Chomp!

Chomp!

“Sarina Put your mask on!” I screamed.

“Why!” she moaned “We’re inside.”

“You must wait till the air has been depressurised!”

Ruff-Ruff. “Quite Ares or I won't give you your doggy treats” Ares is mischief, loves to bark and destroy the little things we have.

It's 2179 and it has been 35 long terrible and boring years since we have been able to go outside without an oxygen mask. It's tuff with them on but we need them due to the governments being unable to stop pollution when they first heard of it ‘those dick heads’. I threw my shoes down, and the air and floor exploded with dust as they had made impact on the floor beside Ares torn up bed. We won’t be here for much longer, we won’t have to live on dirty mats with one mouldy couch and a long drop. I promise we will get out of here and get to a better place. Well, that’s what I promised mum and dad I would do for Sarina: hide her, even if it was in a condemned, one-room shack. It hurts that they weren’t around. I can still smell their blood. The cries of the crowd. The declaration of their guilt for breaking the Second Child Act. Sure, there’s 63 billion of us here but Sarina wasn’t going to kill us.

“What will we be learning about today Troy?” Sarina winked.

“We are learning about how to get on the ship in two ways, either we show that we are useful, which is too late to learn as the ship is leaving tomorrow or we-sneak in and hide.” Said troy quietly

“let’s sneak in, let’s sneak in” Sarina squealed.

“SHHHHh, they could hear us, and they might deduct points or just execute us! Be careful what you say.”

Knock Knock. Someone thudded on the rickety rotten door that was going to fall down any day.

“Sarina stay here," I whispered.

“who’s there,” I cautiously blurted out.

“A government official,” he said in a deep voice “I am here to talk about your dog we want it for the moving to mars he is a rare species and we want to bread him to keep German shepherds strain of dogs going he is one of the last ones left, and for him, I will give you the cure for De Morbo Anthropophagus.”

I hate the government as you should already now as they hung mum and dad in front of me and Sarina she was still an infant, and thinks they got lost in the forest- she knows very little about the world we live in nowadays she can’t be a normal kid play on the playground instead she has to do slave labour or go and look for so that she can look for any green in this ash-filled wasteland, kind of like a treasure hunt.

“Hello anyone there,” he screamed “this is urgent business the ship leaves tomorrow.”

“I will meet you at the ship tomorrow and I will have decided.” I croaked.

 A bit late to tell you this but.. De Morbo Anthropophagus is the disease that has struck our earth for twenty odd years. The disease takes around 10 weeks to have its side effects on you. It’s the disease of cannibalism. It is the worst. Terrible and horrible. It eventually kills you after using your body as a host to make you kill others. I need the cure for my sister.

“Hey, Sarina I going to bed I am tired and have a lot to think about. Ares come here boy.” Not only was I going to give Ares away I was going to get him back and then stay on the ship until it takes off for mars. At least I hoped that.

“Ok, I will come just now” while she rolled her eyes. She hates going to bed she gets nightmares about cannibals and us being stuck here forever.

 Bang. I heard a thud on the ground. I Got up-turned the light on, looked around to see what happened. Where was Sarina? I went to the long drop sat there for a minute. As I came out Boo! Sarina scared me as a Jokes so I thought. But no then she took a bite into my arm. My leg. Then my throat. I was lying on the ground there was no longer any light just blood as if I was in hell. Hell for not caring for Sarina, hell for letting her get infected, hell for not caring for her.

“Huhu haa” I gasped for breath. It was just a dream good Sarina I safe that’s good.

So I woke Sarina up and told her what we needed to do. She was not happy at all in fact she was enraged and kept saying it was her fault that we were going to lose Ares.  So, we got our mask on and went outside to meant him. Today the outside looked especially cruel, unforgiving and dead, the soiled grey and unfertile the sun was scorching down on us as because we made it angry by destroying its planet, but there was a sense of hope life was coming back there was one green daisy in the middle of the grey desolate wasteland. There were around 400 people who were around the flower praising it and bring it gifts whilst admiring its beauty in today's harsh world. We called them dreamers. The world was never going to ‘fix itself’ with us on it that is why we are going to leave, leave today to mars for the safety of another planet. There were already I would guess about the billion ‘important people’ who were useful or just rich, lining up to get in the ship. To get on the ship you either had to be very useful or rich and cannot have the disease that has struck our earth. I was invited and till my sister, Sarina was tested positive and that is why I am getting the cure so she does not eat me or herself but it is too late for us to get on the ship even if she gets cured.

“Ares Sit!” I said

“So, you decided to get the cure for the German Shepard?” Said the Idiot

“Yes,” I said. By this time tears were rolling down Sarina’s face

“I suggest you inject this immediately as it is one of the 300, we have managed to produce and will sell for a great deal on the black market.” He said with a grin “Here I can do it.”

“Ok.” Sarina whimpered “Bye Ares I love you!”

Ares limped around and went with the government official. He and Sarina had an inner connection a  bond that could not be broken he was like her father that she did not have and looked after her emotionally the whole of her life.

Sarina knew there was no point in getting the vaccine if we were going to be stranded on this dead disease-ridden planet. She knew we were going to sneak on… So, I hatched a plan. I got invited to the ship because I designed it, so I know where they kept all the food, water, animals, plants, purifiers, engines and humans. The bottom level was the engine room and all the water and air purifying machines the 2^nd lowest level was the soil and water the 3^rd level was all the animals and spare food and that are where we were going to go. I knew there was a second entrance that we could get through I just needed to remember the code on the stupid lock door. After getting the cure we sprinted back home, the sirens were already going, the war zone had started there were already bodies covering the ground. The spaceship was only leaving in a couple of hours the guards had not even left their posts.

“Sarina now that we home to pack as quickly as possible we need to get to the ship” I was rushing, rushing and stressed a knew that since all the guards had left their posts from outside our decollated city that all the infected people who got sent into the woods were going to come and that all the other people in the city we're going too either sneak or fight their way in…

Now it was my turn to prove to mum and dad that I could and would save Sarina like they wanted me to. Bang. I slammed open the door and we sprinted, sprinted to the ship but as soon as we came close it was a war zone. Gunshots everywhere dead bodies falling out of the sky. We needed to on the ship Now, or we would end up dead. This was a horrible site cannibal and gunmen everywhere bodies missing arms and faces lying on the floor. A horrific and terrible sight that no little girl should be allowed to see. There's the door. We need to get there. I Carried Sarina across the streams of blood and waves of desperate people to the heaven like a ship that would get us out of here. We found the door we were so close now all I needed was to remember the Code. 24539 or 24228 which one come on think, think! 24228- Yes it worked.

“Get up the stairs quickly other people are noticing us!” I screamed death ran up to me sunk its claws into my soft, bruised flesh- and ripped me away!

“Get to the doctors they will help you get there now!”

“Nooo Troy nooo!”

Chomp! The monster-like figure took a huge bite into my arm. My leg. Then my throat. I was lying on the ground blood gushing out of every part of my body, I was just having a dream, this is a dream I'll wake up and take care of Sarina…

“ I miss my brother I do not want to eat Andrea” Sarina sobbed

“Sarina you need to eat it has been near two years since that has happened, and I made your favourite meal on mars- mars mushroom stew, it's so tasty” Andre said

“Ok, I am sorry I just can't get over the fact that he sacrificed himself for me.”