Breaking Dawn

When the Great Apocalypse arrived and threatened our extinction, mankind was left without choice but to seek refuge several miles under the ground. For hundred of years, we stayed secluded beneath the Earth and waited, slowly growing in numbers until the ground could no longer hold us.

Then the resources began to deplete and the holes serving as passages for air down to us started getting clogged, one by one. We began struggling to breathe.

And so the governments finally assembled a group to be sent to the surface-an expedition all of us hoped would provide answers whether the Earth that mankind left ages ago was still hostile or already habitable. My dad and brother were called for the mission, I wasn't. I wanted to come, fearing what was waiting for them on the surface could be far worse than whatever suffering we were already stuck into underneath. All throughout the journey, our hope burnt ablaze, only to start fading out when we finally arrived to an Earth already inhabited by beings foreign to us-creatures that could only see our presence as a threat to their existence.

My name is Michael. I am one of the last members of my species. I am Human.