This chapter is called Friday Night. It contains Friday Night, The Fighting Begins, and In the Storm in the book.You get to see the tripods at the end of this chapter. Hope you like.

I woke up. On the walls of the room, I saw green lights.I turned around and saw a flying disk. A U.F.O. There was a large bright light that seemed to blind one.

The next thing I saw I must have been in the U.F.O. The beasts I saw at the meteor were crowded around me. One took a needle and put it in my arm.I wince and saw it bleed. Seeing my blood makes me queasy.Another one took the blood and made it into a weed the color of blood. That made me feel three times as bad.Then I heard a voice in my head. Don't worry human. We won't haarm you. Yet.

How about keeping as a pet? I replied.

Nice offer human. But we don't keep hostages.

Don't call me human, Martian.

We aren't Martains. Were Reginites. You aren't called Earthians. The communicating by thought must have weakened me because I blacked out. I woke up again but it was morning and I was in the house.I looked out the window then at my arm. There weren't any marks or signs of bleeding.It must have been a dream.I found my broter in his bed asleep. Then I looked around the house for my parents but couldn't find them.

Every day we waited for them to come home. If Chet asked were they were, I would say they were far away when the power turned off. I never told him what could have happened to them. Friday came and we felt the house shake. We went outside of the house and saw the heat ray hit our chimney.It fell off the roof and landed to our right. Then Chet found out how much danger we were in. He started to cry as I told him to stay and I ran to get our bikes.

I fetched our bikes and ran back outside. We got on but Chet was so jumpy that he couldn't stay on.So I ran to the back and got a wagon and tied it to my bike. I got some water and told Chet to get in.I got on my bike and started to leave. It was slow at first but I gathered speed.

We should go to my uncle's house,I thought. His name was Chad and he lived out of town so it would take a while to get there. Good thing I left the note for our parents. The note I left at home said, "Going to safety. Jean + Chet."

I glanced back and saw my brother asleep with his jacket in a ball under his head. We past a mile sign that said we had thirty-six miles to go. I stopped for a break six miles later and Chet woke up.

"Where are we?" he asked.

"Thity miles from Chad's house.We should keep going if we're going to get there before night." We started off again. While the sun was setting, we got to the house.

"What in the world were you doing!" Aunt Teriesa practically yelled. Then I told them the story.

"We believe the meteor part, but not the heat ray or aliens." Chad told us. I looked at him.He knew why I was."Do you expect because of a silly dream that they are, if they are real, they would be Reginites?''

"Yeah."Chad sighed and shook his head."Okay.Why don't you go and find a different reason for the dead bodies?"

"Fine. I'll go with you to show you there is nothing to fear." We (Chad and I) went to his car and drove off. It started to rain and Chad tried to call dad."I can't get ahold of your dad."

"That's because we lost all electricity. Cars, lights, phones. My watch doesn't even work." He looked at me.

"Must be a coinedence."

"Chad! Look out!" He slamed on the brakes. There were cars all around. Chad started to drive through the maze but had to stop because of a dead end.We got the umbrellas and started to walk.We went on the grass because we could get lost in the cars.

I tripped and fell. I was tripped by a root. I looked up and saw the face of a charred body looking back at me. Screaming, I ran to catch up with my uncle.I looked around and saw more bodies. I saw two bodies, one with a microphone and another with a camera.The people who interviewed me and put me on T.V. for the first time. Then we reached the pit.

We looked in and saw the meteorand dad's car. The fire in dad's car was not quenched yet and was around the gas tank. The meteor seemed untouched except for the lid lying next to it."How do you explain the burnt bodies, the lid, and the hollow meteor?" I asked.

"I...can't." We turned to head for the car. I saw my shoelaces were untied and I stuck my umbrella in the mud. While I was tieing my shoe, the puddle next to my foot had ripples run through it.

How can there be ripples if my umbrella is covering the water? I thought.I looked up and saw something in the distance. From where I was it looked like a water- tower. The only thing strange was it was moving. Towards us.

As it got closer it looked more like a giant three-legged spider. It approached us and we ran to the car. Chad started the car and drove off the road so he didn't have to dodge cars. I looked at the mirror and saw it bring out the heat ray."You didn't tell us about this thing!" Chad yelled.

"This must be new," I said calmly. The tripod shot at us but it hit the ground.

"How can you be so calm!" he screamed.

"I'm in my world." I don't know why but sometimes I have daydreams at the weirdest times. The good thing is they keep me relaxed. The heat ray shot the ground next to my door. It didn't bother me untill a big rock flew through the window. Then I woke up to reality. The heat ray shot again. This time it the engine which exploded.

I woke up. I found my legs under a car door. I pulled myself from under it and stood up. I looked around and thought, Where is Chad? If I survived the explosion, so could he.

I looked around again and thought, I better head back to Chet.But where I'm I? I picked a direction to head toward. From there I started my adventure ( if you don't consider it started already).