Nopians

The Life before they came

1 Life was good on Thorzu. It was sunny and the honey of the land was sweet. Life was It was simple yet interesting. It would start with your parents going to DNA City and selecting how they want their kid to look and after 2 days he would be made and shipped to your home. They’d open the box excitedly and they would see their beautiful baby. Life was great. You’d grow up going to school online and there were not any diseases or sickness. But there was murder and robbery, and some parts of the city were not safe. My uncle died after being stabbed by a gas knife. This knife has the gasses that make up the sun. He was turned into ash. I saw it happen right in front of me at the age of 4. I have trauma because of this event. When I was 13 I almost died by someone kidnapping me and they took me to the tower of gardens and held me over the ledge. Time slowed and I realized there were bushes and trees under me to cushion the fall so I kicked him in the leg using my prosthetic and it broke his bone. He let go of me and screamed in agonizing pain. Time froze, I realized that the watch I inherited from my parents gave me the power to freeze time. I guess I nudged it. I continued to fall but no one else was moving. Once I hit the ground I had a broken arm and that was all. I returned to the gardens, grabbed a poisonous flower, and put it in the first guy's mouth and down his throat. Then I grabbed my pocket knife and stabbed the second one in the head multiple times. I hid and unpaused time to watch the show. The second gut dropped dead immediately and fell off the high tower but he hit the cretelon (Concrete). The first gut was fine for a minute and in the minute he was freaking out because his friend died so he suspected he would die too. He’s right. He started to get lightheaded and dropped to the ground. I checked his pulse, but there was nothing. I left the tower happily and returned home. Two years later I ran away from Nopa and lived in a small town on a road to the Nether. I married a woman at 19 and we ran a business. I ran a forge and she ran a bakery. This was life we made bank and we ate very fortunately every night. Life was good and in order until…

The Day the mystery men came

2 It was a normal day until we heard something in the distance. It was like a siren. We ran and hid in any place possible some people who couldn’t walk were left in the streets and after 10 minutes it stopped. We ran outside and saw small dots had climbed the wall of the nether. We watched in awe as they nonchalantly walked to our village getting closer and closer. As they got closer we realized they were in robes and clothes that looked ancient. We started to wonder, “ Where, and when are they from?” They approached us and spoke a weird language but then the lead one started speaking our language perfectly, and the others who followed spoke perfectly as well. They said they were from Baghdad and they were from an alternate universe where the year is 300 and they were here to recruit people for some battle I decided to invite them to stay at my home. Though there were many, my wife and I would sleep in the shed. My wife got sick that night and after the next day she died in her sleep. Was it all a myth was this “Mystical place” just a myth? There was sickness and disease. Was everyone just putting in a fake mood for the legend? Was it all just a placebo effect? Then I remembered, My wife was DEAD of sickness which was promised not to be a thing. Because of their lie, I didn’t take precautions with dirt and bugs. Because of THEIR lie, my wife is dead.I then had a memory of my parents. I started to cry and miss them even more than the day it happened. I talked to the men about this matter and they felt my anger and asked, “ Where shall we go to punish the government.” I replied, while weeping, “ DNA city. That is where everything starts” and the leader said, “ We shall get revenge but there will be no killing for taking another's life for an unworthy reason is one of the worst sins you can commit.” I nodded while crying, and we got in a flying Uber and rode to DNA City. This would take around 25-30 minutes. Even though they look far away on the map Thorzu is a tiny planet almost the size of the nearby asteroid 2018 AG37 (About 132 Astronomical units from Earth). Once we arrived we saw tall, spiraled buildings almost reaching the end of our atmosphere. We entered and asked to see the boss. They said no, so we snuck to a teleporter. Once we were at a teleporter we had a huge problem. It spawned right into the boss’s office there was no hallway. So if he was in his office we were cooked. Because if we had authorization the secretary would send a zleep (message) to the boss telling him we were coming. We went up and hoped for the best. Only the boss was at his desk and he was about to call security but I used my watch only me and my parents could move when time was frozen but... How could He move I just froze time. I asked him how and he replied, “I am The Nomad, I am the god of the entire universe, I am all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful. No force nor power can stop me not even earthly weapons, I could be stabbed 1,000 times and I will still live. So are we going to confront him or are we just sitting here for nothing?” I replied shocked,” Wow uhmm, I Praise you? And yes let's confront him!” I grabbed a bat and bashed his knee with it. Then I got his zlone (Phone) and smashed it with the bat. I then said, “ Oh you just wait till I’m done with-” I then remembered what The Nomad said about killing. So I hit him with a bat and stopped before he died. He was in critical condition and would survive but there would be a long recovery. I then unfroze time, looked the boss in the eyes and said, “THIS IS FOR MY WIFE, MY UNCLE, AND MY PARENTS!”  We departed while I wept

The City of the Old Restored

3 We went onward to the city of the old and saw the broken highways and destroyed buildings. The Nomad said, “ What is this place, and what happened?” I replied, “This is the City of the Old, This is where our ancestors lived on Thorzu one thousand years ago. They lived here and life was wonderful. Life was fun and simplistic. They had just come from Earth and were still adapting to the atmosphere with less oxygen than Earth. After one hundred years of living and building this city, they finished the city and finally adapted to the atmosphere. The first nights in the city were happy and the builders were glad for this rest, but only a few days later they realized that the builders had brought inferior architectural design and the city started to crumble so they moved to the Nopapionion plain (Nopa) and built a great city.” The Nomad was amazed and pondered, “How do you know this?” I simply replied, “My Mom and Dad taught me the story before…” The nomad replied, “Before what?” I replied while weeping, “Before they- died.” I wept loudly so that everyone in the valley could hear. Once I became better I continued with the story. “ Now back to the story, with the use of the words of wise that they had found in a crevice between two rocks on Mount Uku. It said, ‘ Instead of using wood use the holographic material in the cave and use a solidifier to make square galvanized steel. This type of steel is essential to build a 

0.1㎡ apartment. You will find screws in a shed on a plain, they are borrowed from your aunt. They then built the city known as Nopa.” The Nomad and his disciples were impressed by Dano’s knowledge of Thorzu’s history. The Nomad then asked, “If you don’t mind, How did your- How did your parents die?” Dano shed a tear and began to tell the story, “ It was a normal day, The rivers were flowing in Nopa, the beautiful architecture, and most importantly the calm feeling the city projected. We were walking in the park on Chester Street. The sun was shining brighter than ever. My Mom was observing the nature and beauty of the city. My Dad was just happy to get a break from his constant work. I was happy to finally have my parents right beside me.  I then look behind me to see three thugs with Kangonams and aiming them at us. I heard two loud bangs then I heard a third one and then I immediately felt an intense pain in my calf. I looked down and saw my parents on the ground With red filling the concrete and seeping into the grass. My vision was blurry and then I hit the ground. When I awoke I looked beside me and I saw a doctor. I asked what happened and he explained the attack. I cried in disbelief. I asked if my parents were ok and he explained that they had both died. I lay there in shock and denial. I started to wish the thug would have killed me too. I lay there staring at the hospital walls as I began to cry. I was only 13 and my parents had died. Why would this happen on a planet with the ‘perfect life’? I began to realize that I had no one now. I was kept for recovery in the hospital for days. Those days I lay in bed not wanting to do anything while accepting the fact that my parents were gone. When I was released I went to my Aunt’s house and I told her everything while crying. She then decided that I should leave Nopa. She then helped me flee to Lapokia. There I hid and never told the story again, until now.” Dano then said“They are the real reason I want revenge against the government. The Government promised a perfect life, but this is no better than Earth. They have done nothing to help us. All they do is cover up these crimes and continue advertising the ‘perfect life’ as if that even exists!” I then went to an old gym and found a bat. I then proceeded to bash out the windows out of anger. I screamed in anger and loneliness, but then The Nomad comforted me saying, “It is okay my child, Your losses are great, but they are only earthly. In my kingdom, you will rejoice with the people you love for eternity. I tell you Dano if you believe and trust in me you will be accepted in that kingdom. I know the feeling of loneliness feels permanent, but your grief will end soon. Let me comfort you in these hard times.”