E for AdvEnture: With Evan Onymous

By AbeSedecim

Chapter 1

When did my life become so complicated? I can handle looking after my sister when she happens to be an uber-powerful witch with the fate of worlds on her shoulders. I can also handle that my inner child happens to be a four year old blonde girl with an addition to cookies. Yet, when did I end up staring death in the face and only seconds away from oblivion?

I guess it all started on the night of the big meteor shower. On the darkness night of the year, people headed for the hills to watch a once in a lifetime celestial event. That is everyone except for me. While my sister Anne and her friends went off to watch the stellar show, I was stuck working late at the office finishing up some old backlogs. It wasn’t the most exciting job, but somebody had to pay the bills and that somebody happened to be me. While I stared into cyberspace imagining what my four year old alter ego would do in a situation like this, I was wishing that something would save me from this mountain of mundane. I would have known that on nights like this, wishes have a habit of coming true in the worse ways.

It started a light rumble that grew into furious shake. The windows rattled, the building trembled and the shelves began to tumble. I figured it was earthquake, so I ducked under my desk for safety. I could hear the sound of some unknown force crashing down to Earth in a fiery inferno. Then with a bright flash of light there was only darkness in my office. Whatever had crashed knocked out the power, but strangely there was still light. It was an eerie sort of light that flickered on and off like a firefly’s bulb. Whatever it was, I let my curiosity get the better of me and I just had to see the source of such a commotion.

The moment I stepped out on the office doorstep I was dumbfounded. In the middle of the street was a crater the size of a swimming pool. At the bottom of that crater was some sort of sphere that looked like an egg the size of a automobile with a shining shell. With the rate it dropped I assumed it would be as hot as an oven, but there hardly any heat at all just smoke that filled the air. Whatever force of will, mine or some cosmic, I was drawn to get a closer look.

I crept in the crater and approached the weird sphere. Like the rest of the ground it had no heat, I reached out with my hand to gauge its surface temperature and it felt very cold almost sub zero. Suddenly the egg started to crack, the shell broke off and its fragments fell up and evaporated into the sky. I looked and beheld what was inside was something I wasn’t expecting to find.

It was a woman, with neon green hair that covered her head like a lion’s mane. She wore a metallic top and drawers lying back on the dirt. It seemed like she had just come from some bloody battle, body was battered, bruised and she seemed barely conscious. I had no idea who this interstellar beauty was, but one thing was for certain that she needed help. There was no time to waste so I picked her up and took her inside my office.

I didn’t know what dangers had followed this stranger from the stars and at the time I didn’t care. However, had I known that this woman would have brought me to the predicament I would inevitably come to I wonder if I wouldn’t have been so hasty to help…Nah, probably not.