Memories - Epilogue

Final Memories' chapter. It contains Sixteen Journey spoilers... :X

Epilogue

Fred and Elain stood blankly at the screen where it all had appeared from. The memories of that kid… As the lights turned on with the entrance of another member of the expedition, both Fred and Elain argued with him about the over existence of light in the room. However, when their eyes met, they blushed. “That kid…”

Memories - Chapter 9

Here it is: the ninth and last chapter of Memories. However, there is still an epilogue, so look forward for it. ;P

Chapter 9 - Last moment

A gentle breeze slapped my face. I was dizzy but it was all made very clear as soon as I opened my eyes. “AH!” Indeed, I was one step away from the cliff I had been admiring the other day. Laying in the ground, I noticed, both tied, a sad Rienna and a confused Serena, the two pretty awoken. “What… what’s going on?”

Memories - Chapter 8

Hi again. Chapter 8 is here. If everything goes alright, I'll finish this story in two weeks. Look forward for it!

Chapter 8 - My inner struggle

“What… what have you done all these years?” My dad smiled. “Saving your life.” I didn’t reply. I kept staring at the cell phone, hoping something would happen, maybe waiting for Rienna to stop me or to Serena to appear and comfort me. Sincerely, I had no intention to phone him but my fingers were moving by themselves. Soon, I found the phone connecting as my father smiled in sign of approval.

Memories - Chapter 7

Hiya again. Happy new year for all!!!

I'm aiming to finish this story as soon as I can, so expect billions of Memories chapters to appear at one time. Thus, there are only 2 chapters left to write, plus an epilogue. I'll try to post a cartoon too, but I'm not sure yet.

Enjoy!

As soon as I opened my eyes, I noticed I wasn’t in the same place anymore. In front of me, a thick glass separated me from the environment. Rienna was sleeping next to me, just like an angel. After all, she was young.

Memories - Chapter 6

Here is one more chapter. 3 more and this story is finished. Let's see if I can do that before 2007... :P

Comment, please! ;)

“Let’s go!” We were running as fast as I could run since Serena was lying in my back. I suppose she wasn’t having a comfortable trip, since she woke up very soon.

Memories - Chapter 5

Here is chapter 5. I think Memories will be the first story to be completed! :D Comment, pleazzzze!!!!

Chapter 5 - Discover

Some would say this was an ordinary night. For me, it was the beginning of my own salvation and foolishness.

Memories - Chapter 4

Okay, I understood you don't like this story or are too lazy to even read. Anyway, I want to finish it. And I will.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a shadow illuminated by the sun.
“Serena?”
“I’m Rienna…” she said with a sad voice and walk away avoiding the topic.
At first, I couldn’t recall what had happened in the last hours, or how many other I had been sleeping, but my bruised body reminded me of the tough morning. As a habit, my eyes cried again, not alerting at first.

Memories - Chapter 3

This is an experience people. I have now a special blog to post Memories's chapters but I'll post the updates here and you'll still have the bar to link to the posts in the other blog.

This story is amazingly interesting and short so I don't see why you can not read it. Comment please. :)

Next morning was suspiciously quiet. I slowly opened my eyes, which were willing to shut again, but the background noises woke up my inner senses. I sat in the short bed still yawning and with the normal watery shine in my eyes. However, I actually woke up when I heard a woman’s voice struggling. It was her. (continues...)

Memories - Chapter 2

“The heat is getting me!”
“Yo, I know.”
“Stop complaining, boys.” Rienna demanded while catching another group of grapes.
Mick grinned and didn’t even mind in cleaning the grape he had just caught only to put it in Rienna’s mouth.
“What are you doin’, moron?” her mouth was full of tasteful grape juice.
It had been like this since we were really young. My brother joined the family (me and my mother) when I was 9 years old, one year after my robotization and Rienna joined us when I was 11 years old. She has got no parents left: her parents were killed by sintists a long time ago, since they were thought to have a mortal disease, so they quickened their deaths, so she had been changing families till ours. My brother shares the same hate feeling due to his experience while robotizing, so she and my brother are real close, but they were in that time of life where you have to bug with everyone to be valued as cool.
And then, apart from my mother, there was another person who was living with us. She was now arriving to the grape camp, bringing a nest ready to collect the grapes.
As she was walking to join us, I noticed her aura: the sun, almost disappearing, was shining from behind her. An angel, some would say… Light blue eyes, hazelnut hair, that brownish skin, due to the sun and the tender lips. She was my childhood friend, the one who helped me when I needed. I own her too much…
The warm smile greeted us. “Wanna do a pause?” Her ideas always please me.
Eventually, she handed me a tuna sandwich. We were sat in the place we have always loved: under the tree from where we can see it all: our village and its busy people, our cereal field, the dark cliff, the sintists’ fortress and the mountains that separate us from the other countries. In fact, we do not know a thing about what’s behind that mountain: the sintists do not want to contact any other community. We don’t even know if we’re the only ones living in this world.
“A glass of grape juice, maybe?” the melodious voice suggested. I couldn’t deny.
Serena is her name. The name of the one who cares about others.
“Well, let’s continue?” she stood up when I was still enjoying my juice.
Me, Rienna and Mick stood up not convinced to finish the grape collection. But it ended up being fun: she has that effect in me.
Time passed quickly so we were forced to leave the field. The sun is our clock and it was almost disappearing. Mom should already be waiting for us, and she hated when we arrived late. But something happened behind me. When we were carrying the nests to the house, I heard someone falling in the ground.
“Serena!”
My breath stopped. If she was scratched in some place…
“Serena” I faced her. “Are you alright!”
She answered me not worried. “Sure, thanks to your gloves.” Her warm smile melted me.
They made the way home trying to cheer me up. That didn’t help me though. I know they regarded me as sad so I felt shame for myself for making them worry. But Serena was feeling really bad. She knew that my dream was her becoming a sintist. Only the ones who hadn’t been robotized yet could become sintists and she was fighting so that my dream could be fulfilled. But, at the end, I was the only one fighting for it. The sintists have the best life we could ever have. And I want her to be happy…
“I want to stay with you…”
I was totally shocked. Rienna and Mick were almost reaching home so they did not hear us.
“No, you don’t…”
“I don’t want to become a sintist! I don’t want to leave you!” it was the first time she had decided on her own. Due to my selfish feelings, I ignored her and continued my way.
She only came in the night and followed silently to the sleeping room. Mom hadn’t arrived yet from the counsellors, probably from some unusual explanation. Rienna and Mick did not argue with me. They felt something was wrong but here everyone has his own problems, I don’t blame them.
If at least I had let her be free…

Memories - Chapter 1

This is the cliff were the humanity will end.
Nine years after my robotization I’m the same, with one difference: my leg is made with metal. It was difficult to get used to this new tool but I had had a great support. We can’t rely on sintists: their only concern is to keep us under control. But why do they want us to live? Wouldn’t it be better to end our race and create a pure one, free from robotizations? The robotization is a deal: if you are hurt, the part of the body which is harmed will have to be replaced by a machine. Sintists are so freaks when it comes to avoiding illnesses!
“Yo, Kaze.”
Well, it wasn’t necessary to turn around. The only person who knows my name and says “Yo” is my brother.
“Yo” I greeted. “What’s up?”
“Mom, wants our help. Wat’cha doing?” he’s got to work in his fluency. In fact, we aren’t real brothers, we just got the same mother so, obviously, he is younger than me, and had an average dad, a robotized father.
“Nothin’. Just staring…”
He grinned. “Do you still have nightmares with this place?”
I shut up. The conversation could be lead in a different course. His father’s death was something he‘d always blame me for. It was better to change subject.
“How’s Rienna doing?”
“Well, I guess. At least she’s already eating.” He said in a more cheerful tone. “She hasn’t adapted to her new leg yet.” He was kind of amused.
“Hey, hey, your process of adaptation was even worst! You were always crying because you couldn’t pick your fork!”
“Shut up!” he tried to get me with his mechanical arm. His arm…
Mick, my brother, scratched his arm when we, family, were passing through difficult times. His father died, then our mother was robotized for the third time of her life and we were living alone, so it was predictable he’d hurt himself to be close to his mother. Hopefully, he got used to his new arm and uses it a lot, mainly for typing in the laptop he brought everywhere he went to. He is really good in dealing with electronic devices. In our world, every robotized being knows how to deal with it well, but my brother has further knowledge. I have hope in his future.
“So, what kind of help does mom needs?” I asked after being captured by him.
“Picking the grapes. Yo, let’s do this our what?”
I nodded. He headed to our village but I stayed behind a bit. I had the sensation that the next time I’d be near this cliff would be the last. I took a quick gaze to the place: it was too deep and black to see the bottom so we called it The Endless Cliff. Evil spirits seemed to rule the place, draining the nearest soul. But it was attractive. The spirits were the call to freedom: the more I stared, the more I wanted to join them. You could call this my favourite place.
“Yo, comin’ or not?” I woke up with Mick’s call far away, near the cereal field.
“Yes!” I ran to get away from the attraction.
‘I’ll come back.’

Memories - Chapter 0

She was crying.
“Don’t worry, it will be alright…”
“Where… where are they taking me?”
She hid her tears before answering me. “It will be alright…” she repeated trying to convince herself.
The others were struggling against the big robots. No one could escape them, the sintists were our order. Although she was fighting with all her strength, the sintists’ guardians pushed her away, causing her to fall. The robots touch could provoke some circuits malfunction but, hopefully, she was still a pure human and the one I cared about more in this world. But I couldn’t see her anymore until the process was complete. Not even my mother, who has been with me since I was two, was near me. My sweaty hands were tied and I was just being pushed in a sterilized transparent capsule. We all had heard about the process but I never thought I would be a PAR’s victim so soon. And now I was alone...
Time passed too quickly till the fortress. The huge building everyone feared was my next destination.
I don’t know what happened next. My system was blocked as soon as I entered the building and I woke up later in a capsule with a green liquid inside. Staring at me, in a black and developed room, were dozens of sintists.
The dirty uniform, pale skin, cold eyes. That was our idea of sintists and, indeed, it wasn’t wrong. But the thing bothering me at that moment were the eyes: the eyes which regarded my naked body as an object.
“Program: X001. Disintegrate.”
I was shocked, since X001 is my serial number. Were they going to disintegrate me? Turning me to molecules?
I tried to break the glass which was separating me from the sintists. But the more I fought, the more I lost hope. I finally gave up, making many sintists to grin with my defeat. But while analysing their reactions, I recognised someone in the middle of that crowd of sintists. Myself.
Well, I wasn’t exactly me. He was about ten years old older but he had the same tea coloured hair, the same dark blue eyes and the same open smile. Our eyes met for a second but the manager’s command stopped it, making me lose my senses.
“Initiate robotization.”
That was the first time I saw my dad.

Memories - Prologue

Brushing the floor, trying to find something. Her job was such a nuisance… Then, another obstacle appeared, blocking her way to discover antiquities. Quickly, she removed a square formed floppy with nothing written in it.
‘What…’
“A floppy…” Fred said from behind her.
“Yes," she agreed after giving it to him "From which age is it?”
Fred grabbed the dusty floppy and winked at his wife.
“We’ll see it in some seconds.” He headed to the research truck followed by Elain, while the other members of the expedition continued their search. The expedition was a sucess, since they had found many antique electronic devices.
“It’s a good thing Katie found this place for us.” She said causing him to nod.
Finally, Fred opened the door of the truck filled with circuits and computers.
“Here comes something…” he inserted the floppy.

Accept
Unit Floppy
Execute…