Distance Between Two Lands: Above the Earth

Chapter 1

Report
Year: 3016
Changes: Humans have developed floating cities. This allows the organisms on Earth to take back over and for humans to coexist. All nations have united as one to protect the good nature of everyone, except the occasional rebel group. Humans are required to live on the floating city and are only allowed on Earth once a month. If violated, punishment is given. Crime is at an all time low. Global warming has slowed. World hunger is almost gone. Cures for illnesses have been found.
Population: 10,271,625,016
Life on Earth: The population of organisms is still thriving on Earth. Scientists are still studying them.
Crime/ Missing Peoples: 42 people are missing after 15 years. 9 teachers, 3 mechanics, 8 doctors, 11 farmers, 4 blacksmiths, 2 chefs and 5 children. All are thought to be on Earth or dead. 2 robberies, 1 murder, 3 rapes, and 1 case of domestic abuse.

"Is it true?" The curious girl with blonde hair and hazel eyes ask.

"Of course, why would I lie?" Adamain laughs. He set down the folder that fell from the sky and smiled. "I've been there myself once when I was young. Hell, I lived there! Then I came down here with a large group of people and never returned."

"And that's how the village was made?" One boy with bright blue eyes, tanned skin, and freckles asked.

"Yeah, there are more people coming down here to start over their lives to better themselves." Vladia chimes. She was younger that Adamain, she was 15 and he was 19.

"Where you born yet, Vladia?" A girl with black hair and green eyes begs.
"No, I was still in my mother's womb. I was however born just a a day later." The young woman says with pride in her chest.

"Wow. Can we-" a boy asks before being cut off.

"Now, now! You must come and eat or the wolves will eat your food!" A village elder scolds. Her wrinkly face was in a playful scowl as the children rushed over to their tents and huts to eat a quick lunch. "Thank you for teaching them, you two are so helpful."

"Oh, it's nothing! It's history, something that's important. After all, they may want to go and live up there when they're older like Jamison and Ruby did." Adamain chuckles.

"Bah, they where imaginative anyways. Your two parents never stopped telling them the stories when they where younger." The elder says. She waves them over to the village's center. "Now come, you two must be starving."

Vladia and Adamain never noticed until she mentioned it. The placebo effect was truly fascinating. The two siblings, both with the same long, jet black and wild hair, pale skin, and amuscular and athletic build rushed to the center of their village. Although Vladia was over half a foot shorter than her 6 foot tall brother, she still managed to keep up.

"Hold on, I have small legs!" She complains.

"Sucks for you lil' sis!" Adamain teases, his emerald green eyes sparkling. His green eyes made contacts with her ice blue ones and they both accidentally crashed into a tree. They had done it many times before because they focus too much of their competition they knock over a barrel or step on a snake. Hitting a tree wasn't new to them.

"Urgh, why can't nature LEAF us alone for a second?" Vladia says through the small amount of pain.

"Maybe that's where this pain is STEMMING from." Adamain says back.

"Make another pun and I'm gonna get to the ROOT of this issue!" Their mom says from inside their hut they lived in. "Come on, we have to carry the food to the center! My short arms can't do it by themselves since your father is still working."

"Okay, okay." The siblings say in harmony. Their mother was inside, cleaning the floors. She was a shorter woman, brown curly hair and blue eyes that sparkled in the sun and shined in the moonlight. Also, the family was expecting a new baby since Vladia's mom had fallen pregnant once more.

"I call the deer!" Vladia chimes.

"No fair, you always carry the deer and every year I always carry the vegetables." Adamain says as the two walk into the hut.

The living space was made of wood, mud, grass, and large leaves to block out rain, snow, harsh sun, and just about anything nature had for them. Everyone had a secure house unless they were underground like some families where.

"Fine, you can do it." The female sibling says as she picked up the basket of vegetables. They all came from the wild since the city above them allowed for everything to grow naturally.

"Good." Adamain laughs as he picked up the deer. He slung the carcass over his shoulder and the three family members began walking to the village.
Even though it had electricity and was solar powered, the village was far behind the advanced land in the sky.
The festivities where underway, everyone cooking and placing food about. This marked the fifteenth year of them leaving the land of the sky who's name everyone forgot. Meat and vegetables alike were on the table and the families where happily dancing to the music that played.

Vladia swung her hips playfully and set the basket on the table, dancing to the music. Adamain noticed this and laughed at her, dancing along.

"Why'd you laugh if you joined in?" She asked her elder brother playfully.

"Because you just broke out into dance without me realizing!" He says through his laughter.

Vladia felt hands on her hips and a feminine voice in her ear. "Wow, with hips like those, they definitely don't lie." Her friend says. The girl turned and saw Ezra, a girl who lived without rules or parents. She was taken in by the village elder when a rebel group retreated to Earth, leaving her to die in the forests since it would be hard to care for a baby that was just born a week before.

"That joke is over a thousand years old!" Vladia says as she hugged her best friend, who hugged back immediately.

"Yeah, but it's still a funny reference!" She says back.

"Hey, finally someone who isn't too short." Adamain says as he kissed his girlfriend.

"Oh hush, she's like... 5"7'!" Vladia scolds. "I'm only three inches shorter!"

"That's still really small." Her older brother teases.

"I will harm you." The sibling growls through her teeth. Obviously it was an empty threat and everyone knew it. The festivities continued, drinking, dancing, partying, and a ceremony to honor those who died and those who couldn't make it due to unfortunate complications during leaving.

As the festival came to a close and people started leaving, Adamain and Vladia stayed to help their mother with the cleaning among others. They definitely didn't want to harm the Earth they called home like others had done a thousand years prior.

"Boo!" A booming voice says, starling his daughter. Vladia turned and saw her father, covered in woodchips and dirt. He was a tall, muscular man with a black beard and wild, messy hair from working. He had peach colored skin and green eyes as bright and full of life as his son.

"Don't scare me like that Dad! You could've made me drop something." Vladia laughed. She saw her mother throw away the last bit of trash and walk over to her husband, kissing his lips as he crouched down.

Vladia and her family walked back to their hut, hearing growls and snarls coming inside.

"I have my dagger." Vladia says lowly to hide her voice as best as she could.

"Pistol on me." Her dad says as he pulls it out.

"I'll make sure nothing happens to the two." Adamain says as he takes off his bow and arrow from around his torso. It was clear that he needed to protect his venerable mother because of her pregnancy from whatever the creature was. They didn't want two people to die. Not even one.

The father and daughter duo stalked closer to the hut's entrance, the snarls and growls growing louder and more fierce. They peaked inside slowly, prepared for anything to happen.