Destiny

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Isabella and Adam ate breakfast together in Isabella’s room. Isabella then took Adam to Zangar’s room she hugged his father said, ‘good morning.”  ‘Good morning,’ he replied.

  ‘Father,’ Isabella called Zangar and said, ‘can we go to the place where I always asked you to go.’ ‘No,’ he replied. ‘Please, let me go. You promised me you will let me go after my birthday,’ Isabella requested her father. Zangar thought a little and then asked her, ‘who is going with you?’ ‘I, my friends, and Adam are going and we will go on my new spaceship,’ she replied. ‘You can go but you will go to the place where they are less in numbers,’ Zangar said smiling to her daughter. She hugged him again and said, ‘thank you, Dad.’  Zangar accosted Adam, ‘take care of my daughter.’

     They went to her new spaceship and were waiting for Isabella’s friend. Adam asked her, ‘where are they going and why her father was so worried about going to that place. ‘We are going to the hunting grounds. It is a planet full of wild beasts and warriors from all over the galaxy go there to hunt them but few come back alive.’ She replied. Adam was about to say something but Isabella’s friends arrived and she went to them.

  They all settled inside the spaceship and were ready to go to their destination. All the girls were excited but Adam was worried.

    Zangar told them to go to the side where they are less in numbers but Isabella ignored his advice and landed in the area where the beasts were high in numbers.

   They came out of the spaceship. It was a jungle. They were total six in numbers and each was holding a g*n in their hands.

   Isabella told everyone to gather around and said, ‘These wild animals don’t attack suddenly. They stalk their prey and then attack them. You cannot know they are near you until they attack. They are very stealthy. We have to wait until they attack and when they attack they all attack together. Don’t run just use your gun.’ Everyone nodded and started walking into the jungle.

    Adam was behind them keeping his eyes on every moment around them. They went deep in the jungle away from the ship. After some time Adam said stopping them, ‘we have very far from the ship and I think we should get back now. If anything happens we should be near our spaceship so we can get out easily.’ Isabella agreed with him and they turned back.

   They were walking back to the ship when Adam heard some voices and soon those voices became louder and louder. Isabella shouted, ‘they are going to attack now.’ Adam told them to make a circle and keep moving.

   They made a circle with their backs at each other. They were moving towards the ship when an animal came running towards Adam. It had four legs and two hands. Its body was covered with hairs. He resembled a gorilla. He jumped from the tree and came running towards Adam. Adam fired at him and hit him in the head. 

   They started coming from everywhere. Isabella and her friends also started firing at them. They were a lot in numbers. They kept coming and coming. They were almost near the ship but the attack stopped them from moving. One of Isabella’s friends got scared and started running towards the ship. An animal grabbed her from her shoulder and another one grabbed her from her leg and they pulled her apart, others also came and started eating her.

   All the girls except Isabella got scared and started shouting. Adam looked behind and an animal came close to him and snatched his weapon. Adam lost his g*n he pulled out a dagger and started fighting with it. Animals were coming closer and closer and Adam was worried about Isabella and her friends. He was holding the dagger in his right hand and fighting with it. His dagger gets stuck in one of the animal's head and others attacked him. He got buried in the beasts.

  They were biting him but their teeth were not able to penetrate his skin. He screamed with anger and punched a beast. He was screaming with anger and when he punched the animal an energy blast came out of his hand and the animal and everything else in front of him got blasted into pieces. Adam was surprised to see it. Adam went near Isabella and killed all the monsters in front of her. He killed all the monsters there and started moving to the spaceship. They all went to the spaceship and settled inside.

  Isabella started the spaceship and it started rising from the ground. They were up in the air very high. Isabella hovered the ship in the air and came to the door of the spaceship. She opened it and looked down. Adam and her friends also came to her.

  A beast that was hiding inside the ship came out and ran towards them. They were unaware of his existence on the spaceship. He attacked them. Isabella was standing near the door. The monster jumped over her and both fell outside. Adam without thinking anything jumped from the spaceship. He killed the animal with his energy blast. Isabella was screaming. They were very high above the ground. Adam closed his hands like a diving eagle and grabbed her in the air. They were falling to the ground very fast. Adam told Isabella to her eyes. Isabella closed her eyes immediately. She stopped screaming when she came in his arms. Adam looked down and closed his eyes.

  He had his eyes closed for a very long time. He thought why they haven’t reached the ground yet. He opened his eyes and saw himself. He was levitating in the air. He shouted with joy. He said to Isabella, ‘open your eyes, Isabella. We are not going to die. See, I can fly.’ He screamed again with joy. Isabella opened her eyes and looked down. They were levitating in the air. Isabella also howled with excitement. Then they started rising.

    Adam started flying straight up to the spaceship. Adam was surprised by his abilities. He took her inside the ship. Her friends hugged her and were very excited.

  Adam sat on his seat he was surprised by his abilities. Adam was thinking about what else there is he can do. He thought to himself who he was and what happened to him. He got sad. Isabella came to Adam and asked, ‘why you are upset? What happened?’ ‘I was not able to save you friend that why I am upset,’ said Adam. He lied to her. He didn’t know why he was lying to her.

  They all got sad. Isabella said to him, ‘it is not your fault. Don’t blame yourself.’ She went to her seat and sat on it. She looked at Adam and started flying back towards her home planet.

   No one was talking on the way back. They were all sad for the loss but Adam was thinking about other things. He wanted to know about his past.

   They reached the palace and got out of the ship. They went inside. Zangar was waiting for them in the big hall. He saw his daughter and came near her. He saw their faces and asked her daughter, ‘why you all are sad? What happened?’ Isabella didn’t say anything. She hugged her father tightly. Zangar looked around and he was not able to see her friend Sonia. He placed his hand on her shoulders and inquired, ‘you fought with Sonia? Why isn’t she here?’

   Isabella looked at her father. She was crying her other friend was crying too. Zangar again asked her, ‘what happened?’ ‘Sonia died father. I lost my friend just because of my stupid wish. She didn’t want to go but she went with us just to make me happy and she died.’ Isabella said and hugged her father again.

  He places his hand on her head and said, ‘don’t cry. It is not your fault.’ She kept crying on her father’s shoulder. After some time she stopped crying and her friends took her to her room.

    Zangar asked Adam about what happened there. Adam told him each and everything. How they got there and how he blasted the animals and save Isabella in the air. Zangar listened to him and told him to go and rest.

   Adam went to his room. He sat on the bed thinking about his past life. He hasn’t thought about his past that much after he met Isabella but today’s incident again made him think about his past. He was thinking where did he come from?  He thought he might have a family. He was thinking about a lot of things and suddenly the thought of Sara the lady he saw in his dream came to his mind. He thought it is related to his past and she might be his wife. Adam was thinking about going back to his home but for that, he had to find out where he came from.

    He thought something and got off of his bed and came out of his room. He was now headed to Isabella’s room.