Rose

Chapter 1

I woke up with annoying sound of alarm in my head. Within seconds I realized what day it is. First of July. The day when testing for the Army starts.

I got up immediately and went to the bathroom. Even though I just woke up, I could already feel nervousness in my stomach. I brushed my teeth and got in the shower. Cold water woke me up and eased my nerves. I tried to recall a dream that i had tonight, but a long, narrow hallway with torches hanging on the walls was all I could remember.

After I finished showering I went downstairs and I saw that grandpa was sitting in the kitchen, breakfast already on the table.

"Goodmorning, Rose" he smiled at me. I went over to him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Goodmorning, grandpa". I sat down and began eating quickly even though I knew I still had time.

"Are you ready?" Grandpa asked. That's the question I've been repeating to myself past days and I still didnt know the answer. When I decided I wanted to go to the Army all I wanted was July to finaly come, but now that it's here I was feeling really anxious. I'm still sure I want to go to the Army, but I'm not sure if I'm good enough for it.

"I guess I am" was all i said. We finished breakfast in scilence and clened up toghether after that.

I went upstairs again and put some make up on. Not much, just mascara and foundation. I looked at myself in the mirror. Fondation covered dark circles under my eyes, so no one will be able to notice that I haven't slept well last week. But I could definitly notice one thing in my brown eyes. Fear. My phone buzzed and I saw that Abigail, my best friend, was calling me. "Hey," said the voice on the other side. "You ready?" That question again. "Yes, you?" "Yup, so let's meet at 8:45 in front of Castrum."
Castrum is a great palace in the central part of the city, the place where the goverment is seated in one part, and the other part is the Army headquarters. "Fine, see you there." "Bye." said Abigail and hang up. I had 20 minutes to get there, just enough.
I looked at myself again. Dark hair, dark brown eyes, gray shirt and jeans. I wonder how other people who want to be in the Army look like.

I went downstairs and found grandpa sitting in his armchair, reading a book. "I'm leaving, do you want me to buy something on my way home?" He got up from his chair and came to me. "No, sweetie." He just looked me for a second. "You can do this and there's no need for you to be scared." My entire life, grandpa was always there for me, he raised me. I hope I'll make him proud today. He looked me with his loving green-brown eyes and in them I could see that he really did belive in me and he didn't say that just to make me feel better. He is the type of person who would always tell you the truth, no matter do you like it or not. "Thanks." I said and smiled weakly. He kissed my forehead and I headed for the door.

It was warm outside with only a couple of white clouds in the sky. I went to the station and in a couple of seconds train appeared, just in time. Regular Humans could never afford cars or motorbikes, so we use trains or buses. After ten minutes I got to the center of the city. An enormous building was in front of me. Castrum always fascinated me for some reason. It looked ancient and modern at the same time. If someone told me a year ago that I will be going inside Castrum I wouldn't belive him. I was planning to study medicine after i finished Basic school, but everythig changed about six monthes ago.

Strong earthquake hit the west coast of our continent, where former capital city, Thynos was seated. After the earthquake came a huge tsunami that flooded and destroyed the capital. Thousands of people died, but most of the Melorians were evacuated before tsunami hit the coast. Then they decided that our city, Eom, will be the new capitol.

Melorians are race of people that was created about 500 years ago by Annunaki. Annunaki came from planet Nibiru and genetically engineered a third of Earth's population. That way those people got stronger, faster, had better reflexes and could heal faster than any Regular Human ever could. The reason Annunaki did that was to have people on Earth that were loyal to them and protect Earth from other aliens that wanted to invade our planet because they needed it for its natural resources like crystals, gold and oil which were starting to be hearder and hearder to find on Nibiru. Of course, if humans didn't want to accept Annunaki's terms, all of them would have been killed. But Annunaki didn't know, or just didn't care what their decision to engeneer only a part of human population would cause. Racisam took over planet Earth. Melorians treated Regular Humans as slaves. Even though there were much less Melorians, they overpowered humans with their extraordinary powers. By the laws Annunaki had set for humans, Melorians weren't allowed to breed with regular humans or Aurelians and if that happend, Regular Human or Aurelian would have been killed, but Melorian wouldn't because they needed them for protecting their colony, Earth. Melorians always looked at Regular Humans as animals, didn't let them get the education they got, didn't let them go to the same hospitals as they did. Some of them even went as far as raping human girls, knowing that they would be killed the next day because of that.