Of Dream and Xenomorph : 1

THE CAPTURE

It had been several months since I've moved here, a lone house on a mountain. There were some other houses scatters nearby, but not so much. I still don't believe my luck in getting this house at the price I got. It was probably one of the best spot one could get. The nearest town was only about half an hour away with my mountain bike, probably much less should I get a car. But you know the oil and gas price, and I could get some exercise biking up and down the mountain.

The house sit near a cliff, with big front yard and back with a mountain, overlooking a forest view below. Every morning, I would wake up to sit at the edge of the cliff, watching the sun goes up to the blue sky.

I didn't go into the town very often, normally just once in a few days, to buy stuffs I need. It had been peaceful here, but still with all the convenient one could get. I had electricity, gas, water and broadband internet. Life couldn't have been better to me, or so I thought.

It all happened one night, in the blood full moon, nearly midnight. I was sitting in front of my computer as I always did, working on this stuffs and that, reading stories and chat. When I noticed some shadow passing by the edge of my eyes, just outside the window. I turned to look, but seeing nothing there but darkness.

‘Probably just some animals’

I shrugged and continue with my computer. But it happened again, another shadow in the corner of my eyes. This time followed by a loud screech. I shivers, looking around for the source of the sound. Nothing in my sight. But to be safe, I went around to make sure I’ve locked every doors and windows. Satisfied that I should be at least safe enough within the house, I walked back to my computer and about to continue my typing. When I saw ‘it’, just outside the window right beside me, only a foot away, with merely a layer of glass separate me from it.

I yelped and jump back. Watching ‘it’ stared at me…at least I thought that’s what it was doing. The monster, I’d call it, has skin as black as night, dangerous looking teeth filled its mouth and some ugly odd-looking tongue. But the most disturbing things…it has no eyes, no nose, nor ears…nor anything else on its head for that matter. Only teeth filled mouth. And it was drooling at my windows.

I’ve seen the like of it before, yes, but not in any book or from National Geographic channel. No. I’ve seen them…in the movies. The creature from outer space, bend on killing everyone in sight...

And if my memory is right…that layer of glass window won’t stop them should they decide to come in and greet me in person, with their claws within me…

I grab my phone tried to call for help, but it had no signals.

I knew couldn’t just sit here, in my house, with the dead watching me just outside the window. But I couldn’t go outside either, else I’d be killed for sure. Starting to panic, I decided to just go with it. I run for the door, throw it open and literally jump on my mountain bike, snap to full speed and bike as fast as I possibly could. Praying it wasn’t paying attention to me until I reach the safety of the town, even though I knew it was just a faint hope.

I biked and biked, didn’t dare to look back, should the creature decided to follow me. But with luck, nothing came to me, no claws, no spiked tail in my chest as I had seen in the movies. The town is right over the next corner, just a few hundred meters more and I’d be safe.

I leaned forward, forcing my bike to go even faster as I turned the corner… and nearly fall over the bike in shock…

I stopped dead at the sight before me, eyes widen. Never before I would have believed it, of all the fantasies and movies I’ve watched, this surely is not the one I’d want to actually happen…

Before me, against the stars and the blood moon in the background. I’ve seen it. Probably for the last time in my life. The town that laid before me. Concrete buildings covered in black organic material. Creatures walking down the street where people and cars should have been, surely of no Earth origin. I saw several wreckages of cars and barricades, but no humans, only monsters everywhere for as far as I could see.

The town is no more.

I stood there in shock, unable to move, even when two of the creatures started heading toward me. I had no idea what to do. Where could I go? I had no weapons. My bike laid down behide me, forgotten. I couldn’t run. My bike was too slow. And if my guessing is right, these ‘things’ were extremely fast. It’d have been no hope. I’m done. I close my eyes and resigned myself as the things approached me. I could feel their breath in my face. Any second now. I waited…

And waited.

Still, no claws collided with me, I’ve got no tail in my chest, nor that deadly jaw in my face. Instead, I felt something knocked me over and hurl me over. I tried to struggles free of its solid grab, but it felt like struggle against solid steel. It didn’t even seem to slow down as it hurl me into the town…their ‘town’. I tried to trash and struggle as they dragged me into one of the organic building. Darkness consumed me as there is no light for me to see. Only sound of screeches and scratches, and feeling of hard material moving under me as I was getting dragged deeper and deeper.

‘This has got to be a nightmare…yes that’s it. Nothing but nightmare. I slept on my computer and dreamed all of this’

I chanted in my mind, hoping it was true, even though deep inside me knew it was not.

I had no idea how long I had been dragging through the dark tunnel, but before I knew it, I felt myself stopped. My back to the wall of some sort, with my arms beside me. I didn’t feel my feet touched the ground so I struggles, only to felt something pinned me to the wall. It felt hard, cold, and creepy against my skin. I tried to pull myself free, but it felt more like trying to break through a solid steel.

I could feel its breath as it spit some kind of liquid on me. I shudders in fear, remembered what happen to the humans who got captured by these aliens in the movies. I would prefer them to just kill me right here and now, instead of being used as a host, to be killed by their young from the inside out… I prayed it would be quick and painless as the alien covering me in the sticky hard liquid. I pull my eyes tightly shut as it start spiting liquid on my face. My breath became shallow as I felt myself getting covered from head to toes in my soon-to-be coffin. I tried to struggle for one last time, but it was of no use. I knew I was good as dead now, glued to the alien wall deep inside the hive. I knew what happened to all those alien’s captives in the movies, as well as those who tried to get in and rescue them. There was no hope for me anymore.

I suddenly felt tired and sleepy. I tried to fight it for a while, but each breath seem to drew the resistant out of me. Soon I gave up fighting at all and eventually resigned myself to the slumber, hope to sleep through it all for a blissful dead…