Going Home

• Rishi Sathyamurthy, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2018

** All the strange names in this story are made up Aliens**

It has been 16 years since I left Earth and 6 years since I landed on Kepler-84D, the strange alien planet that Scientists accidentally discovered. They decided I would be perfect to study the life on this planet along with two others.But they had died in a coma while on the way due to a glitch.

I was meant to leave yesterday but a launch connector broke on Earth, so I could not. ISA had instructed me to travel to the space craft that would take me home. I finished my lunch and put on my exosuit. I grabbed my photon cannon and pressurised the exit room. Outside the lush, dark green plants shone with bio-luminescence.

In the distance, I could hear the high pitched mocking cackles of biped raptors.Only an hour in to my treacherous journey, I came across a methane pond. Suddenly an enormous club tail whacked through the impossible thick foliage.

A juvenile behemoth turned around to stare at me. It bellowed and raced it's spike crests and held up it's tail. I quickly ducked below a sting leaf tree.It smashed the tree to pieces missing me by a few precious inches. It raised it's deadly tail for the final blow and then quickly turned around and sprinted away. I knew that only one thing could scare a behemoth. An exofriller.

I heard a screech. I turned around to see an exofriller. It opened it's massive green frill. I could see it's multiple rows of black teeth. It leaped at me. I quickly started running for my life. I skidded under a tall log. While the Apex predator broke through it, I scrambled up a tree. It tried desperately yo reach me. I grabbed a sound maker and set it to Cresthead, a herbivorous alien. I threw it.

The exofriller hearing the call of it's favourite prey, sprinted after it. I sprinted the rest of the way to the base.

End of log 4824.