Light and Darkness: Barimah's Odyssey

Farm boy

Space, a void like waters. A place unreachable by man where even the gods never dare to be. Debris floats in the midst of destroyed ships, broken parts and ash seen on the fallen ships. There is a capital ship the size of a continent in the midst of the debris. A message is transmitting from this vessel to earth from the brig. Billions of billions of light years away by the Commander of the fleet. A young man's voice is transmitting in the message.

“White Tiger to earth, Commander Kitt speaking. Finally, as Master predicted, earth has won the war.” he sighs in relief. The communication ends as it’s sent to earth and the capital ship loses power and shuts down. A reply came to the ship from the Master.

“Good job Kitt, I’ll pick you up.” a female voice replies, sounds joyful and proud. A giant magic/rune circle appears beneath the capital ship as it vanishes as if it was never there.

Moving back to earth, another communication arrives. From somewhere far away, even beyond the place where the White Tiger fleet is. The master is speaking to earth, Geowall.

“We’ve finally rid ourselves of the aliens, now’s the time for peace. But for us, we'll hunt them down across the universes. Xenos, launch Phase 2 of Operation Rebellion.”

The message ends as we finally see the earth, on top of the earth is a gold sheet with runic symbols running all over it. On this gold sheet stands people as only their silhouettes is visible. At the center of the gold sheet, a spaceship forms as the space around it distorts. A cube of many dimensions with runes appears, moving over it floats into the ship. Then runic circles appeared below the ship. The ship is being surrounded by a bubble of energy as it flies upwards at the speed of light.

The first being amongst the people “Will this actually help the other universes fight back?”.

“No, but it should make it possible for us to reach them without the laws hindering us."The Master replied. "Good job everyone, this is the first trial, send the next one based on the intel we stole from the aliens.”

“Yes Master.” More ships like the first one appears from the surface of the metal sheet. 10s of similar ships could noticed and more appears from the metal.

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In the Zolkia kingdom, to the north east is a little village Avua. This village is one by a river which is flowing to the south and inhabited by farmers and fishers. In one of the houses in the village on the top floor, a young boy is sleeping as there's knocking at the door.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

“Flint! Wake up! You’ll be late for work.” says a little girl. *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* the boy woke up although not willing.

“Yes yes yes, I’m awake. Is dad ready?” he says sitting up on his bed

Voice sounds anxious, “No, but he will leave soon.” The boy rush to his feet as he rummages through his clothes to get ready for the day.

“Licia! Tell dad I’ll be ready soon.” Flint falls as he rushes to get dressed.

“Okay, Mum and I packed lunch. Hehehe.” She laughs and she’s skips downstairs to her father.

“Thank you!” In a few seconds, he opens his door but his pants fall, “My belt!” he goes to take one and rushes downstairs to the backyard, he meets his elder sister on the way as he rushes out.

Elder sister teases him, “You slept in again, I came to wake you but you were sleeping so peaceful I couldn't do it.” Flint turns to answer his sister as he runs to the backyard. His elder sister is also going to the backyard so she stepped aside for Flint to pass.

“Ha ha ha, very funny~ay" Flint trips and falls "Ooof!” he tripped on a broom stick. His sister chuckles “Watch out for the broom" she giggles.

“Thanks Aku.” Aku whose full name is Akua.

“You’re welcome." she smiles. Flint gets up and rushes outside to the backyard. He washes his face and cleans it with a towel as he runs to the front yard to meet his father.

“Sorry dad, I’m here.” he tries to stabilize his breathing. His Father is with Licia as they are talking, Licia is asking questions to buy Flint time.

“Well, you made it, let’s go.” says his father as he points to a donkey. Flint reaches his side as he pats Licia on the head and they wink at each other.

The mother sends them off, “Take care you two.” A donkey is with them as it is pulling a cart.

“Yes honey!” and Flint replies to his mother, “Yes mum!” both at once. The 2 set out to farm, the farm is at about a kilometer away from the village, so they walk to it. They arrive at the farm with a hut built at the center, that is where they rest when tired from farm work. When they arrived at the farm Flint is going to tie the donkey to a post then join his father,

His father tries to conversate with him, “You slept in, were you thinking about her last night?”

“WHAT! No, no no, I was not thinking about Cynthia.” Flint feels embarrassed as he tries to hide it. His dad raises a brow.

“I didn’t mention any names.” Flint freezes as he’s standing still, sweating.

“You’ll be an adult soon. You should ask her out before it’s too late.”

“Does that always work?” he rubs his fingers together as he looks at his father with a pleading look.

Dad puts his right hand on Flint’s shoulder and looks into his eyes, “Flint my boy, I have to tell you the truth.” he smiles” .......No.” Flint is shocked. Dad continues, “But it’s better you say what you feel than let it eat you up every time, last night you tried to eat a napkin." Flint gives a wry smile, "It may not always work but it worked for me.” He got to work on the farm as Flint followed behind him.

Flint sighs, “Somehow this feels even worse.” He also joins his dad as he is weeding.

“Hahahaha, know this Flint. Life isn’t always colorful and pretty. You’re young, you should enjoy your youth." Flint smiles, "That doesn’t mean you should do something stupid.” “I won’t dad!” Flint feels embarrassed for some reason, the duo went to work from morning till noon then they have lunch. Afterwards, they wait in the hut making small talks until late noon. They have a water tunnel leading to the farm so they open it for the soil irrigation. They do this late noon because working on muddy soil is hard and after watering the crops, they leave and go home.

The sky darkens since night is coming, signal that work is over. The people going home as others came to Dad and made small talks with him as he leaves Flint to get things ready to go home. There wasn’t much to do anyway so Flint could handle everything. Flint went to close the water outlet and he saw a deer in the distance. He tells his father about it as a hunter is among the small group of men talking.

“Dad! Dad, I've seen a deer in the woods.” Flint runs to his father,

“A deer huh? Bobby, do you think a deer will be good for the boys tonight?”

Bobby a hunter replies with pride, “Hah, you read my mind. I’ll get us some great meat tonight, though I need help bringing this thing back.” he is a hunter, a good one.

“Sure, I’ll come. Flint, wait for me okay?” Dad volunteers to help telling Flint to wait for him to return.

“Okay dad.” The men disperse as some go home and Dad leaves with the hunter to hunt a deer.

Far high up in they sky, a crack is forming. The crack spreads as a piece of the sky falls off and vanishes. A light comes from the crack far away in the darkness. Wherever the light is coming from is a mystery.