It was a pretty calming summer night, my parents were out, and I sat on the floor in my sister Lea’s room. Her room has no lack of comfortable seating and stuffed animals, but I found the floor the best place to sit.

“So what did you want to show me?” I asked Lea as she prepared a couple of papers at her desk.

“Here,” she started, handing me the papers,“I drew these today and thought you might like them.”

I took the slightly wrinkled papers and adjusted my seating better so I could view them. The first paper showed a drawing of a cat-like person in sort of an urban setting.

“She’s going to help the queen.” My sister added while I looked at the drawing.

I flipped to the next one and saw a sort of abstract drawing of a building.

“And that one’s the castle that the queen lives in.” She explained.

I smiled and handed the papers back to her. She was pretty talented, and I was only excited to see her improve more and more over time.

There wasn’t very much to do. I didn’t feel like playing any of the games I had in my room, and there wasn’t much on TV, so I spent most of the time lounging around in my sister’s room, occasionally sharing some small conversation with her.

“So-” I uttered before noticing something move at the corner of my eye.

I peer out into the dark hallway past Lea’s door to see what it might have been, but there was nothing there. All the lights in the house were off except for Lea’s room.

I thought maybe it was a bug I saw at the corner of my eye, which wouldn’t be too out of the question in this part of the year.

“So I was thinking,” I started again, “I’m kinda hungry, so I might go and make us some sandwiches if that sounds good.”

“Yeah!” Lea agreed.

Yeah, a sandwich sounded pretty great about now, especially some kind of ham sandwich with mustard and cheese. Sometimes I feel like having something simple, other times I feel like having something a little more complex.

I started to get up from the floor, when I swore I saw something out in the hallway move again. Surely it wasn’t a bug of any kind, but I couldn’t figure out what was out there.

I slowly stepped towards the open doorway that connected Lea’s room and the dark hallway where I kept seeing things.

Cautiously, I looked around to double check if I’m not just imagining things, and surely enough, there doesn’t seem to be anything out in this hallway.

Just as I was about to sigh from relief, there it was. I looked up and saw… Mom? But Mom was out with dad going shopping.

This wasn’t right. She stood there in a long flowing dress, and it almost looked as if, even in the dark of the hallway, she was almost entirely green. I mean her skin, hair, dress, were all different shades of green.

Stolen novel; please report.

I jumped back into Lea’s room and slammed the door shut.

“Lea, find something I can use as a weapon,” I ordered, really not entirely sure if that green thing out there is some kind of weird intruder or something else.

“W-What’s going on?!” Lea asked, noticing my tensity.

“There’s something out there,” I explained, “If it breaks in, I want you to climb out the window and-” I was cut off by a sudden crashing noise next to us.

The window I had just talked about had been smashed in, and from it, another strange green person was grasping onto the broken glass of the window, trying to claw their way in.

Lea threw me a pair of scissors she found in her desk. I didn’t know what these things were in the slightest, but they didn’t really seem human.

I had almost forgotten about the green person in the hall, but was unfortunately reminded when the door busted open, and there were more green people behind them. We were entirely surrounded by these weird green people.

Our best route of escape was through the window, where only one green person was trying to climb in.

I hesitated for a moment, but then gathered the courage to grab the green person with the intention of shoving them back out, but as soon as I touched them, something in my brain flashed.

It almost felt like a movie played in my mind that seemed to last several hours even though this only happened in no more than a split second.

I saw from the point of view of this green person. They were crawling around in an unfamiliar world, with thousands of other green people, all attacking some kind of reptilian race of creatures that were fighting against them.

I couldn’t really comprehend what I was witnessing, but before I could come to any conclusion, I came back to reality and pulled away from the green person.

“Don’t touch these things!” I commanded Lea.

The green person from the window looked up and stared me directly in the eyes.

This… This was my neighbor. I saw one that looked like my mom in the hallway.

“Are these real people?” I asked myself, wondering what in the world is even going on.

By some miracle, the green person slipped and fell down out of the window. I looked down and it seemed like they were unconscious, as well as the only one out the window for the time being.

I grabbed my sister’s hand, and urged her to come with me to escape through the window.

We carefully climbed down and landed on the ground.

“We need a plan,” I thought out loud.

“Let’s just go to the woods and hide there!” Lea suggested. Better plan than any in a situation like this.

I grabbed her hand and we ran, noticing more green people walking among the street. This was like some kind of zombie apocalypse of some sort, wasn’t it?

We weren't equipped for zombies, but these aren't really like any zombies I've ever seen in movies or shows.

Oh how naïve I was back then, thinking that these were something as simple as zombies. I never thought that I’d be fighting against an intergalactic bio-weapon that had just made it to Earth, but this isn’t where the fight began, Earth was just a casualty in the bigger picture.