" What was ENIGMA like?"
Aimèè had asked.
Jay didn't answer immediately.
He was thinking.
ENIGMA was the worst place ever.
He didn't know how best to describe it and he didn't want them feeling dreary.
" I'll guess for myself"
Aimèè said.
" You can't imagine"
Jay finally spoke out.
" ENIGMA is a place of terror, a Dystopia that changes an individual"
" Since the last few generations only two have been granted access to ENIGMA"
They knew it was an emotional moment.
" So what did you see?"
Aimèè was impatient.
" What was ENIGMA like?"
" It was like being sucked into a supernatural vortex"
" You mean you were sucked up by a vortex that took you round ENIGMA"
She tried to understand.
" No"
" ENIGMA is a vortex "
" So you're saying ENIGMA is mass of water and air that sucks things to its center"
" Yes, but that mass of water and Air is ENIGMA"
" I don't get it"
" You have to feel it to understand"
" That's not possible"
" It is"
" How?
" If you both stumble on ENIGMA by accident, you'll be seen to have a pure heart and mind"
" You'll be granted access to the place of mystery"
" Can I ask you something?"
He nodded in affirmation.
" Did ENIGMA make you this way?
Leah also wanted to know the answer to that question.
" What way?"
" You've lost your humor"
She told him plainly.
" Yes"
" But I gained something in return"
" So ENIGMA takes something in return to uncover a mystery"
He nodded
" A mystery to solve other mystery"
Leah said lazily.
Jay nodded.
Aimèè didn't understand but she was probably tired of asking questions.
" Tell us what you saw"
Leah said to him.
She did a good job hiding her curiosity just in case there was something actually wrong with this guy in front of her.
" What mystery did ENIGMA give in exchange for your humor"
" The secret of the first Guardian"
He said to them.
Aimèè had a snack in hand and sat legs crossed.
" What?
There was silence and Aimèè's crunching was quite loud, the only sound in the room.
Jayden and Leah turned to her.
She didn't realise ,just kept on eating.
Then she noticed there was silence and looked up.
She saw them staring at her.
" What?
She asked them carefree.
" His story was so good, I thought I'll need a snack"
" C'mon Leah, doesn't seem like a movie in your head?
She asked.
Leah liked Aimèè negligent behaviour and she didn't know Why.
She kept on feeling like someone was listening in on their conversation .
" Whatever"
" Zen has more powers than we can imagine"
" What about the Guardian's part"
" Zen is the son of the first Guardian of ENIGMA"
" So how does that relate to Zen's powers?
" And if Zen has so much powers as you say, Why Haven't we seen him use any powers?"
Leah asked.
" Yeah, He basically uses tech to get what he wants"
Aimèè added.
" He got an electronic heart, brain and uses biotech to modify himself"
" How did Zen get into the Past"
" And how did he get into the future"
" When?
Leah was confused.
If she thought she had secrets, she now knew that Zen had a dark past.
" How do you think Zen was able to subjugate Mars and now Earth"
" And He now has control over iavxa"
" Iavxa ,The planet supports life"
Leah was absolutely suprised.
" He took it all by himself"
Even if Leah wanted to believe it,
How could she?
Iavxa was a planet far away in another Galaxy.
It was said to support very complex species of life.
Even more complex than Earthians.
A trip to the planet had already been detected thousands of miles before the ship reached Iavxa.
A ship accosted the ship and sucked it up.
She was one of the scientist watching it from the 3D life display.
She was relieved because they hadn't made the mistake of allowing people on the ship even when Jake pluito thought it safe.
She never really liked Jake but she hated Zen more.
Jake had this compulsive personality, always wanted to rub off wherever He went.
She thought it to be emburdening but She would have attended his funeral anyway, she didn't hate him that much.
She didn't even hate him at all.
Just disliked some of his personality.
Her thoughts had run off .
She reverted .
" How sure are you He subjated Iavxa"
" Check it"
When it said " Check it" He ment to look it up.
Leah checked and indeed Zen had subjugated Iavxa.
" Where's Zen going with all this?
She asked still astonished at the news.
" Did you bother to ask?
" Did you find out?
She asked no longer caring .
" There was something about Subjating the Polymath"
" What?
Leah did not understand.
" That place where all species gather to share knowledge, The market of knowledge "
" What's it called?"
He said liberally.
" Oh you mean the Ahia Omuma"
She corrected.
" Whatever "
He said .
Leah knew this feeling.
Something was off.
" So you said we found ENIGMA by mistake, It would take us to be genuine and accept us?
She asked.
He nodded.
" If we decide to go and see things ourselves..
She was saying.
" Do you think We'll have a chance"
" No"
He said roughly maybe a bit tensed.
" Why?
Aimèè said fiercely.
" You said if we get there by accident ,we'll be accepted "
" That means we'll find answers and uncover mysteries"
She said full of anger.
" Just like you"
" It's not just about being accepted"
" Only a person uncovers a mystery"
" No two persons uncover a mystery"
" So how does others understand?
She asked.
" Let it pass Aimèè"
Leah said pouring milk into glass.
" Milk?
Jay asked inquisitive.
" Yep, I wanna go to sleep cause tomorrow You take us to ENIGMA"
She told Jay and Aimèè.
Jay seemed a bit suprised.
" Okay but we take different ships"
" Why?
" There's always a malicious code or some way to get around some things"
Leah said.
" We have to get to ENIGMA by accident and that's what We'll do"
" Ohhhh!
Aimèè realised.
" How come you're so smart Leah?
She asked .
" I fell in mud and didn't get a bath at all for a day"
Leah was heading inside with the mug.
" You think that worked"
She asked her following her in.
" I don't know but after that I became really smart"
She told her gulping down the milk, she had to go back and refill it.
" Hey Jay go to your room"
" And rest"
" We have a long day tomorrow"
Leah said filling her glass with milk and was going to carry the jug in with her
" Don't remember"
Jay said .
" Don't remember what?"
She asked.
" My room"
" That's not possible, I think we need to run some tests"
Leah dropped the jug concerned.
" I think something really must have happened in that place.
Leah suddenly wanted to get out of there, to leave the place.
She had Aimèè take him to what used to be his room.
She hurried to her room and locked herself in her lab.
She had a feeling she knew about ENIGMA.
Where had she seen it.
Where had she heard about it.
She looked up and sucked in frustration.
The answer was in head but she couldn't get it out.
She gulped down the whole jug of milk.
She slept off with the thought in mind bothering.
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She woke up suddenly.
She was breathing heavily but that was the least of her problems.
She rushed to her computer and starting typing on the keyboard hologram.
There were results on the Life Display screen.
She ran her fingers through her hair.
" Zen, I had seen it in his file"
" His report"
She said to herself.
She closed her eyes tightly.
She was in the room.
She knew because the pictures kept moving and doors kept opening even if she couldn't see the figure doing the actions.
She saw his table.
He was sleeping ,obviously intoxicated.
Alcohol was new to him.
She saw several files on the table.
She saw files.
His computer was unlocked.
She reasoned the situation out like she always did.
He was working on files.
Saw something that got him depressed and ordered for a booze.
Drank too much, got intoxicated.
She was obviously not there for him .
She needed to get some secret files from the computer deleted before he got to them.
She did that very fast.
Then she saw it.
ENIGMA
It was an electronic scrapbook.
He had been scribbling out the words using the light pen.
The screen looked like a nest.
She didn't think much of it but she saved it in the files she had come for and left.
She had five minutes to get out anyway before The whole place shut down and that was something her Tech couldn't handle.
She opened her eyes.
She remembered.
She smiled.
She opened her computer and searched for the file.
She got it soon.
She went through it.
It was a scrapbook.
A jotter , a sort of diary where he probably poured out his aggressions.
There were words like " I hate EniGma" # Better dead" " Incomplete" "Insatiable"
Leah could not help laughing.
She had always known Zen was an Oedipus .
Suffering from something from the past which he didn't want to let go of.
But all this was just what a teenager would so when they had a breakup.
The impressions were so thick, She knew he had held the pen with such contempt and anger.
Really?
She thought Enigma must really been a horrible place.
She kept on going through the scrapbook.
Then she noticed it was an attached file.
She started sourcing for the the actual file.
She didn't find any.
She starting working on retrieving it from the central database.
She got a general cover datas and servers.
Zen would notice someone was taking sourced information but with the cover datas and servers.
He wouldn't be able to determine the exact location.
Even if He did ,the server would lead him astray.
She was able to get the file.
She went through it
It was a diary.
It belonged to Zen.
Leah read it .
She had so many mixed up emotions
The experience she was reading up repressed emotions in her.
Things were happening to her.
ENIGMA was hell.
It was exactly as Jay had described.
There was a book that could bring up so many emotions.
Leah felt changed reading it.
She began to have doubts .
Did Zen actually write this?
She could help but wonder.
If every species had this .
The Ahia Omuma would need no more knowledge.
But If all the species were to encounter the pains and agony as described in the diary.
The whole existence of humanity would collapse.
The existence of the System, the other species would be annihilated.
She stood up .
She had uncovered a mystery.
She knew what Zen plan was.
She knew why He kept conquering universes and subjugating dimensions.
" Oh good heavens"
She exclaimed.
" He can't seriously do this"
Every experience, Jay had given had been written in the book.
She knew it was not Jay.
But now she knew where he was.
Jay could not have successfully left ENIGMA, even if he had the purest of hearts.
He also would not access to Zen's personal information.
He couldn't get that in ENIGMA.
He could only uncover his plans not his history.
" Then who's that?
She asked confused.
" That's a good question"