The sun shone down and the tall grass waved happily in the cool breeze. She
ran around, laughing along with the children. The cream dress flowed around
her like water, followed by the length of her dark hair. The children
shouted in an unknown language and she smiled at them lovingly.
**FLASH**
Battle cruisers speed along towards Eridanus. The captain smiled, as he turned on speakerphones to the rest of the fleet. Whisperings of royalty and death followed the huge cruisers and smaller fighters, as they sped along the shore towards the main city.
More laughter consumed the joyous group. The sun was near to setting, casting an orange glow on the city. She called for them to look, without success. They were happy in the country surrounding. A change of wind caused a falter in her smile, and she looked up towards the sky.
**FLASH**
The city was in sight, and visors were lowered to shield against the glow of the sun. The first missile whistled as it left a cruiser. The fighters overtook, and descended upon the city with the sound of guns being fired without a break.
The first missile hit the city centre, probably destroying the theatre that had been there for at least 2000 years. It had lasted 5 wars, but not any more. Fighters gunned down on the city with what looked like lightning. Shouting suddenly got through to her. She screamed at the children, telling them to get inside the shelter. She had lived for this day. Obviously the council had not. She didn't hear the bangs of their own guns yet. Sirens went silent as they were shot to pieces. Finally, some of their own fighters had got airborne and progressed to silencing some enemy fighters. Not enough however as she turned to see the royal palace explode. She was running towards the house, and didn't see or hear the ripple follow her, knocking her over and out.
She awoke with the sounds of distant screams and crying. Her head was throbbing. Suddenly arms were pulling her up into a warm embrace. She smiled, realising he was still alive. She wanted to see where everyone was. He looked at her sadly. Her gaze turned towards the house at it stood. Smoke billowed up from it in a twirling mass. Bodies were strewn around the ground like rag dolls. She fainted.
Michael awoke, sitting up like a shot. He had started to hate this dream. He sometimes awoke with tears running down his face. The bodies of small children just thrown around made him breath deeply. He was going to throw up he thought, and ran to the toilet. He had thought maybe it meant something, but he wasn't going to share it with the other aliens. With all the hassle of Tess leaving etc, he just thought it un-necessary. It was the summer holidays, and today he was going to spend all of it with Maria and Liz. Maria for obvious reasons. Liz because she was avoiding Max. She couldn't get over the fact that he had slept with Tess. He didn't actually mind. Liz was becoming like a little sister, and that was so much so that he was kinda pissed off at Max for making her hurt so badly. It was the way when she thought no one was looking her emotions would show through and it killed him to see her so un-happy. Him and Maria had made today a ploy to get her to be happy for at least a little while and forget all that had happened. It was just the three of them. Isabel, naturally, had taken Max's side. They still talked, it was just the fact that where Maria went, he went. He got washed and dressed, picking up the tickets that had took him ages to save up for, and sauntered out the door on his way to Maria's.
**FLASH**
Battle cruisers speed along towards Eridanus. The captain smiled, as he turned on speakerphones to the rest of the fleet. Whisperings of royalty and death followed the huge cruisers and smaller fighters, as they sped along the shore towards the main city.
More laughter consumed the joyous group. The sun was near to setting, casting an orange glow on the city. She called for them to look, without success. They were happy in the country surrounding. A change of wind caused a falter in her smile, and she looked up towards the sky.
**FLASH**
The city was in sight, and visors were lowered to shield against the glow of the sun. The first missile whistled as it left a cruiser. The fighters overtook, and descended upon the city with the sound of guns being fired without a break.
The first missile hit the city centre, probably destroying the theatre that had been there for at least 2000 years. It had lasted 5 wars, but not any more. Fighters gunned down on the city with what looked like lightning. Shouting suddenly got through to her. She screamed at the children, telling them to get inside the shelter. She had lived for this day. Obviously the council had not. She didn't hear the bangs of their own guns yet. Sirens went silent as they were shot to pieces. Finally, some of their own fighters had got airborne and progressed to silencing some enemy fighters. Not enough however as she turned to see the royal palace explode. She was running towards the house, and didn't see or hear the ripple follow her, knocking her over and out.
She awoke with the sounds of distant screams and crying. Her head was throbbing. Suddenly arms were pulling her up into a warm embrace. She smiled, realising he was still alive. She wanted to see where everyone was. He looked at her sadly. Her gaze turned towards the house at it stood. Smoke billowed up from it in a twirling mass. Bodies were strewn around the ground like rag dolls. She fainted.
Michael awoke, sitting up like a shot. He had started to hate this dream. He sometimes awoke with tears running down his face. The bodies of small children just thrown around made him breath deeply. He was going to throw up he thought, and ran to the toilet. He had thought maybe it meant something, but he wasn't going to share it with the other aliens. With all the hassle of Tess leaving etc, he just thought it un-necessary. It was the summer holidays, and today he was going to spend all of it with Maria and Liz. Maria for obvious reasons. Liz because she was avoiding Max. She couldn't get over the fact that he had slept with Tess. He didn't actually mind. Liz was becoming like a little sister, and that was so much so that he was kinda pissed off at Max for making her hurt so badly. It was the way when she thought no one was looking her emotions would show through and it killed him to see her so un-happy. Him and Maria had made today a ploy to get her to be happy for at least a little while and forget all that had happened. It was just the three of them. Isabel, naturally, had taken Max's side. They still talked, it was just the fact that where Maria went, he went. He got washed and dressed, picking up the tickets that had took him ages to save up for, and sauntered out the door on his way to Maria's.