The Convergence

Hellpit, Netheria, Aquiny, Earth, Heaven, Ethyria

Caklin walked down across the green lawn next to the water. He was afraid, very afraid. The creatures around him scared him. They were much larger and they stared at him. It was unnerving to say the very least. Some were even following him. He quickened his pace a little bit. Then he came to the stairs that led to a grand building. He stared at them a second then bounded up them.
Caklin pushed past the large doors with some effort and entered the edifice. As he walked in he noted one of the creatures wearing blue and a gold shield on his chest stood up and started watching him. He ignored him and walked into the building. He walked down the hall and entered into a large theatre like room. This room was very noisy as he entered but began to increase in silence the further down the stairs he walked. The room came to complete quiet when he reached the bottom of the stairs and stood before the pulpit.
"Mr. Speaker of the House?" Caklin said mustering some courage.
There was silence as everyone was too stunned to speak.
"Representative Selena McLaughlin, of Massachusetts, Speaker of the House?" He asked.
Representative McLaughlin peered over the pulpit. "How do you know my name?"
"We try to find out a little about who is running the Earth countries as we can just in case we need to ever speak with you."
"Okay, what do you want?"
"I am Agent Caklin Panchild of the Alliance of the Creatures of Netheria North America. My homeland has come under attack and we are being driven out. The creatures I represent have asked me to plead with you for asylum."
"Uh, where is this land Netheria which you come from and what are you?"
"Well, madam, Netheria is the name for the world of creatures which live under ground."
"Creatures, what creatures and where underground?" Rep. McLaughlin asked sneeringly.
"There are those like me which your mythology calls fauns which live deep beneath the forests, and there are the dwarfs which live deep in the mountains. Then there are other creatures some you know and some you don't. I cannot describe all the creatures which seek asylum but these you may recognise."
"How come we have never seen you? How come you have never shown yourselves to us before now?"
"I am sorry madam but before now your kind has been hateful and destructive against our kind let alone your own and so have remained hidden until now when we hope that your advanced and increasingly benevolent nature will take pity on us when we are driven from our homes."
"Who is forcing you out of your homes? Do we need to stop developments in your homes?"
"Nay we are very adaptive and have always removed from your presence when you become intrusive but we rarely come close. There is a new leader in the world of Hellpit. His name is Godfreed and he has broken the 8th Century Treaty of the Five Worlds, attacking on our homes from the under ground. We have no means where with to combat these new intruders our peoples have become enduringly peaceful and no longer war. Even the dwarfs are not equipped to combat their weapons and we have been driven. Our only hope is your generosity!"
From the back of the room a Representative from New York yelled, "Why are we entertaining this freak show? We have real and important things to discuss. "
The room started in uproar as people started shouting at the creature. The Speaker of the House pressed a button and the uniformed guard Caklin saw earlier rushed into the room and grabbed him and removed him. He was dragged out down the hallway into the foyer, and thrown out the front door. His hooves didn't catch hold of the ground and he crumbled, rolling down the stairs of the Capitol Building. He regained his composure. He had been warned they might be mean creatures but he still was taken aback by it all. He hobbled away.
Now he had gotten lost in the city and was disoriented. How would he get back home? The buildings went from the beautiful stone work of the government to the filthy slums. There were nasty eyes looking all around him. He shivered. The looks they gave him were so cold.
Then he walked down an alley. There was a group of guys leaning on a car who turned and stared at him. They stood up and walked towards him.
He tried muster some courage even though these men scared him. "Where can I find the river, sirs?"
"Sirs?" The ringleader said. "We're not sirs. We're thugs. And what do we have here? Nice costume, midget boy."
"What's a midget?" Caklin asked quivering as the men gathered around him.
The gangsters started laughing. "You little man! You got some funny looking legs." One kicked him in the leg knocking him on his face.
"And how about these horns." Another grabbed one a threw him around.
"Stop please, why are you doing this to me?" He pleaded.
"Well if you didn't look like a queer maybe you wouldn't get made fun of?"
All of the sudden a gun shot resonated the alleyway. The men stopped and pulled out their own guns.
"Leave the faun alone!" a man in a black suit said point an large rifle at them.
"Make us!" the ringleader yelled and they opened fire on the man. But the didn't realise they were surrounded and none of them survived.
Then a week later fauns and dwarves and creatures people had never seen before began walking into the towns near forests and mountains. They were not treated well, but they had no where else they could go.

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A new helicopter flew over Los Angeles. It followed regulations and stayed clear of military installations. It looked like a cross between the Apache helicopter and the Blackhawk but those who saw in from the distance couldn't understand how it flew. There were no blades above the chopper. One man walking down Foothills Drive in Glendora heard a thundering, whirring noise above him and looked up to see the black helicopter directly above him. And saw the internal, magnet driven rotor where the cargo would have gone. There were two missile-like objects, one attached to each side of the body.
The helicopter passed over the city for a bit and then turned north. Finally it slowed down hovering over a ridge. The mechanical arm holding one of the projectiles, began opening until they had opened up. As the projectile fell it released a button and a red light illuminated. When it hit the top of the ridge the case burse open and a large half-robot, half-worm looking creature began to wiggle. Then it screamed and quickly buried itself in the dirt. It didn't stop until it had buried itself deep in the San Andreas fault. The Helicopter dropped the other one near San Francisco.
Twenty-four hours later, Los Angeles was an Island and San Francisco did not exist.

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The mayor of New York city stood with golden shears and smiled for the photographers, before cutting the red ribbon that surrounded the new, tallest building in the world. The Freedom Tower was magnificent specimen of lighting and glass. Those out in the cruise ships celebrating the festivities applauded the brilliant lighting and the fireworks that followed the ribbon cutting ceremony.