Joshuajacobson95's war of the worlds

by joshuajacobson95

in the year 2018 our planet is about to be targeted by an alien invasion "presumed to be from the planet mars" with their deadly heatrays and their giant walking tripods. read as our story tells the tale of the war of the worlds, with "jeff wayne's musical version" lines, and the present age version of the "1932's orson welles the war of the worlds broadcast"

10. Chapter 10: Red Weed pt II

Chapter 10: Red Weed pt II

George Wells/narrator POV:

Aug 21, 2018

it's been eight days since we been trapped in the remains of the flower shop and the parson continued endlessly with his mumbling and chattering, but to me it became very hard to write in my journal. but then i looked out the peek hole in the remains of the flower shop and notice the red weed started to spread more rapidly and i found particles of blood on my hands, yet i wasn't bleeding or injured, then i thought if it isn't my blood, who's is it? i continued to look into the peek hole and saw there was martian machines spraying stuff into the city, it was as red as blood, then i realized that it was the blood from the victims they captured and collected. i was rather shocked of what i had realized so i began wiping my hands on a piece of cloth i found.

George Wells/narrator POV:

Aug 22, 2018

then on the ninth day, the parson and i saw the martians eating. inside of the hood of their new machine they were draining the fresh living blood of men and women, and injecting it into their own veins, the parson exclaimed "its a sign! i been given a sign . . . they must be cast out and i have been chosen to do it . . . i must confront them NOW!" he said as he tried to dig himself out and i knew he would cause attention to the martians, so i try to keep him under control "parson you can't . . . you'll be killed" i informed as i grabbed him by the arm but just kept on shouting "those machines are just demons in another form!" he yelled as i try by best to calm him "parson just please calm down?" i asked him, but he still kept on chattering "i shall destroy them with my prayers!" he yelled, i feared that the martians might hear us "parson please just be quiet . . . they'll hear you" i begged him but he still kept on chattering and yelling "i shall burn them with my holy cross!" he yelled till i demanded him to be silent "parson just shut up!" i yelled, but he still won't listen, "i shall ..." just when he was about to say something else i immediately knocked him unconscious when i shouted "no parson NO! (smack)" i yelled and with that he was down but not dead, but then there was a silence then i felt vibrations in the ground and then i noticed a curious eye of a martian appeared in the peek hole, but before it even spotted us i dragged the unconscious body of the parson with me where it couldn't see us. then the eye of the martian just disappeared then there was a silence, then i felt the ground vibrate and saw in the peek hole where flashes of light and the grew bigger and then a menacing claw explored the remains of the room. i then dragged the parson to another room and then i heard the martian messing with the knob, it understood doors. in the darkness i can see the claw, it appears to have squid like tentacle and notice it was touching things, walls, rocks, wood and then it touched my shoe. i almost shouted, i do my best to keep quiet but for time the claw was still and then with a click it griped something, but it wasn't me the claw gripped it was the parson, with slow movements his unconscious body was dragged away and there was nothing i can do to prevent it. i felt guilty as i was the parson being taken into the outside. i took a peek into the hole that the claw made and saw the new martian machine i looked through the peek hole and watched the claw of the martian machine starts passing the unconscious body of the parson, at that very moment he was dropped into the basket on the machines back. it was storming outside, but the red weed started to not just spread, but grow larger as if it was becoming a tree but then i notice that the body of the parsons wife, i felt guilty of her abducted husband then i decided to bury her body well. i started to dig a hole in the shape of a rectangle, that way her body would fit, after i made the hole i gently carried her body and placed it into the hole and covered her body in soil and garden dirt which was very perfect for flowers to grow, as for the flowers i placed some blue flowers on her well made grave and payed my respects to her. but then as night arrives i heard of martian machines making their way on the red weed covered streets, scavenging for any dead corpses. i started writing in my journal of how things been since i was trapped in the remains of the flower shop, yet i got distracted as i notice that the red weed started to grow more and get more smoother with stuff growing on them, yet i started to wonder, if the martians feed on human blood then why would they start gardening plants on earth? this question just got me curious but then there was more coming into my head like bubbles in can of carbon soda. Why didn't we see any martians on mars when we sent probes there, why would they invade earth now, but then something hit me . . . a theory. This was my theory:

maybe 100,000 years ago when man had hunted in the realm of the mammoth, the martians must have used up most of their natural resources and in the process leaving mars into a cold dry desert planet. now mars is on the last state of exhaustion and causing temperatures on the surface to go far below zero, even at its equator. so as a last resort the martians searched across our solar system for a habitable world which they could migrate to, but where did they go? even though i was in science class i learn so much about the solar system from my teacher Ogilvy, that's when i started learning the planets in order from inner to outer system as a whole, if the martians learned so much of our solar system then they might have learned of their conditions and gravity even the effects that was caused to them.

first planet closest to the sun is mercury, a planet of dramatic extremes, the sun has already robbed all of mercury's atmosphere, even if its close to the sun the temperature rises on mercury's surface to melt most metals as if they were wax. but at night with no protective atmosphere the temperature plummets until it is cold as liquid nitrogen, although the suns gravity attracts passing asteroids and meteors, which is why mercury is covered in huge craters . . . the martians can't go there.

the second planet of the sun is Venus, earths twin sister planet, its been given many names, but its the brightest planet and always visible in the morning and evening, but its brightness is fueled with an atmosphere that is toxic with carbon dioxide and gases which covers the planet. but NASA was able to sent probes on Venus's surface and sent satellites into its orbit, on the surface of Venus was a rocky surface with weather of high speed winds and rain storms of burning acid. most parts of Venus are covered with areas that are dangerous, with permanently active volcanoes, its brimstone with nearest sulfur would get you to heck, but as for the acid rain, it can burn holes into metal but there was a NASA probe that was able to survive however it lasted no more then an hour. . . too deadly for martians to live on.

Their nearest neighbor is giant Jupiter, where there are weather storms with hurricanes and tornadoes, the the temperature is high and an atmosphere filled with chemicals that are toxic to many things that enter its clouds that are filled with radiation and gases. it even has large gravitational pull so strong that it can crush em, but it even has a magnetic field that can cause activity on some of its moons like Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, the effects on Io is terrible causing permanently active volcanoes but it seems hard to understand Europa and the other ice moons orbiting Jupiter, however the atmospheric pressure on Jupiter surface is terrible, thousands of pounds per square inch . . . the martians couldn't go there.

yet i started to wonder if the martians ever considered Saturn, an attractive world with its beautiful rings, many moons and cosmic dust but its temperature is close to 273 degrees below zero where its atmosphere is frozen 5,000 miles deep on its surface and is cold with arctic weather. . . it seems the martians can't go there.

they couldn't even go to Neptune or Uranus two sister gas giants in eternal night of potential cold, both surrounded by an UN-breathable atmosphere of methane gas and ammonia vapor.

they couldn't go to Pluto, farthest planet from the sun, its so cold that its water and atmosphere lies deep on its surface but it doesn't even have air.

until i suddenly started to think of the dwarf planets but its very uncertain if they landed on any of them.

out of all the worlds that they seen and studied, they came across our warm earth, which was green with vegetation, bright with water and possessed a cloudy atmosphere with perfect weather. but it was populated with human beings. then more questions floated in my head again, Why didn't the martians invaded earth so many years ago when they had the chance, probably because there weren't enough humans to use as fertilizer for their red weeds. so that's when i understood they might have migrated to another planet in another solar system, but why invade earth now when they already have a new home to thrive on? this got me very confused but then i fell asleep.

George Wells/narrator POV:

Aug 23, 2018

i woken up next morning on the tenth day of my imprisonment and i went to look outside into the window but was hard to see due to the red weeds covering the glass. so i went to look into the peak hole but it too was covered in martian red weed vines, but then i moved them out of the way that way i could get a better look outside, yet i was in for a shocking sight right before my very eyes, the martians and all of their machinery are gone, but the cylinder that landed on the store was still here, trembling I've dug my way out of the red weed covering the hole and out of the rubble then climbed on to the top of the mound, but there was nothing in the area . . . not a martian in sight. the day seemed dazzling bright after my imprisonment and the sky glowed blue, red weed had covered every scrape of ground, but something was different about the red weed that got me curious, there were dozens of trees made from the red weed and other types of plant life that have covered Manhattan, the city has now become a red martian forest, but a gentle breeze kept it swaying and oh the sweetness of the air. i looked around my surroundings and observed the martian tree that was made from the growing red weed. the tree was soft on the bark and it felt smooth and wet as the skin of the stingrays, but it was as hard as wood yet it had branches on it and they grew as long as a car and fast as the red weed grew. then something was blossoming in the branches of the trees, it was some form of alien flowers, they were as red as roses. they seemed to haven't grown any food yet. i looked at the streets and see some form of bushes growing on the sidewalks and streets, they seem to be developing their own thorns in the leaves that are sprouting in the vines, but it seems like gardening, but only in a very horrific way, yet on mars there wasn't enough resources to grow these plants with, only because these plants only grow from water from rain, rivers, lakes and oceans or blood of living creatures like cows humans chimps and other animals. but due to their water already depleted long ago, it got harder for them to survive, then i started to think this race of extraterrestrials must have been very desperate, but the most savage species of sentient beings. i then decided to head back to new jersey but most of the bridges were destroyed so i thought of the George Washington bridge, which might be the only bridge intact so i then started to head north and notice there were a fields of flowers from the red weeds growing on the streets, the flowers appeared to be brown and hot pink color. then i suddenly felt something under my feet that was soft as sponges, i observed the ground to find spongy masses of dark brown vegetation that resembles moss, but it was wet from the rain and blood that was sprayed from the martian machines. this must be how this type of flower drinks its nutrients so that it would grow more and spread even faster, yet they seem to be imitating earth plants but in a different then i remembered that i had my camera in my pocket for a long time, but it might be okay to take photos of what i seen. after taking photos, i began walking down the road and i started to think this is going to be a very long journey to new jersey.