Erick

At first, I thought I was dead. As it turns out I found myself in a pitch black hole, I felt the walls and the ground and it felt less like dirt but more of a metallic feeling to it. I immediately tried to find a way out of this unnatural hole only to find what happened outside. However when I try to remember what happened before I woke up, I draw a blank. After a while I feel a groove on one of the walls and released it, it was a lever within the wall. I reach for it and pull down and push. I struggled because it seemed I was asleep for a long time because my body was not used to extraneous activities. Finally when the lever was pulled down and I pushed out, I saw a grayish reddish sky with no clouds and a kind of fog or mist that appeared to surround me like a devil’s aura. It was so silent not a single living creature seemed to cry out for help or make their presence known. It was very warm not cold surprisingly, it felt as if I had a fever. I could see no signs of plants, grass or trees anywhere. What remained were ugly, disfigured carcasses of trees or plants that seemed to look like demons dancing in the aura. Debris was everywhere, papers with information from a lost era with announcements for upcoming events. Pieces of houses and buildings were either still standing or on the floor. As I took my first step out of the warm and “cozy” hole I noticed two things, there was an infinite amount of dust on the ground and that I had injuries. How I got these aches and pains I don’t know. I started limping my way through the debris and rubble to find any sign of survivors. I smelled burned flesh and decay, I felt as if I was walking through an ancient scene of battle. I read the signs on the walls of destroyed buildings and signs that were not destroyed by whatever hit this misfortunate area. I came to one of these signs “PREPARE FOR THE WORST: VOTE RICK E. RESORT FOR YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT, GOP PARTY” I read more and found out it was the year 2085, but when I tried to read more the piece was missing lost in this graveyard. I walked more and saw more, a once proud school in ruins. The red and black colors with eagles. A place where people went to learn now a wasteland for the unknown. I saw old shops a red target sign lying next to cars trying to escape whatever was the inevitable doom that they were facing. A broken bridge leading to the other side blocked my way of going to the other side and I climbed down and started walking on the empty freeway. I came across a fallen airplane, the reek of the gasoline offending my nose and I carefully walked by. I could see the dead passengers, their last moments imprinted like ice in their decaying last positions. Walking on the empty 15 freeway as I saw because of the sign obstructing cars, I suddenly remembered who I was. Well I looked in my back pocket and found my driver’s license it said Keith Tesfaye, nineteen years old, and born on June sixth 2066.  I made sure by looking at a side view mirror on a wrecked car. I walked for nearly 3 hours until I reached an eerie place. There were countless heads on sticks, body parts on the floor and an infinite amount of blood everywhere. The flies flew everywhere, this was their idea of a grand feast of decay. I was suddenly rushed by a half-naked man with a spear. His eyes were red and a terrible amount of spit and mucus was dangling from his half open mouth. The savage Hissed and bared his rotten teeth “Are you……DEAD!?!” I jumped back and in shock did not answer him right away. “I said……have you…..DIE!?!” I was so paralyzed with fear that I still could not open my mouth to answer his peculiar question. I barely shook my head and the savage’s eyes widen and he tilted his head giving me a face that would be etched in my mind for an eternity.  I looked behind him and found more savages, all of their faces disfigured. The Leader who I was speaking to suddenly straighten up and point at me. “YOU JOIN US……NOW” and then I knew no more as blackness covered my eyes. 

TO BE CONTINUED