Chapter 1: Death

Death. That was the only thing happening happening. I lay in front of my destroyed home, with my parents dead inside said home. 10 minutes ago, everything was fine. I was doing my own things while mother and father watched TV. I was playing a video game when all of sudden my mother is screaming for me to come and see what they are watching. I was thinking "Oh their just watching a movie and wanna show me a cool scene or something." When I exited my room, I could see the destruction of what appeared to be the Empire State building. "Cool movie," I said. "What is it called?"

My parents are just staring at me, "Honey," my mother said. "That's the news."

I was standing there not knowing what to think, I knew she wasn't joking, I could tell by how serious she sounded. Then the picture on the screen changed to a woman in a red dress, around 30 years old with blond hair. "What you are seeing is not a joke, that was an unidentified aircraft destroying the Empire State building in New York City. Everyone, you need to stay inside your homes, lock your doors, and get a weapon if need be. The creatures or aliens coming out of these ships are hostile and attack anything with a heart beat it seems. They are almost indestructible to any type of weapon. Stay away from crashed ships as well. We have learned from the army that their appear to be these other creatures that appear to be black in color, are about 8 feet tall, and extremely hostile. If you see one, God help you. This is Diane Newt, and we will report any new even- OH FUCK! RUN!" The next things we saw was the camera man running with Diane until he dropped the camera and they got cornered against a wall by a tall black skinned creature with a long and sharp tail. It grabbed the camera man and held his head as some sort of second mouth came out and blew a hole in the poor mans head. Diane was crying begging for mercy when the thing began to drag her off camera with her still screaming. The camera then cut to a woman in a news station with her jaw dropped.

We turned the TV off after that. My father started locking and barricading the doors while my mother was trying to find our 44. Magnum, but before my father could even push the couch to the door, a small spider like thing jumped into the window and latched on my fathers face. My mother was upstairs finding the gun and I was scared to move, I just stood there while my father was getting choked and falling unconscious. My mother came downstairs with the gun and screamed when she saw my father. That was what got me out of my trance, we both ran over trying to rip the spider creature off his face, but to no avail. "Stand back," my mother said as she aimed the gun at the creature at an angle that would hopefully not harm dad. She shot the gun and our ears were ringing as we began to smell and hear a sizzling sound. We looked at dad to see the carpet melting and dad's face and throat burning from the acidic like substance. He was thrashing about for about half a minute until it stopped. While I was watching this unfold, I failed to notice my mother held in the air by some invisible presence, but as I looked closer, I could see waves kinda like when its a really hot day and it looks like you can see the air. The 10 foot tall thing became visible and was having a blade come out of his wrist as he stabbed mom in the head and pulled it out along with her spine.

"MOM! DAD! NO NO NO THIS CAN"T BE HAPPENING!" I screamed. The big monster was standing in front of the exit as he held my mom. I looked for something, anything, until I saw the 44. at my feet. I grabbed it without hesitation, took aim, and shot the remaining rounds into the murderer. He didn't have to time to react to what was happening. After the 5th shot, he succumbed to his injuries and looked at me and said something I couldn't understand. I just stared at my surroundings as he typed something into his wrist armor thing. Next thing I knew, I heard beeping and he was doing something that I could only assume to be laughing. From playing games and watching movies, I knew what was happening, he was self-destructing. I ran right past him with the empty 44. still in my hand. Right when I reached the door, I felt something grab my ankle. I looked down to see myself getting dragged towards him by his hand. He was too strong to get out of his grasp. I began silently crying as this monster made sure he took one more person with him if he was to die. "AAHHHHHH" I screamed as he broke my ankle with the unreal strength he had. I looked for anything to get him off me until I saw a coffee mug on the coffee table in our living room. I grabbed it and smashed it on his head as the beeping became faster. That seemed to be enough to get him to weaken the power he had on my ankle and I wiggled out. I began hobbling over to the door and ran outside, but before could even get off the front porch, I was thrown 20 feet into the street as an explosion destroyed my home. I screamed in pain as I hit a car parked in the street. My ribs were likely broken at this point. My 13 year old body and mind couldn't take this much longer. I got up, cursing under my breath from the pain, almost screaming. As I got up, I noticed my town in ruins and burning down. I couldn't go back into town for help, it would be too dangerous considering how it was currently looking. I can't stay out here or I could be attacked by another of those things. I looked to the forest. "Well it's my best bet I guess." I said as I ventured into unknown territory.

3 Hours later I exited the forest I was hiding in, waiting for things to die down. I moved over to a house that wasn't destroyed at all. It probably still had power too. I walked to the door to find out it was locked. "Crap" I said. I looked for a window. It was locked as well. "Alright screw this". I found a rock and threw into the window. After clearing the glass, I jumped over the window into the home. "I guess the owners left." I said to no one. I was starving at this point and looked In the fridge to see some uncooked hamburger along with some soda. "Please have power. Wait, the fridge was on so..." I turned on the stove and it worked. "YES! THANK YOU MOM FOR TEAChing me how to cook..." I began to fall silent as I remembered the events from earlier. Whats the point. My parents are dead, I'm all alone, and I'm probably gonna get killed in some horrific way like my family did. I found some knives and began cutting the meat into a few patties and put the rest of the hamburger into the fridge. I then looked at the knife and then my wrist. "No, not yet, I just want a good meal and then, then I'll do it." I began cooking and heard a screech behind me. It startled me and I went to grab a knife. As I went to look where the screech came from, I saw some sort of worm covered in what looked like blood in the living room. It looked hungry too. "What the hell, I'm gonna die soon, I don't see why I shouldn't help you. Maybe you can keep me company in my last moments." I said as I grabbed the rest of the meat and tossed into the living room and resumed cooking. "Come on, it burned?! Why can't anything go right." I realized the worm thing had the last of the meat too. "Well, at least they have soda." I went to grab the 2 liter of Pepsi and started chugging it. Half of it was gone by the time I was done. "Wow, just wow, I was thirsty. Well I'm obviously not getting a good meal, lets just get this over with." The second I grabbed the knife to end it all, another one of those giant creatures that killed my family crashed in from the roof. At this moment, all of my sadness turned into anger as I charged at the beast with the knife in my hand. Might as well take on ugly freak with me if I'm going out. Before I could even attempt to stab the beast, I was grabbed by the throat by it. I dropped my knife as I was lifted in the air by it, trying to get air, but couldn't. It seemed to laugh as well as it slowly choked me to death. I then became terrified of dying, I didn't want to die. I started to black out, but before I did, I saw a big black, slender figure stick its spear like tail into the beasts chest. I passed out before I hit the ground.