/Few day pass in an instant/
"Tu" Tutu try to nudge Zi Zen awake but no respond. Tutu try for few more time. Tutu feel hungry. The reason because there no meat left for it to eat. Looking at the door exit, Tutu decide to hunt for itself after several nudge on Zi Zen didn't have any respond.
"Tutùuu" Tutu try to open the door but it close tight.
"Hey, do you really want to go out. It underwater outside. You will get wet and drown. Moreover, we are quite deep in the lake." The train voice out.
"Tuuuuuu" Tutu start to tackle the door. 'Pom' Realising it doesn't work, it start to channel magic and make a water ball in front of it in attempt to blast the door open.
"Hey, hey, hey, what you are planning to do. Don't start shooting magic all the sudden. Wait, wait. Fine, fine, I will open it for you." The train give up after Tutu launch the water ball at the door and drench it. Now the interior also wet.
The door open. And somehow when the water was block by the barrier, it look like a looking through aquarium except it pitch black. Tutu walk to the barrier and use it hand to touch it, creating a ripple. Tutu push harder and it hand went through. Take a deep breath. Next, it attempt to put it head and push slowly until it pass the barrier. Then, with it strength, it push the whole body out into the water. The moment it out, it uses it tiny hand and feet to swim. After turning around and round in the same place without moving forward. Tutu decide to swim back. Not that it make any different. Even though the door is in front of it. Now the water current is pulling Tutu away from the train door. Tutu look at the door getting further and further away from it. Tutu try swim again but no vain. Tutu then only realise that Tutu can't swim at all. Tutu start to panic as it start to have difficult breathing as well. In effort before start running out of air, Tutu create a big bubble of water and blast itself by exploding in front of it creating a force to push it back into the train.
However, the force it too big making Tutu miss the train by lot and start to fly away. The mistake was when making the bubble, it butt is still facing the train but when release the bubble. The butt direction had diverted due to the water current.
"Tuuu" Tutu feel like crying as the train is getting further away and it is pitch dark everywhere. Tutu start to run out of air and it difficult to breath. It cold, dark and difficult to breath. Tutu try to swim and start charging another bubble. Tutu want to go to surface but even up and down, Tutu cannot differentiate it.
Just as Tutu want to shoot the last bubble he charge as a last attempt of effort, Tutu see something in flat hard shell is struggling to escape from a fish like aquatic creature mouth. Tutu can't see properly due to darkness but Tutu can feel like helping it even though Tutu itself is in life treating danger. Moreover, the creature is just in front of Tutu so if Tutu shoot now, it will hit. So without hesitation, Tutu shoot the bubble straight into the face of the aquatic creature.
'Boom'
The force blow the aquatic creature away but not before releasing the flat hard shell free. Seeing the flat hard shell save, Tutu feel relieve before fainting due to lack of oxygen. Tutu start to sink into the darkness slowly.
Just when everything is over, something grab Tutu and start to pulling toward somewhere secret in the lake.
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In the dream of Zi Zen.
A drop of water from a lake. Evaporated by heat, turn to water vapour and slowly rises to the air. When reach a certain height, it stop there and start floating about. After a while, the surrounding temperature getting colder, making the water vapour start to form cloud. More and more water vapour condensing into the cloud making the cloud getting bigger, darker in colour and heavier every passing moment. Finally, the cloud is too heavy and water start to drop from the cloud. This form rain. The scenery is beautiful. As the drop of water land on the mountain peak, it slowly make it way into a stream of water. Flow along the water until it reach a river. The river flow downstream but not before passing some people. There some people is playing with water, some are washing the cloth, fishing, rowing boat and eating oversize grapes. Ahead of him is another river, when join with a larger river The people just now feel kinda small. Look around, the tree is even bigger. Wait, think back, it not human, it a so small. There no human as small as the grapes. Then looking around, it only tree around. Accompany by some floating acorn, the journey is lonely with only sound of water flowing, occasionally hitting the edge or some rock in it path. After flowing a while, it reach a lake. The lake have nothing in peculiar but somehow it feel familiar. Then, slowly sink into the depth of the lake water. The scenery is beautiful but beside normal fish, all kind of weird monster like fish is swimming. Then, something familiar pass by. A turtle with something on it back. Something all white with exception black on it feet. Wait, it Tutu. Where are you bringing it to!!! Zi Zen try to focus his conscious to follow the turtle but no use. It still continue to sink downward. As it go further down, everything is pitch black. As there is nothing to see, Zi Zen start to feel bored. Just as he want to close his eye to sleep. Something whisper him.
"Do you know water? Do you truly know what it is? What it made of? What form it take? How it come about? Even when water disappear, it still remain as water, just in another form. It never truly disappear. And we call it ..."
"Gas." Zi Zen interrupt before the mysterious voice finish it word.
"Water or should I say liquid can exist in three form. Solid, liquid and gas. When heated, water evaporate to become gas. When it colder, it become liquid. When temperature become 0°C. It will start to freeze to be come ice. Is that what you want to say?
"..." There is no answer from the voice.
"Water is made of 2 Hydrogen atom and 1 Oxygen atom. Am I wrong?"
"..How do you know this. Even we have no idea about this until recently, we research and research about the marvel of water to be exist in all different kind of form. Do you know how much time we spend on it. People tend to be ignorant about the thing around us but we are different. In order to truly understand water, we travel far and wide. Searching all kind of water. Perform all kind of experiment on it. And we know water exist everywhere."
"Enough of your experience. Even my primary textbook are not long winded like you. I will tell you, water are amazing. Yeah, I know. I learn it back at my school days. How it exist, what form it take, what the use of water, how it benefit our body and etc. That are general knowledge that kid even know about this and you say need to research? You kidding me? Who are you? First meet with me and you start with the mysterious of water. And I though it something worth hearing like how galaxy exist, how the magic function or how can I be strong?. Water??? You must be kidding me." Zi Zen say
"You say school, you learn it all from your school. Where are you from? How come I can't remember learning it from any school I go." The voice continue.
"...Are you a dropout? No, even a dropout also know water can exist in three form. Do you even go to school?"
"How dare you ask something like that. I can tell you I finish school before I even turn 15 you know. I consider genius among my pear. I am the smartest." There is hint of anger and arrogant in the tone of the voice.
"Even form 3 you also cannot get into and you say yourself a genius? Finish school, genius, smartest? More like get kicked out of school because you are too dumb."
"YOUUUUuuuu... dare to mock me? Dare to accept my challenge. I will ask you random question and you going to answer it."
"What will I get in return if I answer correctly?"
" I will give you the fruit of my years of research. How it sound?"
"Never mind, keep you 'fruit of my years of research'. I don't need it." Any randow text book from my school is worth more that you 'fruit of my years of research'."
"You will regret it. Fine let proceed. First question, is snow made of water? If yes, how you prove it and why it doesn't look like water. Give reason for it." The voice ask as it think. This question took me so long to figure out when my teacher give it to me long time ago and after various experiment. I finally found the answer for it. Let see how you answer that.
Zi Zen made a face like he asked some idiot question. "Haih, you fruit of my years of research really doesn't worth anything."
"Just answer the question, it have nothing to do with the fruit of my years of research."
"Yes, snow is made of water or it should be water vapour. Snow happen beacuse when the temperature in the clouds is very cold, the water vapour in the air freeze before they can even turn into water. This can be prove snow is water by taking a bunch of snow and put it into a pot then start heating it. After a while, the snow melt and it become water, safe to drink provided it had no contamination. And for why it doesn't look like one because it freeze."
"But it don't look like ice also."
"Let me finish, snow form when water suddenly turn to ice in the air due to weather too cold.The ice crystal formed. However, it doesn't stop there. The ice continue to absorbs and freezes additional water vapor, finally growing into a form what you call it snow which then become too heavy and start to falls to Earth."
"Whoooo are you? How do you know so many thing about water? Even I live in water also dunno this much."
"Argh? Are you a fish?"
"You are a fish! I am a turtle. Call me sage turtle for I have achieve the pinnacle."
"Ok, Sage turtle. What you want exactly? Asking me common sense question and claim it to be something you research for a long time."
"l really research it for a very long time. And it not common sense question. You see I have deep understanding until I be able to feel the how the nature of the water work. From the lake, to the sky, until back into the lake. What a ride. Only those with deep understanding will be able to experience this. Which is what you are currently doing now." Sage turtle
"You mean the entire experience only can be experience by those with deep understanding?"
"Yes, consider yourself fortunate."
"Hahahaha, if this the deep understanding you all need. Then all the people in my world will be able to experience this. Wait, they do. By looking for the video at the internet, they can see the entire process in HD and with sound too."
"What, how dare you insult me. You think my intelligent is low, is it?"
"That not insult but truth. You see the reason I call it common sense because whoever go to school will be able to know this. Even if they don't, they still at least know ice can be form by putting water into the fridge and steam will come out when you heat it. Uncle turtle, I dunno what you had learn but seriously your knowledge on common sense is so limited."
"Hur, humph, you are very disrespectful to your elder."
"What I respect is true knowledge and humbleness even though you know it. Not showing off when you only know a fraction of it."
"You, you...." The sage turtle is angry.
"Kura, that enough!"
"Master, you...Sorry I lose my cool"
"Welcome to the realm of water. Where like my disciple, Kura say just now. Only those with deep understanding of water will be able to enter here."
Hmph, where he come from? Suddenly appear in front of me and I don't realise that it around us until now. Zi Zen decide to be cautious and went with the flow.
"Hello, how are you? It a pleasure to meet you. I'm Zi Zen. May I know your are?"
"I am fine. Pleasure to meet you too. My name is Lautan. I am the first to arrive here and thus name this place realm of Laut. You can say this is my world."
"Can you explain more about this place?
"Here is not the right place. Follow me, we will be entering a another place not far ahead."
"Eh, I though this is your world?"