Chapter 1: The prologue of a prologue.
It was a nice and sunny day. I, Zamista, was 7 years old at that time. Working out in the fields with my parents on our farm. After doing my daily chores, that included milking the cows and giving them wheat to eat and some other chores. I went to sit at a nearby bench while my parents went to our house to make breakfast.
Suddenly, a huge meteorite strikes our field! It made a huge crater twice the size of our house and blew everything near it to smithereens including all the cows and sheep in the field and all of our crops with it. But it didn't create a shockwave after impact, almost as if it didn't have any gravity at all. So we avoided any injuries from it.
But, how did it even fall in the first place?
I rushed towards the fields and saw all of our remaining crops from the impact getting turned to dust instantaneously.
Zamista: "Why…? Why did this happen… We didn't harm anyone, so why did you do this to us God? Why do you hate us so much..?"
My parents rushed to see if I'm okay or not, after they heard that loud thud. My mother brought me away from the flames.
Zariko: "Zam, my child what is going on!? How did any of this happen!? Are you okay!?"
We noticed all the weird things going on around the crater. For instance, the meteor was in one solid shape and didn't even touch the ground. It was floating like a ball filled with air above the lake, while everything else moved away from it. Almost as if it was a stream of water.
The ground underneath it caught fire and started to spread to everything rapidly, yet it didn't burn anything or radiate heat, it just sort of harmlessly flew away like air covering all the little bits remaining dusts of the crops like goo. But weren't they fire? Why wasn't anything burning?
Me and my parents went back home trying to figure out together what we just saw.
Zariko: "It almost feels like some kind of magic from the old fairy tales I used to read as a child."
My father was barely keeping his composure and trying not to cry in front of us.
Zagus: “Hey it's fine if we lost everything worth farming. At least we still have a shelter and ourselves, right?”
He was lying, I could clearly see that he was trying not to burst into tears, while saying all that. At least what he said about shelter and us didn't seem like lies.
After collecting our thoughts, we decided to investigate what was even going on. We hoped this was all a dream.
We decided to fall asleep and try to forget our losses, but honestly, we really needed rest from that event.
The next day, we went to the meteor that landed on our farm. It demolished everything that we could sell to make enough money to buy ourselves ample amounts of food to eat everyday.
But it can't be helped it was impossible to prevent the outcome, we couldn't turn back time or use any sort of magic. After all, those are so rare that getting stuck by lighting and dying would be way more likely than finding a magic wielder in our whole life. Since magic users are wanted by the government. Because they could harness the power of nature. Which was apparently bad for the higher ups.
We went to check if the meteor was removable or not, or could we salvage any seeds of the crops that got blown to bits. We searched heaven and earth and back for it but there was nothing. They were so horrifyingly crushed, that even looking for a seed seems like trying to find a needle the size of a hair, in a haystack.
Anything we found resembling like seeds or crops was just dust. We used all the seeds we had in the store room, to increase the money we made this year.
Since new year is coming and we wanted to sell more crops this month so we could buy everyone nice clothes, but that dream was just a dream now.
After looking for hours and hours, we found nothing. We lost our patience by trying to break, remove or doing anything to the meteor. Because it was so big that it covered the entire field in the form of a massive crater.
We had a few hoes and pickaxes in the storeroom. We got closer to that damn thing and started swinging at it. My father tried calming us down and started the charge at the meteor.
Zagus: "Let's bring this thing down!"
Zamista & Zariko: "Yes!"
Zamista: "But Father, it's so big. How will we do anything to it? We should give up and farm somewhere else. The rock is way too big for us to do anything to it. Let's sell our house and buy a new plot of land somewhere else."
My father pats me on the shoulder.
Zagus: "Look Son, I know you are just worried about me. But, your father is strong. And you are as strong as I am, deep inside of you. So, make me proud. By showing that strength. You don't have to be physically strong. Be weak but think strong. We may have to actually mine a small mountain. But, I know we can. And we will. We will get back on our feet, and keep moving forward. We have to. Or we can't eat for days, if we don't. So let's start."
Father started mining the meteor with the eyes of a man. Which only saw the meteor as a small pebble that ruined his family's day, and life. We started mining as well. But, it was as hard as solid steel. Yet, Father was getting big chunks off each swing. And his swinging form was perfect. He was swinging at it, as if he was cutting down a foe that couldn't be kept alive for the sake of his family.
It almost felt as, if he was using up all his energy, that he had stored in him. For this very moment.
We did not know why he was in such a hurry, but we didn't question him nonetheless.
We were dazzled by how my father just took a single chunk off the steel hard meteor. He kept on mining until dawn, as if his life depended on it.
We couldn't work after 3 hours. Since each strike at the meteor made our entire body vibrate like we were punching a metal wall. That was getting us nowhere so we went back home and occasionally came to check if he was doing alright.
He didn't lose any of his speed or power the entire time, but when I was helping my mother to make food for father, we heard a loud thud as if something hit the ground and went splat. After that, my mother dropped everything she had on her hands, and ran to see father.
He had collapsed from exhaustion from the extreme pain he had sustained throughout the day. He was out cold and my mother was worried sick about him since, without him we couldn't get food to survive for a week. He was the best father I would ever want.
He has a fever and multiple fractures all over his body, from multiple barrages of shocks going through his body from swinging at the steel hard meteor. The nearest doctor from here was 20 kilometres away. Whatever the length, I need to act fast or my father will be in bed forever.
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