Looks Like Heaven

Looks Like Heaven

By

Jamey O’Donnell

The sun beat down on the two men like a flame thrower at a distance, not quite burning their flesh off of them, but making them feel as if it was.

Their skin had turned dark red and pus-filled blisters were forming all over their upper torsos after being exposed to direct sunlight for a day and a half in the life raft.

It was just their luck they boarded the one raft that had no roof to it, leaving them totally exposed to the elements.

They started out with 4 men, but two of them started fighting over a bottle of water, and both fell out of the boat and disappeared in the ocean. The other two figured they must have been snacked up by sharks.

The 4 were part of a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Africa, and eventually sunk in the miry deep, leaving the remaining crew members to jump ship in the few life rafts available. Maybe 10 men total were able to get in the rafts, with the other crew members going down with the ship, all sleeping.

The two men left on the raft were an Australian named Timothy Sussex, the other being an American, Toby Dorrance, and both were starting to feel the effects of sun poisoning. Another day’s exposure to the brutal sun would leave the men in so much pain and suffering, they might be tempted to drown themselves instead of postponing the inevitable.

There was no way of knowing if a mayday distress signal was sent by the ship’s captain, so as far as these two men knew, there was no help on the way and they would die out there on that ocean if no other ships came by and saw their plight.

There was no sign of any of the other rafts that got off the ship, unfortunately for them.

They desperately needed to get out of the direct sunlight, otherwise they would certainly not make it another day.

“How are you doing over there mate?” said Timothy, as the sun began to set on the horizon.

“I feel like I’m starting to get sick. I was never so glad to see the night as I am right now” answered Toby. “I don’t think I’ll make it another day.”

“I’ve been looking for one of the other rafts. I don’t understand why we can’t see them. We should all be pretty much in the same vicinity, yet they seem to have all vanished out of sight.” Said Timothy.

“Maybe they sunk?” said Toby.

“Or maybe they’ve all gone crackers and killed each other” joked Timothy.

As the darkness started to envelope the vast ocean, it was a respite from the sun’s burning rays, and the men started singing to keep their minds off of their hungry stomachs and thirsty throats.

After sleeping a couple hours, they both awoke to the sound of a humpback whale emerging from the water, then splashing down next to the raft, drenching the men, as if it were trying to cool off the men’s burning and throbbing skin.

Looking up into the starry night sky, they both had never felt so alone and disconnected to the world, having no hope for rescue, and wondering which one of them would decide to take their own life first before the inevitable end would come for them.

“Do you think anyone is coming for us? Asked Toby.

“Couldn’t say mate. All depends on if a mayday call got out. Everyone was sleeping except us topside, and by the looks of it, they all got off the boat. Seems like we would have seen someone by now, don’t you think?” answered Timothy.

Not the reassuring words Toby was hoping to hear, but the reality couldn’t be denied.

It had to be close to midnight when Timothy first saw the lights.

“Either the sun’s made me daffy, but I could swear I just saw a bunch of colored lights down below in the water” exclaimed Timothy.

Toby looked over the side of the raft but could see nothing.

“You probably just saw the reflection of the stars off the water. You never really knew how many stars there were up there until being in total darkness I’ll bet, huh Tim?” asked Toby.

“Magnificent really. This is how Galileo saw the sky.” Tim said.

The only sounds the men could hear were the waves splashing up along side of the raft, and the occasional blow hole of a whale off in the distance, but then they both heard a humming sound coming from the water below them, causing each to motion to the other.

“What in the hell is that?” asked Toby.

The water then became luminescent, with bright lights shining out of the water below, and as far as they could see, the water was lit with these brightly colored lights, and it looked like there was a whole city underneath them, leaving both men speechless and stupefied.

The humming got louder until it was all consuming, as if gigantic engines were running from the deep, and the lights began to get closer to the surface.

Then suddenly they could feel something pressing up against the bottom of the life raft, lifting them out of the water as they watched an enormous ship break through to the surface all around them.

The ship had to be at least a mile wide in all directions, as they could not see the water anymore. Even in the darkness, they could see that they were no longer in the ocean, but instead sitting on the hull of a gigantic ship, or city that had emerged from the ocean floor.

The men didn’t know how to react, whether to be frightened or amazed, but they scanned the hull of the magnificent ship they were now on inside their raft, able to see because the blackness of the night was now illuminated by the myriad of lights coming off of the structure.

It was as if the ocean opened up and this monstrosity appeared, revealing secrets previously unknown to mankind before now, a new civilization from deep within the depths of the sea, making an appearance and leaving the two men gasping for air at the brilliance of it all.

“What should we do?” asked Timothy as he reached outside of the boat to touch whatever it was that had elevated them out of the water.

“It feels smooth, like glass. Smoothest thing I’ve ever felt actually.” said Timothy

Timothy then took a step outside of the raft to stand on the structure, then began to walk around on it.

“Step outside of the raft Toby. It feels good on your feet, and it’s surprisingly not slippery. You can get a foothold!” advised Timothy.

Toby took his advice and put one foot on to the structure, and Tim was right. It immediately felt good on his foot, so he put his other foot out on it, and stood there feeling a healing energy come out of the craft through his feet, coursing through his body with an energy lifeforce he could feel healing his burnt skin and making him feel more renewed than he had felt, maybe more than ever before in his life.

The men both stared at each other in amazement as they could both feel the soothing healing of their skin, and they both seemed to become hydrated at the same time, but were then interrupted by the faint sound of a man calling for them about 500 yards away.

It was one of the men that had been fighting for a bottle of water in the raft that had fallen out into the ocean, presumed to be dead.

“Over here. Come over here!” said the voice.

Timothy and Toby could both see the man clearly, as he was standing in front of an opening on the ship, with light emanating from it, so they began walking toward the familiar figure, becoming more and more amazed as they could see it definitely was their raft mate that had fallen into the water.

“My God man, why aren’t you dead?” Timothy asked the man as they approached him.

“I was. We both were, but then we were rescued and brought back to life. Don’t ask me how, because I couldn’t tell you, but these beings did something to us, and here I am.” said the man whose name was Gilbert.

“Come inside with me. You must be starving and thirsty. There is food in here for you.” said Gilbert, as he waved them into the opening of the ship.

As soon as the three men were inside, the opening they walked through closed up behind them, as if it was never there to begin with, and the hallway they were in was illuminated by lighting that they could not see. It was like being in a dream, where everything was lit, as if light was coming from everywhere with no source.

They walked down a hallway to a large, cavernous room, where they joined all the men from the ship that had gone down. All the men on the life rafts, plus the men sleeping on the ship, were in this room with beds, tables, and chairs that came up out of the floor, being part of the ship itself.

At the end of the table closest to them were plates of food and bottles of water, beckoning them to sit down and feast, so they did, and that was when they both noticed that their burnt skin had totally healed, showing no signs of being adrift in the hot brutal sun for the last two days.

“I don’t understand” said Toby. “What is this place and who are these beings you spoke of?”

That is when Gilbert pointed to a window on the other side of the room.

“They are in their, on the other side of the window. Eat first, then go over to them and say hi. They will understand you and speak to you.” Said Gilbert.

All throughout the feast the two men were enjoying, various men from their ship came over to talk with them, telling how they were rescued by these beings, taken from the container ship, and brought back to life.

“Yes, but who are they?” Toby again asked.

The food was wonderful and there was everything there that seemed to be their favorite things to eat, which struck both men funny, considering not even their crew mates would know what that was.

After sating themselves, they made their way over to the big window where the beings were, but could see nothing because the glass was frosted, but after a couple minutes, the glass cleared up, and they could finally see their rescuers, but were shocked at their appearance.

They were close to being human, except they looked more like lizards standing on their hind legs, and yes, they had tails that drug on the floor behind them.

“The shock of how we will look to you will subside” a voice said within their heads.

They were speaking to the men telepathically.

“You were the last ones out there. You are all safe now.” said the voice again, presumed to be coming from the reptilian standing closest to the glass that was looking at Toby and Timothy.

“Who are you? Where are you from?” asked Toby.

“We are from a planet light years from here. We have been coming here to interact with you for many thousands of years. We have started a colony of your race on our planet, which is where you are being brought to.” said the alien being.

“You are being given a second chance at life, so your new lives will begin in a new home.”

“Wait a minute” said Timothy. “Our home is here. We don’t want to leave here. This is our home!”

All of the reptilians were now staring at Timothy, getting closer to the glass.

“Would you rather be dead like you were?” said the Reptilian.

“We weren’t dead. The rest of us were, but me and Toby weren’t,” said Timothy.

“You will become accustomed to us. You will eat like kings and enjoy your creature comforts. We have also brought women from the colony for you to enjoy,” said the Alien.

The alien then pointed toward an opening in the wall at the other side of the room, and out walked a gang of women, scantily dressed, beckoning the crewmen of the ship to partake in their wares. There was a beautiful woman for everyman in that room, and more for those that preferred more than one.

The whole ambiance of the room changed into a heated orgy straight out of Caligula’s empire, with every man and woman in the room fully engaged in some form of coitus. Even Timothy and Toby were captured by the charms of the women, not even considering who these women were and where they actually came from.

When the men were spent, the women all went back through an opening that appeared in the wall, and disappeared to where they had come from, leaving the men to sleep off the energy they had spent, including the two new passengers that had joined them.

Toby and Timothy were one of the first ones to wake, sitting on their beds, amazed what had taken place before they went to sleep, then Toby walked over to Timothy and sat next to him.

“This is like some kind of weird dream we are in. We get rescued by aliens, fed our favorite foods, and then given beautiful women to enjoy, yet we are being taken against our will to another planet, to a colony of people just like us. Is this the way we are going to live for the rest of our lives? If so, it’s definitely not a bad way to live out our lives, but it doesn’t seem real.

Why are they doing this for us? What do they get out of it?” asked Toby.

Timothy could only shake his head, not knowing the answer to his question.

As soon as all the men had woke, the tables were filled once again with plates of food, mountains of food, all the men ate until their hearts content, not questioning where the food had come from, who had prepared it, and why they were given so much of it.

Later that day, one wall of the room had disappeared, allowing these reptilian aliens to enter among the men, with one in particular appearing in the center of the room. These reptilian men were very tall, almost 8 feet, and they towered above the men.

The one in the center of the room began to speak.

“We have arrived to your new home. If you look outside the windows, you will see how similar it is to Earth. Take a look”

Where there were no windows before, windows suddenly appeared on every wall of the room, and the scenery was breathtaking.

As far as the eye could see, there were bright sunny skies with lush landscapes, rolling hills and meadows, fruit trees abound, and small cabin like houses scattered about, with lakes, streams, and rivers traversing throughout the country sides. There were deer under the trees grazing and fish jumping out of the water in the lakes and streams.

It looked like paradise, and the men could not wait to get outside of the ship and frolic in it.

“This will be your new home and you will enjoy your time spent here.” said the alien.

“Food will always be provided for you, so you will not have to hunt. There are more than enough living quarters for each and every one of you. Go now and make your way into this new world we have provided for you”.

Suddenly an opening appeared that led out of the spacecraft to the outside, and the men began to walk outside.

The air was excellent to breath and the temperature was a perfect 72 degrees, and for the first time since they had boarded this spacecraft, they truly felt free.

The one thing missing was the loved ones they had left back on Earth, but there was nothing they could have done to prevent leaving them behind. It was not their choice to leave their planet, but they all had come to terms with how they had come to be on this new planet that was very similar to theirs.

After a few days, the men had all picked their new cabins, with most living alone, and a few deciding to live as brothers under the same roof, but all fairly close to each other in case a bout of loneliness should creep upon them.

The thing missing the most from the equation were women, and the men were all hoping the reptilians would provide a repeat performance of the women that had come to call while they were still on the ship.

With them in the mix, they could truly call this a paradise, and maybe more so, call it heaven.

One day some of the men decided they wanted to see how far they could go past their line of sight, so they decided to make the trek. Much to their dismay, they discovered that their boundless paradise was not as big as they were led to believe, as just beyond the farthest lake, they came upon a wall painted to look like mountains and sky, giving the appearance of a much bigger area to live in than it actually was.

The more the men thought about it, the more they realized that they were actually in another room, just like on the ship, but much bigger, causing them to feel more like prisoners or caged animals, rather than free men, and caged animals was exactly what they were and would come to understand the true nature of why they were there and why the aliens were doing this for them.

The men had never eaten better or more in their lives, and all had begun to gain massive amounts of weight, though none of them much cared, as there was no one there they were trying to impress, and didn’t much notice the weight anyway until the women were released once again in their utopia.

It had been a month since they first arrived before the women had made their grand entrance into the valley, and when they arrived, the men did not hesitate to take them into their cabins to have their way with them, but this time was different.

The women were hungrier for the men then the men were for them, which seemed odd considering these were drop dead gorgeous women lusting after very average looking obese men, men that had stopped taking care of themselves, stopped bathing regularly, and basically gave up on trying to impress anyone or anything.

The more obese the man was, the more insatiable the women were, which seemed to fly in the face of the basic rules of attraction.

Then one day it all made sense. Perfect sense.

One thing the men were not aware of was the reptilian’s ability to shape shift.

In other words, they could appear to be anything, whether it be an inanimate object, or an animal, or even a human being…especially a woman human being.

The day started like any other beautiful sunny day in their new home, except the sky all around them revealed windows looking down on the valley, and behind the windows were tens of thousands of reptilian beings , all looking down on them and the valley.

After breakfast was served and all the men ate their fill, they all fell asleep in the grass, looking up at the aliens in the windows looking down on them, and wondering what was so special about this particular day that would bring these reptilians to the windows so interested in them.

Then the women came, and this time there were so many of them, there would be at least 5 to every man in the valley. The men figured the aliens wanted to watch them having sex with the women, which seemed weird to them, but different strokes for different folks, right?

There must have been at least 250 women in the compound with the men, and they were all over the men like they were hungry dinosaurs that had not eaten for a month, leaving no spot on the men’s bodies unattended to, and literally bringing the men to orgasms they had never before experienced, but then the horror show began.

One of the men was sitting upright on the grass, relishing what he had just had done to him, when suddenly some of the women next to him changed into the 8 foot reptilians they had seen all along their capture, and they began circling him and gnashing their teeth, scaring the shit out of the man.

He screamed at the top of his lungs and began running away from them toward his cabin, but before he could make the front door, one of them tackled him after knocking him over with it’s tail, then jumped on his back and literally bit off his head whole, then swallowed it in one big gulp, as another ripped off his leg and began eating it as if it were a chicken leg.

The other men laying in the grassy field looked on in horror at the scene they were seeing unfolding before their eyes, with all of the rest of the women now changing into reptilians as well.

They began chasing the men all over the countryside, with the men screaming as they were being bitten, and having limbs ripped off of them and eaten as the men were all bleeding out.

It was a mass orgy again, but this time it was an orgy of death, and the truth of why the reptilians had been so kind and generous with their hospitality was now revealed.

The men had been brought back as livestock, to be fed to the reptilians.

The beautiful valley was nothing more than an elaborate killing floor, and it was being used like it had been so many times before.