Short Stories

Thirty-Four: Earth

Prompt: The Earth is flat, and NASA is guarding a giant ice wall in Antartica. Beyond that wall is more continents and oceans that only the elite inhabit. A group of explorers sneak past the wall and discover the rest of the world.

When you find this, I will most likely have been reported dead in the seven known continents on Earth. And if you're wondering why I said the seven known continents it's because there are more past this gigantic wall in Antarctica. There are probably millions more that I will not discover, and I don't want to.

The creatures here are vicious and wild. But, they aren't stupid. They will track you down and watch you from a distance. They cut off your food and water source tactfully and take down each one of your companions until they decide you're next. It's not even a merciful death. They eat your limbs first, so you are still alive and in pain. In fact, they seem to relish in the fact that you are in pain. I've seen them. They smile with those unholy teeth. The creatures shouldn't even be possible. They're the kind of creatures that creep in your nightmares, wait under the bed, or peep from the closet.

The animals shouldn't even be able to eat, kill, but not eat. They're not made of any muscle, and they look and hunt like a shadow. Always following you around, but never able to touch. The only thing that scares them is complete darkness, but even then there are these jaguar looking things that hunt the best in the dark. Except, their fur is dangerously sharp, and their drool is sticky like a strong glue but the most acidic thing that has possibly ever existed. One of my friends stepped in a puddle of drool. It burned right through their shoe in an instant. Another friend touched it. They died two minutes later. Their fangs seem to be made of metal and their eyes are nonexistent. Their tail is long like a whip and has killed one of my friends. I'll never forget the screams that came afterward after they were snatched.

However, the scariest thing here is the people. Most of the missing people you see in those missing posters are here. I met one of their groups. Barely escaped with my life. Rest of my friends were eaten by maggots and locusts that just appeared from those people's hands. It was terrifying. I'm the sole survivor of that group. I don't know why I'm still alive but I am. The shadow things and jaguar animals are all around here. Don't come to this place. Warn all the continents that you know of. I'm going to teleport this letter to you with a SIM card from my camcorder. Don't come here. Goodbye.

Your hands shook as you closed the letter that had appeared on your dinner table while you were eating breakfast. The letter was yellowed and some drops of dried blood splattered the bottom right edge. You set down the letter on the clean table shakily. You put your head into your hands and sat there shaking. You had watched the video earlier and then read the letter again.

Years later, you finally warranted enough attention to warn the world, but they didn't believe you. The apocalypse then come. The ice wall broke and shadow monsters and demon jaguars came out along with the magic users. Other creatures that came were large like Bigfoot but had fangs like an orc and could turn a person to dust by looking at them with their eyes. Harmless looking goats also came out except that when to eat they unhinge their jaw like a snake their snake tongue curls around their prey and swallows them. You can hear the screams and sizzle of flesh of the victim if you stick around long enough.

Life was a living nightmare. Most people went crazy and killed themselves from breathing in the toxic breath of the trees that had traveled to the rest of the Earth. Soon, only a small population remained. Humans became an endangered species, but this time no one would save them. You died a peaceful death, not one which many got in this dangerous world. A few days later, humans went extinct for good.