" The goal of life is to live it, to
taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and with-
out fear for newer and richer
experience"
–Eleanor Roosevelt
Location–(The top of an abandoned 12 storey building in New York)
Adam's P.O.V
"The goal of all life is death, sounds stupid when you first hear it but give it a little more though and it starts to make sense, at first I thought that the goal of all life was resolution but then I thought that I need not fool myself some people never change and some don't even get the chance to change in the first place. Anyways since it wasn't resolution I then thought it was love but then again I thought that we need not fool ourselves nothing lasts forever not even love either it slowly fades away by the slow pull of a disease or the fact of how incompatible the partners are keeps getting jammed into their head one way of the other it will end and the best possible scenario is that they both die at the same time, at the same time think about it, yikes, ain't that freaky.
That when it hit me, just think no matter who you are, where you are or what you think you are you will eventually succumb to the hateful pull of death, yes that the endgame greater men have died you won't be made an exception death Is the final destination that all beings must pass through, my point is death shouldn't be hated it should be accepted but not without an obvious fight. Now why do I say all this you ask?
A/N:no no one's asking.
It's because I'd like you to know that beings in general started at nothing and they will end as nothing, clinging on to material things is simply vain and pointless, live life like there's no tomorrow and do absolutely what satisfies you stopping at nothing at all.
When the monolouger was done monologueing, it was revealed that the monolouger was a male who seemed pretty basic at most he looked like he was around the age of 16–18 he was revealed to be talking to a man who was tied upside down in front of him. When he was done talking the man upside down finally decided to talk and said
"Uh, that's nice and all but why the hell are you telling me all this(he said shouting)"
"Uh (with a confused yet questionable tone) I thought it'd be obvious by now, well let me state the obvious and say it's cause I plan to kill you".
"What?, No no please don't kill me".
"Why not?, You attacked me first and surely you have to be taught a lesson".
"Okay why don't you just tell me about yourself?".
"Okay but only caused you begged".
A/N: actually planned this from the start he was a bit(and by a bit I mean excessive) of a talker.
The man began"where do I begin?, Oh okay well for starters my name is Adam Castle and although I may not look it but I'm seventeen years of age, I turn eighteen in a couple of months from now.
"Wow(he said while feigning shock), who would've guessed".
A/N: actually anyone he was tryna stall for time while trying to reach for something in his back pocket.
Adam continued from where he stopped "well continuing from where I stopped, I'm also I Nigerian African, deltan to be precise and I was a victim of the eradication project which took place 13 years ago and it's all my fault.
"Why exactly do you say that?"
"Well have you ever heard of the Specter?"
[Does he answer every question with a question?, Well let me just play along, a few more minutes is just about enough time to get what I need from my back pocket] ha well yeah, anyone who's studied mystical beings have heard of the Specter, it's an evil spirit that roams around once a year at night an devour anyone that it sees, because of this there is always a curfew anytime it comes out.
Exactly, the day which it roamed around my mum mistakenly broke the curfew, now what you didn't know is that the way it destroys people is an entire process and ritual, first the avatar for the Specter tells the family of the person about the appointed death and then it happens with the family present.
Adam continued "that day the avatar of the Specter came to our house and informed us that my mother broke the curfew. Obviously I wasn't ready to let my mum die so only Impulse I grabbed a knife and beheaded it, I celebrated thinking I defeated it and then he grew another head and said to me 'you have committed a grave mistake boy, a taboo, an abomination, something that has never been done before in history because of this I will lay a greater punishment upon you, so instead of killing your mother, I will take away and kill everything you ever loved ' he cursed me and that wasn't even what scared me, what scared me was the fact that he said all that with a devilish smile on his face and after all that my dad tried shooting it with his rifle and it healed back and began laughing, that night even when it left, it's laughter echoed all through my head that night but I wasn't bothered, the only thing on my mind was that my mother wasn't dead. So I did what most ignorant kids at my age did, I ignored it and tagged it as irrelevant.
"It didn't end there,did it?(he asked now being engrossed in his own story)".
"You bet it didn't".
Everything was okay for 3 years and that's when it began, it started with my dad losing his job I thought 'okay, calm down Adam, your dad has been working in that organisation for 30 years and then out of the blue he gets fired, calm down Adam, this is nothing out of the ordinary' then my parents started fighting, my dad blaming my mom and me for losing his job and my mom accusing my dad of being unsupportive, few days after that my elder brother Tega was diagnosed and tested to be a drug addict, again I thought 'this is just a once in a while problem, nothing extraordinary surely we will overcome this' I was young I simply wanted to get my mind out of it.
After a while the problem expanded to our community and there was a blackout, a water shortage and a famine, the community knew what happened with the specter so of course they blamed us but again I thought that this was just a long running streak of unluck. Throughout all the chaos my mum tried to kill herself seven times but failed woefully simply because death refused to accept her, is she tried to drink poison she'd vomit if out, If she tried shooting herself all of a sudden the bullets would disappear, she tried everything and anything even jumping of a building but that's when the ground decided to become too soft , death just refused to accept her this was probably the Specters way of saying you're not escaping your punishment. I and my family endured until well and then..
The man tied upside down then said as if it was obvious "and then the guns came in"
Adam continued "well yes and then the guns came in but I wasn't there when it happened, but I know it happened like this–
Writer P,O.V(Narration)
Young Adam had just won the international spelling bee, quiz and mathematics competition, he was bringing home the championship trophy. At the moment he was in a bus taking all the participants to their various homes, he was chatting with his friends when all of a sudden, he began crying
One of his friends was like "huh, why are you crying Adam, anything wrong?
Adam replied "oh it's nothing, It tends to happen one in a while now, so I'm kinda used to it already, [although it only happens when someone I care about is in danger]"
Adam paused and continued "you know what, sir sir "(he said trying to call the bus driver)
The bus driver replied "yes"
"Can you stop the bus this is far enough".
"You sure?, Your home's a long while away from here".
"Uh huh, I'm sure I'll trek the rest of the distance [I wouldn't want to tell him to drive faster and other contestants need to go home too, so this is what's best]".
"Oh okay,but be careful okay?"
"Okay sir".
As the bus left him and drove away, his friends waved him goodbye while in the bus and he in turn simply took a half bowti bid them farewell. A few minutes later when the bus was fully out of sight Adam heaved a sigh of relief and began running towards his town faster than ever, at this rate which he was going he most likely had already broken the world record for world's fastest runner, Adam was fast crazy fast, so fast it creeped people out, that was why he heaved a sigh of relief when the bus was out of sight, but right now what fueled him to run as fast as he was running right now was the worry he felt in his heart , he wondered what he was feeling it was as though his heart would burst right out of his chest, on his way there he kept saying "don't worry, Adam you're merely overthinking things, everything's okay, your family isn't cursed anymore, you winning the international championship is more than enough proof of that"
The closer he got to his town the more worry he felt, he had gotten tired and began running at a slower pace, it was until he saw burnt buildings and land in the nearby communities then his worry grew even worse than ever before, he then increased his pace significantly and arrived at his town an hour later. When he arrived everything was gone, the roads, the houses, the buildings, everything name it, the people were all dead and those who weren't revealed to be dead had their corpses incinerated by the hit blazing fire surrounding and engulfing the entire city in an internal blaze.
After witnessing the horror that was in front of him he dropped his trophy and began running to his family house, while running to his family house he thought 'no,no,no God please no,let it not be what I think it is, if not anything grant me this they can't be dead, they just can't be' it was at that moment Adam began to recall a memory which took place right before he went for the competition
Memory
"His father had just bought him new clothes and a new watch
Father: Tell me doesn't it fit perfectly
Adam: yes it does father
Father: And doesn't it smell nice
Mother: What it smells is expensive, tell me where did you get the money for all this
Father: I'll talk about that later what matters right now is our little boy is going to the international championship, listen Adam whether you win or lose, you should know we're proud of you, but it'd be preferable if you win
Adam: dad
Mother: he couldn't have said it better win or lose you're still our boy and we couldn't be more proud of you okay Adam good luck
Adam's father then whispers into his wife's ear"by the way I borrowed the money" and ran into a corner
Mother: how could you,I warned you not to borrow again.
Father: I know but it was for a good reason this time, we don't want our son to be outshined by those other rich kids
Mother: okay I guess we can make an exception but just this once okay?
Adam: Thank you, thank you( Adam said with a teary eye)
Mother and father: ah it's nothing son we know you deserve more.
Adam: I promise to bring home the championship
Mother and father: don't worry son, we know you will, just don't push yourself too hard okay?"
That was the last memory Adam had of his parents that and their smiling faces when they bid him farewell to the competition. After he died out of his daydream he arrived at the front of his house which was now on fire with the corpses of the rest of his family, Adam fell on his knees and shouted "NO" so loud that the people in the bus heard him but couldn't recognize it as it's voice seeing as it was so distant and filled with pain, every bird and animal in a 3 mile radius left the area when they heard his shout.
He continued shouting "NOOO,what did we do to deserve this, we were good people, if this is a dream then this really is t funny anymore GOD why?"
Adam's P.O.V
Was what I shouted at the top of my lungs but no one could hear me, in the end I collapsed due to overexertion of energy and when I woke up com day or night or any weather I stayed there immobile for 2 while weeks until I decided something must be done.
I knew for a fact that this was done by soldiers appointed by the government in order to reduce population to create less mouths to feed while making people pay more for security and in the end the rich get richer while the poor got poorer, a full plan of expropriation while they pretended to stop the terrorists was what it was, why did they have to kill more people simply because the more lethal the threat the more glory they'd get after taking it down, it was the perfect manifestoe for a man looking to get into politics. Anyways I realized the terrorists always came 3 days to ensure everyone was dead and also to make sure there was no evidence that would lead any of this back to them or the government, I noticed this while staying immobile for 3 weeks.
The man tied then asked "wait how on earth did you survive without them seeing you"
Adam answered "exactly how I stood up. You see I have a demon inside me, it's really bad, it tells me the worst of things when no one's watching and right then and there no one was watching so it came to me and said "arise and did what must be done"( please note the curse made the terrorists not to see him so they couldn't kill him)
The man asked "and then–?"
Adam answered "I did as I was told then grabbed my father's twin dagger's, at that moment I thingy don't think, just act and charged at them, two hours later I stood on a pile of corpses which I then burned, I then was about to kill myself and it was then I was stopped by one of the terrorists which took me in and raised me in America for five years which was of course before I killed him
The man tied simply thought [he says it as if it's the most normal thing to do]
Adam continued" the last word I told him were 'kole dafun e(it shall never be well with you)' and then I continued on with my life.
A/N: the man upside down swallowed his spit a little after hearing that last part
The man upside down then asked "so that's it"
Adam replied "yes"
That last part seemed a little rushed
"I know, I want to speed this up and kill you ASAP".
"(Gulp) wait, surely that can't be all".
"Well it is"
It was at this moment the man got what he needed and it was a small pocket knife, immediately he grabbed it he attempted stabbing Adam but Adam simply jus got his palm in the way and the knife didn't do so much as pierce his palm, after seeing this Adam took the knife and threw it away from him while sighing and saying "you work for the hollow organizations, a military organisation to be exact, it deals with arms and whatnot yet you have been avoiding war, I'd like to ask why I mean isn't that what the guns you sell are for you guys are like drug dealers refusing to do drugs, your organisation weakens others rather than trying to strengthen themselves, despite all this you seem to be a coward, I wonder how that's possible anyways it's time for you to die, after this I'll take on the six overlords"
The man tied then said " that's crazy not person in their right mind would attempt that".
Adam simply said "I don't really give a shit and at which moment did I tell you I was sane now die"
Once again the man did try to stall for time but Adam beheaded him at once, then he stood at the edge of where he was then he took a deep breath and jumped off the building then he began falling at like a thousand miles per hour, as he grew closer to the ground, he brought out twin dagger's and began dragging it against the building which he was falling off from to lessen the impact of his fall, when he finally landed, 8 people were waiting for him, one guy in particular with a laughter in hand was like "that took a hell lotta time"
Adam replied "tell me about it, I just thought I'd talk a little bit"
And the lighter guy was like "and by talk you mean tell your him your tragic life story"
Adam said again " hey, they say if we don't have nightmares we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams, I guy's gotta remind himself his reason for fighting once in a while. Anyways were done here, tomorrow's a big day let's get ready for it"
And the guy replied"you couldn't have said it better "
After that they all left to their various homes while getting ready to do something big tomorrow.