caldera
n : a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression
The famous Mayan Prophecy. The last winter solstice. 12 21 12. Armageddon. The Apocalypse. The change of times, the end of days, the rapture the despair oh the horror oh the humanity. They called it what they wanted, they called it what it was.
2012.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
It wasn't a secret it wasn't a surprise. It was as inevitable as time itself, as death itself, as terrifying. Oh there was skepticism, there was denial, there was speculation. But it was THERE. It was there like a reflection. Like a vendetta.
Tick. Tick.
He looked up from the fires of hell and witnessed for himself the six billion grains of sand in the hourglass that was EARTH. That dirty little ball of sin and war, of hate and disease dragging itself to the end of its own singed time line.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.
How short life is for the mortal. How pointless. How. Bleak. What was a mortal lifetime compared to his own eternity, where time means nothing and death means obsession? How were they to know that nine hundred and ninety nine hours before the reckoned day, HE was to explode from the moist earth like magma and destroy destroy destroy. HE was to devastate. HE would erase the mistake that was the world with hellfire. Nothing would be left in his wake. Nothing and nothing and hellfire and havoc and ashes.
Tick tick tick tick tick.
Sasuke would only have to wait.