A New Beginning

My name is Austin Jennings I'm sixteen years old. I have recently became town leader with my friend Daniel at my side. You see the nation once known as America has just fallen. Laws forgotten, the constitution burned. America was at its peak when people started to rebel tearing this wonderful nation apart. At first we tried piecing back the shattered pieces of this fallen nation, but finding the pieces was just too much.

People began to steal from others for survival, some killing others just for the rush. Now I don't want to be a hypocrite I have murdered a few people before, but it was for their own good. The dumb began to panic and the smart formed colonies, like me. Though I'm only seventeen I saved my town and built it up to become one of the strongest colonies around.

"Hurry the hell up!" Daniel yelled as we ran into the safety of what we hoped to be an abandon house. We ventured out of the walls of our colonies to help recruit more people and supplies, which today hasn't gone as planned. Behind us were two men carrying a whole array of guns firing in all direction trying to land a bullet in Daniel's and I's head. "Now get in here!" Daniel yelled as he threw the door of the house open, and then slamming it shut behind me.

"Hold this," I yelled as I tossed the backpack from my shoulder and into Daniel's arms. Just as the bag landed in his hands I unzipped the first pocket pulling out two fully loaded handguns. First rule of survival always check your ammunition. I checked the clip of the gun which was loaded. Quickly I cocked both guns, pushing Daniel to the ground as I began to fire out the window at the two men. The sound of the clicking of the empty echoed in my mind.

Daniel knew what had to happen for he already had two clips of ammunition waiting for me. Quickly I pressed the small release button and quickly slapped the full clips into the gun, again cocking it as I began to fire out of the window. I watched as both of the men fell to the ground, blood covering their chest. "Its all clear." I said as I helped Daniel to his feet. "Now lets get back to the colonie." I opened the door and began the long trek back home. We've walked for days just to get here to find nothing, a guy that was passing through gave us a tip on a huge supply bank, either he was lying, psychotic, or he could have been telling the truth.

"Hold this." I said as I handed Daniel the gun in my right hand. At first he looked at me as if I was dumb but then he finally took it. "What?" I asked as I grabbed the bag from his hand and placed it over my left shoulder.

"You know how I feel about killing." He said as he handed me back my gun. I did know how he felt about killing a lot of people felt that way, but I've found a few ways to deal with it. He was totally against killing, and I knew why. When our nation began to fall him and his family was forced to watch a group of innocent women and kids be publicly executed. Thats the day I began my work on the colonie I now care for. Daniel and his family was next in line for the execution but I arrived at the right time to save him and his whole family.

The rest of the walk was quiet the only noise escaped from the wrestling of the leaves in the autumn wind. The light wind nipped at my skin as the temperature began to drop. I wrapped my arms around my body trying to conserve my body heat. Getting right back to the warmth of our homes wasn't so easy though. We had a long way back home for we've been walking for day or two looking for anyone needing a safe place to live out the rest of their life, but there was no one well besides the two men I killed a few miles back, but they weren't wanting to come with us anyways. During this 'expedition' we took shelter in any abandoned houses that we could find, which is basically every house on this hell hole we like to call America.

Daniel was being unusually quiet, he would've said something by now. I looked over at him watching as he kicked a small pebble with his foot as we walked down the desolate highway. "Got something on your mind?" I ask as I lightly pushed his shoulder in a playful manner.