As they entered the cave they were out of
breath for a few seconds. They didn't quite know if it was because they had to
get used to the Martian atmosphere or for the wonder of what was in front of
their eyes. It was a magnificent vision: there were several houses made of
black stones and white wood, each surrounded by a fence. It looked like some
kind of countryside, but this grass, so Alexander thought, was luminous and
almost iridescent, and a river flowed so shiny that it looked like a mirror.
They followed the river and arrived to a city.
The roads that ran through the city were
of a pearly white, with streaks and rays
that almost glowed. As in a childhood dream, a building stood in the middle of
the city and it took Alexander’s breath away because it reminded him of a
Disney castle. His mind ran back to a trip to Disneyland he had made as a
child, and his heart felt warm.
Throughout the city around him the
architecture was as if the Middle Ages met Futurism, given the towers made of
the same material as the castle that dominated the city. Alexander suddenly
realized that the ceiling of the cave was like a starry sky despite being below
the ground, but the stars here seemed bigger, brighter. On a closer look
through the visual devices, the stars proved to be hard stones, like diamonds,
covering the black rock of the ceiling. Alexander and his companions
couldn’t believe what they were seeing
on this supposedly dead planet. He couldn’t stop gazing at this hidden treasure.
Then, a white flash made him look away.
He tried to understand what it was and
when he focused, he saw that the lightning he had seen was actually a pair of
wings of the purest white, and those wings were attached to a figure with a
skin just as white. She had long flowing hair, red like the sunsets Alexander
used see from his home in California. How beautiful she was! This girl had fair
eyes with thick dark eyelashes and lovely rosy cheeks. Her figure was quite
thin, and her tight pants and leather jacket, or whatever the material was,
were of the deepest black, just like her boots. If the city was wonderful, she
was even more so.
She moved slowly towards the strangers. She was an angel who
fought the demons to protect the Earth, but she had never seen humans on her
planet, Mars. She looked at the three strangers. Standing in front of her were
two young men and young woman. The woman was of medium height with slightly
tanned complexion and green eyes, her auburn hair tied in two braids. One of
the man was not very tall, with fair skin, black hair that pointed in every
direction and hazel eyes. Both had American flags on their space suits. The
last of the three drew her attention more than the others. He was tall, with
amber complexion , blond sun-bleached hair, unkempt but falling on his face in
gentle, defined locks, which made him beautiful. She understood all too well
that his blue eyes were lost for a moment when he saw her.
When the girl talked her voice was sweet
and gentle. She asked who they were and
what they were doing there. It took Alexander a few minutes to answer, as the
sweet music of the girl’s voice had enthralled him. “We are explorers, NASA
astronauts. I’m Alexander, and they are Diana and James. Who are you?”
She seemed surprised at his words and
said, “I am an angel hunter and my name is Aline.”
Alexander
was amazed, and the words came out before he could stop them: “A what?”. Aline
answered: “An angel hunter, we are angels that kill demons from the world to
protect you humans. This is a divine task, we often come to Earth to protect
humans, but you don’t see us. This is our planet, where we live, grow and train
to become warriors.” She didn’t know if she was allowed to give this
information, but she couldn’t hide anything to those blue eyes that were locked
with hers. She knew that what she felt would tie her life to his
indissolubly... forever.
