The Unseen War

Prologue

Earth Year 3008, February 22nd

The Day of the Attack

I was awakened in the middle of the night by an unfamiliar sound. I rolled out of bed and looked around my room. The area that I lived in was usually pretty good about its crime rates but that didn't mean that crime couldn't happen. Something had just moved in my house, and it shouldn't have. I walked quietly to my door and peeked around the corner of the frame. There was no movement in the hallway. I held my breath, listening for any more sounds.

Fifteen seconds passed, then thirty, the only thing I could hear was the beating of my own heart. I let my breath out just as I heard the sound again. Someone was rummaging in my living room!

I moved carefully and quietly, hoping to take them by surprise. I came to the door frame to the living room and peered around the corner. A figure was standing there barely making any noise as they looked behind different shelves and things. I stepped into the room and turned the light on.

The figure whirled at the light and we made eye contact. It was a woman dressed almost casually in black. I was blocking the doorway and she was sizing me up. I was tense as I watched her, ready for an attack, I foolishly hadn't grabbed a weapon. She seemed to be about to make her move when suddenly there was a flash of light and the whole building shook.

"What did you do?" I asked, confused.

"What makes you think I did something?" She asked back.

I could feel the rumble and a pressure building up. "If you didn't do this, then we need to get out of here." I grabbed her hand and pulled her with me to the front door. We made our way out of the building just as a second explosion went off closer. The stranger followed behind and I didn't let go of her when we were outside. She was still a thief after all.

Suddenly a third explosion went off, this one was much closer and destroyed my house. Glass and wood shards filled the air, I pulled the stranger into me and covered her with my body. I could feel shards stab into my back as I protected her. There was luckily no fourth explosion. I let the stranger stand up and tried not to fall onto my back.

The stranger looked up at the sky, "Damn those beasts! Dropping charges on a peaceful town."

Beasts was a general derogatory term that lots of people used to call non-human species. I followed her gaze into the night sky for any sign of the OtherWorlders even though I knew that any ships would already be long gone. "You don't think it was Tracers?" I asked, wincing at the pain in my back. The sounds of fire and crying fill the air as I try not to black out from the pain. I didn't know when help would arrive or if there would even be any.

"Tracers wouldn't attack a small town like this, especially without reason." She answered. I lay down on my stomach and felt my own blood trailing down my sides.

Before I blacked out I only had one thought, this attack meant war. The beginning of the end for so many people.