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Authors: Jessica Frances
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hearing an alien language won’t give them any warning now. It won’t alert them to danger, not anymore.
I barely get two words out , though, before one of them raises its weapon and aims for me. The other follows suit.
Why are they aiming for me?
I look behind me and notice the girl has made it to her mother. I watch their backs retreating into a nearby building. There is no one else behind me and there is no reason for them to have their weapons pointed in this direction.
“What are you —?” I begin to ask them, but when they fire at me, I fall to the ground, managing to avoid the ball of flame that shoots over me. Its intense heat burns my lungs as I take in a breath from shock.
I roll on the ground, hearing the vibration of their movements as they step towards me. I manage to get behind a car before it is shot at and catches on fire. I scatter back a few steps as it disintegrates, and I lose my shield.
There is nothing I can hide behind now and no way for me to make it into the safety of any surrounding buildings. My argu might protect me, but it only covers my chest ; it won’t save me from a shot to the head or that fireball.
I close my eyes , realising I’m about to be killed, and there is no way I can stop it.
A loud explosion causes my eyes to fly open. One of the hinema flings backwards, clean off its feet as it flies through the air. In the middle of its body, there is now a giant hole. When it lands, it stays down, broken and lifeless.
I’m still in shock when I turn to see something flying through the air. It moves quickly, giving me only a few seconds to see what it is before it impacts the next hinema. It’s long, narrow, and shaped like a huge bullet with a small fire and sparks shooting out one end.
Ival has been the one to always focus on weapons; I haven’t really cared to learn what the humans have invented past swords and small guns. Although, from what I’ve seen on a movie that aired on the TV once, I imagine this is what they might call a missile, or maybe a rocket.
It hits the last hinema, which causes it to fly through the air, knocking it into an overturned bus. The hinema goes down, however a small fire from the impact quickly catches onto the bus. With what feels like seconds later, the bus explodes.
The entire street rocks and buildings shake. One building a few down from me actually begins to collapse and the road I’m lying on cracks and splits. The window just to the side of me smashes loudly. I feel the glass shoot out towards me, and then cuts appear over my arms and no doubt my face.
I don’t feel the pain , though. I’m in too much shock as another explosion happens, this one even closer. An invisible wave hits me and knocks me through the air. I land awkwardly on the road, my knee twisting uncomfortably under me. My head hits the rough ground, sending me almost to the point of unconsciousness. Pain radiates up my leg and my head feels as though I’ve split it open. Heat and screams surround me, but I don’t attempt to move. I just look up ahead.
There is a bright light above me , yet I know it’s from the hinema, not the Earth’s sun. I wish it were the sun. The sun here that has mated with Earth is beautiful and bright.
As the artificial rays beat down on me, I think about the sun and imagine that is what I’m staring at. It is a beautiful view to breathe in my last breaths to. Our own sun on Oden is far duller and smaller. It is nothing compared to Earth’s sun.
I blink, feeling myself sinking, almost like I’m falling underwater, and then an even more beautiful image fills my vision.
It’s the girl, the same one from the park. She is leaning over me , saying something to me. Her hands gently touch my face, causing my blood to race through my body, freeing me from drowning for a moment longer. I blink up at her, staring deeply into her blue eyes. She has eyes as bright as the sky and golden hair as beautiful as the sun.
I lift my arm , finding it
I barely get two words out , though, before one of them raises its weapon and aims for me. The other follows suit.
Why are they aiming for me?
I look behind me and notice the girl has made it to her mother. I watch their backs retreating into a nearby building. There is no one else behind me and there is no reason for them to have their weapons pointed in this direction.
“What are you —?” I begin to ask them, but when they fire at me, I fall to the ground, managing to avoid the ball of flame that shoots over me. Its intense heat burns my lungs as I take in a breath from shock.
I roll on the ground, hearing the vibration of their movements as they step towards me. I manage to get behind a car before it is shot at and catches on fire. I scatter back a few steps as it disintegrates, and I lose my shield.
There is nothing I can hide behind now and no way for me to make it into the safety of any surrounding buildings. My argu might protect me, but it only covers my chest ; it won’t save me from a shot to the head or that fireball.
I close my eyes , realising I’m about to be killed, and there is no way I can stop it.
A loud explosion causes my eyes to fly open. One of the hinema flings backwards, clean off its feet as it flies through the air. In the middle of its body, there is now a giant hole. When it lands, it stays down, broken and lifeless.
I’m still in shock when I turn to see something flying through the air. It moves quickly, giving me only a few seconds to see what it is before it impacts the next hinema. It’s long, narrow, and shaped like a huge bullet with a small fire and sparks shooting out one end.
Ival has been the one to always focus on weapons; I haven’t really cared to learn what the humans have invented past swords and small guns. Although, from what I’ve seen on a movie that aired on the TV once, I imagine this is what they might call a missile, or maybe a rocket.
It hits the last hinema, which causes it to fly through the air, knocking it into an overturned bus. The hinema goes down, however a small fire from the impact quickly catches onto the bus. With what feels like seconds later, the bus explodes.
The entire street rocks and buildings shake. One building a few down from me actually begins to collapse and the road I’m lying on cracks and splits. The window just to the side of me smashes loudly. I feel the glass shoot out towards me, and then cuts appear over my arms and no doubt my face.
I don’t feel the pain , though. I’m in too much shock as another explosion happens, this one even closer. An invisible wave hits me and knocks me through the air. I land awkwardly on the road, my knee twisting uncomfortably under me. My head hits the rough ground, sending me almost to the point of unconsciousness. Pain radiates up my leg and my head feels as though I’ve split it open. Heat and screams surround me, but I don’t attempt to move. I just look up ahead.
There is a bright light above me , yet I know it’s from the hinema, not the Earth’s sun. I wish it were the sun. The sun here that has mated with Earth is beautiful and bright.
As the artificial rays beat down on me, I think about the sun and imagine that is what I’m staring at. It is a beautiful view to breathe in my last breaths to. Our own sun on Oden is far duller and smaller. It is nothing compared to Earth’s sun.
I blink, feeling myself sinking, almost like I’m falling underwater, and then an even more beautiful image fills my vision.
It’s the girl, the same one from the park. She is leaning over me , saying something to me. Her hands gently touch my face, causing my blood to race through my body, freeing me from drowning for a moment longer. I blink up at her, staring deeply into her blue eyes. She has eyes as bright as the sky and golden hair as beautiful as the sun.
I lift my arm , finding it
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