Fantastic Earth (The Journey)

BUTTERFLY

James felt a sense of life within himself, after a long struggle with solitude.

through Akira and his mother, he was able to taste a bit of harmonious and warm family life, he never expected, could find a mother figure that he had never seen before. Moreover, it can taste the delicious cuisine made by the hands of a mother.

All this time, James had only been living with an old geezer who was always busy with his lab,

Every day all he saw was a test tube filled with a colorful liquid that sometimes caused an explosion and burned out his whiskers and eyebrows that had turned white.

Rarely did he notice James, what else for nutrition, being able to find a loaf of bread on the dinner table alone was already a marvelous miracle for James.

Many times all he did for James was inject various kinds of fluids into James' body, no matter what his purpose was for? James had to repeatedly endure pain due to a syringe that was punched into the skin layer of his dermis every day, thrashing was useless, he said, grandfather tied his body with an iron chain so that he could not escape as well as he could.

" James, can I tell you a secret?" James flinched, Akira's voice breaking his reverie,

" will!" James nodded his head with a big smile on his lips, he looked very enthusiastic to see the little secret of Akira.

" Come with me!" Akira hands James who has not had time to get off the dining table chair,

His body was slammed following Akira's half-running steps.

Akira was too excited to take her running through the stairs leading to the second floor of his house.

only half the way through, Akira stopped his steps, and,

" Oh, forgetfulness..!" with his right hand, he patted his not-so-wide forehead.

James, follow in Akira's footsteps to stop his steps.

" James, you wait here first y! I'm gonna grab something in my bag!" Akira turned his body to prepare to go down the stairs that had been climbed earlier.

James obeyed Akira, waiting for Akira to return, sitting among the last steps he climbed, from above he enjoyed the view of the interior of the house is very beautiful and arranged so neatly, on the side of the dining table that he was sitting earlier, James saw Mother Akira who was cleaning her dirty kitchen, which was very dirty, some of the dirty dishes used for lunch, piled up in the dishwasher.

" Is all mommy always good?" he muttered, while holding his face between two hands that he folded on his knees.

on the top wall directly opposite the dining table, he saw a large painting containing pictures of Akira's face with his parents smiling sweetly.

" Is that person beside Akira and her mother what they call Dad huh?" James asked himself.

He was immersed in question after question that had never been divided, he just realized, quite a lot of human species have a name on this earth, they called the adult male Father, then they called the adult female Mother, and the child for the male and female of his and Akira's age. Somehow he just realized all that since the age of 10 years on this Earth, why grandfather never talked about Dad, about Mom, about Mom, or even about who he really is.

" James, have you met!" again the loud and cheerful voice of Akira spread his daydream.

He saw Akira smiling down his eyebrows, while showing two jars of caterpillars that he placed parallel to his face. Akira's style is indeed no cure, his jovial personality, making anyone feel at home on his side.

" Come on James, let's go upstairs!" he gave her a jar of caterpillars to be brought by James, their steps getting closer to the little secret Akira was about to show her earlier.

"Tara...!" happily, Akira shows a garden that has a lot of flowers and lush small trees on the rooftop of his house.

" the beautiful!" James was flabbergasted, seeing such a beautiful sight before his eyes, many colorful flowers immediately spoil his eyes that had almost never seen the beautiful green scenery in his house.

" close your eyes, James,!" said Akira, the woman whose body is a little higher than her is indeed very full of surprises.

" why?" James did not comply with his request.

" don't let go of my hand James!" his speech, while holding James' hand, while his one hand hugged a jar containing a large caterpillar that was taken from his bag earlier, Akira led James through the path in the park, not too far away they stepped, the sound of the door being opened, and Akira stopped his steps.

" James, you can open your eyes now!" said Akira, who closed the door again.

With James slowly opening his eyes that he had originally closed, he was surprised by the hundreds of butterflies with a very stunning color and pattern were flying in a greenhouse Aquarium, he said, that size is pretty big.

" is it beautiful, James?" Akira smiled sweetly, looking at his collection of caterpillars that had turned into butterflies.

" It's so beautiful Akira!" James, who was still fascinated by the greenhouse, tried to touch some butterflies that perched on the leaves, but the butterfly flew and chose to perch elsewhere, his body was washed away by the beauty of the green expanse with butterflies flying each other alternately, to suck the nectar juice of hundreds of flowers that Akira deliberately planted to feed the butterfly. James walked down the greenhouse, his gaze distracted by a small pond with water constantly flowing over it, he saw several small fish swimming nimbly decorate the pond with colorful colors that are no less beautiful with hundreds of butterflies that are there.

" Well, there's a fish pond too!" shouted James,

Akira just smiled looking at James who looked very happy from before him.

" Let's James, let's get Diego off the leaves, so he can eat!" yelling Akira, James who was Asik looking at the small fish that was swimming, immediately went to approach Akira who had released some caterpillars collection.

" Akira, why do you like caterpillars so much?" asked James who had come to release some caterpillars while watching him wriggle on the leaves.

" The caterpillar will turn into a James butterfly!" replied Akira, who was still busy struggling with his caterpillar.

" really?" James was surprised, then he compared a fat caterpillar to his many short legs, with an adult butterfly that has beautiful wings with a slender body accompanied by few legs that are longer than the legs of the caterpillar.

" really James, caterpillars will fast in the dark to become a butterfly as beautiful as they are!" Akira stopped his activity, then spread out his arms, and let some butterflies perch him.

" it's so cool!" again James was surprised to see many butterflies that perched on his hands and head, as already know Akira well, they did not hesitate to perch on the body of the beautiful toothless girl.

" James, do you want to know that darkness?" Akira lowered his hands, so that the butterfly that alighted was immediately gone from his body.

James nodded his head, again Akira holding his hand, inviting him to explore the place again, Akira's hand deftly pulled the leafy leaves of a tree that is not so high.

" look at James, that's the darkness I'm talking about!" Akira pointed to a small oval-shaped object hanging between the leaves.

" what is Akira?" James asked Akira, he looked innocent like a newborn child, who had no idea what. But she felt very grateful to Akira who had given surprise after surprise for her who had absolutely no idea what about this world.

" that's what James calls a cocoon, that disgusting caterpillar is going to make a home out of his saliva, and fasting in it, he doesn't eat anymore no drink for days!" said Akira, he was like a teacher who explained the lesson to his innocent student.

" well, that's great!" again James was amazed by the magic after magic that occurred on this Earth. It turns out that this Earth is very Fantastic, he presents a landscape full of wonders and mysteries in it. James felt grateful, already on this beautiful Earth.

Then Akira took his hand again, and invited James back to his original place, to release the remaining caterpillar that had been in his search in the park this morning.

" Let's James, let's get rid of the other caterpillar, but remember, wear gloves to avoid the caterpillar that has feathers on its body!" again Akira gave instructions,

" why?" asked James innocently.

" later you'll itch an incredible itch, your body will swell, some species of caterpillar will be able to remove toxins from James's fur, as a form of self-protection!" akira said while using the new gloves that he had provided before.

" huh?" with a shocked expression, James looked at both of his hands, with a few hairy caterpillars that he was holding directly.

" don'T......."! The sound of screaming echoed in the room.