The SpaceStorm

A SpaceStorm was a storm created in Space. Usually it stayed in space. But it could also land on a planet too. It could also be created on a planet too. When a storm was so strong, and deadly, it kills several thousand to millions of people it’s considered a SpaceStorm on a lot of planets. And it also doesn’t matter if the SpaceStorm was inland or in the sea, ocean etc. if it’s that deadly it’s called a SpaceStorm. The planet of Zacci is one of those planets. It’s about to be hit by the biggest SpaceStorm in the history of SpaceStorms on Zacci.

The SpaceStorm

     “I hope everyone is ready for the SpaceStorm that is about to kill us all,” said an Announcer from a Video Monitor. “Some say that it won’t hit us so far inland from the coast. But I’m not one of them. If I didn’t have to be here I wouldn’t be.”

     “It’s about time you shut up. If you don’t want to be here, then leave. Everyone else is,” said Hiam.

     Hiam had been listening to that Announcer for the last six hours. And he was getting tired of all of his panic. “If you want to leave then leave,” Hiam said again.

     There were a lot of people in the small village of Klanon that didn’t believe that the upcoming SpaceStorm was going to get that far inland. After all they were almost six hundred miles from the nearest coastline.

     True, that was the coastline that the latest SpaceStorm was coming from. But they have these SpaceStorms eight to eleven time a year. And they never came anywhere near Klanon.

     Hiam was sure that SpaceStorm wouldn’t either. But just in case he was wrong he did prepare his house for the worse. He was always prepared. After all, he had been involved with many Inland Storms not be prepared for anything. Including the SpaceStorm to end all SpaceStorms. That what a lot of people, like that Announcer, was calling the latest SpaceStorm.

     The Announcer continued his ranting and raving. But Hiam wasn’t listening anymore. He was looking at the front door to his house – with a worried look on his face.

     Looking at the time embedded into his arm Hiam said, “She should have been home by now. Where are you Raimia?” Hiam was now looking at the Video Monitor – and the Announcer.

     Hiam picked up a book and threw it at the Video Monitor. He missed the Announcer. But he hits a button – that turned the Video Monitor off. Then he pushes a Call Button embedded in his other arm and said, “Calling Raimia.”

     After a few beeps Raimia said, “What is it father. Never mind I know what it is. I’ll be home in a minute.”

     Raimia was his only child. And he was very overprotective of her. He always had been. But it got even worse after he lost his wife – to another SpaceStorm. That one was a mild one compared to the one that was supposed to hit them. And she was on the coast when it happened. She went there to help the victims of that SpaceStorm – and ended up getting killed herself.

     Suddenly the door opened up. And Raimia entered. “See, I told you I’d be home in a minute father.”

     “It’s been a lot longer than a minute. Where have you been? I called you four hours ago. And I told you to come home at once.”

     “I was over at Diohha’s house playing. Why are you so upset about where I was at? Especially since you knew where I was.”

     “Haven’t you been listening to the Video Monitor? Don’t you know that the latest SpaceStorm has changed course again? And that it’s headed right for us.”

     “I’m a kid. I don’t listen to the Video Monitor. Beside, you don’t think that SpaceStorm will come anywhere near us.”

     “I still don’t. But I want you here – just in case I am wrong about this SpaceStorm too.”

     “You weren’t wrong about the SpaceStorm that killed mother. I’m the one who didn’t want her to go. And I’m the one who tried to talk her out of it. But she’s an International Healer. No one was going to stop her from Healing.”

     “But I should have tried. I was her Lover.”

     “Mother went to twenty to thirty of these SpaceStorms all over the world every year. No one was going to stop her from going to that one.”

     Suddenly an alarm sounded. “Is that what I think it is,” said Raimia.

     Hiam didn’t say a word. He just grabbed Raimia and took her through a door underneath the stairs that lead up to the second floor of the family house. Once inside that small room Hiam locked the door. And pushed a button next to it. When he does that room began to fall.

     Raimia held onto her father as that room fell five miles down into another room. After they got out of the small room it sprang back up – to seal them into that larger room.

     “How long are we going to have to live down here?” Raimia was still clinging to her father. He wondered if she was ever going to let him go.

     “We have enough supplies to last us for three months if necessary. But I don’t think we will be down here more than a day or two. Most SpaceStorms only last a few hours. Usually it’s only a few minute. It’s finding the survivors that might take some time.”

     “Are we going to be okay down here?” Raimia finally let go of her father.

     “Sure we are. We are five miles down.”

     It was three days before they left that room. When they returned to the surface they couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Their house was completely destroyed. So was everything within sight. It looked like the whole village of Klanon was destroyed.

The End?