The World is Dying Part 1

1 How it Began

Friday

5:42 p.m.

The six friends started off their weekend driving to a forest to go camping. Although there was no campsite in the forest, they thought they'd give it a try, seeing as there were no campsites near them, and every year they had to drive four and a half hours to get to the nearest one. So they thought it'd be much easier to drive two and a half hours to get to a forest, that is perfectly fine for camping in.

When they arrived at the forest, they got out of the van--which they currently shared the pay of--and took a stretch.

They were in high school, almost done it, actually, and they always went on trips together, in their "great" van. They enjoyed every minute of every trip they had ever gone on, but this time, little did they know, everything was going to change.

They got back in the the car and went deeper and deeper into the forest

The forest had no path. Well, it sort of had a path, because in the path there weren't many rocks or anything to damage the tires of the van, but there were leaves and twigs and some branches that had fallen from trees in mediocre storms.

The van didn't have a hard time getting through the narrow dangerous path, because it was a four-wheel drive type of car. It was quite a nice car, while since six teenagers shared the price, it  would make quite a bit of sense.

Anyway, as they continued along the scary path, they looked for big patches of land that they could set up camp on. They saw many of them, but they were usually too small, or too large.

They kept arguing, saying they should camp with the biggest one possible, but Sam, the one who was currently driving, said they were too big.

"C'mon, Sam!," said Greg, the one just slightly younger than Sam, "Me and Jake think we should take the big one.

"Fine, we'll take the next one we see," Sam gets tired of arguing with him constantly, so he let it go.

"Thank you, jeez, you need to learn majority always wins."

Sam felt a sudden urge to prove him wrong on that, "Well, considering it's not majority, I think that we'll take whichever one the four of us want. Oh, wait a minute, did you forget about the other three people in this van, huh?

"Oh, crap." Greg and Jake said at the same time.

"Yeah, oh crap is right," Jay said, another one of the friends in the van, who was clearly on Sams side.

6:07

As their adventure in the van continued along the forest path, they found a tree trunk down right in front of them, blocking the path.

"Dang it, Nate said, one of the youngest people in the van.

"How are we supposed to get past this, Sam?"

"Well, Greg, you could just shut up now and use your brain. There is a good sized site right here."

"Oh..."

They thought they could just park the car right there, so they did.

They took out all of the tents they had. One massively large tent that could fit three people with extra room, a medium sized one which could fit probably three, but they just did two people, and one tent that could only fit one person, it was a normal tent.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention, the small tent was for Greg, because no one wanted to sleep near him, because he'd wake up in the middle of the night and find something to argue about.

They set up the tents, and they started to get ready for the darkness in the night. Nate volunteered to go collect kindling for a fire, and Sam went to get big blocks of wood.

He couldn't find enough around the area, so he started to chop up the tree blocking the way with a hatchet that he brought with him. Greg was freaking out because he thought he had heard a growling bear out in the distant forest.

As Sam was chopping the tree up into blocks, Elizabeth came up to him and said, "Here, it's an actual axe, I was thinking it might help."

"Thanks, EB," That was what the seven of them called her.

Jade walked over to him seconds later.

"Lucky for you, I brought a chainsaw!" she said, then she continued, "It might make a lot of noise, though."

"That's fine, thanks! Oh, and, could you bring this back to EB?" he handed her the axe.

"Sure! No problemo!"

As Sam sawed the tree down, Greg was putting rocks in a circle, and flat stones for a bottom, inside the circle of rocks. This was their campfire. But then, EB walked over to Greg and gave him her portable campfire.

"You're welcome!" she said.

Greg got so mad, and he started to argue with EB.

Meanwhile, Nate was deep in the forest collecting kindling, and he heard a deep growling noise that rumbled slightly under his feet. The noise grew louder, and the ground got shakier. He ran out of the forest as fast as he could, trying not to tumble over. It was getting bigger.

He saw the exit. His friends were right there.

And then...

Everything went black...