As long as anyone can remember, nothing has always gone exactly to plan.Many people are treated unfairly to the point where the lives of some are even stolen because of greed, wrath, pride, lust and more.The thing only thing they could do was to have the desires to be saved, hopes for salvation, and wishes to prevent unfair tragedies from unfolding further into the future.
These desires, born from the hearts of countless individuals who have passed on, coalesced into a singular, crystalline, powerful artifact as time passed on. The universe or whoever was up there had given a second chance to the weak.
The gem of the dead or crystal of the dead, the name it had been given by its first founders when it had been planted somewhere in the universe when translated to English. The crystal passed through the hands of many, some used the power it granted to the beholder for personal needs, others too used it for the protection of their loved ones.
But now the crystal of the dead was making it's way to a planet in the solar system of the milky way for the first time, together with mysteries and chaos.
The family van drove down the sunny coastal road. The wheels made a quiet sound with the waves crashing in the distance from their destinatio, a beach. Mr. Jenkins drove carefully, looking ahead at the curving road. It was very quiet inside the van. His wife sat quietly in the front seat, and Reggie, their teenage son, sat in the back looking out the window at the passing palm trees and beach signs.
To break the quietness, his wife moved. She reached out her left hand to turn on the radio. "The road seems quieter today, doesn't it?" she said softly.
Mr Jenkins responded,"Yeah, with what's happening lately, many people are behind closed doors but we can't do same I recommend we clear our minds of with a perfect beach day".
The man over the radio started speaking, ending whatever he was talking about. .....and these are the implementation some nations are putting in place to fight the extraterrestrials moving into our planet.
He continued with a recap of what had happened so far, in a quite saddened tone. As we all know two weeks ago, as we carried on about our normal earthly matters a strange creature, one with resemblance of a millepede, fell in the New York, with it's huge size and plentiful legs it moved swiftly with grace destroying structures which stood in it's trajectory, but luckily with the quick actions of the army, it was taken down with many casualties hanging. In the attempt to end it's life it shot surprises after another, clearly it wasn't from this world ...Now it's safe to assume that schools and other institution will open soon since the human forces have gotten used to ending the extraterrestrials with minimal casualties....
As the Jenkins family stepped out of the van, they spotted another family packing up their belongings and heading towards their car. Reggie was lost in the rhythmic crashing of the waves when his father called out to the family hastily walking towards them – the Watsons. Upon hearing the surname "Watson," Reggie spun around quickly. And there, among the Watsons, was Rose Watson, Reggie's classmate and his first and only crush. She stood poised and elegant, her long hair swaying gracefully in the gentle ocean breeze. She cast a fleeting glance at Reggie, and in that brief moment, his heart began pounding harder. Struggling to find his voice, he fumbled to put the right letters together to say something – anything like "hi" or "hello."
He had never spoken to her about anything other than school matters.
Reggie lost his chance as Rose started to walk towards her family car. He stared at her, lost in the moment as he admired her in her swim suit.
As Rose entered the car, Reggie spotted her twin brother already in the car, one of the talk of the school because of his athletic skills. Indeed, these twins were awesome and popular. Their parents were talking to his.
His Parents had met theirs once or twice at the schools parental meeting events but somehow they got got around so well.The Watsons drove off.
In the bright afternoon at the Kokrobite Beach , the sun cast golden rays over the shore, and waves lapped gently against the land. The parents of Reggie went to the changing room changed, came back and entered the water, enjoying the cold liquid that splashed and engulfed their bodies, laughing as waves tickled their skin. Reggie stood still with his legs buried in the warm sand; sand grains were between his toes, and the salty breeze tousled his hair. The sound of seagulls filled the air as Reggie stood, watching a tiny crab scuttle sideways into a hidden burrow.
Just then, he felt a vibration from the ground – like a faint hum of something underground. Due to the difference in vibration propagation in the two media – the sand and the water – it was less detectable by his parents, who were now waist-deep in the gentle surf, splashing water at each other. The birds on the far away coconut trees started fleeing seconds before Reggie felt the vibrations. His curiousity rose to it's peak so he decided to venture toward that direction since it clearly chould have been the source of the vibrations. As he took his first steps , the sun glinted off a shell half-buried in the sand, catching his eye. At this point he began to wonder, what if it was one of the alien spicies. He stood there for a moment and finally put two and two together. If it was an alien then he should confirm early so he can call the defense team and leave this place safely with his parents with his parents.
Now that he had successfully convinced himself with his excuse, he continued walking hastily in that direction again with a half smile.
Sooner than he expected, he arrived at his targeted area in a not-so-thick coconut tree area during the day. Shadows danced across the sand as the atmosphere thickened with an eerie tension, threatening to swallow him whole. Reggie walked further, his footsteps quiet on the dune. He stopped at the unsettling sight of a man struggling to survive near a crater from a crashed aircraft shrouded in smoldering flames. Perhaps the man was a pilot lost in a mission of shadows, trying a desperate crash-landing on the shores. Deciding to help, he went closer with the intention of assisting the man to the hospital, few meters away from the beach, where they were.
He tapped the shoulders of the man - who at this point was on his knees with his back facing Reggie with a weird unidentified suit that covered all of his body with its cyan hairless rough head as an exception - Suddenly a purple light from in front of the man shined brightly. In a panic the man spun towards the direction of Reggie and in a split second he was armed with a sword in his right hand. In a blink of an eye, blood was gushing out of Reggie's pierced belly.
Upon realization of what species Reggie was, the man immediately became dreadful (I think it means remorseful if I'm correct maintain it) that he was unable to pull back the sword. Reggie still shocked from how a five-second reaction with this man - who up close did not look human after his turn - had written 'the end' in his life story. He was in extreme pain. With a giant eye instead of two small ones, a cyan-colored bruised face, and his mouth, covered by a mask of the same material as the suit he wore, the extraterrestrial held his belly where very thick liquid - his blood - oozed.
Perhaps whatever it is, was being hunted down and had perceived Reggie as a threat or it came to harm humanity like all the other extraterrestrials that have appeared so far. Either way, it was too late now, his eyes were becoming heavy and he was starting to lose consciousness. He was starting to see darkness as his eyes were trying to close instead of seeing the so-called white light.
Just then the extraterrestrial man's suit started glowing with purple light. So did the sword that had appeared out of nowhere in the man's hands and was now stuck pierced in Reggie's belly. Then a purple crystal, transparent and ghostly appeared before the alien, floating, with trails of the purple light. As the purple light moved towards the crystal it began to seem more solid and physical. It glowed more. Soon the sword stuck pierced in Reggie's belly and the costume the alien wore had disappeared - Another scene aside from the sword appearing in the extraterrestrial man's hand that made Reggie regret not taking fiction and fantasy story books and movies seriously. Now the man's hand could be seen wearing underwear. Reggie still in pain from the wound brought back his concentration to the floating crystal.The extraterrestrial man seemed even more confused than Reggie.
Just when the silence was starting to get louder, the crystal, now very solid and purple, shot itself and pierced Reggie's heart. He screamed in pain but no one else could hear him from that distance. He gave up on live and fell on the ground. The alien still confused could not help but feel sad, almost tearing up.
#Story writer: I guess this is were I publish this chapter and end the novel.....wait what's happening.....#
Reggie opened his eyes. He jumped back onto his feet, blooming with immense energy. As the wound left behind by the gem healed, a bright purple light emitted. A patch of skin, perhaps cloth which had initially formed around the wounded area started to grow and spread all around his body like nanotechnology. The spreading substance wrapped his body like a suit, comfortable but an armour from the outside. It looked liked the same suit that was initially on the extraterrestrial but this time it suited Reggie's taste and taste of comic heroes.
Just then the extraterrestrial handed out a round device. The explanation you seek will come as result of this, they would come and help you with the power haver been given, you were chosen by the gem itself, a phenomenon. Now leave this place before you are detected by those who persue me, run.
Reggie had an edge to trust the extraterrestrial. He took the device neglecting his attempts to question him on who the 'they' that would find him were and why the transformation that was taking place had reversed.
He saw his parents who had packed up, and were waiting for him in the van. Reggie got in the van and edged his Dad to drive faster with the excuse of wanting to see the new part-time job his friend had picked to in other to gain experience in trade for their postponed class due to the intrusion of the extraterrestrials.
Just like the Jenkins drove off.
The End of this chapter
...Next Chapter: Revelation and Adaptation. The chapter will feature as Reggie gets to know the reason of all these sudden happenings and gets use to his new life...
Note: The next chapter shall delay due to my upcoming academic life...but do not forget about Dead Killer:The world's new hope