"Another sight of missile barrage looms as Xianara pressures Ceyrath to forfeit their rights of sovereignty, but analyzing the continuous resistance Ceyrath is putting along with its political military backing from Bharathis as well as Ruslania, it seems they are willing to see this war through the end."
Was the first thing I heard as I woke up, the television was on and my father was listening to news anchor as he got dressed for work. Actually this wasn't the first time I heard about this, the current situation was the result of a previous one month long war. Xianara having advanced rapidly needed a dedicated island to perform its large scale biotechnology experimentation and what better place can there be than the island near a enemy country so if in case something does go wrong at least Xianara would be away from danger's door. For this exact reason Xianara was doing some field testing of their newly developed military power but to it's surprise Ceyrath's alliance joined hands to fend of this act of terror. All the residents residing in Ceyrath had already taken refuge in Bharathis resulting in Ceyrath becoming a battlefield.
Throughout this month if someone residing in Bharathis looked at the sky continuously for a short while they would see number of missiles heading from Xianara to Ceyrath as well as fighter jets. The geographical boundary of all these countries should lead them to have a very intense atmosphere as Xianara was directly above Bharathis and directly below Ruslania, making Xianara looked sandwiched by the opposing countries and Ceyrath being a island directly below Bharathis, still there was no sign of war between these three countries.
The reason?
They had signed a peace treaty along with other surrounding countries too this was done to prevent the situation that happened forty year ago from happening where all these countries had engaged in a calamitous war soon enveloping and dragging all the countries worldwide causing it to become a world war and the death toll reaching 200 million globally but the treaty didn't involve Ceyrath as at the time this treaty was being signed Ceyrath's government was busy handling the civil war that broke out in their country.
Being involved or not it was all a phoney treaty, many such peace agreements had been signed before and if a few signatures prevented onslaught of millions why these 'peace loving' countries focusing on expanding their military power every year ?
So that they can give their citizens a good time showing off the significant surge in technology development their armed power during military parade? Heh as if. The treaty was a simple act to persuade the common fools in believing that things will be right from now on and they can live at peace, but in reality these countries just take a step back while replenishing their military supplies and improving their technology just so in the next war they can be victorious and suppress the rest.
This time it was Xianara, the one who was pushed to its limit that it had to unwillingly suggest the notion of the current existing peace treaty in front of world council. This forty-year-long resentment—you don't really believe they've forgotten it, do you? Xianara will strike again breaking the treaty for sure, next time more powerful and then it would be our turn to defend.
Back to the present, Xianara focusing on attacking Ceyrath where as Bharathis and Ruslania doing their best to provide Ceyrath with support, the situation if one was to analyse they would definitely say it was reaching a stalemate just a week ago, whether the reason being that Xianara was thinking to halt the continuous aggression or trying to reduce the draining military funds while it prepared its trump card, especially this whole week the attacks from Xianara had reduced greatly, maybe it was finally time for Ceyrath to go on offense.
"Anyway what does that have to do with me, whether Xianara retreats its forces or is able to overthrow the current Ceyrath's government it has nothing to do with me, being a citizen of Bharathis comes with its own benefit huh"
Shraiyen was just another 17 year old going along with his daily life like every other teenager. A lean young male physique with a slight build not for show but for occasional athletic purpose. With a face not average but not handsome like model either and his hair grown till they touched the back of his neck but definitely well maintained, if one was to look long enough and analyse every detail of his body and movements they would definitely feel a hint of elegance in him. Unlike the youth of his age being disorderly, rowdy and wild he on the other hand was rather distinguish, one who focused on his own affairs and kept a reasonable distance with everyone while maintaining a positive relation with anyone who approached him.
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He had no love interest but others of same age being at the ripe stage of youth had romantic interests, with many already being in a relationship and some having one sided affection towards other gender, it wasn't that he couldn't find any affection but he didn't understood the reason to seek love at such age where both force themselves to like the other and as years pass the 'love spark' between them fades causing the distance between them to increase, the only thing that follows this ruined relation is the wastage of their productive years.
Being a school student he used to go school almost every day just so he could observe slightly new things every day, whether its the interaction between his classmates or is the crow brushing past him, he was a keen observer and liked to observe every single small detail. He would attend every lecture but would rarely pay attention instead would be busy observing the changes in his classmate's appearance be it the hairstyle or the way the school dress was worn or the polish of the shoe or if someone is not maintaining their nail's length, be it boys or girls there would be slight difference in their appearance every day. When he would complete observing them then he diverted his attention outside where students used to play various sports and surrounding the ground where trees, he would keep on watching things until classes wind up each day. Academically he was above average not being a topper but maintaining a respectable grade and in sports he had good stamina having a lean figure sports was something he would excel at and also seemed naturally gifted in it but never really considered sports as his career.
He was bored, not sad not happy, he rarely got excited over something he always used to have a expression of nothing, nobody could say that he was angry or sad or happy because he wasn't, all he was, was bored and being bored doesn't involve any of those expression so as time went by his natural resting face had no expression left. But during conversations with anyone he would laugh along with them, during someone's grief or when consoling someone he would have a sad face but was he really? No, showing right emotions at the right time is called intelligence,
fools who pretend to be emotionless, not laugh when need to laugh, don't grief when need to grief, are nothing more than ridiculous morons, deliberately trying to look emotionless. Whether one finds something worth laughing or grieving is a matter of his own hearth but why need to show something and attract people's gaze?
He didn't live a purposeless life, he had already sorted out his career path and after that his earning source and his life up to 80 years of age with different scenarios of him dying before even 80, but he felt no excitement, he laid out a plan because he had to not because he wanted to, there was no joy for him in earning money but to avoid being homeless and being starved purposelessly he had to earn money after his studies.
Just like every other day, this too was an ordinary day for him when he heard the news and he went on with his daily routine then proceeded to change to his school uniform and head for school by a bi-cycle. After school got over, he took the shortest route and was on his way home when he had to race towards home as two street dogs had started chasing behind him almost close to biting him, anyway when he reached he informed his mother of the incident that happened so that they can be careful while dropping of his sister in elementary school.
He also had a younger sister, Shailani, of 10 years old whom he loved and used to play with as she used to reach home before him.
After informing about what happened he went to change into his casual clothes and went to his sister's room to play, seeing him arrive Shailani was overjoyed as she jumped up and down as before she was playing all by herself, seeing her Shraiyen was also happy while she came and grabbed his leg he also reached his hand and hugged her tilting slightly side ward, she only reached his waist, after that he got dragged by his sister and they both sat down to play after one hour of playing he heard the main door opening, this was the usual time of his father reaching home and he was right, his father was at the front door and his mother went ahead to open the door, he drove inside and parked his bike in the garage and came inside the house as he was going to change after handing the sweets he had bought for the children he told his wife about a cat that suddenly jumped from a building wall on his bike as he was driving, luckily he was driving slow and he could shrug the cat off and his wife told him about what happened with Shraiyen, he gave it a thought and proceeded to go change as he went all he commented was "be careful, it is dangerous if they bite you, chances of rabies are there".
Author's note: Readers I'm delighted to know that you are taking time to read my written piece, the motive to write this was because I saw there was no popular novel or book under apocalyptic genre so I thought why not start with this genre as the first project. I ask you to be patient when reading this but please drop this if you would not be able to handle injustice or gore, that's all : )
