Survivors

25 Years

25 Years Later

The pod door opens and I fall straight out. Still a little stiff and frozen I moan an 'Ouch!' as I wake up. 'Morning Jarvis' I say with my voice slightly croaking. 'Glad to have you back Maria!' He responds.

I breathe heavily as I feel my body hunger for blood. I run down the hall with my super speed and whack myself into a wall. 'You may be a little uncoordinated for a little while, the effects of the sleep are only temporary' 'Thanks Jarvis' I say standing up and walking slowly to the lunch room. The case display cabinet is light up and unlocked, showing me my regulated amount of blood to keep my system running.

'Five blood bags of B+ blood, my favourite. I break the seal of one and completely devour it. I stuff the others in my pockets and make my way to the bridge. 'Update me Jarvis, what's been happening whilst I've been away' I say. 'My scans of the planet indicate that the planet is still inhabitable, although the planet has been attempting to heal itself the lack of sunlight is affecting oxygen production, In 25 years I have run a simulation that shows over eighty five percent of the ash in the atmosphere will have fallen to earth, meaning that the sunlight will be able to start the regeneration process on the planet.'

I look out the window seeing the familiar ball of ash still in space. After finishing my third bag of blood I decide to take a walk to the cage, which should give me enough time to drink the last bag of blood and make me ready to transform. I take the elevator down to the bottom level. I activate the seal and I start shedding my clothes. Standing in the centre of the cage I begin to transform into a wolf.

Bone snapping, skin tearing and fur in areas I can't describe starts. I howl loudly and look out at the moon. I fall onto all fours as I feel my body contorting into my true form. Bright golden and white fur comes out of my skin and I shake myself off. I howl loudly again as I look out of the window.

I have mastered my wolf form. I can control my wolf, not the other way around, so when I see a strange object on the other side of the moon I shake my body back into my human form almost immediately and grab my clothes on, my body is fully back to normal as I sense everything. I run back up to control and manually locate the 'ship'.

'Jarvis, can you lock onto the coordinates on the screen and tell me what that is.' Jarvis' system locates it. An initial scan shows it is filled with humans.' Jarvis explains.

Since our vessel has reflective and light absorbent plates it is likely we are invisible to them. 'How is it possible?' I ask wide eyed.

'The frame of the ship is made of similar material to ours. It appears as though each capsule that is joined together is from different countries. This means that there must be survivors from the most popular nations in the world, and they have all joined together to form an arc like structure, keeping the last people of humanity' Jarvis continues.

'Whoa' I remark. 'I want to know who they are, without the contact', 'Jarvis, do we have a small device we could propel and latch onto their ship and ghost their system, you know, have access to their data without being traceable?' I ask. 'Yes, there is a device small enough, but unfortunately you do not have enough time before you're next sleep cycle to pull the materials needed together.' He responds.

'Could you draw me up a list of what I need and where to find the parts so when I come out of stasis next I can just grab them and go?' I ask. 'Yes of course Maria the list will be complete in time for you to wake up next.' 'Thanks Jarvis' I respond, I look up the timer and notice a good four hours before my next cycle so I decide to go to the large window in the lunch room and open out my spell book planner. Under each person's sleep pods there is a small hatch underneath to keep belongings and stuff.

After reading over my journal I find a page dedicated to the repair and healing of plants. I light the candles, on their stands, use my inner strength and focus all my energy on making the earth repair itself.

The candles' flames burns tall as I say the spell looking towards earth 'Invoco virtus lucem nox ista transierit ad cæruleum tellus positor' I repeat the spell and feel my hands heat up. I open my eyes, still chanting the spell to notice green and blue light flooding from my hands, out of the ship flowing to earth. I smile as the light fades. 

I walk over to the cabinets and find something to eat. Luckily I remember I hid a candy bar under my pod. I walk back through all the hallways calling for a shutdown of power, to keep the battery going. I make it to my pod, open up the bottom compartment and find the chocolate bar. 'Yes!' I whisper, tearing down the toffee crisp wrapper and taking a small bite. 'It tastes so good' I joke with myself. The timer on the wall will reset counting down the days until my next visit once I get in. 

I call out 'Goodnight Jarvis' and he calls back, 'See you soon Maria'. I close the door and enter my sleep again.