Crash Landing

creature

*Zax*

I am lost.

The Fates have truly done it now.

For I am not lost of words but lost to what the eyes placed inside my skull from the Fates have seen and what strange images are now registering with the brain inhabiting such a thickly structured masterpiece of a head.

Because, for the life of myself and of those that may otherwise inhabit my world, I could not seem to understand what exactly my eyes were perceiving versus what my brain should be telling me to envision instead.

For what I was seeing could not possibly match the description of the loud booming sound that echoed across the planet only mere moments ago.

No, the Fates surely had deceived because the sight before me could not possibly be what had caused such a sound.

As for what stood before me was the incredible sight of an unknown spacecraft that recently collided with the planet's impenetrable surface, the impact breaking the sound barrier for miles to be heard and the trees having shook in their attempt to embrace the pounding tremors that were caused by the inevitable collision.

My eyes widened with surprise as I was the first one to witness such a planet shaking collision, what could this foreign spacecraft possibly have been doing that had caused it to crash down onto Zubine in the first place?

"Oh, my goodness gracious! What in the Fates' name has happened here?! I leave for one moment to come back to…To this…"

Zion exclaimed from behind me after reappearing from seemingly out of nowhere, why does he always pick the most inopportune times to disappear on me, this blood related cousin of mine?

Perhaps I was a bit too harsh when it came to Zion as I never cared much for what Zephyr did before and after I was banished from entering the land of the Kingdom again but I suppose I felt such a need to protect my cousin from such dangers that could be enabled if he were to, per say, wander off without my knowledge or my presence.

Perhaps it was because I cared for Zion more than I did when it came to my own sibling, as awful as that may sound, but there was no use pondering why my actions had been chosen in their prior sequences.

As strange as they may seem, I would have to try and push their intrusive presence to the back of my mind for the time being as I could only shake my head in both astonishment and wonder at the foreign like spacecraft that had collided with the crust of our planet from seemingly out of nowhere.

"Nevermind your foolishness, Zion. It appears that we have found ourselves to be in the presence of…."

Trailing off as I watched the broken hatch door to the spacecraft slide open as water from the Fates precisely constructed lake gushed in like a natural built geyser, my eyebrows raised up with both suspicion and curiosity as I watched a figure unlike any of the creatures inhabiting my planet emerge from within the depths of the ship, my focus zeroing in on the strangest of beings.

Even from a distance, I could decipher the color of it's flesh, a soft pale color that reminded me of billowing puffs of air and the texture of tousled hair that bear the color of the finest lava rocks upon the planet's bubbling crust which rested upon the figure's frame, thin bones hidden just below the surface of the flesh instead of hiding beneath layers of dormant relaxed muscle.

A frown deepened my confused features, the figure had to be a young male of sorts, females had gone extinct long ago and our kind were too thick-skulled to even think about building artificial replicas.

We cared more about protecting our prideful ways and extending our reach of power than we did when it came to extending the legacy for future generations that would eventually surpass us.