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Gone.

Everyone is gone.

As the former university student walks the once bustling streets with her professor and little sister, she realizes the magnitude of the predicament they’re in. Only a few minutes ago, they were shopping. The professor was helping them pick out new clothes. Then, the lights went out.  The deafening sound of flying cars and spaceships crashing to the ground rang through the mall hallway. The girls, panicking now, wanted to evacuate the building, but the professor wouldn’t let them. Instead, they hid under some mannequins and listened to the screams of other shoppers.

Then, a blinding flash seemed to overtake the entire area, and after that… silence. Dead silence.

Are they the only ones left?

“Terra?” the girl’s younger sister asks, staring at the empty buildings with tears in her eyes.

“Yes, Eila?”

She points past the crashed and smoking cars in the street toward what Terra thought was an empty sidewalk, but through the smog, they can just barely make out a humanoid figure.

It makes its way across the road, traipsing through the chaos as if it knew this was going to happen. As it grows closer, Terra realizes it’s a man. A tall blonde man with what appears to be roots growing under his skin in place of veins. The brown roots are spread out from his feet all the way to his pale face, following the curves of his cheeks and the bridge of his nose. He wears a toga-like outfit, but these features aren’t even the most striking part about him.

Terra rubs her eyes to make sure she’s not seeing things. Yeah, she’s seeing them correctly. Those are wings—shimmering turquoise bug-like wings. He flashes them proudly, as if it’s a completely normal thing to have them.

Then, with piercing eyes the same color as his wings, he makes eye-contact with them. “Relax, you can drop the human disguises now. They’re all gone, and they’re never coming back. This planet is ours’ once again.”

Terra’s eyes widen. What does he mean by ‘once again’. This planet has always belonged to humans. “What do you mea—” she tries to ask, but the professor cuts her off.

“Of course. Long live the fanice,” she tells him. She gives the girls a look that says, Play along for now.

“L-Long live the fanice,” Terra says, bowing. She tries her best to hide her terrified expression.

It’s coming together now. They’ve been invaded. She isn’t sure why or how… but she does know one thing.

These things can’t find out they’re humans.

Terra Mabaso, the main character

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I draw all of the album art for this series myself. I am very proud of how it looks so far.