《Amber》 Chapter 1-Princess left the castle Bang! With loud noise something crash, and I feel ground shaking. I jump up from bed as my core crystal flashed rapidly, I run from my room without caring about anything. I can see smoke and explosion outside from crystal walls. It looks like world is coming to an end. I see crystal wall behind me collapse as a half-torn soldier in Azure crystal Armor broke into dust. I panic and run towards main hall and crash into someone running in opposite direction. As I focus on person in front of me. I smile as he is my uncle. There is also some royal guard beside him. " We are under attack. Take this command crystal and go to azure pool. Try not to use secondary command as much as possible.I will come to you later ¡°he hands me a command token and run to main hall again. As I stand there wanting to ask him about father, guard hold my hand, and drags me toward transfer point. Explosions rock the palace as I can see troops outside fighting in sky or on land. Suddenly, guard pulls me back and I stumble behind him. There is bright flash, and smoke rose as he blocks an energy ray. Guard moves his heavy sword as two enemies attacked from both sides. They are fast but guard intercepts them and push them back with pure strength in single move. Enemies crash into walls, and he pick me up and run faster. We run past scattered bodies and debris. As another enemy try to stop us. Guard lightly flicks at enemy to blow him away. Just as we exited from a side of palace. We quickly enter the transfer point. Light fall and we are transferred to far side of azure pool. We stand there and look toward palace in valley at far distance where ships are firing, and explosions are happening. After few moments, a bright flash of light blinds my eyes and then ground move beneath my feet like ripples in water. BOOM! Closely followed by loud noise. I feel myself flying in air without sense of direction. My eyes are open, but I cannot see, my ears cannot hear, and my body cannot move. Then I slowly senses return, and I feel pain washing over me, especially my head. I stand up pushing something aside, stumbling around. It is guard barely alive. He appears to be badly burnt while shielding me from explosion. I look back at palace, but it is no longer there. I need to run so I unlock the key given by my father from my necklace and put it into transfer tower, as he had instructed me many times. It starts loading, the half-burnt guard is trying to stand up for something. He can be healed by command token. I look around for it. But it is not with me.Stolen story; please report. Thump...! I fall and roll on ground as someone hit me on the back. "Princess looking for this, I was waiting for you, sorry to be late ¡°I see a crimson guard holding command token. He walks slowly. My royal guard rolls and grips his feet tightly. I look at key. It is still loading and require few more seconds. He laughs, stab the hand of guard with spike and kick him away. He continues to walk towards me. "I command you, as a princess. Rise and fight for me ¡°I whisper while looking at the guard. His eyes grow wide, and he quickens his movement. But it is too late, I can see power flowing from me to guard. And then time stops. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ It is the first time I used primary command because my father had forbidden me to do so. It is my last bet for my life. I see, no I feel as boy named Quay grew up from birth. He wanted to be a farmer like his father, but he was chosen and given a special task to look after baby princess. He played with her, gave her his candies and took blame for her mischiefs. He did not want this type of life. But he started to like it. As he grew up. He was no longer with princess all the time. She was almost adult now. He was in shadows looking after her caring for her. Always close but away from her eyes. One day he heard emergency signal. Then crash and wildly running princess out of her room. He followed her to outside, shielding her from falling debris Then he got instruction to protect and evacuate her. After he shielded her from an explosion and tried to helplessly protect princess from a crimson guard. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ As all life of guard flashed past me. I felt his every happiness and sorrow and struggle. Time starts to move again. Crimson guard in front of me is pushed aside as now healed guard who jumped on him. Guard roars and punch the enemy in face. They roll on ground kicking all dust and ash. I stand there startled by everything that happened as I feel faint connection with my guard. They both formed and shattered energy shields of each other stabbing, slashing and firing projectiles. They are very fast. Earth cracks, and explosions followed. I have never imagined this level of power that I can bestow to others. Tee! I hear the noise of successful key loading. I look back at him fighting, reluctant to leave him behind. I feel him requesting me to board the ship as more enemies were coming here. I run to boarding platform for ship looking at him as I see enemy reinforcements coming from horizon and I am covered in light. I am transferred to external ship hidden far away. The ship is very small in length containing big pilot shell with fast revolving layers in which I sit. I wait as crystal layers formed around me then ship flew faster and faster to leave behind my home planet, rapidly bypassing the enemy ship blockade. The ship rapidly moves in vast emptiness of space moving even faster. Then ship hull hums with energy and my pilot shell is ejected from ship as ship crumbles away and only shell enter higher dimension. Layers of pilot shell keep revolving rapidly in different directions. Then after a moment of pure darkness it fall back into lower dimension. It is still moving at very high speed, far ahead I can see blue planet in front of me. Pilot shell enters atmosphere burning its outer layers, slowing down and crashing into deep ocean. Remaining shell layers starts to dissolve and then innermost shell containing me floats back to surface. And I am here on distant planet called Earth. Princess at high school I stand against fastest pitcher of school, while whole city looks at me from stands. I gripped my bat harder as ball flies towards me. Boom... ............... I wake up feeling light pain from my head. Nightmares are becoming more chaotic now. Teenagers or to say students at high school are talking each other and mysteriously avoiding yet moving around me. I am in high school of oddly named island sector near which I landed. I needed to stay somewhere, so I manipulated my way into high school. Well, cost was memories of an earth folk. He is big guy and he helped me to get here. Fortunately, his mind is too weak, and I can suppress his memories and slowly discard them. Only nightmares of others make me feel bad. Bell rings as students take seats. Teacher starts his lecture while students try their best to concentrate. Lessons are too boring and useless to me, so I am thinking of my future now. It has been over a month. I have collected lot of information about this planet. Pretty low-level civilization, suppressive atmosphere, lack of energy particles and lack of access to higher dimension. This is best place to run and hide while I look for king to revive my people. Because I can transfer the memories of a person to new crystal and revive them. But for reviving people whose memories I do not have, I need to become queen, so I need a king. A king which will resonate 100% with me. I am now working on good plan to protect myself and my people. "Hello, I need to talk about something. Can we have talk outside " I call a boy after class is over. He followed me outside, last of many but still quite easy, I would say. ..................... School time is over. I move outside of school gate and enter an expensive car standing there. I throw my bag on back seat, remove my tie and opens my collars for cooling of air conditioner. Car speeds up on road as school student and teachers stare at us. "What is it with them? Did something happen. I have joined school only a month ago." I asked while reclining back my seat. " Majesty, you don¡¯t have to care about it. "He replied. "I feel something bad going to happen, I need you to remain around me all the time, clear?" "Yes, Your majesty " ........ Half a month later ...... Something is up, they told me that principal called me to office. I grabbed my purse with big black heavy revolver in it. I walk out of room through corridor to reach office. I suddenly feel pressure rising. I see a crimson guard standing in front of me.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. I shoot him in chest with all my bullets. The bullets are blank, only smoke and bang. I throw the gun at him and run back quickly as possible to reach the classroom. Another crimson guard appear in front of my class door. I do not stop and continue to run forward. Just as I come closer, Billy tackle him down. He is too powerful than common people and my command has made him an unstoppable force. He easily moves guard away from my path as I enter the room. Everyone seems startled, hearing gun shots and seeing me run here. Some started crying while others go under the desk. I ignore them as I run to my seat for bag. Meanwhile other crimson guard enters the classroom. Everyone seems to be horrified upon seeing him. "Running here to say goodbye to your friends, no problem! We will send them after you " crimson guard shows me a creepy smile standing at door. "I command ¡°I roared and jump out though glass window shattering it. "What! She transformed them all " the horrified crimson guard stared at students as few other enters the classroom. Eye of everyone start glowing and a crystal Armor is formed around them, complete with weapons. They roar and fight starts. Hope these twenty can hold them back giving me enough time. Billy ''s aura enters the room. Then.... Boom... he self-destructed with others. Roof of classroom flies in sky as windows shatter with pressure wave. Smoke is rising, as I ride bike past incoming police cars. I need to go far away. I speed through open long roads. Until midnight I travel without stop. My eyes shut down for a moment. And I crash and fly past side railing. I feel tiredness taking over me. As I fall into sea of memories of my classmates. I have commanded and exchanged memories before but only now their memories overpower me. I live their boring regular life of average high school goers with their own personal touch. Their hopes, dreams, ambitions, desires, struggles, ideals everything. Until a mystery girl got admitted to their class and everything changed. She asked for help. They agreed after seeing a beautiful dream. They did not care about crystal world and fate of its all people. They only cared about this cute little girl who needed help. I now experience their last struggles as they died for me. Running towards certain demise to protect an unknown alien girl. Just based on a strange dream and promise of alien queen of crystal planet. My eyes open, as my body shivers from intense emotions. ........ I am policeman, my work area is this small fishing town. I have been tracking Boss Billy. A former wrestler and now famous trader, which means smuggler. I have been tracking his activities from past years. It has changed after his yacht trip to sea last month. Strangely he had brought a teen high school girl. It looked as bad as it can be, but my hands were tied, he had covered all the fronts. Surprisingly he seemed to change his routine for good. He had admitted her to high school and acting as her guardian, too good to be true. He is purchasing school supplies and driving her to school. I cannot believe it. I was not able to find her background and my investigation had come to halt. Until he went to his gang one day and brought a dangerous custom revolver, whose power is high enough to even scare me. Fearing harm, I replaced its bullets with empty ones. I am on his tail ever since. He always sits in car outside of school whole day. I am again frustrated. Today he opened his car door in hurry and ran into school. I too followed him. Then I heard gunshots, very loud, one after another. They surely belong to that custom made gun. But who has gun, if Billy is here, girl? Hard to believe! I report incident to the station as I am left behind by Billy who seems to have grown wings. Chaos spread among student and teachers. But thankfully no one came out of room running like chickens, they are smart. Boom! As I turned around corner, shock wave of blast hit me, I fell. I am scared, what the hell is happening here. My whole body became painful while my eyes blurred. Is it a school or a battlefield, I crawled and stumbled toward class. Inside everything was burnt black even walls were scarred deeply. There is smell of hot clay overpowered by smell of burnt blood and flesh. Looking at burning clothes and chunks flesh and glass. My legs turn soft. My body is shivering, and tears came to my eyes. Princess on stroll I suppress their memories, because I need to find king. With my command they can be revived anyway. Otherwise, everyone will be gone. I have tested my power. Now I need people with higher resonance and king with complete resonance. Here on earth every power is suppressed, crimson guard would find difficult to use all their power to catch me. I can survive. As I stood up. I no longer shivered, and my mind calmed down. I start walking to the nearby station. "Raise your hand, don''t try to do anything funny " a man is aiming his gun towards me. I look. He is policeman in civilian clothes, I have noticed him tracking me before. His eyes seem red and muscle tense. As rain drops drip from his wet hair and dress. Resonance 45% "Would you help me? " I ask. Time stopped again but this time I did not saw his memories. As it was in case of Uncle Billy and students or my guard. Everything returned to normal. He frowns. Still keeping gun aimed at me. " I don'' t care, if you are alien princess or an evil witch. But you owe life of 20 children. Die ¡°he presses the trigger. I can see spark fly. Gas expanding and bullet exiting barrel. It revolves leaving behind trail of smoke. It hit energy shield in front of me, after some time and bounces away. Too weak and too slow. I hit his head with back of palm and his neck snaps, he falls. I carry my bag and walk away. ........ I am moving, here and there fast and slow. Looking for a person with same frequency as me, the person who will become the king. And I got six people with varying amount of resonance from forty to sixty percent. But I need one with hundred percent, full resonance. The more the resonance the more power I can give while commanding. I need to move to other sector and fastest way is airplane. I stop a car as public vehicle would need identification and entire department is looking for me. Even if they lack details of how and why. I command the driver and we are to airport. High security again, but I find the pilot and again use command to ride across the sea. All the way I check the resonance, nothing above 60 percent. ¡°Hello, are you miss Amber?¡± a well-suited person halts me just out of the airport. It was my chosen name before the incidence. So, I am in trouble. I look around for more security which was not there. ¡°I have very important task, so make it quick¡± I just need to go out of crowded exit then I will command him too.This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. ¡°Yes, please follow me.¡± He gives me a reassuring smile and we move to nearby building. Soon Inside I am surrounded by similarly dressed persons as I sit on chair. Resonance 55%,60%.45%,63%, 46% and 54% respectively. ¡°I need help urgently. I would be greatly thankful to you¡± I too smile as I accept water. ¡°Yes, that¡¯s why we are here. We need to ask some questions to reach an understanding. I am.¡± ¡°I command¡± I interrupt him as I put pressure on their mind to accept my order. I see their memories and as it ends the officers who accepted me ends the others. We take the car and leave for the city. I can feel change around me; crimson guards are tracking me and shortly be here. As our car moves through city streets. I feel sudden spike of danger. The officer who is driving, pressed the brakes. Boom! Like hammer striking from heaven something hit the road. Even without direct impact, our car is destroyed. Car aside, the impact of blast has cracked the buildings and roads, around. I quickly cast the energy shield as following shock waves, destroys anything still standing. Luckily, I learned from last attack and used shield. Smoke and rubble are scattered around. As I see around dozen or so enemies of higher level than before, moving towards me. Soon crystal Armor and weapons grew on back of my four guards. They run towards the enemies for clash. I put crystal armour and long sword on myself. I command the movement of my guards for specific movement and attack. I realized it from last fight that uncontrolled command to these noobs is waste of power. Bam... boom...screech ...... They clash, my guard stomped enemy with giant crystal hammer, while other blocks ranged attacks with shield. My two guards used their swords and remaining did ranged attack. Easily my dumb enemies were defeated. But I realized it was only beginning. Human army arrives, with big guns and planes. It only took them around 3 minutes to arrive. While second wave of enemies appeared. My guards are more powerful because I have higher command power. But even they cannot fight forever. I gave them last instruction and run away. ........ I am military officer of sector five. It was all good and peaceful. Alarm rang and I am informed about powerful blast in city centre. When we prepared for search and rescue operation. We get information about giants fighting there with more firepower than mega ton explosives. We take out our long unused war machines and move there in hurry. At reaching site as soon as possible, we are stunned. It seemed like small nuke has gone off here. In large crater at centre. Dozens of Red crystal statues are fighting six blue ones. They cut everything with giant sabres and melted concrete with laser beams. They do not seem to care us, but we must subdue them. "Fire...." Boom! Boom! Boom! The machinegun fire just bounces over his body. He just continues to fight other one. It is useless. I order troops to fall back and set perimeter for other rescuing the civilians. But it is too late. Group of them fighting drift close to troops and vehicle with soldiers is turned to smoke in an instant. Helicopters crash after being hit by their stray beam and flying debris. We retreat and block surrounding. Moving civilians outside. We can only stare from sides as they fight and after few minutes, everything turned to silence. Some of them broke to pieces and others turned to dust leaving behind only destruction. ..... "What was that?" "May be advanced robots or aliens. I do not know but it is related to high school massacre few days ago¡±. " ... " " How have you not caught her yet?'' " She can bewitch people to obey her, so she escaped easily." " I do not care inside J1 sector hunt her down, if she tries to cross the ocean just have her taste of our experimental weapon. No wait, they are quite resilient, so drop a dozen of them at once. " "But United Earth Alliance?" "They were OUR children who died under our EYES. " " We have enough dead samples to care about an evil maniac. " "Understood ..." " Yes sir " Prince who loved her ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.. "Daddy when will you return home? This time I want pink bear, my friend has one. It is beautiful." "Darling, do you remember our first date by lakeside¡±. "I am sorry, we were not able to save life of your wife and child. " "My." "..." "..." ...................................................................................................................................................... I underestimated the memories of these officers; they are more potent than those of teenagers. They are killing me, their memories one after another slashing at my heart. I will become insane. I roll on floor trying to fill vacuum created by these memories. My body is mostly made of crystal, but it hurts a lot, especially when pain comes from within. I lay there for hours, then again, I stand up. I start searching for person with more resonance again. This time changing my appearance. Crimson guards will be here again soon. To save myself and my people, I need to find the king. Now I am hiding my aura tightly because I do not want to clash with dumb crimson guards again. I travel by road and air. I look high and low finding my king. I was able to find two guards with over sixty resonances. I am starting to feel suspicious of everyone; I am startled by every tiny noise. I cannot stop at a place. Now I realized what family and home was, which I have lost. And I will do everything to revive them. Security around sector has increased. Those low-level dumb crimson guards even attacked few places. Last time they were killed like dogs by me. Soon a high-level person would come for me. That would be a tough fight. But only few can come here. I will live and I will win at the end. Crash! And they arrived as I felt the danger. They are somehow able to locate me. I see as buildings collapse around me like deck of cards because of dimensional door opening. I have yet to find sufficient guards. Only high-level crimson guard would have been able to locate me. So, I am pretty much screwed.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it I ready myself as they started to clash with my guards. But soon a crimson royal appears. By heart drops. Why the hell they send a royal here, any lower could have worked. I turn my body and start running in opposite direction. As expected, he fights my guards as equal, while more of lower ones come. I flash past buildings. Soon some low level follows me. They fire at me as I dodge their crystal bullets and beams. We leave a trail of destruction. I commanded anyone in city with any good resonance to stop them. Soon their memories flooded me. I move them aside which is easy because of their low resonance. Numerous blue guards start to rise in sky as they defend me. Number of crimson guard increases and soon city was flooded with crystal beings. I feel weakness and dizziness as I crash into the building at city boundary. I again rise from ground to fly again. Only to see him standing in front me. I am startled, unable to feel any fear and shock or may be sorrow. Zeiss, the young prince of white crystal. Why is even here? I am dead for sure now. I curse my fate. " Hi princess, don''t you want to run away¡±. I close my eyes and lower my head as I ask. " Why are you here? What do you want?" " Relax, I am not here to kill you, I just want to bring you with me." "But our resonance is only seventy percent, you cannot become the king. " ¡°I don''t care. we can run away to another planet¡±. " But I need the king to revive my people, without it everyone will be gone. " " There is no way for you to return, because of your power, everyone wants you dead. Even you dad wanted to use you for his interest. That is why main family of blue crystal did not pay attention to your situation." " So why are you doing this?" I do not want to argue with him, " Because I.... I love you¡±. "But I cannot love you. " In noise of battle at city, we stand in silence. " Do you want to stay close in my heart and live every moment of life with me?" I ask him. " Yes, I want " His eyes seem to look through me. I cannot face his gaze. Crimson guards and royal are coming close to us. " I command ¡°Time stops again. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ Zeiss the white crystal prince. He is free minded and unrestrained. He came to know about azure crystal princess with command of heavens that can control anybody. Everyone fears her. Zeiss wanted to have look by himself due to curiosity. He eventually met with the princess. She was not scary and ugly like he expected but beautiful and cheerful girl. He teased her once and even stalked her around in capital, when her guard Quay was not looking or pretending to not look. But everything was short lived as she left the academy with her small family exiled. He never forgot her. He dreamed of her every night. ........................................................................................................................................................ Zeiss turns his head to face the crimson guards and royal. But Zeiss walked toward them with smile on his face. He is like crazy lover whose proposal got accepted and wanted to pluck flower for her. Knowing that he will not return. He activated his Armor and big sword. I see him going with tears in my eyes. Resonance 78 percent. Resonance 85 percent. I do not notice the increase. As I turn my head and again started to flee. I left him alone. ........ I shiver as his memories come, feeling heart breaking pain. No... why is this happening to me? Why I cry remembering him? Brave princess It has been over few days of hiding now. I no longer travel around to look for my king. I fear becoming close to someone, only to lose them later. I have been hiding my aura and reliving his memory again and again. Exchanging memories makes people very close, a part of one another. I am tired of it. I cannot bear it any longer. It must be fate of my people and me to get erased forever. I cannot run forever. I too can sleep like my people forever. They would need another royal to find me again. But I want to take fight to them instead of hiding and running. I determine and move out, revealing my aura, on middle of wide ocean. I will fight by myself. The power runs through me as crystal Armor grows with fine weapons. This time I put all energy inside myself. They will regret this. Soon I can see, multiple portals opening around me. Big crystal mountains protrude out of ocean surface. Hundreds of crystal guards stand upon them. But this time I will not run.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel. I raise my big crystal sword. Lightening starts flowing through it and fight starts. With wide sweep I cut at mountain. The energy released destroys a part of mountain with dozens of crimson guards. Boom! Others close in on me. I make shock wave around me, and they are repelled. Earth shakes, dark clouds cover the sky with winds and big waves are formed as battle continues. Some crimson guards die and more of them come. They are no danger to me. But I am getting tired. And then a small portal opens and dozen royals come from it into the battlefield. Minor crimson guards move out to block any path of my running. I am not running anyway. They grow Armor and weapon too. Just few seconds of staring between us. Thump.... With continuous sonic booms we meet at centre. Crash....... Sea, air, clouds and even crystal mountains are blown out with our impact. In fraction of second, hundreds of blows are exchanged. Few of them explode in shreds. I too am slightly injured. I raise my sword for last attack with all my left energy. Before sword could fall. They attacked once again. But my sword even appearing slow falls on them first like giant wave. Boom!...... Even bigger explosion than before happens. Even faster and stronger. Brightness overpowers the surrounding. I killed everyone. But badly hurt by backlash. My body full of cracks stands alone in sky. But crimson guards which were away again approach me. They ready their weapon. I am tired but I still lift my sword. I raise my head, remembered my family, my people and the ones who shared life with me. I roar with my anger, frustration and helplessness. My roar echoes everywhere. Then I saw a flash. A tiny flash falling from sky with few others behind it. Light and heat covers me. I close my eyes and go to last sleep. Happy ever after ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ "You will be ultimate ruler of planet. " "Stop doing that. You awakened her powers and now we are exiled. Your ambitions would have us killed¡±. "They do not know but my daughter would rule them all, it is her fate. " " Have you forgot, there would be punishment. From thousands of years no one dared to awaken heaven talent¡±. "Listen my lovely daughter, you would be the one to free us all¡±. I nod my head to father. Because I would be the queen, for my father, my mother, my friends and all my people. ...................................................................................................................................................... I open my eyes to find myself at shore of sea. It seemed some a remote island. I stand up and walk towards its centre. A person is coming towards me carrying a box. Resonance 75% I sigh and shake my head. He stops after seeing me. He looked quite shocked. " Are you fine? I saw you by the shore, so I was bringing first aid." I nod my head and start following the trail he used. He followed behind me as amazed he was. I need clothes to hide cracked crystal body as I am no longer in human form. Soon I see a cabin, entering it, I drape the sheet over myself. As I look back. His face is red with creepy smile. Now I know why he is alone on island. "Sorry, I was just shocked and did not think about it." He tries to not meet my eyes. " My name is ...Spark, what is yours?" he asks.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "Amber " as I reply, he looks so happy knowing my name. Meanwhile I pick some clothes start to wear them. Why has he not asked about me a crystal alien? I wondered but not wanting to start deciding to keep quit. I returned to see him still holding first aid box. "Do you need anything? Only I can help you as only I live here." " Military used some experimental weapon and sea is all rough. No plane or ship will be here in week " He continues as if it is related to me. I nod my head, looking around the house. I sit beside flowers, looking at black clods hovering above with rapid winds. ................ It is morning and I deny need for breakfast. It is not necessary for me to eat. I do not need to sleep too. But I still went to sleep until noon. Maybe I feel free here or humans beat me too badly. I do nothing. I just sit there outside. I look as he goes to do all his work. As he takes care of plants and machines. As he read books. How skilfully he did all that. It has its own charm. He sneakily tries to use radio unsuccessfully every few hours. I ignore him and take a book to look busy and non-threatening. Just random love story. I feel silly for even doing it. Like that in meaningless way, few days went past. "Do you know? What love is? " I ask him. " No, I never fell in love with anyone, but I think it would be amazing¡±. He replies. " I wanted to find my love. But I never found the person who loved me¡±. My tone grew heavy. " Why? " He asked after long silence. " Because I never realized that I to have to love him back. Only then he would become one for me as I for him." I look at him again. Resonance 92 % "Would you help me if I request?" " Yeah, but it depends. " He replies. "Ok " I held his hand and then time stopped. I saw him living without parents. Living a happy carefree yet hardworking life. " I will help people." He became a teacher and researcher, he went on field trip to remote islands of pacific. There on one day. He heard the earth-shaking noise. As high waves rose in sea. And he found a beautiful girl, strange but lovely cracked glass girl who sobbed in sleep and lived without food and water. Time moves again. We hugged each other trying to melt in warmth of other. "I will be your king " crystal layer started to grow on him as resonance reached hundred percent. All my collected memories of people I ever commanded satisfied and calmly moved to him as a seed to be planted again. He will be able to revive my people again too. They would no longer vanish from existence. "I will make your people live again. Come I will protect you¡±. Boom crack.... "Nonoo......" ................... Assassination successful. Waiting for days has finally paid off. My strike hit the king in his back. His chest and half of his brain is gone. Princess sits there holding his half-torn body in her arm. Blood and flesh covered her. Her eyes wide open. Shaking hands and stammering words. She tries to gently put his organs back. Her power heal his body, but the newly transformed organs crumble again and again. As she keeps repeating " you cannot die " again and again. I see her collapse at end. We won the princess cannot return with king, no one will enslave the crystal race.