As it seems to be with me these days, every time I think "I'm done, I have no more ideas" another plot bunny pops into my brain and just won't let go. This story is so different from anything else I've tried, so please be patient, give me feed back and let me know what you think along the way. I'm hoping to bring you shorter chapters (for me anyway) and hopefully post on a more regular basis.
Disclaimer: Twilight and anything pertaining to its world belongs to Ms. Meyers. The plot and original characters are my own.
Chapter 2
This is Jasper's World
The year is 2146 and earth as you know it no longer exits. It was destroyed by a planet wide war in the year 2092. What's left is a dark and dismal place. There are no old people and babies are grown in factories. The entire populace of the planet lives inside a city surrounded by a ten story high wall that is three feet thick.
An invisible shield covers the metropolis of Voltu and shields it from any outside light penetrating to the people on the streets below. The climate is a constant 78 degrees. There is no wind blowing and no rain. Everyone inside has been there their entire lives. They do not have any idea what grass looked like or felt like beneath their feet. They have never seen a body of water or a river running. No one inside has ever seen a live tree or a flower's colorful bloom. They've only seen them in old movies or vids or a book if they were so lucky to find one. Their homes are made of metal and brick and mortar or some kind of man made material. Nothing natural exists inside the walls of Voltu. No one remembers what sunshine is. They've only known artificial light. There's no one alive who remembers ever seeing any of these things the planet naturally produced.
It's against the law for humans to have sex or procreate. They've been told of how dangerous these old fashioned ideas are. After the war many diseases overcame the populace. Birth defects were out of control. There are prostitute androids for sex, both male and female. No one falls in love or gets married or shows compassion towards other humans, well no one but the Heretics.
Heretics are humans that preach there is more outside the city walls than the governing powers want those inside the city to know. Green plants, large bodies of water and real sunshine still exist outside. But those inside the city have been taught that the world outside is contaminated, not habitable; a barren waste land. The vids are shown repeatedly by the governing powers that run Voltu and they show a desolate land with no vegetation baked by a fierce sun which even causes cracks in the dry ground. There are no green fields, there is no blue water, and there is no life outside the city; that's what the vids tell them every day.
This is Jasper's life. He is a Tracker. He is the best tracker that has ever existed. He goes after the ones who run to the outside. Jasper never wondered why they run until recently. Do they believe what the Heretics say? Why go against the laws that are supposed to keep them safe?
And even more curious is the fact that many of the ones who were incubated near the time when Jasper was are…disappearing. The numbers grow larger every year. Are they running? Is some awful disease causing deaths that the governing ones aren't telling them? There have been rumors of plagues before. Something is going on and Jasper wants to figure it out. He has to figure it out. His gut is telling him it's a matter of life or death and it could be his own.
And so it begins. Let me know what you think. Edwards chapter will be up next.