Chapter 1 The Begining

The night was as dark as coal; there was a mysterious feeling to the air. The only light was from the moon and I could barely see the Peace Keepers as I looked out the window. Let me tell you about our world, the stars all burnt up and were no more. We couldn’t go outside after dark, and if you did go out, and got caught you would be punished by death immediately. Its all because of the “Outsiders” or aliens if you will. Some of the people from earth wanted eternal life and to get it they had to give up information about our weaknesses. The outsider attacked and we lost a great deal of people, and we lost our freedom. They talk like us, and look like us, but they are really nothing like us. They are the beautiful beings. And they swear never to let us go.
 Years have gone on and we are still prisoner until we got message that in Alaska, they were free and had sent notice saying anyone willing to make the risk could come and be free. To go to our new Promise land! Because the outsiders didn’t like the cold or snow they didn’t want it. Most stay home too afraid to make the risk, to be free but I’m not! My name is Annabelle Rain StarCross, I have a sister name Lilly. Lilly and I live alone in a little dinky apartment with only enough food to get by on. Our mother was killed in the battle to protect the planet and her body was never found. My sister still believes she’s out there. Our father was a trader he was one of the men that gave away information to the outsiders. I will never forgive him; he was never really a father to us anyway.
Lilly and I plan to leave as soon as everyone’s ready; I plan to take my best friends, Keyara Moon, & Tiari Dove. Were tired of being slaves, being forced to feed and help the outsiders. So where going for it, and we will make it; we are going to the promise land if it kills us. I know it will be a long and harsh journey but I’m willing to go through with it if it means being free. It will take months to get there from what used to be Kansas (because of the outsiders everything is called “Pylon”). And we have to leave at precise moment or we’ll be caught for sure, which is 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, GO!!!! We race down the street to Keyara’s house. 5, 4, 3, 2, GO. Here is where we hit trouble, someone has seen us. We run around to the back of the house where Keyara runs out to join us. We duck behind a trash bin. They search for us for about 10 minutes. We had to leave, if we didn’t they would see Tiari. They’ve found us, we don’t move, we don’t speak, we don’t do anything. Then out of nowhere it falls to the ground and there stands Tiari with a big grin and says “miss me!” we’d laugh but we didn’t have time we had to get out of the city within the next 30 minutes which gives us no time for breathing. We sprint around the corner, look and run. The city limits are about 2 miles a way, which means where going to need a better way of escape. We stop and Lilly lifts us with her mind. Yeah there’s one more thing I should tell you, those of us, who were stupid and waited for the outsiders to arrive that night in the field, gained some sort of power. Some of us hid them, and lied and said we had none. And there where those you showed them off, they were executed on the spot. Lilly can lift things with her mind; Tiari can disassemble technology with the lift of a finger. Keyara can control water, and use it as a weapon. And then there’s me, I don’t have one single power’ but many. If I see a power I can do it to, they call me a mimic because if I see it, I can do it.