When the Galaxy Wept
In the uncomfortable silence, Douglas Cheetah suddenly rose like a burned-out bomb and flew high speed directly onto the stone belt, which was harder than metal. The durable alloy crashed into the enormous stones, which had existed for millions of years in space. The rocks stayed still as the Cheetah tore into pieces. Maybe because the suicide scene was too shocking to process, the Zerg guardsmen all stopped. Then the second and third Cheetah followed. Everyone in the last Cheetah was looking at Emerald, waiting for her decision. Emerald’s eyes dimmed with tears. She watched her comrades burn into ashes on the stones and felt that this was her destiny. She would die heroically on those stones, several miles away from Patrick.At this moment, she thought of her parents on Earth. Although she had always known that her chances to find the Earth was small, now she finally understood the answer. She knew she would never go back to Earth and see her families’ smiling faces or meet her friends ever again. But what made her more upset was Patrick, who was only miles away from her and would leave her forever. She didn’t resent him. How could he surrender for her when he had to save thousands of people and follow the war deployment? But she didn’t want to accept her end just like this, not just yet. She couldn’t. She had overcome so many difficulties, but now she was failing at last. The war was like a ruthless dagger, separating them cruelly. How would he be after she died? If he won the war, gaining more power and higher status, would he ever think of her or even remember a woman called Emerald Wilson who died for him on the dark stone belt in space? Would he look up at the stars in the sky in her remembrance? Would he be as upset and heartbroken as she was?Would he cry from missing her when he finally found the Earth and stood on the land of her hometown one day in the future? Would he miss her body, her soul, and her love that she never dared to say out loud and soon would be destroyed by the stone belt? She hoped he wouldn’t. Crying, she grabbed the control lever. She didn’t want him to love her now. She hoped that he never loved her. Then he wouldn’t feel the pain she was feeling right now from not getting the love he longed for. Her hands and her heart were hot. Then, in the blink of an eye, the massive stone belt was in front of her eyes! The black stones were still looking at her silently like the many times before, as if they had stared at her like this for millions of years. It was as if they were looking at her when she flew into the sky for the first time, when she was walking in space with Zach and when she had to do tasks in the area obstinately, even when she wasn’t willing to.Now they were looking at her as she would crash and die on them! She closed her eyes. The Cheetah trembled as it crashed into the stones. Emerald heard metal tearing apart. She knew the process would be short, the Cheetah would soon be torn into pieces, and they would die from the explosion or be thrown into space and explode from the inner pressure as the body lost its balance. It would be fast, and they wouldn’t feel too much pain. She was holding her head subconsciously, and everyone in the Cheetah was prepared to die, but when the control system didn’t work and began to spark from the crash, and the trembling from the impact almost broke their bones, there was no explosion. The crash was over in a brief time. But unfortunately, the route that Emerald had set with precision accurately had an unexpected deviation.They were not dead yet. Emerald raised her head in surprise. It was impossible. How could there be a deviation? The system was broken down, she could only look outside with her bare eyes. Inexplicably, the Cheetah was clinging to the stone. There was only one possibility. The stones had moved in by the first impact of the crash and turned the crash into a sudden stop. What happened? She started to feel hope, to feel excited. Could it be Patrick? It couldn’t be! It was impossible to move the stone circle bigger than Moon Sally. “Madam... Look!” A young man in the Cheetah opened his mouth as he looked in the other direction through the window. Even President Henry sat up in surprise. Emerald turned around, completely stunned by what she saw.The gunfire lighted up the dark space in the distance. The long, enormous stone blocking them from the ten Zerg warships had changed direction. It was moving. The stone was moving! It looked like a long arm made of hard stone. They could see the stone moving slowly towards the Queen’s guardsmen, who were also astonished by the scene and had lost their opportunity to escape. When the guardsmen’s warships turned around to face the stone, another stone circle moved towards them at a higher speed, hitting heavily on the battleships. The passengers of the Cheetah were stunned and filled with ecstasy. They watched a large stone “pat” the fleet onto another huge stone, not leaving a slit. The two huge stones slowly separated a few seconds later, and a pile of flat debris fell infinitely into space. The Zerg Queen and her elite guardsmen, whom the whole galaxy, even the mercenaries, feared was destroyed by stones and eliminated into space forever! “Madam, what weapon is that?” Rosalind asked Emerald with a trembling voice. Emerald stared at the two stones, which had returned to silence again, and said with a dry voice, “It was the stone circle.” The Cheetah suddenly trembled as if answering to Emerald, getting back into balance. “We are moving, we are moving!” The co-pilot shouted. Emerald saw that the scenery outside the cabin started to move, and the Cheetah was moving further and further from the landscape even without power. Finally, she saw from the rearview mirror that a big, long black stone was lifting their Cheetah and pushing them away from the battlefield as if it was a hand with consciousness!“Damn, this stone is alive!” Henry swore in a low voice.
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