Tuesday, 19 June 2012

My favourite work of the year

The Disease
In the city of Los Angeles many people have been caught with the disease, lost in confusion. The disease is not like catching the cold it does not make you feel sick, it traps you in your mind putting you into a slumber that you cannot wake up from. In your mind everything is your best dream you’ve ever had, but to others they can see what your body is doing they can on see your peal like a dried tomato. Just before you die all the pain inflicts up to your brain and you cry in misery then awake to feel hunger, the hunger for people
Luckily children can’t get the disease it only happens to adults, no one knows why but it just does. The disease is making its way worldwide and earth’s population is dropping. If you are lucky you die within days, the unlucky go through months. There is no cure for this horrible curse. Most people are paying all their money to doctors so they can be immunised, but all that goes to waste because there is no cure. There are two ways a diseased person can die, they can slowly die of blood lose or they can be ripped open because of lack of strength in skin and all their organs will show and they are called bursters. Bursters are very rare and if you see one don’t be alarmed it happens to a lot of people so get used to it. The advantage for kids is that since lots of people get the disease supermarket food is free, but the supermarkets soon run out of stock because there are no deliveries. Children suffer without their parents to rely on.
After 10 years of the disease the world’s population has dropped from six billion to four billion and is still dropping. New Zealand has only lost two thousand people but since it is a small country with little population it is still quite a lot.
A group of kids are fighting to survive the people drought. They team up and walk around looking for adults and food to keep them alive some stay behind while some go on the hunt for food. The ones that stay behind use the resources that they have already collected and make food for when the others get back. The hunters are the bigger and stronger ones of the group, but some stay at the base with the others for safety. All of the hunters carry big hiking bags so they can collect as much as they can.
The base is actually a home that was deserted and no people were dead inside so they converted it into a high-tech well-armed fortress. The base is two stories high and on the roof are four kids on for each side of the house with long distance snipers with a scope and silencer. Any one that came within 200 meters was instantly shot by the lookouts there are also kids with shotguns ready for up close attacks. The base also goes underground were everything is. the top is just a disguise. The location devices are used if there are adults are coming and they need to tell the lookouts. There are three entrances one through the front, one through the back and one that comes out of the ground under a hedge four blocks away. The General of the kids is Johnny he calls the shots, he has gotten them through the adults many times and that is why everyone does what he says                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
One day the adults planned an attack on the base they had over three hundred men and women in their fleet and there was only one hundred in the kids fleet but the kids had technology which would give them an advantage.
It was 8:oo at night just after the cookers finished dinner and everyone was back at base, then a sudden call from the mike, it was the lookouts, they were saying that a fleet of hungry adults are coming our way. The General quickly reacted and sent everyone to their stations the General went to the location devices and said to the worker get me a look at the fleet and he did the fleet was twice as big as the General thought so he put the siren on, it said “code red code red” the General sent the frag bullets up to the lookouts and also put four more people up at the lookout so there were two on each side. Once the lookouts got the frag bullets they immediately opened fire and in a flash thirty adults were dead, the frag bullets are special because once they hit the target they send bullet fragments out to other targets and kill them. The general also used the gun that is only used in emergency and that gun is the rail gun it can go through forty adults in a line. Once it was fired the adult fleet had almost lost a third of its fleet but it was still rampaging towards the base. The close range attackers were called up to the lookout to help the lookouts and others went to their original position. Twenty kids were sent out to formation were they shot from the road that the adults were on. Another twenty kids went around the back road to get behind the adults for an assault the lookouts and the ground unit distracted the adults while the assault team were sneaking up from behind.
The general got a call from the assault team saying were all ready so they he put them in attack. The assault team silently jogged towards the adults and when they were about one hundred meters away they opened fire and the adult fleet of 300 had dropped to about 100 had been destroyed by the assault team. The fleet of adults was gone and all of the kids celebrated. Even the general celebrated, then he said to the worker any adults nearby no he said but there is one massive fleet coming from Hamilton and it is much bigger than the one we just fought it is about ten times bigger.

To be continued

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