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The First wasn't the scariest, but it definitely wasn't the easiest. There would be scarier ones to come. There had always been deaths in the world, probably like 1000 or even more each day, but this Death was different. There were no natural causes documented, and there was no foul play suspected, he was just there one second, and gone the next. Literally gone, he just disappeared into thin air. It happened in Glendale, Arizona, in the middle of a marathon. The news was right there to catch it on camera. Of course many thought that it was a hoax, that no one could just disappear like that. Of course the ones who did believe it thought it was aliens or some supernatural spirit crap, but those ideas were quickly ruled out. The real cause was, what I guess you could say, aliens. But they weren't aliens, they were human beings. Human beings that have hair and eyes and noses. The only thing that was different, was that they were from a planet trillions of light years away. They were billions of years ahead in technology and knowledge, and they actually knew how to keep their "Earth" together. Their "Earth" isn't losing its natural resources, they aren't destroying it's environment, and they sure as hell aren't overpopulated. The way I know this is:

I am one of Them.

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