THE TIME TRAVELLER

EPISODE TWO, A CRUSHING FATE.

As you may know, I have an IQ of 370 and I fluently speak 30 languages including Russian, Espanol, a little Greek, Latin, English, simplified and traditional Chinese, mandarin, and so many others. And you should also know that when I travel for 13years and six months, I grow a year older. I was then travelling through time when my time machine started malfunctioning and was uncontrollably speeding to an unknown time and place, to a giant rock on a mountain. I tried to push some buttons, I tried to restart it, but still, there was no solution. The chances of surviving were about 83% because the ship can’t explode, it had air bag, with a solid glass that can’t be broken. So I said a prayer and I closed my eyes. ‘BOOM’, I survived. I came out of the time machine and I was stranded. I looked from above the mountain and I saw some huts. I covered my ship with some grasses in a way it couldn’t be seen. I walked down the mountain, and I saw some men who seemed to be speaking Greek which I understood only little of it. “Deo boethias” I shouted “please Deo boethias” (help me). It seemed like I drew every body’s attention. The women and children ran into their homes and the men gathered some sticks, stones and spears. One man came towards me without any weapons, while the others were behind him, watching to see if I meant any harm. I said; “I mean no harm please”. “poios eísai” (who are you)? they said, “I’m victor and I speak English”. The Hellenes took me to their king and knelt me down close to his throne bending my head against his feet so I could not see his face. Their king was a man who could speak the older version of English. “ye look not like one from this kingdom nor this generation, from which descendants are you?” he asked. I replied saying; “long live the king, may you be strengthened to rule the lands here and across the seas and above all other kings and nations, may your descendants rule forever, may your people never depart from your ways, may you conquer all of your enemies. my name is victor, son of Emmanuel. I truly cometh not from your kingdom nor from this generation. Spare my life oh mighty king for I am just but a mere traveller who crashed into your beautiful kingdom” I bowed and faked my tears. He laughed and said to his slaves; “take him inside, take off his modern clothes and show him the way of our tradition, treat him well. Summon the best builders to help build his um.... what is it called, um…? Mm…. (trying to remember) uh, machines yes, his machines. This may be the work of our gods”. As I was taken to the king’s visitor’s room I asked the guard, “ti chroniá eínai aftí (what year is this)” he replied, “aftó eínai enniakósia exínta p.CH (this is 960 BCE)”. (Okay they didn’t actually call it “B.C.E” but still, let’s just use that for now). He took me shaved my beards, fed me and dressed me like a gladiator. Then he took me to the king and said; “great king, the ruler of all the nation, I have done as you asked me to.” And said to me “sayeth the great king, I have summoned all the wise men of my kingdom, from seas to seas, from kingdoms to kingdoms, from prophets to prophets and all of them seem to believe that you are a deceiver, some call you the fabricator from the pit of hell. I have asked for the kingdom’s opinion on what to do with you and they all agreed on entertainment. So Prepare, for ye shall embark on a journey. There’s a great gladiator, Lidnus from Ephesus which you shall fight to the death, if you come out victorious we shall give you our ladies, we shall help with your machine and spare your life.” So I was taken in a chariot for days until I reached Ephesus. forty days since the journey began. Finally, we are here in the land of the Ephesus to fight a “great giant warrior called Lidnus”. I came down from the chariot and saw some guards waiting for me just outside the chariot. as I slowly stepped down, the masses gathered to look at me “the great warrior from the future who has come to defeat their almighty Lidnus”. They took me to their palace where the king was with Lidnus and said “our lord, here is the so called great gladiator who is said to have been sent from the later days to kill our mighty warrior” Lidnus chuckled “this?” he said “this insect is what has been sent from the later days to stop me? even the Israelis couldn’t defeat me as a nation. but the Greek gods sent you? Ha-ha very funny.” I replied, “I wasn’t sent by any of your gods or any god. My ship crashed into your time and now I’m going to do anything it takes to survive this.” “Calm down every body” the king intervened “calm down. You are soon going to get the chance kill yourself but for now let us learn the rules ha, no rules. Use any weapon you have, for I am thrilled”. Lidnus was given armors and shield, a sword and a spear, he was heavily prepared while I took off my armors, threw away my shield and sword, dressed like a common man and then I took my small pistol to the field. They all laughed “such fool, does he want to stone our greatest warrior with that black metallic object?” they said. Lidnus came into the field while he was being cheered by the crowd “LIDNUS, LIDNUS” they said when he rushed charging in against me he rose up his spear, preparing to throw it at me but ‘bang’, the champ is down. They couldn’t see what was happening, all they could see was their down with his face against the ground and endless blood rushing out of his head. “he is not moving; our great warrior is not moving” they lamented. “Is this your great war lord Lidnus? I killed him in a twinkle of an eye. Now listen to me oh ye Helens. You shall bring me your most able and wise men for the king hath commanded. They shall help me go back to the future from whence I came and you shall give me your best wines and food whilst I wait” I proudly said. They took me back to the king’s palace and treated me well with the best women and food. And for that night, I was celebrated. the king grew weary that I may steal his people from him and overthrow him as the reigning king, so he summoned me and said to me “you have had your stay here and it is time for you to go back to the future where you once were. Against all odds, you have killed our greatest warrior and now, you’re sleeping with our most beautiful women. For we do not want any trouble from you, we shall help you fix your time property as promised”. Days passed and my time machine had been finally fixed. I went into the city to say a good bye to all of the citizens and just as I was about to depart, a Levite from Israel approached me and said “thus sayeth the lord God of heaven and of earth; for when a place is black and without form, only then shall it be declared darkness. But when a light shine upon it, shall it be seen that it was once dark? It can be spoken but never can it be proven” Then he left. I didn’t really understand him, so I ignored and left for the future back to the 2000s. at last, 2024, where it all began. I landed my machine somewhere around my childhood street. It was around 8:00pm as I walked past a quiet the street when I saw a time machine. And behold, it landed on a field immediately after my house. Marveled and surprised as I gazed, there was a sixteen-year old boy running towards the machine. “I remember this day ninety years ago. I exist in the same day which I left? What Is wrong” I thought to myself as I walked towards my nemesis while he was pointing the gun at the young me. This time around, I shot his leg from behind and asked him “Marcus, what did you do to me? Why don’t I exist in any other time?” as I tortured him by continuously stabbing him on his thigh in the presence of my childhood self then I stopped “run home” I said to him as he ran towards my childhood home, “so this is it, a time where I never ran away from home because to guilt”. Then I continued to torture him “please stop” he cried out. “tell me or I’ll torture you by breaking your fingers and stabbing you for the rest of your life and when I kill you, you shall not rest. You shall go to hell and suffer for the rest of eternity”. “I have killed you forty times.” He said “after smashing your head with the tank, it didn’t feel enough. I went on to killing you in every year. After killing the seventeen-year old you, I went further on to kill you and behold, a twenty-three-year-old you miraculously appeared with no time machine to stop me. Ha-ha, I should had confirmed before coming to this year”. Shot him in the face as I said “I’m not twenty-three, I am one hundred and six years old”. I set his time machine ablaze with him inside of it. Then I left for 2033 to see myself as a person who grew up in a normal life. But this time around, something was different. I was not a cyber security analyst nor a hacker nor a worker for any secret agent but I was a fashion designer. I approached as I admired his work. Shocked and afraid, he asked “what? Am I dead, am I in hell or Maybe I’m sick in the head. This is not me, it’s just someone who looks like me”. I tried to calm him down and after a while of panic, he stopped and said “are you my past?”. I replied “no, I’ve lived five times your age. don’t you remember me? When you were sixteen someone tried to kill you and I saved you”. “me?” he said “no one tried to kill me when I was sixteen, no one saved me. I was working at a restaurant in town so I slept there till I turned seventeen”. Muddled and tired, I left him and travelled back to when I was sixteen to see if I truly worked in a restaurant as I had no memory of that.