A light in the dark
My name is Naia and now I´m 80 years old. I´m going to tell you a long story about what happened to me and my friend when we were younger.
It was the year 3024. It was raining outside and I came home from school. I went to my room to do homework. I looked outside of the big window and saw the raindrops, but suddenly they stopped in the same place they were. Just like someone was controlling the weather. I wasn´t sure if it was me or what was happening I was really confused. I took the elevator up to my best friend Dotty to see, if he had seen how the raindrops stopped.
There he sat in his chair watching the TV, I told him what I saw and we looked outside but now it was snowing. It never snows on this planet so something is wrong. They went out on the big balcony to see if they could see anything different. When we looked up there was a stone coming down right to us, but that wasn´t a stone it was a meteorite.
They ran back inside to the safety room every robot has a safety room we just need to get there in time and put the seatbelts on. Then we pushed the safety button. We were ready and knew that something was going to happen and suddenly everything exploded.
Few minutes later we woke up. We lived, the safety room saved us. Maybe we weren´t the only ones who were still alive. We went carefully outside and looked for other people and robots. It was a terrible smell outside and pretty dark. Everything was destroyed and there were a lot of animals on the street running, trying to find safe place. We found some people that were still alive and some robots, we told them that we wanted to go to another planet and live there.
The next day we planned on going to another planet with spaceship. We also tried to find food and something to drink in the stores. It took many days to plan and find out what planet we were supposed to go to. It was not easy and we were always tired.
While we were still on this planet we slept in the safety rooms just like anyone else that was alive. We found clothes and things that we could use, on the street and in some houses. It took 6 months to plan and work on everything we needed and get ready for the whole travel. There is a station with all the spaceships on this planet, we went there to see if we could use one of them to go to the other planet.
They were all little destroyed but all the robots worked together and found out how to fix the best spaceship. We put a lot of food and warm clothes in the spaceship and we got prepared. After six months and 14 days we were ready to go to a planet named Strapus. We were very nervous but also excited to get to Strapus. Strapus is a big planet with life but we don´t know if there are human there so we are taking a big chance but we will always stand together and find a way to live.
We went to the spaceship station and got into our ship, the robots knew how to control the ship if something went wrong. All the robots helped each other to set up the computer system so we could almost do everything when we were on our way to Strapus and also on it.
We all got set and put the belts on and got ready for departure. It was so weird to leave our planet none of us had ever gone into space so it was new to all of us.
When we were all ready with everything we started this big device and suddenly we were moving. Then we went faster and faster until we weren´t on the ground anymore.
When we got higher we didn´t anymore feel that heavy, the attraction was of course working on us. When we got hungry we went to the food room where it was really cold, there were ready meals and canned food. Of course, you couldn´t just eat as much food as wanted we had a password that we had to put in this little device and then we could see what food we had left and what we could choose. We could get four meals per day and of course drinks too.
We had our bedrooms and there were three in each room, me, Dotty and Andy were together in one room it was very comfortable and warm in ours.
It took three months and four days to get from the little planet Eclia to the other planet Strapus.
We all got in the ship, it was immense.
We store food, clothing and other supplies. We divided the tasks among all: I had to be a cook and Dotty a mechanic on the ship.
Each person chose a place to sleep and settled in: families, animals, humans and robots lived together for six months in a spaceship until they reached the new planet. The road was very long and problems never stopped: breakdowns, food…
All the way I didn´t lose sight of Dotty; he had a complicated task and we all knew that there very many things that depended on him. Despite this Dotty didn´t stop being who he was before. He became more serious and mature, but he didn´t stop being himself.
Suddenly we stopped, that meant we arrived on Strapus. Everything was so have and it was hard to walk and go around. The first thing we did was to look out through the window and we could barely see anything.
We opened the big door and there came this big black cloud in our ship. We stepped out very carefully and held each other’s hands. It was so dark and scary, we looked around and we saw someone walking and I walked to her and I was going to ask her about Strapus and if someone lived here. Then she turned around and stared on me with her big red eyes. I almost screamed my heart out. I ran back to Dotty and told him what happened, he thought that I might be the only normal person in the world.
We thought that we needed a place to stay since we have to know more about this place. So we walked around and saw these big trees and big, big, big animals and they were not normal they had two heads, it was awful. We got so many times scared. But then finally we decided to make our ship bigger and live in it on Strapus. The problem was that the ship was so heavy and the gravity was so big, so we could not go somewhere else and we couldn´t be sure that there was a life on the other planets.
So we had to make our ship bigger, get food and if we had to we hunted animals that we could eat. We made sure that we had enough of oxygen because we could never know what could happen on this planet. We didn´t even think twice Dotty started to work on the computers that we had and I helped him with what he needed and I also cleaned everything and made everything more comfortable.
Now that we´ve been alive on Strapus for few weeks, it was getting harder and harder. We were almost out of food and we were not living we were surviving. We wanted to find a place where we could live, but i guess that´s almost impossible with these circumstances.
At this time it was very hard to survive and it was getting darker with every day and our food is almost gone. That is the time we were just hoping that we could hunt some animals if we were lucky. It was like everything was disappearing but slowly with every day.
Even some of our people disappeared but there was nothing we could do, we were five that were still alive, everything we had right now was hope.
The next day I woke up and looked for the others but I couldn’t find Dotty I thought for a second that he disappeared but i didn´t believe that, it could not be. So, I panicked and tried to run around our spaceship to find him, but I was so tired and it was so hard to move. Then I heard some screams and I followed it when I first saw Dotty and then the light.
Collaborative writing by: Kristín Ösp and Nerea
It was the year 3024. It was raining outside and I came home from school. I went to my room to do homework. I looked outside of the big window and saw the raindrops, but suddenly they stopped in the same place they were. Just like someone was controlling the weather. I wasn´t sure if it was me or what was happening I was really confused. I took the elevator up to my best friend Dotty to see, if he had seen how the raindrops stopped.
There he sat in his chair watching the TV, I told him what I saw and we looked outside but now it was snowing. It never snows on this planet so something is wrong. They went out on the big balcony to see if they could see anything different. When we looked up there was a stone coming down right to us, but that wasn´t a stone it was a meteorite.
They ran back inside to the safety room every robot has a safety room we just need to get there in time and put the seatbelts on. Then we pushed the safety button. We were ready and knew that something was going to happen and suddenly everything exploded.
Few minutes later we woke up. We lived, the safety room saved us. Maybe we weren´t the only ones who were still alive. We went carefully outside and looked for other people and robots. It was a terrible smell outside and pretty dark. Everything was destroyed and there were a lot of animals on the street running, trying to find safe place. We found some people that were still alive and some robots, we told them that we wanted to go to another planet and live there.
The next day we planned on going to another planet with spaceship. We also tried to find food and something to drink in the stores. It took many days to plan and find out what planet we were supposed to go to. It was not easy and we were always tired.
While we were still on this planet we slept in the safety rooms just like anyone else that was alive. We found clothes and things that we could use, on the street and in some houses. It took 6 months to plan and work on everything we needed and get ready for the whole travel. There is a station with all the spaceships on this planet, we went there to see if we could use one of them to go to the other planet.
They were all little destroyed but all the robots worked together and found out how to fix the best spaceship. We put a lot of food and warm clothes in the spaceship and we got prepared. After six months and 14 days we were ready to go to a planet named Strapus. We were very nervous but also excited to get to Strapus. Strapus is a big planet with life but we don´t know if there are human there so we are taking a big chance but we will always stand together and find a way to live.
We went to the spaceship station and got into our ship, the robots knew how to control the ship if something went wrong. All the robots helped each other to set up the computer system so we could almost do everything when we were on our way to Strapus and also on it.
We all got set and put the belts on and got ready for departure. It was so weird to leave our planet none of us had ever gone into space so it was new to all of us.
When we were all ready with everything we started this big device and suddenly we were moving. Then we went faster and faster until we weren´t on the ground anymore.
When we got higher we didn´t anymore feel that heavy, the attraction was of course working on us. When we got hungry we went to the food room where it was really cold, there were ready meals and canned food. Of course, you couldn´t just eat as much food as wanted we had a password that we had to put in this little device and then we could see what food we had left and what we could choose. We could get four meals per day and of course drinks too.
We had our bedrooms and there were three in each room, me, Dotty and Andy were together in one room it was very comfortable and warm in ours.
It took three months and four days to get from the little planet Eclia to the other planet Strapus.
We all got in the ship, it was immense.
We store food, clothing and other supplies. We divided the tasks among all: I had to be a cook and Dotty a mechanic on the ship.
Each person chose a place to sleep and settled in: families, animals, humans and robots lived together for six months in a spaceship until they reached the new planet. The road was very long and problems never stopped: breakdowns, food…
All the way I didn´t lose sight of Dotty; he had a complicated task and we all knew that there very many things that depended on him. Despite this Dotty didn´t stop being who he was before. He became more serious and mature, but he didn´t stop being himself.
Suddenly we stopped, that meant we arrived on Strapus. Everything was so have and it was hard to walk and go around. The first thing we did was to look out through the window and we could barely see anything.
We opened the big door and there came this big black cloud in our ship. We stepped out very carefully and held each other’s hands. It was so dark and scary, we looked around and we saw someone walking and I walked to her and I was going to ask her about Strapus and if someone lived here. Then she turned around and stared on me with her big red eyes. I almost screamed my heart out. I ran back to Dotty and told him what happened, he thought that I might be the only normal person in the world.
We thought that we needed a place to stay since we have to know more about this place. So we walked around and saw these big trees and big, big, big animals and they were not normal they had two heads, it was awful. We got so many times scared. But then finally we decided to make our ship bigger and live in it on Strapus. The problem was that the ship was so heavy and the gravity was so big, so we could not go somewhere else and we couldn´t be sure that there was a life on the other planets.
So we had to make our ship bigger, get food and if we had to we hunted animals that we could eat. We made sure that we had enough of oxygen because we could never know what could happen on this planet. We didn´t even think twice Dotty started to work on the computers that we had and I helped him with what he needed and I also cleaned everything and made everything more comfortable.
Now that we´ve been alive on Strapus for few weeks, it was getting harder and harder. We were almost out of food and we were not living we were surviving. We wanted to find a place where we could live, but i guess that´s almost impossible with these circumstances.
At this time it was very hard to survive and it was getting darker with every day and our food is almost gone. That is the time we were just hoping that we could hunt some animals if we were lucky. It was like everything was disappearing but slowly with every day.
Even some of our people disappeared but there was nothing we could do, we were five that were still alive, everything we had right now was hope.
The next day I woke up and looked for the others but I couldn’t find Dotty I thought for a second that he disappeared but i didn´t believe that, it could not be. So, I panicked and tried to run around our spaceship to find him, but I was so tired and it was so hard to move. Then I heard some screams and I followed it when I first saw Dotty and then the light.
Collaborative writing by: Kristín Ösp and Nerea