Today in the park, Matilda and her friends were playing. Her parents watched as the kids waged a snowball fight. There were six people on each of the two teams. The adults prepared the snack under the roof of the picnic tables while the Ice Fire team threw down the Total Destruction team's snow fort. Total Destruction went to the play set behind their fort and attacked Ice Fire with everything they had.

"Time to eat!" yelled the parents.

"NO!" the children responded and continued attacking each other.

"Five, Four, Thr-"

"We're coming," the children said. 

 

When they arrived, a sound was heard that shook the earth. On the soccer field, a spaceship the size of a house landed! Everyone forgot the snack because who is going to think about a snack when an unknown object, the size of a house, appears on the soccer field? Okay. Matilda thought the ship was a terrestrial spaceship and she was not afraid. Most parents did too. The rest of the kids thought it was the first of a fleet to invade Earth. They were all wrong. That day was the weirdest day of her life. 

 

The door opened and four things came out. They had blue skin that looked like that of a chameleon and four tentacles where they should have arms and legs. The beings said, "We know your language. We are of few words." They entered the ship and took off. They floated above the group. Matilda and her friends began to float until they entered the spaceship. They were in a type of cell on the ship. They felt the spaceship as it flew away.

 

TO BE CONTINUED...