Where It All Started

You sit there in silence while Cyndi drives you back to the fields. You turn the events over in your mind, trying to contemplate the sequence of events. The nurse’s words haunt you… ‘Something more than human’. You wonder what they could mean. Turning so that you’re not facing Cyndi, you shift the glasses up and stare at your golden eyes in the car’s wing mirror. Something about the look of your eyes scares you like maybe you’re someone else.

You think about asking her some questions but you’re a little too concerned that she’ll lose control while she’s driving the car. It takes you about half an hour to reach the edge of old man Peterson’s farm. Cyndi pulls up at the edge of the farm.

“Get out of the car.” You tell her.

“Yesss.” She replies getting out of the car.

Vaguely you can remember where it was that meteorite hit you, your mind is a little hazy about it all though. You notice Cyndi is stood there motionless by the car, awaiting a new command. You walk over to her, you want to go and investigate but there are several questions you need answering first. You look her straight in the eyes.

“Cyndi, I’m going to ask you a few questions I want you to answer them as if it were just a normal conversation.” You tell her.

She takes a moment to snap out of the trance and looks at you as if everything were normal.

“Was there anyone else injured in the incident?” You ask.

“No, you were the only person brought in.” She answers.

“Who was it that brought me in to the hospital?”

“You were found outside the hospital in need of urgent medical attention. No one was with you at the time.” She replies.

“Thank you Cyndi. I want you to wait here while I go into the fields.” You tell her.

“Yess.” She replies.

You were hoping to get something useful out of Cyndi, but her information has only given you more questions. If your memory serves you right the site of the meteorite should be about three fields across. You know the way pretty well, as you used to play here on occasion as a kid. You turn away from Cyndi staring at the large field of wheat stretching out in front of you. As it’s night you can’t make things out too well. Next to you is a wooden fence with barbed wire fixed on top of it. You don’t remember this the last time you were here. You notice a few feet down the road a broken section of fence, with a gap large enough for you to fit through.

You walk over to the fence and make your way through the gap. As you step through you here something squelch under your foot. You put it from your mind, and start to make your way through the crops. As it’s dark you don’t have much choice but to move slowly. It takes you about ten minutes to get over the other side of the field, as you slip and fall on a few things in the dark. You come across a large steel gate and as you look over it you can make out some livestock in the dark. Seeing the cattle makes you wonder if your newfound powers would work on animals. You’re keen to experiment with your powers but right now there are more pressing matters at hand. Slowly you climb over the fence and jump down silently onto a well worn path.

You’re thankful for the path as making you’re way through the fields in the dark isn’t an easy task. The site of the meteorite landing should be in the next field as you recall. You quickly head up the path, it takes you a few minutes to get the other side of the field. You realise that the next field is right next to the farmhouse so you’d better be careful. Whenever old man Peterson had caught people in that field before, he’d always chased them off with a gun. You had always thought this was quite odd as he never seemed to be growing anything in that field, all there was a few old buildings, which just seemed to be abandoned It makes you wonder what there could be in those buildings that he was so protective of, maybe he was brewing moonshine or something.

At the end of the field you where in was another steel gate. The gate looked quite rusted, as if it hadn’t been used in months. This seemed quite strange to you, as Peterson was always moving about on the farm for some reason or other. You put it from your mind and vault the gate. You noticed that there were some crops planted in the field, as there seemed to be quite a large amount of wheat. The strange thing was unlike the other field it didn’t seemed to have been planted in rows, more just at random.

In front you was a path cut through the crops in the field. You decided to follow it as it would hopefully go near the meteorite site. You have a vague recollection of the meteorite hitting somewhere near the centre of the field. As you walk through the crops you notice that the further you get into the field, worse the condition of the plants. Those nearer to the outside just seem to be barely yielding any produce, but the ones closer to the middle haven’t produced anything at all or have grown very little. You wonder if the meteorite could have caused it. You head up to where you think the meteorite should have hit. The sight takes you’re breath away.

Around the crash site, all the crops are black and withered. Most of them look like they’re either dying or in an advanced state of decay. You take a step closer and hear something crunch under your foot. You raise your shoe and take a look underneath you see a dead insect. You wipe it from your shoe and the notice that littering the ground are hundreds of dead insects. You turn your gaze away from them and look at the crash site, the ground is completely scorched black. You walk onto the scorched earth and put your hand to the ground. As you touch it you instantly reel back in pain as you feel your hand burning. Then you notice the farmhouse has gone. In its place are several grey buildings, you notice a few people walking around dressed in black suits.

As you stare at the buildings your feel a burning sensation in the back of your mind. It feels like the worst headache you’ve ever had magnified tenfold. You fall to the floor clutching your head, trying not to scream in pain. It lasts for several minutes. You wonder what you should do now. You could investigate the new buildings or go back to Cyndi.