Other Earth

Struggle

In the desert part of California, John had been trying to make his way toward Canada by a car he stole. John was still a bit confused as to why the demons were attacking at this very moment. It was the most unexpected occurrence he had ever witnessed in all his years of being alive.
The sight of seeing women, children, and men being eaten alive by demons caused him to be in such a state of shock. He just didn't understand why now.
That's when the ground in front of him burst up like an explosion. John immediately stopped the car before getting near the explosion. He was hoping that nothing crawled out of the ground. Multiple demons came onto the land like ants from a hill. He sighed, feeling annoyed that he had to deal with all of this.
John quickly began to drive around the demons, thinking they wouldn't come after him. But just as he feared, they caught onto his motives and began chasing after him. John looked at the hand gun he had sat beside him and thought of using it. But using that gun would only make him believe he was saving himself. The demons were immune to bullets since they were already dead. The only real way to kill a demon was by kicking off its head.
The demons ran as fast as they could but eventually, they gave up on chasing after such a high speeding vehicle and left him alone. John looked in his rear view mirror and saw the demons giving up on him. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued on to Canada.

It was night by the time John had arrived in Toronto. The city was covered in smoke and littered with dead bodies. He felt bad for those that couldn't defend themselves, but knew that there was a way to save others from dying.
John continued through the city and drove around toward a house. He parked beside it and walked to the front door. John had pulled out an old rusted key from his pocket and unlocked the door.
He stepped inside and took a look around the old and abandoned house that he once used to visit years ago. John enjoyed the visit to his memories but had suddenly remembered why he came. He opened the basement door and walked down the steps.
Once down there, he found the dusty oval shaped machine with buttons below a large sheet of glass. John smiled, feeling happy that their plan had worked and made his way toward the machine when a voice spoke out to him from behind.
"Well," said a deep raspy voice. "Isn't this interesting."
John froze at the sound of the voice and thought of ways to get out of the situation.
The voice continued as he made his way down the steps, "You definitely should be dead by now. I've scouted this entire city and there hasn't been a single living soul in sight."
"Maybe," John injected. "You just haven't been looking in the right places."
John turned to face what seemed like a teenage boy but his eyes were glowing red. The boy said, "True, or maybe you don't belong here."
The demon had possession over this teenage boys body and prepared his hands for murder. John removed the two blades he carried with him.
"If you plan on killing me," John said, hoping the demon wasn't that powerful. "You'll have to fight me first!"
The demon replied, "Very well!"
John dashed at the deep with as much speed as he could muster. The demon smiled joyfully as John approached him. The moment John swung one of his blades at the demon, it was caught by a hand of the demon. John was surprised the demon had such a good reaction time. The demon even found John to be a formidable fighter. John had little time to think of a counter move, with him being so close to the demon at the moment. He thought about just ditching the fight and quickly getting to that machine over there, but the demon would easily catch him and end him. The demon had grown tired of waiting for John to make a move.
"You can't kill me," The demon said. "Even if you sliced off all my limbs, I'd still be able to regrow them and continue my assault on you."
John couldn't believe this. The demon then used the other hand to swing a fast moving fist at John. John quickly stabbed his second blade into that fist, barely stopping it from moving any further.
The demon chuckled to himself and moved away from John. John saw this as a perfect opportunity to dash toward the machine. The demon smiled at John's motives and ran at him. John heard the demon coming and threw a blade at him. The demon jumped out of the way, before even getting near the blade.
John jumped toward the machine and pressed the big red button. He laid on the floor breathing intensely and staring at the demon now approaching him.
At that moment, the door that was latched onto the machine swung open and a young blond haired man rose from the machine. He glared directly at the red eyed teenager and saw John on the floor out of breath.
The demon rushed at the young man, with the intent of murdering him. John quickly tossed the young man his last blade and yelled, "Kill it!"
Blond boy didn't hesitate to start swinging the blade at the demon. Eventually, he sliced the forehead of the demon, causing blood to drip down into his eyes. The demon stepped back, realizing there was no way to continue this fight.
"Nice," said the annoyed demon. "You managed to blind me."
The young blond man now prepared to end the life of what he saw as a teenager but definitely didn't seem like one.
"I'm going to kill you!" Shouted the enraged demon.
The young blond man charged and sliced off the head belonging to the demon. He stood there, trying to feel good about what he just did, but some part of him felt terrible.
John relaxed, knowing that the demon was out of the picture. He rose to his feet and walked over to the young blond man. He patted him on the back and said, "Good job, Jack, now we've got work to do."
The young blond man, known as Jack Martin, looked at John in such a confused manner. He asked, "What was that?"
John said, "I'll tell you on the way."
"No," shouted an unhappy Jack. "What did I just kill?!"
John sighed and said, "A demon... it was a demon."
Jack's enraged expression disappeared as his face now showed the emotion of shock. He awoke to a world now being ruled by demonic creatures that were way stronger than the aliens he struggled to fight years ago...