Monsters

On the bushy, green grass, he watches the sky. Everyone around him does the same, instinctually, they are afraid. A bright light competes with the sun for the attention of the creatures. As the comet approaches the Earths atmosphere, it slightly shifts, and misses the Earth just slightly.

He looks around, everyone else just goes back to munching on grass, though he feels as if something important has just happened. The bright circle missed, how will it be different?

"Bye! See you tomorrow!" Hazel calls to her friend as she walks through her gate, her eyes squinting into the sun blocked slightly by the dome. "Mom! Are you home?" She calls into the house as she puts down her bag on the kitchen counter.

"Yeah, honey! I am about to leave for work, another one got in. Can you go feed Blacky?" Hazel's mother walks into the living room and grabs her purse off the counter.

"Sure, be safe." Hazel hands her mom the telephone she was looking for, and recieves a kiss on the head as a thank you. After her mother leaves, Hazel rolls a hay bail from the barn to the front of her acrage where her pet stegasourous lives.

"Hey, Blacky." As the gently beast brings its head down to the hay, Hazel climbs on like she has so many times before. "I hope mom is ok." She sighs. "That is the 4th velocorapter to break into our dome." She stokes her friend's strong neck and considers this. "Do you think the raptors don't like that they can't explore everywhere? I mean, do you mind being confind to a certain area of land?"

Blacky wheezes a bit, as if to tell her that it does, but it is ok.

"I guess I wouldn't like it if people were preventing me from going where I wanted to go. But then again, people are only allowed to stay in the domes." Hazel slides back down Blacky's neck. "I'm gonna get to the bottom of this." She says with determination.

The exit of her dome is only a ten minute bikeride from her house. This is the place where all of the officials dispurse of waste. With out thinking, since she knows that it will probably change her mind, she types in her mom's code and opens the door.

"No turning back now." She mutters to herself. As she opens the thick, steel door, she is shocked at the scene that awaits her. In front of her, there is a waste land scattered with trash mountains, and covered in a haze of human made pollution. She tropes down the metal staircase, her mouth open in terror at what she is seeing.

Just 5 steps behind her, is a green environment with constantly fresh air and unlimited energy. Hazel can't help but feel guilty now for every peice of trash she has created and every light she has left on with out use.

Her white sneakers hit the sand colored dirt, and she is blinded by the sun pounding down on her pale skin.

"This isn't right." She is sad, but more angry. How could they do this to the animals that were here first? Her shoulder lengthe hair blows into her mouth, and she turns her head to get her face out of the wind.

"AAAAHH!" Hazel screams, horrified at what is only 100 yards to her left. There lies rotting dinasour corpses, none of which look like they died of natural causes.

Is this what her mom is doing on these late nights, when Hazel was so worried about her getting hurt. She had always been told that they were being protected from the monsters on the outside, but now she thinks that they should have been worried about the monsters on the inside.

She storms up the stairs with new determination that she has never expireinced before, she will do something about this. People have to know that it is not the dinosours that are in the fault here.

She approaches the door in rage and pulls on the handle. It is locked. There is no way back in.

To be continued(maybe).....