Chapter 2: The Red Bullet Coaster.

  The teenagers wandered around the park, the sun had gotten quite low.

  At sunset they found a park bench next to the Red Bullet Coaster, the largest ride in the park. They sat down and looked at the rusty steel beams supporting the red painted steel track. Some roller coaster carriages lay in the grass by the bottom of the track.

  The park was filled with weeds, but it was maintained well enough. There were locks and chains on most of the buildings and the tallest weeds were sprayed with poison around the main areas of the park. Vines had completely covered some of the buildings and rides. They were in a small food court area around a green mossy fountain. The fountain had stagnant water in the bottom, with tadpoles swimming in the black water.

  They had started to smoke and play some music. Everyone smoked a little and they passed the joint around. Some of the newer smokers coughed a lot. Elise only smoked a few drags because she was in a strange place and wanted to keep her wits about in case of security guards and Luke only smoked a few puffs because he wanted to be safe on the road.

  The highschoolers were joking and laughing long into the night and they decided to start a small campfire around eight. They started the fire in a circle of broken footpath stones and used scrap wood from a skip bin they’d found behind one of the attractions. The bluetooth speaker was playing loud music across the quiet park. Drum and bass tracks bounced as the highschoolers mimed dj-ing on decks. They inhaled the smoke of the weed and felt their stress of life alleviate.

  Luke grabbed the phone from Matt and the group booed.

  “Here we go, mister Chicago.” Brian joked.

  “No, I got this one!” Luke said. He pressed on the song’s picture and Bob Marley - Three Little Birds began to play. The opening notes were met with a chorus of cheers from the assembled boys.

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  They all joined in singing around the fire.

  “Don’t worry- about a thing!” They sang. “Cause every little thing - is gonna be alright!”

  They bobbed to the sound of the reggae music and were stunned when something massive flew overhead.

  Right above them a metallic craft, a spaceship, crashed into the supports of the Red Bullet Coaster and impacted the ground. The spaceship landed with a huge blast of dirt and debris. The cool sounds of Bob Marley echoed over the quiet scenery. The crash had started small fires on the ground in spots. The impact crater filled the area with smoke.

  Matt stepped closer and saw something emerge from the crash. It looked like a giant wolf, it was missing all of it’s fur. It stood on two hind legs and Matt realised it was almost 12 feet tall. The wolf creature looked around and then scampered into the smoke and disappeared from view.

  “D-Did you guys see that fucking thing?” Matt hollered.

  “Yeah,” Luke said.

  “We should go,” Elise said to Luke. He noticed she was scared.

  “Yeah,” Luke said, “We’ll take a couple of photos then we’ll go, right guys?” Luke said, trying to force them to agree.

  “Fine, a couple of photos.” Troy said. They all started to vlog the incident.

  “Yoo! Some crazy shit just went down at the, uh, Thunder Park in Pacific Village. Bruh this shit is unreal. Fucking Alien Spaceship type Shit, cuh.” Troy said into his selfie camera. He posed with the alien ship in the background.

  “Hey guys, this is Matt Harvey, I am here next to what might be humanity’s first contact with aliens. We are at 102 Pacific Royal Road. Me and my friends were exploring an abandoned theme park when this thing literally crashed right in front of us.” Matt said to his camera. The alien ship also smoked in the background. Matt didn’t realise he’d caught the creature stalking him in the fog.

  The teenagers then ran and got into their cars and sped away as fast as possible.