The begining of the end

Warning: I know that i don't do dialogue correctly, my computer doesn't allow it.


The humans were stupid, dumb, and foolish. They had let us take over. With our simple seductive words, they believed us, let us in. Now they were doomed to death. ALL of them. Little by little we killed them in groups. "Kinter!" The cold voice broke my thoughts. "Yes, sir?" I asked. The Boss stared at me with his cold beady eyes. "Quit standing there! The others' need help with the humans. They are to be shipped to New York." I nodded, "Yes, sir." If i was to ask him, I had better ask him now, "Uh, Mr. Dern? What will happen to the humans?" Mr. Dern looked like he was about to laugh. "Ah, boy, Kinter Paladoris, we are going to finish them off." He clapped his hands together to emphasize this. I shivered and nodded. Before he left he added, "Us Galactors, we're too old to make stupid mistakes. Kinter, I'm telling you this now."


I looked at my reflection in the water as I walked back towards Camp. My skin was pale, my eyes were wide and a deep green. My hair was a pale gold that curled. I sighed. I looked so much like a human. Every other Galactor I looked at had three eyes or an extra arm, or maybe, even, a tail. I had none of that. I looked like an ordinary mundane boy. The Boss never mentioned this. He always used me to convince the humans to follow me. He said they would only listen to me because they thought I was human. They refused to listen to Galactors. But they were still being lead by one, unknowingly. I continued my walk back to camp and stopped when I heard a twig crack under weight. I quickly turned around,pointing my Salphar Blade towards the predator. It certainly wasn't another Galactor. It was a girl. A human girl. Her black hair spilled just over her shoulders' in tangles. Her eyes were wild-eyed and a very dark brown. Her cloths were hardly cloths at all, they were filthy and thin. She sighed and smiled, "Thank God, I thought you were an alien. I managed to escape the Camps." Her words seemed to float around my head. A human girl. I backed away, "Look, I'm not a boy. You better run." I warned her. "KINTER! My man!" I heard Colton before he appeared, "oh boy, what do we have here?" Colton whistled, "A run away?" I swallowed hard, "Leave!" I hissed at the girl. She backed up, startled, she was looking at his clawed hand. Then at me. Probably wondering why he wasn't doing anything to me because I looked human. "Leave!" I said louder with more force. She stumbled, and then, turned towards the opposite direction and ran. Colton pushed me hard with a force that would've killed a normal human being. "YOU idiot! Why'd you tell her to leave?!" I grinned pretending to look evil, "'cause then I can hunt her down. Cats play with their food, Colton. Relax, I got this." He patted my back, "sounds like fun. But you better go after her now." I nodded and sprinted into the woods. Never looking back.


I stopped running to catch my breath. I sighed. Why had I saved the girl? I could've let her go back to Camp... but there was something about her. "Thank you." I whirled around quickly and spotted the girl from earlier. "Uh, what?" I managed to say, "You saved my life, thank you." I blinked several timed before I realized that Thank You was a way to say I appreciate what you did. No one said that anymore. "Oh, uh, yea." She nodded slightly and stood there awkwardly. "So, uh, you a runaway too?" I shook my head, "No. I work at the Camp." She looked incredulous, "So you saved my life knowing you could get in trouble? Besides, you are so not an alien." I made a face, "No, I am. It's just that I am different from my kind. I don't have any specialties to mark me as an 'alien', I'm an outcast." She laughed, "You look normal to me and those are NOT specialties they're ugly things." I shrugged. "What's your name?" the girl asked still looking skeptical about the whole me-being-an-alien thing, "Kinter Paladoris. You?" She stuck her hand out in front of my chest, "I'm Four, nice to meet you." I stared at her hand for a long time wondering what she was doing. She laughed a melodic laugh, "Here. Take my hand and shake it up and down." I did as she told me. "What's this do?" I asked her, "It means hello." I shook her hand again, "Hello." I echoed.

We kept walking for a while longer, "Why are you named Four?" I asked. She balled up her hands into fists, "You don't know? They made us forget our names and named us after numbers. I ended up being Four." I nodded, "They are called Galactors not they...So what are you planning on doing now that you've escaped?" Sadly, she stared at the floor. No response came from her. My Hertur buzzed in my pocket. It as slender and had a touch screen. Numbers and letters were placed in a weird order on the clear plastic screen. We had found out that these belonged t the humans and they called them cell phones. I took it out and answered it, "Kinter here." There was an angry voice on the other line."KINTER YOU ASS! You were supposed to be here 20 minutes ago to help us ship the humans!" I pursed my lips remembering what The Boss had told me."Sorry Tigh, I'll be there in a few." Tigh sighed and signed off. "Sorry Four, I have to go. Good luck." I started to walk off when, suddenly, I turned back around to face her. I felt inside my pockets for my extra Hertur, "Here, Four. Keep this so you can talk with me when you need to. Just press the yellow button and say Kinter Paladoris." I handed her the Hertur and she burst out in tears. She did the strangest thing ever. She wrapped her arms around my waist and rested her head on my shoulder. I stood there stunned. When she stopped she sighed, "Oh right. That was called a hug. It shows that you care for someone." I nodded and started to walk again, when her voice stopped me in my tracks, "Kinter, thank you. I don't know any other way I can show you that I really appreciate what you did for me today. Good bye." I nodded, "You're wrestler." She opened her eyes wide, "I'm sorry, what?" I shook my head, "Isn't that what you say when someone says 'thank you'?" She laughed a sad and forced laugh, "No. It's you're welcome." I smiled and walked away never looking back to where the girl with black hair that had no name stood.

New York

Everyone (or sixty Galactors) glared at me as I arrived at the Camp. "FINALLY! Where were you?" Silus my best friend whispered, "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me." Silus shrugged and pointed to the gate of the Humans Corral. I was ready to lead fifty more humans on Earth to follow me. There were only 300 humans left, the rest had died of starvation or had gotten killed by us. We always made the humans forget who was the one that always lead them to the slaughter house, or as they called it, New York. So they never know that I always come back every month to lead 50 humans to their death.

Everyone got in their hiding spots and I opened the gate...


The stench of rot was thrown in my face as I opened the door and put on my best scared face. "Everyone! I have come to save you! I escaped one of the camps!" Lie after lie after lie. There was only one camp, "I can only take fifty across at a time. I need fifty people to come with me to the Safe Island! That's an island that no alien knows off. It's the only place where humans are living safe and sound." Anything to make me sound like their hero and their savior will do. Immediately the whole crowd surged towards me. At one point I heard "thank you so much" in the crowd. I counted every person that went out that door and when I reached fifty I slammed the door shut in the faces of the remaining 250 humans. I could hear their desperate calls and clawing on the very protective gate. Everyone jumped out from hiding and grabbed at the humans, chaining their arms and legs with handcuffs and foot cuffs with one of those balls at the end. They shrieked with agony. "Well done Kinter!" My friends yelled at me patting my back. "TRAITOR!" One human yelled, "I HOPE YOU ROT!" And with that the 50 humans fell into silence. I watched as my kind lead them to the boat that would take them across the ocean to New York. I felt so guilty and so bad that I fell on my knees listening to the desperate claws and shrieks of the last humans on Earth. Letting their cries destroy me. The woman in the crowd saying thank you haunted my thoughts. I would never say "You're welcome" to anyone anymore. I didn't deserve their "thank you's."


I lay in my bed staring blankly at the ceiling. I kept seeing Four's face in my head. Her eyes full of sadness but not willing to cry. There was a knock at my door. I got up from my bed pulling a T-shirt over my head as I opened the door to the small wooden cabin. It was a boy. A boy I had known since I could remember. He was tall and broad shouldered with blond hair. His small straight nose was dusted with a sprinkle of freckles. His smile always made me smile and his humor always made my day better. "Silus." I said shocked, "What are you doing here?" He shook his head making his fair hair fall into his bottle blue eyes. "We caught a runaway. A girl." My first thought was of Four. Had she been caught? "W-who?" I asked frantically. Silus's tail swung back and forth, "We don't know. We need everyone that was at the camp today to give a testimony as to where they were. See if we can find the idiot that let her escape. We're going to punish him or her." I swallowed hard, "Alright, let me get my shoes and I'll go with you."
The room was eerily silent as Silus and I walked in. I spotted the aliens that worked the same shift as I did. There were only 60 of us guarding the gates at the hour that Four had escaped. I had been late, so I had an alibi. Hopefully though, they hadn't caught Four. There was a girl slumped in a chair with chains. Her black hair and her shape were alarmingly like Four's. I sucked in my breath and Silus glanced at me nervously, "Relax dude. You weren't even there. I'm the one that has to worry." I nodded and took my place in the rows and rows of pews. The Testimoner (what we call him) Looked at us all and then said in his deep threatening voice. "Let us begin. We shall start with," He glanced at a sheet of paper, "Hugh Lake." A huge boy stood up and walked to the chair and began to talk...


"I arrived at around 3:30ish for my shift." He paused and looked at us as if asking if he was correct, "I stood in my usual position but heard nothing unusual. I went on my lunch break at around 5:00 O'clock. I was supposed to trade off with Kinter but since he didn't arrive I just left and asked Koster to take my spot while I got back. When I did get back nothing did happen that I knew of. Tigh called Kinter and he showed up thirty minutes late. We shipped fifty humans to New York and I went home. Just a while ago I got called to come here." The Testimoner nodded and called the rest of us. And one by one they gave their story. It was the same story actually, just from a different point of view. But all of them were missing me. And I guess everyone pretty much came up with their own conclusion. It was easy. Kinter didn't show up to work on time. He was missing for twenty minutes. A girl escapes. What do you think that they think?


When it was my turn everyone had pretty much accused me already. The Testimoner grinned like a hungry cat. I looked at the girl and stifled a scream. It was Four. A small part of me hadn't wanted to believe it. She stared at me then looked at the floor. "Kinter if you don't have a pretty damn good explanation for why you were late on the day a girl escapes then prepare for your punishment." My throat closed up and I struggled not to gasp for air. "I-I." the Testimoner chuckled, "She even told us she had run away at 4:30. You opened the gates at 6:00 so it was impossible for her to escape that way," He pulled out something from the drawer. My Hertur. "If you could also explain why she had this, Then, feel free to do so." I swallowed harder and looked down. This looked very bad. Yes I had saved her, yes I had given her my Hertur. But I hadn't helped her escape Camp. "Sir, I swear on the Mothership that I did not help this girl escape." The Testimoner just smiled, "Your punishment Kinter Paladoris, is to get your head removed." I choked and started coughing. He clapped his hands together and everyone filed out of the room except the policemen, Four and I.

The policemen handcuffed me and chained my feet together. Still I remained silent. Whoever had let Four escape had let me stand guilty for his sinister acts. I knew it was a him because I knew why they had let Four out. And even now it disturbed me to the core.

One night to live.

The policemen locked me in a cell with Four. "Until tomorrow. You have one night to do whatever you want. After that you're both dead." he traced a finger across his throat and then laughed evilly. Then, He left, Locking me and Four together in the cell. "I'm so sorry." She cried out. I laughed, "Really? For what? For not telling them who had let you free? That's alright. No big deal. It's not as if I'm going to die tomorrow." She lowered her head, "When I gave my testimony before everyone gave theirs I was asked to describe the person who had set me free. I remembered someone. He looked just like you, Kinter. But taller, meaner and with different features. I said he had blond hair and green eyes. I was so scared, Kinter. So scared that I forgot that he had a clawed hand. I didn't remember until I looked at you in the room. That's when I knew I had screwed up and put an innocent man in prison. I also lied about the time and I was stupid to have done so." I took a step backwards. It all made sense now. How could I have been so stupid?


Flashback: "KINTER! My man!" I heard Colton before he appeared, "Oh boy, what do we have here?" Colton whistled, "A run away?" I swallowed hard, "Leave!" I hissed at the girl. She backed up, startled, she was looking at his clawed hand. Then at me. Probably wondering why he wasn't doing anything to me because I looked human. "Leave!" I said louder with more force. She stumbled and then turned towards the opposite direction and ran. Colton pushed me hard with a force that would've killed a normal human being. "YOU idiot! Why'd you tell her to leave?!" I grinned pretending to look evil, "'cause then I can hunt her down. Cats play with their food, Colton. Relax, I got this." He patted my back, "sounds like fun. But you better go after her now." I nodded and sprinted into the woods. Never looking back.


Four nodded. "Now you know." "Tell me everything." I told her. She took a deep breath. Here goes...


It was during the night. Last night. I was resting my head on the door of the Corral. When suddenly i heard the door open. I stumbled back looking into the eyes of an alien who smiled wickedly at me. He reached down and pulled me with him shutting the gate shut behind him again. He blindfolded me and took me to what I'm sure was his house. Then, he left me in a garage. He didn't tie my hands tight enough so I escaped and when I looked on the table I saw a needle a scalpel and a clawed alien hand and I knew what he wanted to do with me. So I ran and ran and ran. I ran all the way to the woods that's when I found you Kinter. He eventually caught up to me. He acted all friendly with you as if he didn't know he was chasing me he wanted to look innocent in front of you that's why I was stunned. Her words made my stomach drop. "So Colton was trying t-to make you alien?" I asked disgusted. She nodded and sat down on the small bed, "Yes. And I'm sorry Kinter. I put the wrong person in prison." I was about to correct her by saying Galactor but she interrupted me, "Yes Kinter, You are more human than you think. You may not be human as you say, but the way you act and treat others makes you a person." I smiled and then we fell into silence.


I turned suddenly to Four and stared at her for a long time. Noticing the faint freckles on her nose. So faint you wouldn't notice. I noticed how her eyes were larger than most. Or how she played with the necklace around her neck when she was nervous. "What?" She asked, noticing my stare. "You need a name. Not just Four. If you're going to die you're dying with a name." She smiled faintly and stopped touching her silver necklace, "What so God won't be like 'sorry but we have seven million thousand four's are you four-thousand or four-million?'" I raised my eyebrows, "Who's 'God?'" She rubbed her eyes tiredly, "Nevermind, Kinter." I glanced down at my filthy cloths. I only had on a thin white T-shirt and some black shorts from when I was in bed. They probably had been in the wash-me pile. When I turned back to Four I felt this weird churning in my belly and my throat closed up. My cheeks burned for no reason and I turned around fast. She returned back to fiddling with her necklace, "Well what about names?" She asked. I shrugged, "Bailey? Sounds human?" She scrunched up her nose, "Yuu? I've heard that before." She laughed, "I'm not Asian." I shrugged and continued, "Junie?" She didn't say anything. "OK yea sure. Junie B. Jones. It sounds familiar to me but I don't know why. Maybe my mom was named that?" She said. I shrugged, "OK then. Hi Junie!" She cracked a smile and then turned to face me. I swallowed hard and looked down at my feet. She scooted closer to me closing the gap that separated us. "Well, if I'm going to die. I want to have one last thing." I looked up and faced her, looking into her dark brown eyes. "What's that?" I whispered. "I want to know what it feels to fall in love." Her words were a hushed whisper. I traced the shape of her mouth, "I can't help you with that. I don't deserve to know and it shouldn't be me. You're trusting the wrong person, Fo--Junie." I dropped my hand and stared at my feet once again. She sighed and scooted back to her end of the bed, "OK." Was all she said.

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 02.07.2012

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