Makito88

When Isaac woke up, he was completely alone. The house was empty, his family gone. Not a car in town was moving. Not a soul walked the streets. No birds were chirping, no dogs barking, no insects buzzing. Only the occasional rustling of leaves in the wind cut the silence blanketing all. The sky was pitch black, not a star nor cloud in sight, yet for all that he could still see as clearly as though it were the middle of the day. Was this a dream? It felt so unnatural, and yet, so vividly real. And there was another feeling, too—a sense that he was being watched. He walked the streets alone, looking for his unseen stalker, until something pulled his gaze to the sky. Still nothing but black stretching out to the horizon. But then, it blinked. For the briefest instant, the blackness of the sky was replaced with a pale wall from which stretched out monstrous black filaments. These swept by the planet, down and up on either side, with such power that the Earth itself shuddered as though