It was clear that we had entered the Milkyway galaxy. After our entering I noticed the speed of the space craft decreasing gradually. I guess it was because we were now approaching our destination, so they wanted to adjust their speed to escape the worst-case scenario.
I was looking at the empty space all around our space craft. The only source of light in this vacuum as far as I could look was the head lights of this Meta galactic hawk. Looking at the emptiness in front of me, I could only imagine how destructive and deadly that war must have been to cause this illogicality.
It was not only me looking outside, but others were also looking around the vacuum through the window projector. The one who was looking around as curiously as me was Erick, his red hair were now looking deadly in the darkness of the space.
"What!?" Erick asked me with tilting his head in the right direction where I was standing.
'Crap! I must have been looking at him for two long!' I thought inwardly.
"Nothing, i-it's just I-I didn't know you would be interesting in watching the darkness." I gave him an awkward smile with nearly closed eyes.
"Well, I was not really excited or anything but seeing you looking around with those curious and slightly sad eyes I wanted to see if you found something to look at or something like that."
"No, I was just looking at the darkness that this space has become. You know after seeing the images of old universe in the history books it is all very sad that what happened to this universe!" I lowered my head, making a grip with my right hand and then releasing it.
"You know destruction is the ultimate result of war!" Erick shrugged.
Hmmm, that reminds me of the one thing I was very pissed when I found that out. There is no tv or anything related to that like android phones or laptops. I guess in the past of this world this invention never happened. But they do have these projectors windows. They work only when a camera connected to them is used, if the camera is not working, they show nothing. When the camera is working these windows project the images that are captured by the camera. Because of no TV or android mobile to search something I had to read all the books I could find to discover something interesting.
Erick pushed his hair back with his right hand and went back to sit on his seat with a sigh. It was a gasp of grief. Grief for this lonely world. After his gasp, I could see a magnificent man rosing from his seat and turning backwards to gaze at the abyss.
He was also very disappointed. Observing this disappointment, I was then worried, did they even go on missions before? After only twenty seconds Albert shook his head and again sat on his seat. Melora also turned her head to search if the projector window on her back was showing something or was it also pitch black. She grunted and turned her head again. Only Hoover and Ellie were not curious about anything, I was able to talk with these cadets, but it was not the case for Hoover and Ellie. Even Emma was looking outside through the window projector behind me without turning her head.
Niall, Andre and Tom were not that interested in looking at the space. I could understand Andre but why not Niall and Tom? They are such energetic spirits, were they really not interested?
"Those idiots are still following that stupid bet!?" Lawren said in an unbelievable tone.
"What do you mean by idiots? A man has to be true to his words! If I lost the bet than it is my responsibility as a man to keep my promise." Said Tom and puffed his chest as if proud of himself.
"What do you think what kind of bet they are talking about?" Hoover whispered in Ellie's ear with curiosity clear on his face.
"How would I know dumbass!?" Ellie said in irritation.
"Why are you so irritated?" Hoover asked clearly trying to figure out the reason behind Ellie's irritation.
"Hey, we all know that you guys are all scheming something under our noses, Seth, Norde and oh dear Elizabeth!" Lawren suddenly spoke something which I was expecting for quite some time. I could sense gazes of all other fellow travelers on us three from time to time.
"We are not planning to do anything!" Ellie ensured them.
"Like anybody would believe that!" Andre crossed both his arms, turned his head away with eyes closed.
"After thinking for quite some time and looking back at what happened to us in the last mission, I believe that its better if we can forget about our past blemished memories and start to think about creating new and better ones." I turned my head in everybody's direction and said this while looking in everyone's eyes.
"You cannot fool us, tell us what is going on?" Again, it was Andre. Why is this guy like this? I thought that he was on good terms with me now.
After letting out a tired sigh I looked at Andre, "We are not planning anything."
"Nobo-"
"You are repeating your words now, Andre!" The one who interrupted Andre mid-sentence was Emma.
She was silence for quite some time now.
I was wondering what these identities owner did to each other in the past that these guys are still not willing to believe our words.
"If they are saying that they do not have any evil intentions than who are we to judge them. If they jump into some kind of unnecessary trouble, then we are not obliged to follow them. The leader of this team is still not decided yet," Emma looked at Hoover midsentence, "If we consider the past mission, it will definitely not be Norde. If one of these three is not our leader, then we are not obliged to follow them if they do anything stupid."
Emma spoke in our defense.
"But what if one of them is chosen as our leader!?" Lawren asked looking at Emma with a frown.
"If we take a look at their grades and performance of this last week, then there is no way that either Seth or Norde will be chosen as our leader." Hoover showed some sign of hostility after hearing this. "The only strong and possible candidate for this is Elizabeth who has a higher chance of becoming the leader out of all of us, but I think they will not make her our leader as almost all of our division members are against this!"
Emma relieved their stress.
After Emma stopped talking, I saw Xaden looking at Andre with his black cat-like eyes forming a smug face. Wait a minute, is there actually someone more who trusts us? It's good for us at least, because under this pressure I think I might betray them even with good intentions.
After everyone went silent from listening to Emma's words, Emma took off her seatbelt, rose and walked toward me. I gave her a suspicious look before turning around to look at the window projector again. She stood beside me and folded her arms before saying, "Don't worry too much, it's not good for one's health."
"I know!"
"Hmmm, doesn't looks like it!"
When I didn't say anything in response she sighed and then started talking, "Isn't this crazy how empty this space is, with no light!"
"That's what I've been wondering about for the past thirty minutes!"
I furrowed my eyes.
"Seeing the images in the books and now looking at this abyss, man that war sure was something, huh!" She continued to look straight outside.
"That's also what I've been thinking for the past thirty minutes."
I said with a closed mouth showing only my teeth.
"Che" All I heard was this.
I didn't say anything, and she continued to stay silent, so I decided to finally contribute to the conversation.
"Thank you speaking for us just now!"
Emma looked at me with wide eyes, disbelief clear in them.
"Well, it's not something to thank someone for, you know!? I didn't say anything right, at the end I said even if you guys are planning to do something dangerous that will put all of us in crisis then we should leave you."
"Yeah, I know! And I am thanking you for that."
Emma turned her head straight with narrow eyes, "I guess you're welcome then!"
I noticed someone staring at me with tensed eyes, eyes that were emitting fire. It was Hoover and Ellie who were looking at me with two pairs of same tensed eyes.
"Let's get back to the war shall we!" Emma looked serious saying that.
"What do you want to talk about!?"
"About the happening of war, the destruction it caused, almost complete demolition of life in the universe. The almost success of divine beings."
Emma said it all in one breath.
"There are a lot of 'almost'." I tried to be funny by saying this with an awkward smirk. I knew I had failed when I saw Emma's face filled with disgust.
"What? Why do you suddenly want to talk about the great war!?" After she refused to look at me normally, I questioned her.
She again let out a peaceful sigh, "I am just saying how powerful the KING I was, I mean KING ARZELLIUS I, I reckon you know his son is the one who rules this vast universe now, KING ARZELLIUS II. KING AEZELLIUS I is the reason humanity won the great war and not the divine beings." He was the one who fought in the great war and stood victorious, but it is said that he died after three hundred years of great war.
"So, everybody knows that the power of KING is not known to anyone except for his dead victims and his conquerors." I shrugged.
"Ever thought about using the brain of yours!?" Emma got angry at me.
"Hey, I don't like it how you just talked to me!" I deliberately showed my anger with a made-up heavy voice.
"Oh, yeah? Well, I didn't know, you are unable to handle jokes like this, you were not like this before, and this is how you say something in heavy voice to show that you are angry!"
"I am sorry jeez! Why are you disturbing me then!? Let me enjoy the view!"
"The view that looks like your future!?"
"Keep talking to me and yours will be same" I said in a tired voice.
"I came here to talk with you about the KING, but it looks like you are in no mood today." Emma shrugged.
"I don't have periods; I can talk to you without being irritated."
Slap!
After the completion of my sentence, I sensed huge pain on the back of my head, where she slapped me.
"That's not how you are supposed to talk to a lady!"
"I am sorry! It was my bad!" I apologized for my misbehave.
After this small bantering of ours I saw a small dot of light in the far distant darkness.
It was a star that was shining brightly.
"See that star, it is visible from so far away. If only there were more stars like that one!" Emma expressed her disappointment.
"If you think about it for a moment, it truly is astonishing! These huge balls of plasma massively enormous in size and mass, and millions of degree hotness within them still couldn't help them in surviving the great war."
Emma looked at me with proud eyes. "You have finally taken some interest huh!"
"I was interested all along, otherwise why would I look at the darkness for so long!?" Shit, my tongue just slipped now, should've been more careful. What if she was referring to something about the Old Seth.
"Didn't seem like that to me!" She smirked.
Emma talks a lot with me, if you exclude Gil and Rich than the one who talks with me the most with after them is Emma.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
Suddenly the speaker in our compartment started to produce the beep sound.
-We are the pilots of this Metagalactic hawk, and we are announcing that in mere five minutes we will be entering the solar system no 11. We are again announcing that in mere five minutes we will be entering the solar system no 11. It is guided that all the cadets sit on their seats and fasten their seatbelts. We will be reducing our speed considerably for our cadets so that they can behold the beauty of the celestial beings that were protected by the KING I and were given to mere mortals like us to continue life.
I heard a microphoned voice from the speaker, but I have to say that they respect their king a lot and when I say a lot trust me, I mean a lot.