Chapter 2: An Unexpected Arrival

Lost and frightened, she ran up to my arms and began to cry. The room was freezing, and everyone around us was dead, impaled in a horrible and gruesome manner. Their blood was splattered everywhere around the room, and the demon responsible for it was staring down at us, frozen in place.

As I woke up that day, all the pain which I had previously experienced seemed but like a memory. Although our bodies recover much faster than normal, I still found it strange that my bones would’ve recovered that quickly. I opened my eyes at the sight of a bright light hovering above me. I noticed that the light seemed to be encased in some sort of glass and was stuck to the ceiling. I was laying down in a strangely shaped bed which seemed to be made out of a type of metal unknown to me, nevertheless, the bed was still comfortable. There were many things odd about the room I had found myself in, I was no longer in the forest and it surely wasn’t Neptar. Everything in the room just seemed so foreign to me. I also noticed I had a white cast around my head, I always hated the color white it just seemed so bright to me, I tend to wear all black no matter the occasion. Just as I was about to stand up a woman entered the room, she seemed to be looking at a strange rectangular device, she kept poking at it as if she expected something to happen, she began to laugh, I had no idea what the device was but I assumed it was for entertainment purposes. The woman then turned to me and said

“Oh, you’re awake. One of the students found you unconscious just outside of the forest”

“Where am I?” I asked

“You’re in the nurse’s office” She replied,

“If I may ask, what exactly happened to you”

“I fell from orbit,” I said,

“Pardon?” she asked

“I was on my spaceship and I was struck by an asteroid. I then fell down and landed in a forest” I said to her. She began to look confused, almost as if she didn’t believe me.

“Is something wrong?” I asked her.

“You must be joking right?” she asked me

“Uhh ... no”

“You got into a fight, didn’t you? You kids these days and your pointless violence when are you going to learn violence doesn’t solve anything” she said to me in a strict tone.

“Y-yeah. I’m sorry I promise I won’t do it again,” I said with a joking tone. I thought should probably not mention anything about Neptar or my mission so I resorted to lying

“I must now take your vitals, you were bleeding just a few minutes ago before I patched you up. I just need to check and make sure that nothing too bad has happened to you which I’m not aware of like internal bleeding or anything of the sort,” she said to me. I had no idea what she meant by any of that so I just said okay and allowed her to proceed. The first thing she did was take a small piece of plastic and stick it in my mouth. I was confused at this point but I tried to keep my composure. After a few seconds, she finally took it out and stared at it, her face instantly went from happy to frightened. I didn’t know what had happened to cause her to become as frightened as she was so I decided to ask her

“Is everything alright?” She looked at me with a fake a smile and said

“Yes, yes everything is alright, however, I will have to examine you more thoroughly,” she said to me with the same frightened tone of voice. For what seemed like an hour I was strapped and hooked onto various strange devices. With each test, her expression became more and more worried and terrified. I still had no idea what was wrong, she wouldn’t speak to me about it so I just did as I was told and waited until the end of it all. Once we got to the final examination, she told me she was going to run a blood test, I wasn’t sure how she would obtain it from me but I sat patiently and waited for her to explain to me what would happen. She then brought out a thin sharp piece of metal which she called a “needle”

“This will only hurt a little bit,” she told me, she took hold of my hand and tried to insert the needle into my arm. Once the needle came in contact with my skin it broke in half.

“What are you!?” she exclaimed backing away from me. I decided that I should begin to tell her about myself since she seemed frightened.

“I am what you would call a Neptarian,” I told her. She seemed confused so I decided to explain to her a little bit more about my background

“Let me try to explain this in a simpler manner. I am from a planet which I assume is very far away from here, there, we each have the ability to project fire most of us are trained as warriors to help protect the state of the planet and its people. That might be the reason you failed to penetrate through my skin” I said to her. I couldn’t help but notice she didn’t seem to believe me, so I decided to show her instead. I placed my hand out and created a small ball of fire, we are all taught as kids to do this so naturally we Neptarians are all proficient at it. She then began to panic and nearly fainted, I managed to catch her before she could fall.

“T-This, it can’t be real,” she said

“I am on a mission, I can’t get into all the details but basically I crash-landed on this planet and now I have no way to get off of it” I told her, the woman then stood up and began to walk back and forth throughout the room, meanwhile she was mumbling to herself, once again I became confused.

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to help you much on your way back home, however, I can give you some advice,” she told me,

“What advice do you have in mind?” I asked

“If I may ask, what is your name?” she asked me

“Mistery,” I responded.

“I recommend keeping it a secret that you’re an alien. If anyone finds out, it could cause widespread panic. Try to go with a much simpler name like Jake. I will also enroll you in this school so you can blend in with the rest of the kids your age while you find a way back home”

“You’re taking this surprisingly well,” I told her

“You could say that I have some ‘experience’ with these things,” she said to me before escorting me to a ‘classroom’ as she called it.

Once I had arrived at the classroom there were around fifteen people, I saw the girl which had found me after I lost consciousness. She had caught a glimpse of me, smiled and waved her hand at me. At the time, I didn’t know what that meant so I just mimicked her movements, she seemed happy. As the nurse spoke to the classroom teacher, I was told to take a seat. My seat was in the back row, the tables occupied two seats each. I was placed in a seat next to another guy, he seemed bulky and he looked uninterested at the moment, he had his head down and it seemed as if he was sleeping so I ignored him and I sat down. As the school nurse left the room, the teacher continued with his lesson.

“Now, where were we. Can anyone tell me what began the events of World War II?” he asked. I had absolutely no idea what that was, so I didn’t answer. The entire class he kept asking questions and explaining events which I had never even heard of. The only wars which I had ever heard of were the interplanetary wars between Neptar and our neighboring planet, Kelklia. After two hours or so everyone got up after hearing a sort of bell.

“Hey, new kid. The cafeteria is this way.” a girl spoke out to me, it was the same girl who had found me outside of the forest. I stood up and began to follow her

“My name is Janet. What’s your name” she asked me”

“Mist-, Jack,” I said, she began to look at me with an intense stare.

“Didn’t the teacher say your name was Jake?” she asked me

“Isn’t that what I said?” She continued to stare at me with the same expression until we arrived at the ‘cafeteria’ there I was told to line up and get my lunch. I noticed there were some stalls set up in a large field full of flowers and nicely cut grass, it was a nice change of scenery compared to the inside of the school, which was dusty and many objects were broken or missing. I decided to just stand in a secluded spot and begin to wonder how I was going to get home, I couldn’t contact my grandfather and I couldn’t just hover my way I wouldn’t even know what direction to go, nor hover for that long as a matter of fact. My best bet was to try to find and repair my spaceship or just find a new one. After a couple minutes to myself, I saw Janet heading towards me holding two trays of food. She began to look frightened and signaled me to get close to her. To my left was a guy walking towards me with a smirk on his face, It was the same guy that was asleep next to me during class. He had a small group of people with him, they all began to stare at me with mal-intentions, the guy then walked closer to me and began to push me, he began to chuckling and the students behind him looked at me and laughed while a few others looked at the guy in fear including Janet. I didn’t know what was about to happen. I could only imagine he was trying to pick a fight with me, however, I knew that this planet was different from my own so I simply continued to listen and kept my guard up just in case, who knows maybe he just wanted to be friends or something.

“Let me show you what I do to new kids or guys I simply just don’t like,” he said to me. I saw him raise his arm up and throw a punch, I didn’t hesitate I moved my head out of the way, his hand was incredibly slow. I punched his chest which sent him tumbling to the floor, writhing in agony. After I had landed that blow the whole crowd went silent and the guy began to grovel in pain on the ground, I didn’t expect him to go down that easily. The people who were at first laughing at me began to stare at me in horror instead, some of them even backed away. After that encounter, I walked away and found a different spot. Fights in Neptar are usually more intense and drawn out than that unless you’re up against my grandfather of course. I still have bruises from that day. Janet then came up to me and asked