Title : escaping de’Opus Dei
Author :james
My name is Darren Strudge, I work at the
“Opus Dei” organization. A really secret organization that decides other people’s
future. 80 years ago, on 1 january 2011, my father and his 4 other friends
created this organization to protect
their loved ones from other
people. Now i’m 27 years old, and since my father died a few years ago, everything changed and the organization was his last legacy to me. This organization work in very mysterius
ways. Every single of us are given
different sectors, which differ according to our choices. I was assigned to a
city called Terra.
The organization is almost like the mafia,
where members are not permitted have any kind of connection with normal people, or rebel from
their duties. If they are found to have a connection with normal people, they
must die. My life has been normal for an “Opus Dei” member until i had this
amazing and life changing adventure. That adventure begins when i met this
girl. Let me tell you my adventure.
That day began like the other days, I woke
up at 6:30 when i first heard my tablet beep. I knew that it wouldn’t be an
ordinary message. That tablet is the ringer of my assignments and duties, it tells
me when they need me. So I stood up slowly from my bed and walked 2 feet away
from my bed to grab that tablet. When i read what it wrote, I knew today would
be special, i knew that this duty today will change my life forever. My hunch was
true and that day really changed my life.
When I went to the road that I was
assigned to, I spared a second to look at her for a while, and I felt something
strange between my heart and lungs. This feeling caused hard breathing, but I
liked this strange feeling and I wanted to keep it. And I start to wonder if
I should
perform the duty that was assigned to me or if i shouldn’t do it.
I was a bit confused at the moment, I didn’t
know what I should do because i’ve never felt this way. I dont know whether
this feeling will disappear if I execute the assigment, or will this feeling
change into someting else. Or maybe it will change into something even better. But one thing I know for sure is
that if I execute this duty, I would never be able to meet her again in my
life. That was the most diffilcult choice I madee in my life. I know if I do
not finish this duty to kill this girl, I wil get into really big trouble and
my life is at stake.
After a few minutes of thinking, i made my
decision not to follow my orders. So from that moment, i consider myself a villian to the organization. But i dont care
about that first, what i care is about
this girl i’m looking at. So with courage and recklessness i came to this girl
and talked to her like what I thought as a normal
person.
I found a flower, picked it, and walked to
her, and nervously asked her, “will you be my girlfriend?”. But instead of
saying “yes” like in the books, she laughed at me. I asked her again, ”what’s
wrong, why are you laughing at me?”. And when she heard me saying that she
laugh even harder. She answered in a rude voice, “Are you an crazy?, you’re asking
me to be your girl friend, we dont even know each other”. I asked her again, “
Will you teach me”. After a few moments of silence, she finally said “yes”.
First she told me that we cannot talk
about things like that in the open area, and we needed to go to some place more
private. So we went to the nearest coffee shop. While we were walking to the
coffee shop, I asked her name. She reply with a gentle sound, ”My name is
Elizabeth Green, but you can called me Elizabeth”. When we arrived at the
coffee shop, we directly queued. While queing, someone cut in the line, making
an old lady’s coffee spill to the ground. I directly pulled out my laser gun
and pointed it to that person.
And when I looked at his face, he turned
pale and begged for forgiveness to me. I could’ve pulled the trigger any second
then. Elizabeth stopped me, and yelled at me with a high tone of voice ”What
are you doing, and where did you get that weird gun?”. At that moment i realized that i was not in
the world i used to know. I cannot point a gun at some one and shoot him when
ever i want to.
So I put my gun back into its holster,
then Elizabeth and I got out of that place just before the cops came. So we ran
and we kept on running until we reached this place called the “Smithsonian
Institution Building”. So we came inside, and at first she asked me about 1 or
2 question and then it multiplied to 6 then to 13. Even after it hit 13, she
still kept on asking again until it reached about 41 questions. So I asked her
to calm down and breathe.
So I explained to her about my life, about
the organization that I worked my entire life until this morning. And i also
explained to her why i risked my life, and chose her. After around of 10 minutes
of talking suddenly, BOOM!!!. The whole room was instantly filled with black
smoke. When the smoke started to
disappear a bit, we started to find our way out, until I recognized a symbol.
The symbol of of the “Opus Dei” organization. From that moment, i spoke to
myself that the game was ON.
So asked Elizabeth to be quiet and walked
fast towards the direction of the sunlight that was coming from a broken
window. When we got out of the building, one of the “Opus Dei” member spotted
us. So we ran as fast as we could, but unlucky my left feet was shot. But we
kept on running and running as far away from the building. Until we stopped
under a tree and started thinking where to go. Then i remembered my friend Zee.
I don’t know if he would help me or not, but it was better for me to try rather
than to do nothing.
So i came to his house. At first he was
shocked when he met Elizabeth, because he knew about the consequences that he would
get if he is discovered having a connection with a normal people or a rebel.
But after I explained it to him, he understood why I chose this path. He wanted
to help me. First I asked him how to make myself unable to be caught by the
organization. At first he said that it was impossible. But i begged him to help
me escape. And the he said that ‘ There is a way, but even i don’t know if it works or not”. So I told Elizabeth that she better get
home and forget all of this.
But she answered me with her calm voice, that she would follow me
and she was ready to take the consequences. So I asked zee what is the exit
road, and he explained to me that there is an experiment that my father and his
friends did as an exit road from the organization. And he told me that this
experiment was not what i think it is. The main materials of this experiment
was really simple things in our daily life. The main materials included doors.
So this is the simple explanation of how this thing really works. So when we
enter that door we would teleport ourselves to other places instantly, it was
like a portal. And when we already reached the other place, we must find the
other doors and go through it tp get to other places again. There were 13 of
them in total, and when we found all 13, we must go throught it to finally be
safe.
But it was not an easy task because these
doors look alike the normal doors. That is why we needed a map. And not to
mention the “Opus Dei” will be tracking us unti we were finally dead. That was
why time was really important and crucial. The faster we move, the less chances
exist that we would get caught. So I asked Zee for the map, and elizabeth and I
directly left to follow the map to find the first door. When we reach the first
door, both of us looked at each other for a moment. And then together we entered
the first door. At the same time, we appeared in a differerent place. When we
looked around, we are sure that we
arrived in a country called Spinx.
Without waiting any longer, we started to
search for more doors, everything ran smoothly until we reached a country
called Alchaztar. When we arrived at Alchaztar, we just needed to find the last
door, which was the 13th. When we were searching for the last door,
we were spotted and caught by the “Opus Dei” organization. We were brought to
thier base in Istra. When we arrived there, both of us were seperated from one
another. Both of us were being interrogated. And we stayed in that place for
about 6 months, and during that time we were threated like animals. We were
flooged, beaten, and spit upon by the guard.
Today is January 1 2143, the day I was
meant to be sentenced to death. I had a last visitor, and when I saw this
person, he was like an angle to me, because this person was really familliar to
me. This man brought a thick old book and showed it to the guard. After the guard read it, they released me and
Elizabeth. I knew this familiar man, this person who brought us out of the
prison was zee, my closest friend. The
fresh air and bright sun greeteed us like never before in six months. In order
not to waste the time that we have, we came back to our first goal coming to
this place, to find the last door.
Later that afternoon, we searched for that
last door and found it. But the problem is that the door was locked. So we seeked
for the mistake, if it was the wrong door or the map was incorrect. But after a
few minutes of reading the map again, we formed a decision that the map was
correct. The only problem was what was written from the map is, that one us
must die and let the others pass the
doors. So I volunteered myself to die and let the others pass the door. But
Elizabeth disagreed, and decided that she would die for us. So we argued, until
we suddenly heard a gun shot.
Zee shot himself. When I saw him on his
back in the ground, I ran towards him and
hugged him and asked “Why did you sacrifice yourself, let me just die”.
He didn’t answer, and I cried for a long time until Elizabeth pulled me away
and said “Let’s go, there is nothing we
can do to bring him back”. So I held her hand and walked towards that door
together. We arrived in a mysterious place, which is as far as our eyes can see,
just leaves waving following the direction of the wind. Birds flying freely and
their chirp making the sound of heaven, this place is full of peace and
joyness. And in the middle of it there is a small house. We entered the house
and found a dusty letter. We open the letter, and read what’s inside it. The
letter read, “Welcome Darren and
Elizabeth, you are the first two people to arrive on this planet, the planet of
Earth”.
