New Disasters

By Taneeka Johnston
 It is the days of the 2040’s in Tokyo, Japan--the most densely populated city in the world.
Technology has become more extreme, and air-architecture has taken over the sky. To travel
you must go through, and pass the hundreds of skyscrapers and floating crafts.

The modern generation of the 2040’s has become more rebellious than previous
generations. Teenagers no longer fully abide by the laws on any circumstances, this rebellion is
going worldwide. The last two generations of teenagers have been born more intelligent than
previous generations. This strange occurrence is thought to have appeared by an act of some
sort of human experiment.

Situation in Tokyo is acquired that the children have stolen classified information from their
government officials. Some rebellions have created groups, stealing top information on viruses,
bacteria and sub-terrestrial life forms. It is still in questioning as to why the teenagers have
become so estranged and rebellious… As the elders in laboratories gain more advanced
technology, the more the teenagers fight against them.

In the suburbs of the city, unknown mutations have formed and it is as though they have
happened due to the trial and errors of the young indecencies roaming around with their
experiments.
The race

“Run!” Screaming, screaming at me with all her power, “Run David! NOW, COME ON!”
Trailing behind her delicate prances from roof, to roof, I stopped for a second. I stopped
running from the officials, and stared at her graceful leaps, her body moving like that of a feline.
Fast and agile she was doing the most extreme parkour, moving in blurs. I’ve still never gotten
use to her extreme physical capabilities, as they completely out-match that of the human
environment surrounding her.

Sudden realization hits me, if these officials caught me and found the stolen DNA codes I
had in my chip they’d most likely kill me, on the spot. I ran after Chiyo, trying to catch up to her
speed as much as I was humanly capable. Two roofs in front of me Chiyo leaped into a quickly
rising vehicle. It was Ayo waiting for us, “Listen up boy. You have 5 seconds to get into this car,
or we’re leaving weather we have the codes or not!” I ran with a sudden explosion of force and
leapt straight into the vehicle. The momentum of my flight led me straight into the opposite
door of the car. A chilling shiver catapulted throughout my entire body. My brain went cold--
blacked out.

I’m running from some type monster. My heart is pounding against my rib cage. I feel
the end of my world coming closer, I can’t look back to see what’s behind me, all I know is to
keep running. I have to stay proud, I have to move! Go! Get away from this abomination…
 “Hey bud, wake up...” I feel my eye slits opening slightly. They shut again, I don’t have
the willpower to wake up. I let my eyes roll back in my head as I try to remember why I’m lying
down half asleep. “Myah hshed huwrts…” my words are completely slurred and I can taste vile,
thick saliva in my mouth. Crack. I hear and feel the sharp pain of my neck snapping to the side.
“David we are back at home now, and we need your help to get the codes working.” I hear a
heavenly sigh, I know its Chiyo, and in addition I also feel the stinging burn of the aftermath of
her slap. “WAKE UP NOW! DAVID!” My eyes snap open and I see with complete clarity, as I
stare at Chiyo’s face. Oh, how I adore her. With slight movements I make myself sit up under
her glare. “Just take your time, won’t you?” I know she’s annoyed by her deadly tone.

“Yes, I would like to take my time,” her glare deepens. “But just for you, I’ll manage to
ignore all the pain I feel. Since, I’m only a mere human compared to you.” I see her lovely grey
eyes soften as she tucks her silky, long, black hair behind her ears. “David for all we know, I’m
as good a human as you are. Aside from some minor things like my crazed physical powers, I’m
the same as you.” Chiyo doesn’t want to be different (they way she is) she longs to be a normal
person just like everyone she’s grown up around.

“Chiyo, well, that’s what Ayo and I are working on. Finding out “what” you are,” I search
for my chip and reveal it from my jacket’s pocket. Holding it up I say “with the information that
we managed to steal from those officials, we may be able to start to understand what you are.”
Chiyo’s face glows with hope.

One day, a few months ago I was rescued by Chiyo and Ayo. The officials (meaning
people who enforce the law) had arrested me in the suspicion that I had helped a gang of
teenagers in stealing samples of the new HCMV Man-manipulated R-HIV. This is one of the
problems of the 2040’s: new viruses are being created, scientists are trying to match and create
extra terrestrial life, and the mutating viruses they create are then often stolen by the modern
generation of teenagers. It is as though we (my generation) were all born 1000 times more
intellectual, and we work faster and better than any other group of humans before us. This
phenomenal is world-wide and is part of the reason why scientist are so interested in creating
viruses that can enhance the brain and the physical capabilities of humans.

Even so, whilst I was being arrested by the officials, Chiyo somehow swooped into the
vehicle and was carrying be out in 5 seconds flat. We were then flying away suspended from a
flying car. Chiyo looked so incredible when I first saw her; she was holding on to me with one
arm and ferociously shooting at the officials with the other.

From that day onwards I have been helping Chiyo and Ayo in figuring out how Chiyo
became the way she is, and where she came from. From what she has told us, all she
remembers is waking up in an alley with a certificate saying she was eight years of age, D.O.B:
Mar. 13th\ 2024, Name: Chiyo, meaning “A thousand generations”. All three of us are 16 and we
hide around many different locations in the city, however it has now been chosen that our most
prized home is a warehouse we found in the outskirts of the city.

I have seen many mutations around this area, humans that have been infected by
manipulated viruses. An example, is the HCMV MM R-HIV, it has been known for a long time
that humans naturally carry a bit of HCMV in them. This new creation of a virus, boosts the
HCMV into making its host completely blind, yet more sensitive to feeling, like a snake it can
sense the direction of anything through the vibration of movement. The virus usually enters its
host through saliva, human to human joining; intercourse, which is among our generation
drastically common. I don’t think it is yet realized by the teenagers that they pass the virus
among themselves because it takes about three days to show its affects, and it causes a very
sudden change. At first the virus sets on the host’s cells, it injects its DNA and breeds, the virus
will not start to show its affects until it has spread through about three-quarters of its host’s
cells. By that time the person has no chance of survival and becomes a lurking mutation. The
mutation then lives with crazed emotions and increased hormones that can cause it to grow in
many different ways. The victims of the virus turn into solitude carnivores and hunt on meet--
anything that will move.

In Chiyo’s case, we think she was the victim of what we suspect was an experiment of a
top, official scientist. They must have mutated her as a child, tried to increase her brain and
physical capabilities. They succeeded. However, we are puzzled as to why they disposed of her,
why she has no memories? I think that they feared her, with the already abominated
population of the world, full of smart teenagers taking charge. She must have been better, and I
bet that they knew that, they must have known that she was the best; at her will she could
change everything. In contrary, the officials don’t want change; they just want to remain at the
top of the food chain.