Gene-o-cide

Chapter I: Awakening

I'm lying on my bed, midway of waking up from a messy but somehow a peaceful dream, when I hear distant voices coming closer and louder.

Is it from afar a party?

A gathering?

Maybe a victory celebration?

Or maybe a......

"Dave!!! Dave!!! Come out! Come out!" My sister Jade tries to wake me with excitement evident in her tone as she runs hurriedly to my room. I know because I hear her footsteps hammering loudly on the wooden stairs as she ascends. I'm sleeping on a dark cold room of our house which is the attic, or I may say, my room exactly. It has an old oak door and windows in a shape of circle. I adored those two windows, on the east and west side, everytime the sun shines through it, creating a spotlight in it's center floor directly pointed to the light bulb in the ceiling. My twin-sized bed is messy like how it always is, same with my drawers and side table. It's that, you know, typical boys do not like to be tidy.

"What? It's still early." I muttered aloud while flipping my back and pulling up my blanket higher so I won't be able to see her face. It's just not fair.

"Just come out the scouts are back." She replied and right when I heard the word 'scouts', I sit up from the bed and look up to see her nodding. Quickly, I scrambled to my feet outside with my sister trailing behind me.

The scouts were the ones ordered by our leaders to travel through wasteland. All of them are men courageous enough to take the challenge of the old world. It's almost half a decade now, when they began their journey to the wasteland by sea and occasionally by air. But, the success rates when travelling by air in a radioactive land is very low compared to sea. So a plane crash is possibly expected when travelling north and east, considering the extreme amount of radiation lingering around the area. However, the south is said to be the only area considered as a fly zone. The west though is yet to be conquered. But this time the scouts are aiming for the west there are rumors that monsters roaming that area.

Our house is located near the gates entrance, as I stepped out of the house I saw everyone gathering closely with their eyes laid to the scouts as they walked past the gate. Together with the sounds of the crowd, cheering for victory as they welcomed our heroes. But, all of a sudden the clamoring crowd stopped as soon as they saw that some of the scouts were injured and there are few of them missing. I ran pass through the people in the front.

"Dad! Where are you?!" I called out worriedly for my father.

He's one of the scouts, but not only a scout but also their second in command next to Albert, he's the commander. I gasp when I saw my Father in the back but was shock to see what comes next to him.

"What is that?." The crowd asked curiously. "Is that a human?" A guy in my left asked me, its Val one of my neighbors. A year older than me I think, although I'm taller than him. He's a midget. (Nope. Just kidding.) His hair was dark and so is his complexion. His face is in a wide walnut shaped with bulgy round dark eyes, thick lips and manly dark brows.

"I dont know?, we'll see." I replied.

I was curious of who or whats that thing in the back of the scouts with its arms tied in the back like a criminal, green skin, huge and tall with a mascular physique. The first thing that comes to my mind is an ogre from that very old animated movie Shrek but not as friendly looking as him. I cant see its face though, it was covered with a sack.

"Attention everyone." Its Commander Albert standing on a big rock to get our attention.

"As we travel across the wasteland we've stumbled upon this things. some of our expert suspects that this things might be some kind of a genetically mutated humans."

The crowed mumbles, they reacted differently. some are shock some are scared some are curious.

*cough*cough*

Its the Commander trying to get our attention back.

"As I was saying this muts(mutants) are mutated humans, we theorized that these are survivors of the warfare that we left behind. they survived the strong radiation and evolved to cope up to their environment. this things are aggressive, dangerous they can crush a man's skull with only their bare hands , we lost many scouts because of this monstrousity!!." Pointing at the tied Mut.

"We're gonna inform the leaders about this and contact the other Society but for now you must all go back to your...." He never finishes there were pieces of big rocks flying from outside the walls, other citizens were hit. They run far away from the entrance. Me, Jade and Val quickly entered our house, we lock the doors my mom was there confuse of whats happening outside.

"Mom! to the basement fast." I commanded.

"What's happening where's your Dad I heard the scouts are back?." Mom asked.

"I will explain later come now quick!." I replied in a loud voice.

We run to the basement and lock it from the inside. The basement is designed to withstand different kinds of calamities such as earthquakes and tornadoes, we're safe in here for now. We can hear multiple gunfires from outside along with the continues growling and shouting there's also sound of wierd cries. We can feel the vibration of the ground like an earthquake, It feels like heavy objects are falling or a big creature stomping like an enraged mammoth. After half an hour it all stopped .I explained to mom what's happening immediately before I go out to see what happened.

"Help..help me." Its one of the scouts he was covered with his own blood his legs were broken as he was thrown away with full force.

"Sir what happened?." I asked worriedly. "Its the mutants three of them they swam across the sea, they followed us here.. the gates are compromised breached."

I call for help before I ran to the entrance. Its the mutants bigger than the first one maybe 7 feet tall with a huge body no wonder it can throw rocks that big. I then saw commander Albert along with the others. I saw Dad lying on the ground.

"Dad!." I called.

"Sir what happened?." I asked the commander.

"Worry not kid he's still alive just unconcious he was thrown by one of the muts."

Some of the scouts were also lying on the ground some of them were already dead they were squish by the rock. then I check the mutants I can finally see their faces now it has deformed improportionate eyes and nose with big mouth and teeth I also noticed their fingers on each hands, the other have 4 fingers the other have 6 theres no consistency on their form. They died by multiple bullet holes in the torso their huge body surely took every bullet.

"Its hard to pierce their body with just one shot you need too keep on shooting to kill those things." He explained.

I was confused and maybe afraid but im not showing it to them, The corpses of their victim give me chills to the bones they were brutally killed by a bigger much stonger enemy. I thought to myself maybe this is our punishment. Punishment because of our ancestor's cruelty and greed for power and authority. this is our awakening. Awakening of what the world has become. we're living peacefully in this island for almost a century without fixing the mess that humanity left behind. We were awaken from a dream, a dream that turned to nightmare, a living hell on earth.

This is where it all started, my name is Daverick Fitzgerald Hall (Dave) and this is my story.