F O U R
Another news report was issued today. The mothership vanished. I was there one second and then gone the next. Channel 7 News interviewed some people on the streets about it. Some of them were relieved the "aliens" disappeared, some were panicked.
Maybe the 'aliens' realized we know they were there and decided to leave and go back to their planet, or maybe the extraterrestrial ship was faked by someone on the internet to freak us out.
Mum, Dad, Amanda and I sit on the couch watching the morning news. The news reporters just moved on from talking about the vanishing spacecraft to the weather in Australia. The weather man only got to talk about the weather in Queensland when the main news anchor pops up with the headline "Breaking News".
A video posted to YouTube by an American comes up in the corner of the TV screen, next to the news anchor head. It shows a group of people who look human running at a speed even Usain Bolt can't beat. The group are on a street throwing citizens against the walls like they are nothing. The news lady says "The following image is graphic, watch at your own risk." The camera pans to a person ripping someone's stomach open with their nails and eating the poor guy's insides.
Amanda covers her head with a couch pillow. Mum, Dad and I stare at the screen with wide eyes. Horrific images flash onto the screen, "We do not know the causes of these cannibalistic behaviours. It may be a new discovered drug or a virus."
The camera man zooms into one of the cannibals faces. Its eyes are bloodshot and blood is smeared on all over its face. Suddenly the camera man starts running away from the scene and the video goes black.
Another video comes up on the screen, this time it's filming the crowded streets of Tokyo. A massive crowd of people are screaming and running from the same type of cannibals seen in the previous video. Before we could see one of the crazy cannibals rip someone open the TV shuts off.
I turn to Mum and Amanda and then to Dad. Nobody turned off the TV. I press the home button on my phone, it won't turn on. I hasn't run out of battery because I was fully charged when I woke up this morning. I grab the TV remote and press the power button. The TV screen doesn't light up. Mum stands up and walks to the kitchen, Dad goes to the light switches.
"The fridge is off, so is the microwave." Mum yells out. Dad flicks the light switch on and off but the light doesn't come on. "The lights aren't working either." Dad states. "Somethings wrong. First the 'alien' mothership disappears and now there are psycho cannibals on the loose." I say as Mum and Dad walk back in the room. Amanda opens the blinds of the window.
"What's that?" Amanda asks as she points to the sky. Mum, Dad and I rush to the window. In the sky is massive, floating black thing. It's the spacecraft spotted in space.
"Oh my god." I hear Mum say. Dad rushes out of the room, when he comes back he has long planks of wood. "Where did you get that?" I question.
"They are the planks from the spare bed." Dad states. "Nicki, can you go get the hand saw, a hammer and nails from the garage?" Mum hurries towards the garage.
"What are you doing Dad?" Amanda asks.
"We are boarding the house up. To make sure none of those...things get in the house."
"But we don't know if Australia is going to be effected by the virus or whatever it is." I say.
"If Japan and the US has been effected than why won't we be? I'm not willing to risk your lives based on an 'if'." Dad says. Mum runs into the room with the tools Dad asked for.
Dad saws a plank of wood in half, Mum holding the plank steady as he does so. Amanda holds the hammer and nails. Dad passes me the cut pieces of wood, "Board the windows up first." He tells me.
The lounge room's window faces the street so I board those windows up first. As I hammer a nail through the plank and into the window frame Mandy asks "What if the aliens did this?"
"What do you mean?" I ask as I grab another nail from hand. "This may be a weird theory. But what if the aliens sent out a virus of some sort to control us. Or maybe the virus only effects a few people and they go around and exterminates the human race. To do the dirty work for the aliens."
"Don't think about that Mandy. We will be fine." I finish blocking the lounge room windows and move onto the office, which is next to the lounge room. I walk into the room but Mandy stands at the door frame. "What's wrong?" I ask her.
She looks up at me with bloodshot eyes.
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End of Humanity
Science FictionA satellite in space spotted an extraterrestrial spacecraft, located three light years away from Earth. The humans kept an eye on it until it suddenly vanished. The Watchers didn't disappear like the world thought they did. They hovered above the Ea...
