Out of this world

‘Nancy! Get your butt in the car!’ My mum’s voice roared up the stairs. ‘ I am just getting me things!’ I yell back. ‘Honey but all your things are already in the car?’ Ignoring mums question, I lie down on my bare bedroom floor the rough pink carpet pressed against my left cheek. Spreading my arms like I am giving the floor a hug. ‘Goodbye my precious.’ I whisper to my room rubbing the carpet. ‘ I’ll miss you, I am sorry my stupid parents are making me leave you.’ ‘Nancy!’ Mum yelled again. Huffing I lift up off the carpet blowing my lovely bedroom one last kiss before closing the door. ‘Finally what took you so long.’ Mum huffed as she gave me a side hug and linked her arm through mine as we both leave the only house I’ve ever known. ‘It’s going to be okay honey.’ Mum said rubbing my arm. ‘It will be like an adventure. Something new and exciting is going to happen I can just feel it.’ Giving the left side of my forehead a peck. Once all fastened up my Dad starts the car and off we go on to a new chapter, an adventure. ‘Here we are! Our new home.’ Dad said as we all climb out the car with some of our belongings. Out the corner of my eye I saw the moving van. ‘Dad the moving van is down the road.’ Turning to look he started to make his way to it. Looking up at the house, bigger then the last one with a front porch. ‘ our new home’ I mumble. Running upstairs with my backpack and suitcase from the car I open every door until I am sighted to see what will become my new bedroom. Once all unpacked my new bedroom was decorated with a mattress with new sheets and duvet cover, placed beautiful by my dad on the floor in the right hand corner of my room. With the thin unopened boxes of my new wardrobe leaned against the wall at the foot of my mattress in the gap between them was the only window in my room which came down quite low on the wall, lower than the other windows in the house that I’ve seen so far. Sighing I lift the last of my boxes of things from my old room onto the worn wooden desk/dresser with a matching worn out wooden chair that creeks every time you sit in it or move it. Picking out my teddy, which I have had since I’ve as little, being a light grey bunny which my 4 year old self called Eggy. Hugging it close to my chest and placing Eggy on my make shift bed, patting it’s head before I left to go have dinner. ‘Are you excited about tomorrow?’ ‘What having to go to a new school?’ ‘No honey, we’ll that as well,but about your birthday?’ ‘Oh well I haven’t really though of it much.’ What a lie. ‘ you don’t have to do anything as we are and have been busy with moving.’ Another lie. ‘ you know why we moved though it was for good reason.’ ‘I know, as dad got moved from his old astronomer job and got moved to this lab station from a promotion.’ This happened due to my dad being amazing at his job but also that he is good friends with the Mayor of this town. When we came to visit about seven or eight years ago. As the mayor’s wife died leaving him alone with his daughter, who is the same age as me just a month older. My dad and the mayor go way back as they went to university together became friends lost contact then next thing you know that old friend you had at university is now a mayor of a town. I stab some pasta onto my fork. ‘You are going to love your birthday present’ dad said as he got up putting his empty plate in the sink. ‘Really?’ Hope that they’ve gotten me something good or what I want. Unlike last year for my 16th birthday they got me a live size human body biology doll. Gave me nightmares for months. ‘Yes I can’t wait to see your face.’ Excitement bubbles in me. I placed my and mums plate with dads, kissed them both on the cheek goodnight and went to bed with my fingers tightly crossed. Buzz! Buzz! Of my alarm rattling on the mattress next to me. ‘Ugh’ whipping my eyes I head to the bathroom down the hallway and brush my teeth. Once back in my room I get changed for my first day of a new school. And my birthday. Searching the cardboard boxes of my clothes. Pulling out my burgundy cord pinafore dress, along with a white long sleeved top with embroidered burgundy hearts on the sleeves cuff of the top. Pairing it with some tights and white tennis trainers. Sling my backpack full of school supplies over my shoulder before heading down stairs. ‘Oh here she comes!’ I hear my mum from the top of the stairs as I make my down the stairs. ‘ happy birthday to you !’ My mum and dad try their best to sing together as I reach them stood around the kitchen island table. My mum holding a freshly baked waffle on a plate with one single candle in it. ‘ go on honey. Make a wish.’ I smile looking at them both being here all of us together with smiles on our faces. I close my eyes tightly and bend my back, gently blowing out the candle. Making my parents erupt in cheers. ‘So where’s my present?’ I ask stretching my neck to look around the kitchen then try my best to peek through to the living room. ‘You’ll get it after school.’ Dad said bopping my nose. ‘ just where you should be going now.’ A car horn bleared form outside. My face creasing as I make my way other to the window. ‘ oh yes I for got to tell you, you know my friend, Mr Green?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Well his daughter has offered to take you to school so you don’t have to walk.’ ‘What?’ ‘She doesn’t go to the same school as you though.’ ‘ what school does she go to then?’ ‘ oh a privet school’ ‘Ooh’ ‘ bye honey have a nice day.’ My mum chimes in from behind. ‘Bye!’ Walking down the drive, readjusting my backpack straps over my shoulders. ‘ hello Nancy! Oh my you haven’t changed a single bit.’ A platinum haired girl with crystal blue eyes. A navy blue blazer on with a white blouse and a gold satin tie, shouted from her red car with the roof down. Energetically waving at me. ‘ hello.’ I say climbing in to the passenger seat. ‘Hello? Is that all you have to say to me it’s been ages?’ ‘Look at this I’ve kept it with me.’ She pulled out her purse and showed me a photo taken of us when I came to visit from eight years ago. I remember when it was taken about a couple of months after her mum died this was taken on the girls birthday. She had a garden tea party theme. The memory of it making a wolf sweets smile gently grow on my lips. Both of us nine years old. Well it was her 9th birthday and like I have said she is only a month older than me. My ringlets short around my face making it into a bob cut, a big cheesy smile plastered on my chubby cheeked face. Wearing a white floral dress with a white cape cardigan. Next to me stood her with her left arm around me. with long hair to her elbow a light blue glittery dress and a satin light blue pouch tied around her right wrist. ‘ here have a proper look, we need to get going anyway.’ She handed me the photo as she turned her keys making the car come to life. Turning the photo over I see my handwriting sprawled out in pink felt tip. Best friends forever - with what I am assume is her handwriting in purple crayon. - Best friends forever and ever. Underneath in the crayon was my name - Nancy - and in pink felt tip was - Ella - oh okay so her name is Ella nice. ‘I am so excited and happy that you are back Daddy must have a head ache on how much I’ve talked about you to him, talking his ear right off.’ ‘ oh looks like we’re here.’ She said as she pulled up to a red brick building. ‘ see you when I pick you up. Oh wait can I have your number?’ ‘Yeah sure.’ I say fishing my phone out my pocket and handed it unlocked to her. ‘Thanks, bye then!’ She shouted, waving at me as she drove off. Here I come, new school. ‘ oh I am so sorry.’ A slim build boy bumped into me. His blue eyes looking me over. As his brown hair flopped as he moves his head. ‘ sorry if you don’t mind me asking, but who are you?’ ‘ oh I am Nancy Haley. You?’ I say extending my hand and offering a smile. Which he mirrored instantly, tilling his head a little to the right. Taking my hand in his. ‘ i am Drew Barker, I am guessing you’re new?’ ‘ correct.’ ‘ well then let me be your first friend here at lightwood school academy.’ ‘Thank you.’ After an uneventful day of school I get home nearly jumping with excitement for what this amazing present they have got me could be. ‘Keep your eyes close’ mum says behind me covering my eyes with her hands and my dad has hold of my left hand leading me upstairs turning in left i knew we where going to me room. Hearing the door click open and the soft new carpet beneath my feet my dad lets go of my hand and I hear some noises before my dad shouts ‘ now!’ And my mum lifts her hands from my eyes as I open then. Looking around my room I straight away spot the present. Feeling my smile fade, I stench it out even further. A telescope looking out my low window and the foot of my mattress. With a book of stars and space and planets laying on the end of it near the telescope. ‘We’ll leave you to it.’ My dad said as he walked passed me patting my left shoulder with his hand. Now alone I let my smile drop. A telescope? They got me a telescope. What in their right mind made them think I wanted a telescope. And it’s not like they are cheap either, so it can’t be passed off as a silly daft present. ‘Ugh!’ Taking the old worn wooden chair and placing so I can sit and look out my birthday present. I first flip through the Manuel on how to use it and set it all up properly. Then I grabbed the big heavy textbook flipping through the pages till I got to where you can see the planet’s or constellation form a telescope at home. ‘Okay so if I turn this up three notches. And pressed down here. I can move the telescope and eye piece up this way. Aannnd . There it is the bow and arrow.’ I grab a pencil and check it off the list of things you can see. Slouching back making the chair creek. Arching my back and stretching my arms. A yawn escaping me. Looking back down at the list ten ticked off, five more to go. Closing one eye and taking a peek through the eye piece I go to move the position. Moving it over to the right and moving down and zooming out. ‘What?’ A blazing orange light flashes across the midnight sky. Rearranging the telescope, to get a better view. Zooming in, ‘ouch!’ Blinking my watery eye. Zooming out a little. It looks like something falling out of the sky. ‘ a meteor?’ Falling it down till it was hid by the woods. ‘ what the hell was that?’ I quickly flip through the textbook to the meteor page spread. Tracing my finger under the words as I skimmed through. The book dropped from my grip as everything in my room shook with a rumble. Shooting up I try my best to see what’s happening. Bending down clumsily getting the telescope in position to a line with the blazing coming from a spot in the woods. Backing up I run downstairs trying my best to be quiet, while I get my shoes on. And picking up my dads flash light. Stuffing it and my keys in my mums coat pocket which I put on, as it being the first one I grabbed. Locking the door behind me I follow the street lamp light path as close as I could get to the crash sight. But not long, not even near the woods and the path came to an end meaning so did my lit path. Taking dads flash light out I walk until I am greeted my an abandoned unfinished building lot just grey concrete structure. Three levels of floors and pillars holding them up. Noise of whipping plastic sheets. In the corner of my right eye of orange blazes. I carefully walk over , re gripping the flashlight in my newly wet hands. Soon I noticed a silhouette. A gasp left my lips. The person turned around coming my way. ‘Oh it’s you. What are you doing here ?’ A boy around my age stood in front of me. ‘ well I saw the thing in the sky. Did you see it as well?’ ‘The thing in the sky is over here.’ He lead me to the pulsing glow. ‘Though now it’s a thing on the ground.’ He said with a smile as he gestures to it. It being a load of metal scrap pieces. We follow the trail as we both get closer to the pulsing orange light. ‘Is that a spaceship?’ I ask ‘ what a spaceship full of aliens?’ ‘I don’t think so probably a fall off some plane or a satellite dish.’ ‘Yeah probably.’ I say taking a big gulp. Looking around I see more silhouettes. ‘Umm who are they? Do you think they are aliens?’ I slowly back away. ‘ No don’t be silly. Though I don’t know who they are, probably other people who saw the lights in the sky.’ Shining my light as the silhouette closest to us. ‘ hey! Are you trying to blind me ?’ His features became more present. ‘ wait , Drew?’ ‘Nancy?’ ‘ wait you are here Nancy?’ The silhouette opposite us asked. ‘Ella?’ ‘Wha-‘ The pulsing orange light stopped making everything go dark apart from my flash light and the newly added light from Ella’s phone. ‘Eek!’ We hear coming from Ella as the lights came back on just light blue now and the rectangle shape started to open but got stuck half way by the damage to the thing. ‘Someone’s in there!’ I shout as I see a hand come out the gap. Taking a couple steps forward I got stopped by the boy grabbing my upper right arm. ‘ we have to help them!’ ‘ it could be dangerous!’ He pulled me back beside him. ‘But.’ Bang! The ship blow into a million pieces. The boy next to me quickly shield me, making his right arm wrap around my waist. Shielding our eyes from the bright light. ‘What is that?’ I hear Drew ask. Footsteps echoed in our silence, against the scrap metal. Moving my head away from the guy next to me. I poke my head out around his arm while my hands tightly grip to it. I saw an out line of what looks to be a human. Raising its right hand and stiffly moved it right, doing a little wave. ‘Hello!’ ‘Aahhh!’ Ella screamed as I saw her figure through something at it. Ever so slightly letting go of me the boy jumped to try and get closer to Ella. ‘ Are you alright?!’ ‘Ye…yeah…?’ ‘Are you alright…?’ It said slowly letting the words play in its mouth. Grabbing a big branch that has fallen off a tree from the crash, the boy next to me started to swing it at the thing in front of us. Making his way closers to it. ‘Get back!’ Backing away. From the tree line a new figure emerged it’s sights set on the boy. ‘Noo!’ Ripped from my mouth as the new faster figure hit or shot the boy with something making him go limp on the scarped filled forest floor. Running I sit on my knees making it a head rest for the boy, slowly and carefully moving him. Checking him over I felt something cold on the back of my head. ‘Nancy!’ I hear both Drew and Ella shout. As my head made contact with the dirt ground and my vision being attacked by black spots. Movement came close to me, mostly burry and black spotted it was a greenish blueish person. After seeing that I felt my eyes roll back and my body come heavy, with my strength all gone. ‘When do you think they will wake up?’ I heard Ella’s voice in the darkness. ‘I don’t know.’ Drew’s voice making an appearance. Using all my strength I try my best to open my eyes failing miserably. Feeling sweat run down I pushed harder. Releasing a cough. Blinded by the big light I look around letting my eyes slowly adjust to the brightness. ‘Nancy!’ Drew shouted and in a split second he was sat on the floor by my side. Looking around I was in a bed, on top of the covers which are navy blue. The ceiling covered in glow in the dark starts. The curtains were a matching navy blue to the bedding. Opposite the foot of the bed was a desk with two monitors sat upon it, on the left of me was a little tv on a small short tv stand with Controllers and video games on the floor in front of it. Something shifting next to me, on my right, on the bed. My eyes widening as I slowly turn my head making a sharp pain cut through my skull. My eyes met with a heavy breathing, shirtless boy from the woods. Pushing my hands on the bed to sit up. A wave of sickness came over me. ‘Is he alright?’ I ask my voice croaky. Drew handed me the glass of water that sat on the night stand. ‘He’ll be fine, Ella and me did our best in fixing him up.’ Nodding my head I put my legs over the side of the bed where Drew is making him move and stand up. ‘Where are we?’ ‘My house, to be more precise we are in my bedroom.’ Drew said as he looked down scratching at the back of his neck. ‘Are you alright did you get hurt?’ I say trying to get a look at his neck. ‘Oh no I am okay!’ He said backing away as I got close,before I got to see his neck. ‘Ugh!’ All of our heads whipped around to face the bed. ‘What the hell?!’ ‘Oh my god! Are you okay?’ I rush over to him sitting back on to the bed again. He quickly patted himself down. My face dropping ‘what is it?’ Smiling ‘ oh nothing’ I hit his arm. ‘Ouch!’ Rubbing his left arm. ‘What was that for? Did you forget I just got shot at?’ Crossing my arms I huff and look away from him. ‘Who are you all anyway?’ His voice said. ‘Ella Green’ Ella said enthusiastically going to give him a tight bear hug. His eye land on Drew. I followed and saw Drew’s jaw tense/twitch. ‘Drew Barker’ Feeling a finger poke my back making me turn my head. ‘What?’ Smiling at me was all his response. Huffing I fully turn back to him. ‘Nancy Haley.’ ‘Oh okay cool.’ We all looked at him raising an eyebrow. ‘What?’ He said as he shuffled in bed. ‘ what about you? What’s your name ?’ I ask taking if for the group. ‘Oh! Well I am Kit McKinley.’ He stool his hand out to me a cheesy smile on his stupid face. Taking his surprising soft warm hand, I smile back at him. The moment getting broken by Drew coughing in to his fist. ‘Kit?’ I say drawing my eyes back to him from Drew. ‘Yeah, short for Christopher.’ Said looking down at his hands fiddling with the cover. ‘So are we going to talk about what happened?’ Drew asked sitting down on the bed leading Ella to sit down on the bed as well. ‘Well all I can say is I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Do you think it was a spaceship and that they are aliens ?’ I ask sitting straighter up. ‘I don’t know.’ Drew said defeatedly as he fell back on the bed dodging kit’s legs. ‘You guys seriously think I could be aliens?’ Kit said in disbelief. Making the rest of look at him with a questioning. ‘Well what would you say it was? You are the one who got shot, but do you feel or see a bullet wound?’ Drew fired back. ‘No.’ Kit said pouting giving Drew puppy eyes. After about an hour and a half, still in Drew’s bedroom we try our best to come to terms with what we have witnessed. ‘So we are all agreed that it was aliens or something similar?’ I asked looking between everyone. Kit huffed. Guessing he doesn’t believe it as he put up one hell of a fight against us even saying that they could be aliens. Not because of religious matters but that he is unsure if they were and if aliens are real why did they come here. Before anyone could answers me the walk of Drew’s bedroom smashes as the two fighters burst through from the outdoor wall. Sending bricks flying. ‘Sh!t!’ Kit shouted. Feeling like the whole room exploded. And time went to slow motion. Ella thrown against the opposite wall, Drew his back slamming into his desks, kit sent flying up hitting the ceiling making the glow in the dark starts mix in the sky with the bricks, me getting thrown on the bed to then be bounced off and hit my side on the corner of the TV. Now all of use laying down struggling to get up the all mighty hale came down on us, bits of broken and some whole bricks k******e at us. Looking around before the bricks hit us, I found Ella already knocked out, drew closest to the smashed hole in his bedroom wall greedily held on to and hid under the desk as his whole body was getting vacuumed out. Like what the films and people say if you open the door or windows on an airplane. And lying on his stomach in the middle of the room was kit, but not for long as he desperately struggling to get up. As he did so a bright blue light flashed from the new hole and engulfed kit. Kit punched the glowing oval that now covered him but nothing. From the corner of my eye I see a sharp chunk of brick coming right at me . Averting my attention away. In a futile effort I raised my shaking arms trying my best to block the blow coming right for my head. Ears ringing and mouth got dry like a desert. Soon all the chaos came to an end. Slowly moving to sit up, shooting pain from my back making me hiss. First seeing Drew’s bedroom light swinging. Highlighting the two unknown figures stood tall at the huge while in the wall. Seeing Ella still knocked out looking peaceful like Snow White. Drew edging his way from under the desk trying not to grab the intruder’s attention. And held in a glowing blue orb struggling and fighting was kit. The blue orb looked like it was being transferred from the g*n like thing one of the intruders are holding at him. Finding my ground I stood up wobbling but determined to make them leave and let kit go. ‘Oi!’ I shout at them walking over closer to them as best I could. ‘Put him down and let him go!’ The two just looked at each other hearing whispers but nothing I understand. ‘Now!’ I shout, acting like a little kid who didn’t get what they wanted, stamping my foot on the now uneven ground. Making the one not holding the g*n turn and what looks like convincing the g*n one to listen to me. Soon the one holding the g*n nodded as the other one and bowed before deactivating the blue orb. Finally kit was free and his feet landed slowly on the messy floor. From all the shouting Ella stirred awake and sat up. Before we could to or say anything the one who commanded the other to let kit go. Pressed a button on their chest plate all made of black. A suction sound was made. Soon the helmet was no more and as the mist eased up we saw it’s face. ‘Oh my gosh!’ Ella gasped getting up and rush towards me. It had scale but also it didn’t really as it also look silky and squishy, though it’s skin looked like greenish blueish with iridescent shines. Eyes around normal just a little bit bigger than ours. Their eyes where pure black. Face shape looked like us but they had very defined cheek bones. They have a noise like us but no hair instead had what I can only describe as tentacles but they didn’t look like tentacles as they had no suckers, I guess they are just the same shape as tentacles. This one had patterns on their skin in dark purple, dots going from big to small where eyebrows should be, same dots lining it’s cheek bones. And lines on the forehead, looking like when a child draws hair on their drawing, which then one each get a tentacle and is swirled around. The one holding the g*n followers what I think is their leaders steps and reveals themselves. Them have the same as the other this time tho the eyes are narrower more tense. And instead of purple markings hand an off white markings of the point of the triangle on the forehead and the rest down into the hair area, some triangles engulfing one or more hair like appendages. Looking at them together you can notice the more masculine and feminine features of the two. The first one looking more masculine and the other more feminine. ‘Wha- what are you ?’ Drew asked as he stepped forward. The more feminine one readied their g*n again leading the other one to rest their arm on it shaking it’s head. ‘We are from a far away planet called Aumphaida.’ Bowing they continued. ‘ I am prince Akai Ovi of Aumphaida.’ All of us just sanding in shock with our mouths hanging open. ‘And this is my trusted friend and personal warrior Elura Throsoid the prince’s guard. I am sorry on her behalf with making a prisoner of you.’ He said towards kit. Looking at each other in what can only be described as shock. Ella is the one to speak up. ‘Umm hello … Prince ,’ she said waving her hand then curtsying to him. ‘ I am not trying to be rude but why are you here?’ All Turing back to the aliens in the room, they looked at each other before the prince spoke again. ‘I have been sent away from my home by my uncle as our home land is sadly under attack and on the edge of war, which has taken my father.’ Feeling the air grow heavy he continued. ‘ we did not wish to leave nor did we wish to take up refuge in your home land.’ ‘But on our way we got attacked by some Termezuc fighters, the Termazuc being our neighbouring planet, they are the ones that took my father away from me.’ He ended in a deep bow which Elura followed and copied. ‘We have no where else to go.’ He whispered, emotion overwhelmed his voice. Making my mouth turn sour and a lump form in my throat. With pleading eyes I look around at everyone else, Ella on the brink of crying , drew looking ver interested in his shoes and kit looking stern with his arms crossed raising an eyebrow when he seems my pleading look. ‘Oh fine!’ He exclaimed. ‘I know a place.’ Staring at him I smile and look to see our visitors shocked looks. ‘Really?’ The prince questioned ‘Yeah no problem.’ Kit shrugged.