Lunar Oasis

My Novel

Lunar Oasis

By Alec Tamez

 

Chapter One

(In the future) “Hey get back here! Stop or I’ll shoot! I mean it, return the prisoner!”

 Like hell I’d ever stop to return her. Getting in was hard enough not to mention getting her out of that prison cell. Going back or stopping would be definite suicide not to mention a total waste of time.

I ran through the hallway lined from beginning to end with stone. I turned around to behold the now hundreds of soldiers right on my tail.

How is that possible? We’ve been running for three hours and that last burst of speed was the fastest that I’ve ever run. Maybe I can gain some ground on the stairs.

I rounded the corner almost tripping on the scattered debris left from the shooting soldiers now merely feet behind me.

Well here goes everything worth risking.  I slid on the rail of the stairs, balancing ever so carefully as I flew down the spiral staircase.

Zoom. A stray bullet grazed my face. Ouch, that really stings! How can the cops take this abuse day in and day out back at home?

 I finally got off the rail of the seemingly infinite number of stairs only to be slammed into a luxury suite. Fighting the feeling of losing consciousness turned around and surprise, surprise they’re almost here.

 I don’t get it. It took me a good five minutes to slide down the stairs. They got here in barely one minute on foot after I got here. Talk about unfair.

I looked around for a means of escape.  I have to escape here or I face death. I have to find a way out and fast. Umm, nope, negatory, where…., yes a window… but it’s at least a thirty-foot drop and this blonde girl is getting very heavy after all of that running.

“I have to hurry! No time left…..”

Too late.

BANG.  I felt the explosion pound through my body like a dozen steam locomotives. The resulting force threw me into the wall shattering the glass window.

I fell from the three story building while holding the woman as close as I could so she wouldn’t get hurt. I hit the ground for the both of us and started rolling. After some bouncing and rolling, my vision started to blur. We were moving or was that my aching head? I held her as tight I could before I lost consciousness as cool water flowed around us……..

ALLEN T. SCOTSFIELD! “Wake up!”

Mom splashed ice cold water on me.

“What the heck mom? It’s 4:30 a.m.”  She said “you were five minutes late. You’re seventeen so you should be able to get up on your own without me having to get you out of bed.”

“Its saturday mom, I don’t have work and school starts in four hours.

“I don’t care because you should always get up early.”

I hate when she says that. But what I hate the most is her voice, nagging, scratchy, and downright annoying.

“"and you should also brush your teeth, clean your face, and do something about that dog, and don’t”…

“Oh come on blah blah blah”  “WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?”” “Did she hear that?”

“Yes as a matter of fact I did AGAIN.”

I ate, got dressed in a red polo shirt and brown khaki pants and brushed my teeth.

“And what about that awful blonde hair of yours?”

 I looked at the mirror and saw my red eyes that always remind me of a wolf. Because of these eyes I don’t have a single friend at my school. “At least I look good” I muttered.  “I heard that” she said.

Oh god here it comes.

Why you good for nothing, potty-mouthing, ugly, ungrateful… I happened to look great back then. (Yea but it isn’t your day anymore) Back in my day …

Yea right in the Stone Age……“Bye mom I’ll be late!”  “Grr….fine. You will get your punishment when you get home *snicker*.”

Oh great now I have another thing to worry about.

At school, I have a regular life.

I have three classes: Advanced math, English 4, and track and field.  And"oof.

“Hey nerd”  “Hey Samson.”

Great he’s the last person that I wanted to see.

“Gimme dur money” Samson said in his usual dumb and goofy way. So I said, “no way!”

Samson said, “why you little puny”- Whack. 

“Hey don’t call him puny!” someone said behind him. I looked to see Joseph holding a bat. I looked down and saw Samson there in a bloody mess.

I thanked him “so how about that money?” he said. I gave him the hairy eye. “Hey you owe me!” “Fine” I said. “Hehe sucker” he muttered.

In advanced math, we solve trinomials and quasi-dimensional equations.

Oh Allen you’re so handsome and kind and “How do you solve (x²+6x=-36) Allen?”

 What the…?

“Allen wake up!” Whoa! “I don’t allow sleeping in my class!”

I am really sorry Ms. Dove. “Because you slept in class, you owe me a 100 page essay hand written on trinomials and quasi-dimensional equations.

This officially BUH-LOWS.

After school, I had to go home not knowing which “punishment” awaited me. I sat down on the fountain near the school.

Something brushed against my leg.

“Oh hey Donny!” I’m glad you’re here.

Donny sat down beside me.

Wheeze. “Yea I know he’s a real jerk that Samson.”

Wheeze whimper.  “I wouldn’t go that far.”

Ah another day gone… whack.

Whimper. “No Donny!” Hey take that ya stupid dog!

I lunged at him with pure malicious intent when something held me back.

Joseph? “Hey nerd. Guess what? After we beat the stuffing out of that dog, we’re gunning for you. So why don’t you just sit back and watch?”

After he was done, he turned towards me and said, “you’re up nerd” And I swear that was the longest five minutes of my life. At last I saw it coming and said, “this is gonna hurt.”

Whack. Lights out. I heard a “fwamp” before I blacked out.

 

After about seemingly a few minutes, I regained my sight to see my only best friend bleeding right next to me.

Behind him was a trail of blood. I knew that he had to have crawled here to be with me.

I wanted to cry. Why is my life so horrible? 

I thought if I jumped off of a bridge would that stop it?

No that would give them what they wanted; besides, suicide is the coward’s way out.

I held my bloody friend in my arms as I ran to the vet. For each step that I took, more blood came out.

I rushed into the vet’s office and told them the situation.

After about an hour or so, the doctor came out and said, “She is stable for now, but she’ll have to stay here for a long while. I’m sorry” And he left.

I entered the room where Donny was staying and saw her sleeping. Thank God she’s okay.

I went towards home to find out that mom had locked the door. 

Umm, what time is it? It is… great. My watch was broken during the fight.

I tried the door, the door bell, even the windows but it was locked up tight.

Finally, mom said “who goes there?” I answered “your step-son”

She said “this is your punishment, so go somewhere else.”

Great. That’s just so wonderful...not.

I set my backpack down by the door and headed toward our bridge.

I gazed out at the starry sky and wished that my life wasn’t so horrible. I looked down at the lake to see the pretty waves bouncing on the bridge supports; the moon was shining down and its reflection was… still?

Huh, that’s strange.

“You know what moon? I wish I could go someplace else where life isn’t so bad and live there forever.”

I felt a small tug on my arm and something was pulling me into the river with an invisible force.

I struggled to get free as the pull got stronger and stronger. At last, my legs gave and I fell into the lake.

I looked up and I could see the stars rushing past me at an alarming rate.

I looked forward and the moon came into view almost instantaneously.

The moon got bigger and bigger, and the stars moved by me faster and faster until I went through the moon.  How is this possible?

After about seemingly forever I emerged from water and crawled onto a nearby shore.

I looked around to see where I was. I saw blue sky, green grass, and things that resembled a cow were everywhere. Then I looked up and what I saw blew my mind and almost my sanity with it, not to mention almost fainting. I am in a completely different world aren’t I?

I saw a big blue planet with that same crater that the meteorite made 5 years ago. Earth. After gazing at the blue sphere I once was in for a few minutes, I saw a beautiful girl with blonde hair like mine staring at me with wide blue eyes. “Have fun falling from the sky?” I asked her where I was and she said to me “what are you talking about? You’re on Saeren!”

Chapter 2

“Umm Saeren?” Where’s Saeren?  “Yup! You’re not from around here are you?”

You don’t know the truth behind those words.  “Please come over to my house you must be starving”

After about an hour’s walk in the open plains we reach the city. She said “over here is my house. I know it isn’t much but please enjoy yourself.” I said “Thanks”.

I entered the house and it was practically a mansion. “Woa”. She said “huh? Haven’t you seen a house before?” it’s not every day that you see a house the size of a small mansion.

“Say, do you have a partner?” I said that I didn’t know what she was talking about. “So you don’t? Okay then will you be my partner?” I said “Like I said before, what do you mean?”

 “You know silly, be my partner in the games.” She said in a giggling voice.

“Games?” I asked. “You really aren’t from around here are you?” she said suddenly turning serious. “Like I said the first time I’m not from around here.” I said. She said “Ok let me show you around and explain things.”

After waiting for half an hour for her to change, she comes down the stairs in a beautiful dress with a bow at the top of her long flowing hair. We walk down to a park and sit down at a nearby bench. "So...first off what's your name?" "Allen...Allen Scottsfield. What's yours?""My name is Rosanne Louise De Allevier...just call me Rose for short m'kay?' "uh...Sure i guess, so what are the "games", whats this partner thing, and why me and- "Woa woa! Easy on the turbo Allen. Lets see where to start......the games. The games are essentially a test of skill, endurance, wit, cunning, and most importantly strength. Depending on which game you get assigned to or sign up for, the categories will vary anywhere from a simple stick puzzle to slaying a mythical beast." "go on..." "Every person living in Saeren must compete in at least one game per year, and must also have a partner to help them when competing. The reason for this is so that you have to rely on someone other than yourself to complete any challenges."

"Ok...so why me?" *giggles* "Who wouldn't want a cute guy like you as a partner? *Laughs* "yea yea very funny, so whats the real reason you want me to be your partner and not some other guy?

"Because quite frankly as for guys...., there are none...."

"........I'm sorry i don't think i heard you right...."

"Ahem....there are ZERO guys here on Saeren. Well, zero AVAILABLE guys anyway."

"......huh?"

*sigh* "..........there was a great war twenty years ago. You know, the usual guys leave for war and women/children stay behind, etc. Well during a decisive battle, an asteriod fell right on the battlefield and annihilated everything within....ummm...lets just say the country it fell on isn't there anymore."

"...oh"

"Yea so anyway with like ninety-nine percent of the men gone, the ones who were left were fought over by the rest of the unmarried women. Which leaves us with zero available men left. Any questions?"

"Will be being a guy be a problem here?"

"Not if you find yourself a girl." *giggles with a hint of wanting*

"Getting a girl is the least of my worries right now, how the hell am I going to get back home?!"

"Umm...sorry but where is your 'home' at anyway?"

"Look up" "

"You dont mean......"

"Yup i do....from that big shiny wasteland of a planet"

"...oh" Well well at least somebody's impressed that I just fell out of the sky for once haha.

"Allen....this isn't good, no this isn't good at all. This could be the worst thing you could have done Allen."

"Humor me Rose how can it POSSIBLY get any worse than it is right now? I don't know how I got here, I don't know how to get back, and to top it all off--"

"SAVE IT FOR LATER ALLEN. WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!"

"Huh? Whats the rush? We just got here."

"If you are really from the Blue Planet like you say you are, there will be pheromone crazed women here in no time looking for you."

"Why?"

"I'LL TELL YOU LATER JUST RUN!"

We start jogging back to the main road we came on to get here from her house.

"Aren't we in a hurry?"

"C'mon I'm running as fast as i can in these high-heels.."

"Ok then let me give you a hand then."

I pick her up and carry her like a baby and almost throw her above my head.

"Wow you're really light you know that?"

"Says the man who almost fainted from a little fall..." *giggles*

"...Bite me"

"Hmmm..okay deal, that is if they don't do it first"

I turn around and there are swarms of women stampeding like bulls after a red colored flag. Pretty nerve wracking regardless of who you are...

"There must be 20-30-60-300-...TOO MANY!"

"Now aren't you glad you started running then?"

"You want to see running? Ok, I'll show you running."

3...2...1...Ok LETS GO!

I take of sprinting with everything I've physically got in me at the moment when i hear: "Turn LEFT!"

"What?!"

"TURN LEFT! WERE ALMOST AT MY HOUSE!"

I turn left just in time to take a glance back and i see something truly frightening.

The women who were running after me all had these devilish looking smiles going from ear to ear showing teeth poised to bite off a finger if "accidentally misplaced"

We reach the door to her house, we enter and I slam the door shut just in the nick of time to hear merciless banging on the door that I just closed. 

"What is going on-"

"Shhhh be quiet!"

(BANGBANGBANGBANGBANG..BANG..BANG.....BANG...bangbangbang....bang......silence)

"Are they-"

"SHHH!"

"mumble........m..mumb.....lemumble....."

(footsteps going away from the house)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

what do you think of my novel so far?