Billie and Chi John stared at the black sea. The water so omnious, as if the end times had come. A smell of dead fish rode in the wind, all over the coastal area. Could this really be all caused by sickma?

Stained, grey foam was floating on top of the water, plastic bottles, dead fish and other plastic things. "I think Karol won't find us if we just drive away on a boat.", Billie assumed.

"What good would do us that?", John sat into the wet sand, his head dropping.

"You could make another land rise, we could uh... just live there until we are found - well you could live there alone when I die from my injury.", Billie had no concerns as she still believed John to be gay. John wanted to retort that he would have to stop the matriarchy due to his strong belief in patriarchy, but that would expose his lie.

"No need to raise a land, I know one that is not lived on. I can bring us there if you want.",

John offered his hand and Billie took it.

They landed on uneven ground, a new land that had been created by mankind and yet was unsettled. 1.6 million square kilometers of garbage floating in the sea, twice the size of TechAs (a part of AMerryCan). One could see the abandoned pieces of a giant 'game of life' board made from trash arranged by color. They didn't know, but this would have been the 3rd challenge that the kids would have played - inheriting the world that their parents had polluted with their consumption and making their own trash empire.

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In the middle of the board rose a central mountain on top of it was a stone and in it a sword. The mountain was made from the bloated corpses that the first challenge had produced, they had decayed quite a lot, but the seagulls had stopped ripping off pieces when the mountain had grown dangerously stinky.

"Depths- what is this place?", Billie had turned green with disgust, which exposed her naked body, but Marco didn't even notice as he was puking, adding some layer on the trash below.

Chi John spat wildly and then wiped the vomit on his face onto his sleeve.

"That is a crime. That is the great pacifistic ocean garbage patch. I don't know who put down all those corpses - it's worse than I imagined it.", Marco Chi John stopped to breathe through his mouth - the air tasted just as bad as it smelled, the smell seemed to even penetrate ones skin. Nobody who set foot on this place would ever feel clean again.

"It almost makes me happy that I will die soonish. You curious enough to jump us to that sword?", Billie had stepped into something soft and did her best to not look down.

"I ... yes. And then we just get away from here. I am gladly risking getting cought by Karol if I can just leave this place.", they jumped and landed on the mountain of corpses.

"Well that wasn't too bad.", Billie said and in exactly that moment the corpses started moving.