Authors: Jessica Bristol
They resembled the zombies in the series I used to watch on TV, however, I did never want to be a part of a zombie movie.
I was yelling and yelling but in vain, the whole world was hollow and empty like a cemetery, and there was no single human being to help me, even Jagger could help me in such time but I was left alone to face my destiny. I wondered what kind of creature I am going to become when the transformation finishes. But few minutes later, I could see the walls changing its colors and the ceiling looked as if it would fall upon my head, I tried to grab anything that could come into my hands but I was helpless, I felt that I was completely anesthetized, and couldn’t even move my fingers, and I felt that my brain was going to explode, the pain was unbearable and the agony went even more intense.
Lights, different kinds of lights, I couldn’t even open my eyes widely to see what was happening around and I was sinking to the depth of nowhere. If only I could return to earth and sleep even in the gardens, but not here not here. I was praying for this to be undone and for the time to roll back again so that everything would have never happened but I reached a point where there was no going back and I realized that life will be always slapping me and bringing me to my knees and kicking me like a ball or like a feather in the sky.
Delta and Alpha were enjoying this experience and were looking at each other with astonishment which made me feel that I was the alien one. It all looked ridiculous and they were watching my naked body. I knew that some aliens have hurt some people and caused them perpetual suffer but I knew also that many others had a kind inner and that they were a bit friendly and I had a deep feeling inside that these two alien creatures would be friendly at least to me. After few minutes I was unable to see or realize anything, everything was in black and I realized that I lost my consciousness again. I felt that I felt to the world of emptiness or in a black hole, I lost all my senses and realized that powerlessness is no more than an ever ongoing harrowing feeling of suffering; and came to grips that there are some kinds of torture we have to experience but we just can’t because it is just overwhelming. But I was determined enough to struggle until the last breath because there was deep voice inside me telling me that “I have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great” and that was the equation I wanted to achieve. And I decided at that very moment that I had to get out from where I am, or make my new place a better tomorrow, and then I fell into deep sleep.
And some time later, I woke up few hours later or I couldn’t tell exactly maybe it was few days later, the place was no more the same. Indeed, I was able to figure out that I was put in a second room, which was very different from the first room, it was enlightened with a purple light and it was full of chairs, I could that there were at least more than thirty chairs, some were empty and in some other chair few men were sitting helplessly, they looked as if they were absolutely dead, they didn’t even move, I could see the needles in every part of their weak bodies and I was afraid that this would happen to me sooner or later. And I could see many medical types of equipment in the corner of the same room, the chairs seemed to be like the ones we sit on when we go and see the dentist. I looked at my body again and saw that I was no longer naked and that I was wearing rather a white clothe, the same patients wear under operations, but my hands were free and I could stand up on my own though I was so tired. It was difficult though as if it is the first day in which I walk in my life but when I stood up and tried to get out of the room, I was noticed by a guard who was watching out the room and he hit me that I fell immediately on the floor, and the he slapped me with all his strength, I have never been slapped that way, I thought that my flesh fell with that slap but luckily it didn’t. What a kind of new torture do I have to endure?
-“Leave me alone you nasty thing, what a disgusting face you have!” I said.
-“Get back to the room, get back to the room, get back to the room.” He replied
-“I want to get out, leave me alone, show me the way out.” I said.
-“Get back to the room, get back to the room, get back to the room.” He replied.
At that time I realized that these creatures aren’t able to communicate and that I have to find the way out on my own, so I grabbed my hand suddenly from his weird hand, and I run as fast as I could and at that time, I found many creatures around me, each would hit me under their feet, it hurt me a lot, what agony and suffering do I have to face, I wish someone would save me but in vain, as if I was talking to the walls. I felt devastated and they didn’t want to stop, I guess they were going to kill me under their ugly feet. Suddenly saw a man running in our direction, he hit all of the four creatures who were upon my head and brought them to their knees.
That man looked very special, for the first time I saw him I thought of Sparta, indeed, he was a very tall and
giant man standing steady like a lion in the doorway, he was big and heavy- set like a wrestler. His face looked so light and bright as if an angel face and it was tanned as if he has just got out of the swimming pool. I could pay attention to all his facial traits but the most special feature that I wasn’t unable to forget was the determined look which I saw in his eyes, he looked like a hero in a fairy tale or a gladiator, he was just perfect with his very long hair, which seemed so soft like silk and very dark like night. His beard was so short and black, but at the same time charming, his arms were
not only toned but also muscled that no one would dare to get closer to him and his shoulders looked wide and gave him a specific charisma that made him look so sexy as if he was an athlete, moreover his back and chest seemed to be well built and strong as well. I imagined that this kind of man exists only in fiction and legendary stories but it seems that now I am a part of such tale. It all happened in few minutes, but at that moment I lost the sense of time and didn’t care if it was dawn, day or night, it didn’t matter anymore. After he hit every ugly creature in hall he gave me a hand to help me stand up, and at that time I looked directly into his dreaming eyes which conveys the beauty he possesses, it was a joy to see myself inside his eyes, they looked so innocent though he was a very tough man.
-“Are you alright Miss, have they hurt you?” He asked.
-“I am ok now; I can’t find the words to thank you Mr.? I replied
-“Oh sorry, let me first present myself to you, my name is Ethan.” He said.
-“Nice to meet you Ethan and mine is Riona.” I replied.
I was very happy to meet such a man, I have never seen such a strength through my whole life, and at the same time he was a good man by saving me from those creatures, I thought for a moment that the troubles are over but suddenly I felt a big hit upon my head and I couldn’t remember anythin
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Later, I woke up to find myself in a new room full of tubes, metal tools and many tables on which there were a lot of equipments, but I was never able to tell what exactly was this room, it was like a lab to some extent or storage room, I couldn’t tell. When I looked around I could see the man who saved my life in the other corner of the same room, he was looking through an only window that existed in that room and it seemed that it was meant for spying on us. I went directly to him.
-“Oh god, are you ok?” I asked.
-“I’m alright, don’t worry, how about you Riona, how do you feel now?” He asked back.
-“I’m fine Ethan, thanks, but what happened?” I said.
- “It seems that they saw us on their cameras and that was why they caught us, but don’t worry, we are ok at least for now.” Ethan replied.
-“Oh, all what happened was because of me, I apologize Ethan, please forgive me.” I said.
-“Don’t say that Riona, please I would do that with anyone else who needs help.” Ethan replied with a soft voice.
For the first time in my life, I felt save and happy, I had confidence in that man who was as strong as an athlete and at the same time as affectionate as a baby, his words were so sensitive and he looked so quiet like a breeze in the summer.
-“Can I sit next to you Ethan? I’m scared that those creatures would come after me.” I asked in a very shy and low voice.
-“Go ahead, and don’t feel frightened while I’m here.” Ethan replied in a noble way.
I sat next to him and felt that while he is here, nobody would even dare to touch me. That was a wonderful feeling I had never felt before, and I could forget all my past in a blink of an eye.
I looked at the strong man again and I noticed that he had tattoos on his back and arms, it was a labyrinth and a lion, and it looked so charming, though I haven’t got any tattoos on my body. I knew that tattoos are mystical and charming but I did never think of the right tattoo, I have always wanted to draw my own tattoos with my bear hands because it is something that stays with you for good and if you make the wrong choice you will regret it later, however if you do it yourself you will not blame yourself because if you slapped yourself you won’t feel it. But when I saw the tattoos of Ethan I thought of how charming that is and I wished to look at it even more but I was shy and I almost knew the guy, so I had to keep my distance, but the only thing that I was sure of was that a man with wonderful tattoos like those would probably have an interesting past he doesn’t want to talk abou
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Ethan was so serene and sensitive, I could see it in his eyes, we stayed together in the same room for over two days, but he didn’t say a single word and didn’t disturb me at all, he even doesn’t snore like other guys, he looked so angelic when he sleeps, but he kept thinking and sighing, I thought he had a big issue or problem, so I took a deep breath and headed to where he was sitting and asked him in a very low voice:
-“Are you ok Ethan, why do you look so sad and melancholic?”
-“Nothing Riona, go and get some rest, and don’t worry about me, I’m ok.” He replied.
-“Sorry Ethan if I disturbed you. However, I won’t leave you until you tell me what the matter is.” I said.
-“I don’t want to upset you, you have endured enough suffering.” Ethan replied.
-“Then, ok don’t tell me what’s wrong; tell me rather about yourself, what you work? And how it happened that you were abducted by these alien creatures?”I asked.
-“I’m a normal man and I had a normal life, indeed, I used to work as soldier back in my homeland, I was out of the house most of the time, I can hardly recall a single day out of work.” He replied.
-“Oh, How noble is that! And how do you spend your free time if ever you have any?”I asked once again.
-“I used to love motorcycling and I had a big one, I was obsessed with mine and I did never consider it like an object but more like a friend, and I feel that it loved me back, you may say that I am a crazy man, but this was the truth. I loved it when that strong machine with only two wheels can roar with thrust into my ears and made the joy of my days. I was always looking after it as if it was my baby and would shine it and polish it every day off. It had an astonishing red headlight which resembled the eyes of dragon in the night. It was polished in blue, and I used to ride it and went to every country with it, even when I slept, I didn’t leave it out of the house.” Ethan replied.
-“I bet you miss it then right?” I asked.
-“That would have been possible if it still exists, but it doesn’t anymore.” He said.
-“Did you sell it?” I asked again.
-“No he said, I was riding it one day with my boy and we were enjoying our time, he was showing me the lovely scenery when, suddenly, a big van showed up in our way, I tried to avoid it but I knew then, that destiny was very close just like a criminal or drug dealer or a beast that is waiting right in the corner to steal my boy from me, I wished I were the one to die but I couldn’t stand in the face of death and I had to accept that and from that day I didn’t ride a motorcycle at all.” Ethan replied
-“Sorry to hear that, and I apologize for reminding you of that.” I said.
-“It is ok Riona, I haven’t forgot that accident for a single day, and I was abducted just few days later.” Ethan added.
At that time I realized that
no one wants to die but they have to one day and even good people who are dreaming to win paradise in the aftermath of their death they don’t want to die. However, death is the perpetual future that we all have to accept. And history proved that no one had an everlasting life. Death is a law that we have to bend to and must try to cope with. I knew that day that I was not the only person who had misfortunes and that many other people suffer even more than I did.
We were still locked in the same room and few days passed without any creature showing up, there was only a guard at the front door who provided us with food every day, but after four other days, two aliens showed up and came directly to me, they injected a weird liquid, and when they did, my agony began again and I felt very intense pain cutting me into pieces. I wasn’t able to sleep anymore and I was crying out of pain every minute, even couldn’t help this time but he was trying to ease my pain by staying by my bed’s side each night, he wouldn’t even sleep, and whenever I open my eyes I found him right by my side I was so happy for that because at last someone was caring about me. I heard him one night whispering some words in my ears, he said: