The Awakening

Dawn

December 31 1999 11:59:15pm
A New Years party bustling to the brim with drunk colleagues, couples intense make out sessions in the corners or bathrooms, and the few unenthusiastic ones who are just here to see if they might get lucky tonight with the lonely intoxicated girls begging for affection.
The tv loud, roaring with the sounds of the large crowd in the heart of New York City anxiously waiting for the ball to drop signaling the beginning of a new year
10 seconds
The room slowly begins to feel crowded with all the party goers hunched around my boss's 24 in. flat screen, even the young teens stopped their lip locking for a shutter of a moment to countdown alongside the rest
5 seconds
There was such an intense electricity in the air that it felt somewhat hard to breathe that in along with the smog from expensive cigars and pricey champagnes harsh smell lingering on bodies, the chanting seemed to have gotten louder as each second ticked by
3 seconds
The idea of New Years seems rather primitive if  one takes a farther step away and views it from a broader perspective: we "worship" an empty metal husk sphere that has blinding lights on it as the ball slowly descends to the ground, signaling our entrance to the next year of 2000
2 seconds
1 second
At first it was a complete silence, it seemed as though the world itself stopped rotating and gawked ,wondering at what was to come. Then the piercing beep, coming from-the few who had them- phones' and most notably, the tv, no picture or static just frozen noise causing such a pain to erupt in our ears , you'd think they were bleeding. Finally after what seemed like decades but was only minor seconds, the noise ceased and quickly a panicked yet monotonous voice rang out
"ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS OF THE 7 CONTINENTS , THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL, A MALFUNCTION ON A MAJOR SCALE HAS ERUPTED AND WE ARE URGING YOU- NO PLEADING THAT YOU IMMEDIATELY SEEK SHELTER FROM THE IMPENDING DOOM UPON US ALL... may God have mercy on your poor souls"
BANG. A loud fire sounded from the tv the once terrified man spoke to the onlookers to, for a moment there was serenity, pure unadulterated peace, then , the mayhem broke loose.
People stepping on people cries of terror and pleads rang through every persons throat, it was as if the whole city rang out in a uniformed cry of confusion and desperation. As the many clambered through the streets, rioting or sobbing, one single occurrence stopped all of that as if by the snap of their fingers without saying a single word
The Sun
Large and burning brightly and calmly almost as if comforting all who gaze upon her beauty in a warm blanket, but her welcoming embrace soon became a scolding hold as the sun got brighter and closer, and its as if the spell wore off, the chaos resumed on a much larger scale all targeted on one goal: to escape the sun
But in one swift moment a blinding white light engulfed them consuming and burning everything in the path, if it wasn't instantly disintegrated it was melted and evaporated off the main object: human bodies, thousands upon thousands of bodies cooking and the flesh melting off the mushy bones into an unidentifiable glob of black, red and other few specks of colors, a gruesome sight
They called that moment The Dawn and this, the aftermath, this is

The Awakening
And we are the waken.

~Hello reader ! Welcome to my first published part of "The Awakening", I am still testing the waters with this and am happy -thankful rather- for your criticism and help, if I believe this story has a drive I will continue it if not I'll end it , thank you for your patience and support !>3/6/18