SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Copyright 2004 © Vasanthan Senguttuvan

Chapter 5

City New Palace wasn't much crowded as Great Chennai. I could easily fly by. Once it was Thar desert. Much effort has been done by the peoples organization's so as to make this as a commercial place at that time. It had a different architecture than most other cities. All the other cities have closed living places whereas this city was fully built of independent living units. Every houses has free space around it. The have grown many kind of flowers and other green plants. Each streets has 10mt depth and had a small water stream. We have been supported by magnetic pulsars placed under the stream. Virtually we will fly by almost touching the stream. It will be very nice to drive like that. The only draw back was I couldn't move faster than 400miles per hour. At the both sides of the streams they have placed beam lights so as to guide the travelers.

“We have reached your home town” I said loudly. My voice has been picked up inside my helmet and was reproduced within her helmet. There was no response. Within my helmet her heart beat was shown low. She might be sleeping that what I thought.

“Wake up Madhu” I told loudly.

“Hmm” She responded and went back to sleep.

“We were in your favorite place. New Palace”

“I will sleep for some more time. Please” She told in a slow voice. She might got tired of long travel. It took almost one and half hours from Great Chennai.

“No wakeup” I repeated.

“Mmm” She stretched her hands until it hit the roof and turned opposite side in the seat. It was well cushioned and so she didn't find any difficulty in sleeping.

It is no use to speak her. I turned my car to the original car mode. Her seat came nearby me and mine was adjusted like ordinary car seat. On both sides it covered fully and now my car got its ellipsoid shape. The jet engines stopped and we were moving only by magnetic pulsars.

Now tried to wake her. I shook her shoulders. She opened her eye slowly but not fully.

“We may have a problem...” I paused my words and made a 180° rotation of my car. Before she scream I lowered my car so as to get into the stream of water. We were inside the water traveling upside down. She might have tried to scream but she stopped by multiple surprises.

“... if you didn't wake up” I continued now and came out of the water making a turn like a dolphin.

She dropped the idea of screaming as she realized I was doing this with intention. But now her heart beats were much up.

“You son of a ...” she turned towards me. “Wait. You can scold me later” I stopped her before she complete her sentence. While moving I made a turning cycle and went into the water, came as such out of the water and continued to move. Water splashed as we came out in a real fast from within the water. I have already slowed down my Ferrari to 30mph

“OK OK. Its nice. Its enough” She replied. By this time she should have been normal.

“Wait and see” I told and continued to drive like that. In few moments few dolphins came nearby my car. I stopped rotational sink but I directly sink inside the water and came out every 20meters. Those dolphins did the same way I did.

“Waavh” She was really happy. For few seconds we were traveling like this and I gestured a salute to the dolphins and picked to my normal speed. I saw the time displayed on the car screen. It was almost 11.30pm.

Fornax was a big restaurant and mostly very high class people will come there. I don't have any reason for choosing that restaurant but as it was her home town she had already took me here. And it seemed she really loves that restaurant as so we were there for that night.

It was built in a real different position At a four corner where the water streams would meet they have built the restaurant. The corner was four hundred meters wide and nearly the restaurant was two fifty meters wide, I asked these details to a server when I came before. The real fancy part was the restaurant was built by digging the corner. The roof top was like old Arab styled palace. The roof top was at the ground level. Water fell all round the deep well. When we travel at normal speeds over the four corner you will fly over the restaurant, but it was not allowed to do so. You have to go round the big circle.

I made a fast break after going few meters away from the water stream. We fell directly along with waterfall. This time they have drawn some holographic images over the waterfall. It took few seconds to come down. As I was not allowed to fell freely I turned my car upside down facing the front side to the ground and came towards the waterfall. It was the allowed procedure to come down. I hate doing things that stupid. Exactly at the ground level for the restaurant a small branch of water went inside the land for guiding the cars. After few meters the water stream went inside the land forcing us to enter into a circle drawn with lights. All the lights in that turned from white to yellow, thus by indicating the other cars to wait till I clear the place. The light circle was around five meters wide so as to make a clear image from well within the top. We both came out of the car.

“Did you face any problem in your car sir?” a few man like robot came nearby. They are parking guiders, as I fell directly they should have thought I'm having problem.

“No, not exactly its alright now” I told when I turned towards Madhu. She was adjusting her dress. I went near to her and took her right hand “Come my lady” I told with a smile.

When we began to move I turned towards one of the robots and told “Just tell the route, she will park herself”. The white dressed robots moved towards my car and began to talk.

We had to make a small walk to enter into that restaurant. It had a very big doors, exactly made like the Taj Mahal entrance.

“It look nice isn't it?” She slowly rest her head on my shoulders. I struggled but I continue to walk. After few steps she came even nearby. I want to avoid her closeness when I felt the heat from her body.

“Yeah, Its great” I told thinking of taking her head from my shoulders. “Wait a minute, I placed your gift on my car. You just wait on the hall I will come in a minute.” I turned back without waiting for her response.

I heard she told “But..” I made a fast steps back to car landing place. She might have disappointed, but I can't do like that. After I reached the place where we landed I turned back and saw her. She was moving slowly towards the hall.

“Yes Sir What is the problem?” the one of the white dressed robots asked me. Others were busy in serving the incoming cars.

“I put my gift in my car. If you could tell me where is the car parking I can take it” I told looking around the path for car parking.

“Well Sir, I will go and take it for you”

“Sorry, that was a costlier one”

“Don't worry sir, we are not humans, and humans can't enter into that place sir”

“Machines restricting humans, where the hell this is going to end” I told myself without making any sound.

“I know your Car, Can you give your finger signature? So that I can open your car Sir?”

“Hmm. OK” I opened my purse and and took a finer print slide. I pressed my thumb on it. These slides will have my print for few minutes, then the slide will decay. To get security everyone are requested to carry the slides with them. I gave the slide to that robot and said “Its in the front panel itself. Its gift wrapped”. It nodded its head and ran. At the one end of the circle there was a opening controlled with automatic sliding doors. When this robot went there the sliding door on the floor opened and it jumped into it.

After seeing that “Well I can't jump into that!” I convinced myself and I closed the my purse. I opened again to see her photo I had with me. Probably that is the only paper I might be using. I don't want her image to be disappeared by any means, I could put holographic slide but some day it might lost power. In that photo Maya was laughing loudly in that looking at the sky. Usually she didn't laugh loudly, every thing got stopped by a smile. I took much strain to make her laugh.

Once she came to home to soon, I didn't went to council that day. It seems she was happy that day. Gini told me that she had come and so I went from kitchen to the hall. When I was out of the kitchen I saw her going towards my bed room. She might thought I will be sleeping. It was late evening. I slowly put forward my steps and signed Gini to disappear. As She was about to open the bedroom I was standing in her back. Her 3RD assistant was butterflies. It was seven in number each of them have one colour dominant in their wings. They were flying around her. As they saw me they laughed. She was wearing a white shirt and a black jeans. Usually she didn't wear jeans as she changed herself to Saree for me. As they laughed she knew that I was standing in her back. She lowered her head and thought something for a while and suddenly she turned towards me.

“You seems...” before I conclude she told “Hold me” and jumped over me. Without having time to say “wait” I lowered myself and took her kneels over my chest and stood up. She didn't have much wait so I didn't find any problem in lifting her. She stretched her arms, looked at the top and shouted “Viji, I have completed” then She looked at me. “What is that?” I asked with a trouble as I can't breath easily holding her. She laughed and slowly bent her body in front of me so as to loose my balance. She increased the rate at which she is bending, if I left she will hit the floor. My heart pumped faster, I don't want her to fell down, so put my left leg back to the maximum possible and I opened my hand knot and held her hip within a fraction of second. I pulled her back as much as possible. With the increasing pain on my spinal card I can't stand further so I fell down to the right side. When falling I shouted “Bask” so as to help me. As I pulled her she got a chance to put her hands on my shoulder. Before Bask came we both fell down on my right side. I hit the ground and felt a severe pain on my back, she was over me holding my shoulders. She was still laughing “My DNA research is almost over”

“Don't you afraid you might have hit the ground?” I was asking reason for her actions. I didn't felt pain as I was sure that she wasn't hurt.

“I know you won't let me down” She laughed again throwing her long hair to her back still resting herself on my shoulders. Bask came by that time, It clicked a picture on that moment.

The photo had that moment with her long hair flying on the air. I closed my purse with heavy heart. When I looked straight the white dressed robot was already there. He might have thought he don't want to disturb me.

“You gift pack sir” It gave it to me.

Do I have to tell thanks or not? I was confused and I just smiled at him and began to walk towards Fornax entrance.

I don't remember what was inside that gift. I know someday this lady will request me a gift, so once upon a time I bought something.

I entered through the giant doors. A lady gave me a fresh red rose to me and said “Welcome” I looked at her and tried to recognize whether she is human or machine. Her eyes was blue. Without thinking much I entered into the reception hall. There Madhu was seated. The hall was filled with yellowish light and took two story height.

She was plugging each petal from the rose given to her. She might be angry, who knows. I went to her and gave that rose to her. She gazed a while and took her hand to get that. Before she get that, I threw away the rose and caught her hand saying “that doesn't seems to have any value” passing “in front of you”. She was happy again. I lifted her as I was holding her hand.

I planned to take her to the “Pair Restaurant” inside the Fornax. It was in fourth floor of that building. We went there through the lift. She humming something when we were in the lift.

When we entered the forth floor we saw huge bubbles flying by. Once we were at the entrance one of the bubble came nearby.

“Come” I went inside the bubble and showed my head. The bubble had half opening at the top hemisphere. She hold my hand for balance and entered into that bubble. Once we were in the bubble detached from the ground hook an flew around. There were already lot of bubbles flying nearby. There were two seats and a table. I lifted the candle and she was going through the menu. She ordered some thing to eat and she told it would be superb. I looked at her for a while. Then I opened the gift under the table without showing to her. There was a small box gift wrapped and along with that there was a pill. I took the pill and inserted within my ring not showing it to outside.

I saw the my watch. Twenty more seconds for 12pm. I was watching my watch for that time, then I took the small box and showed it to her. “This is for you my dame. Happy birthday!”

She took that and asked me “What is that?” in slow phase and with exited words.

“Who knows?” I told without moving my lips. She was busy with opening the box, so she didn't expected an answer.

When she opened it she saw a small diamond chained in a thin wire of platinum.

“Wavvh, great. Its really surprise” she uttered.

It was a gift for Shanti, misplaced. “Me too!” in a low tone.

“What, you don't know what was in that?” her mood changed.

“No, I was surprised to see you like diamonds” I lied.

She came back to normal mood again “I love diamonds also I love...” She stopped on something. “Thank god” I prayed.

Something came for eating. Flying robots came to our bubble for serving. We were chatting on something for half an hour. By that time we have completed our dinner. It was the time for me to act. Two wine glasses came by. I took spoon and let it down without her knowledge. I dropped to make sure that it fell by her side. I pretend to search for that then I asked for her to search by her side. As soon as she went down I took that low powered methyl alcohol tablet and dropped it in her wine. It may took thirty seconds to completely dissolve. But she took the spoon in few seconds. I was exited. If she took the wine she would know I have added some thing to that. I suddenly caught her hand and pretend to cry. “I miss my wife” I cried, she might have moved, “Don't worry its all our fate” She tried to recover me. But I didn't left her hand for twenty more seconds. For that time I was holding her hand and was crying by closing my face with her hands. Once I ensured it might be thirty seconds I left her hand and stood straight. She gave me a tissue paper for drying my tears.

“Oh, thanks” I took the tissue paper and washed my tears. It should have now well dissolved.

“Never mind. We will have wine for now” I took my glass and showed to her. She wasn't noticing my sudden mood change, it at all she would know something wrong.

“Cheers” She took her glass and told.

We were there for another five minutes. She became drowsy as I expected. But she should be feeling well as methanol combination would give her artificial enthusiasm.

“Dear, you work hard!” I started my investigation.

“Hmm” She was still sipping the last part of the wine. Once she completed she looked with me an attractive look.

“You see, I'm working hard enough but nobody recognizes, except” she passed as she was drowsy then she continued “you!, ha ha”

I was still looking in her eyes. She continued “Machine production bill will come soon, renamed version of Human production. I'm working on it”. I shocked a little but as there were chances, I wasn't taken by feelings.

“But, Gupta didn't like those kind of bills, isn't it my love” I told slowly without invoking her senses.

“Ha, he is a dummy person. Movli and me are going to rule this world” she laughed.

“Oh. My pitty girl, he is using you get the jobs done. He will kill you once you are useless” I was shouting within my mind. My inner mind told me “So do you”. I felt sorry for that. She believes me but I betrays her.

“Where are those documents?” I asked her. But she has lost her senses by that time. “Some day or other” I told myself and took her by hooking her hips. She was able to walk.

We came out of the bubble and went to the ground floor. All the way she was humming something.

Most watched as, but they didn't asked me anything as they would have thought she is over alcoholic.

We were moving out of Faranox to the car parking. She was moving without a constant speed. She sometimes stopped and sometimes walked fast. All these time I was holding her as she may not control herself. Nobody was there, as already the people are inside and they didn't complete. Suddenly she stopped and looked at me, then she turned and bent backwards facing me. As I was holding her hip she didn't fell down.

“I want to kiss you” she told, alcoholic was felt in her words. But I don't want to. I convinced that we are late. I don't know how long she will be wake. I told lot of reasons for a minute but she wasn't listening. She was moving close to me. There is no use, I thought. I prayed “Maya, I'm sorry” and closed my eyes.

Her lips touched mine. “At least be quick” I told in my mind. She then lowered her lips, slowly focusing on my lower lip. She covered my lower lip with her lips without applying any pressure. Then she licked my lower lip very lightly with her tongue tip. I was moved, and it was shown by my hands closing her towards me, but I controlled myself doing so. Suddenly I felt a irritating pain in my lips. I realized she bite my lips.

“Aaugh. You..” I stopped as it seemed it was bleeding. I fold my lips inside my mouth to stop bleeding.

She laughed with her less senses. Might be she doesn't know what she is doing.

“Your lips are tasty!” she laughed again.

“Bitch” I scolded without meaning it.

She laughed again and she began to sang the song “I'm a bitch..”. After first line she began to hum the song and slowly she went back to drowsy state.

The robots brought me my car. I first opened the right side and let her inside the car. I stretched her seat to the maximum. Then I went back to my seat and closed the door.

“Go back to Great Chennai” I commanded the car. “Take control of yourself, I'm going to sleep” I told the car. It began to process many things and started towards the ground level. It was 2.00pm. I stretched my seat also to get the maximum comfort. The screen went off and there was a thin beam of blue light inside. It would wake me by one hour, by that time we would have reached Great Chennai. I turned my her and saw her. She was sleeping like a baby. I should go to her house to drop her and then to my house, I planned before I fell into sleep.