A Dream About . . . A New Beginning (Part 1)

Sometimes, I stay up way too late at night
and play  Pokemon until, like, 2:00 in the morning...I have no idea if that is the reason behind a lot of my crazy dreams, or if I just have crazy dreams no matter what.

So, here is the dream I had last night;

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The End was coming.

It just seemed like a big joke and some
publicity crap

Everyone knew it. Catastrophe, apocalypse, total annihilation, the end of the world. For a while, it just seemed like a big joke and some publicity crap, but the last few months had proven it to be all too real. The world was falling apart, consuming itself in fire, destroying everything it held before being reborn from the ashes. The only problem was all the people left on it. 

For me, this Apocalypse only became real about a month ago. I got a letter in the mail that turned my whole world around. I had been chosen for the Re-Genisis Project (Star Trek, guys, you can guess why that came up in my dream) The letter told me that I would be called on when The End was here, to be saved from the pains of the Apocalypse, and go on to rebuild and repopulate our world. It all sounded like a big joke at first, but the truth of it hit me when I received another letter containing my medical information, school records, you name it. It also had plans for the location and instructions for when The Day came. I felt eery carrying that information around, because I was told I could not talk about it with anyone, or even tell my friends. I probably would have thought the whole thing was a dream after awhile, if it weren't for the texts I recieved everyday at noon: "The Plan is not needed today. Project Re-Genisis is dormant." They came as both a blessing and a curse to me every time. 

Most everyone still regarded The End as a joke, and I had to just keep smiling and play along. But, it was starting to get to people. The crazy weather and natural disasters were becoming too frequent to ride off as coincidental anymore. The "Apocalypse" was used as an excuse to be crazy and act out, 'I only brought the big screen Tv because the End it coming, and I wanted to spend it in luxury!' 'My husband and I are finally going to Hawaii, might as well go before the End is here!' They said it with a laugh, but you could see the fear stirring in their eyes. My friends and I used it as a reason to skip school.

"Hey Meya? Meya? Meya!" Jameson snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"Hm?" I looked up from my phone, "Sorry, what were you saying?" I stole a glance one more time. It was 12:02, and I still had not gotten my daily text.

"I was saying . . . have you heard about the king somewhere in Asia who made an apocalypse  shelter as big as a palace?" My friends Jameson, Olivia, and I were standing in line for the ferris wheel. It was the middle of a cloudy Tuesday, but we decided to skip school during lunch and ride our bikes to the local amusement park.

"That's ridiculous! They wouldn't go as far as to make a shelter that big!" Olivia was still really skeptical about the whole thing, she regarded the earthquakes and fires with little concern, but that was only because nothing devastated had happened in our area yet. "Besides, where is this shelter, hm? Did he just build it in the middle of some city and act like it was no big deal?" 

"It's probably underground or something, but that's not even the craziest story I heard today!" Jameson spent most of his time on Facebook reposting Buzzfeed conspiracies about the Apocalypse. "I heard about this plan the government has for afterwards. . ."

I had zoned out again to stare at my phone. 12:05 . . . come on, where was that text? I could feel panic swelling inside of me waiting for a release. ". . . it was called the Re-Genisis Project."

 My eyes shot up to Jameson, "What did you say?" he seemed confused by my sudden interested, "The Re-Genisis Project," he repeated, "It's about, like, starting the world over again, or something. Kind of like a Noah's arch for people, but it didn't say much more than that. Have you heard about it?"

I looked from Olivia to Jameson, hoping for some kind of sign that they were in on it too. But they weren't. I didn't know who was, and hopefully, I wouldn't have to find out. 

I knew this text would be different

But at that moment, the ground started to rumble. We had had a few mini earth quakes before, but this one only grew worse by the second. The sky quickly grew dark and murky, wind began to roar in our ears. People around us were screaming as the whole amusement park started to quake and tremble before our eyes. All three of us ran into the nearest clearing, and held each other close as we watched the ferris wheel begin to fall. I felt my phone finally buzz with the arrival of a text message, but even as a glanced down at my phone, I knew this text would be different.

"Please report to your assigned locations promptly. Project Re-Genisis is underway."

"We need to get home!" yelled Olivia, her voice could barely be heard over the chaos swirling around us. Together, we ran back for our bikes. Just as we got there, I jumped on mine and started riding off in a different direction, but Jameson grabbed my shoulder. "What are you doing!?"

"I have to go!"

"Where!? Our families are that way!" He was right, my family was at home, but I would probably never get to see them again. My mother had been very supportive when the truth of the letter had first hit me, but I knew she was scared. At that moment, I looked into Jameson's eyes and hoped there was some way he was coming too. But there wasn't.

I pulled myself free from his hand, "I'm sorry!" and road of without another word.

TO BE CONTINUED

(This post is getting to long, and I have to study for midterms, so...Fair-faring, friends!)