The Alien: Book 1

Chapter 2: The Stranger

Iliana was scared but she didn't turn around, after the fog lifted she was face to face with a man. He had sharp brown eyes, broad shoulders, he was tall probably around 6'3, he had tanned skin like he spent his days on a sun soaked beach in the Bahamas. His teeth were as white as the snow from the North Mountains, his hair looked as soft as fleece from soft white sheep, and he smelled like fresh Peruvian white flowers. Iliana had saw a few good looking men before in her village but none like him. She got lost in his oak brown eyes and was staring so long her eyes started to burn and she realized she wasn't blinking. She blinked and tears ran down her face. He wiped them off. "Hello miss." says the man. When he spoke in his Australian accent Iliana's heart melted "H-hi." says Iliana. "Your beautiful." says the man. "T-thank you. You are too. I-I mean your handsome." says Iliana "Haha, thank you." says the man. "What's your name? Where did you come from? Wait, what is that thing?" says the confused Iliana. "My name is Argus Trayhoffer, I come from Pandrax, and that's my ship." says Argus. "Where is Pandrax, is that like in Texas?" says Iliana. "Texas? Pandrax is in the Andromeda Galaxy." says Argus. "Andromeda? Galaxy?" says the confused Iliana. "Say you had a bucket, now in those buckets are planets-you do know what planets are right?" says Argus. "Yes my dad was a star gazer." says Iliana. "You mean an astronomer?" says Argus. "Whatever you call them where you're from." says Argus. "Well anyway in those buckets are what you call planets, and the bucket is a galaxy that holds the planets." says Iliana. "I understand now. Why did you come here with this ship?" says Iliana. "I'm an explorer, and I was on my way to Mercury to trade with rock people but when I was flying through the asteroid belt I got hit 3 times. By the time I got pass Mars my ship started to shut down so I had to land here on Earth." says Argus. "What is the asteroid belt?" says Iliana. "The asteroid belt is a belt of huge rocks located in between Mars and Jupiter, which is a planet." says Argus. "You're a very smart man." says the stunned Iliana. "That's the thing, I'm not a man." says Argus. "Well you sure look like a man." says Iliana. "I'm not, your people would call me a...alien." says Argus. "Alien? My father never said aliens would look like humans." says Iliana. "Your father probably never saw an alien, and besides not all of them look like Pandraxians." says Argus. "What is a Pandraxian?" Iliana asks confused. "Pandraxians are my people; we're a mix of all supernatural creatures. "Hmm, well you look tired and your ship needs repairing, there's a village down the mountain where I live, you can stay with me in my cottage until you fix your ship." says Iliana. "Thank you, I do need to rest my wings. I put my ship on automatic repair, so it's going to take about 24 hours for it to finish I can stay for now but after my ship repairs I have to go." says Argus. "Okay lets go." says Iliana. Before they started their trip down the mountain Argus looked back and snapped his fingers, and the ship cloaked and turned invisible. When they got down the mountain it was sunset and all the villagers started to come out of hiding, Iliana figured that if the villagers saw her with a strange man, they'd know he was the man that crashed on the mountain so they crept along the riverbank until they reached her backyard. When she got inside there was a huge knock on her door. She looked out the window and it was almost half of the town out there with pitchforks and fire. She rolled her eyes at the sight because she hated mobs, especially the ones that had pitchforks and fires. Argus hid in her closet while she opened the door and smiled. "Iliana, we saw you go up the mountain but we didn't see you come down, how is that?" says Sheriff Loangood. "I have no idea sheriff but I do assure you I didn't see anything on that mountain, if I had I would've killed it." says Iliana. "Hmm, I wonder maybe if it was those asternoids your father use to go on about." says sheriff Loangood with a chuckle. "It's called an as-ter-oid Sherriff, before you talk about me or my family; focus on your grammar and go to school." says angry Iliana. Iliana then slammed her door and the village people left. Iliana was so fed up with them. She angrily continued to get her stuff together as Argus watched; "Where do you plan to go?" says Argus. "I don't know but far away from these idiots." says Iliana. "Come with me." says Argus with a smile. "With you?" says Iliana. "Yes, we can go see the universe, and have adventures." says Argus. "That sounds like a lot of fun, okay I think I'll go with you explorer." says cheerful Iliana. "We leave as soon as my ship gets fixed" says Argus. "Okay, I can't wait." says Iliana.