The City of Metal. The city was built after mankind's disaster on earth. Lands and grounds drowning in the ocean and remain forever in there. It takes another thousand or millions of years to see again. Humans kept themselves alive inside the city with strict rules and lots of danger warnings. Humans can live in peace but it just a matter of time where the city can hold human's race and climate change outside, the ocean. An ocean is full of beautiful mysteries with terrifying fear to thoughts. The depth in the ocean can be easily won by one small human. A scared imagination as a pitch-black world, biggest fish to smallest fish, no oxygen, all around just water, flow, and the ending... death. Humans can't do anything to win this mother nature. They decided to build one special mankind that breathes underwater like a fairytale, a mermaid. By using two things, high technology machines and a baby. From time to time, they try to create this new human race, turns out they failed. Beginning the scared thoughts about the end of their lives, they try making the new one again. Until one by one, they finally create one human who can breathe underwater, have the amazing speed to race in the water, telepathies, and create unique with a beautiful voice. For them, they said "It's different from mermaids. It's like a siren." So, the new human race is named Remainness.
The children of Remainness most are female, with the same hair colors which different from other humans, light peach. They live inside one of the best facilities and are never connected to humans. Each remainness have one friend to serve them, a male which same ages with them and most of it found from the orphanage. Remainness is clever and pickle human, most they eat are meat than vegetables. If there is no meat, they gonna fast or hunting animals that easy to found like birds, mice, or fish near facilities. The question came to all scientists, Will they eat humans?
One of the largest pool with 80 meters deep created by the special unbroken glass in area 12. The water is cold and beautiful colors from the surface as blue until the depth becomes pitch black. A boy was sitting on one chair, hold a clean towel. He keeps watching his stopwatch until it rings. With a sigh, he stands to walk near the pool with his towel. He's waiting and waiting. Something that should come up now is still unseen. He splashes the water with a heavy whack.
"Come on now! It's time to eat!" yelled him.
After he yelled, the water splash, and come out a girl with light peach hair and yellow sharp eyes like a snake return back to normal human eyes. She swims to the boy slowly, didn't want to wet his wearing clothes.
"I am sorry, I thought I can reach 80 m deep just in 1 hour. Peace, Roger!" she said.
"1 hour is still not enough to go that deep.. and you take me here always in near lunchtime!" said the boy named Roger.
"Oh come on, I bored their menu. Always chicken meat and only have one! After finish eating, I gonna still hungry - huft!!"
"Sarah!"
"Okay, okay! Give me a minute to dress up." Sarah takes the towel and walks to the shower room. Roger walked back to his seat and waiting again.
The two of them rush to the dining hall and get their lunch. Just as Sarah said, she still hungry after finish her food. So, Roger has to spend his chicken legs again to her. They go out and take a stroll in the garden, see another Remainness and boys that do any kind of activity like sewing, play hind and seek, reading, and napping. They are rarely talking in groups. Like forever want to be alone just Remainness and the boys only.
"What a sunny, right Sarah?" tell Roger.
"Yup one of sunny days until tonight rain again." Sarah talks back.
"You're serious? The temperature will be cold tonight. I gonna ask Mrs. Rosetta for an extra blanket."
"How many blankets your need?" ask Sarah while they walk in the corridor.
"Two... maybe?"
"Then, you have three blankets. That's so many!" Sarah yelled back. She known Roger can't stand still for the cold since their first meeting.
"I am sorry I CAN'T stand cold, Sa-rahhh~ By the way, we're late for class."
"Let's go!" their run into a corridor in hurry.
In-class session,
"Earth is one of the living planets compared to twelve planets. Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in a solar system with liquid water on the surface. The distance of this planet to the Sun is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Lands on earth have a solid and dynamic surface contain mountains, canyons, and plains. The other is water include seas and oceans. Earth is also protected by an unseen shield called the atmosphere. This shield's function is to protect the earth and living things inside from meteoroids. The atmosphere has five layers named from below are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The air contains seventy-eight percent nitrogen, twenty-one percent oxygen, and one percent other ingredients that make all living creatures can breathe and live. Plants have been a million thousand years exist to produce and provide food for animals and humans. Animals came from any place inland like a lion, tiger, elephant, horse, bear, and any kind of fish. Humans also exist another thousand years with racing to evolution time as a modern human. Their built knowledge, culture, and races, also technology through centuries. Until comes the disaster that mankind not aware of to death comes faster. Disaster cames include flood, earthquake, hunger, war, overpopulation, disease, climate change, ice break, and melts, volcano eruption, pollutions, and more. Build by humans greedy and limited living creatures makes anger rise from mother's nature. Our home planet, Earth, gives a judgment, where lands drowning by waters and all living plants and animals take easy death and us as humans lives in the middle water land where we can't walk, we can't breathe, and only can swim. With a will to survive, mankind once again rises their cities, by build city by metals by named the City of Metal. The city for humans life and existence..."
A video recording played and told a history of the earth until humans existence, saw by all student in the class, Remainness, and their human boys. A teacher's eyes keep scroll around to see those students pay attention to the class presentation video. Sarah only half pay attention, disturb her friend Roger by sending little paper with few words. Roger keeps patience play along with her during class. Also, he thought more about this video already repeated all a time during two months.
"The class is boringg~~," said Sarah after the class is finish.
"I said the same thing, Sarah," answered Roger.
"Always repeated and always boring. Why the others keep pay attention? I already noted those words in my brain."
"Because it's Mrs. Michaelis. She's scary during her class. Her punishment is the scariest one." said Roger.
"I can't object that... Can't she present another video, like animals or fairytale or something else?" despair Sarah.
"Well, her first curriculum in these two month is about that. Next, I don't know. We have to wait for it, Sarah." tell Roger.
"Yeah right.."
"Come on, snack today is ice cream and some sweet biscuits!"
The two of them walk side by side in the corridor to the hall, enjoy their conversations on a nice warm evening.
In other places, a group of white-dressed humans has some important and secret conversation. A pale and worried look was shown from their faces. One man speaks first, "Is it true? That this underground of this city can't hold much longer? How the condition of the productions? Are our metals can't hold rust anymore?"
the other man speaks, "I can't say more. I try to inform the production matter more frequently."
"This is a disaster. Disaster! This city can collapse at another time." said the others too.
"Did we fasten the project from now?"
"Gentleman, I think it's time for us to start the new project," said the other one with ack as the leader, "Please, shorten all the schedules and clean the others another schedule that cannot be taken advantage of right now."