Short Story : Stone Age

Fatih and Amirul are best friends. They are just a regular students living their lives, pursuing their goals. Amirul has a crush on a girl and will finally confess his feelings to the girl he likes. Fatih on the other hand is busy working on an experiment in the science room. When Amirul is confessing his love, a light appears and engulfs the world. This light then starts to turn people into stone, including Fatih and Amirul. Being trap in the stone, makes them become numb, panic frantically inside their claustrophobic nightmare. The entire human is imprisoned in a stone, unable to escape the fate that has befallen them. However, only humanity has been encased in stone, while animals are free to roam as they please. Therefore, the animal kingdom will take the centre stage on earth.

Time flies without humanity’s involvement, the earth without humanity has begun. Human continues to suffer in their stone nightmare while earth begins to change vastly. Due to humanity being turned to statues, they could not maintain the foundations that they have created such as buildings, infrastructure, or regulate the growth of nature. Thus, vegetation and nature takes over what humanity has built and established. 4000 years has passed until one day, Fatih is miraculously able to petrify on his own. When Fatih realizes what has happened, he is aware of the fact that he will confront with a brand new world; an Earth without human being, in which animals have reigned dominant and nature has reclaimed what humanity built.

Freed from his petrification, Fatih begins to plan and build towards sustaining himself. That is when he come up with the idea to petrify Amirul and decided to find a way to help others. He goes back to the spot where he is unpetrify and discovers that nitric acid is the cause of his depetrification. Thus, he begins to test his theory out by applying nitric acid on petrified humans, but to no avail. He surmises that adding alcohol, which comprises of ethanol, will turn nitric acid into nital; the solution of alcohol and ethanol which will help with the depetrification. However, he does not have any alcohol and the ways to obtain it, thus he come to a dead end. That is when Amirul unpetrify on his own and met up with Fatih. Along the way, he revives a high schooler who is claimed to be the strongest high schooler, Khaizuran. Fatih believes that Khaizuran will help him to survive in the cruel world that they have awaken to.

Initially, this small band of survivors are all set and on a great start to revive humanity. However, things shifted when Khaizuran opposes the idea of having everyone being brought back to life. This opposition to the plan put Fatih and Khaizuran at odds with one another. Fatih wants to use his vast scientific knowledge to bring humanity back while Khaizuran wants to build an empire of incredibly strong and powerful warriors that will rule and enforce their own rules. From this point of conflict, Fatih is determine and start to build the Kingdom of Science and build humanity’s greatest invention from scratch. Since Fatih is unable to defeat Khaizuran, as he is vastly superior in terms of strength and physical abilities, Fatih needs technology in order to beat Khaizuran and bring humanity back.

Fatih is a genius with an encyclopedic knowledge. He is well versed chemistry, physics, engineering, geology, biology and mathematics. When he was a child, he designed and built a functioning miniature rocket ship, alongside many other advanced and experimental machines. Therefore, to create technology invention is almost possible for him. However, he needs a number of hands to help him achieve that. Thus, Fatih and Amirul decide to travel to find those ‘helping hand’. Suddenly, a smoke signals could be seen from afar. They follow the signal and meet Neil, the person who lit up the smoke signals. Knowing the fact that Fatih need a helping hand, Neil then asks Fatih and Amirul to come with him to his village because he is astounded by Fatih’s scientific knowledge which he refers to as "sorcery." After talking to Neil, Fatih realizes that Neil and his village are descendants of humans who will be able to avoid the petrification 4000 years ago and have survived since then, meaning that they grow up not knowing about the modern world. Fatih determines and promises to help the villagers to feel what the modern world has to offer with the vast scientific knowledge that he has. He will use the nature resources as much as he can to create the technology and will stop Khaizuran from building empire of manpower.