Chapter Two
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The staring creature moved slowly to the sleepy boy as it sniffed the boy's hair. Suddenly, the tablet burst out with a holographic character that jumped scare the creature as it would wake the sleepy boy with the shout from Lucy:
"Would you not dare to steal my boyfriend you freak!" as loudly as possible.
After the creature falls off, the boy got knocked in his belly which woke him even more. He then looked at what the thing did fall on him. It's a fur-covered, and small creature has 4 arms on the thin thorax. Which it had 2 shorts arms in the back and 2 long arms on each side of the torso. A big head with a muzzle and 2 long ears. The 4 legs are on the triangular pelvis which it had 2 short legs in the front, and 2 long legs are placed in the opposite of front legs, these legs are strangely shaped like these praying mantis from earth. One strange tail that is thick and squishy attached in the back of the pelvis. The coat furs colour is green-turquoise with some place that is bright green on the hair, torso, feet, hands, and tail. He does not understand how to identify critter's gender because he couldn't figure where the genital comes from. When he looks up to the critter's face, he noticed that it got a scar on the throat and the right eye, suspecting that its right eye is blind.
It seems that the critter is unconscious and dizzy from the fall. He carefully moved the creature on his side by moving it to the right position, then sat down next to it, he asked Lucy:
"What happens? Don't tell me you shocked that poor creature with the taser?" said furiously.
"No Mister I thought that critter was about to attack you."
"Ah… I see… wait a minute, didn't you said that I'm your boyfriend?"
"…no I didn't…" Lucy lied indifferently.
"Yeah… sure, I'm sure you said it." as he chuckled.
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As he stands up, he took up the tablet and scan the unconscious creature and said:
"Alright, let study what sort of creature it is…"
The tablet immediately displays the holographic model of the critter. He found out it's a fascinating creature: all the guts are in the tail the only exception of heart and lungs which are located in the thorax. After he moved the three-dimensional model to the rear to study further. He found out it's actually a female critter but have something weird: it seems it lacks vital organs for reproductions, perhaps it was because of an old injury? He then checked the tail. It confirmed what he thought where the scar is located: the tail has 2 long scars which looked like it was done with a knife or a claw? Impossible to guess…
Then he got back to look at the holographic model. He looked at the brain of this female creature, it was a big brain that seems comparable to a human brain.
"Interesting, I never thought there are such creatures that could have so much similarity with our brain! I suspect that creature could have enough intelligence than us! What do you think Lucy?"
"That is highly possible considering how massive her brain is, it could be smarter than us or a complete idiot like your prehistoric ancestors."
"Hey! Give a little respect to my prehistoric ancestors! They were smarter than us because they knew how to hunt down their prey as well how to build a house with no technology, would you?"
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"Sorry… Ah… look like our little creature is waking up, shall I activate the shielding force to protect you?"
"Better do it than never then…"
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As Lucy activated the shielding force on the observant. The shield has many small blueish hexagonal shape that forms a capsule as soon as it appeared and then became invisible to the eye.
The female critter woke up, kinda groggy, she put her big hand on her head. Then looked up to the humanoid creature, she stood up immediately in panic scared and looked around, all clueless then looked at the boy with fear.
The boy looked at her and calmed down her with a soft voice, then try to communicate with her. Unfortunately, the female critter couldn't understand what the human is saying then she realizes that boy is not dangerous. She sat down like a dog would couch down but keep all alert and stare at the scientist.
The boy is satisfied with the situation. He sat down like the critter does, then try to communicate with her with a small visual holographic shape.
"Can you talk?"
As the tablet display an image about communication, the critter seemed to understand but wasn't sure… the boy repeated a second time but this time, with a more straightforward model. Now she understands what does the image mean, she shows her throat and make a gesture that says she couldn't talk due to her injury. Then write something on the ditch, some strange forms were made on the ground, but after a closer look, the boy realizes it's a logographic writing form! Then he displays easy words as "yes" "no" and a few words like "eat" "walks" etc.… with a holographic image.
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After a while, the female critter finally understood what the boy wanted to do. She wrote every logogram she knew and then let the humanoid creature placed the strange flat object above the whole ground full of logograms. Then the boy told something to an unknown flat object and waited…
The boy finally displayed the message in the critter language, it surprised the female creature with her big eyes wide open and a jaw drop. She immediately knew what the boy said in the text: "My name is Li. I'm from the sky, I'm here to study the people and their surrounding. Can I meet your people?" Then he put down his object on the ground in the front of her and make a gesture "you can write on it, it's not dangerous." As she took the strange object, it immediately displays a kind of step by step how to use it. After understanding it, she wrote then taped the word "done" in her language then she gave the tablet to him while it changed her message into Li's language.
As Li got it back, he read the message: "I don't have a name to give you to call me. And I don't know, I need to consult my queen/mother before you meet her and then her children. Queen/Mother will know if you're worthy to meet her. Otherwise, she wouldn't allow you to meet her or them." Surprised by the message looked at the critter with wonder… then write something and taped done then gave it to her.
The nameless critter got it and then read the message: "I see… then could you show the tablet you're holding to your Queen/Mother? This way, she could talk to me without putting her children to any danger. And so, your Queen/Mother could know if I'm worth to meet. Is that ok?" After some thought, she agreed with the boy and then stood up. She made a thanking gesture and then disappeared as fast as she showed up from the first time she meets the boy.
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Li looked around him, wondering where she went. He suspected that she went underground, that explains why he didn't notice her from the first time… then he took out a smaller device, and then he called Lucy:
"Lucy, I hope you know what I want right now?"
"Affirmative I'm already on my way to pick up you, are you sure it's a good idea to give that tablet to her?"
"I'm sure they can deal it considering how intelligent they're, especially how her writing language is similar to our writing system."
"I see, look above yourself, I'm already there."
"Good then! Let get out here and follow her with the tablet, I want to see where her queen and her "children" take place! I can't wait to study them!"
As soon as he got in the spaceship, it flies so fast which it's already far above the surface. Lucy previously displayed the map of that surface where the nameless critter took place. The boy looked at the red dot blinking softly, he could see that critter was running fast for her size. She ran toward the giant tree… it's where her people took place? He asked Lucy to scan there with life detector.
"Mister, it seems that area has a high density of population, particularly in the top of the tree, What are your orders?"
"Let wait and see how she does by bringing the tablet to her mother."
"Alright, Mister."
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To be continued....