Sung+Chul

= = =The Time Marble (written by jungsungchul)= 5th of April, today is the 16th birthday to Chow. He had a great day playing with his friends late. After the party was over Chow went back to his house ‘I’m home mom!’ ‘……..’ But nobody had answered. Chow checked all over his house but nobody was in the house. Chow thought this is the surprise party. ‘Oh, come on! I’m overage for this surprise party!’ Suddenly, a big bang sound came from the Chow’s room. ‘Oh, I get it!,’ and Chow went upstairs with a mind how can I act when they surprise me. When Chow opened the door slowly, but nothing happened to him. However, Chow saw a strange box, on top of the bed; something is written on the name tag. “You have a choice that open the box or trash the box.” Chow wondered that who gave this box to him and wondering what’s inside of the box. Few minutes later he decided to open the box. Something happened when he opened. Boom! All the lights turned off and turned on few second later. Chow was little scared about the warning but he is still opening the box. Inside of the box there was a small ball that the size was like a billiard ball. Chow grabs the ball and start finding something strange. The thin string was on the ball. Chow thought that the string was something that stock while the ball was making, and pulled. But, he recognized that the string was with the ball. Suddenly, the night changed to morning. He was surprised that the moon was on the sky a second ago but the moon changed into day. He was shocked and the alarm brought me back from chaos. ‘Oh my god! I’m late for school’ Chow packed his bag and put his mystery ball inside too. He was walking down but he smelled something delicious. His mom was cooking in the kitchen. ‘Oh, mom! You are back’ But his mom said ‘Uh? I was here all day, what are you talking about?’ ‘But you and dad were not in house yesterday.’ ‘Don’t lie on me!’ ‘But….but…..’ ‘Go to your school immediately!’ ‘OK….’ Grabbing the ball in one hand and reminding the warning. He met his friends in school and stated to tell about the ball but they didn’t believe him. Chow show the ball to them also they said there is nothing in your head. The first class bell rang. The first class was history. Taking history class was the torture to Chow. ‘Oh great’ Chow said with the horrible face Chow liked the teacher but he hated the subject. While Chow is studying in the school, he wanted to know how to skip the history class in easy way without caught by the teacher. Chow tried several times like sleeping the whole period but he got caught and leaving the school to skip the class but the school called to his parents. Chow was thinking a new plan to skip the class. Few minute later he imagined ‘what happens when I pull the string again’. So he pulled the string, teacher came into the class, few second later the history teacher walked the classroom faster than the normal speed that can people walks. About 10 second later, the teacher was jumping the whole classroom, history teacher walked out the classroom. Because of this event he, chow, discovered that when he pulls the string in the marble, it makes the time faster. The bell rang before the second class started. The second class was English but he loved the English teacher so he didn’t want to pull the string to skip the class. Waiting for the teacher to come in .The English teacher came inside the class in normal speed like always did. Unexpectedly, however, he lost his mind and his head knocked the desk. At the same time he knocked the desk everything stopped and the place changed to a big open field. There was a tree in the middle of the field. Chow wondered what happened to him and where he is. He started to search another clues. When Chow walked about a half of the tree trunk he saw a face alike on the tree. Chow was very interested about the tree that has a shape of the people face. He looked closer and saw his name written above the face. Thinking with wondering about who planted this tree with my name on it. He tried to touch the name but the tree trunk that is like a face shouted to Chow. “Get away from me!!!” Chow surprised about the tree was talking and asked. “What did I do to you?” The tree shouted again louder before. “You made me like this with your marble!!” Chow got terrified because of the three’s shout he fell down and knocked his head again. The same thing happened. Everything stopped and the place changed to the classroom. Chow wondered what did the tree wanted to say. Because he was sitting and thinking with doing nothing in the class the English teacher gave him a detention after school. Chow got a sad because he can’t think about the point that the tree said and he got a detention not following the class. Chow tried to ignore the tree and tried to concentrate at the study but be was still thinking about it. Same as the English class he got full detentions. While Chow was getting detentions, he wanted to use pull the string but Chow felt something would happen when he pulls the string. Chow spent 1 hour thinking he should pull or should not pull the string. However he hits the limit of controlling himself. Chow finally pulled the string. Once again, the clock moves faster and he finished the having detention. Chow thought that he did well and he determined this would be the last. Chow went home and told to his home and what happened, but his mom screamed to him and asked to Chow “why did you have a bunch of detentions?” and Chow said “I was thinking about the tree that I just told you” But his mom started to scream to him starting with why ‘did you do that’, ‘what would you do now’, and other things about life. Chow knows that his mother would scream about one hour. Because he did not want to listen to his mother and every word that comes out from Chow’s mom drives him mad, so he accidently pulled the string. Suddenly the sun went down and the moon came out. He felt something strange but nothing happened. His mother came to him and asked Chow ‘why are you standing there for a 5 hours?’ Chow got shocked that he lost his time just standing in the middle of the room. He discovered one more that the marble makes the faster. Chow went to his room and lied on his bedroom and start thinking the instructions of the marble. He thought when the pulls the string and moves front, how does this thing makes the time faster, and what would happen when he pulls the whole string inside. And fell asleep thinking about these things. Next morning he packed up to go to the school. Also, Chow packed his questions in to his head. In the school the whole teacher was watching Chow’s back thinking about yesterday that Chow did not moved a muscle when Chow was having a detention and the teachers thought he was dead for a long period. Chow arrived to the school and prepared the first question that ‘is it possible to move while the time is skipping fast. At the same time when the bell rang he pulled the string. The clock started to go faster and the teacher came inside. Chow tried to walk but the time was too short that he didn’t do anything. So Chow pulled longer than last one. The first class teacher, Jay, went out and the second class teat, Long came in and went out. However this time chow tried to move but the time was a little bit ambiguous for moving. Chow pulled longer than before. Nevertheless he can’t move any muscle. The whole class finished in one minute. Everyone in the class and Chow rushed out the class to go to their house. However Chow didn’t finish his experiences, so he went to a small hill. His second was ‘how long does the string comes out’ and ‘what happens when the string reaches to the last point.’ Chow pulled the whole string again and again. But it seems the string doesn’t have a limit that it was still coming out from the marble. Chow pulled the string almost 5 minutes. Finally he saw the limit of the string. Chow is wondered what would happen to him. Suddenly the sun and the moon started to spin faster and faster. Chow was getting dizzy because the sunrise and the sunset took only one second, and same as the moon. Chow wanted to stop the time, but the time was still going few minutes later the Chow’s body was transforming to a tree. At the first his feet was changing to a root. Secondly, his body was changing to a tree trunk. Chow tried not to change but it was useless. Finally, the time went to its speed. However Chow became a tree on the small hill.