They Walk Among Us

They Walk Among Us

A Long time ago when I was a young boy, something happened that would change my life forever, except back then I didn’t-I couldn’t have known this.
Back then we used to live in the country side. One night, I think it was about 1 am at night when my whole family and I were awoken, by strange whirling noises and lights in the sky.
My pa, God bless his soul was never one to be frightened by odd things. Through my bedroom window I saw something crash into the trees nearby. I heard shouting from my mother as my pa got his shotgun and went investigate. I waited a few minutes and then silently snook out to follow my pa.
The further into the dark night I went the more and more my blood seemed to chill. Eventually I caught up with my pa, there was a large crater where the strange flying thing had crashed. I saw my pa silhouetted against the bright moon.  There were three tall spindly silvery shaped beings down by the crash site. My blood seemed to chill even more as I saw my pa raise his shotgun from the edge of the clearing.
The first shot struck one of the silvery beings. It was flung several feet by the force of the blast. I saw another being, raise its arm; it had something in its hand. I pulled my pa down to the ground and out of the way, as a blast flashed out from the things weapon.
Then another flying object flashed across the sky. The strange beings, of which there were two left now, seemed to float upwards and upwards and into the black night sky. I picked up pa’s gun who was on the ground. I thought he was dead, but later realised that he had only been knocked unconscious. I walked over to the silvery being that lay sprawled on the damp ground.
Then to my horror it moved. I stood frozen unsure what to do. I saw that the other two beings had nearly reached the flying object which was slowly drawing them upwards. I noticed they seemed to be caught in some sort of white light that was lifting them of the ground and into the strange flying object.
Without thinking about it, I picked up the small silvery being that weighed barely anything and put it into the light which shone from the strange flying object that was hovering in the air.
As the thing left my grasp and gravitated upwards. I saw it’s strange large black eyes.
Thankyou.
I heard in my head.
What I had no way of knowing was that the small act would change my life forever.

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Natalie Jones, saw her son. She pointed the gun and tears came to her eyes. She had been a police officer for over 5 years but never in her wildest dreams believed would she ever have to kill her own son.
She pointed the gun and her finger squeezed down on the trigger.
 

The Previous Day

Natalie was following a suspected murderer. He had already killed two people and Natalie wanted to make sure that she wouldn’t be his third.
She saw the strange man enter a late night cafeteria. Inside she saw the stranger pull out a shotgun. She couldn’t tell what was being said but she parked her car and cut the engine as quietly as possible. She silently walked to the premises that her murderer was now holding up.
Natalie approached and got a good look at the murderer, his hair was long and dark, and his clothes dirty and grimy with what looked like blood. 
Suddenly the murderer turned round and pointed the gun at Natalie. In a split second Natalie made a decision.
His eyes...There’s something about his eyes, they seem wild and unfocused.
Natalie opened fire. The dark haired stranger was flung back several times. Then everything seemed to pause and move in slow motion.
A sort of fog or mist arose out of the murderer’s body which lay sprawled on the tiled floor of the cafeteria. The strange smoke like mist, made a bee line for one of the workers. The mist seemed to enter his body. In a split second the mist had completely disappeared and the worker dashed out the back. Natalie followed but by the time she got outside to the back of the establishment-the worker had gone.

#

Natalie was asleep. Suddenly she awoke.
That’s the sound of the back door been jarred!
She had a sixth sense and that’s one of the reasons she had survived so long on the force.
She pulled her gun from the bottom draw of the clothes draw and silently crept downstairs.
A sound in the kitchen!
She waited in the darkness of the door way of the sitting room.
A shriek rang out as suddenly the intruder rushed at her. She opened fire, several volleys into him. He collapsed to the floor. A strange fog like mist rose out of the dead body.
Then Natalie heard her son on the stairs, he had snuck down behind her. The mist made a bee line for her son and in a second it had completely disappeared.
Natalie flicked on the lights. She saw her son walk calmly down the stairs, but not walk they way Natalie knew he walked; he seemed to walk like a much older man.
“Michael! Michael are you alright?”
No reply.
Michael bent down and picked up the dead stranger’s gun, the stranger who Natalie now recognised by his clothes as the worker in the late night cafeteria. Her son suddenly aimed the gun at her and opened fire. The bullet missed Natalie by millimetres.
Instinct took over and she returned fire but missed. Another bullet flashed towards her, grazing her temple. She fell to the floor-unconscious.
 

#

Natalie had contacted Jason Broom to help her understand what had happened. 
Why would her son try to shoot dead his own mother?
That question Jason knew had struck a chord with Natalie and she was having difficulty coming to terms with it.
“He’s not your son any more. I know he looks like him on the outside but on the inside, it is something else.”
“You have spent you entire life seeking answers to sighting of UFO’s and other odd phenomenon, I come to you now pleading, is there any way to get my son back?”
“None.”
Natalie looked down and tears came to her eyes. She was in the apartment of Jason Broom. The man who had spent his entire life investigating UFO phenomenon.
“There must be a way?”
“If there is then I do not know it.”
“And anyway, how are you going to find your son now?”
Natalie pulled a tablet out of her bag.
“With this. Once I joined the force I had my son micro chipped, with this GPS tracking device, it was a precaution in case he ever got kidnapped.”
She switched on the tablet and waited. After loading, the device showed her that her son was just 4 miles away on the deserted south side of town.
“I want my son back, and your coming with me.”
Jason Broom, went a slightly shade of white.
“Sure I will help you lady. I aren’t yellow.”
“First we have to go back to my place, there’s something I need to get.” She said with a plan forming in her mind.
A short while later Natalie parked her none descript family car outside the warehouse they believed that her son was inside of.
Jason looked worried.
It’s as quite a grave.
They found the entrance and entered the large building. Inside it was dark and damp. They walked further and further into the eerie silent building. Natalie looked down at her tablet.
He’s just a bit further.
Natalie drew her gun and tears came to her eyes.
I must put an end to this fiend.

#

Just then she heard a voice from her left and saw her son pointing a gun at her. She opened fire.
Her son was flung backwards by the force of the blast. Then he lay still. A dense fog like smoke started to arise out of the body of her son.
Now’s the time to put my plan into action. It was precisely for this reason that I didn’t bring any police with me.
“Jason!”
Jason had been behind her and now stepped forward.
The mist seemed to pause in one spot as if it was looking for something.
Natalie grabbed Jason and using all her force flung him into the mist.
Jason let out a cry and then turned to face her. The mist had disappeared.
Those eyes! His eyes are wild like I saw just last night!
She pointed the gun but had no intention of shooting.
Jason or the person that had been Jason turned and fled.
Natalie walked over to her son. She found him stirring.
Yes! My plan worked! Using rubber bullets had incapacitated my son enough for the fiend inside him to exit.
“Mum? Mum I had a terrible nightmare.”
“Don’t worry son, the nightmare is over, you are safe now.”
 

THE END