The Unknown

I was born before the war, if you can even call it a war, as to call it that means that there are two sides fighting, there was no fight, there was us and them and we never stood a chance, no warning, no surrender, no nothing, just us being wiped out from the face of the earth. But not all of us were killed, the older ones were taken for s*****y, the younger ones, like me, to be experimented on, that's how I got this power, but it wasn't meant to be this way, I was not meant to get these powers, it was a mistake from their part and when they tried to kill the mistake I retaliated, not truly knowing what I was or what I could do. Now I hide, not in fear but by choice. I need to know what these powers are, what I can do, how far I can push myself. My mother was a fighter, guess she never had a choice in the matter, she had to protect me from all the evil lurking on earth. She was born when earth was the blue planet, still green and the air was clean, she was a hard worker, used to work on our farm, all day she was out there while I was in school. Then it happened, out of nowhere the world that we knew was no more, gone in a blink. I remember being taken, don't know by who or what to be honest, just remember being at my mum's farm, it was a sunny July morning, not a breeze in the air, the birds were singing, I could hear my mum talking to herself whilst looking after our garden, we had a lovely home, left by my father when he died. I don't think my mum ever recovered from it, 4 years and sometimes I hear her cry at night, she tries to hid it, of course, and when I ask she says she's fine, but I know it still hurts her every day not having him around. I can only imagine what she felt when I was taken, there was a flash in the sky, no noise though just the brightest flash I had ever seen in my life, my mum was only across the garden when it happened, we didn't know what to do. I screamed when I felt something on my shoulder and as I screamed my mother looked back and I could see her face of shock, of horror, of indignation as too what she saw. That was the day I was taken, that was the last time I saw my mum, and until recently, that was the last time I saw the blue sky, felt the warmth of the sun. That morning was 10 years ago and the year was 2030, the year that they arrived on earth, no one knows what they are or what they really want, I have heard stories of people that escaped and went crazy because of the experiments, I too had experiments done on me, my body is covered in small scars, burn marks, I don't know what they were doing with me or all the others I could hear screaming in pain. When I was taken there was no fighting from my part, no screaming, no pain, just this urge to go, to leave my mum and never come back. Some say that they can read your mind, others say that they force you to do things just by looking at you, yet, despite all we hear no one can say what they are. I guess, maybe they can put things in your mind that make you see something other than the truth, I don't know, what I do know is that whatever they did to me did not go according to their plans. I know that because I escaped and left a trail of destruction behind me and none of the others that escaped done that.  I roam the streets now, looking for food, shelter, any form of human contact or information about what these things are and what they are here to do. 10 years they have been here and they have not destroyed earth or taken our resources, they simply separated all the population, of course our government tried to fight them but to no avail, we were obliterated in a matter of hours, thousands of people died if not more, the truth is no one has any way of knowing what is going on, the power is gone, mobiles don't work, there is no radio or TV broadcasting, there is nothing out there that can tell me if there is anyone else alive in the world. Once in a while I find others, not like me, but other people that either managed to escape or never got caught, their help is welcomed but it is very little what others can do for you, every man for itself, I read in many walls.  Since they arrived the world has gone to s**t, no one helps each other, there is no humanity anymore, no care for your fellow human, just people trying to survive, but you would think at some point in the past decade we would rally and fight back, very simply, no, there is no fighting back, our weapons are useless, there are no ships or planes or missiles or anything available, no government, no army... nothing. We are alone in the world, left to our own devices, to a certain extent that is, some believe that you never really escape, that you are let go to mingle in the crowd so they are able to spy on little pockets of people, you see there are still millions of us out there, hiding from sight, hiding from the possibility of disappearing not knowing where, all we know is that if someone is caught, they will be gone for a long time, so everyone hides and does not risk getting out. Those who do know what they are getting into, they will go just before dawn when it's safer, not safe, just safer, we don't know why but there seems to be less of them around so people will venture out to scatter for food, resources and anything that they can get their hands on.  Not long after escaping I wandered the streets looking for food and shelter, I was scared and alone, hungry and weak, not knowing what to do or where to go. I was looking for food in an abandoned supermarket, when I heard a noise and hid away for fear of being caught, I was scared to the point of almost being paralyzed. And then, peace, internal peace like I have not felt for a while, I felt this presence in me, so I looked to see who this was that could give such a feeling. It was a girl, I couldn't see her properly because her face was covered in rags, her clothes were dirty and looked old, the only thing I could see were her eyes, the bluest I had ever seen in my life, and her golden hair, I felt drawn to her, like there was nothing that could go wrong. I came out of hiding and gently got closer, she did not hear me until I spoke "Hello" I said with shaken voice, she stopped and froze, I moved closer and again said hello, she started to turn around, our eyes interlocked as something from a romantic movie, and then she draws out a g*n, I stepped back baffled by the sheer audacity of this girl, why pull a weapon on me? I was being friendly and then I remembered that we were practically living in a Darwinist Society, survival of the fittest, so it made sense that I now had a g*n pointed at my head. Little did I know that something amazing was about to happen, something that neither me or her could ever imagine, I could hear her, she wasn't saying anything but I could hear her in my head, her thoughts like they were my own.