The Chosen: The Lights in the Sky

By Kalegan Demoray, 22nd Feb 2012 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/d_z6v74e/
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Imagine one day walking outside and there are lights filling the sky...a war over the skies of earth... strange metalic spiders filling the streets and strangest of all...the alien craft seem to fighting amungst themselves...

The Chosen...from the most normal of people a great legacy can rise.

The Lights in the Sky

Martha was working the midnight shift again at the call centre and in that large call centre with hundreds of work cubicles which was eerily deserted at this time of night as almost everyone had gone home leaving only ten in such a massive room.
Jane and Sue chatted idly passing the time while Martha, a more solitary type person idled the many hours away until midnight when she could go home. It was strange what would happen that night as the black skinned and brown haired Martha sat watching her computer screen waiting for the next call.
Ring! Ring!, the headset rang and she almost jumped with a start, it had been unusually silent today and she answered the phone staring at the clock which read ten pm.
‘Hi this is Martha from…’ she started but was cut off
‘are you machine?’ the person asked and Martha had to suppress the urge to giggle
‘as far as I know I am real person but I can double check that for you if you would like’ Martha said at a hopes of humour but the woman on the phone was clearly not interested and continued to talk
‘I am calling regarding bill number…’ the woman said and suddenly there was a concussive boom over the phone and a crackle as the line became distorted, funnily enough Martha heard the boom from some twenty miles away with her feet
‘Mam are you alright?’ she asked
‘I…what the’ the woman said and there was a screech and whine as the line was filled with static and crackling, Martha went could as she heard a thud on the line and the waving pulsating sounds through the headset as she heard screams outside
‘hello! Hello!’ Martha said panic rising in her chair as she knew something terrible had happen
‘Mam! Mam! Are you…’ she said and there was a loud whining screech and the phoneline went silent
Here heart was racing now as she slammed the headset down from her head and stood up staring at the headset as though it had been the evidence to some dastly crime and she could feel her heart pounding in her chest.
‘Martha!’ one of her co-workers said and she almost jumped in shock
‘that…that woman I think she was murdered’ Martha said still in panic and the nearby woman laughed and chuckled clearly thinking it was some kind of joke
‘murdered? No one gets murdered over the phone they always hang up first’ the rather chubby pale skinned lady nearby said
‘NOT Funny Sue!’ Martha exclaimed and the larger lady went silent
‘Karen I…err need to use the toilet give me a sec’ she shouted to her half asleep manager and she nodded and Martha punched the phone digits to put herself on break
She rushed out of the office to the hallways which was half lit and the bust light flickered halfway down the corridor. She rushed down the corridor and turned to her right rushing past pictures with promotional sayings on.
She rushed into the ladies bathroom and pulled out her back and rummaged through it to find her mobile phone. As she did she became aware of an odd music in the background which she at first thought was the radio playing on the system like in a mall but she soon realised that no radio ever plays in the speaker system so she listen harder and assumed it was someone playing a radio too loud outside or maybe a party…but she listened more intently and her blood ran cold as she realised it was not music but shouts and screams from some distance away.
‘Damn it!’ she shouted as she could not find her phone and realised it was in her car so she discided to go outside and get it, she rushed down the corridor and as she did the light flickered and went dark perminantly and at first she did not think it was important until she heard screams from the office and the security guard turn on his flash light and wave it down the hallway at her causing her to jump.
‘goodevening Martha…strange night isn’t it’ the old daudaly secury guard said with a laugh and she nodded clearly terrified
‘I left something in the car buzz me through so I can get it’ she said
‘it’s a power cut mam, the doors will all be open, probably be sent home soon too’ he said opening the inner glass door and she rushed out into the lobby and then down a set of stairs, some internal will pushing her ever forwards as though she knew instinctively to get out.
She was running now across the marble floor of the lobby and she saw the adjar glass doors and pushed her way through them and ran towards her car parked nearby. She fumbled in her bag for her keys and pressed them and the blue mini bleeped and opened.
She rushed towards it and opened the door throwing her bag inside and reaching for the her phone which lay idly on her seat and flipped it and it illuminated her face and she dialled the number for home.
The phone rang one…twice
‘hello’ her mothers voice said clearly sleepy
‘mum!...good your alright look something is…’ she said but at that instant a noise louder then an aeroplane taking off roared behind her.
She turned just in time to see a massive Boeing 474 come hurtling down from the sky, she saw massive hole in its side from some fiery slice across it from where the pilot was to the wing.
It came down like some massive flying beast. It descended and screamed as though angered by those who hurt it and screaming for life as it slammed nose first just behind the office and slid forwards tarring through the massive office sending metal and bricks aside with ease, fire erupted as its own internal fuel finally caught on fire and erupted from its rear lighting up the sky with fire and grinding it further into her office.
She could see her office heave forwards as through made of cloth with the plane pushing through from behind and then suddenly from its front the structure of the building gave way and the flattened and wrecked front of the plane pushed through as more of the fuel set on fire and exploded out sending bricks and bent metal into the air and the concussive wave sent Martha hurling back through the air with such force that it knocked the wind out of her as she landed on her back and she cringed in agony as her back and arm slammed into the ground hard. The phone went spinning was was lost in the debris and she heard a window smash in her car as something round and hard flew through the air and slammed down onto her head… and then there was only darkness…

She groaned in agony as she awoke, her head was pounding and throbbing and as she moved her right arm stung with stiff pain and her entire lower back had seized up with pain.
Her head was pounding and at first she thought that the flickering dots of light in front of her eyes were caused by some injury to her head as she fell but as she saw them flicker and dart across the sky she realised that they were not in her head but really in the sky.
She saw vast spheres and tubes flying across the sky, some the size of cars others as big as ships. They flew with such speed and were able to make lightning fast turns and they seemed to dance and circle each other.
Massive tube ships flew and smaller spheres and discs darted around them. And then she saw it, one of the tubes let loose a red beam of energy that slammed into a nearby disk and sliced through the lightly armoured disk with ease and it was sent hurling sideways as its from was only half sliced and it spun wildly in the air before spinning sideways as through rolling out of the sky and slamming into some houses nearby.
She heard more screams in the distance. She suddenly realised what was happening was real and she forced herself to her feet and staggered forwards wincing in pain as her lower back and arm were in agony.
Her head swam and she did not even realise that one of her high healed black shoes was missing until she got to her car, the door was still wide open and the lights from inside her car were pulsing on and off. She saw her bag on the seat of the car and she pulled it out and rummaged through it to find her car keys.
She then looked and realised that her precious blue mini was not in good shape at all as its top had been dented inwards by a large metal pole from the building while her the front of the car had been dented by two bricks that had slammed into it.
The right hand side mirror was torn off and luckily the front window of the car had survived with only tiny peaces of metal imbedded in the glass causing cracks across the glass but she knew she could still drive the car.
She found the keys and got into the car and turned the engine on, the car engine roared into life but the lights and electronics in the car seems to pulsate and flicker and then they turned on and the lights of the car illuminated the driving lot as she turned the fog lights on illuminating more of the parking lot and as she did she saw something grey out of the corner of her eye and it seemed to be walking towards her.
It was four foot tall and walked slowly towards her from the edge of the parking lot, she thought it to be a man at first and her first thought was to help them, maybe someone from her office, a janiter or a survivor.
She turned the car around and started to drive towards them, her headlights illuminating far in front of her and then as she peared more and more she realised something, but it was too late as she slammed on the brakes.
She was unsure at first thinking her head was playing tricks but now it was twenty metres away she knew for sure what it was, well more specificly that it was not human.
Where a humans body was taller and with shorter arms and this…thing had ling slender arms and legs that looked frail. Its head was massive and easily twice the width of a humans head at the top and yet it’s jaw was smaller then humans jaw making it have an reversed triangular face. But that was not what terrified her, no it was the eyes, big and black easily twice the length of a small hand and nearly five inches wide at their largest point.
This creature was well adapted for night vision and right now it saw her in the flickering fire light as clearly as day and she knew, her instincts screamed out to her that this thing wanted to kill her.
She slammed the car into reverse and hit the accelerator and her car screeched as it moved back with tremendous speed and the creature all at once lunged forwards.
She screamed in fear as the nightmares of her childhood were creeping back to her. The creature lunged forwards its slender limbs and frail looking body having much more power then they look to hand and in one bounding jump it cleared ten metres and was on the front of her car.
She could see that its back had something metal implanted in its spine and as it clawed up towards her she screamed as she looked into those black…dead eyes.
It made no noises as it crawled up toward her and she could see the speedometer and the radio flicker and then turn on and off as the creature came closer to her. She felt as though the thin glass that kept her from the alien was not enough and as it gripped the front of the bonit and raised a hand to punch into the glass.
Suddenly Martha’s head slammed back and then was suddenly thrust forwards as the rear of her car slammed into a lamp post and she head the crumple of her car as she was suddenly thrust forwards, her seatbelt barley holding her face an inch away from the steering wheel.
The aliens head had slammed into the glass leaving a massive cracked area where its head had hit and its body had rolled forwards. She saw its body slumped across the front of her car and thought for a moment it was dead.
She saw its back had something metal like a massive metre long spider that had embedded itself around the aliens spine and its skin was dark grey and covered in black vanes which made it look more dead then anything.
She froze as she suddenly realised there was more things then the alien, around her approaching from all sides were silver long legged spiders each one a metre wide though their bodies were mostly legs as their inner body was only a food long with a silver body and six legs coming out of it that were long and wiery. The spiders slowly walked towards her and as she slammed the car into drive the alien seemed to activate and came to live and clawed towards her but its loosened grip made it fall and slide under her car, she felt the car bump as she must have ran over some body part and she drove forwards into the approaching horde of spider things.
The spiders charged her and did not attempt to run when she ran over them, she looked in the rear and saw the alien stagger to its feet one of its arms bend in the wrong direction and black blood seeping out of the wound.
It seemed to not notice the pain and started to run towards her, but she was a lot faster moving forwards and as she drove she felt the car grind over spiders but some managed to crawl onto her car, their hands ending in tiny three bladed claws that pushed into the car with ease and they clambered up.
She swerved attempting to push some off and a few lost their grip and flew out across the road. She swerved and barely turned to make the road out of the parking lot and picked up speed as she drove.
She worked in an area close to the countryside and the nearby city seemed to be alive with lights filling the sky. As she drove the spiders made their way across her car with clinking noises.
She accelerated and saw a nearby van and drove too close to it grinding the side of her mini into the van sending sparks into the air and crushing spiders on one side of her car, she did the same on the other side with a low wall and had to drive onto the pavement in order to brush them.
Then one of the spiders clambered in through the back window that was broken and it clambered towards the back of her head. Its silver form glinting in the lamp light that flashed through the windows and she saw it at the last moment and dodged to the side as it lunged.
As she dodged her hand carried the steering wheel and the car swerved and slammed into a wall causing the front end to crumple and the airbags exploded out, spider had landed on the steering wheel a moment before the airbags debloyed and as they did the instant detonation of the airbag casing the front of the steering wheel to explode outwards with extreme force sending the spider slamming up into the window of the mini crushing it and taring the already cracked window and showering Martha in glass just as the passenger airbag exploded and protected her face from harm.
The remaining spiders were sent forwards with such speed that they flew into the nearby bushes and Martha breathed with panic and fear as the airbags deflated and she pulled herself upright.
The airbags hissed as they deflated and filled her lap with a white balloonlike bag which she ignored as she shakily took the steering wheel and reversed the car casually and drove away as fast as she could.
Her heart was drumming in her chest and her arms and legs were cut with glass and she could feel glass grind around her as she moved in her seat. But she ignored it all and was thankful to be alive as she drove.
The cool summer night air filled the car and she looked up periodically and watched the skies as she headed further into the countryside away from the city. Tears welled up in her eyes as she thought about her mother and all the people in her office who she had abandoned to go to her car and who were all now dead.
She thought of the fact that she had survived and of the terrifying alien who had reminded her of the nightmare she had so often had and as she wept her vision became blurry but she did not wipe her eyes in fear that some glass on her hands might get into her eyes.
The suddenly something silver and metal moved in the open window and she swerved and gasped in fear but then saw it was one of the spiders arms that had been embedded in the ceiling when the airbag deployed.
With her heart pounding and fearing another spider attack she got out of the car and checked everywhere for any signs of spiders and sighed with relief to find that there was none.
She then saw something odd happen, the front lights of her car flickered and turned off and on and she looked around in panic and heard the radio turn on and whine and crackle something and then as she got into the car she looked up and saw a massive tube shaped craft fly overhead towards her and she slammed her foot on the acceleration and the car flew forwards narrowly missing a red energy beam that slammed into the ground behind her taring up the road and turning it to molten tarmac that hissed and crackled.
The nightmare from her youth flashed before her eyes, the light, the little grey people…their big black eyes and…the thing in the stomach…
She swerved the car left and right and the beam followed causing a zigzag energy beam cut into the road behind her. Then as she flew faster and fast the alien seem to be relishing her torment as she knew it could kill her at any moment.
Her heart was pounding and her head was clouding with fear as she drove faster and faster, her foot pressing the accelerator to the ground until she was sure that the car could give no more and yet she willed it on as though her mind could make it go faster.
The car roared as it was pushed to the limit and she could see that it had well bypassed its speed limit and still she wanted more, but a car against a craft that can travel across space was no match at all, like trying a race a turtle and a rocket.
Then suddenly she went cold and her heart almost stopped as a massive shining white craft came towards her from the road in front of her and she knew that against these two craft she could never outrun them.
She saw a white mean come down and shine at her and the massive craft sent two energy bursts of green and white into the tube craft and she felt its concusive roar of an explosion from above her.
Metal and cloth like metal sheets rained around her and somewhere a charred body flew but nothing touched her car as the beam seemed to protect her.
Then the car came to a halt slowly and as the fiery rear of the tube slammed into the ground behind her she saw the massive shining craft descend towards the ground and she remembered the nightmare, and an old memory was sturred in her, something she had forgotten but at the same time always remembered. Like a hidden memory.
She remembered the grey people…their smile…they told her that the thing in her stomach would keep her safe, it would tell them when she was in danger and would warn her if something bad would happen. The memory flashed before her eyes and she understood why her gut had told her to escape, why the bad alien was drawn to her and why the tube followed her. The same signal the good aliens used was picked up by the bad and they wanted her too.
She knew and in that moment felt calm and the car doors unlocked and as the craft settled down it reformed into a triangle to fill the road and its light shimmered and filled the woods.
Then a door opened up from the bottom of the craft and she saw two alien figures emerge, one was seven feet tall and the other was only four and yet dispite them looking like father and son they were actually the same age and married.
Martha we will protect you, you are the chosen, a voice in her mind said and she nodded approaching the aliens
‘why are there bad aliens attacking me?’ she asked as she approached
We are the Twelve we seek unity with all life but the Mar’a they seek only to dominate, the alien said into her mind as she approached and she could see more of them inside the craft watching her, she saw people and saw someone wave to her as she approached
She had no fear as she approached and the taller alien reached out its hand and she reached out her hand and she felt its hand was cold but she did not fear as she stepped onto the craft and the craft pulsed with light and the doors closed and she was serounded by light.
‘Where to now?’ she asked
The Moon...