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Niko helped his mother hang the freshly washed laundry on the clothesline. When they were done with hanging the laundry out to dry, Niko dug up some potatoes from the garden for their supper. Ever since his father was killed by a group of Bandits, Niko has has to step up and take care of the house, his mother and his little sister. The family's supper of boiled potatoes was plain and bland, but at the very least, it was filling.
Niko traveled for miles on foot when he found an Iberian wolf with his paw stuck in a snare.
Niko carefully removed the snare and gave the Wolf a bite of Beef Jerky. The Wolf befriended Niko and decided to follow him on the rest of his journey.
"I think I'll call you Argentus!" Declared the boy.
Niko and Argentus crossed the forest when a Minotaur came charging through. Argentus leapt forth and snapped his jaws at the Minotaur's throat, when at that exact moment, An Iberian Lynx with a slight limp in it's hind leg leapt forward and snapped it's jaws down on the Minotaur's throat on the other side of it's neck. Blood gushed forward in all directions like a fountainhead, and the Wolf and Lynx jumped off as the Minotaur slumped forward and didn't get back up.
Niko saw the Lynx lick it's hind leg and got an idea. He ripped a piece of his shirt off and wrapped it around the Feline's injured leg. The grateful Iberian Lynx purred and rubbed up against the boy.
"I think I'll call you Savage!" Said Niko.
"BANDITS ARE ATTACKING!! RUN AWAY!! HIDE YOUR VALUABLES!!!" yelled the villagers.
The horde of Bandits had appeared in front of the Iron Mine.
Niko pushed the cart in the Bandit Group's general direction, and when the cart tipped over forward, the Boulders inside flew at the Bandits. The Boulders hit several Raiders, crushing them.
A Raider rushed forward at the boy. Savage leapt forth and mauled the attacker.
Enraged, the leader ran towards the boy, brandishing his crude stone battle-axe. Argentus the Wolf leapt forth at the leader of the group of Bandits, while Savage the Lynx leapt forth and clamped down on his other arm.
The Bandit Leader hit the Wolf in a desperate attempt to get the Wolf to remove it's jaws from his shoulder, and it's claws from his arm and torso. "Let...go of me...you...stupid...beasts!!! I'll kill you both!!!" Growled the marauder.
Niko rushed at the leader of the Bandit horde, Pickaxe still in his hand, and swung the Mining Tool at the Leader's head, the handle embedding itself in the man's skull. The man fell over, limp and lifeless. The villagers cheered.
"Thank you, but I'm looking for the Bandits that killed my father!" Niko said.
"Thanks for the advice sir!" Niko said.
"What? What are you talking about, madame?" Niko said, confused.
"Allow me to clarify...." said the Swamp Witch, grabbing a pouch full of Magic Powder.
The Swamp Witch put some Magic Powder into the cauldron, and a red haze emanated from the vessel, showing a vision of the past.
In the vision of the past, Niko's father, bored with living a farming life and tempted by another woman, walked out on his wife and infant son in the dark of the night to start a new life with that other woman in another village. One day, in a heated fight, he killed the woman he left his family for, headed out into the woods, and formed a group of murderous Bandits that terrorized the country until Niko, Savage and Argentus defeated them.
There was a pause, followed by "I see....Niko, the Spirits have spoken to me." She then took off the skull from her head
"According to the Spirits, there is a field full of boulders and rocks south of the swamp where a proud city once stood until your father's group of Bandits destroyed it. The Spirits say you may atone by rebuilding the abandoned city with the stones." Answered the swamp witch.
And so Niko, Argentus and Savage traveled south to the field, rebuilding the city with the boulders, rocks and stones, with Argentus and Savage digging fields and waterways. Then people came back to the city and Niko sat next to Savage and Argentus behind a tree, and cried, eyes closed.
It all started on a Tuesday morning, I remember that day so well. I remember how the sun was shining in the sky. It was so bright that you never would want to look up in the sky and how I felt like I was at peace all throughout the day. Now that I think about it I had never been in such peace before. I went to work just like I would every other day.
After I spent 5 hours in the cave a came out only to find the most horrific thing I ever found which was bodies everywhere it looked like it had come straight out of a horror movie but this time it was real a real life horror movie. I started to stake then I let out a huge scream I yelled ? help? no one had answered me and I yelled again and again. Then I thought to myself ? are you dreaming? . That was when I grabbed a rock and slammed it into my hand as hard as humanly possible no no no I wasn't dreaming. I knew that I had not been dreaming because I had suddenly felt a giant surge of pain coming from my hand. I then seemed out ? help, help? I started to cry and then welled out with a huge roar of pain ? help me? . No one answered the scream of pain.
Later that night I decided to get closer to the bodys I decided that I needed to know how the had died. So I went forward Infront of me there lied a male he looked young like he was in his 30s. His face was white and pail so extremely pale he looked like a ghost I examined his body. There was no blood which I found very odd. I thought that they couldn't have all just dropped to the ground and died out of nowhere. There had to have been someone with a gun or something that killed them so I grabbed him. Then disgusted I let go for I had never touched anything that was dead before. I let out a scream and a cry for help but this one was unrecognizable as human. I looked at him and I cried. I sat there and cried for hours looking at his body. It was probably midnight when I built up the mental courage to start moving. I walked one foot behind the other I walked along the side of a road.
Before too long I had made it to a small town the town was empty just like everywhere from before there was death everywhere. I came to the realization that I was hungry and tired so I walked into a walmart that was there. I still had not escaped the death there was dead bodys everywhere all over the floor children, adults all of them dead. Sometimes I would see hole family's dead gone to the snapp. That day I found an apartment and stayed there looking for others everyday but never having any luck.
Weeks later I still had found no one alive but after a long time of searching I finally gave up but before I gave up on the world I wrote this and left this letter in hopes that someone might see it and come looking for me?
Hello,
Please come I will have food and water if needed. Please join me.
Thank you,
The last man on earth, Collier
I left this message everywhere but deep inside I knew that I would never find anyone that I was alone in this world and that I would need to be alone forever. I let out more sobs. I sobbed my heart out for hours and hours. Then I left this place, and I never came back the the area of death.
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