Chapter Two

The war was cold and dim. I could barely see anything, only darkness. All I can hear are the screams, the screams of the people ingredients, the people dying. Humans and Gloops I have one mission, that's to stop the war at any cast.

     Then a sharp pain in my left shoulder, I've been shot with a heat bullet, I'm strongly to stand. All I can think of is, if I do this, I die and kill hundreds of people, if I don't, either way I will never see my family again. I slapped my hand on the bottom so hard it stings. 

     Another sharp pain, but this time in my back. I hear the sirens that indicate the explosion will go off soon. I can't walk.

     I see my a microphone on the panel. I slap my hand on the button that will allow me to speak through it and yell "RUN, RUN, GET OUT OF HERE!" Another pain. I fall, now everything sounds blurry like my head's under water.

     I know Galaxy is listening to my thoughts. So I say in my head, "tell your mother I never wanted to leave this way, and don't forget, that I will always love you two. Don't think of me as a murder of thousands." 

     Lights out… 

     That's the dream I have every single night, but it's more than a dream. Thats my father's thoughts before he died. Ever since I was eight years old, that has been the only dream I have had for ten years.

     My father was on earth.

     Only guards and the royal family should be able to read people's minds when there that far away, but I'm different because of my stone, but also I can read anyone's mind if they let me, or I force my way in there mind. I can read any Gloops mind in the entire universe. 

     My bracelet is just above my knee. But the color of the stone is green. My mother and father were so scared. They gave me a gold ring, with a white stone. The ring means, government, the white stone means, make laws! or should I say write down the laws the Queen wants made. That's what my mother does anyway, so it would make sense.

     I grow up on plant gloop, as you know my name is Galaxy, Galaxy El. My parents made me wear a ring so no one will find out that I have a green stone. No one can see my stone because I cover it with clothes, so I never wear shorts. If I wear shorts people would be able to see my bracelet and the green stone.

     I was also home schooled, because of my stone. On earth you have schools, so do we, but we don't learn the things you think. When little, our parents teach us how to morph, right. Then you learn the laws, our history; the past wars, the past kings and queens and what they did to help us. We mostly focus on those types of things, we have a lot of laws and the Gloops history is long.

     About school, my mother was the only person who could homeschool kids because she knows everything. She knows all the laws, she knows most of the past, she know the basic things every Gloop needs to know. 

     There was only one time that I had to go to school. That's the year the Gloopins declared war on Earth. You know why.

     That's when I was eight years old. I was in school the day I heard my thoughts before he died. My mother called it a mental breakdown, so that's another excuse for not going to school.

     Until now. I have to go to school for my last year because that's when you learn more about your job. There's around fifteen to sixteen people in each category. The ones who are going to work for the government, need to relearn the laws, and understand the punishments if broken. The ones that go off the planet to get supply for us, need to learn to pack, and need to learn how to drive SFT's. 

    SFT stands for Smart Fast Travel, it's a vehicle that people can drive or program to get to other planets.

     Now that I'm going to school I have to be very careful with what I think, because anyone and everyone will try to pry their way into your brain. It doesn't matter who you are. They will give you a headache so bad, they could crush your brain to the point you don't have one anymore.

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     "Galaxy, your going to be late!" That's my mother, she's always worried that if one thing is out of place, someone will find out that my stone is green. She always reminds me "if you don't stay in check they'll find you and kill you." She thinks that still scares me, I stopped being scared of that when I was ten. But, I've been keeping my mind in check. The only thing I think about any more is what's it like working for the government, especially since I'll be walking in the footsteps of my mother.

     The year is almost over, because next week is when I get to work for the government.

     "I'm almost done, I need to put my face on." I say shouting down the stairs. What I mean by "I need to put my face on" is to morph.

     I walk to my mirror in the corner of my room. When I look in the mirror, I see a human, with short glossy pink hair and silky smooth bright pink skin.

     I close my eyes, and think of what I want to look like. Then I feel the layers of my body move. I only hear the soft sound of the rivers waves hitting the rocks.

     A minute or two later, I opened my eyes. Now what I see in the mirror is human girl. She looks seventeen or eighteen. She has shiny long hair, like a black river that ends right before her spine does. Eyes like pools of earth's oceans. The girl is a little short for her age, though.

     I pulled my hair back into a braid and put some glasses on. I put on, a gray tank top, with a black sweater. Then I look at my bracelet on my leg, I touch the bright green stone, then I pull my light blue jeans over it.

     "Get down here, you need to get some water in you before you go!" My mother still yelling up the stars. I graded my bag for school and start down the stairs.

     When I'm down stairs, I pick up my water bottle and filled it up with ice water. I drink some of the water, and I feel it being absorbed when it goes down my throat. 

     When I look at my mother I see the chocolate brown hair, that my father saw before he left. I picture them standing next to each other. They never looked like had anything in common, but they did.

     My mother said the first time she saw him was right before a meeting with the Queen. She fell and dropped her papers, and my father helped her pick them up. Then he asked her on a bate two weeks later, my mother would say "it took you long enough."

     Then my mother hugs me "I can't believe it's only been eighteen years since you were just a small little glob." She's sad because after today I'll be working for most of my life, in my new job.

     "I know, you've been telling me that for the past month." I say "I have to go or I'll be late" I can't bear to be around my mother, because she has never been happy after he was gone, I mean was happy, but she was different. Maybe because we spent little time with him. 

     I walked to the door and open it. I look back and wave.

     When I close the door behind me I take a breath, then smile. 

     As I walk down the roads of the city I see people walking with smiles, young and old. I see a little girl playing with her toys and some boys not far playing tag. Sometimes I wish I was that little agen. When I was little I used to play around with rocks and sticks, trying to make little building or trying to make smaller models of the ones already built. I was a creative child.

     I didn't have many friends because I was in side most of the day learning the things I should have if I was in school. 

     As I'm walking I wondered what it would be like if my father was still here. I bet I'd spend more time with him. My mother would look so much happier.

     When I see the school I start thinking of the tests I have this week. Thinking of the ones I know I'm going to fail and the ones I'm going to pass. 

     The thing is if I don't pass they'll question me, because my stone is white and on my finger. If I fail they have no use for me on this planet, so they either get rid of me or they give me an easy job that's not meant for me.

     Before I could even realize the bell rings. 

     Oh! I'm late!

     I run to my class right before the teacher closes the door, I slip in. "Sorry Mr.Fing, I'm a little late."

     "You always are, sit down." Mrs.Fing has a look on his face, the look he has every morning, but at the same time something is different."know open to page two hundred and seventy six."

     After my world history class, I go to English, then math, then home care class, and last but not least my law by law class. Mrs.Fing also teacher this class.

     "Everyone please sit down. Today we're going to have a class discussion" Mrs.Fing looks worried, almost scared. "There has been a rumor going around that someone here at this school, has a green stone. Can someone tell me what the punishment is, if you have a green stone and are hiding it from the authorities?"

     Then I freeze. I can't even feel any part of my body. Before I know it, my mind is blocked from everyone in the universe. Someone in the back answers the question, I'm not sure if they said the right answer.

     I hear my name, but I can't respond. I freeze whenever someone talks about green stones. It scares me to death, unless it's my mother who talks about it.

     "Galaxy, can you join the class in the discussion." I look at him, unsure if he had asked me a question. "Galaxy what is the punishment if someone has a green stone and is hiding it from the authorities."

     The person must have had the wrong answer, "if you have a green stone know matter what bracelet you have you will have the punishment of death along with anyone who knows about it, and has said nothing about, unless they just found out." I know this answer by heart, I know it by heart since I was five.

     Mrs.Fing nads his head and said "I started to think you don't pay attention in class anymore". I just smile hopefully he didn't see though the smile. Mrs.Fing just moves to the next topic. 

     The rest of that class was a blur. Except for the fact the Mrs.Fing didn't ask me to answer another question, that day. 

     When the bell rings everyone decides to go home to hang out with friends and do all those things, but me, I decided in a forest. 

     This forest is not meant for Gloops to go to, mostly because all the other animals live here. Also because this is really close to the castle where the Queen lives, and her son.

     I go in the forest and sit on a root of a tree, polling my water bottle out of my bag. The root sick's out of the ground the slide back in. It ended up making a brig looking thing.

     I never talked about the queen's son before, mostly because I've never seen him. I've never met the queen but I've seen her. He's most likely learning to be a king and always do what his mother would have done.All I know is I'd be a much better Queen then her.

     The Queen has been here since my grandmother was a kid. She, the Queen finally decided to have a kid, around the time I was in my mother's stomach.

      Every day I come to this stop, and think. I wonder what it would have been if the queen never sent my father out there. Maybe we'd be at home planning to surprise my mother.

     My mother comes home late some days, too tired to do anything. So we used to clean the house.

     I decided to climb the tree and lay on a branch. I close my eyes and think what would happen if I was queen? What would happen if my father was here? What would happen if my stone was not green what would it be? Maybe I would be red, so I could be the next queen, or pink so I can be a designer of the Queen's loses.

     Before I know it I'm sleeping in the forest, in a tree.