Earth is being oppressed, but not by a communist dictator like Mao or Stalin in history books, but instead by creatures from another dimension. I heard them being called demons, aliens, and angels before but the other day my friend told me what they really are. They are called Null Guardians.
"Guardians!?" I shouted at her, "They're no guardians!"
"They were guardians once," she whispered to me, "I'll have to tell you the story later," she said as the teacher gave us a dirty look.
It isn't as bad as oppression could be, I suppose. The Null King still allows education but there are strict rules and guidelines like no looking away from the board or the fact that if you go below a 3.0 GPA, you get dropped from school worldwide.
There are strict laws on other things too. The curfew is ten o'clock and the streets are patrolled by other creatures, but no one has survived to tell anyone what they look like. Everyone must get up at the break of dawn and go to their respective occupations. After school, children must go through the dimensional portal to go to the mines. Adults are there all day and go home at sunset on Earth. We mine yellow minerals but we aren't told what they're called or why we're mining it. A lot of things are kept in the dark from us. No one has ever seen the Null King. My friend's cousin claims that he has but I don't believe him. He says a lot of things.
Life is almost as normal as it was before they came here but it is obvious that we're being dictated and oppressed. A fool could see that!
I was waiting after school for Gwen to meet me and tell me more about the guardians. I kept thinking that she is just as big of a liar as her cousin is. I mean, she decides now to tell me, two years after the Null Guardians or whatever you want to call them came here. Why didn't she tell me when they first appeared?
"Are you Maybelle Townshend?" a man asked me suddenly when he approached me. He wore the sleek metal armor that the military has to wear these days and he carried a gun over his shoulder so I had to answer him.
"Yes, that's me," I replied.
"The Null King has requested your presence; you must come with me," he said as he took my arm. The armor covered him from head to toe in one large piece so I couldn't see his face. I heard that there was a button on their armor somewhere that would disassemble the armor.
"Alright..." I said quietly as we walked quickly towards the school gate, where a Null Guardian was waiting for us. It's a large gray beast that often reminds me of a worm because they have no eyes, just a large mouth. It has two huge dragon-like wings and long tentacles like a squid. The guardians are scary things, especially their large teeth.
As the soldier put me onto the demon that smelled like rock and saddled up in front of me, I kept wondering why the Null King wanted to see me, of all people. Did I do something wrong? No, because they would have shot me on the spot. It must have been something good then. But what have I done!?