Chapter #6Xinu starts walking by: SweetGab   Adam is still stunned by the situation. He turns around to see if there are others besides him. The few people there, still conscious, from their facial expressions, they too are seeing the same things as Adam, and he mentally reassures himself that he hasn't gone crazy. But this means that what he has before him is real, so maybe the problems are other than his mental sanity. He, therefore, decides to slowly distance himself from the grey mass. However, he only makes a couple of steps from the grey, when suddenly the windows of the buildings explode and a sound, as if it were a voice, echoes everywhere. Adam's ears are ringing and taken by surprise he falls to the ground, miraculously avoiding glass shards. Then the earth began to shake.
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Xinu isn't entirely aware of the havoc her mere presence and that few words are causing for the continent. She knows there are life forms and that after her trips many planets are different than they were before, but surely, they will understand the need for a Grey to take a little break. She could admire the curvature of the planet and the mix between the green of the lands, the blue of the oceans and the soft white of the clouds. "It's a shame to be so big, the atmosphere must surely feel good." Xinu thinks as she takes out her communicator (it's an alien smartphone) and takes a selfie making a V with 2 of her 3 fingers. "Earth is great, but not as great as me! :D" She writes and posts on her GreySpace page. Once this is done it's time to explore and then she walks away, thus lifting her two-toe foot.
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The immense grey wall rises to the sky for tens, no, hundreds of miles sweeping away clouds and some unlucky planes. Adam watches the complete desolation and destruction caused by that thing. A huge crater that extends beyond the horizon and is extremely deep. Streams and rivers of magma begin to emerge from cracks at the base of that abyss. Looking up, the sky and the sunlight are gone now, both replaced by the grey mass. Despite the distance, Adam noticed the presence of lines, in which he noticed debris and fragments of roads and buildings, which began to detach and slowly fall. Adam, seeing this hellscape scenario faints.
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As she takes her first step and her foot touches the ground, she feels it compresses as it tries to support her immense weight. Instantly the earth snaps, cracks begin to form, and thousands of miles of land crumble. The earthquake created spreads throughout the planet with an unprecedented force, no seismograph can capture the energy released (It is 9.34x10^24 joules, and an earthquake of magnitude 9 reaches 7.1x10^17 joules). The resulting energy destroys everything around it, no one in the area will be able to say what happened that morning.
Meanwhile, Xinu is loving the slight warmth and softness she feels on her soles. The planet is very fragile and perhaps for this very reason few have gone there in the past. But that's not important, now it's her day off and she'll enjoy it to the fullest. When her first step is completed, and the foot is deep enough into the ground, she lifts the other. According to her communicator, she was in the southern hemisphere of the planet and she is heading south. She thought she has seen a great mass of ice and snow and now, with the warmth that hug her soles, a nice ice cream would fit. While walking, she sees the ground and takes a few more photos as a souvenir to show her friends.
Debris and magma accumulate on her soles, while others fall back on the Earth creating further chaos. All over the globe, the main news is the presence and destruction that this mammoth grey alien is causing.
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