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Search for the Aperion of the Bermuda triangle

It was a dull and gloomy day as I woke up from my bed yawning, soon heard my mother yelling from downstairs and perceiving me to wake up. I rubbed my eyes and glanced at my alarm clock I noticed it was eight and jumped up from my bed running towards the bathroom presuming it was a school day next minute recollected that school had been canceled due to the outbreak of coronavirus thus being the first day of summer vacation. My mother continued to yell at me to brush my teeth and come down for breakfast. As I entered the dining room, I could smell idli sambhar and my sense of smell was accurate. I swiftly finished my breakfast and raced up to my room as my pet dog Max came sprinting to me and we played for a while, started to think about what I should do for the rest of the day and it struck me why I could read my brand-new books named UFO sci-file. The new books cater to my beliefs in things such as aliens’ paranormal happenings, Albert Einstein’s theories, and most importantly the Bermuda Triangle. I have read many prequels on Aliens as extra-terrestrial or a hypothetical life that may exist outside Earth. Such life might be as simple as some living cells or life much more advanced than humanity. I was excited to explore more about them in my new set of books. 

While almost finish reading the UFO book I realized that the most common alien sightings were in England, Canada, the USA, and Mexico. The peculiar thing was that these countries bordered the Bermuda or devil’s triangle. I believed aliens would not come to earth for no purpose, and strongly started connecting Bermuda triangle with the past events. Then I went downstairs for dinner and discussed my theory with the family, and all burst in to laugh and refused to accept aliens on earth. I felt they would believe my theory involved Lord Ganesh and Krishna’s mythological visit to the Bermuda triangle, with that thought I wrote my journal and went to bed.

Then out of the blue, I heard a loud whirring noise in the backyard of my house. I was so sleepy and wondering why my mother was vacuuming in the middle of the night. With great difficulty getting up from my bed to speak to my mother. But what I saw shook me off the sleep it was a dream no wait nightmare or is it real. I was seeing a large cylindrical object levitating in the air outside the window of my room. I could recognize it as a UFO. I still did not believe my eyes, it just a dream because of binge-reading alien books my brain said wake up girl wake up. I rubbed my eyes and pinched myself to make sure not my overactive imagination. But no change in what I was seeing. The Object official landed in my backyard destroying my mom’s orchid, imagining how she is going to be furious at them for a second and next second I moved closer towards my room window with fear and excitement, saw the hatch of the UFO Object/ spaceship opened and sense some movement. I become crazy to know if more I ran downstairs and opened my main door quietly trying not to wake up my parents, sister, and max. Unfortunately, this was not a success ‘Max, was already awake and rushed towards me and as excited as me too, I picked him up, calmed him and took him outside.  went outside to noticed that the alien-like creatures begin to descend from it. My first impressions where they are not naked in fact wearing clothes more of a uniform type, they had green skin thou, long ears like elves, blue eyes, and had padded hands and legs. I counted five of them and quickly zoomed my eyes to read the “Andromeda galaxy” in their clothes.

I felt this is my time to get facts for my beliefs and took my first step towards them. I also felt that the aliens were trying to speak to me, but I couldn’t understand them, they were more like sounds to me, I was trying very hard to make out what they were saying but all in vain. I was trying to see in any neighbors are up and watching this but to my surprise no one else around me, behind the aliens there was a red button beeping. I tried moving towards it, as expected the aliens backed off as they were scared of me and max. We might have been.

the first humankind they have seen and do not know how to react. If I were in their place even, I would be very scared. I found a screwdriver inside the shoe stand which my father uses for tightening screws or other hardware. I used it to fix the beeping red button. 

I immediately could understand the aliens. I then realized red button was their communicator which must have broken while landing the UFO. They started speaking in English and started thanking me for fixing the communicator. They started asking many questions, I too wanted to ask them a million questions. I requested them to hold on and tried processing what is happening and the biggest among them came forward and asked me what my name was?, I cheerfully introduced myself as Ananya. asked same in return, he introduced himself as Zorro. He was the pilot of the UFO. Zorro then asked me what that creature next to you I replied it is my pet puppy named Max. 

The other four were engineer Xiaomi, the geographer was Kai, who lead the way to their destination. The other two were Zilla and Zangzo, who were scientists. I asked them what the purpose of the visit? Before they replied. We saw a light switched on in my parent’s room. I rushed and told them no other human should see you. They may not be hospitable as me and wrong things can happen. I asked them to turn off the lights and move inside my home, they made the object invisible. Even better and rushed them upstairs and hid them in my attic. I instructed them to stay in the attic and not come out until I return. Afterward went to my room and quickly sneaked into bed and acted like I was asleep and eventually fell asleep. 

The next morning my mother woke me and asked me to come down instantly I was hoping and praying that they did not find anything about my “aliens in the attic”. My parents announced there is a strict lockdown and no one is supposed to go out of the house without permission due to the coronavirus pandemic. My parents were leaving for the market to buy some essentials for hoarding and I was in charge till they are back. I raced upstairs immediately after the door shut, opened the attic. As soon as I opened the door, captain Zorro said, ‘thank god! we were getting worried’ and I said good morning and continued ‘I have got good news’, its right time to leave as all are in lockdown. They did not understand the meaning of out after I explained it to them asked for masks and sanitizer for themselves. Zorro asked me, would you like to accompany us to the Bermuda triangle? I said to myself it would be a dream come true and replied ‘of course but how and what about my parents and coronavirus and lockdown? But I asked the more relevant question to them “ why do you all want to go to Bermuda Triangle? they replied saying their planet is dying and they need to recover a life source which withholds unlimited energy its name is “Apeiron”, Which will save the planet and also mentioned many teams have tried and have become unsuccessful. I immediately cross verified the facts of prior aliens’ sightings and it was the perfect match. I raised my collar with pride and politely replied to the aliens. I understand now want to assist in recovering the Apeiron but have my own constraints.

Then Zorro convinced me now about the hologram system which will replace me in my absence and I instantly agreed to accompany. Just, when we were going to leave remembered Sister and Max and made arrangements for them and Zorro used a remote which had a lot of buttons and he pressed the one in the bottom right corner and then magically UFO appeared. The moment I entered the UFO, I was wowed there were so many new gadgets and instruments and I did not recognize even one of them, they seemed advanced technology. One of them showed a lot of planets most of the names were gibberish but I could make out Pluto Mandarin and Tahina. I then asked Kai how long it would take to reach the Bermuda triangle, he said about 5 minutes. I almost fainted and recollected that I was in a spaceship in here was technology so advanced that it was never seen by mankind. While I was pondering about all of this, we reached the Bermuda triangle and I had a sensation like there was no sugar in my entire body Zorro then gave me a box of spongy squeezy stuff and

told me to eat it. I tried it and it was the sweetest thing in the world we devoured the whole box, and it made me feel better. We then nearing the sea of Bermuda triangle, there was an island right in between which I didn’t anticipate, we landed in the thick forest after we reached the forest I felt awesome, It was beautiful, the birds flying everywhere and I spotted a Dodo which was extinct it was more beautiful in person. I then looked at kai he was holding a map figuring our direction and we started moving as per his orders and in few hours by foot had to stop at a waterfall on the route, it was magnificent, it was like the water was sparkling and glitter was everywhere. Noticed the water had a thousand fishes, some had rainbow color and design. We moved ahead, reached the place which was called Aiónios in the map, it happened to be the southernmost part of the island it was the fascinating part there was a beach and the water was teal blue. Zorro patted my back to check if I am was alright, so where is the Aperion? I curiously asked. we are searching for it everywhere said, Zorro.

In some time I tripped from a rock and tried to move it, a heavy rumbling sound almost like an explosion in the beach happened and created a whirlpool and large compartment or bunk was rising from the sea we all jumped in the water along and swiftly reached the opening and penetrated into the compartment there was a bright blue shining light coming from my left side we ran towards it and there it was the “Aperion”, Zorro walked towards it making sure there was no booby traps out of nowhere an arrow shot and hit Zorro’s arm he cried out in pain I ran towards him making sure not stepping in the place where he stepped and told him to breathe I steadily removed the arrow out of his arm and he yelped in pain. I used my jacket tie the wound. I also noticed the floor had a pattern, Zorro stepped on the orange step when he got shot by the arrow and other steps were red when he did not get shot so we took steps on the orange tiles and then smoothly went over every step and reached the Aperion Zorro grabbed it and it was beautiful it was golden in color and shined as bright as the sun. 

We retuned 5 minutes like the last time and they thanked me for clarity and assistance. Zorro handed over a gadget and asked me to contact in time of need. We said our goodbyes to each other I told them to wish I had more time to know each other. 

They left that night, all I prayed was to they reach in time and save the planet. The next morning, I woke up everything seemed normal my parents were home and max was playing. I do not know whether it was a dream or was it real. I still had the gadget and wanted to check just then realized forgot to ask them how it worked. I promised myself that I will find out how the gadget works follow my instincts and prove my theory.

 ‘The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination’ By Albert Einstein.

Ananya Vikas Rao

Grade: 7, Sherwood High School,

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