Only Human Volume Finale Sneak Peek! · 9:52am Aug 8th, 2013
“What is a man?” asked the creature.
He strutted before the auditorium full of creatures that looked like him. He was walking on two feet, fully clothes, had no nuzzle, no tail and was sporting a goatee.
“What is a woman?” he added. “These are the questions that all of you will have to answer soon. You’re all at the age where you must ask yourself what it means to be human. So your homework for this semester: look in the mirror and ask yourself ‘who am I?’”
Glancing back up at the smaller humans, he caught several of them giggling and raising their ‘hands’ into the air and hitting them together.
The human at the front continued. “Oh yes, and reading through your expensive and large textbook. Class dismissed.”
The younger humans piled out of the auditorium, carrying the books and chatting along the way. However, in the front row, one human remained: A Caucasian, female with long, brown hair, wearing a white jacket was resting her head on her clenched fist, staring in disbelief at her professor as he packed up his notes, not paying any mind to the students as they left.
She slammed her hands on the desk, pushing herself up from her chair.
“Excuse me, Professor Morrissey?” asked the girl. “Can I ask you a question?”
The professor checked his watch. “Sure, I ended class a bit early anyway.”
The girl stood tall and straight in front of Morrissey. “What kind of homework is ‘ask yourself who you are?’”
“It’s the kind that’s important to human studies, as you’ll come to find out one day. Hopefully sooner, rather than later.”
Without another word, he packed up his things, and exited through the staff door at the base of the auditorium.
“It’s an important question, actually.”
The girl yelped, jumped back and turned around at the sound from behind her. She saw a tall, male human, with Caucasian skin, long black hair, thick glasses, wearing a blue shirt and red jacket. “At least that’s what Ma and Pa told me back on the farm.”
The girl didn’t respond, she was frozen in place, looking petrified at the sight of the male.
The male cleared his throat and offered his hand. “I’m Clark. What’s your name?”
“Sarah,” said the girl, not offering her hand in return. “And I fail to see how your ‘Ma and Pa’ has anything to do with this.”
Sarah stormed past Clark, grabbing her things and heading up the stairs, leaving Clark alone in the auditorium with the echo of the door slamming behind her.
“Nice to meet you too,” he said at a whisper.
The angle focusing on Clark suddenly pulled back at fast speed, revealing a large campus of building with hundreds of humans walking around. Pulling back further showed that the campus was one small part of a large city, full of humans. Even further back, was the reveal that the city was just a spec on a blue and green ball floating through space.
The camera stopped when it reached the moon, however, it was not unoccupied. A shadowy figure, who was clearly wearing huge, spikey body armour was standing in the centre of a crater, looking up at the beautiful blue planet.
“A man… is nothing…” he said as the planet reflected in his black eyes. “But death!”
The screen cut to black for a moment before a title card appeared.
‘Only Human’
Oh my goodness, I cant wait till the full chapter is published!