“What are you doing? Remember the prophecy? It said, “Five kids of the same age.” Not “Five kids of the same age who – split – up – because – of – a – silly – fight!” Kelly said, puffing and panting to keep up with my fast pace.

“I make my own prophecy.”  I said, not bothering to slow down.

“No, you dig your own grave.”

“Whose side are you in?”

“Your side – that’s why I was telling you this.”

“Then you can go- ”

“But I’d rather stay. At least there would be lesser fragments.” The way she covered up her fear of being alone got me a smug face.

“I’m hungry.” I said as I check my bag to find no food. Neither did Kelly. But from a far off distance, I saw a stall. Kelly and I started going secretly towards the stall – which was probably a food stall. I noticed a strange thing that all of them were humans. This can mean only one thing. The aliens have already started capturing a few people from the earth. Only the restaurant servers and cooks were aliens. Kelly and I went in. “Table for two, please.” Kelly said, trying to act normal as the alien nodded and led us to a table.  What really surprised me is that these aliens are acting very civilized and are not eating up their customers. I looked around and there were all types of aliens – big, small, green, blue, some with four hands and some with three legs.  If there were no humans, this place would be a total circus show. Maybe that is all normal for aliens. Maybe that’s what they think about us, humans.  Kelly and I looked at the menu. :

Dezmuch – 10K

Bemorden – 2K

Melanofern – 3K

And there were many other things like that which were harder to pronounce. And the price really shocked me. Ten thousand dollars for something you can’t even pronounce? That is way too much. But after a lot of staring at the menu and trying to pronounce things right, my hunger took over me and I called the waiter. “What’s this?” I asked, pointing to the cheapest thing I could find. (This was 1K) “Water.” He replied.  “Ill take two bottles of water. And by the way, what does ‘K’ stand for in the price?” I asked, still not being able to believe that water would cost one thousand dollars. “Kellys.”

“Yes?” Kelly replied.

“The ‘K’ stands for Kellys. It is our local currency. How do you live here if you don’t know the currency?” He said, suspiciously. Before his suspicion could grow, I spoke up, “Of course we know that you currency is Kellys! I take anything that is vegetarian and is edible, thank you.” And with that, he finally left. “Wow, I’m really famous in the alien land.” Kelly said. “It was a coincidence.” I countered. I started thinking of some sob story so that the owner could just cut us some slack and let us go. Our food arrived – very fast.

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I do not recommend his restaurant if you are not a big fan of:

1} green leafy vegetables

2} more leaves

3} onions

4} ketchup

Basically, the food here is so terrible; I can’t even call it food. But I just shoved it in my mouth anyways. After some time, an alien came up to us with real food. Garlic bread, pizzas and spaghetti: but we just passed our table and served it to some customer. I called waiter “I think I said vegetarian not vegan.” What exactly do you want?” “I’d like a veg pizza – large, spaghetti – red sauce and garlic bread with a cheesy dip.” I turned to Kelly. "What would you have?” She stared at me. Then blinked. "All that for yourself?" I shrugged. “I will just have a pizza-extra spicy”. Once again, the food came in very quickly. Both of us hogged on the food and left no bite of it. We were about to leave when the waiter came to us with the bill.”That would be one hundred and thirty two Kellys, please” it said. We both stood up and I said searching for money in my bag.”How many Kellys is one rupee?” “4 Kelleys equal one rupee.” I did the math quickly and told Kelly, “I have 20. We need 13 more.” She gave her 5 rupee note too. “Mind if we pay you the rest later?” I asked, hoping not to be strangled by this creature. To my surprise he nodded, “But the more you delay, the ore aliens would be after you.” I promised myself to pay for us when this whole thing is done. No crime done. Just delaying a pay. “I will pay you back!!” I yelled as I ran out.

After some time, we slowed down but knew they would still be after us. As we walked on, we saw a green, slimy layer on the floor. The whole scene in front of us was like a jungle with no trees or animals – just climbers and creepers. I scoped up a rock and threw it into that green slimy liquid, just to see what happens. The rock sank inside, making a sizzling sound. Then I grabbed one of the climbers and pulled it, with all my weight. Nothing happen. “It’s safe” I assured Kelly who then replied, “Yeah, going all Tarzan where there is a steaming green swam , one of the safest things I’ve ever done.” I smiled and held on to one of the climbers. I lifted myself up and started swinging from climber to climber. It was fun. When I reached the end, I stood crossing my arms and waited for Kelly. She did it with ease, except for the last one. As soon as she finished swinging across, she stood in front of me, holding up a python, which I had assumed was a climber.