Here is a short story ( fiction) about Joys of exploring the unknown which I have posted to enter the contest "I am Explorer !" held by Indiblogger....
Quick!!!!! Tabitha...we are getting late......shouted Mrs. Perpetual
to her daughter as they were getting ready to board the ship to the
gulf of Aeden for their annual family get-together. Tabitha was very
excited about the trip as she was going to meet her cousins Michael,
Andrea (the nerd of the group), Edward (having a lisp) and Giselle.
Mr. perpetual as always opted his way out of the vacation to save
himself from his nosy in-laws and the long voyage that gets him
seasick, albeit it being an overnight sail over the Mediterranean.
The following night Mr. and Mrs. Perpetual had a long squabble over
this issue, which was quite evident from her temper the following
morning. They dragged all their baggage through the long port of
Rostock and all the while Mrs. Perpetual kept grumbling about the
extra bags that Tabitha had got along despite her being against
it....Tabitha wouldn’t help either.
They waited long for the Bartholomew's and the Warren's to arrive,
but as usual they trugged around just minutes before the ship blew
its horn to set sail. Tabitha's eyes gleamed as she saw her partners
in crime....Michael, Andrea , Edward and Giselle were equally elated
to see one another and had their tantrums running in their heads. The
parents hugged each other reluctantly and boarded the ship.
The Ship embarked on its journey on the dot, as it did for the past
50 years, never had it left the port late as it was reputed to
be....... Everyone settled in their cabins and the children had their
separate ones while the elders retired in their own......not long
since it was quarter past 8 the kids sneak out of their cabins to
explore the serenity of the sea inspite of the elders telling them
not to venture out of the cabin. The cold winds lash through the
window panes almost rattling it ferociously. The pack still brave
their way to the deck at the hind part of the vessel. The Breeze over
there at the top was more ghastly... The parents trust their kids
this one time to be obedient but to be disappointed the following
morning as it would be obviously evident.
The deck of the ship glistened in the moon light making everything
look heavenly and blissful. The kids had a sense of superiority and
enjoyed the freedom which was to be short-lived..... The harsh waves
soon hit the deck and wet the floor making it slippery as the peel of
a banana skin. Michael soon could feel the floor under him giving
away coz of a faulty tile and within a split second he slipped and
passed through the railing of the ship into the wide ocean, Giselle
rushed right behind him to hold his hand but tripped onto the
dislodged anchor and found her way right into the ocean along with
Michael......
Tabitha
and Edward being the swimmers amongst the clan thought it would be
better to jump along to save them as they had noticed a small opening
at a decent height just above the base of the vessel at a height from
the turbulent waters, enough to hold them all in it safely once they
could save the others. Yelling the names of Michael and Giselle and
clasping each other’s hands they plunged into the icy cold waters
to save them. Hesitantly and shivering with fear Andrea waited,
looking anxiously into the waters to see a sign of the quartet and as
the guilt began to haunt her she decided to jump too. Occasionally
she could see a hand waving out to her out of the water, to which she
yelled out their names, but to no avail. Thinking she had lost all of
her cousins to the sea, she jumps almost half dead into the waters
losing all hope.
The parents were quite confident that the kids were fast asleep in
their beds after their dinner early in the evening and did not wanted
to disturb them for supper knowing how mischievous they were.
Meanwhile,
back in the sea Tabitha and Edward had lost their hope looking for
Michael and Giselle and were pretty exhausted trying to stay
afloat...suddenly from the deeps they see the other three (Andrea,
Michael and Giselle) appear on dolphin backs to their amazement. They
rub their eyes in disbelief and almost immediately faint. Pixie and
Mickey the dolphins are waiting for them to gain consciousness to
haul the group into the GARDEN OF EDEN.
No sooner do they open their eyes and before they could comprehend
the on-goings, they are launched like torpedoes into the deeps of the
sea by the Commander of the dolphin's MOBY. The group has yet to
emerge from the shock and within no time they are at the gates of
EDEN. The bright golden light emanating from the gates almost blinded
them. Everything happened so quickly that they didn’t even have the
time to react to it. Their eyes drooled at the picturesque scenery,
one they had not even experienced while on their vacation on the Alps
the previous season. It seemed that they had arrived at the PEARLY
GATES.
MOBY
, the commander rubbed a magic potion onto their mandibles thus
enabling them to breath inside the GARDEN OF EDEN,
for the first time in their lives the kids breath their lungs out
with the freshest of "EDOGEN" , a special element for
visitors outside of EDEN. The visitors can breathe “edogen” to
their hearts content; however, their breaths were recycled once they
left the paradise. The garden was divided into prefectures with every
prefecture built indigenously and elements not seen anywhere else on
the face of the earth. The fragrance failed the most expensive
perfumes sold in the whole of Arabia. A water like substance gushed
through the mountains from the hinterland so pure that could revive
the dead to life. Small invisible huts but spacious from the inside
enough to contain an entire nation had amazing creatures living in
harmony with each other....it basically described the concept of a
sustainable living and scope for fulfillment of life.
MOBY, hands the clan over to the Chief Geronimo, of the Omaron
prefecture, the only prefecture accessible to earthly beings. Mr.
Geronimo looked amused and he was so friendly that he made the kids
feel at home...the kids clicked with him instantly just like everyone
else who had visited the Unknown underwater world. They forgot
everything about how they reached the Garden of Eden. Geronimo
invited them to his humble abode to meet his other family members and
for some delicious food unfathomable to the human mind. On their way
as they transported uniquely by just “thinking” to be at the
Master Hut a cause adopted towards a zero-emission policy by the
father of the Land ADAM. This was provisioned in the magic potion
Edogen for the visitors from earth. The trip to his home was quite
exciting; the kids met friendly EDENER’S who were more than obliged
to play humble hosts to them for their entire stay in the Garden
depicting complete obedience to authority a dream far-fetched on
earth. But, the Chief would decide who will escort the guests. The
Kids indeed felt ashamed looking at the hospitality of the Edener’s.
On
the way home they came across uniquely abled beings that looked
similar to humans but very different in mannerisms, they would walk
with subtle steps but their speeds were that of the speed of light.
They could do multiple motor reactions while they were walking, for
instance sit and eat while walking, sleep and collate information at
the same time. There was no concept of death as all of the Edener’s
thrived on the Fruit of LIFE called “Manna” which had a secret
ingredient known only to the Father of the Land- ADAM. There was word
that Adam had a companion named EVE, who had betrayed him with pride
and perjury which lead to her being banished from the kingdom. No one
ever heard from her after that moment. Rumor had it that she was
enslaved in a distant land known as the GOLGOTHA. From then on a
decree was passed which mentioned such consequences to whoever broke
the only Law of the Land- “Abstain
from Pride and Perjury”.
At
the chief’s hut there was his entire prefecture awaiting their
arrival, as soon as they arrive the entire barrage of musicians’
immensely talented played soulful and heavenly music that could even
revive a dead person to dance and heal the sick and disabled. The
music followed by a ritual of cleansing by the Patriarch of the
prefecture with mystical leaves,
ground and mixed with a glutinous substance derived from the Immortal
tree known to cure both earthly beings
as well as Edener’s. It was available to earthly beings too, for
the sole reason that it was rarely that humans had ever entered the
place, the last time someone who had gained entry was about 300 Earth
yrs ago, a Japanese Sage Yukishi
Omata and in his honor the Edener’s
named the Place the Omaron Prefecture, and it was as a promise
accepted by the father of the Garden of Eden that they would never
Invade Earth. The Japanese Sage’s soul was preserved in a crystal
bottle at the edge of the ‘River of
souls’ for an infinitesimal amount
of time. It was said that all noble souls rested on the banks of the
River of souls. The names were never disclosed to anyone even in the
whole of the Garden of Eden
The children by now were so numb with amazement they went hysterical
every passing minute just overwhelmed by all the happenings around.
Finally the time came for them to leave the Garden when they could
not hold their emotions and broke down inconsolably, immediately
their tears vanished with a mermaid taking all of them into her arms
and giving them the Motherly embrace, as there was no record of
sorrow ever witnessed in the Garden of Eden.
The Chief transported them back to the defining lines of the
Prefecture from where Commander Moby took on, obviously not before
parting with gifts galore and the willpower and confidence to
withstand any calamity they would befall in the course of their life
on earth, because the gifts included generosity, love, courage….
The Commander dutifully wiped out the potion of their mandibles and
recycled their breaths once they stepped out the gates of The Garden
of Eden.
All
this while the ship sailed smoothly through the Mediterranean heading
to the port of Aeden with a calmness experienced as always since it
set sail 50 years ago. It was three quarters past 4 in the morning
Italian time. Pixie and Mickey-
the dolphins escorted them back to the ship and almost immediately
catapulted them back into their cabins with all memory of their
erased about the place they visited. Mrs. Perpetual came knocking on
them just in time to see how the kids were doing, it had been a long
time she visited them since the previous evening and as expected she
found them fast asleep with a smile on their face. The morning came
up pleasant for the five of em’ with new energy and Edward having
lost his lisp forever into oblivion to everyone’s amazement.
That year’s reunion was a memorable one if not for the elders but
for the Children a hundred percent……. ;)
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