Powerful is Normal

Another Dark Alleyway

Cody Christian stars as Nate. Hope y'all agree cuz i'm not changing it!

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Life went on like that for a while. I'd work the morning shift at Starbucks, occasionally fight with an unsavoury person, resulting in me winning every time, I'd then go to lunch with Karly. I learnt a lot about her. She was born in Australia. Grew up there, went to school there. It was always her dream to tour America, so she took a gap year and toured America. Travelled around the entire country before deciding that New York was where she wanted to spend the rest of her life. I told her a lot about my life, well, the fake one really. I grew very close to her, and found that I could trust her.

I was living three lives. One was Vaielan, I was royalty, I was normal. Another was a human life, I had a job, an apartment to call my own, and a friend whom I would trust with my life. My last life scared me. As one particularly nasty rebel Vaielan pointed out, I was a dream crusher, a liar, I assassinated the hopes and dreams and  lives of the Vaielans that were arrested by me. These past few days I had felt guilt at what I had done. Some of these people had created families whilst on Earth. And I so cruelly had to erase the poor families memories, and separate them so they would never come in contact again. It was truly heartbreaking. A part of me felt that this was wrong, that maybe these people had run away to Earth for a reason, they just didn't like Vaiela anymore. But I immediately pushed down those thoughts. They were stupid and weak thoughts.

I went on like this for a month. Then, everything changed.

"Hiya lovely."

"Hey Karls, how's it going?"

"Good. So I was thinking we should go someplace else for lunch today. Just for something different."

"Oh yeah? Got any where in mind?"

"Yeah actually, a little place about a 30 minute walk from here. You keen?"

"Yeah sure. A little walk wouldn't be to bad actually." One of the things I liked about Karly most, was that she loved to walk. I loved walking,but no-one on Vaiela understood that , since they all seemed inclined to fly everywhere. I'm telling you right now that the skies get very crowded. And when one person crashes into another, the result is worse than a human car crash. And they're more frequent too.

"Sweet! Let's go."

"Now?"

"Duh. It's 12 0'clock you numbskull, lets go I'm starving."

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We were not 10 minutes away from the place when we passed an alleyway with a strange feel to it. I seemed to always find trouble in alleyways, it must be my thing. It had a strange feel to it. I wondered id it was another Vaielan. Oh no, how am I going to explain to Karly about all this. Turns out, I didn't have to, because she stopped and looked down the alleyway as well.

"Something's not right." I was shocked. So she could sense it too! "Amber, I think we should take a look."

"Yeah, but how are you so sure that something's wrong?"

"It's just an instinct. I just, know, you know?"

"Yeah. C'mon let's check it out." Once again, I was that person from every cliché horror movie on Earth. We ventured into the alleyway and I found that it was even darker than the previous one.

"Shh! Listen!" Karly sounded really freaked out. I listened. It sounded like there was someone at the end of the alleyway, and that someone was getting hurt.

"Come on Karly! Someone's getting hurt down there!"

"I was just about to say that!" We ran down the dark side street to find that we were right. A  young man, possibly around our age, was battered, and bruised and cut. He had blood seeping out of his forehead and several cuts on his arms and legs. But that's not what was worrying. There was another man, older than we were and let me tell you, he was buff. I've seen many humans as buff as he was but none of them had the look on their face as this man did now. He looked purely evil. His eyes were so dark they looked black. The whites of his eyes were a slight yellow colour. His teeth were blackened and falling out. His smile, it made me shudder.

"Allow there. What's a fine young lass like you doing down here eh?" Oh, he did not just call me a young lass! He did not!

"Please excuse us sir, bu-" I cut her off.

"What did you just call me?"

"You 'eard me." He grinned. I decided that I didn't like this man.

"Yes, you're right, I did. You wanna say that again so that I can just be sure of what you said so I make sure I'm beating you up for a reason? Besides half killing this young man, of course." The man seemed to catch on that I really wasn't kidding. And I sure as heaven wasn't. The boy looked at me, looked at the man, looked at me again, and something like recognition sparked in his eyes. His face went pale, his eyes went wide, and he backed away into a corner. What's up with him? He looks as though he's seen a ghost.

"Now now, I don't want any trouble." This guy was freaking out right now, and that only fuelled my adrenaline rush. I took a step toward him.

"Don't come any closer! Are-are you an alien?" Ohhhhh, right, of course he'll be freaking out, my eyes have probably changed colour. It's a little, thing, that I have. My normal eye colour is pond-green. When I'm feeling an emotion fairly strongly, they go bright emerald green. I loved it.

"Do you want to stay and find out?" I asked him, low and threateningly. Not just to freak him out and send him running to the hills. But that Karly probably knew me well enough that she would know that I wasn't kidding when I hinted at being an alien. Luckily, she was tending to the boy, who was still staring at me like I was a ghost.

The man took off running. I swear I could see dust particles flying up behind him as he ran. Mission accomplished.

I went to sit down next to Karly and the boy. She was talking softly to him, and he seemed to be calming down. He looked up at me and tensed up.

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah, I guess I'm okay."

"My names Amber, that's Karly. What's your name?"

He looked up at me.

"Nate."