The Land Before Tomorrow

Chapter 1

Hi. My name is Totyana, but you can call me Tot. I'm 18 years old, and I just made a huge discovery. But first, a little more about me. I'm five foot six, so I'm kind of short. I have shoulder length ginger hair with deep brown eyes and freckles. I'm not very unique except for my hair color, and my piercings. In Akmondeza everyone gets one thing that distinguishes themselves from all the others, and I chose mine to be piercings. I have a lot of them. I have five piercings in each ear, and I have two nose piercings and a lip ring.

Sometimes it is hard to grasp the fact that everyone has to be almost the same. The Underground- that is what we call our government down here- said that my hair was already one thing that was unique about me, but my family fought for me and I got to get my piercings too. The underground got very upset with the league against them, so now my family has special rules that no one else has.

Now for some history of Akmondeza...

A long long time ago, before I was born, we were a haven. We had a perfect world where everything was perfect. Until it happened. Someone from god knows where in the world shot a nuke. So many died. I heard the screams of children trying to find their mothers. The sobs of parents finding their children's dead bodies. The scream of people whos flesh was melting off their body. It was horrible. The screams. The people that did survive the nuke went underground. They didn't know what to do because it was so unexpected. They had no food or water, no leader, nowhere to live, no organization. Some of them agreed to send some of the strongest and bravest men out. They got shot. They started to call the government up above the "Overground" and every time they sent someone above, they wouldn't come back. Eventually, some orders started to form, they started to call themselves the "Underground" and their main goal was to keep their people alive. They would kill anyone that would go down there wether they stumbled upon it on accident, or they were trying to overthrow them. Some call it savage, they called it survival. Eventually, to keep the order they had, they would kill anyone that would try to stand up against them.