Abandoned: 3192

Chapter 1: The Beginning

  

   They once said there was a place here teeming with life. I say, there wasn’t.

    Because a long time ago, there was a sallow looking man known as Kirk Laritzen. He was a quiet, kept to himself kind of guy that silently fit in. but when he fell ill with a rare disease known as typhus, he began to plot.

    For two years. As he was struggling to survive, he “invented” a huge plane known as the typhus duster. It was very large and could cover the entire state of Delaware (now known as the Initiator).
    It could fly very fast, making it a quick and efficient killer. Using his own life as a sacrifice, he gathered the population of typhus infected people and slit their wrists over the sprayer. He bled them until they were cold and lifeless.

    How do I know this, you may ask? I know because I am his son. When I saw my father murder those innocent people, I ran away to the safety of my mother’s caring, safe hold.

    Even before my father’s invention wreaked havoc upon the earth, it still wasn’t exactly “teeming”. In fact, over half the legion’s population was dead. Wiped out by the third civil war. It was tragic. But worse things were about to happen.

    On March 19, 3192, my mother launched the typhus duster. That ruined the United Legions forever. When it zoomed away, it made me dizzy. Soon, it disappeared over the horizon.

    Then, my mother screamed for me to run to the safety vault, the place my father constructed for my safety. I ran, scared for my life, willing my skinny legs to take me there.

     I wrestled with the door lever, trying desperately to open it. As soon as I opened it, I ducked for cover under the door that I almost slammed my fingers in.

    Then, I heard an ear-splitting whine from the plane’s engine overhead. Then a splatter of the blood droplets on the thick steel door. A blood curdling scream; my mother’s final breath.

     I cried and cried, kicked and sobbed until I had no breath left in me. And that was only the beginning of the destroyed world.