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Northern Lights
Chapter 1-Its Cold In Here
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"And I cry and no one can hear
Inhale
The blinded eyes that see
The chaos
Bring the pitiful to me
Even though I'm wide-awake, I will
& blackest night & I will wait for you
It's cold in here, there's no one left
And I wait for you
And nothing stops it happening
And I knew, I'd cherish all my misery alone
(And I wait staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead me anywhere
He's so cold, he will ruin the world tonight
All the angels kneel into the Northern Lights
Kneel into the frozen lights"- Hole, Northern Star
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It was dark in the feild. He stood in rubble, eyes searching the sky for threats. In this new world, there were many threats. The one he was most wary of were the A.N.G.E.L.U., or angels for short. Their names were an acronym that stood for AreoNautical-Geolocating-Eradicaton Lazer Units. Their job was to locate unregistered citizens and destroy them. The leader of the resistance was unregistered to say the least.
He had not wanted to lead it, was rather thrust into the position by the people whom he had finnaly convinced of the menace that the circling ships represented. Even now it was probaly too late.
He glared at the ground, smoothing hair out of his eyes. "If only they had listened..."
To hisd surpise, his eyes had begun to burn with tears. He took off his galsses to wipe them away, and the landscare became blurred and smooth. He couldnt see the angels hovering about, but no matter what he could see the chaos that was engulfing every corner of the world her knew and loved. He didnt know why. perhaps it was the fate of the resistance. They were pretty much doomed. The aliens had the control and the power here, they had the goverment and the technology. All they had were the weapons they stole from government armorys. They had a few storng people on their side, but that was all...and it was nothing compared to what they were up against. Their new ruler was merciless, wanted the opposition stopped at any cost. Of course, they were giving him a headache, something he was proud off. He wouldnt have been willing to meet face to face any other way.
He shivered, a chill running through his body. This was one of the forbidden zones, the places humans were not supposed to be anymore. It was a base for the enemy now. The whole town where he grew up had became one huge swarming mass of alien activity. It was pitch black and silent, the lonliness pressing in from every corner of the field. There was noone left for him, and he waited alone to meet his fate.
Many people had tried to stop him. His right had man, who was actually a woman named Chi, had nearly wept trying to convince him to stay back. It was suicide, she said. This was true. He had no chance of escaping this meeting alive. His team had done everything they could to stop him, or at least post an escort to folow him. He refused it, however. Ever since the first time he had an ikling of the truth, he knew a meeting like this would take place and probaly mean the end of his life. Nothing could stop it, it was like fate. He merely accepted that the time had come.
The true reason he was crying , although he tried to deny it, would probaly accompany the alien leader to this spot. It was a scandal among the higher ranks that the leader of the aliens had a human concubine. It was even rumored that she was pregnant. Jokes on what the baby would look like was told anywhere but in his presence. She was generally hidden from the public, although she had major surgery done to try and look more reptillian. Despite all that, her identity was still obvious to those that knewe her as well as the defender did. His heart broke every time he saw her.
She was all he had had when they were young, and although they handt seemed too close in reality they had clung to eachother like liferafts. They supposrtyed each otehr without words but with actions, buying each otehr magazines, doing homework for each other. They were secretly allied.
Now all of that had come to a crash.
He stared up at the sky, the lights of the stars rendered sick and weak by the glowing palace a few miles away. it had a complicated name, tho most people just called it The Northern Lights. This was because of thee odd light patterns it reflected in the sky. He glanced away from the northern lihgts, searching for the brightest star in the sky. This, his father had told him in a breif moment of togetehrness, was The Northern Star. In anchient times, people had looked to it to guidance and comfort.
But those times were gone, infinetely killed by the large sleek ship that hovered down in front of him. The force and heat knocked him to his kness. He struggled back to his feet as the ANGELS darted out of the craft ahead of its pasengers. They surrounded him.
"Human slave." they growled in unison. "Present your identification."
"Leave him alone!" a familair voice cried from the cockpit. Obediently, they all turned and knelt in the direction of the palace. Two forms descended the stairs and sopped in front of him.
The alien leader addressed him smugly. "Dib."
He nodded. "Zim." Then he turned to the other, who looked away. "Gaz."
Harmony/Kouji
Ninja Harmony's Sidewalk Cafe
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"There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that
feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about
it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment
perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt. I can't
say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now. . .but I can't
help but look forward to where it's going." -Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac