New Species (Coming Soon)

Chapter One - Swirls

 I stand in the middle of an argument between a handful of purple men that are all over six feet tall. They speak in a foreign tongue that I somehow can understand, it sounds like Greek mixed with throaty clicking sounds and French.

   "She already gave all the knowledge about the human world!" One man shouts accusingly at a man seven feet tall, with candy apple green eyes and dark blue hair.

The candy apple green eyed man frowns at the map, his eyes getting storm clouds in them. His head snaps up and he stares straight at me, I shiver involuntarily while staring daggers back at him. He looks away and I let out a huge sigh, no one hears anything which makes me a little scared.

Why can't they hear me?

I walk a step forward and stare the the map, the map covers all of North America with great detail. The map itself has to be the size of a dinner table, I shudder at how much detail there is. I can see each town and all of the army bases, even the ones that I never knew existed.
"We need more information before we can strike." The candy apple green eyed man says calmly, I think I will call him Candy Apple for an easier reference.
All the man nod in agreement, Candy Apple seems to be some kind of leader amongst all the men.
"It's settled then, we will continue thing meeting later." Candy Apple nods to the men and they start chatting among themselves.
Candy Apple sits down and stares at me again, like I am actually there.I gasp and open my eyes, that was just another weird dream. I roll over to check the time and instead see a note, 

'Carbon Honey, we are working late again, call us if you need anything. Love, Mom and Dad'.

Yes my name is Carbon, it's a rather long story that involves my scientist parents that are never home.They are never home and when they do its no more than a day at most. I throw the note on the ground and see Hydra waiting there for a walk. She is a husky with light grey fur and ice blue eyes and of course is my dog, not that she had much of an option. Being the only person regularly home Hydra either picked me or the wall.
"Morning Hydra!" Her tails starts wagging and I see something under her huge paws,
"Is that your leash?" She looks down and picks it up between her teeth, I see a her pink leash with black paw prints and the odd stain.
If the leash isn't clean Hydra refuses to walk, she will also only walk with that exact leash. Plus I am the only one that can walk her, she is very protective of me and acts like my bodyguard (which she is).
"Okay give me a minute, then we can go." Hydra looks at me then walks out of my room, her nails clicking against the wooden floor.
I grab and sweater off my hook on the door and finger comb my long, honey coloured hair as I walk to the kitchen. I see an apple on the counter and snatch that up before finding Hydra at the front door, she wags her tail once she sees me.
"Okay," I attach her leash to her black collar studded with pink diamonds, real diamonds.
I open the door and breath in the nice, cool autumn air.
The sky is filled with light gray clouds and the odd black bird that looks ant sized from here. Hydra see a squirrel and tugs the leash making me look at the red squirrel instead of the sky. She pulls again and I let the leash go, Hydra launches and races after the red squirrel. The squirrel chitters and races up the nearest tree making a beeline for the highest branch, Hydra stop at the bottom and barks.
"Hydra, let's go, we're going to the forest." She perks up at the word forest and leaves the squirrel to chitter at the ground, she trots over and I pick the leash up.
We walk to the forest across from our house and I see the large maple tree with a black scorch mark, a couple years ago there was a terrible thunder storm that ruin lots of trees in the forest, most didn't survive but this one did.

I smile and walk past the tree, the ground goes from grass to pine needles and leaves as well as exposed roots. Hydra's nose perks up and her nostrils flare as the gentle breeze goes by, I strain my nose to smell something but only come up with nice autumn air.

She looks east and growls, her hair on end, I look east as well. Hydra makes her leash tug lightly, a reminder to unhook the leash from her just in case something happens. I slowly unhook the leash and wrap it around my right arm, I could use it as a weapon if I needed to.

Since my parents were never home I took self-defense and got Hydra to be trained in protecting me so I would never be defenseless. Hydra sniffs the air again and relax, the threat must have left, I start attaching the leash and see a shimmer in the right corner of my eye. I turn and see nothing, shrugging it off I finish attaching the leash and we continue walking through the forest.
I stare at the house in the distance, something seems off about it. We had a hour walk through the forest and are coming back, Hydra doesn't notice anything funny which is a little odd. Usual Hydra notices everything odd and I don't, today its the opposite.
We reach the front door and I open it taking a deep breath, Hydra looks around before drinking from her metal water bowl. I hang the leash up and let out a huge scream, there in the middle of the hall is a piece of paper.

Now why would I scream over that?

Easy, my house it very secure meaning NO one can get in and even harder to get out. Somehow someone broke in and out! Hydra ran forward ready for an attack, instead she stops short at the paper on the floor. She walks forward and sniffs it a growl bubbling from her chest at the paper, she stomps on it with a huge paw and leans down to rip it to shreds.

"Wait!" Hydra looks up concern etched on her face,

"Off the paper," she complies and steps off the paper and sits down glaring at the paper instead.
"Thank you," I whisper walking up and with trembling hands touch the paper, as soon as my hands touch the paper I black out.

I stare at two purple men staring at a piece of paper on a wooden table. They look like the same men from my dream this morning, how odd."What about the human girl?" A man asks, one of them turns and I see the same candy apple green eyes and dark blue hair; Candy Apple."Simple, we send a piece a paper to make her paranoid and skittish. She will start freaking out and eventually will lack in proper human tasks and become weak." Candy Apple explains the the second purple man, I recognize him from my dream."I hope you plan works, Xand." The second man -Xand- says patting Candy Apple's back."It will, trust me." Candy Apple says smiling.

I blink twice and see I'm back in my house with the paper clutched tightly in my hand while on the floor with Hydra licking my face.
"Thanks Hydra, I'm okay." I reassure her while standing up, I pat Hydra on the head and smile to the paper.
It won't work Xand. I know what you plan on doing, but the real question it why me?

I open the paper and see four words scrawled on it: I see you, Carbon. Now without my knowledge on the paper I would have freaked out, now I won't. I drop the paper and put my best acting skills to work, someone might be watching.I put on a look of terror and stare at Hydra,
"This can't be true!" I say in my best scared voice, Hydra looks alarmed and barks at the paper then grabs my sweater and drags me away from the paper.

She drags me to my room and glares at me as if saying don't leave. Then marches out of the room, I wait and feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Someone is in here with me.

What should I do?

I look around and try to locate the source of my destress, I do a full spin and find nothing but empty air. Lets try something different, I close my eyes, take a deep breath and try focusing on just the room. A sharp pain stabs into my brain and I try to shove it away, the pain only great stronger by each passing second. Next my eyes feel like a hot metal is going through them, I let out a shriek and I hear a distance thud of something hitting the ground and the slight pain of my knees.

All of a sudden the pain goes away and I blink open my eyes and see multi-coloured swirls surrounding everything. I snap my eyes shut and open them again, nothing changes. The swirls seem to be moving, I do a full spin and see a blue-green swirl the size of a six foot body. I stare the the blue-green swirl and it morphs into something else, instead I see a boy my age with purple skin plagued with blue markings. He looks like the purple men from my dream, he has black cloth wrapped around him, shoulder length seaweed coloured hair and alarmed rich yellow eyes. Those eyes are staring straight at me, he turns and throws himself out the open window, I dash forward and see his swirl disappearing into the forest.

I fall against the wall and put my head into my shaking heads, what the heck is going on with me? First I get a weird dream with huge purple people, then one comes into my room and I start seeing swirls all over the place.

Am I going crazy?

Probably not. There has to be a rational reason for all of this. I feel my hand being licked and look up to see Hydra, she has a blue swirl around her head like a cloud.

"Hey girl," I pet her head with my shaking hand, she seems to notice and bumps me with her nose.

"I'm alright, just a little shaken up, I promise." 

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