The Three Colonies of Mars
By Miguel
The game room was totally destroyed. The monsters body calmly laid by the boxes. I could feel it. The horrible rash on the side of my head
“The ship… conversation… a leader… hurt...help…” moaned Eeélk. When he said “monster”, his voice filled with anger. The pain was not only in his voice, but all over him.
“NO! DON’T DIE!” I sadly screamed.
“I have to… Wakie… tell Iick and Taák about this -”
Then, his head fell. His eyes closed.
“NO!” I sobbed. I felt a tear of grief roll down my cheek.
2 days ago…
“We have reached sector 3,009,851.” I told Captain Eeélk. When all the ships landed, Captain Eeélk would take the credit, by becoming General Eeélk. All over the new planet, Ships loaded with a nation were docking.
Captain Eeélk slowly walked to one of the most serious-looking officers.
“Telephone Admiral Iifern all ships are landed.” Captain Eeélk told him.
“Yes, sir.” the officer replied. Then the officer walked to one of the X-36 power telephones. I silently, but quickly followed him. The officer then dialed the admirals number.
“Sir, all ships have-” he was cut there by chaos on the other side of the line.
“What’s up?” I slowly asked the officer.
I still hadn’t looked through the window.
“The admiral's ship is… destroyed.” he responded.
”What?!” I silently whispered with intensity to him. “Replay your message!” I commanded in a low voice. All X-36 Telephones can replay their messages. Then, I heard it all. The explosions, the water sprayers spraying water. The ship had seemed to explode from so much panic. I paused. I felt a tear of deep sadness roll down my cheek. Now I was really confused.
“I am telling Eeélk about this manner.” I told the officer. I slowly turned around and quickly walked to Eeélk.
“Can you identify that ship?” he asked me.
“The late admirals.” I replied to, him pointing to the wreck. I felt so confused, I wanted to rush to the sight, but I didn’t.
“Did you say the late admirals ship?”
“Yes, apparently.” I said with a sad face.
“Immediately land.” He lousily, but sadly ordered to the crew. So it was this moment, yet timeless in space, that Captain Eeélk became General Eeélk. Suddenly, there was a thud.
We’ve landed! I thought. But my mind couldn’t help thinking about the late admiral.
“The fact that he is dead-” he started
“Is too sad” I interrupted. All around us officers were rushing to the sight of the planet. Red and rocky. Not too cool. Most thought. Not what most of the officers were expecting. They expected a planet that had waterfalls, streams of sun… and endless paradise. Where the officers worked, you could not see anything happening outside of the ship.
Some were inching towards my conversation with Eeélk.
“If only one of our generals would be ready for admiral rank.” He moaned through his mouth. But no one was. His eyes turned red (this happens with this species when they are sad). Mine were redder. He walked to the special closet where all the outer space bodysuits. Eeélk grabbed the suit that was under his name and put it on. I grabbed mine too, to see what Eeék was going to do.
Then, without any body signal, he walked to the self-activated platform, which was 30 meters away from where he was standing.
Then, he walked down. I quickly followed him. The platform made a clicking noise when our magnetic boot hit it.
When he was one step away from the surface of the planet, I shot forward and we stepped the surface at exactly the same time. He didn’t seem to notice that.
Three months later, everything was under control, that is, except for leaders. A meeting was made to fix the problem. And this is how it happened:
(from Eeélks view) Iick, Taák, and I arranged a meeting. Iick spoke first. “We have three choices. Either we duel each other, choose one great leader, or each of us takes one third of military and people.”
“All of us take one third of military and people.” I immediately answered.
“The same as Eeélk.” replied Taák shortly after I did.
“Then that it shall be.” And at this moment, the three colonies were born.
Three hours after everything was settled, a citizen saw a strange creature. She stared at it, confused. She slowly got drawn to the creature.
What is this? she thought. the creature was blue and had pink polka dots. Then without warning, it turned around and ran to her house. Luckily, there was a police officer around!
He drew out his Z-99 laser pistol and aimed at the monster, and shot three times. The monster had managed to dodge all of the shots.
“What the?” he exclaimed under his breath. Then the hair on his back crawled. Suddenly, he turned around and activated his black F-27 taser. The creature moaned and fell to the ground. The police officer fell to the ground. The creature had killed him so fast, the police officer hadn’t seen it!
Meanwhile, I was playing poker with Eeélk at his house. Eeélk also had a bright side which was full of love for the game of poker. His room was filled with boxes Eeélk hadn’t yet unpacked. He had unpacked a table and a deck of 5,000 cards (that is how much cards a alien game of poker has)
”You need to work on your poker face, Eeélk.” I told him.
“I sure do” he said.
I slowly rolled my dice.
SLAM! The walls burst open and I immediately pulled out my Y-74 twin pistols. I heard a roar. My hand stayed clutched to my pistol. Then, I saw it. A monster with pink polka dots. There was a scar on his left arm that had to be made by a taser. The monster charged at Eeélk. Eeélks body then got tossed away like a doll. I screamed in horror and saw the blood gushing out of his forehead.
I fired three times at the monster. Then I shot to my left and my right, closing in on the monster. It was obvious that I was going to die. But I Was not afraid to die.
“Grrrrrr...SNORT!” went the monster. POW! went my pistol when I shot it. I shot the monster on the forehead. The monsters body fell to the ground. The next thing I did was to rush to Eeélks aid.
“The Ship… Conversation… a leader… monster… hurt… help…” moaned Eeélk.
“NO! DON’T DIE!”
“I have to… Wakie… tell Iick and Taák about this manne-” Then, his head fell. His eyes closed. I felt a tear of grief roll down my cheek. I slowly reached to my X-37 telephone and dialed Iick’s number.
“Iick, come to Eeélks house quickly. It is an emergency. Tell this to Taák, too.” I told him.
“What’s up, Wakie?”
“Something related to Eeélk.” I responded, trying not to give everything away.
“I’ll be on my way. Bye!” He was eager to find out. And here the conversation came to an end.
Half an hour later, Iick and Taák were at the site.
“Where’s Eeélk?” asked Taák.
“Over there.” I responded. I pointed to Eeélks body. It was lying by the side of the room farthest away from the door.
Taák and Iick gasped. Eeélk was dead.
“Wh-what’s that?” Iick asked painfully. He was pointing to the monster.
“The creature that killed Eeélk.” I replied.
“It should be named Eeélks Killer, or the Terrorizers.” Taák exclaimed. This is probably the saddest moment in all my life, and it probably always will. Tears were falling from all of our eyes.
“We must do a funeral.” I told Iick and Taák. They immediately agreed. How it happens is something you should find out later. Even though Eeélk was dead, I had done the impossible. I literally was the first person to skip a rank.
“The funeral should be about a month from now, at the main military center.” Said Iick, wiping a tear from his eye. How it happens is something you should find out later.
