Chapter 3: the looming shadow

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on abight and hot day the last thing anyone was expecting was an eclipsebut when an omegaclass space craft flew close to the planet this was what happened. The arrow head shaped craft blockedout allsolar light and darkness decended all arround people expected the craft to pass by quickly as all omega class shiops were simply too big to land on any planet som star systems deven forced them to be flew arround and imposed heavy fines on commanders who violated this law

from the omega class ship dropped an alpha class ship carrying commander Sophie and two generals wearing black uniforms they sat waiting to land in silence the only sound was a countdown. "Ten seconds to landing." Said a computer voice. a the land came closer

up on landing the door opened and they walked outin silent formation Wiyh Sophie in front and the two generals close behind. As people looked on they walked throughb the city streets paying no attention and not stopping until arriving at their destination and knocking on a door the door was then opened by a man who broke down and cried before a single worsd was spoken He was myra's husband and he was about to be escorted to witness her execution he also knew that his connection to her helped seal her fate.

Everyon else watched on not knowing what was actualy happening the broken man just waled with them to the ship and awaited transportation to the eclipse causing giant ship above them

In his mind every second was an eternity knowing that not even a surrender could save Myra now. "James Pearl You have been on the top ten most wanted list for ten yers all wys having a trick up your sleeve to avoid capture or death now you have no more tricks. Your wife has beenfoung guilty of using brain washing drugs and could be found guilty of providing weapons to the enemy this is an act of treason which will be punished by death unless you stp running and stand trial yourself." Sophie was giving him an ultimatum this wasun expected surely she knew that James would not sacrifice himself for anyone

The other humand looked on from below as the alpha class shipdocked and the omega class ship finaly left bringing back the daylight un aware of ehat was happening they were just happy that the darkness had gone despite being on the most wanted liste James was just an ordinary person no one knew what he did because he did nothing instead he found other people to do his dirty work for him. so now he had been taken the rest o the human population carried on as if nothing had happened.

this was the first human city built and ruled since thefall of Earth and remained the biggest as most humans opted to live on space stations or in elf ruled cities. They liked Elven rules theyb were allowed to live in freedom and elf technology had always been better than things made by humans they had no reaon to rebel against them This did not stop fringe underground human freedom groups showing hate to all no humans Myra and James were leading members of such a group

Submitted: August 14, 2020

Science Fiction fantasy-science-fiction