I woke up from whatever kind of a dream I had. The brash sunlight stared at me with the dry summer air parching my lips.
'What kind of dream-' I groaned out loud at the headache in me. I looked down at my wrists to see that the marks I had were still there, but a bit darker. They seemed more permanent than before.
I stood up on one knee and examined my surroundings. I was inside a building. There weren't any living beings near me, dead, alive, monster.
'How long had it been?' I asked myself.
I opened my phone, which still worked surprisingly and saw that it had been one day since I collapsed. I was on a disheartening 8% which served a reminder not to open it unless needed.
//Tuesday / 11:05 am / July.25.2023//
I saw a notification coming from the contact saved as an eye emoji with a red hot sweating emoji. This was Issel.
"Shit." I spoke. "Is she ok?'
Issel was one of the biggest helps I could have when I had to drop out. She helped me through most my depressive states and was the one who gave me the idea to learn party tricks in my endless spare time. she was also one of the smartest people I knew, she scored high through the entire high school and was set for graduation. But the meteorites came a month before she was supposed to graduate though.
My hand trembled at the thought of her death. I opened the messege:
"HOE THERE ARE WEIRD GREEN PEOPLE EATING PEOPLE ON THE STREETS"
--Tuesday 5:49 pm
/picture of green people eating people on the streets/
--Tuesday 6:00 pm
Shit. Today was Tuesday 11:05 Am. it's been a week.
"you better be fucking alive Petra"
--Tuesday 9:03pm
"I killed one of those green things. Like I floated(?) water to slap it while I beat the shit out of it. I'm so confused. Respond tomorrow or I'm murdering you, cutie"
--Wednesday 1pm
This gave me hope. If she could kill a monster, then maybe she could survive.
" guess Pookies getting murdered :). I'm staying in Wang Jing to find survivors and wait for government intervention. if you're alive come to soho."
Thursday 10:52 pm
This means that she was safe. Now I had a reason to go Wang Jing. I put the phone in my pocket and thought of how to try walking on the metro line. I strongly doubted the government could help. The fire bender crab swatted helicopters like flies. But if all they faced were human green things, then maybethe military could help? I wonder if Issel also got a mark on her wrist. It should be similar to the one I have on the right, considering she used water.
The streets were more dangerous than the high road the metros offered, I may have to walk and face countless monsters on the way. There should be less beasts on the metro considering they didn't have reason to climb up, aside from the trains which already passed through. Im worried about how I would escape from the monsters if I had to fight one.
I came to two conclusions:
I take the metro and have a chance of being in more difficult fights. I could cook the corpses of the monsters and eat them, though it would be disguisting. I walk the road and fight more frequently with more monsters in the metro, but the terrain is in no one's disadvantage. And I would be able to use the gas stations for food.
Crash!
I took up my spear and smashed the metro doors to get onto the Highrise tracks. The track goes underground before the 3rd stop, around halfway to the station I need to be at. I will leave the track once it enters the ground.
I departed on my journey.
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"he's moving faster than the others..."
"he's one of the faster ones that changed to fit the treatment."
"he will lead the new world."
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