him and the egg above the circle. From which a bright white light had been going straight up like a pillar through the whole house straight into the sky. And that once the sphere had been made and the song finished a black disc had appeared underneath the sphere just above the circle. Once the black disc had formed the blue sphere with boy and egg had fallen down into it into a black void filed with light yet it had none at the same time and at that time Kaito's body had been starting to feel the growing pain deep inside increase tenfold as they fell.
If Kaito could have seen his body at that moment he would have probably lost his mind as the skin flesh and bone were melting and reforming all over his body. Yet as it melted the liquid rushed in and reformed onto the body with the melted skin, flesh and bone back into the body he had fallen into it with but slightly different. This process happened with his whole body fast in some places slower in others. Like the brain and head it was so slow there that you would have thought nothing was happening probably saving him from even more pain as the nerves had been melting and reforming too. So he mostly only had to deal with the pain of his head changing slowly.
Yet through all this the egg seemed unchanged and could be seen to have no visible changes to itself. All these changes happened in that deep dark and light void as they fell slowly and quickly at the same time. All these changes and the falling had happened in mere moments yet for him it was like days months or years Kaito could not tell all he felt was pain. As they rushed towards the other black disc from where they were falling in the void Kaito was finally able to open his eyes and see the void as he fell briefly. And in the far distance he could see two sets of eyes looking at him sitting on the other side of a bright white pool of light. Later on he would wonder if that was a hallucination from all the pain he had experienced.
However this disc was different though Kaito didn't know that. It was speckled with white specks of stars and sky it was the exit from that dark void. But he didn't care for he still felt pain deep inside like someone was ripping him apart still. This disc did not lead to another void space but to a world and so when the changes finished and the boy and egg passed through the disc. They flew threw and up into the sky with the blue sphere popping like a bubble and felt themselves rising. But then like all worlds gravity took over and they fell down towards the ground back first for Kaito who still held the egg close to himself in a ball.
Just before he fell hit the ground and blacked out he saw something that made him truly believe this was all a dream even though he knew it wasn't. 3 moons floating in the sky one a very light green, one a white like earth's moon and one a light pinkish red and so many stars clearly more than what you see on earth in the deep woods. After seeing that he and the egg hit the ground hard passing out for the second time that night. While the last few changes happened deep inside his body and the blue liquid flew around after popping and evaporating into a smoke. And the smoke coming out of his mouth and nose as he breathed the air of this new world he was on. Yet through all this his body still held the silver feathered egg close to himself.