The Spark: The final Step

If you haven't read the beginning(or the middle) of this story, go back and read it first please. The next post will encompase the whole story. This is kind of short, but there may be a sequel, so stay tuned!

            ...It was pretty obvious when they had reached the land of never ending cold, because it was, well, cold. The wind blew and whistled around next to Taki’s ears, and ice began to form on the red rocks around her as she trudged on. She could hear Bren’s shallow labored breathing on her back, and knew that he had fallen asleep. Soon she reached a great expanse of white, and the red rock had all but disappeared. She slept with Bren curled up next to her that night, and stared up at the Shining One in the Heavens. She fell asleep to the sound of Bren’s breathing. In the following morning, she woke to the sound of... silence. Startled, she jumped up; Bren was covered in a thin layer of frost. She put her head to his chest, and heard a faint heart beat. She yelled at him. “Bren, Bren, wake up!”

For a long moment, nothing happened, and then her bro
ther blinked his eyes. “Huh? Sis? Where are we?”

She smiled, and hugged him. “I thought you were dead, you! Get up when I call you. You almost gave me a sithen!” They traveled far that day onto the white cold. Taki sometimes thought she could see shapes moving in the white haze, white lumbering masses, but they disappeared as quickly as they came.

As night began to fall, Taki saw a small mound ahead of them, illuminated by the Shining One in the Heavens. As she approached, she could see that it was a small building. She blinked once in surprise, and then she exclaimed, “We found it Bren, we really did!”                                                                                 Robots of the Future

“zzzzz… Wha? Oh good… zzzzz…..”

As they entered the building, a blast of frigid air met them and the doors closed behind them. Taki looked back, but after what they had been through, the doors seemed insignificant. She staggered, zombie-like with Bren piggy-backing on her. The altar swelled up in front of her, blue light shining onto the top. She walked up to it and reached out with a shacking hand towards the small orb on the altar. As her hand broke the light, movement appeared all around them. Things emerged from the shadows, they looked like men, but instead of flesh, they were covered in metal, and had blue lights coming form their eyes. Where their hands should have been, instead huge blades protruded, gleaming in the faint glow from the orb. As the blue sweeping lights closed in from all around them, she hugged the cure close to her and screamed her defiance at them. After all that she had been through, after all that she had done! It was not going to end like this. The orb flared a brilliant red as if in response to her emotions.  For an instant, the world was colorless and serene, held in eternal statist. Then the red consumed all, flame exploding out from her, illuminating all in an exhilarating flare of pain. When she could see again, the familiar green shades of trees were all around her. Taki closed her eyes once more, curling herself tighter around the cure and succumbed to the sweet oblivion that welcomed her from beyond...

If you would like to look more into the concept of an apocalyptic world see here