Alyd in Tantra's Fairy Tales by ADALBERTO ATONDO SAINZ - HTML preview

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There was an accident. My baby fel to the ground. We al thought she broke her neck because her head made a horrible twist. 50,000 fans watched in horror as it happened. Rush Pegasus is a dangerous sport. We al need E-Eyes to watch it correctly as we depend on holograms to see the gameplay. It starts with our national anthem and holo story of how Tantra came to be.

The world before law and order. Every selfish nation, looking for their own sustain. Humanity lost it and disaster arrived from dawn. From the ashes, our powerful Emperor emerged to save our lost souls into a better future where families can grow into a single nation where prosperity and happiness is the new order. Welcome to Tantra, welcome to the new order and welcome to the games.

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Fireworks go high into the sky. Beautiful story goes by showing old nations battling each other into oblivion, showing us destruction of families and cities with merciless mass destruction explosions. Then the NO military are shown helping people restore cities and imposing a new black and red flag, said flag then wraps the whole planet and the emperor can be seen sitting on his throne, in what can be cal ed the north pole, in front of a merciless army ready to give their lives for us.

Impressive animation.

Anyone without E-Eyes is fined for not watching it. After the national anthem, the stadium explodes into applause and 5 teams enter the arena. Arena is divided into 15 areas that represent 15 of Tantra’s provinces. Now 14, but the Emperor refuses to accept we lost one to the Elves, which we are stil largely at war with. Team Players deploy mounting the Pegasus from al angles and fight for the colored eggs in the center. To score you must steal the eggs and take it into your own nest and wait for it to hatch a Tantra’s dragons. The catch: Eggs can be stolen and spawning egg locations changes periodical y every now and then. Landing an egg on the nest is one point, a hatched egg is five points. At the time of the accident the marker read: Red province: 15; Blue Province: 32. Crimson province: 6; Black province: 11; Gray province: 21. We are the blue province and Alyd scored 22 of those 32 points. She has fans al across the nation and little girls want to be like her. But their love wasn’t enough today. As she scored her last point, the red guardian guy asshole pul ed one of her pegasus wings. Red mark for him Alyd’s Pegasus lost it and my daughter slipped on the side. She fel at least some 40

meters into the ground. Not enough for her suit protection. Few players have died from fal s, it is not common, but security measures have been highly discussed. But anyone who questions the 61

Emperor's rules is threatened, tortured or kil ed. We know this, our daughter and players know this. So we play by the rules. Money and fame is worth it and Alyd is one of the best horsemen I have seen. So there is no use complaining, I only want to check on her.

Whole stadium made an awkward silence. For a few seconds only the wind could be heard.

“Wow! we have an injury” Said the commentator. Nursing drones came into the field. Players landed surrounding my daughter, which I don't know if she’s dead or alive. Drones deployed a nursing bubble and lifted her into the air. They took my daughter away to the medical station. I was sitting in the lateral benches but I made my race for my daughter. It took me 25 minutes to reach the medical station which was almost a kilometer away fucking big stadium and my daughter’s accident was already on al the media already fucking viral videos in my E-Eyes.

Her pegasus was also hurt in the wing. One of the most expensive breeds you can find across Tantra. Need a vet to fix her wing. I made my way into security and doctors. Only one physician and the rest of personnel were nursing drones. Fucking corporate teams.

“How is my daughter?” I asked.

“I'm not gonna lie, she is not responding to stimuli and drones immediately diagnosed her with a deep coma.”

“I want to see her ” i said

Doctor asked me to fol ow into a private room and there she was. Thank God nursing drones monitor her brain and heart. “Look at this screen,” said the physician referring to the drone's screen. “There is no brain activity, but the heart’s fine.”

“When is she going to wake up?” I asked.

“We have no way of tel ing, i am sorry” He answered. “We wil provide you with nursing code programming for your home drone for free”

This ain’t happening.

When is she waking up?

I took her home. My little cupcake.

Days go by and she is in eternal sleep. Nursing drone takes care of her 24/7. Her blondness shines with the sun’s rays dropping from the window.

But those days go by too and bitter days come through in which I cannot live my life.

Everything I do, when I work, when I eat,whenever I breathe, I know she is upstairs fighting for her life. and there, there is this main reason bitterness eats me from inside.

It was almost 17 years ago, the night we brought Alyd newborn home from the hospital. The day she was born, Tantra dropped the Emperor bomb overseas into the heart of the elf nation.