Running from the Sky

I was born in the year 3000. I don't remember the other humans coming back, but I've heard about it enough that it seems like I was watching it all. My sister, named July, told me about it.

I'll start from the beginning.

"They're here! They're here!" People ean out onto the streets to meet the people who came back. July grabbed me and brought me outside. "They're here, Ell," she said. "Those are the descendants of the people who left our ancestors. But they're back!" July told me that I laughed and smiled when she said that.

Then, the ships landed IN OUR FIELDS! Where we grew our food! Then, people came out of the ships. They were very muscular. In fact, they didn't look like normal citizens some all! They were guards! They came storming out of the ships. They walked right over our crops! Some people screamed. Others ran. Yet some people just stood there.

July held onto me really tight and RAN! She was a fast runner. At all of our town events, July had won every single one of the races. July ran past everyone! That was why she got past the guards.

Some other people had escaped, too. They all ran for miles. They eventually came to another town where they warned everyone else about the soldiers. Then, a ship landed in THEIR fields. July ran away without even looking back. Too bad she was too late.

The guards grabbed her and they took us into a building. "This," said a guard. "Is your house now." The building was crowded with other people. It was really sad.

They took everyone older than seven years old and they were slaves. There were two ladies who stayed in with all the kids that were seven and younger. For seven years I stayed inside while the other humans, called the Ruiners, took over the world. When I was seven, I was forced to work in a processed food factory.