Hearing this, unknown greed flashed across the superior's eyes, which everyone failed to notice as they were deeply amazed and in thoughts about what was said.
"Where is this artifact…?" The superior asked with interest.
"Sir, I'm not sure, it's on the raider, but it changes location every two hours. Until I figure out how to track its next location, I cannot guarantee our luck in finding it, so I'll have to monitor it for a few days" He sincerely asked for permission.
"Fine, get to work…"
"Yes Sir…"
After the young scientist left, a space agent came before the man.
"Sir, are we going to return home with that Shard thing…?"
Assuring him they were going to return home, as long as they found it. To which the young man happily went away to share the news with his comrades.
As soon as the young man left, the smile of the older man's face was replaced with a disgusted look, one of contempt and disdain.
After hearing the wonderful news, everyone became excited and motivated to work more and harder in order to find the Shono Shard and return home.
Turning his attention to his subordinate, the older man asked with a hint of displeasure
"Have you found her…?"
"Sir we're still looking, please give us more time…" The young man pleaded in fright, Assuring the older man that the person would be found.
Suddenly, almost like an earthquake in the space station, everything went upside down, agonizing screams were heard in the underground room, sharp and loud, but it only echoed within the room the rest of the station still obviously continued about their business.
"I'm giving you all six weeks to find her, after that you all would become lunch to the creature underneath this room…I'm sure you understand…?"
"Yes…sir" The man stammered.
After four years, they still remained on this ship, most of them regretted leaving their planets to discover the unknown, many died and many disappeared, this only fueled their desire to return home.
"The whole ship became quiet…what happened…?"
"Sir!, Sir! We found something…" a young man from the research team ran up to him.
"What's that…?"
"Sir, I have no Idea, but it looks like a crystal…from my research it is a rare, naturally occurring crystal that possesses the ability to harvest and store vast amounts of energy from the quantum fluctuations in space-time. It has limitless energy" His subordinate responded excitedly.
"What is it called…?"
"It is called a Quantum Crystal Sir"
"Where did you find it?"
"It was in an abandoned space station where we went to find supplies".
"Let's go back there, maybe we can find more"
On his order the turned the space ship around, in the direction of where the Quantum Crystal was found.
On reaching the location of the abandoned space station, what came into view was the ruined state of the station and the disgusting smell of what seemed to be an animal corpse, but it was large and looked more like tentacles.
The team searched, but could not find anything that had a similar appearance to the Quantum Crystal they saw earlier.
Returning empty handed, they reported on their findings to the dismay of their captain.
He immediately ordered everyone to take a break then continue their search as the space station was huge.
Elynium headquarters
Tyra felt her eye twitching from time to time for no apparent reason while cleaning her room. She had been so worn out with training that she always collapsed when she laid on something soft.
At the end of the day, everyone still had to train at the order of the Chief.
In the silence of the room, only her and her thoughts were in constant battle, not even aware when she fell asleep.
In the darkness of the night, a dark figure quietly walked into the room, not making a sound from beginning to end. The figure gently sat beside Tyra slowly sinking his weight into the soft mattress in order not to wake up the sleeping beauty.
He gently placed his lips on her forehead leaving a soft peck then slowly went down to her nose, and then her lips as the beauty stretched her body in his arms, slowly waking up.
Opening her eyes, Tyra was surprised to find the room empty, actually not surprised, because her room was supposed to be empty only occupying her, but for some reason, she felt that there was someone else at least a few minutes ago. As this went on, she couldn't help but began feeling insecure in her on room, sometimes waking up with hickeys and bite marks and most time with swollen lips.
She had no one in mind who could do such a thing, and to make matters worse, no matter how hard she tried to catch this person, he always manages to escape.
Still worrying for how long this person will continue to visit her, being a twenty-six years old woman, and making sure her life within and outside the Elynium walls were clean. She couldn't help but recall that one night which was an accident, she couldn't understand. Especially as she forgot everything except the hickeys and sore body after waking up.
Only Morgan knew of this incident and decided to keep it a secret for her, to maintain her good reputation.
Thirteen months ago, the Organization gave everyone a break, to enjoy themselves and spend time with their loved ones and friends.
Everyone had plans for this vacation, except for Tyra who preferred to stay in her room within the organization and keep training, also helping the staff, that they had to kick her out. Every year she did the same thing of staying back during vacations.
Morgan invited her to a group gathering with his friends, to which she agreed since she had nothing important going on, but two hours later, she was unexplainably drunk.