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  The Santoran Chronicles

  Among the Stars Volume Two

  Written By

  C.O. Amal

  Copyright © 2017 C.O. Amal

  Published By C.O. Amal on July 2017

  1st Edition

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  ISBN 9781370191895

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Dedication

  To my sister

  Table of Contents

  Book One

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Book Two

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Book Three

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Chapter 55

  Chapter 56

  Chapter 57

  Chapter 58

  Chapter 59

  Chapter 60

  Epilogue

  About the Author

  Also by this Author

  Book One

  Prologue

  A.D. 2077, Somewhere in Planet Zera

  A green forest. Sound of birds can be heard everywhere. Suddenly footsteps filled the very air. Then a group of men came into the light. These men are running through the forest. In various places, sunlight is seeping in through the tree canopy. And the shadows of leaves danced on these men.

  All men are carrying a blue coloured gun in their hands, and some of them have back packs attached to their shoulders. It looks like these men are really tired of running. Sweat uncontrollably oozed down from their face. A few minutes later, the forest edges came into view. Then the men slowed down a little. And once they reached the edges, they stopped running. And they examined the green meadow in front of them.

  They are looking for something. May be looking for any danger.

  “Coast looks clear.” One of the men, who is in white shirt and black pants said.

  “Okay, everyone. The tower is near this meadow. Be careful and don’t hesitate.” A tall black man said. He sounds like a leader. “This is for what we have been training. Let’s send those bitches to the hell.”

  All other men nodded.

  They all waited a few more minutes. Then they carefully exited the forest and they slowly marched through the meadow. The meadow is a little wide, and far away, a tree line marked the edge of the meadow. There are trees on all directions and it looks like an isolated meadow in the middle of a forest. The men walked towards the tree land directly in front of them. Before long, they exited the meadow and entered into another strip of forest land. Here trees are very tall and shadows of trees are everywhere. Here also, sunlight barely touched the ground.

  A few more minutes’ walk ended near the edges of that strip of forest and, in front of the men rests a big tower made of white crystal stones. The tower looks very abandoned. The tower is surrounded by forest. The surrounding is extremely silent. The men took a deep sigh.

  “Okay. We are here. Let’s plant the C4 and let’s get it over with.” The leader said. All men nodded.

  The men took water bottles from their bag and they filled their stomach with the water. Then they all examined the tower. There are white crystals everywhere around the tower. And there are a kind of trees of crystals around the tower. The crystal trees aren’t that tall, but they are tall as a grownup man.

  The men quickly exited the forest and they entered into the yard of the tower. Those men who have back packs, took out C4 bars from the bag. Then they gave the C4 bars to those who don’t have back pack. They quickly began the job of planting C4. They planted C4 everywhere around the tower, but they didn’t approached the inside of the tower. They even planted C4 on crystal trees which are in the yard of the tower.

  It hasn’t been long, when all of a sudden, a swoosh came from the nearby sky. Quickly, the men stopped planting the explosives and they trained their big blue guns to the sky.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Suddenly light rays came from the nearby forest with a boom. A few blue coloured light rays hit some men, and those men immediately dropped to the ground.

  “Shit, shit, shit ...” The leader of the men cursed. “Fire at will.”

  The remaining men quickly trained their guns at the nearby forest and they pulled the trigger.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Blue coloured light beams escaped from the men’s guns.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Light rays continued to come from the forest.

  “Ahh ... Ahh ...” Two more men went down. Now only three men stands. They looked each other.

  “Retreat ...” The leader shouted.

  The three of them ran to the forest from where they had come earlier. Suddenly with a sharp growl, a gigantic dog, tall as an adult man came out of the forest. The dog stood before the three men and it growled. The men quickly trained their gun and they pulled the trigger.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  But the dog abruptly jumped in the air and it swung its right paw at the men. The paw struck the men and they fell down, crying out loud. A long cut appeared on their arms and the guns dropped from their arms.

  “Ahh ... Ahh ... Ahh ...” The men cried in pain and blood steadily oozed down from their arms. The dog growled one more time and it lunged at the men.

  “Stop.” A distinct sound came from behind the dog. The dog stopped moving. It then growled and it backed away from the men.

  Then came a creature who walks upright, having two hands and two legs. It is a creature because, it have a long elongated head and long pointy ears. Its skin is in greenish brown colour.

  The creature, who walks upright said something in an unknown language.

  “You think you could storm here ju
st like that?” A device strapped on the creature’s waist band translated the unknown language.

  “Go to hell, sucker.” The leader said. And he took a rectangular device from his pants pocket. Then he pressed a red switch on the rectangular device. “Sayonara, fuckers.”

  “No ...” The creature yelled.

  Boom! Boom! Boom! Bang!

  With a loud bang, all the C4s the men had planted earlier exploded, and fire consumed everything. The leader smiled for a final time and that was it. The whole tower collapsed on top of the men and the creature. Even the dog failed to run away. Dust blew in all directions, and then, once again, quietness filled the very air.

  * * * * *

  Chapter 1

  A.D. 2077, Somewhere in Planet Zera

  Deep inside a forest. A group of men and women are gathered under a tree. Here and there rests make shift camps made up of cloths and long leaves of some kind of tree.

  “We need to plan this thoroughly.” A man in the centre of the group, probably the leader, said. “They are everywhere, killing our people. And those crazies too are everywhere.” The man gestured at everyone to back away from him a little. Then he took a piece of stick and he began to draw lines on the ground. “The crystal tower is on the north. And they destroyed the bridge to north. So, north will be most likely filled with them. We need to destroy this tower quickly.”

  People nodded.

  “Isaac, did mother told anything to you, perhaps a plan?” One of the women asked the leader.

  “She told me nothing. She is in pain. They are draining her energy. Didn’t you notice that some of the trees have started withering?” Isaac said. “She might be in no condition to show us more information.”

  “But, we need some more information. And we need more ammo. Some of us are still learning to use those alien guns.” One of the men nearby Isaac said.

  “I hope that we will come up with some good plan.” Isaac said. “But, the question is what they are planning with this planet. They are building more crystal towers. So, they are not planning to destroy this planet. I think they are doing something to change our planet’s atmosphere.”

  “What do you mean by that?” A woman asked.

  “What I mean is, there may be a way to change our planet’s air, and many other things which are essential to us, to something essential to them.” Isaac said. “So that, they could live here normally while we die. Mother told about this as terraforming.”

  “Terraforming?” One of the women asked.

  “Yeah. It’s the technical name for this process of changing our planet’s atmosphere into an atmosphere they needed. These crystal towers are for that. If we don’t act now, our mother would eventually die and then we will die.” Isaac said.

  “But, we need more time.” One of the men said.

  “Yeah. But, we need to push forward. Do the scouts have anything to say?” Isaac asked.

  “Those crazies are in the south and west, and east is filled with those hellish dogs.” One of the men said.

  “Is there any news from the men who went to the south?” Isaac asked.

  “That tower collapsed. But, no news from our men. And those things are trying to rebuild the tower again.” One of the men said.

  “Okay ...”

  Swoosh!

  Suddenly a swoosh came from the sky. Men and women quickly became alerted. They examined the sky. Then they saw it. Everyone saw it. A silver coloured ship is hovering over the forest canopy.

  Suddenly sharp growls came from the north and south direction. Panic struck everyone.

  “They have found us ...” Isaac said.

  * * * * *

  Chapter 2

  “Run ...” Someone shouted.

  Men and women ran in different directions.

  “Ahh ... Ahh ... Ahh ...” Screams came from different directions.

  Hellish dogs came from all directions. A dog jumped in front of Isaac and it bit on the head of a woman. The woman didn’t even get time to scream. Everything was pretty quick. Isaac quickly took a small hand gun from his waist band and he trained it at the dog in front of him. And he pulled the trigger.

  Boom!

  The light beam cut through the dog’s head, and it went down. Suddenly two dogs rushed at Isaac. Isaac bolted into a run. The dogs followed Isaac. The entire atmosphere got filled with growls of the hellish dogs and scream of the people. Isaac ran towards a nearby cliff and as soon as he reached there, he jumped into the cliff. He fell on top of the canopy of a tree. The dogs stopped following him and they backed away from the cliff.

  Isaac finally, quickly, climbed down the tree and he looked above. The screams of people can be still heard. Then he saw the silver coloured ship moving towards his position.

  Boom!

  A light beam came out of nowhere and it hit on the tree nearby Isaac. Isaac again bolted into a run.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  More light beams came at Isaac, but all of them went astray. All the shots are coming from the top of the cliff. Suddenly he collided with a woman who was also running away from the light beams.

  “Ahh ...” Isaac and the woman fell down. Isaac then looked at the woman.

  “Robin?” Isaac asked.

  “Isaac. They are on the ground. Run ...”

  They both quickly got back to their feet and they started to run again. There are trees everywhere and when they reached near a group of shrubs, they stopped running and they crouched down behind the shrubs. Then they heard approaching footsteps. Isaac and Robin peeked through the gaps. Then they saw two man like things in black outfit walking through the trees. Both the man like things are wearing a glass helmet, so Isaac couldn’t see who it is. And both of those things have a big long blue gun in their hands.

  “Isaac ...”

  “Shh ...”

  “I am afraid ...”

  “Shh ...”

  The man like things walked away from the scene. Isaac and Robin took a deep sigh.

  Boom!

  Suddenly a light beam came out of nowhere and it brushed past Isaac’s left arm.

  “Ahh ...”

  Within moments, Isaac and Robin got back to their feet. They ran in the direction of a part of the forest which is shrouded with jungle shrubs. A moment later they ran deep inside the shrubs. Footsteps of pursuers came from behind them, but they didn’t looked back. A moment later a large water body came in front of Isaac and Robin, and at the far corner of the water body, they saw a water fall.

  “Jump ...” Isaac shouted. They both without wasting time jumped into the water and they dove underwater. Then they swam towards the water fall.

  A few moments later the man like things came near the water body. They checked the water and they trained their gun at the water. And they pulled the trigger.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Light rays escaped from the guns and they hit the water here and there.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  They fired again at various places and then they stopped firing.

  Then one of the man thing said something in an unknown language.

  “Let’s head back. They won’t dare to come near our towers ever again.” A device strapped on the man thing’s waist band said. Then just like that, they walked away from the scene.

  * * * * *

  Chapter 3

  Isaac and Robin swam through the waterfall and they entered into a cave just behind the wall of water. Then they rose to the surface.

  “That was close!” Robin said.

  “I hope that they don’t know about this place.” Isaac said. The water level in the cave is very low and they walked towards the cave floor.