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Here's the first Chapter of a book I'm writing:

          As I lay here on the battleground, a huge hole through my stomach, I can barely keep my eyes open. But I have to. I can’t die. Not yet. Not while I have so much to live for. I can see Sarah over me, crying. She’s screaming in agony, but I can barely hear her. Everything seems so distant, so far away. I think I’m dying. No! Not yet. I have to live for her. I have to live for Sarah. But I can’t… can’t… Sarah… I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…

Prologue: The last day of Fortwon

In the Andromeda Galaxy, many Beings Thrived. One of them, the Fortwons, were considered the most advanced Races among the countless in the universe. The Fortwons were a very advanced, very peace loving, yet very strong race. They were known across the universe as the creators of the PAU, or Portable Armor Unit. The PAU is a bracelet or wristwatch that, when activated, covers the body in Nano bots that fit together to form a very strong and powerful set of armor that has fully functioning HUD (Heads Up Display) and built in weapons.
       For thousands of years, the Fortwons have lived in peace with the other empires of the Andromeda Galaxy. But then the Claronia incident occurred.
    Claronia was a Fortwon science colony that experimented with teleportation and alternate methods of travel. The scientists were in the middle of an experiment with dimensional travel when everything went horribly wrong. They accidentally brought a being out of a dimension exactly opposite of reality, which caused a shift in our reality, and then the Nightmares were born.

The Nightmares are creatures that technically don’t exist. when an embryo is made there are no indications that they exist. they have no size or mass, no DNA, no appearance. They do, however, give off psychic waves that can be picked up by certain telepathic creatures.

When a living being crosses a nightmare embryo’s path, the embryo takes the being’s DNA and forms into what any scans would show as a perfect copy of the being from which the Nightmare took the DNA from. however, the Nightmare copy would have 10 times the strength of the form that it is based on.

once the Nightmares were created, many races were killed off by them. the Fortwons did their best to contain the Nightmares, but they were too strong, and too unpredictable. so then the day came that the Andromeda galaxy hoped would never come. The last day of Fortwon.

Fortwon, the capital and birthplace of the Fortwon Empire, was attacked by the Nightmares. the earth equivalent day was July 4th, the year 1996. by this time, 20 years had passed since the Claronia incident, and there were many different types of nightmares. there were the normal Nightmares, or the ‘Feral’ nightmares, to give them a name. than there were the Nightmare planets, planets that were corrupted naturally by the presence of either Feral Nightmares or another Nightmare planet. the Nightmare planets can shoot off Pure Nightmare embryos, which, unlike feral Nightmare embryos, actually have a physical form. The Nightmare planets also have Nightmare Stalks on them. Stalks are giant tentacles that grow out of the ground when a planet is corrupted enough by the Nightmares. eventually, Nightmare planets can shoot out embryos for other Nightmare planets. the planet embryos must be on a solid planet with at least some kind of animal life. Then, on rare occasions, Nightmare Stalks will lay eggs. these eggs eventually hatch upon contact with the first living thing they choose, and become ‘Hi-Born’ Nightmares.

Upon this day the Nightmares fought the Fortwons, and all seemed hopeless for the Fortwons. the Nightmare planet Claronia, The nightmare planet that was born from Claronia, stretched it’s stalks out, and dug them into the Fortwon earth. with Fortwon in it’s grasp, Claronia began to pull Fortwon towards itself. Claronia was speeding up the process of Fortwon’s corruption.

To think that days before the Fortwon empire was celebrating the birth of the Fortwon prince, Fortoma, and the girl who was promised to the royal family to marry the prince of the Fortwons. The king, Gormalahn, and the queen, Ehalia, looked down upon Fortama with all the love in the universe, and prayed to the Gatekeeper, one of many religious figures of the Fortwon’s religion, that he would live a long, prosperous life and that he would die old and happy with his life.

Gormalahn and Ehalia would do anything to protect their son, and to keep him alive, so they intended to do just that. With Fortwon getting closer and closer to Claronia, Gormalahn and Ehalia began to work, harder than ever before, to ensure Fortama and the girl, named Slarania, would be safe. Gormalahn ordered to the military to focus their fire onto Claronia’s stalks, as Ehalia prepared two pods to get Fortama and Slarania off of the planet.
    In a matter of minutes, the population of Fortwon fell from 7 billion Fortwons to just 4: Gormalahn, Ehalia, Fortama, and Slarania. with the final preparations made, Fortama and Slarania were put into the pods, and launched off the planet. In the last hour of Fortwon, Gormalahn set the nuclear reactors on the planet to meltdown. once the corruption of Fortwon was about to complete, Fortwon exploded, killing Gormalahn, Ehalia The Nightmares on the planet, and Claronia in the process. However, as Claronia Died, it sent out a planet Embryo that Latched onto Fortama’s pod as it teleported away. the impact of the embryo on the pod caused the pod to malfunction and teleport to a faraway planet. A planet, not of the Andromeda Galaxy, But in the Milky Way. A Planet, Called Earth.

I may post more of the story if this gets popular enough. Sorry, this is kind of some heavy reading.

Last edited by Epsilon388 (2013-01-20 16:43:28)