Chapter One: We Honestly Weren’t Ready For Any Of This :/ Our world is slowly being torn apart. Our world is crumbling away. Soon we won't have anything left; no one will have anything left.
200 years ago, Earth was hit with a 14.0 magnitude earthquake. No one thought it was possible, no one was prepared. More than half the population died that day. The ones that did survive though, were forced to face what was left of the dead planet. North America was split into five islands, Europe was split into 16 islands, Asia was split into 18 islands, Australia caved in and went under water completely, both the Arctics broke away and turned into massive ice caps with widths and lengths of more than a mile. South America and Africa both gave …show more content…
Twenty people are chosen every year to go out in an unexplored island and survive for a certain number of nights. Ruby and I trusted each other during the training and we both survived. We've been inseparable ever since. Ruby immediately introduced me to Git and we became the 'Three Musket-fears' or whatever that saying was.
Our island is the biggest and the most civilized. We trade with the smaller islands for all of the island's benefit. It's all just one big chain, one wrong move and the chain could break, screwing up the trust of the three islands and possibly starting a war. All that responsibility and trust is in the government, i could never be an official, too much stress.
We start running to the beach, where all of the inaugurations happen. When we get there, it's over and Git is standing with the President, probably talking about politics. Git made history, he's the only 19 year old to be in the government and to him it's a pretty big deal.
Ruby takes my hand and drags me to the shore, obviously ignoring Git as he trys to get our attention. Ruby picks up a stone and throws it into the sea. She keeps on picking up stones and throwing them into the sea until there are no more. She whispers something while turning around to talk to Git, I could only hear the words, 'something, going,
200 years ago, Earth was hit with a 14.0 magnitude earthquake. No one thought it was possible, no one was prepared. More than half the population died that day. The ones that did survive though, were forced to face what was left of the dead planet. North America was split into five islands, Europe was split into 16 islands, Asia was split into 18 islands, Australia caved in and went under water completely, both the Arctics broke away and turned into massive ice caps with widths and lengths of more than a mile. South America and Africa both gave …show more content…
Twenty people are chosen every year to go out in an unexplored island and survive for a certain number of nights. Ruby and I trusted each other during the training and we both survived. We've been inseparable ever since. Ruby immediately introduced me to Git and we became the 'Three Musket-fears' or whatever that saying was.
Our island is the biggest and the most civilized. We trade with the smaller islands for all of the island's benefit. It's all just one big chain, one wrong move and the chain could break, screwing up the trust of the three islands and possibly starting a war. All that responsibility and trust is in the government, i could never be an official, too much stress.
We start running to the beach, where all of the inaugurations happen. When we get there, it's over and Git is standing with the President, probably talking about politics. Git made history, he's the only 19 year old to be in the government and to him it's a pretty big deal.
Ruby takes my hand and drags me to the shore, obviously ignoring Git as he trys to get our attention. Ruby picks up a stone and throws it into the sea. She keeps on picking up stones and throwing them into the sea until there are no more. She whispers something while turning around to talk to Git, I could only hear the words, 'something, going,