Chapter 4 (Reunion with Xuron)

"So tell me who broke into our lab. Which planet does he come from !!!?" The Taterian General's voice filled the hall. His eyes looked blazing and his face looked almost exploded with anger. One of the commanders said to him nervously "Ahhhh, We… We don't know his kind, Sir but it's obvious that he's a Gammian spy," The general said, " I have to search for the artifact for about 3 years and you all couldn't keep it safe from a teenage spy !!! '' Show me his picture !!!" One of the commanders nervously showed Zeya's picture on a big screen. The General looked at it carefully. Suddenly, he realized something. His angry red face began to calm down and a smile appeared on his face.

Zeya woke up in the middle of the night. He had been dreaming the same dream for about 2 months. Unlike Earth, a month in Planet Gamma lasted 40 days. In the dream, Zeya saw many soldiers fighting on a battlefield, a civilization near a river, the pyramids, and the Coronation of a King. These dreams appeared occasionally after seeing the ancient artifact from the Taterian Base. Zeya got up from his bed and tried to get some water.

The Gammian spy boy who lived in the next room came into his room. "That damn dream again?" he said. Zeya nodded his head. The boy said "You better talk to the doctor instead of waking me up every night !!" and left the room angrily. The Gammian spies were trained to be super-alert. They even woke up for the sound of a single footstep. The spy boy hadn't been sleeping soundly for many nights because of Zeya. That's why he was angry.

That morning, Zeya, Lora, and three other spies were invited to the Palace. It was a surprising moment for all of them and they all knew a big mission was coming. When they arrived at the palace, the guards led them to a hall. There, they saw the Kings and some Gammians. The other Gammians looked like scouts according to their uniforms. And most surprisingly, Xuron, the one who brought Zeya to Gamma, was one of them. The Gammians have scouts who search about extraterrestrial lives. The King was sitting on a throne and the others were on the chairs.

With a deep voice, the king said to Zeya, “My boy, do you remember the red dot from the inscriptions of this artifact?”

A big screen appeared in the middle of the hall, showing the artifact which Zeya had seen at the Taterian lab. “Yes, My lord, the red dot with a mark” Zeya said politely. The King coughed and said “Well, my scouts have found what the red dot shows. You have told me that these stars are from the view on your planet. That helped them a lot to find the red dot. We found out that the red dot was pointing to an inhabited planet. My scouts will explain to you further,”

Xuron got up and said, “We found some pieces of evidence that the inhabitant planet, the red dot pointing to, was once civilized but later became inhabitant because of several reasons. We found these on that planet,"

Picture of three Pyramids appeared on the screen. They were huge. Zeya was surprised to see that those pyramids were similar to that in his dream. He was looking at them with a wide eye.

The king coughed again and said "So, What I want to tell is, I want both the spies and the scouts to study about that planet. I strongly doubt that something is strange about that planet. I want you all to explore the strange pyramids. You might want to know why I am ordering spies to explore these pyramids. Well, you know, it's related to Taterians," The king’s voice was lowered. "And also, Commander Koed and his team will join too, we just don't want to give spy kids to do all the exploration things. You all have to go to the planet in a week. So be prepared," The King said.

Commander Koed came into the hall. He was a 40 years old Gammian male with a very harsh face. Zeya somehow didn't like his appearance. After that, everyone saluted the King and the meeting was over.

Outside the hall, Xuron came rushing towards Zeya. He held his shoulder and said "boy, how did you become a spy? You have grown up so fast. I haven't been to Gamma for a long time, you know?" "Ah yes, searching extraterrestrial lives, abduct them and take them to your home planet as a trophy !!!!" This time, Zeya’s voice was so loud. Xuron's face looked sad and shy.

"Boy, I know you'll hate me. You can blame me. It's just my job to study extraterrestrial lives," he said. "If you didn't abduct me, I would have nothing to do between these two planets," Zeya said and left him behind.....