The Inventor

By Joy

The short tale of the eccentric Inventor and his Assistant who lives in Sapphire Land, creating the most wonderful inventions known. The friendship is interrupted when the Inventor hires a young lady Assistant. Before long, they are set together to create a portal machine to travel between worlds into other lands. The adventure is cut short when they soon find the machine is sought after by others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joy
• Release date: May 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370472178

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The Inventor

By Joy

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Copyright 2017 Joy Yee Sian Min

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To God, family, friends and loved ones, I love you.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Little Boy

Chapter 1: Help Wanted

Chapter 2: The Machine

Chapter 3: The Adventure

Chapter 4: Foreigners

Chapter 5: The Regulators

Chapter 6: Cadet 452

Chapter 7: Remember Me

Chapter 8: A Strange Reunion

Chapter 9: The New Arrangement

Epilogue: The Old Man

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Prologue: The Little Boy

The boy set sail to the end of the world, raising his sails and dreaming of when he would fall into the other worlds. This world with which he lived in was very different from the one in which we live in, for you see, our earth was round. As for his, there was an edge to the sea and there were several others much like his world, orbiting close by but no possible way for the citizens to come and go as they please. He had only heard stories from his mother about the Golden Ages when the portals diverged and the citizens came and go as they please.

Now, it seemed only a talk of the past. Now, schools never taught about the portals anymore. It was erased from the history books. Now he had only heard rumors about there being a site of creationism where the sea ends. Here powers greater than our own had created strange worlds. These worlds came by many different names: Topaz, Ruby, Amethyst and Agate, all with their own special characteristics, strange people and strange gravitational pull. They all lived in a galaxy many light years away.

Curious, the boy set on his cape and ventured to build his own raft, for he was a clever one, you see, and could easily make one from reading a book once at the local library. And it was quite the complete raft, which included a large rectangular shaped box, which fit his size just comfortably. This, he said, was for him to sleep safely while the raft carried on, and he would not simply roll into the sea when the waves crashed.

He made his provisions to the best that his mother had in the larder, of peanut butter sandwiches and lime jellies. He was very well-thought in his plan except how could one expect a boy of the age of eleven to really know the necessities of running away from home and to the unknown. But he was a different child to the rest of them at school; known for making weird things and bringing them to school, like the robot arm that could feed you food, or the pen with which one could write with and eat the ink too! Some tasted like sweet liquorice, some like strawberries and some like roasted chicken with rosemary seasoning. The little boy aspired for the unknown, to dream and bring to life creations of which no one had ever seen before.

So when he heard there were other lands with strange resources and strange people, he could not help but plan to reach the lands somehow, even if he should die trying.

For what seemed like days, he lived in his tiny little bunker, curled uncomfortably and told himself to stop from crying when he was scared of the waves that rocked hard against his weak little raft. He convinced himself, night and day that the end would be worth it.

It had hardly been three days but it felt like months to him, when the coast guards caught up to him somehow. Shining their lights on him in the darkness, he cursed when he saw them and his mother on the deck of their very large boat, screaming at him. His mother, with good sense, read his goodbye letter in his room and quickly left to fetch his father. And together, they raced down to the port, calling for the Sapphire Coast Guards to fetch their boy.

No one had seen the boy on the raft, drifting out to sea but it was not a difficult task when all boats were sent out on account for the alarm of the missing boy. He was defiant in remaining in the boat, even until the very last end when the guards dove into the water to fetch him. He later admitted that he would have gone with them anyway, having run out of sandwiches.

The dramatic rescue won the family the talk of the town and he was constantly talked about as the boy who dared to venture into the other worlds, for you see, no one had ever left Sapphire Land. It was hardly spoken about and nobody had been curious enough to try. The poor boy got such a scolding from his mother and was grounded for a whole year, forced to spend his afternoons working with his father, the carpenter.

This, he never saw as punishments, for he had been taught many a thing from his father. As the boy grew older, he was making and creating new things all the time, some useful and earned him some money. Some were not, but were simply kept at his family home, which became his very own laboratory. And though his parents had thought his crazy dream had been dead forever, they never knew the strong heartbeat of their little adventurer that longed to see the world. His passion and determination knew no bounds. When they were of old age, they passed away together in their sleep, holding hands.

The boy had also advanced in his age; seventy-ires in Sapphire time. I say Sapphire time because in our world, the equivalent measurement was 140 human years.

This boy became known, to all of Sapphire folk as The Inventor.

Chapter 1: Help Wanted

The Inventor’s makeshift laboratory was one riddled with dangerous slime, dusty old trunks, and massive books that barricaded the room into a maze-like wonderland. You could almost hear the room crying for a breath of fresh air or the couch to be thrown out. Here the Inventor worked day and night, creating, recreating, destroying and rebuilding. Occasionally, due to the nature of his odd job and need for complacent companionship, a poor animal was subject to his unfortunate love and affection.

This love and affection came in the form of singing off-key and feeding the wrong type of food to the animal. He had an odd way of showing love, never one to display it on humans but on animals. He adored all creatures, keeping them caged in his horrid laboratory while he went about his business, fixing this and that. And while the poor animals were subject to captivity, they knew by instinct that his heart was pure, eccentric but pure. So as the mismatched food was brought to the cage, they only whimpered and stared at his loving eyes, wishing to speak but could utter nothing.

He had in his companionship, a young man as his assistant. He was a stocky young fellow, with short blond hair and a towering height. Thick black glasses covered most of his good features and he had a birthmark on the side of his neck, in the distinct shape of a mango. This he explained was perhaps due to his mother consuming too many mangoes whilst pregnant with him, or his father, a farmer, having a great harvest of mangoes the year he was born.

None of this made sense yet it didn’t matter to the Inventor about the birthmark. As long as he