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“Teddy! Close your eyes and hold tight.” Jim grabbed his son and shielded him with his body until the snowstorm subsided. They had almost been covered in half by the violent storm that started only suddenly the moment they came down from the lighthouse to fix the antenna.
Jim was a single father who worked with the International Agency for Outer Space Study. He had been posted to the lighthouse up north to study and gather as much information about the meteorite that had been speculated to hit Earth in a few months to come. With a magnitude like never seen before, the whole world was shaken by this catastrophic revelation. All around the globe, efforts were being made to develop a solution. Was it going to be the end of mankind? They had only a few months to find out.
“It’s over now son. It is over.” Jim pulled his feet from the frost and dusted the ice off their jackets. “We need to get this radar back up.” He walked up to the transmitter of the long-range radar and fixed its antenna. “Come on Ted. What are you looking at?” Jim turned to find Ted staring into the vast distant peaks around the lighthouse.
“Nothing Dad. I thought I saw someone.” Teddy looked at his father with his blue eyes.
Jim’s heart broke a little. He had brought his eight-year-old son with him to a boring wilderness away from his friends and civilization. “Come here. It looks like it is going to rain now,” Jim said looking up at the cloudy sky. He held Teddy’s freezing gloves and returned to the lighthouse. The weather had been erratic all day and Jim was starting to think that it was more than the already impending doom.
Teddy fell asleep watching his father work tirelessly on his system. When he roused in the middle of the night, he found his father crouched on the table fast asleep. Teddy was trying to tidy up the table when a shadow crossed the rays of light reflecting from the lamp outside. Teddy jumped. He quickly peeked through the lens. His eyes sparked when he saw the form of a girl dart across a peak. It was almost as fast as a shooting star but Teddy caught a lingering spark trail behind.
Excited, he slowly grabbed his jacket and snuck out of the lighthouse. Teddy looked at the towering structure he had left behind casting a yellow glow into the distance. The air was getting even colder and he struggled to lift his feet. He had gone too far to turn back so he pressed on.
He rested on a little snowy rock to catch his breath when he saw the darting sparks again trailing behind the figure he had seen earlier. Teddy ran after her and she hid behind another peak of snow.
“Wait! Please. I just want to talk to you.” Teddy pleaded as he came closer.
“Shhhh!” A hissing sound followed and she charged at Teddy.
“No. Please don't hurt me.” Teddy covered his face and yelled until she stopped. He slowly lowered his arms to look at her.
She looked more like a girl his age but she had pale and almost white skin that looked like it had been sprinkled with shimmering white dust. She glowed beneath light rays as her silver eyes gilded all over Teddy.
“What are you?” She came closer and sniffed Teddy. Her voice came out in an ethereal melody.
“I'm Teddy. I live over there with my dad. We came here to help find a way out. You know there is a meteorite coming, don't you?”
She creased her brows. “Meteor….”
“Teddy!” Jim called from a distance.
Before Teddy could look back, she had disappeared again with the speed of light.
“Wait. You dropped this. What is your name?” Teddy yelled. He picked up a strange stone from the ground. It had the same kind of glimmer as the one on her skin and it felt so warm.
“Listen Ted. You cannot run off like that in the middle of the night. It isn't safe out there. The weather is crazy.” Jim cautioned.
“I saw a girl, Dad. She looks different. Different from us. She is so fast and her body glitters like the stars in the sky.”
“Stop making things up Teddy. I know you are bored out here but I promise you this will all soon be over….” Before Jim could say another word, a violent tremor shook the ground throwing them both off their feet. In no time, a signal came from Jim's system.
“Oh my God!” Jim started to sweat profusely. He passed his hand through his hair and gasped. “The meteorite can't be this close.”
Suddenly, another tremor shook the ground. Teddy landed on his butt and the stone fell off his hand. As soon as it hit the ground, it began to flicker and the vibrations beneath the ground stopped immediately.
“What is that? Where did you get that?” Jim blurted. He picked up the stone marveling at its features.
“It's hers, Dad. I told you I saw someone.”
“Teddy, this is no ordinary stone. This..this is a lost element called Elbium. We've all read about it but the facts about its existence have been sketchy.” blood rushed through Jim’s head. “Elbium has been said to be one of the strongest elements to have ever existed. This stone can alter time and absorb energy enough to destroy the world. In the books of ancient history, this element can only be found within an extinct tribe called the Nyeri.
“The Nyeri were said to be a tribe almost supernatural and cut off from the rest of the world. Shrouded by mysterious magic, no technology could ever pinpoint their exact location. It was almost as if they were hidden in the crevices of time and only occasionally came out when the world was in despair. Ted, these stories have always been thought to be myths until this moment.” Jim held Teddy’s hand looking into his eyes.
“Then maybe they are here to help us Dad. Their stone can help us stop the meteorite,” Teddy exclaimed.
Just then, shadows cast a gloom over the light rays from outside. Jim and Teddy quickly ran to the lens. They exchanged glances when they sighted a village of shimmering white figures in the dark. They stood just watching the lighthouse. A smaller figure stood six feet in front of the tribe. Beside her was an Elbium the size of a big rock.
Jim and Teddy exchanged glances again. This time, they smiled knowing that help had come and Earth would be safe again.
