Richen

Chapter six: The strange meteorite

 The worker rushed to his boss’s office with the urgent message of a situation that just moments ago appeared. The chief was a little surprised by the sudden and loud knock on his door. He told the person to enter and became a bit alarmed by the look on the workers face. The message was delivered and the chief was at first paralyzed but then picked up the phone and dialed the number to the White House.

 The president was just having a meal with his family when one of his security staff entered the room and informed him to immediately go to the command room. When being briefed, his military commanders told him that NASA had detected a huge meteorite in a collision course with Earth just hours away from the planet. The meteorite had enough size to cause serious damage on impact.

 Different solutions were laid down when another update from NASA arrived: The meteorite had, for no logical reason, suddenly divided into several smaller pieces and NASA told them that this was extremely weird but now the damage would be minimal because of the spread of the rocks. The president became a bit calmer, but gave the order to send teams to the crash sites, as soon as they were determined, and examine the strange rock.

 The rocks scattered all over the planet and crashed down on different locations, some landed out on the countryside, some landed in cities and a few actually hit humans directly on their bodies. The Shadowrium, as programmed, leaked out from the rock and started to move towards nearest human life force. The humans that were hit by the rocks directly was of course lethally hurt and died, but some did actually survive the hit, and while bleeding and dying the Shadowrium entered their system and healed them and changed their DNA.

 On other places similar things happened, people where “attacked” by the Shadowrium and started to change. The president’s teams, and teams from other countries managed to apprehend only a handful of rocks and people infected before the evolving reached too far and the persons avoided detection.