Alpha Centauri - part I

It was already morning… they slept all night in each others arms… the sun crept through the window and shed light on their happy faces… they did not wake up yet but the sun will make the wake up in moments.

He woke up first and went to prepare some breakfast and than head to the garden to wait for her. The weather was beautiful, a clear blue sky and no trace of clouds.

She finally woke up and head for the garden wearing nothing but a transparent shirt revealing her beauty in the sun light. The sun had not evaporated the morning dew yet so the wet grass at her feet gave her pleasure. She sat down on the grass and asked for something to eat smelling already the breakfast he made for them. While he was getting the food she let herself in the wet grass, her shirt getting wet with the dew.

She loved it, being wet by the morning dew, waiting for him in the grass. He came, let the tray with the breakfast near her and started admiring the landscape, feeling that something is wrong in that landscape. He turned toward her and they started eating their breakfast, laughing and playing with one another.

The landscape changed, and he could feel it… he turned her face from her and he seen that the mountain that was previously on his right now has disappeared, and that part of the sky was turning bloody red. Upon turning his head back to her he saw the grass changing color from green to bright blue.

“Something is wrong” he said to himself… and moments later she disappeared leaving a gray grid in the place she was staying. He started feeling trapped in some kind of experiment, one in which somebody was playing with his mind.

He did not have the time to realize but all the landscape disappeared, even the breakfast he cooked leaving him behind in a room with a gray grid on the walls not larger than 10 by 10 meters. Upon looking around this ‘room’ his eyes stumbled upon a strange looking door that should not have been there. He realized that the door was his only way out he walked to it and could not see any handle or knob he could turn to open the door.

Getting closer to the door it opened revealing behind that door a hallway, being the only way to go… the second he tried to take a step outside his mind started racing bringing out some memories that he never knew they were there. He remembered himself in a uniform, a black one with no insignia. The memory faded as fast as it appeared leaving him with a bad taste in his mouth.

He walked into the hallway and the walls started flashing an arrow. He realized that there was no other way and being faced with the choice between the room and the hallway following the arrow.

As he started down the hallway he did not see any other doors but being too weakened he did not actually cared, so he kept following the arrows.

Few steps later his mind brought to the surface another image… a dark field, filled with bodies, only himself and some others were standing… all in dark uniforms with no insignia. One of the others approached and told him “There is no one alive, Alpha”. His mind refused to play back more of that memory leaving him in the hallway without power to go on but he struggled and kept on walking.

He couldn’t see any bends in the hallway, no doors… as he was moving through a long and strait hallway. In the distance he saw an open door, the arrows on the wall pointing towards it. He kept walking to that door, slower and slower now, hanging on the walls because his feet could not keep him up any longer.

He had two more steps to the door when his mind decided to play another trick on him… bringing up another picture… with him in the middle of a city, with a frightened boy by his side and many minds to fight… same black uniform… This memory made him collapse to the floor, two feet away from the door. With his last strength me managed to drag his body towards the door and enter… on the other side there was a plain room, with only a bed, a monitor and a light shining from the ceiling. He dragged his body in the bed and collapsed… getting into a deep trance like sleep.