I've always been told about slavery. In history class, at home, everywhere. Ever since I was young I was told about slavery of race, of culture, of religion, but no one ever told me about slavery of another creature. No one told me I would become a slave. And I definitely wasn’t told that the world would become a whole planet of slaves.
March 3, 3011; it's my birthday. My birthday present is a hike in the forest at night simply because I like things like that. I've always loved nature and this is the best present I could get. Little did I know that this could also end up being the last night I could be free, the last night anyone could be free.
“Ok you guys were going to pair up in twos one boy and one girl. Each pair has to follow a different route and meet up at the destination which will be were the fire and logs are already set up. We will explain what were doing next once we get there. Sanya and Mike you two will be pairs and will be going in this route here. Here’s your map and compass you two can get started.” One of the adults in charge of the hike says. Mike and I go off ready for adventure.
“You know it's strange we never met before this, at least not properly and now we have a whole hike ahead of us so that we do get to know each other. I think this was planed I bet…”Mike pulls me into him all of a sudden and I'm caught speechless.
“The cliff- you almost fell” he automatically pulls away leaving me where he was standing. I look where he was looking and noticed a fall that wasn’t there before. Both of us realized at that moment that this was no ordinary hike. Something was amiss and we had to find out what.
Suddenly almost as if on cue we heard a scream from Mike’s sister. Mike pulls out his x3 red nokia and calls Julie to see what's going on.
“Hello Julie? What's going on? Are you ok? We heard you scream what happened?...what? You didn’t scream? Are you sure? Oh ok yea no everything’s fine let me know if you need anything ok? Bye” he hangs up the phone and looks at me. “She didn’t scream but I'm sure someone up there is hurt we should call the councilors” sounding almost frightened he calls the head and lets him know about the scream. No one seemed to hear it except for them two but the man said he will check it out anyway.
Walking in the forest surrounded by trees, I suddenly realized they couldn’t see the sky at all and that there was no moon out which would leave them in complete darkness but there was enough light for them to see clearly. I was just about to point this out to Mike when suddenly from one of the trees the leaves started to shuffle and a small dark form seemed to be coming right at us. I screamed hiding myself in Mike’s shirt. When he pats me letting me know its ok I look up to find a dead bird on the floor. Feeling sorry for the little bird I begin to cry. But then the bird’s head shoots up and blood shot eyes stare right at me and I know this bird is no ordinary bird. Both Mike and I run as far as we can until we are sure we have lost sight of the bird.
“We should warn the others to keep a look out. This place is dangerous they can get hurt. I’ll call the girls and you call the boys” I pant. We call all our friends but find that none of them answer.
“Maybe they reached camp already. We’ll go and see at least there we’ll be safe…I hope” Mike tries reassuring me only to end up doubting himself. On our way to the camp we both receive a call simultaneously. Thinking it's our friends answering our call we answer the phone.
“Be for warned there are much more terrors to come” is all the two of us hear and the phone is then cut from the other line. Knowing we received the same call we rush to our destination with all the more desperateness
We reach camp but no ones there. I set up the fire and the two of us sit on a log hoping our friends are ok and will come soon. We begin to distract ourselves by telling each other what we’ve learned about the other person.
“You’re brave but caring, you worry about others and your very sweet and are careful not to hurt anyone” I tell him.
“And you are sweet, but terrified, you can get very easily upset. You are sensitive and caring for both humans and animals, but you get worried easily and can become very protective.” He says smiling.
We look into each others eyes and he draws near me, closer and closer…suddenly there is an ear piercing laughter that surrounds us. We look up and find all our friends walking towards us. Almost relieved I start to relax but then tense once more when I feel a strange aura in the air. I squeeze Mike’s hand hoping he feels it to but seeing the relief in his eyes tells me he doesn’t. Mike tells our ‘friends’ what we had gone through almost desperate for an explanation that would make us feel stupid.
“Ha-ha you guys are hilarious! We did the scream and agreed to avoid your calls simply so you to could get closer through fear” Alex almost throws out. Something about it seemed forceful almost as if he wasn’t sure he knew what the words meant.
I ask them about the bird and the call but they said that they don’t know anything about it. Something isn’t right they didn’t even ask questions in fact they didn’t even find what I said strange! I look at Mike but he doesn’t seem to be getting the hint.
“Ok so we’ll go back now through the routes from which we came and meet back at the bus” the man in charge says. I almost scream out in protest but it doesn’t seem to bother him. “Ok fine we’ll all go together is that fine?” he says sounding a bit irritated…or at least trying to. As we follow the man I whisper to Mike my suspicions hoping no one would hear but of course I never did learn to talk softly and instead everyone heard every word.
“Very good Sanya! You should be a spy!” the man’s voice gets deeper and darker as he speaks. “Now shut up and come! Your friends are waiting in the cave just ahead” he booms.
He takes us into the cave and we find all our friends tied up and their mouths are taped shut. The female who was disguised as Julie ties the two of us together and throws us on the floor with the rest. She removes the tape from everyone’s mouth saying that we can talk simply because there is no one left to hear our screams. All of our friends start talking at once trying to tell us that there is something more then just simple kidnapping going on.
“Ok hold on so these people are green?! And they aren’t wearing masks they just simply turn into whomever they want? You guys have you lost your minds? How is that possible? They’d have to be aliens for that!” as I say the last sentence I automatically hate myself and wish I could take it back. There is enough proof that they weren’t simply humans I mean how can humans do all of that without a single mess up?
“Very good! Another amazing achievement from the human! You seem to know your stuff! Were superior to you and we have come to destroy you! This whole planet should become our slave! How I enjoy watching your ridiculous believes!” the alien that had disguised herself as Julie now had green scales and long antennas coming out of her head. She had elf ears and seemed to have the perfect body figure. Her voice like sharp bells rang through the cave and shook the place from the core.
As I sat there hopelessly watching the alien prepare for destruction I realized I had my laser in my pocket. I took it out and while making sure she stays distracted I release all my friends. I leave one of my friends still tied telling him to distract her. He begins to flirt and ask questions as the rest of us look for weapons. We find some neat things like freeze rays and laser canons as well as things like machines that could bring people back from the dead and everything. We grab the things we could use to save ourselves and hide under the tables surrounding us. I blast the freeze ray at the female’s feet and she screams a blood curtailing cry. We release our friend and run before the rest of the aliens reach the room. We race to the army headquarters telling them of what we learned. They get all the world armies together and come up with the perfect plan to destroy the aliens. While the military is busy with that we get busy on helping the scientist create things similar to what the aliens had as well as create ways to be able to do things that their body's did. War has begun.
The aliens easily defeated the army ranks even with the nuclear weapons and the weapons that we had stolen from the cave. It seemed that the world was not strong enough even as one unit to save itself. As the countries got destroyed and people were killed one by one; my friends and I began to lose hope. Then I remembered how the female alien was distracted by our normal everyday lives and ordered that the message be sent to act as if nothing was happening. If nothing else it would at least buy us time. As the aliens slowly got distracted my friends and I stole some of their weapons and got the scientist to make similar ones but stronger in every way and made weapons that had the features of every weapon. Feeling our chances of survival rise we began to gain hope and the war was once again started. Although we managed to kill more aliens then before we still were at the disadvantage and it was quite clear that the aliens were getting stronger through the war while the people were getting weaker through disease and war kill. Our weapons were soon taken away and we were left on our stomachs dead and useless.
Soon the whole world woke up once more but not alive- undead. We were forced to make thrones for the superior aliens and were expected to do their bidding. We were given no food for zombies don’t eat and had no breaks for zombies don’t need them. We are in rags that never need to be changed and are punished not by whips but by lasers and then brought back to do the bidding. If we argue we are punished, if we make a mistake we are punished, if the master is bored we are punished, if there is no bidding to be done then we are punished, if we finish our work early we are punished.
The world is a round ball of red clouds and destruction is the only answer. There is no love or care, there is no romance or affair, there is no marriage for there is no one to marry and there is no happy ending. There is no ending, just an eternity of suffering.
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