Part II: The Earth Under The Martians
Chapter 8: Dreams Of Hope And The Red Weed
George Wells/narrator POV:
The earth now belonged to the martians and i did not know how the fate of humanity would end, but at least for the moment all i could think of was my beloved Carrie. yet i also knew that she and her father are both safe and sound, on another, but distant shore. i kept on praying, praying that she would someday return to me a and become whole once more, yet by doing so it became harder for me to sleep more often. it became so strange and disturbing that night, i looked in the window and saw more martian cylinders falling from the sky with green light with green smoke, it made me feel uneasy. i felt myself drift into into a deep sleep yet i struggle to stay awake until my eyes just closed and that's when i started dreaming about Carrie and her father. as the dreamworld starts to become a dark area that's when i heard a familiar voice, i looked behind me and saw it was a spiritual form of my beloved Carrie with a goddess like aura around her, she appeared to be standing on the docks but it was in a very distant land area, but between us was a large mass of ocean and the sky was filled with stars and green falling meteors. the dream spirit of my fiance Carrie was standing on the distant dock and started to call to me, praying for my safety "George, where are you? i know your still out there in the world somewhere, in fact i will not count you among the dead, not now or ever!" she said to me with hope in her voice "Carrie, I'm alive and well, just do not mourn me? i will hold your hand again! i will feel your touch!" i said to her in the distance " are you still safe?" i asked until she began to reply to me with worry in her voice "Ghastly night . . . dark . . . and humanity being swept off the face of the earth from existence. . . using it! for me i know . . . George, i know! but why are you feeling like this?" Carrie in spirit form asked me as i become very nervous and felt an odd feeling in me, i felt like i was struggling to stay awake from the sleeping gas "i can't even sleep, i just kept praying, praying for you Carrie! you and your father's safety. , but since seeing your face on that boat, pleading stood, vastly and in-sainlly, face to face with the darkness and shadows. oh strange and terrible night." i informed her as she immediately spoke "hideous night, well even if up hails a slither of light to help with the finding. . . but" the spirit of Carrie said to me as she stood there, then there was a moment of silence between us it was then i spoke "Carrie i will not count you among the dead! ... i will see you again! somehow? but even if your safe on a distant shore i was in need of you in my embrace of my arms, you are as bright as the sun that shines in the sky. . . its so hard to sleep when there are martians at work. but i will come back to you again." i said to her with hope, as she stood there, i saw her smile as she stood there in the distance "oh george, i will see you again ... someday." she said to me as the spirit of carrie and the dream world around me gets brighter into a flash of light.
George Wells/narrator POV:
Aug 13, 2018
then i wake up the next day and looked outside the window of the inn, it seems that there was something very different about this morning. its as if the dawn became a brilliant fiery red, went to check up on the still resting survivors in the room. I notice that the woman and the two siblings were still asleep, i became thankful that she might watch over them as their adoptive mother. i then took my gas mask i had taken from the corpse two days ago and i started heading outside and begin traveling, but when i opened the door there was a web of growing and spreading red vines in the doorway. i closed the door from behind me and wandered into the weird and lurid landscape of another planet, for the vegetation which gave mars its red appearance had now taken route on earth, as man has come to the Martians so our land now has come to the red weed. As we walked down street I started thinking about the kids but i kept reminding myself that they are going to be safe with their adoptive mother. then i notice that it started to drizzled a bit but where ever there was water the red weed clung and it grew with frightening voraciousness, then i watched its claw-like fawns as it started choking the movement of the large mass puddles of water and then it began to creep like a slimy red animal across the land, covering streets, and buildings and tree and bush with living scarlet vines crawling, crawling... yet it was impossible to recognize the route that I taken on south William street, which completely covered in residue by the red weed, it was like walking on gigantic blood drops. i them felt the ground vibrate as i saw a fighting machine moving into the city, i quickly hid in an ally behind a dumpster in order to keep myself from being seen by the metal hermit spiders scouting the area. but when the machines left the area i walked down William street after that, moving past a half destroyed building, i felt a terrible fear that could not completely understand. its as though the red weed had just covered the streets like crimson blanket over our world, smothering up all of mankind, then i passed by 60 William St, which there was a church nearby. then i turned north west through pine Street which had less martian plant-life covering the ground and its been for a long time since i came to new york city. after that i saw another church that is called trinity church which was completely devastated in ruins, completely silent, some of its destroyed walls were being covered in the red weed. there was fire on some of the wood that was once part of the old church. then i suddenly notice a body of a parson lying on the ground in the ruins of trinity church, he seemed to be wearing a gas mask but he seemed to be dead, i felt that i cannot leave him for the mercy of the red weed, then decided to bury him decently. as i removed his gas mask, i gaze down sadly at his ravage face, but i was uncertain if he was dead, so i checked him for a pulse but then i breathed in shock as his eyes flitted opened, he was alive!