--Archaeus-- Of the Stars Above [i]Chapter 5 -[/i] Here They Come //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// It has been over a month since the discovery of these pyramidal ships that have landed on our gorgeous planet, with seemingly no reason, but one still, that is relatively easy to assume. Down here, on the planet itself, nothing much has occurred with the ships themselves. They still shine a bright ray of a fantastic blue light into the sky, and still occasionally cause tremors around in their immediate vicinity. But one night, there was something stirring about in the space around this certain planet. A kind of stirring that is hard to detect, but a kind that once detected, reveals a certain range of death coming to the unaware. I knew it was coming. I saw things approaching us from space, and there were hundreds of thousands of them. I'm almost certain the governments of the world know about this, but to avoid panic, they have kept silent about it. These ships that are here right now are not the only ones of their kind. I saw them. These things were not coming in peace I think, no sir. Far from peace. They were planning an [i]invasion[/i]. In my opinion, they had to be. The other ships had to only be a few hundred miles away from us by now. It was only a matter of time, and time is just the thing we had little of. During the first week of May, that's when it happened. What I've been waiting for. It was starting. The beginning of the start of the end. On a late Thursday night, I was looking through my telescope, watching as these ships made a large barricade around us, imagining all of the clueless and defenseless people who will soon die because the governments of the world only care about getting the wealthiest to safety. They were about to let us all burn in the fire that was about to strike us, and strike us hard. That's when I saw it. The large machine near my house rose high into the air, and stopped emitting the beacon from its peak. All over the world, people were watching, either in person, or on their television screens, as these ships flew directly into the air and out into space. Views from satellites orbiting earth show an entire armada of these ships circling earth. They were completely surrounding us, and as they circled, more and more entered this giant wall from where it is they come from. We were hopeless in every way. We didn't know what to think. Were these things friendly? Were they foe? Were we about to greet the first extraterrestrial species outside of our solar system, and make allies with them? Or were we about to be decimated by their harsh, devastating wrath? Nobody knew... but everybody wanted to. I hoped that I was wrong about the invasion. I so dearly hoped. As of that moment though, all we could do was sit in anxiety and wait for their next move. Sit. Sit, and wait.