So the story behind as to why I never uploaded this much sooner. I had originally written this story for a local writing contest we had before we went into lockdown due to the pandemic. Sadly when it was close to the time to submit our stories. The pandemic began and well I kinda forgot I wrote this story. So I guess I can go ahead and post it now. This would have been my first story ever submitted into a contest.

So I hope you all enjoy it!

There was once a young lad know as Sabin,he has just landed on an unknown alien planet,he is only equipped with a torch and hunting knife.
He eagerly stepped out of his escape pod from their doomed starship,he looked up at it as it burns to nothing,but a crisp
Ash covers the sky of the unknown planet,it is dreadfully dark,the sun being blocked by the heavy ash.
Sabin shakes his head and clears his thoughts to focus on his current events. "I need to survive on this planet...I need to find the others.."
He sets on to his path full of determenation to find his friends that were scattered along the planet.
A day passes as Sabin wipes his forehead of sweat,after a long day of hard work he has a beautiful log cabin built up.
The cabin is filled with essentials. His makeshift radio makes a buzzing noise as the screen of it lights up as if someone was trying to contact it.
He gasps when he notices,he rushes over to it and quickly looks at it. "It's my friends! They're alive! This is great!"
As some time passes he follows the coords he was given to be greated by two men a tad older than him,but they are equally as happy to see Sabin.
They rush to one another and cheer. "We found each other! Nothing can stop of from surviving on this planet! Our mission will be a success!"
Sabin soon remembers as to why they're actually on the planet. "Ah,yes! We are here to colonise it of course! We're ones of the first to actually make it!"
The men gleefully smile as they realise their mission is going to be a complete success with the whole crew together again.
"Now we just have to radio in to command and get the citizens here!"
They proceed to radio in to command nothing seems to go through. "What? Why is there just static...This makes no sense!"
One the men sigh "Maybe the antenna isn't strong enough...Well at least this planet is filled with resources and exteremly valuable resources.
We should be able to put together a proper anteena in no time.." The other man smiles as he puts his hand on his ally "This is true,there is no need to dread we can get these resources in no time!"
Sabin smiles as he looks up to them "Hopefully so,but thankfully the escape pods were filled with plenty of supplies in case of something like this happening."
A week passes as the lone log cabin is now turned in to a decently sized stone home. The anteena has been upgraded,it now looks a tad more modern."
They proceed to use it to contact command once again "Nothing,but static again...What's happening?.. This makes no sense!"
Has something happened to command? Or are we simply too far out? This is unbelievable..." Sabin pounds his fist along the table out of annoyance.
The radio begins to bing and light up once more. "There's more people on the planet!? That's impossible! We were the only ones that were supposed to be here!"
It sounds as if there is an argument going on,on the other end of the signal. "Hello? Can you hear us!?" Sabin asks excitedly.
"Yes,we can! Who are you!?" Sabin smiles at the reply "My name is Sabin,my friends are..." Sabin is cut off from finishing his sentence
"I care nothing for your names I only wish to know if you're friendly!" Sabin is confused by this statement and nervously replies.
"Ye..yes we are...friendly,we are only here to colonise the planet for the future of humanity..." The voice on the other side seems to be surprised by that statement
"I thought none of you existed anymore! We haven't heard from command in a long time,we get nothing but static!"
Sabin raises an eyebrow confused "Wh...what?" The transmission suddenly goes dark,both sides are silent. Sabin looks down at the ground.
"I don't think command is around anymore.." Sabin takes in a deep breath and exhales. "It's up to us to finish the mission no matter what.."
Years pass as Sabin is found sitting at a radio thinking to himself. An eyepatch now covers his left after all the events that transpired ever since they first landed on the planet.
His friends are laying on the beds in the other room tired out from their daily work. Their mission is complete. Hundreds of people are living in harmony,perfect peace.
There is no hate in this world,only love and friendship. Sabin can never forget the past of this planet though,niehter can his friends.
They're all forever strickened and toughened by the planet's hardships. They refuse to let what happened in the past to ever happen again.
A bleep comes from their advanced radio. They all stare at it in shock,eyes widen. What came on the radio is something they believe would never happen again.
"You boys there?" The transmission says. "Yes we are!" They all reply in excitement. "Good job boys,we know it's been a long time since you had contact with us,
but stuff on the planet here got tough for a while,everything is all back up for now...we got reports from you that the civilisation is a massive success!
Be prepared we're all coming home!" Sabin and everyone tear up from the transmission as they can't contain their excitement and are relieved that nothing they did was in vain.
"We're prepared for you all! The world welcomes you with open arms commander!" They all proudly salute the radio as Sabin can finally rest with ease, everyone can now.
The end...Or is it?

Story was written by me  SabinSaberWolf

Art Is By  AlexBruno

This story is also based on my experiences with a video game called Cryofall.