Stories and planets

I strike again. This time it’s a little different. Now for the formality “March 30, 31, 2008- Midnight – I dream. It’s a rather disturbing dream, but it’s not a nightmare. It was like a movie. Yes it is a movie”. So much with the ambitious effort of creating a sense of suspense and horror in the minds of readers……I fail miserably. Still this blog is about the dream. It was rather colourful, and the details were mind blowing. The story is fit for a movie. Here it is.

It’s the story of an astronaut. As dreams don’t come as parcels with character descriptions and names…..for simplicity I decided to name them with simple names.

Main character 1- “Hero”- As the name suggests, he is the hero of the story Main character 2- “Chief”- Chief commanding officer of the team

Main character 3- “She”- Additional doctor who is usually kept in ships for purposes (it is a 'she' due the mysterious reasons you would get to know later)

Main character 4- “Kid”- Youngest guy on ship and a nutcase
Main character 5- “Dude”- Genius, with a mind filled with superstitious and non-scientific nonsense
Sub characters- wife, recruitment officers, doctors, nurses, engineers, spot boys, cameramen, aliens.

As they are considered the elite in the business, Hero, Dude, She, Chief and Kid are recruited by the recruiting officers (duh….) for a mission to Pluto. They train themselves under zero-gravity sessions and all those crap that these guys do for going. A week later the Hero wakes up in bed shouting out rubbish. His wife consoles (Nintendo) him. For no reason he develops a thick black double line on his skin over the backbone area (The story seems to get a little interesting. And if this is ever made a movie it has to have something). He sees it and seems to be horrified, as the double line changes into the figure of a dragon day by day. He seems to be having nightmares and he develops an extraordinary typical sense (interesting …eh).

The D-Day arrives. All the main characters reach the check-up centre where they see doctors and nurses (finally). All are fit to go. They suit up. During suit-up session, Dude sees the strange dragon tattoo, but he asks nothing. Dude refers some of his ‘books’ and then ------dramatic pause-------his eyes widen.


They reach the launch pad, enter the ship, waves at spectators. Then starts the countdown……………………………10……………9…………8………7………6…………………
5……………….4………………..3………………..2……………….1…......................0……………
The shuttle shoots off. The engineers hug each other for their single perfect launch after 5 years, the spot boys and cameramen hug each other for the perfect shot.

The shuttle clears the Earth’s atmosphere and heads for Pluto. As they near Pluto, two eyes are watching them, two eyes which have a thick outer white covering called sclera and another black layer called choroid(hey….that’s the human eye). Dude finally asks Hero about the tattoo. Hero tells the truth. Dude gets the shock of his life---------again dramatic pause--------Dude blabbers some rubbish about the typical dragon figure in slow motion and in ‘mute’ (typical Indian movie). The pupil of Hero’s eyes dilates letting in more light, the rods in his eyes secrete rhodopsin preparing his eyes for night vision.

The ship stations above Pluto. A smaller capsule thingy is launched from the ship. All 5 of them reach Pluto. After a whole day (I don’t know how they knew 1 day was over…but they knew it) they decided to rest in the huge capsule thingy. Now Hero changes the capsule security mode from medium to hard (he… he…). Chief asks why. Hero has no words. Dude jumps in and puts forward all the facts that he collected related to the dragon figure on Hero’s back. Chief doesn’t understand anything Dude tells as like before all is in mute and slow-mo. Now to reduce the seriousness of the matter Chief cracks a joke “Well this Dude here could leave us all nude here…………ha….ha…ha”. Now Kid looks at She (now we get a little info on why she is here). She stares back at Kid. Just then the floor of the capsule breaks open and two big tentacles spring up. It wraps She and drags her down-----------dramatic pause-------------. The capsule shakes violently. And I shake with it. From the background a faint voice is heard “Eda……It is 9 o’ clock…………get up…….” As I open my eyes I see my mom trying desperately to get me out of bed. Whoops!!………….story spoiled!