The eagle landed on top of the three, in a
place towards the middle of the forest. The place was a sea of green; no piece
of the ground below could be seen below the trees. However, it did not seem
random that she chose the tallest tree to land and grab by the claws. She
firmly stood there, looking around, waiting for something. She did not seem
hungry or worried about any of her younglings. She just appeared to be making
guard or something of the sort. She suddenly opened her wings and screamed.
The sound out of her beak was not the one
normally made by a bird, or an eagle or any kind of animal. The sound was
strangely metallic, like something more suited to a robot or a creation of that
sort. The bird made sounds for a while, alone in the middle of the forest. She
then remained silent again, as clouds of storm formed above the forest. Shortly
after, rain started washing away everything from the forest. The soil was
turned into mud and the dead leaves were soon washed away by the flood.
However, the forest was too silent during
those moments. As the rain descended to the ground and then washed all the dirt
away, no animals made sounds or tried to hide from the water. Actually, there
was virtually no movement around the forest, except for the water rushing to
the streams and the rivers. It was a land of trees deprived of any life. No
bugs humming or squirrels hopping from one tree to the next. No other birds
besides the eagle that still stood on top of the tree, being washed by the
rain.
The clouds above the forest where also
strange, not moving or trembling as they produce thunder, but just frozen in
the sky. The lights inside of them seemed artificial, as if they were being
made on purpose instead of naturally produced by the ions and all of that. The
colors of the clouds were also too perfect, too ideal. They seemed to be
painted on top of the sky, not having that special quality of the real clouds,
that thing when you feel you can grab them and you even imagine how soft they
are.
Moments later, the rain seemed to intensify.
In some parts, tree bark began falling to the ground, revealing something very
strange. The rain that was falling had changed somehow, not only being water
but also something else. This did not yet affect the eagle, but she did seem
uneasy, even as unnatural as she looked. More tree bark fell to the ground and
also some flowers, which seemed to be eaten away by the water that carried them
far away from the place where they had fallen. The floods were soon tainted in
the colors of the flowers that came from all over the forest.
Another color was also present in the water.
Some red tint that was slowly carried away also permeated the water and the
rivers down the valley. It was all brought down to a lake made up of still
water. Many streams entered the lake and it was also surrounded by forest and
large lumps of dead leaves that rotted fast, producing more color over the
lake. There was a strange color in the water, towards the middle of the lake,
something a bit lighter than the normal color of the water of a lake.
More than that, something was moving in the
middle of the lake. It looked like a fish but much larger than anything in
existence in the world. The lake was far from any ocean or land populated by
people, so it was very likely that creatures there would be very particular to
that strange landscape, where clouds seemed to be painted on the sky and the
rain was acidic and melted flowers into a mush of rainbow colors. The fish
swimming in the middle of the pond was something not so abnormal after all.
A thunder suddenly descended from the clouds
and struck the fish in the middle of the lake. The light discharged illuminated
the sides of the lake and made the fish more defined. After the electricity
dissipated, the creature jumped out of the water, looking to have been
activated in some way by the thunder. The creature started swimming around and
around the lake, absorbing the remains of the flowers and the leaves that had
accumulated on the edges of the lake. It ate like crazy, as if it had never
eaten.
The creatures splashed all around the lake.
The eagle flew by the water and looked at the fish trashing and eating. It just
moved it wings a couple of times and then disappeared somewhere on the other
side of the forest, as if it had never been up there. Hours later, the fish
finished eating and it submerged itself into the lake, again doing circles in
the middle of the body of water. It had returned to that weird trance stage,
which was apparently only one of two things it did in its strange life.
That forest was certainly a very special
place. There were signs all around that it hadn’t been created in a natural
way, instead being constructed by something or someone. It was the creation of
some mastermind with a plan that had never really been realized. The eagle, the
clouds, the fish creature and the acidic rain could not be everything that
strange place had to offer. Something else had yet to be revealed. Maybe a
reason for the place’s existence or maybe the face of the creatures that had
imitated the most natural place on Earth. Someone had planned something but had
never finished it.
Maybe, just maybe, they were still missing
something to properly finish their project.
