The End

Earth timeline ,Year 2567

In the centre of antartica, where everywhere you see is frozen ground ,harsh blizzards hitting the cold icy surface . In this bleak invironment there is a human that is 'me' travelling while heavily geared .

' my name is Vira setti and I don't have a lot of options right now besides making this adventure towards the ends of antartica beacuse the rest of the world is no more . There was a war in human civilization in year 2501 and it lasted half a century and the result is total annhilation .

At first war started due to food shortages

and population but at the start it was within control ,no one was going with heavy artillery but after two years of this china broke this situation and used nuclear bombs directly on it's neighbouring countries and guess what it really heated up after that all countries were bombarding each other .

The earth was devasted and after twenty five years of heavy artillery fire , only 5 percent of total population was preserved and the rest died either in war or nuclear radiation .

The scientist built some shelters for these people to protect them from radiation but this was not the end of war because even with these losses no one wanted to come to terms with each other not when they were enemies in the past and lost someone in war and so the war entered the conspiracy period in which silent assination was dominant and some minor gunfiring here and there and after 20 more years of this bloodshed only one percent humanity was left and there was no order or any other kind of discipline.

I was born in 2540 , when war was in later stages and not many humans were left off I saw with my own eyes as the people always found something to accuse the other encampment people and fights with guns ,knives and fists were daily occurence .we were in Siberia Russia and it was not cold at all because of how much radiation was in the air . All the humanity that was left was shifted here , though I had suspicions some people were also in other places but it was not easy for them to survive because all the good facility and top official had settled here from all over the place and made their encampments in here basically this was last place to live and no nuclear weapon was here because everyone checked each other when they came here.

Back to the topic, so I basically was born in these times and saw the humans in their most vile forms, I had no father that I knew because my mother was raped and I was born and she too later deid when I was 5 and what else could kill her, she was a drunkard and got involved in some thugs fighting and got shot .well I didn't even cry even after knowing next day that she is dead , I didn't have a lot of emotions since I was birthed and I already had a lot in my plate to be able to survive and so without any remorse I cut ties with her and changed my surname ,it was easy to do afterall she bullied and beat me more than I can count when I was a baby , and fed me almost nothing after I was 1 year old and lived a depraved life and I wasn't one to die so easily so I ate whatever she left and scoured for food like a street rat . On the day my mother died I knew that no food will be coming now along with her so I had to find work and then I started labouring works but it was too much work for a child and so i even started killing humans to survive .

I remember the hazy memory of my first kill ,it was a fight between many children my age for the food container that was given by official for those of our age ,and it contained rations like meat and bread but there was too few of it and me and others got into a fight for it there were total of 10 of us and I didn't spare any of them I killed 8 of them with my knives the last one ran away , I was always good at fighting and this one talent of mine saved me many times.

Basically after turning 15. I was a cold blooded killer and I had kills in hundreds but I never felt anything for them it was always my survival first and then anything else .

The rest of the story is simple as I left that place and came here because no one was surving there any longer , not with pollution and heat rising to unimaginable levels .I think that thousands of us left that place to find another place for living and I despite all odds chose to come here and It was a great choice because in the years it took me to get here, now everywhere in the earth was submerged underwater.

I still have access to human satellites that have survived and the images I got pretty much confirmed it.' sighs , 'with another sigh I started focusing on the journy ahead because I didn't come here mindlessly I had studied the earth surface through satellite before venturing out and at that time I had spends hours looking in each pictures of earth's surface, most of it was devastated and barren but after two months of continuous effort I found something and that was near South pole .

There, at the edges of earth where it should be totally covered with ice i saw a black dot and then I was confused at what it might be , because it should be white and once I discovered that black dot It was like something kept tugging me towards it ,qso I focused on that spot with the help of satellites .

Once I got a more magnified image I was appalled because there was an completely black colored architecture that looked like a temple from old eras but it's area was around 1km and it's height at 500 meters.

It didn't take me long to figure out that this place wasn't there before earth went to war and with little bits of its images that satellites took after every year I was able to tell it appeared only previous year which was 2549 at that time and I was 19 years old this year which is 2550 .

After seeing it something inside was telling to go there if i wanted to survive but I didn't go out just because of it . I weighed my options and survival chances which weren't many ,firstly every human knew that the end is near and they aren't gonna survive this but they had set out of encampments nonetheless to have some hope , I was alone in that large encampment area except some people who had basically given up and were counting their numbered days and living like worms .The other option was to travel to this place and I had means to get there because believe it or not earth had some very high technogical development before going to war and travelling that distance safely wasn't something to struggle with like in 2000's but I had to do a lot of preparation and so i planned my journey for 1 month taking every miniscule variable into account .

After deciding on destination I put all my plans into motion . It wasn't easy to make every equipment out of the knowledge that was left and it took me 10 whole years to put everything together and also make a high tech ship after reaching the shores through complicated and relatively safe pathways and insert countless safety mechanisms in the ship ,it was year 2560 in which I set out to sail .And even after that I took 5 years reaching here .

The ship got into accidents many times along the journey and when it was irreparable I simply got out on some land built it for months again and somehow despite all odds and some luck I reached antartica but that was just the start of my troubles, now I had to not only preserve fish food for the journey ahead but also fight cold and damn it was cold here .'

'And this was the story of me reaching here but then a strange thing happened I checked satellites again and again to gain any new information of the place where I was going and I found out that it's black surface was increasing each day and it stopped increasing just when I had reached here so feeling uneasy i waited for many more months whilst preparing but it didn't increase in size anymore so against my better judgement and suspicions I started my journey again ,day by day I was getting closer to it , I endured everything for a chance of survival ,not a second of my life till now was wasted to gain anything else other than more power and knowledge and anything necessary for survival in this hell that I was born and I wasn't going to stop now.'

' Each day I had to travel in biting cold , anddespite making preparations it was still too draining on my stamina but I continued walking only stopping to make tents two time a day and resting for 3 hours each time but after 3 months of this all my supplies ran out.

I was carrying a moving container which could travel at any surface of any friction and was running with the help of fuels or batteries and controlled with buttons on my suit to carry all the food but now it was empty and I abondoned the container ,i haven't been in contact with any technology after leaving the ship ,only that piece of container that I made and a gps navigation towards my destination but it stopped working 1 month ago when I had completed nearly half of the way so i also threw it away now I had only nutritional liquid stored for my supplies and it won't last more than 15 days but I could make it last a full month if I used it sparingly . And so I became even more determined and moved through the tough course of cold environment not stopping for anythiing other than necessay breaks.

Blizzards were hitting me day and night , and it had become so cold that my legs had to be exerted too much to even move a single step and all that was keeping me going was the need to survive and not die .'

'After one month of travelling like a madman and running all out of food I was still not there ,but just in time as I was losing hope in the distance I could see the black surface and so without pausing I used every ounce of power and determination in my body to just move and after what felt like eternity and when I had no more strength to even breathe properly I reached the black surface and just as I entered it's region all the cold disappeared and was replaced with normal room temperature ,but I had no time to study the environment because my vision was totally blurred and I dropped to the ground feeling weak .

After some rest I removed all extra baggage on the suit and rested some more ,then I glanced at the oxygen cylinder of my suit and I noticed that in one of it's equipment there was reading of atmospheric composition of gases and it was reading very normal air composition and so I took my mask off and breathed the air and I felt fresh but something else as well ,there was something mistifying in the air that I could feel but I didn't know what that feeling was so as confused as I was , I didn't dwell on it and slept there after seeing no danger was in sight.'