This is the chapter you all have been waiting for. The Cylinder Opens. In the book this is a mixture of The Cylinder Opens, The Heat Ray, The Heat Ray in the Chobham Road, and How I Got Home. In this chapter, you get to see (read) the aliens but no tripods yet.
I awoke to the sound of a telephone ringing. I ran downstairs and picked up a phone. It wasn't ringing. I ran to my dad's office and picked up his cell phone. It was. I then ran to his bedroom, woke him up, and gave him the phone.
My dad came out fully dressed with my mom while I was eating breakfeast. "Where are you going?" I asked.
"To pay to get my car repaired. That is what the phone call was about," he answered. He left with mom and also took Chelsea because she had plans with her friends they had to take her to. About thirty minutes passed after I came inside from playing catch with my brother to watch T.V. I turned on the television and watched it for two minutes before it turned off. I tried to turn it back on but it wouldn't. I tried the lights (no one bothered to turn them on because it was day) but they didn't work either.Then I tried the cuircut breakers. They didn't turn on either. I walked upstairs and saw smoke outside the window. A fire, I thought. It was in the direction of the meteor.
I left the house but stopped before I left the col-de-sac. I turned around to go get my bike. I entered the garage from the house so it was dark. I tried to use a flashlight but it didn't work.I looked at watch. It stopped. Then I tried the laserpointer in my pocket. It didn't work either.I got my bike, left the house, and got on. Then I rode down the street.
When I got to the highway I saw all the cars have stopped. I guess I don't have to worry about mom and dad getting home before us, I thought. I saw people trying to restart their car and some going the way to the meteor. I head that way when I (not literally) ran into two of my friends, Jordan and Alan. I joined them on our way to the meteor. I got of my bike to keep from going ahead."Why are you going to the meteor?'' I asked.
"We both got the feeling the meteor has something to do with the power going off," Alan answered.
"Yeah,"Jordan added. We chatted on our way to the meteor untill we finally got to it. We saw three burnt-to-a-crisp objects.They were the size of regular teens. I saw a news lady speaking to a camera a few feet away."Here seems to be three corpses burnt to no recognition. Young sir," she motion to me and told me to come, "did you see what happened?"
"No I just got here."
"Do your parents know your here?"
I paused thinking what to say. I looked across the pit and saw my dad, hands over his head and groaning.I looked into the pit and saw his car was on fire. Ilooked back at him and he saw me."Yeah, they do." He started to walk towards me and the lady went away. I found my friends before he got to me. Then he hit like Pearl Harbor in World War II."YOU LEFT CHET AT HOME ALONE! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT!" He slowed down when other people started to look."When we get home, you are in deep trouble.''
Then he told me to get my bike and go home. I walked to my bike with my friends behind me. Then we heard something in the pit. We turned around and saw the end of the meteor unsrewing.Then it flew off. We kept on staring and then a other worldly creature came out and gazed upon us with large black eyes.This beast of mystery seemed to hypnotize everyone but I saw a couple of people leaving in a rush.The thing went back into the meteor and something else took its place.Something thet looked like a satilite with a mirror at the end came up out of the meteor. The mirror started to spin and a ball of light started to form. The ball of light just got bigger and bigger.Then it shot out a ray that hit a man in front of me. The man fell down as black as the cloudy night the day before. The ray started to shoot everywhere and at everyone.
Then I ran. My friends were right behind me. Alan tripped over a root of a tree. The ray hit the tree and it fell were he layed.I turned around as Jordan kept running to see if Alan was okay. I looked around the tree but couldn't find him. I turned for my own saftey. I saw my bike and got on. Then I went as fast as I could to get away from the ray of death, the Heat Ray.I rode down the highway untill I saw my street. I turned off and rode to my house. I jumped off the bike, and ran inside. I went upstairs and looked out the window to see the light show was still going on. I hope dad's all right. I layed on the couch and fell asleep.
Sorry that it took me a while to update. My computer kept freezing.