31 October 2060

October,31 2060

It was Wednesday, January 4, 2070, and Chiara, a 25-year-old woman, was rereading the secret diary she had written 10 years earlier. Lying down on her bed, she began...
"Friday, October 31, 2060"
"B-back then I was still a little girl," she thought to herself.
Suddenly, the entire restaurant went dark. At that very moment, the hands of the clock turned back five hours in reverse. The blackout immediately teleported us into our high school principal's office: an all-white room with a black desk in the center.
A few seconds later, the principal arrived, an elegant man in his sixties. His composure wasn't reassuring; it instilled fear and an indecipherable sense of menace. Trapped, we stood watching him, our hearts beating frantically. The silence in the room transformed into a chilling sound. The principal's face suddenly began to change completely, starting with a thin layer of skin that rippled. Both Lorenzo and I thought it was just a wrinkle, but then it turned out that... it wasn't his real skin.
With an eerie noise, the monstrous being peeled off its human face like a latex mask. Underneath, the features of an alien were revealed, with a completely neutral expression, devoid of typical human emotions. Its mouth was unnatural, revealing two long, sharp vampire fangs that protruded menacingly.
Terrified, we realized we had been locked in the room. The alien told us it was too late to be saved and that its world, "Alienamps," wanted to conquer Earth. Its plan was to use human likenesses to send its aliens into our world.
Our terror turned into rage. We realized we had been deceived; the alien wanted to use us. By exploiting a temporal anomaly that the principal had created with the blackout, we had become one with time itself. Concentrating our forces, we created a vortex that sucked the alien in. With one last combined effort, we modified its DNA, transforming it from malevolent to benevolent. The vortex sent it away forever to its planet, and we found ourselves back in the restaurant as if nothing had happened.
I still remember every moment of that day. For us, 10 hours had passed, but for everyone else, it was 0.
And remember: you must always fight and never give up, because good will always defeat evil.