Chapter One:
The Culling
///POV: 1st Person\\\
‘Oh shit oh shit oh shit!’ I heard loud footsteps from the people behind me, so I urged my legs to move just a little faster. But it was all for naught I had been giving a good chase to the three teenagers behind me for some while now. That stupid hag had gotten her fucking grandchildren to chase after me. ‘She just had to come home right as I was nabing the bread.’ It’s not like she needed it anyways she was practically already six feet under. This whole situation I’m in is just one big shitfuck.
Rounding the next corner I hear the teenagers yelling and laughing, they were happy. Who wouldn’t be? Now when you turn in a criminal now you get two weeks free rations and electricity for a week, all for the price of one starving boy or girl's life. A jokes aside nowadays it’s hard to come by those things if you didn’t have a job in the government. I can practically imagine hear their thoughts, I’m free food in their eyes, I don’t judge them though. I would do the same if I were in their position, most people would even turn in a baby if they got food in return.
I round another corner only to see that it was a dark alley way. Hearing the teenagers loud yips and footsteps behind me make me realize I have little time left and I sprint down the alleyway. *Bang* “Wha-, the fuck was that.” I had unknowingly ran into a dumpster that was placed at the end of the alleyway. I realized this was probably where the alley ended right along with my grand escape to. Laying there I heard the three teenagers walk down the way while yipping like hyenas who caught their prey.
“What an idiot!”
“Stupid kid you ran down the body dumpin’ alley way!”
‘Now that I think about it, yeah this is where we put all those dead people who didn’t qualify for a ration share...like me. Ha, if this is where I ended up I could’ve taken a right and made it onto the main road. The place is practically get away city with all those homeless people crowding the streets.’
“I do mention a very appropriate place for your capture.”
“Fuck off, your stringy bean lookin’ asses couldn’t make it in this world if you tried.” I said as I took a huge mouth full of the bread, munching as noisily as I could I watched there shadows get bigger and bigger as they got closer.
“You best close y’ur fucking mouth little boy. We can bring you to the Police in whatever state we want to you best remember that.” Said the biggest one in the middle as he reached down and lifted me with both arms. Bringing me up to see his face I saw that his eyes had sunken in and his cheeks looked deflated, clear signs of malnourishment or the ‘sickness’. We call it the ‘sickness’ ‘cause no one knows what it is, we just know everyone who got it dies.
Looking the teenager in the eyes, I spit the food I had kept in my mouth all over his face causing him to drop me onto the ground with a thud. I tried to run away but the two boys catch me at the entrance of the alleyway and throw me to the ground.
“You done messed up now idiot.” A smirking girl with patchy hair said
“Yeah, no one messes with the Rhett family around this part of town. You should know that dumbass.” This guy looked even worse than the two before, he had no hair and was missing his pinky and ring fingers. The whole family has the ‘sickness’ for christ’s sake.
“Who the fuck is the Rhett family?” I try to buy myself sometime but I feel and extreme pain explodes all over the middle of my back as Rhett, I think, sends his bare foot directly onto my spine.
“FU-fuck, arghh.” I started writhing on the ground in pain and Rhett order his other two companions to beat me up. I tried to to grab at their legs but they stomped on my arms making me bundle up in the fetal position. Their feet came down like a torrent on my body, I tried to plead for mercy, but the words couldn’t form as blood filled my mouth. Tears and snot choked me up as I tried to gasp for a breath.
After what felt like eternity Rhett looked me in the eyes said something I couldn’t understand. He lifted me up by my hair and smashed my head into the ground. Thank God, it’s over. Thank God, I finally get to die. I probably should have just killed myself a long time ago anyways...Thank God…
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“...h...hahy...hey...kid...hey kid! Open your eyes I don’t got all day. You’ve already been here too long I gotta bring you to the ‘gallows’, or my boss will be pissed .”
I slowly open my eyes, but quickly squint them as a bright light invades and successfully destroys my pupils. If you’re wondering my first thought during this occasion, well it was ‘fuck i’m alive’, my second thought happened to be ‘oh wait i’m going to the gallows.’ I was also curious about how the man in front of me had electricity, but quickly came to the conclusion everyone comes to. The government. That is what we call them, but in reality all they do is deal rations and keep the majority of food, medicine, and power supplies all to themselves. No one can complain because if you do you’ll head to where I’m going, the ‘Gallows’, or rather what we call it, death camp. It’s where all criminals end up, no matter the crime big or small, you just go there to die. And no one can do anything to do about it, we’re all too worried about our stomachs to care.
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A place with no food but the rotting bodies beside you. A surprising number of people would kill a person because they were so starving that they resorted to cannibalism and wanted something fresh to eat.
At least that’s what I’ve heard through the junkies who had distant family in the guard regime.
“Hey kid get up we have to go. And don’t even think about running away I’d catch you easily in your state. Those boys sure did a number on you, I honestly thought you were dead at first.
I get up only to fall short after, my whole body was in intense pain and it almost made me cry out in pain. Somehow I managed to get up after a minute of intense grunts of pain. ‘This is fucking shit, why can’t they just kill me now. Why the fucking ‘gallows’?’ I thought knowing very well the government would never outright murder someone, even in an apocalyptic scenario.
They see themselves as humanitarians helping to save the human race, they think the meager food they give us is enough while they gorge themselves on all the good stuff. They think the camps they made are helping the human race as a “Whole” because they’re lowering the population and reducing crime. Of course the death camps don’t include any of them either, their reason for that, that’s the funny thing. They never gave one. Oh and have I mentioned almost ninety-nine percent of the government positions are now passed down generation to generation, no elections are held. Ever.
“Okay kid here’s the bus you’ll be taking, one quick tip for you, mingling with the other convicts is not recommended.”
“Ah fuckoff, I wouldn’t want to talk to those shitheads anyways.” I say trying my best to sound tough, but a my hand was basically vibrating it was shaking so much and the policeman saw through my act immediately.
“Yeah, yeah kid. You know it hurts me to do this to a kid, but it’s not like I have a choice.”
“Of course you don’t because who needs free will, who needs courage, who needs common fucking decency for life. Clearly not the people of the world I live.”
“Get in the bus kid.”
“You don’t have to tell me twice, my life was over the minute I was born, why should I care if I get raped, murdered, or starve to death.*cough* *Cough*” I taste the metallic taste of blood on my tongue. ‘I probably have some internal injuries now. Fuck.’ Pulling myself up the bus I get up to see a bus driver with a crooked smile and a bunch of solemn faces. Making my way to the back I find the seat in back to be open and I sit down, only to quickly fall asleep.
///One Week Later///
I lay on the ground staring to the sky, along with many others all of us are too tired to move, even to moan out in pain. My body is emaciated to the point where one could see all the bones in my body. And I feel I am reaching my limit…’finally…’
“Hello People of Earth, I am the messenger! Please call me Mes, or I’ll fucking murder you Very Happy [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/biggrin.png]. I have been ordered to start the ‘Culling’ of Earth XD, I know pretty amazing right. Almost every planet does it eventually, it is really in fashion this time of year. What! You don’t know what a Culling is!? That’s simply no good, no good at all! Well to put it simply it is when I kill a shitload of you guys to lower your population d:. To this I choose random categories and if you fit in that category you win! Guess what the prize is! Yup it’s DEATH Wink [https://forum.royalroadl.com/images/smilies/wink.png]. Okay at first I’ll start off with the categories most people don’t fit in and slowly grow more broad and vague! For your own benefit I hope you die!!! Here’s the first category folks...Birth Defects. Congratulations people with birth defects you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
I suddenly jerk awake and wonder about the dream I just had, ‘I’m still not dead huh?’ Oh well I just had to wait a little longer...I lay down and start sleeping again because it is the only thing I had energy to do. Little did I know at the time, but everyone had the same dream as me, and this dream kept his word.
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People over two hundred fifty pounds. Congratulations people over two hundred fifty you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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Murderers. Congratulations murderers you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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Age 50 and older. Congratulations people age 50 and older you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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Sickness. Congratulations to the people with any sickness you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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People born July and up. Congratulations to the people born in the month July and up you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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And finally lastly but most definitely not least people whose name starts with the letter ‘N’ and up. Congratulations to the people who has the letter ‘N’ and up at the start of their name you’re the lucky winners…<3.”
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“Hello my unlucky survivors D; I have a surprise for you, the real Revelation is starting now and you get to have your own individual job. It will be cool at first, trust me I’d know I’m a cool dude, but it will get much, much worse over timeT_T. Especially if you don’t kill the demons because we will have to kill you for no good reason at all. A worker that does not work is not needed in our industry. The big boss is soon going to release the demons on you and it’ll be your job to farm their gems :p. Doesn’t sound so cool anymore huh? Also if you don’t kill them you will not be able to get a promotion, and if you don’t get a promotion how do you expect to be classified as a good worker. That’s right you’ll be murdered even if you do work a lot just don’t meet the quota. Also be sure to gather the gems dropped from the demons you kill, you’ll need that to pay for your food and water. That’s all I have to say to you guys for now. I’m sorry to say but you guys are the losers < / 3.”
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