Nightmare

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"Janus S. Modeus!"
A younger Solomon bellowed at his son. The senator's then human face wore a worried scowl that frightened his son.
"If you don't sit your ass down and put on that seat belt!"
The young boy had been staring out the window of their transporter ship. It was landing over the Royal garden, though thousands of citizens watched as six other transporter ships for each other senator's family landed.
"But, papa!" The young boy gestured to the thousands of cheering people outside.
"Janus." his mother, Tabitha B. Modeus, formerly Tabitha B. Elzebub nodded to the boy. Patting the empty seat in the three seater, she beckoned her son to sit beside her. "Come take a seat."
Janus opened his oath to rebuttal, but his mother said, "Please."
He relented, taking his seat between his parents.
The ship was round and egg like, mirrored after the famous phoenix eggs that can teleport across the universe. Janus was unimpressed that their ship had to fly across the solar system instead of disappearing and reappearing elsewhere.
He'd been cramped in the ship for two days, though he'd slept for most of it. He and his family were from Amphigur. His father was the current Senator of the green planet and his mother was the high priestess of the 99 Hands of Jade. Tabitha was a recreation mage, a trait her son had not inherited. His father was a telekinetic, a trait passed to the male Modeus family members.
With the swish of his fingers, Solomon swung the seat belt over his son's body and clicked the ends in place. A young Janus was too impressed by the telekinesis to rebel.
The ship was twenty feet over the grass when Tabitha gasped. Janus couldn't see what his parents saw as they glared out the window, but the explosions flashed outside. A thousand mouths screamed at once.
With the senses Damein could muster, he felt a thousand objects rushing around outside. Some were like little ants rushing back to safety. Others were like rocks crashing to the bottom of a lake, cracking to a thousand pieces. Others were chunks of said rocks that rained onto the other, unsunken rocks.
Tabitha barely had enough time to turn to her husband before-

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