// How useless am I, my whole life I’ve been running. Running from my home, running from the cops, running to avoid trust…..but most of all I’m running from myself \\
-Country : South Africa
-City : Soshunguwe
-Year : 2016
*heavy breathing* “Fuck, FUCK. I need to get out of here, they’re on my tail”
“There he is guys. The filthy thief. GET HIM!!!”
After running through the dirty small streets of south Africa he manages to shake off the police. He sits down in an abandoned alley and slowly munches from the now dirty bread he stole from one of the stalls in the market. He smiles as he talks to himself “Those pathetic policemen will never catch me” He suddenly hears a voice “You do know that those “pathetic policemen” are just doing their jobs right?” The boy stares back at the intruder with a smirk on his face “Yeah that might be true coincidentally I’m also just doing my job it’s called Survival”
“You think you know it all huh. What’s your name” the intruder asks with a cynical expression on his face. The boy responds “I’ve never known anyone or anything besides myself and this knife in my pocket. The name is Nathan”
The conversation goes quiet for a few seconds as Nathan keeps munching on his bread.
the intruder looks at him for a while and then comments “Sooo you’re not gonna ask what my name is?”
Nathan looks back with a sense of disgust he sighs “Like I fucking care. Befriending you would just mean that I have another mouth to feed. I already have enough on my plate as it is and let me tell ya those things are definitely not edible ”
Jeez. Aren’t you quite the angry one. You can just all me Ejid.
“okay EJID what do you want? You don’t look like you live here.” Nathan responds in a forceful tone.
“What are you talking about? I live down the street” Ejid stutters defensively. Nathan looks at him “Don’t play games with me. You have a freshly cut haircut and you obviously tore those clothes up on purpose. You’re not from the hood. What are you doing here?”
Ejid smiles “Okay, okay you got me. I’m not from here. First of all have you heard of infertility?”
“No I have not” Nathan responds…”hmm well let me explain then. Infertility is a worldwide spreading disease that makes you unable to reproduce, makes you lose your eyesight, significantly cuts your lifespan among other not so pleasant things and I’m here to find the source and cause of the aforementioned disease, since it originated here in south africa” Ejid explains.
“Aren’t you afraid you might catch the disease yourself?” Nathan asks
“No I’m not. Here’s the thing….” Ejid tries to explain as he gets cut off by Nathan “Ejid SHUT UP. It’s the fucking police again, they’ve caught up with me” “What!! all of this for a piece of bread” Ejid yells as they begin to run. “Haha of course not I’ve done way more than that”
They take a turn to the left from the alley and run as fast as they can, taking as many unexpected turns as they can possibly manage. Ejid is seemingly struggling to keep up with Nathan, after a while they lose track of each other. In the corner of his eyes Nathan sees most of the policemen turn his way. He picks up the speed (that he kept at a lower level with Ejid around) He makes a sharp turn as he hits his head against a piece of metal that’s conveniently placed at a position where it could slow him down but at that speed Nathan completely lost his consciousness.
“Ugh ugh where am I, Am I dreaming? What is this? Why am I seeing this again?”
Nathan reimagines the biggest horror and turning point of his childhood. As a 10 year old orphan with a loving caretaker that took care of him and many others, he saw one of the kids that was taken care of in the same orphanage as him walk in with a bunch of adults and completely slaughter everyone in the orphanage. He was a partly disabled kid with one blind eye. The demon child, they called him. After that tragedy he completely disappeared. Nathan was in the toilet when all of this was happening so he had his opportunity to escape immediately, but instead he decided the watch from a small opening in the door. Nathan witnessed the only person he ever saw as a mother figure in his life die in front of his own eyes. With her neck cut open they followed it up by killing one more child every 2 minutes. No one knew why they were doing this. There wasn’t any profit in it for them except for the satisfaction of their sick murderous needs, Scared to death Nathan ran away and became a homeless survivor from that point on.
Nathan wakes up with chains around his arm and feet. He hears a voice....
“You have been arrested at the suspicion of the mass injection of the Quora drug that causes infertility. You have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against in a court of law, You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning, If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense”
Nathan transitions into a silent state of shock as he realises what just happened.
-Country : Russia
-City : Kasimov
-Year : 2016
“Uhum…..Ejid reporting”
“Ah.. You’re back my friend”
“I have completed the task at hand, sir. Can you please release them now?” Ejid says with a regretful glow in the centre of his eyes
“Well, well, Take it easy young man. We still have yet to decide whether it really was a success or not. We can’t just take your word for it now can we? Just go to your room and you’ll hear from us in a while”
“Yes, sir” Ejid mumbles as he walks away reluctantly
Soon to be continued
Chapter 2 : Dying hope......
