Chapter One: Autumn School Day

October 24 2014, Michelle's Point of veiw

It's kinda hard not to forget a day as important as today; seeing that it changed my life. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if it hadn't happened at all. Are you wondering just what I'm blabbing on about?

Well, the beginning is always a pretty good place to start. But… for your case I'll start form before the beginning.

This all started 17 years ago. When the meteor hit Antarctica and caused the polar ice caps to melt; the following rise in sea level killed a large amount of the Earth's population. Soon after this the first "Angel" immerged. This abomination of nature killed at least half of the population that was still left.

We humans went into hiding in huge battle fortress like cities. The largest one is Tokyo-3. Where the intelligence NERV Head Quarters are. I had never been to this city personally, but many pictures of it filled the newspaper. They called it "A scientific marvel". Scientific marvel? Please, spare me the head ache. Most of the other world cities have done the same, and they aren't being called a scientific marvel!

Well, after the Angel attack, we had to find a way to defend ourselves. Conventional weapons didn't seem to phase the monster. So, new weapons were invented, yet they were useless. Our efforts were fruitless… until the Evangelion was created. This thing seemed like it was the last hope. If it didn't work, well, you know what would happen. Humans would go extinct. To our surprise the Mecha worked. It defeated the angel. The world rejoiced. The thing that had saved us was the first Evangelion. It was called Eva 00.

15 years later… the angels came back. Since then nothing has been normal…

When I woke p, I got dressed and ready for school. Upon arriving down stairs for breakfast I found to my horror, the milk was curdled, the bread was covered in blue fuzzy mould, and the bananas were covered in well, whatever a banana gets covered in. I groaned, and looked up at the kitchen clock. It was nearly 7 am, the time the bus came to pick up the students down my road. Shit! I'm going to be late! Shouting out a "Get more food tonight. Love ya mom!" I was out the door and running for the bus stop.

It was a cool, crisp October morning in New Toronto. Leaves in the trees fluttered down like a late spring rain. They twirled around the ankles of the other passers by. The bus stop came into view. There stood Emily.

I have known Emily since the beginning of High School. We both had a friend in common, and since then we've been close. She turned and waved cheerfully at me. Beaming with happiness like she always did. Man, she could light up the gloomiest room with her good sense of humour. I can' think of one person at our High School who does smile when she passes by.

"Good morning Michelle!" She said cheerfully.

I yawned, still a little bit groggy from the late night of studying. "Good morning Emily. Finish that math assignment last night?"

She shook her head no. "I don't understand why Mrs. Lefot always gives us so much homework the night before something is due. God, doesn't she know that people always do their homework at the last minute?"

"That's why she gives us so much homework." I answered. "She's trying to teach us that doing things last minute isn't good. And she's doing a good job of it too."

Emily rolled her eyes playfully, and returned her attention to the street. The bus came a few moments later. We lumbered onto the bus, and looked for a place to sit. Sadly the only seat open was the seat with the funny white stain. Most of the kids joked that it was sperm. Other kids said it was white out that a grade 12 had spilled when they were whiting out a pen mark on their book. No one ever took it seriously, but everyone avoided the seat anyway. We looked at each other, shrugged and sat down. Doing so got us some funny looks from the grade 9s. Who giggled and pointed to our location with their friends.

When the bus pulled into the loading zone, everyone got off the bus as fast as they could. Emily and I were the last ones off the bus as usual. The group of students pushed their way into the warm building, and out of the cool crisp autumn air outside. I sighed in relief upon entering the school. It was always the right temperature. Modern science sure was a wonderful thing. Our High School, Saint Mary Anne High School, was only recently built. After the first angel attacked, it was destroyed, along with many other schools in the region. NERV, the association that was supposed to take care of the angel attacks gave us funding for a bigger school to replace the ones that had been destroyed. About 90% of the donated money was used to build the school, buy new supplies, and finish the renovations of the Public School around the block. The other 10% vanished. No one knows where it went. Some students thought the teachers had divided it up amongst themselves. They denied it.

Life went on. Every few months we have an evacuation drill, in case an angel comes. None have ever come this far up north. They mostly stay near Tokyo 3 where the NERV head quarters are. Sometimes, we actually have a real evacuation. But nothing ever happens. The Government is full of a bunch of cowards I say. Constantly looking over their shoulders and calling "false alarm" angel attacks.

It al seems ancient history now, what happened so long ago… That's what they teach us here in history class. It's all about the Second Impact and barely anything else. It drives me and the others nuts.

"And so…" The history teacher, Mr. Hillcrest droned on. "The Second Impact caused the Antarctic Polar Ice Capps to melt, drastically rising the sea levels, and resulting in the flooding of many coastal cities, and the deaths of millions of people."

The bell rang; the students quickly closed their laptops, and made their way to the door.

Mr. Hillcrest coughed, and said. "Your homework tonight is to read chapters 5 to 7 about the flooding of Nove Scotia. Have a good day." He went back to erasing the board.

I made my way down the hall. Suddenly, someone wrapped their arms around my waist and shouted.

"Good MORNING!"

I nearly jumped out of my skin. Whipping my head around, I saw my friend Alisa. She giggled and let go.

"I got you this time didn't I?" She laughed.

I breathed out slowly, trying to slow the pounding in my chest. "Yes Alisa. You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

She laughed again, black hair swinging behind her as she walked. She linked her arm around my shoulders. We walked upstairs to our lockers. Her locker was just down the hall from mine, beside Emily's locker and Josh's as well. She pulled out her science books, and smiled.

"See you at lunch!" She yelled from down the hall.

I nodded. "See you at lunch…"