Disclaimer: I do not own the characters associated with -Man. I just like making them dance for me.
"Although we have no obligation
to stay alive,
on broken backs
we beg for mercy.
We will survive."
Behind Closed Doors- Rise Against
I don't think that people thought the world would end this way in the year 2012. With all the fuss they made about the world ending, people made it seem like the world would blow up somehow or implode on itself. At least, that's what I heard from the stories my parents told me...when I still had parents anyways. It's 2030 now, 18 years after the infamous 2012. The world ended, but I think it ended differently in the way people thought it would.
What had happened, my parents told me, was that a huge asteroid hit the Earth. While odd, it was only news for a few months before events more interesting came up. My parents said, that it started happening slowly. Random households would have their lights flicker now and then, but it became more frequent and much longer. This happened a year later after the asteroid hit. They said, they thought it maybe happened a few months after it but, less frequent and much shorter and hit less houses ; so it looked like regular electric problems. Three years after the asteroid hit did all the electricity failed. A few months after that, it stopped raining and stayed forever sunny and just got hotter and hotter.
That was when survival of the fittest started and slowly, Earth's population began to decrease. The first to go off were the sick, then the elders, followed by much younger children, toddlers and such. Then it depended if you were physically fit to survive, or knew how to kill or what plants to eat. Sadly, that wasn't the worst of it. An unknown disease had hit a good amount of the population -during the year what they believed was 2022-, like the Black Plague during the Medieval era(whatever that is.). We lacked working hospitals and doctors, the disease ended up wiping almost everyone. My parents and I were the few lucky individuals that didn't get hit. Now, I'm not sure how many people are left on this planet; I wouldn't even be surprise if I happened to be the last person on this planet. After that, towns, cities and villages have been abandoned it seems. The buildings are still intact though, besides some smaller stores and lower levels having broken windows because of wild riots that formed when electronics stopped working and grocery stores ran out of food.
I don't remember a whole lot of what happened, since I was born only a few days after the asteroid hit and still slightly young during some of it. These stories are all I have left of my parents, besides the lessons on how to hold on my own. What happened to them, I'm not sure. I was 12 when one day, I saw them right before I went to bed and, then I woke up in another part of the city with my parents gone.
Was I heart broken? Immensely so. Betrayed? I got through that stage a long, long time ago. Now, six years later, I'm just a wanderer. Staying in one place for so long gets boring, and runs out of game fast since there is little of it. I'll go for a minimum of two days without food, and barely a day without water. Lucky, my parents left me a plastic water jug to put whatever water I find in it. Sometimes I'll get lucky and find houses that still have a running hose and I'll fill it up. But, that only happened about three times I think. Typically I would find a small pond and fill it up full and boil it in a pot I picked up at a old Kroger store that happened to have a small amount of items left. I also found lighter fluid there and a lighter at a gas station. Sticks are everywhere now, so it's easy to build and start a fire. I try to rashen my water supply by drinking when I most absolutely need to. It can be days or longer before I can even find more water. So, I wander.
I have no set path and just go any direction that my gut tells me too. Like it matters where I go anyways, the chances of actually finding another person is small. I haven't even left the state yet, just slowly making my way up North. Traveling by night and sleeping during the day, a safer way of getting through. At least animals are less likely to attack me during the day than at night, where it's easier to hide. It's also less likely more me to be unguarded for a person to attack me. That's what I am scared of the most. Not the animal or even the person attacking me but, it's meeting a person. That is what I am truly afraid of.
