Apocalypse 1L2

Diary of a lonesome man

My name is Owen Clark and I’m going to tell you my story,through this personal diary to be sure that humanity never forgets.

During the war of 1918,the Spanish flu contaminated  the whole world. This sickness decimated the whole population and it was eradicated a few years later. 30 million people died of it. In 2154, the virus came back, medecine had to find a way to cure it as fast as possible. Unfortunately, they tried to do it too quickly and when they used the first remedy contaminated still more persons.

The lacks of hygiene in the laboratories held a big role in the spread of the flu.

Now they had already failed once they only had one chance. They also made tests on pigs and monkeys.

We discovered then a bacterium had developed in the body of certain patients. This bacterium developed in most of the cases of Spanish flu and caused atrocious deaths as well as the disapearance. I was one of the rare people not to be contaminated thanks to my particularly resistant immune system. Before the tragedy. I was a cartoonist. I am going to draw you what happened from the start.

[3 rd february 2134, 7 AM]

I woke up in a hospital unable to know why I was here.

… I left the hospital and I saw the city, it was DESERT.

I decided to go back home.

There was NOTHING,none…

Next to my house, I recognized a farm.

I came in, there was a stable with a horse !

I rode it and left as far as possible..

Mystery invasion

A man named James woke up after an operation. He was alone in the hospital. So, he went outside to go to his home. Next to the hospital, there were fields. He heard many stridulations as the fields were filled with grasshoppers. He had never heard so much. Then, he went to his home alone. No cars, nobody on the way. Next, he found a bike which had been abandoned on the side of the road. He took it to go home faster. When he arrived into his village, street even his house, everything was destroyed. The windows were broken, the doors torn off, garbage everywhere in the street.

He went inside his house, nobody. He didn’t understand, he asked himself many questions to know what could have happened. So, he decided to change his outfit that he wore in the hospital and to put on this uniform of sheriff. Then he investigated to find answers. He heard a horse in a fram. It was the only survivor of what had happened. The horse became his new friend and partner. They decided to leave for the conquest of this city to know who could have done this.

Alone

I staggered out of the hospital, the light dazzled my eyes. when I saw again, I noticed I was alone. I wandered, confused, in this huge desert plain. everything was empty, nobody to talk to. I was helpless, I could not remember anything.

I joined the road and walked again and again, I thought for a long time, but yet I think it was just a few minutes. Suddenly, I saw a bike along the way. I got a grip of it, rode the bike and came back home.

But when I arrived in town, everything was sadness and desolation, debris covered the ground, doors and the windows of all the houses were broken and nobody in the streets. I rode to what used to be my house. It was now a sordid place, like the others. I carefully pushed the door and observed the disaster. We could have bet that a tsunami was there.Nothing made sense. I was so grieving. I wanted to fall on my knees, to cry, to sleep to wake up in a normal world, to get out of this nightmare. But I didn’t, I didn’t have the strength. I didn’t know what had happened and I just wanted to survive. So, I went to my bedroom to put on adapted clothes. Then I went outside and looked for a trace of civilization.

With a perturbed mind, I continued to wonder in the city. I finally continued to wander in the city. I finally went out. there was nothing alive in here. As if the entire city had been eradicted. After a while, I saw a barn. I pushed the door with precaution. First, I saw nothing, then, a beam of light entered and I could see. everything had been broken, left on the floor as if people had left the plce in precipitation. I heard a neigh, stopped, worried and slowly, a terrified horse came to me. It was dirty, frightenened but it was alive and it looked in good health. I was so relieved. I called it Lucian. As soon as i let it out, he tried to eat my hat, which in its languages seemed to mean “helle, I am so happy to see you!” I laughed. i was so happy to see someone real.

I decided to go to the nearest big town. The air was heavy. The closer we got, the worse I felt. finally, I saw the first buildings. I was decided to find answers to my questions. unfortunately, this town was in a worst state than my own city, everything was ripped, ruined, burnt,  unside down. Stil, I advanced.

Every step I took urged me to my fate.

The virus.

Two years ago,  he woke up from his coma provoked by the first bomb attack. This man wasn’t anyone, he was the sheriff of a little town next to Las Vegas;  where the first bomb had landed. He was one of the first victim of this terrorist attack but; surprisingly he was still there, still alive and he wasn’t showing any sign of being mentally troubled. Two years before, North Korea had started a war against the United States. The same year a bomb landed on Las Vegas, propagating a virus in the whole country. Little did they know it was the start of a long series of attacks. They were harassed, bombed, starved.

He had been abandoned in that hospital, he had been left to die. He went through the hospital in ruins, went past empty buildings.

Jerry didn’t know what was happening but his only purpose was to find a way to his house and find his family. Walking down the hospital alley, Jerry found a bicycle by the side of the road. He picked it up and used it to go back to his house.

Shocked was what he was felling when he saw the neighbourhood completely destroyed. Even his house was a mess : the roof was full of holes, the windows were broken, the shutters could fall at any second. The streets were empty and full of garbage and he couldn’t help but feel frightered by the coldness of this once warm neighbourhood.

Nevertheless, he didn’t hesitate to go inside his house and to change into clean clothes, his sheriff uniform with his hat but also with his gun belt. The world around him had been  forced into an atmosphere empty of life.

Jerry felt relieved when he found, in his friend Timmy’s farm, where he used to go when he was off work, a sign of life, more exactly, a horse. “ Oh my god. It is so good to see you Elvis !”. He went towards the animal and caressed him gently. He wasn’t used to life and the horse wasn’t used to it either.

Jerry jumped on Elvis and rode him towards Las Vegas. When he was finally in the huge highway with cars abandoned on it he exclaimed to his buddy : “Let’s go back to where it all started !”

James

When James was a teenager, he fell into a coma for almost a year. the doctors didn’t know why he was in a coma so he was sent to one of New Zealand’s best hsopital which was situated in Wellington. The hospital had a really good reputation, but something happened. when james woke up from his coma, there was no one there, so he put on decent clothes and went to explore the hospital. unfortunately, he didn’t find anyone. As he explored the hospital, James noticed that the windows were all shattered and there was a lot of glass on  the floor. Since james didn’t find anyone in the hospital, he decided to go outside. the trees didn’t have any leaves, the grass had grown way too high, the sky was cloudy, and there were papers on the streets. Jams thought to himself “Wow, this place is depressing!”.

As he walked around the hospital, he found a bike that had been abandoned so he rode to his parents’ adress, the one he had foundby his bed with a map, his parents had certainly left it for him just in case.

When he arrived, the house looked like it had been abandoned for some reason. James opened the door but there wasn’t anything inside, everything was broken. james couldn’t figure out what had happened to the town: a war? a virus outbreak? a terrible twister that forced the people to move?

1983 wasthe date written on the calendar on the wall, so James decided he had to move on. He rode further downthe road with his bike, found a empty farm, took some clothes from the cupboard. he also found a horse, he loved horses. So he decided he would ride the horse until he found someone or at least some explaination of what might have happened there…

the fakeman show

“Apparently, after having left the hospital, the subject 0 is lost. He seems not to recovery his memory so he doesn’t understand why he’s here and what’s happened.”

“He appears confuse and walks on the road without objective. He doesn’t react as we expected.”

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“The subject takes a bike to move faster. We installed many cameras to follow him everywhere so we can see that the subject 0 named Billy has stopped front of a house, maybe for find resources. It’s the first time that he has revealed his instinct of survival.”

“Billy has changed his clothes and now he seems interested in a barn.”

“Billy surprises us because he show us a new part of him that we didn’t know. In fact, he knows how to ride horses.”

“After a few hours of testing, the subject finally finds enough resources to survive a few days and he looks determined to go to the big city of Orlando. We cut the live to know and we warn you if there is new.”