The world is in absolute chaos.
The skies are black with ash and smoke, the oceans are red with rust, the land, well the land is very hungry, the sun and moon are very mad, our mother is very upset with us.
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Our home is dying. Our little insects have been going extinct and them gone also means little plants have gone as well. Eyes to the ground, the soil has gone stale and grown into rotting dust. The oceans have been so heavily polluted to the point that all there was just plastic, plastic, and more micro plastics. It was awful. But I don't blame us, humanity, for what has happened. No, I'm confident that it wasn't us. There is no way, not in a million years, would humanities greed create that wretched "thing". So what does it matter if we polluted our oceans? It never got to the point where you can't get proper drinking til that "thing" came along. It was totally our fault when all the forests in the world went up in flames on the exact same day. It was definitely us when upon touch the ground turns to dust. It was us who turned the sky ever so dark with ash and decay from the embers and pieces of our home.
But none of that matters now. I just don't care that it happened.
I just wish it wasn't this sudden.
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It was sometime in June. It was a day when the sky was blue and the summer breeze came to brush my hair when three dragonflies scared when they came by. It was a day wrapped in tranquility and peace, a day when all war and anger relinquished to a halt. It was absolutely a brilliant parting gift from our once holy father.
"Tally 35 red poppies restocked and 45 yet to be potted-ah!" I jumped, startled by the vibration of my phone in my right pocket.
I was annoyed at the disturbance because the boss would cut my paycheck if I didn't restock the red poppies in time. I took my phone out of my pocket while finishing the report, read the caller ID, "MILU"
"Hey, what's up? You know i'm not allowed to-"
"Did you see the news? Yellowstone just had some really intense seismic activity!"
"..." I paused to think for a moment of what to say that wouldn't scare her, "Well that would be quite the shock wouldn't it?" I honestly had no idea how to react to that, "Yellowstone is technically an active volcano after all no?"
"Yes! But it has never shown any signs for an eruption till now and the seismic activity has caused buildings to collapse from 1 to 1,326 whole miles!"
"..." I was truly speechless, "I-When was this? When did this show up?"
"Just now! Please, just come home!"
"Marie, you know I can't do that for something that happened to the otherside the US."
"But! A-"
"No buts," I sighed, her nervousness began to make me queasy, "How bout this,Tiff and I close three hours early, kay?"
"... Kay"
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Marie is my older sister. I love her, I really do but I don't think she thinks that. When she gets especially mad or upset and I try comforting her that she's my older sister, my family, she would always say something like "You only say that when it's convenient to you!" and when she says something to spite me it's always "You're going to grow up to be abusive!". No matter how much I try to help her and get her to get help from professionals, she always says to mind my own business and why I only now start to care. It's hard sometimes but I love her, my big sister.
But it's really hard sometimes though. I hate when she calls me heartless when I'm the one that cries the most when someone is in an unfortunate situation, the one to help people, the one to do my best to comfort those strange and close, I'm always the heartless one in her eyes. But I still love her.
She always spoils me with the latest new gadgets and such, more than my does cause she loves her little sister. "Because I love you lil rat", but I hate when she says I just love her cause she gets me stuff. I hate that dearly but I still love her, I love my sister.
It's not her fault, she didn't have the best childhood, she has depression and stress with work, I just wish I could tell her all my problems and feelings as she does with me.
But no amount of love can change how she really thinks of me and no amount of hate or thought can change the fact that she loves me more than she loves herself. That feeling isn't mutual though.
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I finished up with the poppies and worked on the outside display. It was only then did I notice the gravity of the situation, the once peaceful air had grown to one full uneasiness and very real fear. Everyone knows how bad it would be if Yellowstone erupts. It wouldn't be good for anyone. This was at 12:23 A.M.
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2:56 P.M.
"Hey A-'' Tiff's voice was distorted from the sirens of an ambulance going down the street, "Get ready to close the shop!"
I turned to her with a questioning look, I was not about getting fired for Tiff's laziness, "What?"
Tiff took her lollipop out of her mouth, "Well I don't think we'll be getting anymore customers cause of the whole Yellowstone fiascos."
I blinked, "For real?"
Tiff chuckled, "Haven't you seen? Everyones going far east to get away from the impact or somethings."
Tiff said nothing more as she placed her lollipop back into her mouth and walked off to close for the day. I just got up and helped.
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3:21 P.M.
The shop was closed and I went out to ride my bike home. Tiff waved me goodbye and safe travels. On the way back I couldn't help but notice the once lively town, albeit panicked, had gone silent. I guess they all went west aside from those who didn't believe the danger.
It earned a "whatever" from me as I went on with my way. That was it till I noticed the odd behavior of the wildlife nearby. Flocks of birds going west, dragonflies and insects alike going west, the occasional raccoon or bear going west. They were all going west.
It's only at a time like this when someone would be convinced of a great danger coming forth. I rode my bike a tad bit faster and I mean fast.
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3:32 P.M.
By the time I got home my family was already in our car all packed waiting for me. I guess they called Tiff to persuade me to go home early. I hope she's alright, she was always like the older sister I never had.
Before I knew it we were off towards the west with no real destination in mind. Misha, our dog, wouldn't stop barking towards the east. Other than that, the ride was silent. The winds seemed to cease, the waters went still, and the sun went quiet.
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2:32 A.M.
That was the exact time when all news channels and radio stations reported large scale earthquakes and the eruption of Yellowstone. Magma spewed out turning to lava from all over the sides of Yellowstone at an alarming pace but the eruption that everyone was expecting was yet to occur.
It was quieter than before than all I have ever known.
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4:56 A.M.
This was when Yellowstone "erupted". All over the internet were images and live streamings of the eruption from drones. We were all expecting a heavy explosion of some kind but not for what we all saw. It was not something we could imagine or even think of in a day.
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4:57 A.M.
Yellowstone began to crack open from the tip and crumble to the ground and yet still get uprooted all at once.
Everyone in the US saw what came out. Everyone thought the samething, nothing.
It wasn't just lava, It was something, a thing, a sin, a fault, a mistake, it was everything but all the good things in life. It was and is something that can't be described in words. You couldn't see it but you could. It was huge yet so small. It was there yet not. It's like you know what it is and not know. It was no monster, it had no logic nor anything! It was just a "thing" a "something".
The world or at least the country was silent for a brief moment of shock.
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5:12 A.M.
It began to eat away at the earth at this time. I don't know how or when but everything all around us went in flames and the amount of ash from something so sudden seems unbelievable. You could see its destruction, as high as the sky and as far as the ocean's end. The waters of the many streams and lakes have gone to waste as the thing has begun to defile the natural water and pollute it with things blamed on us. The skies turned black with ash. This went on and on.
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10:32 A.M.
We went far with the amount of fuel we had, unfortunately it wasn't enough to get all the way west at full speed. The ash was coming in quick and the air began to grow thin and it was getting hard to breathe. We ran into the town not far away in an attempt to shield from the fire and ensuing ash. Before we were able to however, a sudden gust of wind came and brought in more and more ash with the fire spreading farther and farther. I got lost in the ash, separate from my family.
I coughed and coughed, my chest felt heavy and in the distance I could hear my name being called out but muffled by the heavy air.
"Ar!....A!..Ene!..Len!.....LE!!!"
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The world went up in flames for three days straight, the oceans turned dark with filth for five days, the skies went dark for one whole month and six days and It took three years for the world to rot into dust.
And I became swept up in the air and winds of confusion and ash for the first eight days. I never did find my family after that, nor did I ever find any trace of them for years on end.
When I opened my eyes all I saw was snow.