I sat quietly on the couch, the book in my hand making the long night bearable to a certain degree. Sarah was sleeping in her room, recovering from some illness she was trying keep quiet about. I heard a noise from the kitchen, Sarah was trying to sneak by unnoticed.

"Sarah, what are you doing up?" I asked. She stayed silent for a second before fessing up.

"My friends wanted to hang, so I'm going over" she mumbled. I got up and walked over to her, she didn't look so good, she was still probably sick.

"You should stay in bed" I scolded her.

"Come on dad, I'm not a little kid anymore, I can take care of myself" She pleaded. She was right, she was getting older and I needed to let her go.

"Please" She said with a sad look in her eyes.

"Just make, sure to take some medicine and to call if you need me" I said placing my hand on her shoulder. She smiled and hugged me, pretending to wipe her face onto my clothes. I waved her off, knowing that everything was fine.

But it wasn't

It was the last time I talked to her

And it was all my fault, everything was my fault

And everything that I have been given after that

Is what I deserved

The car drove steadily along the freeway, I was chasing the beam of light getting closer and closer with each passing mile. My head was a jumbled mess, my home in a wreck and my daughter in who knows how much trouble. The blizzard carried on with ferocity as it pelted my windshield as I continued sailing down the road.

As I got closer to the center of the beam, the freeway started to get more and more backed up, looking ahead the road was being blocked off by police cars. I pulled to the side of the freeway, cars honking as if pleading for me not to go. I abandoned Kenny's car, and headed straight into the tree line, knowing a beeline towards it would be faster than waiting it out.

The forest was dense and thick, the cold making it almost unbearable to walk, but I pressed on knowing my daughter needed help. The wind pushed against me as I trudged through, if I didn't catch some sort of cold it would be a miracle. Eventually I ended up in a large clearing, my daughter stood in the middle firing off a beam of energy from her mouth towards the sky.

"SARAH!" I tried screaming through the whipping wind

"SARAH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" I screamed to no avail

I inched closer and closer to my daughter, the heat of the light becoming almost unbearable, and yet I moved on.

"WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE SARAH, THERE EVERYWHERE!"

I tried placing my hand on her shoulder but before I could it was slapped away.

"NO MORE RUNNING!" The beam stopped, and she turned towards me with a scowl

I stumbled back onto the ground in shock

"I'M TIRED OF HIDING, I'M TIRED OF YOUR ANSWERS, I WANT TO KNOW WHO I AM, AND THERES ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!" She inhaled and continued to fire her beam of energy into the sky

This wasn't a signal for help, it was a beacon for others like her. I struggled to find any words; I slowly gained my footing trying to help myself up. Suddenly a loud humming filled the air, and my daughters beam slowly died out. The cloud of the blizzard started to part, revealing a large red circular ship with a large yellow triangle in the middle, it shined a bright light down onto us.

Sarah started to walk toward it, but before she could get closer, I put my hand on her shoulder, she glared at me angrily. The ship settled down in front of us, unraveling a hatch and a gangway to the snow below. Out stepped two large humanoid creatures, one was purple, and the other was orange, they both looked like body builders. They both walked intimidatingly towards us, whispering to each other, I walked forward hopefully to try and reason with them.

"There must be some mistake, Do you-?" I said as I approached the two figures

But neither one of them said anything, instead the purple one grabbed me by the shoulder and strongly shoved me out of their way, sending me down to the ground. They both marched over to my daughter grabbing her by the arm.

"Your coming with us, the boss is going to want to see this" The purple one said

"Let me go, I'm willing to come along as long as you have answers" Sarah said angrily

The Two both looked at each other than laughed

"Not a chance, Questions aren't our specialty!" Said the purple one as she hurled a punch into my daughters' stomach

It was a big mistake, Sarah unleashed a torrent of energy straight into the purple one's body, completely incinerating the purple creature. The orange one stepped back and pulled a weapon from out of nowhere, some sort of metal pronged weapon.

"LOOK OUT!" I screamed towards Sarah

She whipped her head towards me, ignoring the orange creature until it was to late. The orange one sank the weapon into the back of my daughter, causing a bolt of light to crack across the surface of her body. She fell to the ground on both knees, she looked towards me in confusion before only muttering one word.

"Dad?" She said quietly before her body vanished into dust and her glass heart fell to the cold snow

Everything went quiet, not even the howling wind could accompany the deafening silence of the snow. The orange one slowly stood over my daughters' lifeless gem, before picking it up and pocketing it. I Could feel myself push me back up, the pain lingering in my body no longer affecting me. My body began to move on its own, I was on a full-on sprint charging straight towards the orange creature, drawing the knife from my pocket.

I leapt, sticking the blade deep into the orange one's shoulder, her calm and collected face turned into a striking rage. I lost grasp of the blade as she grabbed me with both of her hands and swung me towards the tree-line sending me flying. The brief period of flight ended with a sickly snap as my left shoulder contacted with a tree. I braced myself against the tree, trying to hoist myself up to no avail, I was pretty sure my shoulder got disconnected.

The orange one was above me in no time, she grabbed me by the shirt and hoisted me into the air. The ringing in my ears made it impossible to understand what she was saying, it lifted one fist and planted it squarely in my face. My vision faded as the creature dragged me along.