ELT 212 (Side Story1: The Waterhouse)

                    While spending his time in the space, Elliot begun to recall more memories of his in the world. Elliot used to admire of the old chief, Rell Waterhouse. The chief of south in the kingdom named Lovat Waterhouse was his best friend. Elliot often called him Lovat. That was not long after he lived in the castle, Lovat showed the portrait of his deceased father, the old chief to Elliot. The old chief had the same silvery white hair as the old man. While living in the castle, Elliot used to chat with the chief in the lounge. They chat about books and current events. Elliot always shared his experience as a shepherd while Lovat listened to it with great expectation. Lovat seldom talked about his family except once during the fall. The old chief loved his people and always told Lovat to take care of the welfare of people. “We have to live up the expectation that our people give.” “For our people, sometime we might do something wrong, but don’t forget your sin.” These were the old chief’s motto. Lovat often boast about the pride of being a Waterhouse and the son of his father.  

ELT212 (Chapter 9: Pieces lost in memories X The end)

                The blond standing in front of a black hole, tears dropped from his chin. The hole closed and the boy was no longer there. In the other world, the boy was born with a same name given, Elliot. Looking at those pictures that was once his, Elliot begun to remember his own identity.

“That’s the whole story, kid.”

“I’m …Elliot…”

“… yeah, and you are back to repent your sin.”

“That’s why you asked me to never forget my sin. Are you the one that sent me to the other world?”

“Yeah.”

“Can I go back to my world?”

“Neither ELT nor the second world.”

“Was you the one that created the virus?”

“No, it belongs to the underworld, from the enmity of the deaths that were killed during 212. They searched for their murderers.”

“Is the virus gone now?”

“The bottle that I gave you took the virus away. It went back to the underworld.”

“It has been ten years… The time reached.”

“I will tell them about that.”

“Last question, who are you?”

“I was you, a sinless part of your soul which formed after the death of your parent which you are trying to run from”, said the old and disappear in space.

                        Elliot sat alone in the black void space, looking at the blackness and started to recall back the pictures that was once showed to him. I’m Elliot…My parent left… I killed…people… I can’t go back to my world… What am I talking about, that isn’t my world, that is just an false illusion… And now I’m all alone in here…

                          After calming himself down, Elliot began to recall some pieces of his memories. It was a dream that he made while sleeping in the camp…

“Elliot, wake up, you will be late for school if you don’t”, said Elliot’s mum and she gave a kiss on his forehead.

“Mum, I’m awake now, quit doing such thing like I’m still a child, I’m already ten years old now…”

“Okay.”

               Elliot walked on the pathway as usual to go to school. On the way, he encountered an old man with silky silver hair. The old man walked passing by Elliot without realizing that he dropped his handkerchief on the floor. Elliot returned it to the owner and the old man gave an empty bottle to Elliot and said, “This is a gift for your helping, it’s a Pandora box, don’t open it if you are not being told to.”

                  The ringing of school bell was heard. It reminded Elliot that he was late. “Thanks for your gift, I’ll be late, bye!”, said Elliot as he put the bottle inside his pant’s pocket. That day, Elliot was awake early in the morning and started doing his helping service before the sun rises. He forgot about the dream… and the bottle that was the key of his time-travelling.

“That’s the time he gave me the bottle…”, said Elliot while laying idling on the ground.

Living in the black void space, time didn’t seem to pass. The watch on his wrist didn’t move since the moment he was here. There was nothing but blackness… no insect, no animal, no human, no furniture, no books… Is this what they called hell? This is where I’m going to live starting from now.. It’s just like “The Nameless Journey”… I left my world and went on a journey that doesn’t belong to me since I was born. I met many people, those who were trespasser and those I loved. In the end I came back again to my own world. The only  different between the boy in the story and I was the things that awaits the boy in the story are the good one… ”Don’t forget your sin, Elliot”, the old man’s voice rang in his mind. I’m the one to be blamed for creating a killing world…and caused my parent to be killed… If I hadn’t created 212… If I had told them about 212…then this wouldn’t happen.

“Don’t forget your sin, Elliot”, said the boy to himself with a grieve sneer.

ELT212 (Chapter 8: The life of a shepherd)

The flashback continue with a baby was born in the family of shepherd. He grew into a cheerful child and was loved by his parent. His father told him bed time story every night before his sleep. The boy followed his father on the journey of shepherd since he was six. When the boy reached eight, he went on his own journey as a shepherd. On that day, his father gave him a flock of twelve sheep and his mother bid him farewell with pool of tears. He bought sheep from trader, raised them, fasten them with tree at night, sold his sheep to the trader when they were fairly grown to earn some bucks. On the journey, the boy acquainted with many people, the trade, other shepherd, the baker and  the farmer. After two years of journey, he reached a kingdom of chaos. The kingdom can be divided into two region, the south and the north. The people in the kingdom fight for food and the city was always in war. He gave his sheep to the people. The good deed that he made was heard by the chief of the kingdom. The chief invited him into the castle. The honestly of the chief impressed the shepherd. They became friends. They swear to solve the crisis that happened in the kingdom together. Through many tries in increasing their harvest, they failed. Being inspired by the screen of a dog hunting his prey, the blond shepherd came with an idea of cut down the population of people in the kingdom. At first, they started with sentence the prisoner to death. But the population is increasingly too rapidly. To solve the problem completely, the boy invented a time of killing. He used his mathematical knowledge that he learnt on the journey as a shepherd and word together with the chief to calculate the period of time. Considering the time of cropping, they decided to set the time at night. Thus，212 was created. Natural disaster that happened in the world at that time causes many people in the world live in hunger. Their livestock were washed by the flood, their houses were damaged by the flood, and their crops wilt because of the inconsistent change of weather. The boy received the news that his village was being harmed by the flood. Thus, the boy sent a letter to invite his parent to live with him. His parent came to the kingdom and was given a grand reception. One night, the boy’s parent who was uninformed about 212 went out. They were killed. The blond who was informed about the death of his parent by the chief remained silent in the whole meeting. After the meeting ended, he left the kingdom and headed to the murky forest near the castle. The boy stopped in front of a wilted pine tree. There was a shadow appeared the front of the boy.

“In returning of your help to the kingdom, I’ll grant you a wish with one prohibition, bringing the death alive is forbidden. But, you have to be responsible for the sinless death you caused. Wish and penalty, you can’t run from it, which one do you prefer first?”

“I want to leave this world without remembering a thing.”

“You have a big wish here, kid, I’ll grant your wish but it has an expiration time.”

“How long is the expiration?”

“Ten years. And I’ll call you back to repent for the sin you plant.”

“...”

              

ELT212 (chapter 7: Flashback)

                     Waking from a refreshing rest, Elliot started to do his daily work. The herbs in the inventory were insufficient so he was asked to collect some herbs from the wild. This was his third time of walking in the wild. Elliot was amazed by the beautiful vista of the wild. Without realizing the roots of tree that grown above the ground, Elliot stumbled. A tiny transparent-looking bottle dropped from Elliot’s pocket. The cork came out from the mouth of the bottle when the bottle bounced after dropped onto the ground. Wind was swirling around the mouth of the bottle. He was dazed by the familiar smell of the wind. This is the same smell as last time. A cloud of black smoke was appeared in the sky above the camp place. It smelled like death body… The irksome cloud of smoke was getting spiraled into the tornado. The twisting of the wind grew stronger. The force of the wind was getting stronger. Elliot felt that the force of gravity that held him on the ground was getting weaker. Elliot was slowly getting sucked into the wind. The force of the wind causes the boy hardly able to gasp his breath. After a moment of struggle to get free from the force, he fainted.

                       The boy woke up and find himself was neither in his world nor the world ELT. It is a different place.  

“Welcome to the black void of space”, said an old man after burst out in front of Elliot.

 “Aren’t you the one that is always appearing in my dream?” Elliot interrupted the old man abruptly.      

“Yeah, I have something to show you”, said the old man as he walked a few step away from Elliot. He stepped on a red button on the floor. Giddy images floated in the space, murmur came from the pictures. “These were your memories… including those you remember and forgotten, take a tour and see your life”, uttered the old man. Those were the reversing pictures of his life, Elliot met the old man in the black void of space not long ago, Elliot was being sucked into the black hole, Elliot sat around the firewood with the kids at the helping centre, Elliot helped Nomy In her prairie, Elliot stayed in the room during 212, Elliot met with the chief, Elliot met with Acken, Elliot during the school trip, Elliot studied in his class, the first day Elliot entered his primary school, Elliot went to Niagara Falls with his parent when he was four years old, Elliot held by his grandfather which deceased when he was five, Elliot’s first crawl and Elliot being born… But the flask back didn’t stop at the time Elliot was born. “This is the beginning… of your true life”, said the old man with a smirk.  

(Written by Otter Cancerdog, Edited by Kiarie)