Chapter 20: Can You Hear Mother
(About 2,000 years post modern, Planet Earth, Antarctica A.K.A. Avashlaon)
(Camera comes down slowly and begins to pan around a man wrapped in a torn and tattered cloak with a strange silver jumpsuit like armor hugging to his body like a second skin, the man's body is probably physical no older than twelve years old and the man is clearly feeling alone and tired and has clearly been trying to find any other living creature for some time as he has been drifting across this massive desert like mesa. All around him are dead and decaying bodies, covered in vultures. The sky looks scorched and black, lightening can be seen tearing through the sky and flashing brilliantly off in the distance as thunder continues to echo all around. As a Montage showing him traveling through this stormy hell begins to play we hear him thinking to himself saying in a voice gentle and warm yet with a small bit of loneliness)
Man's Thoughts - Mother.
(We see him beginning to make his way up this steep hillside of human skulls mixed with small boulders and gravel as the montage continues to play)
Man's Thoughts - Can you hear me mother.
(We now see him making his way down a steep slope into a valley where we see several medium sized streams down below flowing into a small delta off in the distance, the man continues to make his way careful down the steep sloop drawing closer and closer to the small streams. The man stumbles and almost loses his footing but manages to recover and continues to make his way down the slope.)
Man's Thoughts - This silence is killing me.
(We now see that the man approaching and kneeling down beside the streams as he begins to drink of it cautiously, until he suddenly pulls back in horror as the pulls back his hand from the steams to find them covered and soaked not with pure stream water but instead stream water now thick and red with blood.)
Man's Thoughts - I'm afraid.
Man's Thoughts - I'm afraid the end world is not how you said.
(The montage continues as the man gets back to his feet and the winds begin to pick up wildly as he begins to look up at the skies only to find the sky begin to warp and twist into an evil looking deep thick black and dark vortex as if the whole sky was becoming scorched as lightening continues to tear through the sky and thunder begins to boom even louder in the deep and rain begins to fall hard from the sky like the tears of a thousand angels crashing down hard to the earth)
Man's Thoughts - And in this new worlds of ruins and death I don't if I can save anything.
(Next we see massive dragon-like vultures begin to circle in the skies above him screeching shrilly)
Man's Thoughts - I have been walking for 4 days and I have not yet seen another living person.
(The Montage continues as we now see the young man beginning to make his way up the steep slope on the other side of the streams of bloody water.)
Man's Thoughts - How long has it been since that night… that night you laid me down to sleep and told me not to be afraid?
(The montage continues as we now see the young man has reached the top of the steep slope and is now looking off into the distance across a vast flat wasteland stretching again as far as the eye can see in all directions. The young boy looks down at his hand as we see it suddenly begin to glow a bright shimmering purple as we continue to hear the man's thoughts say)
Man's Thoughts - The gift you gave me is indeed great but in this place so desolate and scorched I know not what good its power can do.
(The Montage continues as we now see the young boy/man making his way upon a massive patch of the desert covered in thousands of massive silver pillar like spikes around with we see thousands of dead bodies bound and impaled covered in vultures pecking at their dead flesh.)
Man's Thoughts - What manner of monster could cause such an abomination of evil and genocide like this? Was it by their own hand or by some divine power that this world was turned into a baron wasteland of rotting corpses and silent whispers from out of the shadows?
(The young man/boy begins to look himself over as we hear him thinking)
Man's Thoughts - I know I have been asleep for some time since that night because my body appears to have aged a good ten years at least but I know not exactly how long I have been trapped in dreams, shielded from awakening by your power until the time was right as you so deemed.
(The montage continues as we now find him making his way through a fearsome sand storm as we hear him thinking)
Man's Thoughts - You once spoke to me about a sanctuary, hidden, veiled from the deceitful eyes of man as you so put it.
(The Montage continues as we now see the young man look off into distance as his fall upon a massive destroyed and battle ravaged looking city of silver and glass off in the distance)
Man's Thoughts - You said this place, this sacred haven hide a great secret but how would I use it, how can I save in thing now, what even left here to save.
(Suddenly the man collapses as he become to scream out in pain clutching his head until he passes out from pain)