The dreamer

Chapter One - Mysterious Silhouette

Author Note

Hi! Welcome! It's so nice to meet you

Welcome to the world of the Dreamer

It's filled with the greatest thrills, action, ruthless hitmen, evil business moguls and cartels, heartbreaking climate events,  thrilling space travels, and much more. The action gets more intense as the chapters advance.

Enjoy and have fun reading.

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SEVERAL YEARS AGO

LOCATION: OUTSIDE THE SOL SYSTEM

The airless, murky ocean glared from all corners chock-a-block with inordinate intimidation. A ghostly pitch-black expanse cosmic monarch, snarling from every direction, and not even the faintest sound could be heard. Only sprinkled myriad of minute luminous pale-glittering blobs could be perceived at a distance, apart from one unique blob that seemed a bit nearer, portlier and brighter than the rest – the sol system's influential deity.

Then suddenly and without any prior notice, the same ominous egg-shaped craft popped into existence out of the blue! As if vomited by the charcoal monarch! A mighty and discombobulating space object that nearly caused the murky ruler consternate with concern.

The sinister craft was hurtling through the void at a terrific velocity in the direction of the nearby glaring globule – the sol system.

Sensing that it had stuttered the shadowy monarch into restlessness, its gloomy exterior shimmered faintly for about a second or two and then blinked out of sight again! Like a magical stratagem!

"Kreezy, remain extremely vigilant and imperceptible throughout within sol system. Don't under estimate the earthling's technology no matter how primordial it is" Caylander reminded while he and the other three humanoids upheld a keen eye over the sol system's vivid visuals arrayed before them; where a dull Ceres and neighbor planets could be glimpsed at a distance cruising peacefully at the sol's peripheries.

"Certainly Sir Caylander" Kreezy's soft voice ricocheted throughout the room.

"Oh, Kreezy, and while you're at it, please apprise Dlango to converge at our Mars focal base and also do notify our accomplices on earth to prepare for an immediate meeting." Caylander directed before flinging his stern sight over humorless Krerev "Krerev, your reign is along the corner, start readying to bombard those disgusting creatures with your hellish torrential affliction off the face of the cosmos!"

Krerev gleamed with a spine-chilling sinister smile. Anxious to witness earthlings weep horrendously out of his wrath.

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Finally, the undetectable craft hurtled past the asteroid belt and closer to the looming red planet. Beyond the reddish sphere, a beautiful bluish marble with white swirls, brown and green smears drifted peacefully through the dull space completely unaware of the ferocious fate that lurked or rather awaited it.

While still in stealth mode from any detection by earthlings, the craft then fine-tuned its course towards the Martian southern hemisphere. Down on the planet, enormous swirling dust storms could be spotted bucketing hell over the northern hemisphere at unimaginable speed. Also visible over the hellish planet were a few earth-made Mars orbiters gleaming as they revolved around the planet.

When the craft came into close proximity with the Martian's feeble atmosphere, it shifted into de-acceleration mode while focusing Hellas Basin – a giant impact crater about twelve thousand feet resembling a sprawling subterranean metropolis and engraved with numerous lava tubes.

The craft hovered painlessly in the direction of a seven miles deep Hellas Planitia cave and then aligned itself over the cave's midsection before launching a slower descent towards the Hellas Planitia's bottom.

Shockingly, the moment the craft came into contact with the caves dusty and rough bottom, instead of the craft perching over it, something more flummoxing transpired out of the blue! Shredding earthling's discernment of Hellas Basin into diminutive smithereens, and invalidating all their logged Martian scientific enlightenment wholly!

It was as if the Hellas known topography was either out of some deceptive optical illusions or a very canny and delusive mirage! A wacky phenomenon that had managed to deceive earth's technologies for what they perceived about Hellas terrain didn't actually exist or it was all a magical stratagem!

For the instant the craft hugged what appeared like the cave's stratum, the chicanery shroud stirred like a bothered ocean, rippling faintly around the menacing covert craft as it descended past the deceitful mirage and which also appeared as if the craft was submerging slowly into an ocean! If only the craft was visible from outside.

Downward past whatever the delusive pane was, the craft submerged into another dusky void with slight light crawling in from the top through the mystic mirage film. A dusky void that made it impossible to pinpoint how deep or wide the cave was. But one surprising fact that stood out was that the deeper the craft descended, likewise, the more charcoal black it became. A hollow so dark that it could even intimidate the most powerful monster and any estimation attempts of its actual depth.

Just when the craft was about a half a mile deep, an impromptu hissing sound sprung from the underside, startling the once quiet dismal void trailed by supple sounds of shifting metals or cogwheels.

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