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THE UNFEIGNED NIGHTMARE

I was splashing my hands blindly and pointlessly in the ocean. Itried screaming for help but in vain. Salt water gushed into my

nostrils and mouth choking me towards death. I was seeing a few

spaceships flying above me and far away I heard long loud

beeps........

My nightmare ended as my alarm began ringing. This was

something that I had been experiencing from the past many days

and always sent a chill down my spine. I always felt that this had

something more to it and spent most of my time thinking about it.

By the way, my name is Nishchith and I am working as an earth

science scientist under the Ministry of arth Sciences. I quicklygot ready, packed my bag and rushed with a sandwich in my hand

as I was late for work. But when I reached the office, I didnt see

the regular wide and big smile on my co-worker Raghavs face.

But instead he gave me a letter and was looking quite nervous.

What sup Raghav? You are looking quite troubled today. Did

you fight with somebody? I askedwinking.

Its a letter from the boss. He says that it is very serious. I

have no idea about the whole issue. He was calling you to his

cabin. You better go there right now.

I rushed towards Mr.Karunakarans cabin. He was the principle

scientist of our department. A smart favoured man who was an

ideal boss. He had PhD degree from the worlds most reputed

institution. Even then he never tried to be the boss and was a very

modest and self-effacing man. It had to be some important and

serious issue for which he was tensed. When I entered his room

after seeking his permission, I saw him staring outside the


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window. I waited for him to speak. He finally spoke after the long

silence.

Open the envelope he said.

I slowly removed the letter and saw the recent statistics about

the farming in India. I noticed a steep downfall in the production

and it was something that I was aware of. The scientific tests and

soil treatment reports declared the soil to be healthy and fertile.

The uncertain apprehension was about the reason of why this was

happening.

The earth science reports show the perfect stability of the soiland water table of the land. But even then it looks like this can

prove as catastrophe for all of us. Karunakaran said.

Sir but this is supposed to be taken care by the agriculture

science department. I dont see what we can do anything about

this. I think they have to improve the present pesticides and

fertilizers. I replied.

Twenty seven years ago, when I was working hard on my PhD, I

had gone through many historical documents about earth

sciences. Dr. Karunakaran said as he interrupted me.

It was then when I had come across a few interesting

documents from original runic manuscript of an Icelandic

saga written by Sroupi Stinter. He had proposed many theories

about life deep below the crust. But his studies were proved

against the laws of life and considered to be against the gods

wishes and was publically beheaded. So nobody after him dared to

research on the topic and was slowly forgotten. But once again in

1863, a professor from France developed his interest in this topic

and he risked his life to practically prove the theories true by

going deep down the Earths crust. He successfully completed his

endeavour and came back with many observations and theories.


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He said that he saw highly developed organisms and were better

than humans in many ways. He also proposed the second set of

eukaryotic organisms which have the ability to evolve very fast.

But sadly, he was also considered as a clown and his theoriesslowly faded away.

I didnt know what to say and let the huge lumpto pass down my

throat. I cleared my throat and looked at him. He was expecting a

reply from me and I kept staring at him.

OK sir! I have understood what you wanted to say. I will work

hard to research on this topic. We must bring these problems with

proper proof to the international notice. This could be the

commencement of a disaster and we have to remove the seed

before it grows into a tree. I said after thinking for a few seconds.

The next few days went on in sanctioning the research

equipments and the man power. On the 3rdJuly of 2014, we began

our process of visiting the various farms affected from these

droughts. The project was declared as an emergency and the

teams all over the county were working on every small and big

proof and clues about the deadly droughts. After a week of

observations, we found that the cracks in the ground were

growing larger every day. But on the night of 13thJuly, we found

few chips and very small and highly sophisticated electronic

gadgets on the farms and the land throughout the country. This

was something that daunted me and Karunakaran. We immediatelyexhibited these gadgets to the various countries of the world and

scientists from all over the world were trying to figure out the

functions of these.

I began to doubt the humans as the most intelligent species on

earth and every nights sleep was killing me with the same

nightmare haunting my thoughts. I tried to decode the actual

meaning of the dream with respect to the happenings but all I


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could do is to forget the dream and work towards something

productive.

But on the night of 26thJuly, the guards in the protected areas

detected water gushing out in small quantities from these cracks. I

rushed to the site and tested the water. The water turned out to

be saline and looked as if it was from the seas and was one of the

most surprising observations in the past month. This news was

passed on to the different parts of the country and we found out

that even they were experiencing such events. We also tried to

trace the origins of this phenomenon but out technology could not

lead us far. On the other hand, Indian Ocean waters level was

notices to decrease rapidly. Karunakaran and I felt that we will

have to experience the worst expected. The teams from all over

the worlds suggested many methods of controlling the gushing of

sea water. But all our equipments turned out to be useless in

water and we saw the malfunctioning of many devices in water. All

that I could say is that the foremen had planned very well and

were fully fledged for an attack.

On the 29thof July, we noticed uncontrollable flow of water and it

flooded throughout the country. We were facing a dangerous

disaster which engulfs thousands of lives in the country. We also

noticed the most horrifying and the most path breaking scene of

what mankind had ever seen till today. The cracks kept on

growing bigger and bigger each day uncontrollably that I saw a

whole new world emerging out from below the earth. They broke

through the crust and emerged out from there without any warning

given for us and we had to face the most dangerous consequences

as they came out fully equipped with their army, weapons and

vehicles. The foremen were recklessly destroying all our efforts

that had been made from centuries together. The army, navy and

military forces from all the countries throughout the world were


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called for this emergency situation and all of them reacted and

fought back bravely with all of them.

I saw my nightmare approaching me very fast. I knew that

I was helpless and my fear of water would not allow me do

anything. Then from behind, I saw a huge tide of water about to

crash over me and finish everything. I began to run aimlessly and

began to remember everything that had happened in the dream.

The water wall overtook me and I was splashing pointlessly in the

huge mass of water. I could see the spaceships above me and felt

a felt a gentle push from below. By luck, I found a wooden tree

trunk below me and I was hanging on it to save me myself from

the water fury. I heard the loud beep and saw thousands of

foremen emerging from the waters. . By the stroke of luck I

remembered something that I was never able to. In the narrow

path between life and death, my brain worked heavily and before I

could react better to the situation. I realised that what we had as

the essential elements for life can prove toxic to them.

I remained afloat for three days and on the fourth day, I found a

few men of my own kind who saved me from the floods and I could

join the army and told them exactly what to do. We understood

that Beneath the Earth's crust lays the mantle which is heated by

the radioactive decay of heavy metals. So we exposed them to

conditions that are completely opposite to their home conditions

and we would be able to kill them. The scientists executed the

cloud seeding and also lowered the temperature. We forcefully

pumped more oxygen in the atmosphere which would make these

anaerobic organisms crumble to their death.

On the 5th August we successfully executed the plan and

eradicated the foremen from earth crust with the help of liquid

nitrogen guns, antibiotic grenades, oxygen bombs etc. But at the

end of it almost half of the population was killed and theremaining were homeless and helpless. We had nothing to build


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back the society in which we lived. But we were united and the

whole world helped us to earn a future that we always deserved

and with the hope, enthusiasm zeal and manpower, I am sure that

we will surely build a better and a happier world.

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