SmolNarwhalWrites

"Remind me why we brought a human along?" X muttered, eyeballing the person in question. The human was cooing over a slobbering beast, petting its fur and calling it a 'good boy' while the rest of the crew looked on in horror.

Y shrugged, "Haven't you noticed? They don't seem to be afraid of anything. They just jump head-first into nearly any situation."

"That's not always a good thing," X sighed.

As X watched, the human suddenly got up from where it was crouched next to the slobber beast (whom the human called a 'doggo') and wandered into the brush.

"Don't get lost!" Y called after them with a groan.

A few minutes later, the human returned, "Hey, look what I found!"

Every gun in the area was suddenly trained on the huge beast trailing in the human's wake. It was grotesque, standing nearly twice as tall as the human themself, with dark crimson scales covering it's entire body. Its eyes were a warm shade of amber, slitted pupil like a claw scratch split down the middle. It was baring its huge pointed teeth in a terrible display of power, it's claws flexing and long tail lashing back and forth.

The human waved its arms in the air, standing between the expedition force and the monster, "No, don't shoot! He's friendly!"

You remember very vividly how strongly your family felt about the government shutting down the space exploration program. They'd done it over 50 years ago, after a terrible accident took the lives of over two dozen people.

You, now an adult and an accomplished biologist, have been summoned by the federal government.

As you enter the top secret facility, you are asked to keep everything you see confidential.

They take you into a room. Laid out on a table is a being very clearly not from Earth.

The Area 51 raid happened. You were there, even though people told you how foolish it was to go.

Publicly, it was much tamer than anyone expected. A few hundred people stood at the gates, chatting and holding signs. A few tried to enter, but were arrested. You had a much different approach.

You actually went the week AFTER the raid, once everything had begun to calm down. Sneaking past the guards, you managed to find your way inside.

And now, as you stood face to face with a being that was certainly NOT human, you decided the effort had been worth it.

Many people had theories about the company you worked for. Often times people speculated about the company's true purpose or whether or not it was a front for a secret organization. Supposedly they produced medication, but even you didn't truly know. When you were hired, you had signed a non-disclosure agreement. But in the three months you had been working as a night-time security guard, you hadn't ever seen anything worth disclosing.

However, now as you stood across from a glowing being with massive eyes and four large, impressive wings, you realized that perhaps the company wasn't all it appeared to be.

You looked around, trying to piece together how you had gotten here. One moment you had been investigating a crop circle that had appeared in a corn field in Kansas. And the next, you were standing on a glowing pedestal, nothing but darkness anywhere else.

"Hello?" You call into the darkness.

"Hello," a voice responded from behind you.

You whirl around, shocked by the prompt response. No one had been there before, had they?

Standing behind you, shrouded in shadow, was the most beautiful being you had ever laid eyes on.