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It was on a day like this that it happened…
The first time he came to our island…
Out of everyone he chose me…
The sea was crystal clear and the sun was shining
“Ahh.”
I thought not wanting to ruin this moment,
every since my mother and father disappeared I had been making do will want they left me with, not every being able to enjoy a moment like this.
This morning I was sneaking round the village with a keen eye when I saw it,
it was a giant clump of circuit boards and wires!
It was beautiful, the only problem was that it was outside of my village down the cliff.
So I did what any reasonable six year old would do,
I flew down the sheer cliff edge with my tool kit and backpack.
Did a little flip and landed next to it
-something was watching me-
I felt a strange kind of fear
(the fear that you don’t know what it is, but you want to get out of there),
so as fast as I could I grabbed hold of some of the wires, pulled them out of the circuits and put them in my bag.
Then I flew out of there as quick as a flash,
landed and ran to my treehouse.
I dropped my bag down and jumped into my bed scared stiff.
I stayed still for the next hour wondering what I had been scared of and what was there, eventually I drifted off to sleep not knowing what was to come.
I had come to the conclusion that what had happened was a dream so I decided to go on with my morning routine.
First I scavenged around the maze of a village for food, of course I found some in the bakery oven through the hole I had made in the back of it,
“Today’s breakfast is….
A loaf of gammon bread?!”
It was very salty, but a nice way to start the day.
“One of the baker’s experiments I guess.”
After that, I went on a little walk making sure to avoid the bully!
Sometimes I would see him before he would see me, sometimes he would see me because of my tails sticking out of my hiding place,
then run after me trying to grab them, but ever since I learnt I could fly, I just flew out of there.
I continued on my peaceful walk along the border of the village,
my mind tossing and turning the thought of finding a giant clump of wires and circuits in my dream.
Then, I was just about to complete the first lap, and straight in front of me was a huge cliff!
It looked exactly like the one I saw in my dream except a tiny little detail was missing,
‘The Clump Of Wires And Circuits!’,
I was staring at it for what felt like minutes, my mind turning it over, but then the weirdest thing happened.
”Boom!”
“Crash!”
a giant clump of what looked like what was left of a mystery machine fell from the sky but this time it had more of a shape and had most of an outer shell on it.
On the shell was a weird egg, moustache and massive teeth shaped logo, almost like it had been cut into, marked and tested, then thrown away.
I was curious so I went down the escarpment trying to have a good look at the questionable object,
trying not to burst up in fear and fly away,
“This is the only way to know what this thing is.”
I thought,
trying to convince myself that this object was not to be scared of.
When I got down there, it had more elements than I was expecting,
including some wires, a circuit board, a word processor and two laser blasters.
“What was this?! A C.O.W.A.C. 300?!”
I thought, questioning how this thing got onto the island and the question that was most prominent
“How and why did it drop from the sky?”.
“Zap!”
“Bang!”
a laser shot through a crack in the mountain missed me by a centimetre and hit the the sea water to the left of me, as quick as a flash I turned around to face the newly discovered laser cannon which had been camouflaged by a small patch of plants that hung over it but were now incinerated by the laser blast and now a small pile of ash lay lifeless on the brownish sand.
“Why is that there, and was it there yesterday?”
I thought,
a thousand questions were going through my mind
“What is that?”
“Who was it made by?”
“Why was it made?”
I walked out to have a good look at that object and I stood next to it hiding just out of view.
Then I pulled a long, wooden stick out of the sand and
“Thwack!”
went the wood into the lens of the laser/camera after I twanged it.
Then it started sparking and a hole opened in the top of it.
A long antenna extended up, I got my wavelength meter out of my utility backpack and it was sending all its information into an unknown source.
Unbeknownst to me a hidden egg shaped man was learning about this place and he wanted a sample,
a sample that was living!
I looked around to see if any clumps of electronics had fallen out of the sky.
“Nope.” I thought but I still wanted to look around to make sure that there was nothing else around.
It was getting late,
the sun was falling into the sea like an egg yoke falling into a huge mass of egg whites and disappearing from view,
all I wanted to do was collapse into my straw stuffed bed and sleep but something cold, metallic grabbed me and was holding me back from just flying off into the sky.
It was an egg shaped man with a bald head and a moustache wearing red in an egg shaped cart with a giant claw dangling from the vehicle and grabbing me by the tails.
He hauled me out of the island,
over the sea,
eventually he stopped,
took out an oxygen mask and started to drive upwards.
Slowly but surely I started getting tired and I fell unconscious.
The void took me with it.