Chapter Twenty One

She frowns looking down at the carpet in his room. “I’m not sure if I’m to discuss it.”
He was taken aback by that answer. “Are you forbidden too? Is this like some invasion mission or something? Are you here to harm us?” He couldn’t help asking, backing away from her.
“Of course not. My kind will never hurt another living species. We’re only here to help those who are in need. And when we can’t we…” She trails off.
“We what, Nasia?” He prompts, trying to understand her expression. But she wasn’t really revealing anything. “Why is it so hard for you to say? Is it something bad?”
“It’s not difficult to say just not sure if I could. There were no rules or regulations that we were ever told we couldn’t speak of our mission to outsiders, especially when that outsider is affected by the outcome.”
She finally looks up at him. “This storm is just the beginning, Ry. Soon certain parts of the planet will face even more natural disasters and will only get worse instead of better. The climate will drastically change, parts of the world will be faced with things that are unnatural to be happening. The lands will shift, and catastrophic events will occur.” She tells him truthfully.
He stares at her trying hard to comprehend on what she was telling him. “Are you trying to tell me that our planet is having a drastic shift change? Like when the meteor hit and destroyed all the dinosaurs? Or when the continents broke away from being one? Something like that?”
She bites her lower lip not sure if she should tell him the full extent of the situation. Nodding her head slowly she states, “Something like that.” For now she will keep the full truth from him just a little bit longer. She was learning about what anger was through the movies she had been watching. She also didn’t care much for the way he acted when she fully healed his friend and didn’t want another repeat of this same thing.
The humans took death pretty hard and learning about their world ending with them with it was just going to make things more difficult for her to deal with if he truly knew what this storm represented. She could tell he looked uneasy now with his brows slightly furrowed and his teeth playing with his lower lip.
“Do you know if its…going to be drastic enough that extreme survival is inevitable?” He asks carefully.
She didn’t know how to respond to him. She didn’t want to outright tell him that their survival was nonexistent. The world was dying, not just dying but about to implode. And the course of its destruction will be something none of them will be able to survive at all. She knew she had to tread carefully in her answer.
“Survival…shouldn’t be a problem.”
The look of relief made her pause. Something in the pit of her gut wasn’t sitting right and she couldn’t place on what it could be. The human body was a funny thing and once this mission was over she would be glad to be rid of it once and for all.
“So, what exactly is your mission?” Putting down the candle he brought on his nightstand he goes to sit on his bed looking up at her as the wind continue to pound against the windows.
He stares up at the ceiling when the eerily noise wasn’t letting up.
“My mission is to keep an eye on the state of the planet and preserve all life that contains it.” She goes over to his collection of CDs that he’s kept over the years, including his dad’s vinyl records.
“Keep an eye on it? You mean with something like what’s happening right now?” He watches her as she picks up an old record of one of the Eagles’s albums.
“Something like that.” She puts it back and randomly takes out a CD, looking at the cover.
“That one was my mom’s, I…like collecting old music.” His face felt flushed as she stares down at Cline Dion’s greatest hits.
A sudden chill raced up her spine causing her to stiffen and stare straight ahead. “I have to go.” She immediately states and proceeds to walk out the room.
Alarm went through him as he quickly gets up, grabs the candle and follows her out. “Where are you going?” He quickly asks as she reaches the front door.
Stopping before opening it she turns to look at him with a frown. “I have to go check on something.” And with that she swings it open allowing gushing wind and rain water to blow through.
Catching his breath from the force of it he closes his eyes for a split second when small debris flew in. But once he looks out on the porch she was already gone. Lightning clashed and thunder roared loudly right before he slams the door shut.

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Nasia softly lands on freshly fallen snow that the wind was causing a frost of white fog to rise into the air. All around her was pure white hills of ice as the artic sea silently sat still undisturbed. She stares intently at the large glacier wall that span for miles on both sides as far as the eye can see.
In the silence loud crunching ice vibrated in the air. It was deathly cold, yet she didn’t feel a thing as her hair whipped in the wind and frost began to grow on her eyelashes. She watches carefully and listens to the cracking sounds that were just getting louder by the minute. A hairline crack then emerges from the depths of the water jerkily zigzagging its way to the top.
She holds her breath as the loud cracking pierced through the air and a giant piece of the ice wall crumbles dangerously into the sea creating a giant wave of water to push outward disturbing other pieces of ice that was surrounding it.
Nasia braces herself as the iceberg she was currently on moves unsteadily from the force of the wave, but the force was more than she bargained and fell to her knees with a surprised gasp. Reaching out to stop her fall she quickly looks back to the ice wall to watch transfixed as the piece that broke apart falls in pieces.
Then everything became quiet once more. As the sea settles again she breathes a sigh of relief as she stands back up. Turning to go she stops in her tracks when a loud groan rents the air once more. Louder and more eerily so. Whipping her head back around her eyes widen when multiple cracking sounds begin to take over and she stares as different places of the ice wall begin to break and fall into the sea.
“So, it really is beginning.” She whispers to herself.
The sounds overwhelm the ocean as the water becomes rough and unsteady with ripples so big they might as well be waves on Hawaiian beaches. A new sound of a rhythmic thudding comes from the distance making her look behind her. In the far off distance a black speck was in the sky, and she knew it was time for her to leave.
The humans will soon find out that things were about to drastically change.