It was cold.
That was all she could think of to describe the barren wasteland that once was covered in luscious foliage. All that remains is the fallout from the nuclear war that ravaged the world.
If this is the apocalypse, she isn't sure what will make life begin again.
Her worn leather boots were scuffed and covered in dust, as she put one foot in front of the other, unsure of where her destination was or where she was going.
All she knew was that she needed to find a sign of life.
Her clothes were threadbare, faded from the harsh, heatless sun beating down on her. The world had entered a nuclear winter, and no one was entirely sure of what to do. Maybe the nuclear shelters had been a good idea, when the terrorist cell of Akatsuki lit up a missile, and every nation had retaliated by launching their own.
Either way, she was alone, and if she wasn't armed to the teeth with an AK slung across her back with a pistol on her hip, the world would be a dangerous place for a young girl like herself.
The bag she carried is stuffed full of iodine pills and radiation medicine she had taken from the vault when she left, ready to see the sun for the first time in years.
Maybe it wasn't a good decision, but it was too late to go back.
Her breath fans out in front of her, the temperature nearly frozen in the middle of August.
This is it. The apocalypse.
The animals that survived the nuclear fallout have become vicious and mutated, and the axe at her side had saved her life countless times since she left the vault in search of something, anything.
Hours later she can see it on the horizon. The peaks of skyscrapers, the first sign of life as she once knew it since she left the vault. She nearly drops her bag on the ground in relief, knowing that with the city came resources, despite how irradiated it may be.
There was enough medicine in that bag to last her a year. Maybe there would be more in the city.
Heaving a sigh, she continued on, one foot in front of the other, her green eyes fixed on the city on the horizon.
The apocalypse had come full force, and she was ready to face the fallout.
AN: New story. We'll see where this goes. Inspired by the Fallout video game series and Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.