The Entity

At first Will thought he was hallucination, that what he was seeing wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real, things like that don’t exist and if they did things that big couldn’t float in the air. When he noticed other looking, their mouths open, eyes fixated on it, shock, awe, and fear on their faces. Some fainted, some dropped to their knees praying, to God, or maybe to it, but most just looked at it.

He was filled with fear, confusion, and wander. What was it? Where did it come from? What was it doing here? All these questions went though Will mind, struggling to believe what he was seeing.

Will thought it must be an Independence Day like space ship. Some invaders come to conquer us or refugees from some distant war. Maybe some aliens come to bring us into the Intergalactic Federation, or solders of the Intergalactic Empire come to wipe us out and take this world. Will realized that was not any of those, it was alive!

It reached to ground with thousands of tendrils. Wind blew from behind Will towards it. Despite the over ninety temperature, the air grew cold, near freezing. Will didn’t feel it, mesmerized by the it.

As fast as it appeared it vanished. Will and the others looked at the sky it was in, all they saw was fog below were it was. They looked unsure if what they saw was real or a mass hallucination.

It left nothing behind but frozen solid forest, over two miles in radius, and holes where its tendrils pierced the ground. The naturally accruing radioactive elements in the ground, carbon -14, uranium and thorium, had all decayed away in the minutes it was there, something prior though impossible.

After it came and went the small town of Pikes Creek, became the most well known place on earth. The military came, then the media, then scientists from around the world. When they finally left the ufologists, new age mystics, and tourists wanting to see were ‘Entity’ visited this world began coming.

Will moved from Pikes Creek a few years later, not liking how his small town became a tourist trap. He would never forget that day though. To the day he died, every night he would see it in his dreams.

Alternate ending (I couldn’t decide which to use).

Its tendrils reached down. Wind blew in. Despite being over ninety degrees the air quickly got cold. The fire in A.J. Bar and Grill’s fire pit flew into the sky, up to a tendril, a puddle in a pot hole froze solid, the people fell dead, their bodies then freezing, ghosts ran past will attempting to escape before being pulled up to their oblivion.

Will looked up at at it, unable to move out of fear and awe. He felt his temperature drop and his heart stop. His mind faded as he fell unconscious, his lifeless body falling to the ground. Frost formed on his skin as he froze solid.