4001 A.D

Once he said, “Being eternal is being god and being him is not easy”. I am Less Wilson walking somewhere in the desert searching for one of the two remaining human controlled city called West Core. I have been walking for a long time, long enough to get my third heat stroke in past 45 minutes. I have had couple of chances to sit under a few palm trees but I could not. Constant walking is making me perspire even more and the water is collected in the small plastic bags tied on both my shoulders which I desalinate by making solar dugs in the sand. I have managed to purify enough sweat water to keep me ticking for another 20 minutes under this brutal sun. Who would have thought 2012 would be the final twist for mankind.

On December 23^rd 2012 Mayan people predicted the world going to come to an end. On 1^st January 2013 the whole world black marked the Mayan history from the mankind history as nothing as such happened. It was probably the biggest practical joke in the history of us; the only good it did was to the director of movie 2012 released in 2010 who made couple of billion dollars out of this hoax of all time. The whole world went back to their usual self which is terrorism, capitalism and imperialism till 2050.

In 2032 a wildlife photographer named Ralph Laruz a South African discovered something really phenomenal but lethal for humans. According to Laruz after 2012 he could not believe the apocalypse prediction by Mayans would be false. He kept on thinking why would Mayan waste rest of civilizations time for centuries after centuries. So he started researching on animal behavior in Amazon rainforests. After 20 years of research work he held a small press conference in Cape Town. He proved the world that all the living creatures on the planet apart from human beings are becoming eternal and they are reproducing at a really steady rate. He also warned the world that humans have only little time, as sooner or later, all the other living creatures would realize that the only source for food would be us left as nothing else can be killed or fed on.

By 2050 everyone had accepted Ralph Laruz theory when the government from all nations in the world started finding dead bodies at every corner of the street hour by hour the number of dead people started increasing. From as cute as Chihuahua to as fierce as Bengal Tigers all started feeding on humans. In next 25 years these events got so crazy that parents started feeding their own young ones to the animals outside their houses to see if they can be tamed again. That is when the remaining ones started believing in apocalypse and the downfall of humanity.

By the end of 3000 A.D. the population of earth had changed drastically as only less than 30 million humans were remaining with the entire world occupied by over 900 trillion of other living creatures. The remaining humans left their cities deserted in search of new habitat where there is less number of creatures or hard to be hunted down by them but they all slowly died as the lack of food made other creatures even more smarter and ferocious. They had figure out the needs of humans where they are going to be found. Like where no meat eating animals live such as goats, sheep, cows and some possibility of vegetation left. So by the end of 3900 A.D. the human count went down less than 25000 all over the planet.

In 3905 A.D. brothers Zaffer and Shaffir established remaining two human cities East Core which is in Judian desert somewhere in Israel and West Core which is in Sahara Desert Africa. Both the cities were protected by 6 story tall and 0.2 mile thick walls with facilities to recycle water and produce organic meals for remaining humans. Every remaining family in the citizen has a book named Afterlife written by the last brothers (Zaffer & Shaffir). If the stories are to be right, then both brothers belong to be descendant of the oldest family in the world. Their family has been surviving on earth since after the apocalypse was confirmed which was in 2075 A.D.

After 25 minutes of excruciating walking in the hottest conditions on the planet I see a Black and white flag waving. I have made it to the great walls, the West core.