In the beginning there was only darkness. The only thing I could do was think about what had got me to this point. I was pretty sure I was dead; yeah I had to be dead. The last thing I remember is running, running hard and fast. I remember the smell of pine and forest. That’s where I had been hiding out with a bunch of other people, it’s not like they ever went in the forest. The only reason they kept the forests and any kind of our nature was because they hadn’t found a sufficient way to create oxygen without it.
I hated them with every fiber of my being. They had ruined everything I had known, I was one of the few that hadn’t accepted them. There were a handful of us that hadn’t accepted them; everyone else thought they were a blessing. The bastardscould burn in hell for all I cared. Most people conformed to them because they made things easy and already had technology that we hadn’t even dreamed of.
They had come to Earth a year ago and at first no one accepted them. They called themselves Amarans and they came from a completely different universe. Their planet had been swallowed by the death of their sun. Only a third of the Amaran population had survived and apparently decided to invade Earth and change our whole way of life. Everybody was skeptical of them in the beginning, probably because they were just so perfect. They had apparently developed a procedure to rid of everyone’s flaws. No birth marks, no freckles; although you could have those added if you wanted, freckles were the equivalent to piercings for us. Imagine that conversation, hey mom can I get a freckle? Please everyone is getting them! Seriously. Anyway the Amaran people were beautiful, porcelain colored skin, not a blemish to be seen. They all looked like super models.
Well after a few months people started warming up to them. Finally it happened. The leader of the Amaran’s announced that with our blessing they would stay and live among us peacefully. Ha! Oh, and if anyone of our kind wanted to partake in their procedure, they would be honored to give something back for us letting them stay. Oh, really? Or did they just want to brainwash mankind? People of course went to them for the procedure, I mean a lot of humanity is vain and flawless and beautiful sounded good to them. The people who went in came out different. I couldn’t tell you what it was besides the looks. They acted different too. It was like any kind of rebellion and risk taking attitudes had been taken out of them. You know those people who wake up in the morning, go to work, and then go home every night? The people who never really change up their routine? That’s how all of these people came out of the operation.
I knew that something was wrong and a handful of people with any common sense saw it too. Those of us who asked questions about it were all brought in and told that there was nothing to worry about and that we didn’t want to do anything stupid. Basically we were threatened. Well somebody did do “something stupid,” a man named Jackson Darren protested and started it all. They took him captive and used him as what they called “a lesson to us all.” For being so advanced they had medieval ways of punishing people, he was hung. Yeah, hung as in what we did way back when. So that’s when the resistance started, people started meeting and trying to find ways to get rid of them. If people were discovered plotting they were captured.
We took refuge in the forest because the Amaran’s weren’t fond of nature. On their planet they had found a way to create oxygen without the help of plants. I thought that was downright wrong. If they found a way to do the same thing on our planet, I don’t know what I would do. For some reason they hadn’t yet and they didn’t know why, so I could only hope that meant that it was impossible. So for now I was safe in the forest, I had come with my baby sister, Lily and my son Aidan. My parents had died in an “accident.” They had been part of the resistance too and one night a meeting had been discovered and the Amaran’s said the people got violent when they found them so drastic measures were taken. I don’t know what drastic measures were taken all I know was that my parent’s bodies were laying in that barn. So my fiancé, Logan, and I took Lily and our son Aidan and ran.
While we were trying to find the camp of resistors Logan was captured and killed. I lost it for a while. Sat in the car we had hijacked and just cried. We had been staying in an abandoned cabin waiting for a signal. I sat in that car for almost a day crying and wanting to die. Finally I remembered I wasn’t just looking out for me; I had two babies inside depending on me. I was being selfish. Lily was just three and Aidan was six months; I needed to focus on them. So I pulled myself together and went inside. Aidan looked up at me from the floor and smiled at me. It just about broke my heart; he had his daddy’s smile.
The next day I got the signal and I packed up and took refuge in a camp of about 100 people. I had been there for three months when I met Terran. Terran found Aidan walking in a garden, he was a handful now that he could walk, and brought him back to me. After that Terran came over everyday to see Lily and Aidan; they loved him. To be completely honest I was falling in love with him myself. I tried to resist it for a while because of Logan, but I couldn’t help it. He was an extremely handsome man and a beautiful person. He was tall and fit. He had been in the Marines before the Amaran’s came. He had dark hair and dark green eyes to go with it. His smile showed almost perfect teeth except one partially crooked one, he always smiled with his teeth and had lots of laugh lines.
A few months went by and finally Terran just moved in with me. That’s when it happened our camp was attacked. They had found us. All I remembered of it was blood and screaming. We ran. I got separated from Terran, Lily and Aidan. I ran fast and hard. Until I came to a ravine, there was no place to go so I did the only thing I could think of I jumped down the ravine. Then there was darkness and the smell of my own blood and then nothing. That’s where I am now. I must be dead. But wait, I think I see light. Heaven? No. Voices. Worst then death, I was captured.
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