Into The Dawn

Chapter 1.1 : Flowers

                                                   

                               

                              "It's dark, Really dark.  I cant see anything, Not even my hand in front of my face, But I can hear noise coming from the floor below." Jacob thought to himself.  "I think there is someone on the second floor.  I can hear someone talking, he has a low raspy Voice."  I am still unsure if they know I am here but I must be as quiet as possible" As time goes by Jacob becomes restless wanting to go out and investigate but not wanting to alarm anyone of his presence.  

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                its been 15 years since everything since the downfall. somehow someone hacked the system and destroyed the whole stock market from the inside out causing a full economic collapse. once people realized that the're was no more money in the banks and that all their stocks where gone people started rioting. the riots spread like a cancer. first to go were the small cities who had limited resources.  then followed bigger cities like new York, Vegas, and L.A. and eventually state by state law enforcement were forced into hiding,  anyone with a badge was killed. and soon after law enforcement was taken out entirely. Citizens started to die off due to starvation, dehydration, murder, and even nukes.  natural disasters  seemed ten times worse when there where no hospitals to go to, or national Guard to rescue people and provide food and water to the sick, aswell as shelter to the ones who lost homes.  if someone was caught in a disaster they usually died due to the lack of support. eventually the population of america dropped drastically until there were only a few thousand left, 
             One man among the survivors who learned to adapt to this new world, a man named Jacob perez. Jacob Is a well built man, before the apocalypse he spent most his time at the gym. Jacob stands about 6.3"  very muscular toned body never went a day without working out in his life. Jacob had joined the marines in 2005 when he was 18 and finished his term in 2012 when he was 25 and from there he kept training his skills in urban survival.

During Jacobs term as a marine he of course had his fair share of death and by now was used to it. Jacob had a friend named Johnathan Harvey, John for short. It was mid 2010 around July. All the men where hyped up cause of independence day.  which just so happens to be a pretty big day for the marines. they had fireworks bigger than you've ever seen. Even one that made an American flag in the sky. There were grills everywhere Hot dogs, Hamburgers, Steaks, And all the alcohol you could drink.

Jacob was with John just having a good time making jokes about each others Girlfriends and wives back at home when all of a sudden Jacob hears a loud boom. Normally this would not bother him because of the fireworks but this one was different. The loud Boom was followed by many screams and people were running twords the explosion. Jacob at this point knew this was no accidental firework discharge, the explosion was shortly followed by another. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "AIR RAID!!!" Jacob heard someone shout from the middle of camp. this was not a drill, Jacob knew they were not dumb enough to do a drill in the middle of the 4th. 

So many people were shouting bullets were flying past heads, explosion after explosion Jacob quickly grabs as many injured soldiers as he could and dragged them to safety, he thought to himself "Was anywhere safe?" "Wheres John?" Jacob was panicking even more now that he could not find his friend, he ran frantically through the camp trying to stay out of the path of bullets and explosions.  "JOHN!!? ARE YOU THERE JOHN? JOHNATHAN!!!!!?"  "Get your head down soldier." Jacob heard a man yell from underneath a Jeep. Jacob dropped to the ground and rolled under to cover at first he did not recognize him but the man yelling at him was Sargent Dillion merser. "Sorry Sir Sargent!" Jacob Yelled over the explosions "Have you seen Johnathan?" Jacob asked  "Its a war zone out here! I was lucky to find you perez"  "What do we do now Sir?" Jacob asked "Now we wait Draw in as many friendlies to safety as we can and hope we don't get hit."