Planet of Extinct

Chapter-31

Saish stopped training for the matches as he wasn't on the selected team. Even so, he had to participate. They were informed early in the hours that he would be competing today.

If he doesn't win this match, the guy he is replacing will lose his chance to compete in the finals for their school. Their school will get eliminated. The pressure was high. It's not only about him but also about the other participant. These games decide his future. He has a chance to get into the National team if he wins these. Saish never wanted to be on the National team but the other guy desperately wanted that. It was his dream. So now Saish was carrying the dream and responsibilities of someone else's.

He was a nervous wreck inside. They could sense it. So they tried to calm him down in their own weird, unhealthy ways since the morning before Nishan started hyperventilating and overreacting. He was reinforcing the tension rather than decreasing it without even realising it.

Mona sighed. "I will go to him", she says, walking his way.

"I know you are anxious and stressed, but you are the Saviour of a planet. This little hurdle doesn't hold a leaf against what you crossed. You trained for it, Saish. Though you haven't been in touch for a few months, you still are the one who won against me. If not yourself, have faith in me, I am not weak," she winked, smiling.

"I am fine Purple. You need not try so hard you know?" 🙂

"I know" Mona stares at him with immense trust. "Once a warrior, always a warrior" She taps his shoulder as they are called for the race.

'She knows exactly how to tame my demons. No one can put me at ease like she does. I don't know if it's crazy, but she reads my mind' he smiled to himself.

She then looked at Max. "Maxy...All the best" she showered him with kisses. "Thank you for letting him ride you. Thank you for always being there for me. I promise I will treat you to something good once you come back." Max jumped in delight.

"Ready?" Saish whispers, stroking his hair.

He neighs.

Saish mounts on him.

Just like that race started and ended. Second. That's what he bagged. Bright smiles light on the group's faces.

The top three will be entering the next rounds.

"He did it" Nishan eyes glowed. "He did it!" He shrieked. "Wohh, he made IT."

.............

"Zoe, you won't believe it. He was magnificent," Mona said as she leaned on the trunk of Zoe.

"My ears will bleed if you continue to say the same thing again, Your Highness," sarcastically replies their minister, utterly done with the bragging. 😒

"Let her. It's up to her, not you" Root shuts her up. He was all cuddled up next to Mona as her head rested on his.

Mona laughed. "Max was great, too. He himself wanted to help Saish. I was so shocked." She slowly closes her eyes. "His hard to win his trust." Cool breeze was hitting them. Sleep took over her.

Nowadays, she made visits to this Planet without particular reasons. No stone shining, no issues. She just came here to say 'hi' and talk to Zoe and Root. This has kind of become a routine- her sharing each notable detail with them.

Root has become her best friend. He follows her all the time, to Saish's dismay. Accompanying her to every battle, every call, every gathering.🤭

"She is asleep," Root says undertone. Zoe, who didn't notice that, sees it. She leads her branches down covering her body from the cold. Mona snuggles more into the warmth.

"She turning her liability into her home" Zoe smiled at her. Delighted that she is enjoying being on the planet.

"She is too much like her" Root looked at Zoe.

"I know. That's the reason you came out of your self-arrest, didn't you? "

Root remains silent for a while. "Yaa. She resembles her and reminds me of her. Her power, her way of seeing things, the overall she" he said in a low voice. "I miss her Zoe." 🙃

"Me too" Zoe puts a branch on him too.

They reminisce memories they had with their former Saviour, Grace.

"I will stick to Purple like a shadow. I will protect her with my everything. Everything I have ever got and everything I will ever get. Even though she isn't the girl I am looking for, she still was the one who could bring me out of the grief and blame I was drowning in" Root smiled at Mona's sleeping figure.

"Who knows, she might be the girl you are looking for", Zoe jokes.

"The girl I am looking for is dead, and she is not coming back, Zoe."