Extraterrestrials: Black Tears

IV. It reappeared

After about twenty minutes of waiting, the bus began to move forward, gradually picking up speed as it passed through the gates. At that moment, due to fatigue and a very tiring week, Shawn drifted into a deep sleep.

The bus continued to move. People inside were very, very silent, as if everybody was tired and travelling alone. Most of them are just staring blankly as the others were sleeping, just like Shawn. The only noise that could be heard was the noise outside.

BAM!

A sudden jolt from two colliding cars startled that caused Shawn awoke, but to his relief—and a bit of embarrassment—it was only his subconscious mind. He felt a bit weird, especially since his bag had flown to the other side across the aisle.

"What happened to you, weirdo?" said the passenger in front of him, laughing hysterically.

Shawn just lowered his head, retrieved his bag and went back where he sat. The other passengers didn't notice; most of them were also fast asleep. He took a deep breath, settled back into his seat, and watched as the bus moved swiftly toward Mananga Bridge near Tabunok in Talisay City.

The air there was cooler, thanks to the trees and open spaces along the roadside. Shawn took out his tablet and opened his Facebook. As he scrolled through his news feed, the first post he saw was about a UFOs. As he read, he noticed the name of a place that seemed oddly familiar, though he couldn't remember where he'd seen it before. Curious, he opened Google Maps LIVE—the latest version of Google Maps, which allowed users to identify and track their exact location as if viewed by a satellite camera.

However, when Shawn couldn't locate the place he was searching for, a new thought struck in him: he decided to look for the bus he was riding. Surprisingly, he spotted it, still traveling along the road. After a few minutes of watching, he noticed a glowing spherical object flying behind the bus. He tried zooming in, but the image got too blurred for him to look closely, so he zoomed out again to follow it.

Moments later, the glowing object vanished from view!

That night turned out to be quite eventful and a bit frustrating, because Shawn realized he had missed his stop and was now seven to nine kilometers away from the bus stop going to his house. Worse, the bus had taken a right turn onto the dark highway leading to Toledo City.

Quickly, he tapped a ten-peso coin against the stainless-steel pipe overhead, signaling that he wanted to get off. After stepping out, he crossed the road to look for another vehicle that could take him past the Islander Footwear Factory, as he lived in the Primitiva Compound.

Still curious, he opened Google Map LIVE again.There it was—the mysterious glowing object had reappeared! When he looked up,he was astonished to see a very bright light, sharp and intense like weldingsparks. The brightness was too piercing to stare at directly, but he glimpsedwhat appeared to be a spaceship. The object looked like a gleaming egg withholes on each side, without any rings or sharp edges like the usual spaceshipof the aliens.