The Ice War

No one was sure how it was done... An accidental release of chemicals disbursed into the environment, or leaking into the ground over time. Small comets hitting the Earth and messing with something. A millitary lab screwing with something... it happened.

The plants were affected first. They stopped going to seed. Then it hit the bugs, and the animals that ate to bugs and plants and then it would hit us.

How did something cling to a few atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen and NOT be discovered. Towns and cities with water treatment plants had it in there systems. Even some bottled water showed traces... it didn't make sense.

"Scientists" said it was something that was there, over time, that removed the genetic ability in the plants to reproduce. The genetic defect was found to be carried in water... and was affecting everything that drank water.

The larger and more complex the system, the longer it took to take affect, and the scientists said it would be fairly easy to reconstruct the genetic "abnormality" and rebuild a persons DNA to the way it should be.

Yes. Starvation would be a problem but it always was a problem. People would die, but people have always died. Chaos would run rmpant in some places... well you get the picture. Much of all this is standard operational procedure and we have all grown to accept it.Our boredom with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding the razor for soooo long and always... maybe... coming back made it all not worth writing about in a proper meaningful, catchy way. It was all frantic, with spelling errors, mixed with the boredom and carelessness of everyday life, with a background tempo of humans trying to accomplish whatever life was about. All so hard to understand.

It Didn't Stick. The DNA changes in the plants reemerged with the first reintroduction of water. Same with the lab mice, cattle, and chickens.

It hit us all in little bits but I don't remember what came first. The genetic changes of infertility came about the same time as the starvation.. Or maybe we just realized we were all barren and starving at the same time.

The governments started giving out "Bits" which were a mix of protine and vitamins mixed with a plastic filler to make you feel full. We were told to add water and make a soup. The plastic would give you a full feeling and could be "recycled" by boiling / sanitizing. Then we could reuse the "Bits" with things we found still around to eat.

An rumor that "Old Water" didn't have the "Eunuch Gene", and that glacial water from centuries ago, when combined with the DNA repairs provided a solution.

So everyone went North. Governments and Borders became more meaningless than ever before and Military rule replaced Governments. The Military couldn't do anything... we outnumbered the bullets... for a while.

I guess the plan was for Old Ice to be used in closed environmental bio-labs and there would be a place for plants and animals and people to be "fruitful and multiply".

We wouldn't all fit in them.. but maybe they would grow enough for everyone.... or at least me... So thought everyone.

The "Bits" didn't cut it and the dying mass of people soon preyed on each other. After slicing open a person... the "Bits" became the governments "Modest Proposal" that was too modest for a staving, mad, irrational and board populace.

Groups branched off for safety and then disappeared without a trace. The weather got cooler, we ate who we could find and what they had.

A larger group surrounded us and our words turned to grunts and screams. they herded us to a fenced in place and a cattle truck loaded us in. We rode and it made no sense at all.. why drive us to some place if you were going to eat us? So we must be safe! Or something.

The truck stopped and "Bits" were thrown through the sides of the trailer we were in. We ate.

The back of the truck opened and we were sent down a pathway with lights and noise. A loud voice was heard saying "You are selected to fight for the for the great army to protect the land and water of life...." I dont remember the rest.. A wire strap came around my face and attached a small metal cord around my neck with a metal ball. Too tight to get over my chin so I could not see it. I saw on others that it was a metal heart shape and the "VOICE" said it was The Heart of Purity and that a bit of "Old Water" was inside it.

We were pushed out and marched with sticks and clubs for a long time. Those who could go no further were dragged to the side and stabbed and their "Heart of Purity" removed.

We arrived at wherever we were and those in the very front were given clubs and sharp sticks... the voices in back of us started clubbing us and so we all ran forward... forward... screams behind us and we didn't care what was ahead... because we know that death is behind us catching up. We are so scared and hungry and want time to catch our breath... but if we do the death will catch us sooner. .. We think we should have written what happened down in a better way... less frantic... better grammar... but there is not time.

We smash into another group. I think that is what happened... but suddenly there were others in front of us with clubs and sharp sticks and we clawed and hit and a hit on my head and side sent me down. The mess continued above me and I tried to stay away from the feet and the blood and the cry's and the clubs and the sticks.

My mind broke away from it all and I went away.. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore and just shut it off.

It was all something I didn't understand, didn't have the time to understand, and maybe was not worth understanding.. I wished this was done better... but the time I had was over and it was what I had done.

I reached for the heart shaped locket around my neck and it made me feel better.

End