Fighting The Fight

It is a dark night. Nothing is illuminating the ground except the faint green glow coming from above. Up in the sky are these star like objects neatly positioned in form of a honeycomb structure that are glowing in a shade of green. It isn’t just some fancy light. It’s a high tech equipment capable of mining, receiving and storing precious material.

Below, near the ground, there is just one soldier posted alone. I mean why send and army when you can send one guy who is as good as thousand soldiers combined. His name is Bahel Khiv.

Right now Bahel is at least a few meters away from the ground, floating in the air. But he is surrounded. Countless Sapravahis (humanoid being with snake like head) are attacking him. Bahel fights back hitting them hard with kicks and punches. They rise up and fall leaving Bahel standing high. The only things that passes this super soldier are the crude Kralial rocks, which they are mining. It is upon these rocks Bahel stands and moves to another as one of it goes high enough.

Although Bahel might just seemed to hit-hit-hit the enemy, it is not a mindless combat. He is actually doing something no other soldier is doing on this planet. He is listening to the enemy. Although capable, he kills none. He simply grabs, holds of them and hears them talk. He is listening, he is learning their language quietly. But why?

These beings termed as Sapravahi call themselves Grok. Meaning ‘the underground dwellers’. Sapra now being very close to its parent star is hot. The surface has become inhabitable for the fauna. While the creatures struggled the flora adapted to the heat very well. It was easy for the creatures to move to underground.

There’s a complex network of underground tubes that make up the entire world of living on this planet. They are peace loving creatures who come up only during the night to feast on the crops and then go underground. They have very sensitive eyes and they can’t bare any sunlight. Their love for peace and harmony is what have kept them weak to fight and not win against their invaders i.e. the beings who Bahel represents.

But I guess the biggest problem is the language barrier. If only Grok could tell the Ivkar that their mining technique is destroying their homes and the Ivkar could understand that the Grok or Sapravahi (to them) are not mindless fighting savage creatures. There would be no war, no more causality. Unfortunately as of now that is not the case.

As I said, language barrier is the biggest problem. But who can possibly solve this problem? Right now the most capable candidate is Bahel Khiv who has just started to understand it.

Another person who is probably trying to find a solution is a man named Rokum Bik, the commander-in-chief of the solo army men deployed on the ground at various places around the planet. Bahel is just one of many. Right now Rokum is in one of the green pods in sky watching over the ongoing war. He is standing on a unique design made out of Kralial ink that spreads all over the room. The design resembled a neural network that is allowing him to think better.

Let’s hope he finds a solution to this conflict soon.

TO BE CONTINUED

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