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I know I shouldn't be starting new stories, but I fell in love with this one and I couldn't help myself! It's based off a new tv show called Star-crossed and I've only watched one episode and I'm hooked! (If I receive spoilers, I will kill you!)
Anyways, I made this chapter long because it's a trial story. If I get enough support, I'll continue it after I finish one of my other stories that's nearly done! If I don't get much support, I'll stick to the stories I already have and just fantazise about the new series! Honestly guys, if you like aliens and furturistic stuff, check the show out! For anyone with Sky tv, It's on Fridays and Sundays (As far as I know) but it's really good!
So yeah...here's my version of this story...you should read it...I spent a whole day on it when I had other things that needed to be done and guess what...I've added more stuff on my to-do list for tomorrow!
"Good luck." My father said, smiling proudly at me and my brother. "I'm sure you'll make us proud. Today, we make a huge step in forming an alliance with the humans!" he continued on.
I shared a glance with my brother before looking back at our father. If he thought this little experiment was going to work, he wasn't going to listen to any negativity.
We were – in the humans language – aliens. We did come from another planet, escaping from the mad clutches of our leader in our home planet. She had been ruthless and left us with no choice.
My kind had been monitoring other life forms, looking for a planet we could all share. I often wondered if we invented time travel, could we use it to go back to our home planet and somehow change our course?
The humans on this planet have been wary and hateful to my kind since arrival day. We have never given them any reason to be afraid of us, yet here we were, in our own sector, being monitored constantly. Human guards walked through us daily, huge guns in hand ready to put a bullet in anyone who didn't follow the rules we had been given.
My parents had been on the council that chose to leave our planet and travel to earth. My mother had told me for as long as I could remember, that once we arrived on earth, we would be welcomed and we would be taught the humans ways.
I was only four when we arrived, yet I knew when many of us fell to the ground after a loud bang erupted, we weren't being welcomed.
I hated thinking about arrival day. I had never felt so scared like I was then. The day when so many of us died because we were suspected of being a threat.
Twelve years later, and those of my kind who weren't killed were trapped in a sector. We were given a curfew, in which we had to stay inside our family pods and until told otherwise, we couldn't leave till curfew was lifted the next day.
My father now led the H.E.A which stood for Human and Extraterrestrial Alliance. He consulted with a human who also hoped to form an alliance between our kinds had set up a program my brother and I were starting today with a few others.
We liked to be called Cova. In our language, it means courage. But humans liked to call us 'Tatty's', a cruel reference to the markings my kind has on their faces. We all have them, none are alike. Mine look like the star sign Aries. They have a diamond shape with a symmetric lines sprouting a near three lined circle sprouting from a tip.
The markings are the only thing in our physical difference that make us stand out as being non-human.
I'm sure I could pass for a human with my curly red air that fell to my waist, pale skin tone and emerald green eyes. My markings started from my hairline on both sides of my face and reached my eyes.
My brother looked stranger than me, in my opinion. He was much taller than me, he also had pale skin and emerald green eyes. Instead of having a red mess of hair, he got our fathers straight platinum hair. His markings stood out as they were illuminated by his pale skin and hair. They were squares that were in the same place as mine.
My mother who I inherited my appearance from, entered the small hallway of our home. "I hope it goes well..." She said, her face revealed all of her nervousness and fear. "Maybe we should postpone for a little longer..." She spoke to my father.
"We'll be fine mom." My brother, Jonathan said walking towards her and wrapping his arm around her, just proving how small she was.
"Yeah, I'm sure we'll be making friendship bracelets with the humans in no time." I said, receiving an annoyed look from my father.
He and my brother looked alike, but my father had more time to practice his 'I'm scary and you will fear me' look.
"You're not participating in this experiment to befriend the humans. You're being sent to the human school to learn."
I refrained from rolling my eyes. It would just get me into trouble. "I thought the point of the experiment was to let the humans see how harmless we were?"
"Which can and will be achieved by staying out of trouble. Lucian and I have been setting this project up for months. Today we take a step forward in our relationship with the humans. I would ask only that you do not let your people down by letting your anger get the better of you." my father said, his black eyes unnerving me.
I sighed. "I'll do my best."
It wasn't what he was looking for, but he preferred honesty over unrealistic lies.
"We better get going before the humans thinks we're insulting them." Jonathan said quickly, walking towards me and pulling me after him as we left our home.
"You really hate confrontation, don't you?" I muttered as I pulled the old rucksack on my back further up my shoulder. It was empty, but we had been told by the end of the first day of human high school, the bags would weigh tons.
Jonathan shrugged. "You know what dad's like with this project. He's proud that we'll be the first of our kind that starts the whole human/extraterrestrial friendship."
"The only reason we're going is because of dad. How many of us all together are going?"
"Eight all together I think. Us, rat face, the Penhallows, blue-eyed moron, Jem and Jessamine." He said, counting each name off his fingers.
"Clearly you love them all."
Jonathan grinned but didn't reply. We made it to the huge, heavily guarded door that was the only exit from the sector...aside from a few make-shift holes in the fence that surrounded the sector which were useless since we all had tracking chips implanted in us and punishment for escape was death.
There was a bus that was mainly used to bring food into the sector parked in front of the gate, at least eight guards surrounded it.
General Herondale stood out from among the guards. He was watching us as we approached before he pointed to a red line where the others were already standing behind.
The general was a man who clearly was no stranger to exercise. He had short dark hair, which curled slightly, his skin tone was shades darker than mine. He had blue eyes, which were extremely light. From a distance, you would think his eyes were just black and white. He wore the normal Guard attire, except his shoulder pads were red while everyone else's were blue. The uniform was a multiple green pants and coat with a black vest over the torso. The guards wore black shoes that reached their shins and some wore multiple green hats.
Simon, my long-term best friend. He had shaggy brown hair with dark brown eyes. His pale face was clammy, most likely from him being nervous. He was petrified of entering the humans school where we could easily be attacked. His star-shaped markings stood out from his face being so pale.
Aline and Sebastian were brother and sister. They were an odd pair of siblings in our world. They were Penhallows, which the humans called twins. Our kind was never born with their siblings. It was a rare happening.
Aline had black hair, which she cut to her shoulders and refused to allow it to grow longer. Her dark brown eyes were always shining with happiness, no matter the situation. She had a darker skin tone than my brother and me. Her markings weren't as clear as her skin tone was only a few shades lighter. The markings were in the shape of spirals. She was my only friend that was a girl.
Sebastian didn't look like his sister, like the way Jonathan and Clary didn't look-alike. He had black hair which was shaved at the side but all of his hair that was long was pulled forward and flowed down his forehead. His skin was lighter than his sisters, but like Aline, his markings were also not as obvious. They looked like X's. His eyes were a light shade of brown, but their intensity was the same as fire. He was Jonathan's best friend, Clary got along with him, but she wouldn't call them good friends.
Will was Jonathan's least liked Cova. Although, he was still liked more than the humans. He had curly black hair, which he refused to cut. His deep blue eyes were mesmerizing whenever you stared into them. I don't know why Jonathan had such a problem with Will. He didn't seem that bad. He would always tell me a few Jokes and he would always try and console me if I was upset. His markings were dark against his parlour. They were in the shape of an S.
Jem was silver all over. When we arrived on earth, he fell ill and it took a lot of the medicine we had salvaged from our craft and hid from the humans to save him. Unfortunately, it turned his brown hair and brown eyes, silver. The medicine just flushed his colour from his body. He's one of the kindest Cova's I know. He's modest and he rarely lied, if ever. He was the opposite of his best friend, Will. His markings were as obvious as Jonathan's. They were like little doodles of nonsense, but at the same time, they looked beautiful.
Jessamine...Where does one begin to describe Jessamine? To say her and I didn't get along would be like saying the humans were envious of our kind. We began their hatred for one another when I 'accidentally' tripped her, causing her to fall into a puddle of mud. Our relationship just plummeted from there. She had blonde hair which was well cared for, and her brown eyes seemed to always be accusing as she mainly glared at those around her. Her markings on her milk skin were like the vines on the buildings in the sector. They were intricate, but Jessamine could easily hide her markings as they were just at her hairline.
All of them were wearing the handed down clothes we were given by the humans. We weren't given new clothes, we were instead, given hand downs.
Some of the clothes weren't so bad. My outfit for the day consisted of jeans that hugged to my legs, a long blue shirt that reached the middle of my thigh. I wore a shiny short black jacket, the material I was told was a copy of a type of animal skin. My shoes were a strange material, when I let my hand slide down one way, they were soft, when I tried to slide them the other way, they were rough.
My accessories consisted of a chain with a pendant of a shooting star. My father had given it to me, just before we left our home planet. It was like a token, a symbol of hope. He told me the star represented our travel. It was the one time my father had said something that wasn't demeaning or argumentative to me.
The others were also wearing their own old human clothes. Jessamine was the only one wearing a dress and looked displeased about the fact that she hadn't been the first to wear it.
Jonathan and I stood behind the line as General Herondale walked over to us, his gun pointed at the ground, but I knew it could be pointed at our heads in a split second. I cast a quick glance in the direction we had just walked. Many of our people stopped what they were doing to watch us. Even some of the guards amongst them stopped to stare.
"I'm sure you are all eagerly awaiting to enter the human sector." The general said, glancing at Simon who was clearly shaking. "But be warned. You all know your kind are not well liked. Many are against this...trial and are just waiting for you all to screw it up." At that he paused to look at us all, staring into our faces one by one. "You have all been chosen to represent your kind, I should hope you do them justice. I would hate to have to use this-" he raised his gun, "on any of you. Any questions?"
The right answer would just to shake your head and let him continue. But I wasn't about to go into the centre of a cova hating sector where one mistake could be my last action. I raised my hand and the general nodded, giving me permission to ask.
"What will happen if the human teenagers in the school attack us?" I could feel the disapproving glances I was getting, but no one objected.
General Herondale smirked as he said "Guards will be patrolling the hallways of the school. If a fight begins, you can be assured it will be short-lived. Any other questions?"
I had plenty, but I decided not to push my luck. Once word of me asking a question about our security reached my father, I was going to be in big trouble.
When no one else raised their hand, the general continued speaking. "Once we leave this compound, you will be in the middle of an angry mob of protesters. My team will be keeping them from doing any of you physical harm, and if we work together, we can get through the mob quicker. That means that you do not taunt them or add more fuel to the fire of their displeasure. Am I clear?"
"Yes sir." We all said simultaneously.
He nodded. "Good. Once we reach the school, you will be brought straight to a classroom where Lucian Greyback will be waiting. He will inform you of the rules you have to abide by and will answer any furthur questions you may have. Are you all ready to leave?"
I glanced at my companions for the day. They all picked up their own rucksacks – which were also handed down by humans – before nodding. I took a deep breath as I followed the general who led us to the front of the bus where the door opened. Their was another guard sitting at the wheel, he didn't look at us as we stepped onto the bus.
There was plenty of seats in which we could all have our own seat, but I sat next to Simon who looked like he was on the verge of getting sick.
"Everything's going to be okay." I tried to reassure him. Living with my father taught me how to not show fear. There was times where I could make myself forget what fear was, but no one can escape the horrible feeling for long.
Simon just shook his head. "We can die for one mistake out here. If what the general is saying is true, we could be killed by the end of the day! How can you seem so calm?" Simon cried, like he was hoping I would tell him my secret of fearlessness.
I shrugged. "My mom is making a questionable stew later. At least if I die in the human sector, I can die from my actions and not from my mothers food."
That made him smile.
We stayed silent for the short trip it took for the bus to start and the gates to open. I never left the sector, except the few times I went through the holes in the fence, before the tracking chips were installed. But I'd never been in the human sector except once.
Lucian had told me and Jonathan about the human sector every time he visited our dad. He said it was like a utopia as technology has surpassed everyone's imaginations.
He always fell silent when he realised he basically told two children that were prisoners about a paradise they could never reach.
It didn't take long for us all to see the General had belittled how much of a mob there was.
We weren't that far from home, and already we could see so many humans with guns, posters that said 'Rid the world of Tatty's!', 'Kill the aliens!' or 'Keep Tatty's away from our children!'. So many humans were protesting, I felt the urge to break a window to escape the bus just so I could teach some 'Tatty' haters a lesson. I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I looked back, Jonathan was watching me, like he knew what I was thinking.
I sighed as I watched the humans try to get close to the bus, those who did just punched it while shouting some crude words and telling us to go back to our own planet.
Is this the humanity my mother had thought me of being such a beautiful thing? Was being closed-minded all that needed to have humanity? To be prejudiced because you were not from the same world? Because we were different?
If that's humanity, I don't want to learn any more of it. There was only two humans I knew that were actually open-minded. Lucian and a boy I met an arrival day who I never saw again. I wonder if he was still alive, or if he was now corrupted into thinking like the other humans. Too bad I'd never see him again. I never learned to peel an apple like he had without cutting my fingers...
The force of the bus stopping snapped me from my thoughts as I used my quick reflexes to stop my head from hitting the metal bar of the seat in front of me.
The General, who I hadn't realised was on the bus, stood up and faced us. The guard driver quickly grabbed his own gun as he hopped off the bus, clearly relieved he wasn't driving through angry crowds any more.
"We're here. Welcome to Idris high. If you follow me, we will line you up in the hallway to give us time to empty the hallways before we take you to Dr. Greyback." The general said before turning and marching off the bus.
Sebastian was the first to follow. He met my eyes and winked at me before sauntering off the bus. The rest of us didn't wait too long as the crowd of humans were getting nearer to the opposite side of the bus and I wasn't about to avoid getting glass in my hair.
One by one, we stepped off the vehicle, I surveyed our surroundings. Guards were pushing back people, shouting insults at us and threatening us if we hurt their children. The guards were having trouble trying to keep them back, but none of us waited around to see how long they'd last.
We followed the general through the open unnecessary glass door. We walked after him until we stood in the middle of a round hallway with three small hallways leading in different directions.
We lined up as we were instructed to. Aline, Sebastian, Jonathan stood on my left, Simon, Will, Jem and Jessamine stood on my right. The general paced in front of us, muttering to himself a few times, low enough that I couldn't hear him.
"Why are they all staring..." I heard Jonathan mutter to no one in particular, but I was curious. Who was he talking about?
I looked up at him, to see he was looking up as well. I followed his gaze and felt both of my hearts start pounding.
Their was a spiral staircase that led to two balcony's on different floors. On both balconies and staircases were humans our age. They were, like Jonathan said, staring directly at us. My eyes moved on their own accord, taking in every detail of each person.
One stood out the most.
Gold. Gold hair. Gold eyes. His skin was a few shades lighter than Aline's, just making him seem more gold. He was watching us, his eyes moving between us. That was until his eyes met mine, than he stared and frowned.
It was the boy, the first human boy I'd ever met. The boy who was able to peel an apple with a knife without spilling his blood.
The human boy who I'd stopped one of my hearts for as I jumped in front of a gun that would have seriously hurt, if not killed him.
The human boy who probably hated me and like all other humans, thought I was a monster.
Remember, this is a trial story. I'm unsure whether I'll continue, but I love the story line! I'll probably follow the first episode, but after that, I'll make this story my own! I just really love the show already!
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Till next time (Maybe) ~Maraudergirl68448