You know how the people who are different, whether for the better or for the worse, they're either going to be a leader or an outcast? My small group of five, including Kewby, Mikay, Hezums, Pawnei, and myself were those people.
We were outcasts.
And don't think, even for a second, that just because I'm saying it in the past tense that it means we're leaders now. I don't think that would be possible, and even if it did happen to be that we would rule over all that ridiculed us in the end, there would still be plenty of people, somewhere out there, who would hate us just because we look different than them.
Because, trust me, we look much much different.
Oh, I guess I forgot to mention. My name is Selumi. I'm the leader of that group of five. I'm not exactly sure why, since I'm no older than anyone else. In fact, we were even born on the same day.
We were also abducted on the same day.
Long ago, a leader from our planet of Nhar-Gh'ok, Gorkspace Sergeant Shnooky, took 16 brave men and women on an information gathering mission and never returned. Nobody knows what really happened, only that they had signaled the crew waiting on them in a spaceship hovering just above the planet Earth to beam up twelve Earth children on accident, thinking that they were being held hostage.
Four of them, being unfit to travel through space at the speed of light, died. Another three were killed in confusion as the natives had realized that they weren't Nhar-Gh'ok at all. But, before they could kill the rest, they realized that we could be useful to them.
The leftovers were us, of course.
They say that on Earth it's only been 8 years since that accident. Apparently, because of some strange time-thingy that I don't remember (probably because I completely zoned out while they were explaining it,) it's been twice as much here. My group consisted of all 16 year-olds.
Group? More like family. We had grown up together, trained together, lived together, but most of all, dealt with the torment of our classmates together. We had only looked like they do now for the first year of our lives, then we grew up, as Earthlings supposedly do. So, they had made fun of us, even tried to hurt us, just because we were taller than them.
We were stronger than them, too. But that didn't stop them. They would just divide and conquer, gang up on us. After catching on to their strategy, we stuck together like a pack of wolves.
Group, family, pack, whatever you wanted to call us, we were inseparable.
And that is how our story begins.
Note: For those of you who may have read another of my stories, you probably know what I mean when I say I really should not be starting another one right now! But I just can't help myself! Sooo. Yeah. MUAHAHAHAHA.