• Traveling To The Edge

    Sometimes Tess just wanted to lay down and scream to himself. This was just so...so. Tess sighed in frustration. It wasn't that the young prospector couldn't find anything, he surely found many things along the immense asteroid belt, but it was much too crowded there. Anything he found was now cheap due to the fact that everyone was a prospector. Tess hadn't really wanted to become one of the many in this job, he'd wanted to be a pilot. Unfortunately, his parents had been relentless. They always went out of their way to teach their only child their ways of their jobs, the job his family had apparently had since the 20th century. It was now the 23rd century. Couldn't his family grow-up a little?

    It's not that his job was stressful, it was fine by his standards really, but it just wasn't exciting. Tess looked out his window out into the flaming red color of Mars. Children jumped played and screamed against the small playground that was located practically just outside his door. He was rather rich truth to be told, but wealth was not important to him. He longed for adventure.

    He sighed deeply as he glanced over maps in his room. He put a large X over Mercury. “Another one done.” He muttered to himself as he sat at his desk. Venus, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto, he'd been to all of them, and all of their moons. He was practically a celebrity on Mars for it too.

    “Wait...” He murmured to himself softly. He rapidly flipped through his notes, scanning through all the moons and planets in the universe. His eyes stopped on one page, Neptune's. He searched though the words around it. He just knew he had missed one.


    Larissa, Proteus...the list continued. BAM. The name stuck out like a sore thumb. Triton. The only place known to man he had missed. Nobody had ever been there, or knew what it was like. He smiled, “Not for long.”

    The trip took only a few days. He was really good after all. He used tricks that had been long forgotten to many, perhaps even all people but himself of course. Soon, he saw a dark form start to appear in the distance. It looked plain, and bare from where he was. As he came to a landing, his eyes saw something that confused him greatly.

    Sparkles. According to his brief research, he would have thought it would be dull, and dreadful. But the sparkles glittered in the light in which his flashlight made. He bent down and brushed away some of the ash. He tilted his head to the side as he realized what it was that 'sparkled'.

    Carbon, the entire moon was made of carbon. He sighed and kicked away one of the many diamonds lying on the floor. “Darn.” He spat as he walked into his diamond space ship and paced across the diamond floor and gripped the diamond controls. He leaned back into the diamond chair. “I am so retiring.”