The people from above

the people from above. The Figures

It all started on a sunny day. The bright blue light of our sun made the plants expose every leaf to catch a bit of sunlight. I was sitting on a hill with my parents and my two sisters. We had a lot of fun, ate mikka (a mixture of grinded fruits, roots and water that is baked) together and tossed around balls made of the soft soil we sat on. From the hill where we were sitting, we could see through our atmosphere right into the emptiness of space. We often saw beautifully colored chunks of rock and ice, burning up in our mesosphere, leaving a brightly shining trail behind. Only his time, it was different. A black and white triangular object crashed through the atmosphere into the distance. At the moment we didn't see the danger of the situation so we started to walk into the direction of where the object had gone.
A few hours later, we saw figures near the lake that we where approaching. Seven white figures with reflective domes instead of heads. It seemed like they had trouble with walking. It was almost like they weren't used to our gravity, since they jumped like they never were able to jump that high. It looked like they were investigating the area, taking samples of everything and even capturing a few small animals. They also had little boxes with them, and moved them around like they wanted to show everything to those boxes. What suprised us the most was that those domes weren't actually their heads. While looking at one of the boxes, one of the figures got excited and showed it to the other figures, which in response took off the domes. Their actual heads where terrifying. they were smooth and pink, looking like dried out bayuo fruits, with a patch of fur on top. It got even stranger when everyone noticed the air they breathed out was actually visible! It had a light green color as it slowly vanished. The figures were just as suprised as we were as they started playing around with their breath. Out of pure curiosity, my oldest sister, Sia, started walking over to the figures. When one of the figures noticed her, it immediately grabbed a rod with some kind of weaved end and captured her and dragged her to the triangular object, they came with! When she started resisting, one of the other figures grabbed another device on his belt and pointed it towards Sia. A loud bang was heared and Sia dropped on the ground. My parents, Meyene (my youngest sister) and I were terrified by what happened. My dad started running towards the figures in order to get Sia back, so I chased him. The figure started to point the device on us and several bangs were heared. The ground next to us started to get covered with tiny holes like mini meteorites crashing everywhere around us. My dad managed to grab one figure by the arm. Out of fear, the figure started screaming. But when their green breath reached my dads face, it burned my fathers skin! He grabbed his face and started screaming in pain, while waving his other arm around to create distance between him and the figures. The figures retreated to the triangular object with Sia in their possession and the object took of. My mom and Meyene were crying while trying to take care of my dads face. I was filled with hate and anger, so I started running. I ran faster than ever before with my anger powering each step I took. I went to my town where an old man, named Okaye, lived. The man had dedicated his life to researching space, and made maps of the countless stellars above us. He also had a big disc to look really far into space. When I told about what happened, he immediately tool me to the roof and started looking through the disc and moved it across the roof, looking for the triangular object. After a while he finally found it. Okaye would keep an eye on the course of the object to see where it was going. After a week, he discovered that the triangular object was flying towards a planet that Okaye called 'Azureon' due to the unique blue color it has. Okaye was really excited to discover that our planets wasn't the only planet with intelligent life on it. It didn't bother me that much. I was angry because those nasty little things took my sister away from us and I couldn't do anything about it.
The next months where horrible. My dad turned out to be blind on one eye. He also had a poisoning that usually occurs when skin and flesh are burned. I kept staring at the sky, knowing my sister was out there.

Months after the events, I was walking through my town to trade some goods for food, when I bumped in to Okaye. He told me about the Azureans and that they were heading towards Vanjira. Only this time, they brought back up. It only took a few days before a whole convoy entered our atmosphere, and hundreds of Azureans set foot on Vanjira. In an act of braveness, originated from my anger, I sneaked towards one of the spacecrafts and looked for a way to get in without getting noticed. I managed to get in through the same opening as the Azureans came from. I walked through the spacecraft, looking for a place to hide. I came across a small hatch. I managed to get through it and closed the hatch. I thought I was safe until I realized, I wasn't alone. Next to me sat an Azurean as silent as it could be. I didn't know much about Azureans but I could see that this one was extremely afraid of me, a tall yellow, rough skinned sleak creature that this Azurean has never seen before. I tried to be as gentle as possible to let the Azurean know it had nothing to fear. After a short amount of time, the Azurean realized it was in no danger. We tried to communicate for hours, but we didn't really succeed. After a while the Azurean grabbed a thin square with four Azureans projected on one side. It pointed towards it and said: "picture" then the azurean pointed on one of the faces that where on it and said: "Sennah". Then it pointed at herself and said: "Myrthe". After that it pointed towards another face in the 'picture' which looked like the Azurean and said: "Myrthe". Then it pointed towards me but didn't say anything. It just kept looking at me, waiting for me to respond. I replied by pointing at myself saying: "Vanjira". Then the Azurean started making noises and smashed it's hands together. Out of curiosity I pointed at the Azurean again and said: "Myrthe?". The Azurean started to shake its head up and down.
Suddenly, the other Azureans started to enter the spacecrafts again. They held many people from the vilage captive. Some of them had small but deep wounds and didn't seem to be awake. The Azurean next to me, tapped me on the shoulder and put its finger on its lips. After some time went by, the spacecraft started moving. I could feel that I was going to be far from home.