The BLACKOUT

It All Hurts

My head started spinning, my heart started pounding, my ears started ringing, and a white-hot searing pain started to develop in my lower back ...The pain was unbearable, I collapsed to the ground in agony, screaming as my crippling pain made it impossible to think. I was laying alone, on the damp, green, unkempt, grass, choking on my own tears as I screamed. Although everything that had forced me into this agonizing state had stoped, every inch of me was still in great deal of pain, every muscle in my body refused to work, my heart was beating a mile a minute and my lungs were taunting me with the luxury of a painless breath, as I lay there motionless for hours staring into the darkness above me, hoping something would come to end my unbearable suffering.

Eventually, I gave up on all hope that someone would end me and my pain. I gathered every ounce of strength my near paralyzed body had left in it to sit myself upwards. My legs had gone limp and were in an indisputable sum of agony. I couldn't help but cuss out everything that ever did me harm as I sat there looking at my useless legs.

After my pain started to retreat I attempted to hoist myself up onto a nearby log, but it was no use, the extra dead weight my dysfunctional legs added made it near impossible for my fragile arms to haul. Soon enough, I collapsed, crying my eyes out, thinking about everything I had to live for and how this would be undoubtedly the worst possible way I could die. But even through the tears, I eventually ended up crying myself to sleep.

After I awoke from my painless sleep, I decided to try to sit again, it was like cutting through soft, room temperature butter with a searing hot knife. I actually startled myself into falling over again, which hurt a lot, my arms had eased up and were no longer posing as a challenge to move. Given that my arms could now move freely without sending me into a complete and utter meltdown, I assumed my legs could do the same, this led me to the idea I could stand, so I tried it. Despite the state, they were in earlier. I got to my knees with ease, I thought I might actually be able to stand, my legs worked enough for me to slowly crawl over to the nearby log without crumbling back down onto the, now, soaked grass. Once I reached the log I tried using it to hoist me up to my feet. I instantaneously crumpled backwards onto the floor in pain, I began cursing at my legs again hoping I could scare them into being even half-ass functional...just like the first time.

I still had no idea why this was happening to me, why my ears rang, why my heart pounded so hard and why I couldn't see straight, not a single scenario I put myself through could have ever add up to this much pain.

Soon enough, my body stopped hurting completely, which came as a surprise to me, as I thought my pain would be eternal. my bones no longer ached, my muscles no-longer felt like they were actively disintegrating, and my legs finally started functioning properly. I immediately tried standing again and much to my surprise, I didn't fall to the ground again.
Everything was just as it had been before I was struck by my unmeasurable amount of pain that had filtered through me, my legs could support my full weight again and not a single piece of my body hurt in any way shape or form. It was the most bizarre thing that had ever happened to me. One minute I was on the floor, in the fetal position and crying like there was no tomorrow and the next minute I was standing there as if nothing happened.
It made no sense, I couldn't believe it, I was just in the worst pain of my life, less than thirty seconds ago.
I decided not to stick around for much longer and I slowly trudged my way back up to my house.

Once I got there I realized that all the lights that were on when I left the house were destroyed, my fridge was off and nothing electricity-based would work, the light bulbs also left little glass shards everywhere. It appeared that every lightbulb in my house had exploded, I immediately went to call someone to see if any of this happened to them too. I was also planning on catching a ride to the hospital. I had subconsciously decided that I shouldn't drive myself just in case I fell back into the worse agony of my life again.

I went to call my mum when I realized that I had no cell service, I thought nothing of it so I grabbed a coat and a flashlight and headed off to the neighbour's house, hopeful that they could maybe drive me to the ER.

It was already dark when I left for there house but it didn't really bother me until I actually took full notice of how dark it really was, that's when I realized something...every single solitary streetlight had blown up exactly like the lights in my house, and every single house had been engulfed in darkness. I turned off my flashlight and waved my hand out I front of my tear-stained face. Usually, I can actually see my hand in from of me as the nearby city's always lit up the night sky with there light pollution.
Once I turned my flashlight back on I began looking for others, given the amount of pain I had gone through I assumed others had experienced the same thing. I set off down the road listening and looking for any signs of others.

After what felt like hours I finally ended up at the edge of a huge lake. I had no clue where I was, so I kept walking. I had been walking for hours with not a single person anywhere. Then, out of the silence, I heard a voice, I immediately stopped dead in my tracks. I was so anxious, I've seen nobody so far. And now that I have a shot I finally dragging my ass out of this cave of solitude, I'm not quite sure I want to.
As I pondered who this person was and what they might do to me,they kept getting closer and closer. I had no clue what they were saying or where they were, but now I could clearly hear it. She was behind me and It sounded like a young woman probably around my age, screaming at the top of her lungs.
"HELP"
I turned to her direction and started sprinting, faster than I ever thought my previously paralyzed legs could possibly handle.
Eventually, she came into view, once I saw her I subconsciously picked up the pace.
I must have startled her because she turned her back to me and started running too.
I yelled at her as loud as I could for her to come back and that I was trying to help her but she just kept running.
Soon enough my stamina caught up to me and forced me to collapse onto the ground.

At this point I was sitting, alone, In the middle of nowhere, with my head tucked between my knees, gasping for air.
Once I had finally caught my breath I started crying again. A false sense of hope had washed over me when I thought I could  finally have someone to talk to, someone who understood, someone who knew why this was happening.
After hours of sitting in the middle of that dirt road crying, I finally stood up and hastily brushed the dust off my pants and wiped wipes the remaining tears from my face. Finally, I looked around, only to realized how dark it was.
I walked off into the darkness again, having no expectations for what I might find.
Eventually, I found a cabin, the doors were tightly sealed up, luckily, one of the windows was unlocked.
I knew it was night and there was a possibility that someone was in there so I pounded on the door as hard as I could, knowing that if anyone was asleep the sure wouldn't be anymore.
After a solid 2 1/2 minutes of knocking, I gave up, I just figured no one was gonna come to the door if anyone was even in there. So I opened the unlocked window and swiftly clambered through it.

Once I got inside I noticed the small wood stove that was tucked in the corner. I placed 2 out of the 4 remaining logs in the stove and began wandering around in a foolish attempt to find matches.
After fumbling around the cabin for a while, I found 3 matchboxes,2 pillows and a blanket.
I went back to the woodstove and lit it, then I made myself a bed on the couch with my sleep ware that I had scavenged.

While I was lying on that oddly comfortable couch, my mind started wandering, I kept trying to understand what caused all this pandemonium to break free. Then I remembered an article that I read 2 years prior to this. It was an article on what would happen if the whole world lost power at the same time. It would start purges and massacres in populated areas, cannibalism in places where food can't grow and worldwide food shortages which will lead to more killing and cannibalism. Basically, it's a life-threatening BLACKOUT.