Chapter 1

Today started off like any other day.  Ronaldo woke up, grabbed a quick shower, and watched some Sportscenter while he ate his lunch.  He was still tired from a long day of fishing the day before.  It's not often he actually catches fish when he goes fishing, but yesterday was different.  The fish were attacking his bait like a lion attacks a gazelle.  The sun had taken a lot out of Ronaldo and had burned his face a dark shade of red, the one place he had forgotten to apply sunblock.  

Not long after finishing his lunch did Ronaldo start to notice the humming sound that was coming from just outside his bedroom window.  Being the curious cat that he was, Ronaldo slowly opened the blinds to reveal a magnificent sight.  There was a large rectangular shaped box sitting on the grass just outside his window.  It was a dark green box with all sorts of pictures and phrases on it.  It looked just like a weapons box that people in the army used to hold their stuff.  Ronaldo was intrigued by this strange yet exciting box and decided to venture outside to see what it was.  He left his room and walked to open the garage ripe with anticipation.  He couldn't believe that something interesting was actually happening in his dull and repetitive life.  As he opened the garage and rounded the corner of the house where the green rectangular box was just moments ago, Ronaldo stopped dead in his tracks.  The box that had been there just seconds before, was there no longer.  Ronaldo found himself staring at nothing but the air conditioner and garden hose that was also located outside his bedroom window; the box had vanished.  "There was no way someone could have lifted the box by themselves and moved it that quickly" Ronaldo thought to himself.  Now more depressed than normal, Ronaldo stomped back inside to get ready for work.  Little did he know, that soon his life would be changing forever.