Vampunk
sʇɐq ןooɔ ǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ ƃuıƃuɐɥ
Since the beginning of time Mankind watched the night sky, marveling at the lustrous clusters of far away stars. The entirety of the Universe gazing back at man as their little planet known as "Earth" wandered around the dim star that made life even possible. The small blue orb sharing the sun's light with the gigantic colossi made of galactic gas and dust, drawing their vast circles around the center of the solar system inside the Milkyway galaxy.
A galaxy devoid of any space faring civilizations, the species known as Homo Sapiens still trying to reach for the stars as they dreamed of one day traveling through the vast universe with countless galaxies to explore, filled with wonders they couldn't even comprehend.
But for now mankind was content with still gazing into the nightly sky, a few millenia having passed since the first man raised his head towards the brilliant stars glaring back, as if beckoning human minds to reach out and grasp at their light.
Yet these stars were more than a thousand lightyears away, some of them already having burnt out as their light still made its way through the darkness of space to uphold the illusion of them still glowing just as bright as they did for eons.
This night was different though, as even humans who hadn't watched the sky for the longest time had found a reason to do so on this fateful earth day.
The promise of a spectacle causing them to abandon their plans to watch television, to party or to just go to sleep early, instead staying up late to behold the foretold Meteor storm that would rush through the Milky way.
A rain of dying galactic bodies and shooting stars that would remind mankind that there was something more in the vastness of space.
Things that they only fantasized about but never were able to see with their own eyes.
And as the meteors passed by the insignificant orb of dirt and water known as Earth, something inside the galactic storm was thrown around, colliding with gleaming stardust before being expelled from the shroud of glimmering space travelling comets...
The fragment akin to the meteors it had traveled with entering the gravitational pull of earth as it breached the planet's orbit as its surface was set ablaze, falling from the night's sky like Icarus who had reached for the stars and burned his wings...
The shooting star unable to slow its descent as the galactic traveler was drawn towards the planet's molten core, fast approaching Earth's surface as finally, with a booming sound it crashed into a thick terrestrial forest, felling dozens of trees as splinters of bark were sent drifiting into the night's sky like a botanic meteor shower.
The meteor-like object's descent slowed by the many trees before creating an unnaturally long ravine as it met the forest floor, dragging along the earth as finally it came to rest.
And just as suddenly as the meteor had landed on earth, silence returned to the night, leaving a metallic shell buried in the forest's floor, its singed surface sizzling as smoke rose from the crater it left....