DATE: NOVEMBER 30th, 2017
Samuel was walking through the forest. The sun was beginning to set, and he had to be back by curfew, so he was walking pretty fast. The orange sun's bright light was blocked by the big green trees scattered all across the forest that were gently rocked back and forth by the cool breeze. As he walked deeper into the forest, he got more suspicious of the reason he was coming here. He went through the archive that was his mind, and then flashed back to a memory that had happened earlier that day.
He was walking through the school's hallway, keeping his head down so he didn't attract bullies. He wanted to get to homeroom without any problems. On his way to homeroom, he heard a group of boys talking about something that one of them had found in the woods over the weekend; a Native American statue. One of the boys was adamant about them showing evidence of it. He was about to go into homeroom when he heard one of them call out "Yo! Sam!". He turned his head and listened to them explain the whole story about the Native American statue, and how they wanted Samuel to snap a picture of it for them on his phone. Through his years of experience being a nerd, backing down would only result in them bullying Samuel into doing it, so he decided to say yes.
Samuel was starting to get tired, and just as he was about to sit down for a while, he spotted something in the distance. It looked like a statue, so he ran up to it, and it was a statue. Not just any statue, though, a Native American statue! He got out his phone and took a picture of it. He almost turned the other way when he spotted a paper in a small compartment that was located inside the statue. He took it out and decided to take it home with him.
"Dang it...It's all Native American writing," said Samuel, obviously annoyed. He was going to have to find some way to translate it. After a few minutes of digging on Google, he found a website with a Native American keyboard where you could type Native American into a box, and it would come out as English. Samuel carefully typed out the entire paper, hit translate, and found this:
"IF YOU ARE READING THIS BEFORE THE YEAR 2018, THEN YOU ARE LUCKY, BECAUSE THE EVENTS THAT WILL GO DOWN IN THAT YEAR WILL BE CATASTROPHIC FOR THIS PLACE. ASSUMING YOU GOT THIS OUT OF THE STATUE, YOU SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE HEADDRESS ON THE STATUE. IT IS SEALED WITH A VIRUS THAT HAS INFECTED MANY OF OUR PEOPLE. WE ARE CURRENTLY TRYING TO ERASE ALL TRACES OF IT, BUT THIS WILL BE THE ONLY TRACE LEFT. WE ESTIMATE THAT 2018 IS THE YEAR WHEN THE VIRUS WILL BREAK FREE. IT DOESN'T HAVE FREE WILL, BUT IT DOES ATTRACT ITSELF TO HUMANS. IF YOU INHALE IT, YOU WILL BE INFECTED. THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF IT IS TO SEAL IT. HOWEVER, ONLY STONE CAN SEAL IT, SO OTHER SUBSTANCES WILL NOT WORK. STAYING WILL GIVE YOU THE VIRUS. THAT IS ALL THAT I HAVE TO WRITE."
Samuel was confused. Virus in the headdress? Year 2018? Erasing all traces? This sounded like some government secret that Samuel wasn't supposed to know. It was probably a prank, but the paper looked really dated, so he doubted it. He knew he had to tell everyone, and he knew he had to do it fast.