The situation was becoming more and more
uncontrollable. Bodies had ben found everywhere now and people were starting to
wake up, to ask questions and to really ask the questions that they should have
been asking for years. They were protests all around, riots and even murders
due to the revelations that had occurred recently. All wars, all confrontations
of any kind, had been stopped. It appeared to have been a miracle but it had
nothing to do with that. Miracles didn’t exist anymore, magi died and only
truth was there to comfort the lives of so many people that now found solace in
the new reality that was hitting everyone straight in their faces, in their
families and communities. Everything was there and people had to take their
stand.
The director of intelligence reunited with the
president that week. No one knew about that meeting except top officials in the
government. The two men discussed the best course of action. As predicted, the
intelligence leader wanted everything to be covered, to be hidden from the
people and blame everything else for the deformed bodies that were being found.
But the president knew very well that the people knew the truth and they
weren’t going to throw it away just because two men said something that was
obviously not true. They had to find the way to reveal the truth but in the
best way possible. That was the idea of the president and he knew he had no
choice in the matter.
The announcement was done the following week
and everyone in the country, and the world, was shocked in the most violent
way. People knew but they still couldn’t believe it. It was too much for many
and the predicted suicides happened, impossible to be stopped or prevented.
Some murders too, in the name of so many things that people didn’t even understand.
Others, in the other hand, turned to science and objective thought and tried to
adapt to the new reality but no matter how smart a person was, the concept that
they were dealing with was too grand, to big to understand in one take. It was
obvious humanity would take several years or centuries or who knows how much to
understand what was happening and its consequences.
The first case, the newspapers said, had been
the one of Michael Collins and his sister Colleen. They were two teenage kids
that had wandered into a deserted area and had been the first to be found dead
and deformed by a local policeman. The case was almost a cover up if it hadn’t
been for the pictures that policeman took before his companions and members of
military intelligence arrived. That case was twenty years old and the man had
hidden the pictures for eighteen of those years until he decided he needed money and attention and revealed them to the world. However, the world thought
it was a hoax.
But months after he revealed his pictures,
more images and proof started being revealed in other countries, less prone to
cover ups. And then it happened, bodies began to pile up very high or so it
seemed. They were everywhere, appearing in forests and rivers but also in homes
and office building. There was a famous case when four bodies were discovered
on top the tallest building of the capital city. No one ever knew how they got
up there, especially because the bodies belonged to four farmers from a remote
region. But there they were, deformed ad the rest. It caused so much sensation
and fascination that it became the case that everyone went to when talking
about the subject as whole.
The medical colleges reunited to settle how
deformed all the bodies were and which were the main characteristics. They
agreed that the most obvious new feature on the bodies was the loss of both
eyeballs on the victim and the elongation of the eyeball cavity by several
centimeters. The head of every victim was also modified, now looking a little
bit larger, to adjust to the new cavities in it. The mouth in all victims had
dried up, the lips almost disappearing. The nose of many had shrunk somehow,
probably asphyxiating them if they weren’t dead by then. All extremities were
incredibly thin, as if they had been deprived of everything a human needed to
live. And another shocking fact was that none of the victims had their sexual
organs. Everything had been removed.
When that report had been releases by the
medical associations, even those that still did not believe in what was
happening was caught by the amount of detail and proper investigation these men
and women had done. They had checked over one thousand bodies for their report
and had no way of being wrong or been exaggerated. Every single body had the same
issues and one more, with which they closed the inform: every body was
radioactive. They had discovered this by accident with one of them but then
checked them all and every single corpse was deemed extremely toxic. Of course
this was very bad news for the teams working on the matter.
Every doctor and nurse was checked for
radioactivity and no one was found to be seriously contaminated, although some
did have some in their bodies. The government guaranteed they would be well
taken care of by the state but no one believed in anything the government said
anymore. Now it was obvious they had been covering everything up and people
wanted head to roll. Elections were scheduled within the next month and a new
party, founded by the people, won the election. The new president was one of
the women that had done the autopsies on many of the corpses. People trusted
her.
But the new president was also bombarded with
questions. What was happening and why was this happening? Were there new cases?
Were there under some kind of attack? Of course, she was unable to answer any
of those questions. She had no idea about any of that and the scientific
community was as confused and restrained as the rest of the world. They had no
idea how to deal with everything, trying to help people as well as they could
but that wasn’t enough. Most were just shocked and would never be okay again.
They had seen their family members die and didn’t know how and it was obvious
there was something else beyond all of this massacre and mystery but it was
difficult to figure out. That was until one last piece of the puzzle came to
be.
That piece was another finding of bodies. A
large mass grave in a remote area. A native community had found it and all the
forces of security converged there as well as the associations supporting the
families of the victims. They wanted to know who was the victim now but they
found out much more than that. They dug up a huge piece of the land,
discovering not only human corpses, deformed as the other ones, but also animal
corpses that had been horribly modified. Some people screamed when they saw
those, unable to understand what would cause nature to mutate like that, to
create some sort of monsters. The answer was close by and it was discovered by
the end of that year.
More bodies but these weren’t human. They were
something else. They did not seem to have been dead for a short time and it was
concluded they had died at least a thousand years ago but the other bodies were
recent. It was a mystery no one ever solved but it didn’t change anything.
Because the world confirmed what it already knew. Creatures from beyond the
star were there and they had been killing people, no one knew if intentionally
or not. Those bodies confirmed they had been there for a while and that maybe
that had found a way to adapt to society. Maybe they had found a way into the
human heart.
Further investigations revealed that all the
deformed bodies belonged to former extraterrestrials. Apparently, they had
found a way to adapt their physicality to our own and had been living with
everyone else for years and years. They had no sexual organs and it was
confirmed that none of the victims had children, only adopted ones. How people
overlooked that important fact seemed strange. But what was even stranger was
that those creatures had been living on Earth for so long that they had to
become humans. They had to turn themselves into something else because they had
been left there, stranded probably. And people know begged them to reveal
themselves completely but that didn’t have to happen because they were all dead
and no one knew why.
