killed in a senseless shooting spree from a car driving down their street where shots were fired at random at several houses.
We didn’t know about their deaths until we heard it on the news about gun shots in their street. We rushed over to their house. Police were in the street with metal detectors looking for evidence. We entered my god fearing in-laws’ home, it was quiet and still, normally it’s a bright and happy home. We found Mum in the bed, half her face was gone. We found Dad in his study, shot in the chest and gut. It looksed like Dad survived for a period of time as he had crawled a short distance towards the hallway, whilst his life spilled out of his body. We think he was trying to get to is beloved wife of 35 years.
Since that day, both Bubbles and I have not believed in one all mighty being, we hated God for it, because they were the best of friends to us both, and people we could count on in a time of crisis to help others and lend whatever assistance they could muster. Bubbles ceased her church activities. I just blamed God, and gave up any religious inclinations. We decided that we’d do our own things, still try to lead a good life, but on our terms not some mythical being’s.
My parents were gone now, in some ways I think it was the best thing to happen, but I know that isn’t the right attitude. They were cruel in the punishments to me. I still have flashbacks to my childhood of being hit with anything close to hand, sometimes justified other times just for fun. In later life that changed from the physical to mental attacks on me and Bubbles, so we kept our distance from them.
They nearly caused us to split, because they told us different ‘truths’, until Bubbles caught them out in a lie. Bubbles was told that I was a suspected child molester and that detectives were always asking them about me. At the time Bubbles was working for the child protection group, and made some enquiries, to find the truth, she didn’t want to have kids or be with me if I was that kind of monster.
I guess I asked God to let them know that I knew their background and had forgiven them, but not forgotten them for their actions, for still deep down in my heart I still share a connection to them, regardless of how I’d been treated. I can’t forget their actions and their influences on me. After all, it’s made me who I am today.
Roots
1/2/2013 @9am
After accepting that we are now members of the critical list in terms of endangered species, most of us have been wondering what was next. The only thing we knew for certain was that we couldn’t stay in the bunker for an indefinite period. The main reason was that the Shards were busy.
When the satellite images were received and processed by us, we could see that a number of sites around the world were growing, some faster than others. The Shards were building their new world over the holes of the old one. Wellington was also developing.
We took a pair of Bushnell Excursion EX binoculars and went outside the bunker, as we both wanted to see first-hand what was happening to the ex-city of Wellington. Immediately we could hear a low humming sound coming from the Shards. We have learnt to be aware when that sound is present because that is when things happen. We climbed a forest observation post, the ones used by park rangers to spot fires; I guess we were going to do our own spotting, Shards.
We were just stunned by the enormity of the hole that was once a living, breathing city. I looked around the rim to see if there was anything left. There was some debris but nothing recognisable, it’s just like someone had come by with a city sized ice cream scoop and scooped out a gigantic helping. I hope the bastards choke on it.
There was no sign of fires, no sign of anyone alive around the rim. Nothing moved, just the noise of the Shards, and a light breeze.
Bubbles pointed me in a direction where she had seen something move.
I had strained my eyes to see further, there looks like to be dozens of moving tables underneath the Shards, they are moving backwards and forwards. Some seemed to be just going in a circular pattern but we are too far away to see if anything is being done. Others seemed to be taking mirrored shapes off their back and placing it on the ground. This didn’t make sense as the ground looked to be at the same height as the rim, yet it was scooped out, it should be deeper.
We both looked at this optical illusion, we couldn’t see anything that made sense, until we noticed that some of the earlier bugs approach the edge of the platform, and out of nowhere sand fell down, filling part of the deep chasm, and then it returned to its circular motion. The other bugs were then laying more sheets to the new area.
Over time this same construction cycle was repeated every hour, filling in the area, and planted three sheets of glass. The platform is slowly growing, how much is hard to tell from this distance and angle, we just know that our time is running out, again.
We were so used to the humming noise we didn’t notice a slight change until all of the bugs went to the edge of the platform, and that a shadow appeared. I gasped. One of the largest Shard ships was approaching the ground, whilst several of the smaller ones were now circling the area. The descending ship inverted and settled down onto the platform, the humming became louder, and the bugs charged to the ship.
In a blur of moment and flashing lights, they pulled back. The ship had been transformed into a pillar in the centre of the platform. It then began to grow upwards and outwards. Seems like another function of the bugs is to make the panels by touch as they approached different points of the pillar and slowly it took shape. It was like a gemstone pendant with a massively shaped cushion cut pink garnet sitting on the top. It would have been beautiful to see if it wasn’t for all of the death and destruction it caused to reach this stage.
Sadly we realised that it was no fluke or retaliation that the Shards were here, they were laying roots and planning to stay. They have now conquered us, and are moving in. My only thought is will the Shards continue this process or will they leave us somewhere to live and recover?
We decided to leave the platform and return to the bunker, as we have now seen the truth first hand. It was now no longer just other countries being changed. We were suffering the same fate with the Shards orchestra of humming as our reminder.
1/2/2013 @3pm
Something happened to a scouting team, one of the group approached the Shards base, what was once known as Lower Hutt. He gingerly descended from the rim towards the Shards base, nothing changed in the behaviour of the bugs or the circling ships. He reached the bottom of the depression and was hip deep in water, so his progress was slowed till he reached the ‘sand’.
He radioed back saying it was hard, and was crystal like structures. He said he was going to climb the sand and see if he could get a better look at the invaders. He slowly climbed upwards in a crab like motion, as the crystal structure was like a mini ziggurat structure with a ‘path’ zigzagging upwards. He was just about at the top and reached upward to climb onto the platform. There was a flash and he vanished, as though he never existed, he had been erased from the face of the planet.
We now know what happened to the cities and people around the world. We don’t know how or why, and I guess we will never know, as we obviously can’t even touch their ground.
From satellite coverage, some places around the world have been replaced much quicker than others. For instance UK, Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and the Scandinavian Countries are all now mirrored surfaces with many Shard ships. The middle path of Africa is still native earth, but the top and bottom parts are the Shards. The entire North American Continent is in Shard hands.
There doesn’t appear to be any shipping left on the world’s oceans, they are gone too.
Oddly there were locations in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans that have been infested with the Shards. South America is looking like a picture of moonscape, only small pockets of land still untouched remain.
We can see new rivers and little lakes forming, from where cities, townships or random locations have been removed. Indeed, even our home is barely recognisable. Australia now has an inland sea, the majority of the non-arable land mass is gone and I guess this is for the sand content.