Quickly they slipped under the damaged bridge. Mizan was gasping
for air. Syasya was gasping too. But Mizan he breathed and gasped like he just
saw a monster. Yes, it was a monster Mizan just saw and that was the first time
he saw a Driller with his naked eyes.
Syasya hold her back under the bridge, calming Mizan who was very
terrified. She already got used to it, and she knew what she must do when she
met a Driller in daylight.
Mizan was still gasping, still panting. His heart, less blood
was pumped and his lungs, it just needed more air to breathe. Syasya knew this will happen in the entire
journey, a very tiring journey, they can’t run, because Mizan can only walk, he
got asthma, TB and heart congenital disease. Real setback that slowing them
down, but Syasya was so patient and understanding. Syasya hurriedly opened up
her bag and searched for the pills she should have given to Mizan in case
anything happened. She took out every
bottle labelled Isoniazid, Rifampin, Ethambutol and Pyrazinamide and she took
one tablets from every bottle and gave it to Mizan, and forced him to swallow
them one by one.
“Thank you Syasya.”
“For what?”
“For saving me.”
“What did I do? You just save yourself; and I just help you
carrying all this medication, only after you beg was holed just after we
started this journey.”
“Whatever, thank you, you saved me again.” Mizan answered in
very weak tone and felt asleep, knowing that Syasya had helped him a lot in
their way to the human centre.
“Hey, sleep well, and wake up fast! Wake up before the night
comes, we must keep walking on night or if we not, we’ll be behind the schedule.
You want to get well fast, don’t you?” Mizan was already asleep, “Ah this boy.”
Mizan was sleeping, now only Syasya left alone awake in the
middle of nowhere under a damaged bridge, in the world that humans were no more
be the king, not for at least two months before the Drillers rose and conquered
the world.
It was 26yh century, cars, televisions, phones, most electronic
things were useless. Syasya was hovering
in her boredom, recalling things which happened around her since two month ago,
seeing her friends killed by the Drillers; their bloods were sucked like an air
was sucked out from a balloon. She still
remembered how the Drillers killed her mother, very barbarous and savage. She
had no more tears to drop, she must keep herself brave and strong and she must
obey her father, the only person that still live and blood-related to her and
she was going to his house with Mizan.
The war started approximately two month ago. No one knew and had
the clue how it was started and where all the weird things came from. The only thing people knew was every time in
the morning, the driller will come arose from any point on the barren land,
grinding up and drilling the hard and red earth to the surface to meet the sun
and started walking with their drill-like head hanging and wobbling to right
and left and every direction like it will fall off from the socket. The drillers moved anywhere without no
direction. Everything in their path will
be destroyed, everything will be torn apart and they will turn up the thing the
torn upside down so every liquid, blood or things inside the torn-apart things
will go out.
Some said the Drillers were originally the descendants of the
greedy Kroenke who lived hundreds years ago where he had made a deal with the
devil and sold his soul to find ‘The Spring of the King’. He made the deal so he could fertilize his
barren land and turned it into a rich soil and made lot of money and be
superior to anyone who had stepped on his land. The spring was powerful than
one had ever thought, it was not only fertilized barren land, it makes one who
drank it stronger, and healthier, and immortals. The spring never been shown to anyone, until
one day, on the day all planets were in line on 2038, the devil showed himself
again, reclaiming the spring from the long lived Kroenke. The tale continue and it said that Kroenke
had gave the spring to the devil and hoped that the devil will keep the promise
that the devil will keep him immortal and live in the eternity of life as he
was granted so many years ago, and the devil had not fulfill his promises, and
cursed him that for Kroenke who had taken care of the devil’s spring turned
into a driller. That was the risk of making a deal with the devil. And not only
Kroenke turned into a driller, all of his descendants, living descendants and
past descendants, for over seven generation the Kroenkes had live in wealth,
richness and be prior to any one in this earth, their prime has gone and they had
all turned into a driller, drilling the earth to find more ‘Spring of the King’.
Syasya was told by her father that after they had been cursed
into a driller, all the drillers went into the earth with the Drillers’ leader,
Kroenke to find the spring, but they found none, there was no spring of the
King and the spring Kroenke used to own was also gone. Taken by the devils. For
half millennia they were under the earth, searched for false gold, the drillers
turned ravage and went on rampage, they appeared and went for every liquid on
earth, and everything in liquid form was consider as another form of the spring
and they drank them, and they will clean every liquid from anything even if the
liquid was salivas, urines, bloods or wastes.
Night fell and Syasya packed everything up and forced Mizan to
awake. Mizan woke up in confused and hastily grabbed all his belonging and
started to move. They were heading north, to the place Syasya’s house was. They were not far from the house anymore,
only 30 miles left and they must end their walk today.
“Sya, can you slow down a bit, I’m catching up my breath.”
Syasya was not slowing down, and she will never slowing down,
she even her steps quicker and moved faster. She did not want to slow down or
everything will be ruined.
“Please move faster, you are a boy, you should move faster than
me, take this water, drink it, but don’t let any of it drop onto the ground, or
we’ll be dead. And don’t waste it!”
That day, on the 26th century, every mechanical thing
was based on water, though the mechanical things were rarely found at that
time, some of them which still functioning used water as fuel. Thanks to the
invasion alien did on 2010, though human did win the war instead of the vast of
mass destruction by that time, a technology by the aliens of turning mass piece
of hydrogen molecules and oxygen atoms into a new source of power called Hyde was stole and turned into human
technologies. The fossil fuel was decreasing at that time and with the
founding, or to be precise the stealing of the new technology from the enemy,
mankind managed to survive and prolonged their existence and managed to live a
live with zero pollution from the new fuel, water.
But greedy was all above everything. The real pollution was
there, polluted brain and heart, human then fought against each other to own
the ocean, the richest source of water, to be the most powerful man on earth. Then
the owned ocean was then covered by vast concrete, sealing them from the others
to make it impossible to be stolen. Yes, the water was even stolen from the
nature itself, it broke the cycle of rain and the symbiosis of the nature and by
the time human became aware of their wrong doing, everything was too late and
the earth was dying. Rain felt no more,
rapid development by human they had used most of the water, and the need more
water.
The war happened for reason, the Drillers also came out from the
earth also for reason, water sources were gone, rain was hardly drop from any
point on earth, sea level are very low, and the salt level are very high. The only way human can get the source of
water was by drilling the earth and tried to find water spring, but every water
spring was owned by the Drillers. Hence,
a war between the human and the Drillers occurred. The meeting between human
and Drillers started two months before, when human decided to drill deeper into
the earth to find new source of water, it had led to the meeting of the Drillers
and the human thus lead to the war between human, who drilled downward, and
Drillers, who drilled upwards. Anyone who lived in that era will know the value
of water drop. Every drop of water price more than a gold coin at that time.
Mizan and Syasya were reaching the house just before the
sunrise, the managed to be there in time, regardless of how Syasya had brought
Mizan in a trolley to arrive at that house in time. Mizan was so exausthed, he was like dying and
this time Syasya gave him neither remedies nor medicines to make him feel
better. This time, she tranquilized him
and make Mizan went straight unconscious and laid him on the bed.
“You succeed my daughter. Now the fate of human will change, humanity
will back to its prime!” The old man in white plain clothes spoke distinctively
to Syasya.
“It’s my job to deliver, besides, I want to continue living.”
Mizan, he was flawed with his illness, the flawed heart, the
diseased lungs and how he was actually dying; he was the perfect candidate for
this. He will be the first man to be implanted with the heart of steel, and he
will be the lab rat for human to test whether their semi-organic mechanical
heart and lungs were good enough to improve human ability to go against the
Drillers.
The apparatus were already set up by Syasya, and the semi-organic
mechanical organs were also there.
“Sya, these have been planted with Drillers DNA, this will make
him become as strong as the Drillers, but it will not change him into a
Driller, and he will still be a human.”
“Keep on going dad, the Drillers are unpredictable.”
The conversation then went into silent and they continue doing
the surgery on Mizan. His heart was taken out slowly, then his lungs. Taking out
both organs took about the all day, and setting up the new organ, the
semi-organic mechanical orangs inside him took about all night to succeed. The premise was guarded by hundreds of men to
ensure everything went well and even if Drillers appeared to get their blood,
or water or any form of liquid from them, hundreds of strong men will protect
them.
The surgery went well and Mizan was alive after the surgery.
Seven days after the surgery, Mizan opened his eyes and the only
thing he said distinctively after the surgery was he felt like a million dollar
man. Syasya and his father smiled
looking at him knowing that all they made had succeeded. They know they had
made a saviour, based on the criteria that Mizan has. At least, Mizan was still
alive using those heart and lungs. Then they
tried Mizan with his strength and his power.
First attempt, Mizan showed his enormous strength by lifting the
big rock with one hand.
Second attempt, Mizan ran from nought to sixty mile per hour in
just ix seconds, very fast, faster than the driller and the third attempt was
bit harsh, he was given red blood and red wine to choose.
Mizan hardly made the choice, he stood up long, and suddenly he giggled,
he was shaking and he grabbed the cup contained the red blood and drink it
until there was no single drop of blood left.
“Oh my God, this is terrible, CODE RED, CODE RED!”
And everything turned into red.
