It took us by surprise
Connor Braaten
It took us by surprise…
A few days ago, the city was like how it was every other day filled with good, bad and the odd a normal coastal Californian town. I even remember the day just a typical day after work, i was eating soup in my favorite cafe when on the old TV came reports of an inanimate item in the ocean headed slowly for the coastline. Many in the cafe began to question whether the large stone grey oddity was a UFO and meteorite or perhaps a moving island of trash, but after the first thirty minutes or so anxiety turned to curiosity. As it drew closer people felt a lesser sense of danger, but at one point the object stopped, it seemed the current pushing it had stopped, I began to notice the water had begun to change to a dark mucky color. I wasn’t sure, not that I would know and the new copters stayed their distance. One thing everybody noticed was the putrid odor that began to choke the surrounding era, in a city of 3 million everyone began to feel the effect. Either the city decides to pull the object closer to shore.
I decided to see the thing for myself. It didn’t take long, just about a half hour walk, but around half way there I began to question whether participating in the hubbub was the right one. By the time I got there a plan had emerged. A large cargo boat was used to give the object the push. The city Mayor decided he wanted to have the object studied. Police and firefighters set the whole coast line for landfall, the beaches empty and it made it within the hour; however, something had changed. The object seemed smaller than before. Scientists on the scene determined it was covered in ice, and frozen dirt with it mostly melting in the water. What was left was now a bone white with blue vain like markings all over. Though smaller it was now about the size of a small building. I felt something off, the smell had dissipated or I began to tolerate it but there was now an uncomfortable warmth in the air, even as the sun was beginning to set. I decided to head home thinking the next day would be like any other day, even with the object on the coast line. In the morning the news came up, a man had bought the object from the city for $20 million, having become city property once roughing the beaches, the city itself didn’t have any know-how what to do where to put the curiosity that had become a problem overnight. The was set to take the object to a theme park just a few hours from town. That $20 million soon felt like steel when the object opened, and out came a creature. It was something like a dinosaur grey scales, it stood up on large legs with its forelimbs wiping the sap like goop from its amber eyes. It mostly stood still only for a large net to snap from underneath the creature. It looked in fear of what unsure of what would happen next, as were most of the spectators. The mob began to demand the release of this creature but it fell on short ears, the newborn was lifted off toward the unknown and new coppers were prohibited from following. Years later, no one for sure knows what happened to the creature, it took us by surprise and changed us to be more curious and suspicious at the same time.