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A smooth sound woke me up, I never heard something like that before.
I guess it is a frequency to help you wake up, so you get up without feeling tired or lazy; it is great.

After that some kind of hologram appeared in the middle of my room, this time another being showed up. The being was more like a human but with differences about the position of the eyes and the nose. Somehow they were more symmetrical and separated.
The being said, “Hello Chris, please proceed to the food court on this facility, so you can get your required food. After that you will proceed outside to the section A17, in that area you will receive some education today.”

It was a short message, but pretty straight forward. So with that in mind, I got out of the bed. As I approached to the shelves to get some clothes I noticed in the wall a button I didn’t notice before. It was engraved on the wall and it had the image of drops of water falling onto a shape that to me looked like a human. Since it was in my room and it seemed like some kind of shower image to me, I pressed it. A circular light covered me from top to bottom and it paralyzed me for a few seconds. My clothes went out of phase, as if they were on me, but almost invisible. Inside of the tube of light I got sprayed with something like a mist of water. It was really fast. After that my clothes went back to normal and the light disappeared. I got my movement back. I was feeling like when you take a shower and you just dried yourself with a towel, you feel fresh and clean at the same time.

I changed my clothes and I proceeded to find the food court.

In the food court there was a bunch of tables and chairs and smooth lights in the ceiling. There were a lot of devices on the edge of the room. Each device had a circular surface in the bottom, some kind of futuristic lamp in the top, and a little keyboard formed by images of familiar dishes at the foot of the device. The amazing thing was, that the top part was practically floating above the bottom without anything to grip it. There were no cables nor anything attached to the device.

So far I have been understanding, that you need to experiment to learn around here. So, I pressed the key with the image of eggs and ham. The lamp thing turned on flashing a light on the bottom part, so in the surface an image of eggs and ham appeared. Then the bottom part created some kind of energy spark, and the image of the food got materialized. After that the machine turned off again.

I grabbed my plate from the machine, it looked very good indeed. As I approached to the nearest table, somebody touched my back.

Lisa said, “Good morning Chris.”

She looked somehow happier now although you could tell that she cried a lot last night.

Chris said, “Good morning Lisa, How are you?”
Lisa said, “In a word, Tired, but the bed was very comfortable.”
Chris said, “Yeah, it is very comfortable and… why did you cry?”
Lisa looked away from Chris.
Lisa said, “Memories… I think that word sums a lost mother and a lost young brother, that I… will probably not ever see again. Anyway.” She looked at Chris again. “I am hungry, let’s eat something.”
I understood completely how she was feeling. After all, we all lost someone. She was trying to do what I taught her, forget about the past and concentrate on the future.
Chris said, “This food definitely tastes like home, I am amazed.”
Lisa said, “Yeah, I got this French toast and it is good, let me try some of yours you can try mine.”
Chris said, “Sure.”
It was a fact the aliens knew how to cook indeed.
Lisa said, “So… you got the hologram about the education?”
Chris said, “Yeah I got Area A17, what about you?”
Lisa said, “Area B09. Are you excited?”
Chris said, “Hehe, it’s been a while since I’ve been to school.”
Lisa said, “I wonder what they will try to teach us.”
Chris said, “I have no idea, but one thing is for sure. I am not going to obey blindly, I mean we don’t know their intentions. I want to learn more about this race and what their plans are. Only then I will be able to trust them.”
Lisa said, “Well, I don’t think they want to do harm to us. If that was the case, then why did they bother to rescue us?”
Chris said, “I hope you are right. It’s just that with the recent events, I feel like I cannot trust everybody so easily.”
Lisa said looking worried at the eyes of Chris, “So you don’t trust me?”
Chris said, “Lisa… with you it is different, I feel like I can trust you.”
Lisa smiled in relief.

Lisa said, “I need to be trusted by someone in here, and also, I need to trust someone too, I mean I am alone just like most of us, so it’s important to me.”

Lisa was very sincere and innocent about her feelings. She was neither shy nor afraid of saying what most of the people were probably thinking.

I smiled back at her. And we had a few moments of silence. It was easy to get lost in our thoughts, our memories, our ideas, a mix of fear with excitement. Our minds were filled with anxiety and we were so tired of having so many questions in our heads.

Chris tried to make some conversation to avoid the silence, “Well I was a little numb and tired too when I woke up this morning. But the shower sure helped me a lot.”
Lisa said, “Wait, shower, where did you take a shower?”
Chris laughed surprised about the answer.

After I explained about the shower button Lisa swore that the first thing she would do after coming back to her room, was to take a bath.

We finished our breakfast.

There was a container in the food court with a hole on the top so you could put things in it. Inside of the hole was some sort of light barrier covering the top, above the container a sign indicating to put your dishes in there. After you put the dishes in there a spark was generated inside of the container and then you could see how the dishes disintegrated.

We went outside. There were a lot of domes with signs of letters and numbers on the ground outside. The domes weren’t in there before so I assumed they were just installed.

Lisa said, “Well, I am going to look for B09. I’ll be seeing you.”
Chris said, “Sure, I have to go to A17, have a good day at school, hehe.”
Lisa seemed worried, “You too.”

I walked away to look for my area but Lisa stopped me.

Lisa said, “Chris…”
Chris said turning to Lisa, “Yes?”
Lisa said, “Mmm… Please be careful.”
Chris said “I will.”
Lisa said, “Bye.”

Lisa went away with a swift step.

After passing several Areas and exploring the surroundings I found area A17. I entered the Dome. Inside you couldn’t hear any sound of the exterior. The dome seemed to be of the same crystal-like material, similar to the door of my room. It had the same functionality that the one on my room had. The dome was big enough to garrison around 120 people with plenty of space to make some activities. Inside some men and women were waiting. There was a bunch of comfortable seats on the ground. The seats looked like pillows. They also had the capacity to be shaped in any form so you could be in the most comfortable position possible .

I sat down and waited for the class to start. After a while around five more people came to the Area and then finally the class started. A beam of light was flashed from the sky to the inside of the dome, from it the same being from the  hologram in the morning appeared. After that the beam disappeared. The being looked strong and fit. He was carrying a sword on his back.

The being speaking telepathically said:

“Greetings I am Balk, I am a Norsak, I come from the planet Valhal. I am a Battle Chief rank B. This is the official form to present yourselves before the entire universe; remember it, name, species, home planet, and rank. Your rank is like your profession, currently all of you are Colonist. This planet will be your new home planet since you were forced to escape the former one. The name of this is Terra, also your real species name is Terran, I will explain this to you later so you can understand why this is so.

To present yourself you have to stand always if possible. You must speak in a straight position showing respect for the people you are presenting to and for yourself. Please present yourself.”

The being pointed at one of the women in the room.

The women stood and said, “I am Emma, I am a Terran, I come from Terra, I am a Colonist.”
Balk said, “Good, now the rest.”

One by one all of the people presented themselves. As my turn came I thought about the significance of not being called Humans but Terrans. The reason for that was more than a simple name.

Balk said, “Good, now we all know each other. Through all the universe races from different beliefs and genetics make contact very often with new races, and a lot of misunderstandings occur. Most of the time this is because of inadequate communication. We need to learn how to present ourselves with others, so others will know that even if perhaps we are not as advanced as they, we are rational and in possession of consciousness.

Many races will not hesitate to treat another race like a beast of burden or as an animal, just because that race doesn’t know how to speak for their kin. In the universe most of the races believe that this is a requisite to be considered an intelligent race; anything else can be considered as an animal.
So if you cannot express who you are, and you display fear of a different race just because you don’t know it, you are acting as an animal. Intelligent beings are not afraid of what they don’t know, but curious and eager to understand it. Also an intelligent being always explains what he represents showing that he possesses self awareness.”

Balk looked serious about it. And I agreed about that. How many times we were scared about things we didn’t know, acting like animals attacking it, or fleeing from it?

Balk said, “As I said I am a Battle Chief, that means that my path and destiny in this existence is to fight for what is right. Also this means that I have a proficiency in matters of battle and fighting.
Understand that I was chosen to teach all of you, because you also have this destiny and path, and also you possess this proficiency. And although you are not a Battle Chief yet you will be trained by me as a Battle Scout, and soon you will become better and better in that; so one day you will be a Battle Chief too.
And finally the reason why you have this destiny, is because your genetics, your blood. All of you have in your blood DNA of other species. You all have a part of the Norsak in you.”

Everyone remained silent after that short speech. I just wanted to hear more.

All my life I wanted to be free, I wanted to be strong, to look for the weak. I used to get excited by heroes and everything about fighting for the unjust. I loved kung fu and karate movies and I daydreamed about doing those fighting movements too. Nevertheless I always thought I was wrong and that I was wasting my time thinking about it. My life gave me a different kind of life. I had a very boring job, and I lacked physical conditioning to do any of those things. Anyway still… I always had that feeling waiting to jump out of my heart into my head. That feeling always waiting to take control of myself. I thought, “I don’t know if Balk is brainwashing us about that, or if he is deceiving us with such words… but… I want to believe in it… I want to believe that he is true”.

By HectorP

READ: Terra – Chapter 4

READ: Terra – Chapter 2

Here’s a spooky ghost story from my good friend Maile! Let’s continue to share fun ghost stories, dreams and nightmares for the haunted month of October!

A few years back a friend and I moved into an older apartment in Long Beach.  We never knew for sure, but based on the architecture we assumed it was built in the 1920’s.  On our first day moving in, my friend stopped as we entered the kitchen and gave me a strange look.  When I asked what was up she commented that she felt as though there was something blocking her, like a baby gate or something.  We both agreed that was a bit peculiar but generally accepted it.  Over the next few months we’d feel like there was something small in the room with us or see something out of the corner of our eye.  Not like a person, but more like an animal of sorts.  One night we had a few friends over and one of them casually turned to me to ask if the apartment was haunted.  I responded that yes, with a small animal.  He nodded and said it was a white fluffy cat.  Now that I’d acknowledge the cat, she seemed to respond to me.  Some nights I’d feel her sleeping on the bed and other times I’d feel her in the room near my feet.  I named her Snowball and she was a regular fixture in this Long Beach apartment.

I had two other big experiences when I lived there, both of which freaked me out a lot more than Snowball.  The first of these started with an oddly vivid dream.  I was in my room and I heard a noise in the living room.  I walked out and I saw these figures having a party of sorts.  Their wardrobe suggested the 1920’s.  In this dream I freaked out and tried to get back to my room, though I kept tripping over cords.  When I finally got into my room I saw a little blonde boy sitting in the corner watching me.  He opened his mouth to speak and in a panic I woke up from the dream.  He was hazy, but I could still see him sitting in the corner.  More ghost-like than before.  Young, maybe 10, with corn yellow hair and blue eyes.  My heart racing, I immediately turned on my light and he vanished.

The other strange experience happened one night when I was trying to sleep.  I had the television on and was listening to a show I knew well as I tried to sleep.  At one point I heard the voice of a small child.  A young girl.  My room was above an alley and my initial thought was that it was very late for a family to be in the alley.  It was well past midnight.  As the voice got louder, I suddenly realized that it wasn’t coming from the ally.  She was talking to me.  She told me her name and I felt my heart race.  I sat up, turned on the light and started talking to myself, tuning her out.

I moved soon after that.  Unfortunately Snowball did not follow me to my current haunted apartment.

We got inside of the big building. It looked like a giant storage facility; futuristic storage to be exact.It was filled with little cubicles with numbers above. In the entrance were instructions about how to get your accommodations.

You had to put your hand on a screen. A computer would say your name and the number of your cubicle. Big signs hanging from the roof saying the numbers of the section and some sort of lights on the walls were the decorations.

I got the 6707, Lisa got 1009; “Try to sleep,” she told me. “You too,” I replied as we got separated looking for our new “Home.” My cubicle had an automatic window door that opened at my command. The door could change color at a push of a button from crystal clear to dark black. So you could see outside or you could remain in privacy.

Near a bed next to some shelves, there was a desk in front of a chair; in the desk was a sheet with instructions on how to operate the lights inside of the room. Also in the corner there was this mini toilet with a little wall or something that seemed like a wall, covering it. And finally in the corner in front of the toilet there was a sink so you could get water.

Inside, the temperature was perfect, not cold not hot. I was surprised of how inside of the shelves were my actual clothes. I mean, I never had the chance to pack or anything but there it was. There even was stuff I lost in other places, not all of it but some of it. I was glad to see it all. It felt like a piece of my actual home.

It was a very busy day, so I decided to try to sleep. But I had all these dreams of Earth and the Catarax reminding me what just happened…

I was home, it was Friday. No more work for that day, just relaxing on my chair. I turn on the TV and there it was, news about an Alien ship landing on United Nations Offices (UNO). Several weeks ago a lot of gossip and news was reported about an Alien ship approaching Earth. And before that UFO sightings were more and more frequent everywhere. So often in fact that everyone was talking about it.

“It was a matter of time,” I said to myself.

The alien ship on the UNO opened. Two beings got outside of the craft, they were big, full of muscle, with a reptilian look. And they had very sharp teeth. They were wearing some kind of armor, and they were carrying big rifles on their backs.

The mass media was there covering the most important news of the century, and everyone was eager to hear it…

Without further explanation or salutation, the bigger being said, “We are the Caratax rightful owners of the galaxy and soon the universe. We claim this as our planet, all conscious beings living in it surrender and we will let you live as our slaves, deny this and you will cease to exist… what is your answer?”

The selected person to be the Earth ambassador in the case of alien encounters, approached and said,  “I am sorry but we do not wish to make war with you or do any harm to your people. This is our home. Perhaps this is a misunderstanding. We are a race with a very rich culture, and we can share a lot with you if you are willing to share your friendship with us; please let me ta…”

She couldn’t finish, a shadow of burned blood was drawn on the blouse of the ambassador. The alien shot her, saying, “Enough with your talking, you are not our equals to even speak like that. Your decision has been made, you will cease to exist.”

A big sound filled the sky.

I gazed through the window to find millions of asteroid like ships falling to the planet. From some of them small battalions of Catarax got out, and started to kill anyone in their way. A bigger ship crashed just outside my apartment; I was on the 4th floor, from it a giant mechanical tripod got out. I saw it… as the feeling of me being impotent and powerless about the situation rushed me. The tripod got powered up by itself and shot some kind of beam splitting the apartment in two exactly at my roof; I saw the beam cutting through steel and construction materials like butter.

The upper part of the apartment fell aside and my roof was no more. The tripod just stared at me charging its right arm cannon to shoot me; as I was the only thing alive in the top of the building.

I didn’t run. I just wanted to see the death in the face and get done with it. Anyway there was no place to run anymore. Nevertheless a beam of light covered me and the shot couldn’t harm me, I felt like I was being sucked by some vacuum. And in a blink of an eye I was inside a vessel with a bunch of scared people crying, hugging themselves and praying.

Nobody knew anything about the vessel or where we were going or anything, they just got inside the same way I did. We could see that we were in some kind craft since it had windows all over and through it we saw how our planet was being invaded. A few hours later we landed on the new planet I am on now. We got out of the ship and it flew off, to get more people hopefully…

Everyone was crying or screaming, it was too much for me. I saw the surroundings and I saw the beach. I had so many times wanted to go to a beach, I thought, for what I understand I could die right now so I better see that beach… I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think. I wanted to clear my head.

It was a new start, or at least I hoped that, in fact I hope that…

I guess that the high part of the day is Lisa and the beach,  I mean, it has to be either that or the beam of light saving me from a blast of a tripod cannon.

It was useless. I was in bed, in a room that I felt like a stranger to.
I couldn’t sleep… I needed to get out…
I went to the beach; there are 2 moons in this planet, that night I had two full moons in front of me. And the waves were making a lot of sounds, almost like music or something.
It’s a shame that I was always working on Earth. The entire system, the entire society never let me enjoy myself or be at peace. It was like I was always running and trying to make that extra buck just to buy more things and pass by. Even when I was on vacations or a trip I couldn’t really enjoy it. I was always thinking on other problems, thinking about my future, my family, being alone; too many things that now do not even matter. And I don’t feel sad about it, maybe it is because I am scared or tired or I have not yet realized what just happened, but I don’t feel bad.

As I was stargazing suddenly I saw a light approaching me from behind, I turned around and I saw this being like the one on the ship telling us about our fate before.

The being said, “Don’t be scared.”
Chris said, “I am trying.”
The being said, “Good… the test has been completed, you will be the first leader then.”
Chris surprised said, “What test? What leader and of what?”
The being with a calm voice said, “The first to get out and to try to get his mind whole, earns the title, you have been trying to do that all day.”
Chris said, “Do you know what I am thinking?”
The being started to explain:
“We see different to what you see, we not only see differences in temperature in variations of light as you see, we see more. We are the Eldac, and we are part of a confederacy of different races in the universe looking for the enlightenment and improvement of all peaceful races. Also we try to educate younger races into the good path, as is in your case. You call yourself humans but your technical name your real name is Terrans. And this new planet that we give to you will be named Terra in honor of your arrival and our friendship.
You must learn the ways of the universe so you can be part of the confederacy, so you can be allowed to travel through the galaxy. But for now you must sleep.

Remember everything is a test, a whole circle of infinite ways repeating itself among many circles. Each circle represents an error that you carry and the whole universal system will give you tests until you pass and solve each error so you can get out of your current circle to enter to a bigger and larger one, so on and so on; until you reach perfection.

My name is Toka and this is my first delivery of knowledge to you. But please try to sleep now. We need you ready tomorrow.”

The being disappeared in front of my eyes and I couldn’t get the whole message. But I had enough for the day. I went to my room and I don’t know when, but I felt sleep, this time no nightmares; I guess I was too very tired, even for that.

By HectorP

READ: Terra – Chapter 3

READ:  Terra – Chapter 1

A girl approaches a man looking at the sea, sitting on the sand on a beach, “Hi.”
The man answers, “Hello.”
The girls replies, “Are you lonely tonight?”
The man a little surprised by the straight question, “I guess.”
She was eager to answer, “I am Lisa.”

She was cute very cute, so young, and energetic, naive… but not too much…

He shakes her hand, “I am Chris.”
Lisa said, “Why are you here alone?”
Chris with a calm look responded, “Well, it was a tough day I need to relax myself.”
Lisa was shaking, “Do you mind if I stay?”
Chris nodded, “No, you can stay.”
Lisa was looking at the sea with her clear blue eyes lost in the edge of the horizon, “What were you doing before this?”
Chris said, “It doesn’t matter anymore.”. His dark brown eyes gazed the stars.

We were both looking at the sea while seated on the sand, it was almost night with a very cloudy sky.
She was trying to be strong but I could notice how sad and scared she was.
She hugged herself pretending she was cold but I knew she was afraid, she kept talking to me.

Lisa said, “I was on middle school, I was the classic girl hiding behind the court, you know where the P.E. class?”
Chris said, “Oh yeah, been there.”
Lisa said, “I was always looking at everyone, they were so… stupid. That’s why I was always reading a book or something instead of doing what everyone else was doing. I used to write for the school paper, nothing fancy… just the regular.”

Another spaceship arrived at the beach carrying more refugees, most of them completely scared like they used to come. I could see how she was feeling goosebumps by looking at it.

Chris worried about Lisa, “Are you ok?”
Lisa pretending to be strong, “Yeah… yeah I am fine, is just I am not really sure how to feel right now… I mean what just happened to our world? Where are we? What are we going to do? I am sorry I didn’t mean to bother you… I am just sorry…”

Tears began to fall from her eyes as she was talking and looking at me.

Lisa continued “I mean why?… why?… I don’t understand… I saw you in here so calm, I wanted to come here maybe I would calm myself. But it is not going to happen, hehe, I am so stupid, and I am so scared…”
Chris said, “Why are you scared?”
Lisa said with confusion in her face, “Because I don’t know what is going to happen, nor what just happened. In fact, why are you so calm? How can you be like that?”
Chris said trying to calm her, “There is no reason to be scared just because you don’t know what is going to happen. Think of this as an opportunity, to start something new… although we don’t know what will be. Try to be excited instead of scared.”
Lisa bowed down her face,  “I don’t know how to do that…”
Chris paid close attention to her, “Try smiling, can you do that for me?”
Lisa replied with a short but sincere smile, “Yes I guess.”

She had a beautiful smile, so full of innocence but somehow serious.

Chris said smiling too, “That’s better. Don’t think about the past too much… try to focus and relax because it seems like something big may be coming up.”

She stopped crying and she just stared at the sea for some minutes until a different spaceship arrived to the beach. All the people gathered to the center, there were thousands of people and a weird looking being went down from the ship and said:

“Greetings humans, we know you are scared and confused, but we mean you no harm. We want to help you as we are your brothers and sisters in the universe. Your home planet was invaded by the Catarax race, a brutal and violent race that wishes to conquer the entire universe. Your governments tried to fight them off, but your technology was not enough to defeat them. That’s why in the heat of the battle we decided to take some of you off the planet into this other planet. You have been chosen to continue with the human legacy. My race as protector of the living in the universe, cannot allow that your race disappear. I am sorry to inform you that you won’t be able to return to your planet any time soon, as the remaining humans will be hunted down by the Catarax in there, and then the planet will be formally claimed as one more of their dominion. Now do not be afraid because you will be safe in this far planet, we will give you tools, and education so you can rebuild again. You will rebuild your society again, but this time a most peaceful, advanced and better society. We will help you. You have awakened to the threats of the universe so you must learn how to defend yourselves. But today you will rest, tomorrow we will begin with the preparation for your new settlement. We will open that building so you can enter and get some rest, in there are beds, bathrooms, water and food for you, please try to rest.”

After that the being left in his spaceship, most of the people got inside of the building. I stayed outside, she decided to stay with me a while also. Just like that it was a new world, a brave new world… I just heard some news of the Catarax arriving on the planet and attacking the major cities on TV, and suddenly I was in a different planet. Life can change so fast.

By HectorP

READ: Terra – Chapter 2