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Chapter 12 by amalgam

"Should we do something?"

Go to help.

The wind picks up suddenly. All around you, pillars of smoke collapse and recede, and the fires lunge at the gust's behest. In that brief moment, with the smoke cleared away, the wreckage of the spacecraft is at last apparent. It looks vaguely disc-shaped, but you can't be positive because nearly half of the ship is missing. But then Mandy taps you on the shoulder and gestures to the sky, where a very much intact flying saucer is hovering overhead. It's black-- almost like the night sky. Luckily the glow of the forest fire illuminates its hull, but otherwise the vehicle is totally dark.

The floating craft falls slowly, just stopping about twenty feet from the ground. It does so with absolute silence, although you can certainly feel the air moving as it descends. The sudden burst of air just a moment before must have been caused by this alien craft arriving on the scene.

Then all of a sudden the disc comes alive with activity. Windows of light appear everywhere along the edge of the craft, and a large circular bay cracks open in the hull's center, emitting a pale green light as it expands wider and wider.

"Maybe we should...maybe we should go..." Mandy whispers. Indeed, the craft moves slowly in your direction, opening numerous spotlights upon your position. Who knows what the aliens might be thinking when they see two Earthlings standing around the bodies of their dead brethren?

"C'mon!" You take Mandy's hand and start to run, but the spotlights follow your every move with pinpoint precision. Still you keep running, your friend in tow, until her hand is abruptly pulled from yours. You turn to see her gasping, a look of shock locked on her face. Her body, too, seems frozen in time as her sprinting form is enveloped by a light green aura. Looking up you see the source: a thin laser coming out of the craft's central bay, trained directly at the back of Mandy's head. The energy beam saps the life out of her, her face relaxing and her eyes falling into a dreamy expression. Without a sound her body is lifted into the air, where you see her arms and legs limp like the rag doll that she has become. In just another moment, she disappears inside the ominous UFO.

You start to feel light-headed and weightless. You try again to escape this fate, but it becomes increasingly more difficult to move your feet. Besides, at this point you'd be running on air, and that doesn't work very well.

Dream?

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