Here On Earth Novels & Stories

As we soon started to call them, the chimeras came too fast, too unexpected, and too strong. Barely having time for a counterattack, their attacks spread all over the Earth. Appearing all over, some in cities, some in the counties, and a few even in the middle of the ocean, they move fast and within only a few months, entire nations are reduced to nothing more than burning trash.

“But if we were to be exposed you could talk to your friend.” “Hmm. that would be ni… Oooh! There it is. Look, there is earth!” I jump off his lap and press my face and hands to the window. Far away I can see the large globe of blue, white and green. It is beautiful. Even more so than any picture I have ever seen of earth. This is the first time I have been this close to home in almost five months. No. Not home. My home now is where Lazarus is. I turn my head in his direction. He’s not looking at earth, but at me. I reach my arms around his middle and he drapes his arms around me. Like this we stand, watching earth as we slowly make our way to the moon.

"The world itself." "Are you going to start making sense?" Nova asked. "Nova," I said, half scolding and half laughing. Eric stopped walking, causing us to halt as well. He looked at Nova, smiling. "The world is the most important thing, because it is our home and our only home until we figure out how to make other planets inhabitable. Without the world itself, life as we know it would not exist. That's why," he said, starting to walk again, "we need to take care of the Earth. It's the only home we've got. For now, at least."

Sometimes, Chloe never noticed him at all despite having a sharp eyesight. "You mean, the earth... This earth? The world?" Kieran smiled. "Dyi. I am talking about you." Chloe pointed at herself but realized that he can't see her. "Me?" "Mn," he responded with a short nod. Heh? Chloe mused in her mind. "What about me? Am I the earth?" "We all are. We came from the dust and dust shall we return," Kieran pointed out. Chloe opened her mouth but there's no voice coming out from it. She was speechless. Kieran was somehow right. But why would he call the likes of them as "earth"?

Sasha responded. “Run that by me again. What do you mean, time moves differently or doesn’t? This time, how about a straight answer rather than a riddle?” “The answer is straightforward.” My brow furrowed. “Okay, time passes quicker on Earth than here. At times, it can be difficult to keep track of time. However, each hour here is equivalent to a full day on Earth.”

“Usually, when one of our people mate with a human, it’s on Earth, and they make that their home.” Gerri glanced at Alyx and then back at Bella. “Bella, nobody ever gets sick here.” Um, what?

The other Elena stepped toward her side of the connection. “Which Earth are you?” Root answered: “Designation pending.” The woman almost laughed. “Of course.” “Do you have an archive warning?” current Elena asked. “Yes.” “What does yours say?” The other Elena looked toward someone outside the frame. Then read: “Terminal convergence. One Earth primary. One retained.” “Same.” “Population?” “Eight point three billion.” Jonathan checked. “Ours is eight point one.” Lucas immediately said: “That doesn't mean theirs wins.”

The moment her skin touched the cold metal, June’s mind exploded. She was not in the ship anymore. She was hovering over the Earth. She saw the giant machines on the ground—the mouths—breathing out the toxic blue gas. She saw the "Masters" waiting in their high-tech ships. They were ready to land on their new purple home. But she also saw the roots. Deep beneath the ground, the original Earth—the green and blue one—was still there. It was like a flower hidden under ice. Push, a voice whispered in her head. It sounded like her mother, but older. Push back the frost.

Xipher said with his hands folded behind his back looking up at me grinning. Later after practice, my parents left to do their business on Cainya. I stood outside on the balcony after I had changed. I still can not believe how beautiful and different it is here than on Earth. It did take me some time to adjust, after all, I grew up on Earth. We have no cars here, but the homes seem more futuristic. We contact each other through small devices that project a cool 3-D image of ourselves and those we are talking to like mini holographic us. Even the weapons are more advanced than on Earth.

"No! Ah!" We were just fooling around. This was our way of bringing ourselves down to Earth after a heart-racing performance like the one that we had just had today. It was also our way of comforting ourselves when we were exhausted to the point of numbness. None of the five of us really respected each other's personal spaces anyway. Well, maybe except for Hanseol. S.T.A.Y was family. "Wait. Wait." I stopped all movement when I heard my phone ringing. "My phone."