The dirty Rain

SORROWFUL MOTIVATION

Professor Bast has been in his office laboratory as early as 5am. His eyes looks weary from the lack of sleep as he bent over the laboratory table, writing down notes from his current research work. Like a determined hunter willing to catch his prey, he has been so consistent in his private research work that many of his colleagues and students alike sees him as an eccentric. Most time, he will arrived very early in the morning, thus his colleagues coming at normal resumption time will always meet his office windows opened. Likewise, while they will be closing after day work, they will see his office light on.

This particular day, his eyes were red due to lack of sleep, yet the enthusiasm with which he was busy doing his work was so contagious that one will wonder what on earth is fuelling his passion. On his tables were assay kits been used for testing and lines of laboratory test tubes that contains the samples been tested. His hands were moving to and fro as he was making frantic efforts to complete the task before he proceeds to the lecture room for the early morning lecture schedule with his students.

The clock on the wall says 6:30 am, that is about two hours to go before the class governor come knocking his door to notify him that its time for the lectures. Although, he takes to time however most time due to his bee busy attitude, the class governor and his colleagues alike would have to come remind him about the lectures or meetings. Everyone is used to that when it comes to Professor Bast!

As he was getting closer to take samples from the last row of test tubes from the remaining group of the sample been tested, he seems more fatigue as he stretched and sat up from the lab work bench, stretched his backs by putting both hands by the side. He dropped the pen on his laboratory note book then walked toward the tap to get some water to splash his face.

On reaching the left side where the tap was located. He has a special water purification system directly attached to the mouth of the tap through a hose. Thus whenever he turns on the tap, the water will first flows through a hose firmly fitted into the mouth of the tap; The hose in turn lead to a small plastic tank of about Fifteen l****s capable with special micro filter fitted at the mouth capable of filtering elements residue from the water source. From the plastic tank, the water Inturn flows through another hose into a de-ionising apparatus that will remove any residual ions from the water before it finally lead to another fifteen l****s plastic tank where he would take the water for drinking. With this, no amount of impurities can get into his drinking water.

Every day, he would take the sample of the impurities that were filtered for testing to ascertain the level and type of impurities present in the water. As he turned on the tap, numerous two - tailed elements from the city water supply that were already eagerly waiting at the mouth of the tap rushed through the hose and made their triumphant dances through the hose to the mouth of the first plastic tank but surprisingly on reaching the mouth of the plastic tank they got stopped by the micro filters firmly attached to the mouth of the tank!

Been caught up with unpleasant surprises, the elements activated the evading charges on their two tails by bonding with other family - like but less monstrous looking elements present on the water. After successful binding, the two-tailed monsters made fresh attempt to penetrate the tiny holes of the micro filter with full force and after much struggles and manipulation the filter refused to give way.

Prof Bast larger - than life intuition made him to notice some strange activities going on at the mouth of the tank, dipped his hands into the pocket of his laboratory overall and brought out a strange looking glass that resembles a reading glass save for some tiny buttons attached to the rim of the glasses.

He quickly removed his reading glasses from his eyes and attach this other glass on his eyes which surprisingly hanged on to his face without anything holding it. He pressed a button on the left side rim of the glasses, the button made some sounds as the faces of the glasses flashed some light for few seconds, the whole activities going on in the water that was initially unseen to an ordinarily eyes become crystal clear.

Prof Bast Edge closer to observed the activities going on at the mouth of the tank on seeing the two-tailed elements "It is these monstrous mother fucker, I caught yah" he cursed under his breath with a triumphant smile on his face.

The two tailed elements made another frantic attempt to breach the wall of the filter however the force with which the moved soon wreaking the bonding with other elements in the water and they started breaking off and were floating harmlessly in the water. Apparently noticing the defeats, Prof Bast turned off the tap, as the water flows from the tap stopped, the two - tailed element dropped on the surface of the hose and got stuck inside.

Prof Bast carefully removed the hose from the tap, bending it up to ensure the trapped elements would not moved down, then carefully detached the other end from the micro filter. He raised and bend the hose as he moved carefully. He took a beaker and released the monsters into it, he used another beaker to get some water from the tap pour into the hose, shook it and released the remaining elements that were stuck into the beaker.

His eyes caught the elements as they sank to bottom of the beakers in defeat.

"how do you little monsters got into the water supply again? " he thought inquisitively

"I thought you badass are not much here in this area in large amounts? I have been spending years to defeat you and here we are again!" he said further talking to himself

He kept staring at the captured element in the beaker as his expression gradually changed from victorious to a sad one. The sad thoughts that came through his mind seems to drain the energy from his body as he walked toward his office seat few feet from where he was standing and sat down heavily on it.

He took the strange looking glasses from his face placed it on the table and rested his head on the chair headrest. He face looked more troubled as he took a deep breath, his mind wander off to 30 years back when he was a Postgraduate students in a top university in the country. Everything was rosy been studying with a fully funded scholarship, he was doing fantastically well in his studies and was romantically involved with the girl of his dreams who lived in Newringa where she was running one of the fastest moving grocery stores in the city.

His plans was to get married to the love of his life immediately after his postgraduate studies but his dreams was shattered when the lady was diagnosed with a strange disease that defiled all know medical procedures. She died two years after. Prof Bast looked towards his office window which was opened to the direction of Newringa city located just few miles from the site of the University where he currently lectured.

"There she was buried taking part of my life with her" he muttered in a barely audible but sad voice.

Been motivated to unravel the cause of her death and find a way to help those who might find themselves in such ugly situation, he had dedicated his entire career of research work to it.

He got up from the seat, walked toward the laboratory bench where the beaker that contained the captured elements was located

"I know it you these monsters that took Clara away from me, I will keep working on you until am absolutely certain that you will not hurt anyone again" he said in a rather angry voice as he took some aluminium foil papers from nearby drawer, tear some portion off, used it to tightly covered the beaker and put it inside the laboratory cabinet.

He turned to look at the wall clock which says "7:30am." Oh! I still have sixty minutes to complete this" apparently referring to the work he was doing. As he sat down on the laboratory stool to continue his work, sound of horn coming from the cars of the University staffs could be heard from the parking spaces some blocks from his office as they arrived for the day work.