Special : Chapter 1, Awakening

Alexis and Brianna are two ordinary Music students. Or are they?

‘19 Y/O girl seeks, guy of similar age, non smo...’
“NO! That’s not right!” The young girl taps away at the Backspace button on the keyboard
‘Hot, Young Girl looking for guys of similar age, I’m a non smoker, social drinker, likes parties and staying in...’
“URGH! I sound like I’m in my 30’s! I give up! Internet dating is just too hard for me! I’m too boring.”
Well, as I was about to say in my ad, my name is Alexis, Alexis Mellis, I’m 19 and I’m studying Music at University, I’m short at 5’3”, with long Brown hair to my lower back and my body isn’t anything special. I’m in my second year and I have a lot of free time on my hands.
“Still not getting anywhere with that advert?”
Brianna stands at the door, with a towel wrapped round her toned body, standing at 5’8”, with short black hair, she looks more like a guy if you glance at her but she’s one of my best friends.
“Yeh, I think I’m gonna give up on this”
“Really? You were all for it a while ago”
“Yeh, But you know what I’m like at writing”
“Well, I’m no help myself, anyway, we’d better get going we have lectures soon”
Brianna is on the same course as me and we get on well, we both now live in this 2 person flat in the city, We do everything together, Lunch, Movies, Lectures, Seminars, everything. So we walk to the campus together and talk all the way.
“Well, now you know I’m still single, what about you? You went out with that guy last night didn’t you?” I ask
“Oh? You mean Fabian? He’s a nice guy but I can’t see anything there”
“You are so lucky! Guy’s throw themselves at you! I wish i was as beautiful as you!”
“Well, these do help” Brianna cups her breasts and laughs
“No fair! I want bigger breasts!” Brianna laughs louder at my words, as soon as I say this, I hear a gunshot, I look round and No one is along the 2 mile long road, no cars, no people, just us two, I dismiss it as my imagination.
“Come on Alexis. We’ll be late at this rate” Brianna Begins to jog
“Yeh ok” I take one last look at the empty street and begin to jog myself.
We run all the way and just make it on time and we sit near the back, the only empty seats. As soon as I take my books out, the gunshot comes back into my mind, where did it come from? Who shot it? I put my head on the desk and think while looking out the window. Brianna looks at my face and lays her head on the desk looking at me.
“What’s up?” she whispers
“I heard another one today” I whisper back
“Oh, not this again, I’ve told you before, it’s all in your head!” Brianna whispers
“But this one was closer than the others, and I keep hearing them more often by the day”
“That doesn’t mean their real! Who would get a gun round here?”
“I know, I know! But what if someone did?”
“Stop it! It’s not real! Now come on, the old man’s coming back”
We lift our heads off the desk and pretend to write, the questions still in my mind.
After the 2 hours of boredom that was our lecture, we went to have some food; we bought our food and sat down.
“Brianna, I’m still worried about that gunshot”
“Oh, and again with your imagination, you need something to take your mind this”
“I know, but it just makes me wonder”
“You really must be tense, because I’ve never....heard.....” Brianna trails off and looks behind me I look behind me and there’s a big hole in the wall where we just bought our food, I look in disbelief at the hole, I then look at Brianna and she has her mouth hanging open
“wha...wha...wha...wait...what on...” Brianna eyes widen more and I look round again.
The hole in the wall is....repairing itself...all the pieces coming back to its right place, once all the pieces have got back, everyone is acting like nothing happened
“Tell me you saw that”
Brianna can only nod and we look around, nobody around us looked like they say it, we look at each other.
“We’d better go home, I don’t feel hungry anymore” I say
Brianna nods and we take our trays to the clean up area, and then we walked home.
“What the hell was that we saw?!” Brianna shouts
“I don’t know, what are we supposed to do? Nothing happened to anyone”
“But....But...”
Suddenly, I hear a gunshot sound again and Brianna’s eyes widen.
“Oh my god...Oh my god...”
“wait...did you hear that?”
“yes...and it sounded damn close”
Suddenly the there’s a flurry of gunshots from next door, we look at each other and run outside. When we get there, we see the house covered in gunshot holes, the door wide open and gunshots from inside, the house was putting itself together again like in the cafeteria, And new holes being created by the gunshots inside.
“Oh my...” Brianna freezes and can only watch the house go through the complete destruction/renovation that we see. Suddenly, an animal runs out the house and scampers off down the road, looking back at us with an evil grin. Suddenly 2 guys come running out the house, one is wearing a long black coat and a suit holding 2 pistols and the other is wearing jeans and a t-shirt, the weirdest combo I’ve ever seen. The one with the guns fires repeatedly at the creature, creating holes in the road, but there’s no sound coming from the guns, just the sight of the gun recoil and the hole in the road, then he hits the creature’s back leg and it stops, rolling in agony, the guy in jeans then snaps his fingers and the creature disappears, a gunshot sound coming from the creature.
Both Brianna and I look at the duo, and they look back, the street repairing itself around the 4 of them. The guy in jeans approaches the two 19 year olds and looks them over, he then touches Brianna’s butt and Brianna Knee’s him between his legs and he goes down, groaning like the animal
“Who...who the hell are you?!” Brianna shouts
The guy in the suit runs over and helps the guy in jeans up onto his feet again.
“Well, that wasn’t expected, can you...oww...see us”
“Err...yes we can” I answer
“Oh well, not too big a deal” The guy in jeans says “we’ll be out of your way then”
The two suddenly disappear and leave the street just as it was
“What just happened?” I ask
“I don’t know, that was...confusing” Brianna answers
We both slowly go back inside and sit down. Taking in what just happened.
“I just....What was that?” I ask for the 20th time
Brianna just looks at the table
“Its 11 o’clock Al, we’d better get some sleep” Brianna finally says
I nod and make my way to my room, as soon as I reach for the door handle, my door opens by itself slowly, I pear inside the dark room and i can see something moving inside, something like...an animal, I gasp and move back, hitting the wall, seeing the same animal again, Brianna looks at me with a questioning look as the animal makes its way out of the room, I back up and bump into the frozen Brianna, looking at the animal forcing her to go back to the kitchen, as soon as we reach the back door, the animal growls and prepares to jump at us, suddenly the window behind us shatters and the animal jumps, the guy in the suit flies though the window and shoots the animal in the head, the animal flies off and hits the cupboard, lying motionless on the ground. Brianna and I hold each other, scared out of our wits. The animal burns away and disappears, the guy in the suit bows. I look up at him, his Jeans wearing partner on the other side of the repairing glass.
“Well, I think we’re gonna be seeing a lot more of each other from now on” the guy outside says
Brianna and I stand up looking at the Jeans wearing man outside.
“My name is Billard and you two seem to be very special”
We look at each other, and then look back at Billard
“May I come in and i can explain over tea?”