The year was 2100 A.D. The earth had run out of oil and governments all around the world started to fall apart. Countries started to fight over the reserves of oil, but this only made it get used faster. Once the last of the oil was gone there was no way to get new fuel to the power plants and maintenance on the wind mills and dams required large machinery that could only be fueled with diesel, the only source of electricity was solar panels but they produced so little power it could not sustain cities. The smaller and poorer countries did not struggle as much at first because they were not very dependent on oil from the start. The cities became war zones for gangs and many people fled to less populated areas and had very small groups that they lived with living off the land.
There was a tall South American woman named Lucia living in a part of Mexico that was controlled by a drug cartel, the ruler of the territory was very harsh to the people living under him.
One day Lucia went to the market to find some food, she had not eaten in days because the cartel hoarded the food, there was a stand that a variety of food but she noticed that the were tons of chestnuts, she thought to self “there are so many chestnuts they won’t notice if I take a few” she went over and grabbed three chestnuts and walked away. There was man playing a drum who saw her steal the food, he yelled at her and then pointed at her telling the cartel guards what she did. Lucia ran but did not get far because she weak from lack of food. Lucia was thrown in prison and stamped with a Chinese character for identification reasons, she was certain she was going to die there. The next the day they brought her a little bit of food on a small dish, it was enough to keep her alive for another day, she thought, “What is the point of keeping me alive? They’ll probably are going to kill me soon” just then a bald man walked in and said, “Lucia we must hurry, we don’t have much time” she didn’t asked questions she just went with him, where ever she was going was better than a prison.
The bald man told Lucia “There is a river a head that divides the territories, we have to cross to be safe” Lucia was very confused at this point “Why are we rushing like this?” she asked, he said “The wallet I gave them had some European and Dog coins in it, well at least thats what it looks like, they are fake, and they will figure it out soon” she still did not understand why a random guy saved her, but right now it didn’t matter.
They finally got to the river and got in a birch canoe started to cross, suddenly people started shooting at them from the bank they came from, Lucia got hit in the right arm, she tore a piece of her clothing off and tied it around the wound, she could not help row anymore and they were not moving fast and still getting shot at, but then people from the other side of the river were shooting back. They reached the other side, but Lucia was bleeding out, the bald man’s friends had a vase with filled with some chemical that poured on the wound and the bleeding stopped.
The next day Lucia woke up and sitting next to her bed was her bother “Alejandro! I thought you were dead!” she yelled, “No, I have been here the whole time, this my territory now, when I heard you were in prison I sent my best man to get you.”
“Thank you so much, but where is the rest of our family?” she asked, Alejandro said, “Well thats the next step, to bring them home.”
That was a cool story dude! :)
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