Freedom in Camp Half-Blood

The govenment had been issuing ads about this supposed global warming and Earth heating up as we polluted our atmosphere with noxious gases and closing ourselves in with greenhouse gases.

They were wrong.

You see, about a year ago, NASA started tracking asteriods that had broken free from the atsteroid belt and swung towards Earth like a baseball player pitches a ball; small ones at first, only a few feet across, but the biggest threat came at hudnreds of miles wide.

We had no backup plans, no idea how human kind was going to survive this threat.

Good thing I'm not human.

My name is Ariana Ava, and I'm a daughter of Hephatesus. Ironic, since the universal threat is that we all die in hellfire.

No, what's happening is that we're slowly dying off because each asteriod that hits our atmoshpere rips a hole in it, opening us up to the vacuum of space and with each rip in our atmoshpere comes solar heat, slowly roasting mankind alive as our planet heats up.

Oh yes, we've tried everything and lately the government has decided that their next brilliant plan of action is to build underground bunkers lined with heat resistant metals. That's going to end well.

Lucky for us, we live behind the strngest and most powerful barrier in history; one given to us by Zeus and stands up to the strongest and most violent hits. We've survived WWIII. Leftover nuclear radiation from Iran, who developed nuclear technology in late 2015 didn't break through our barrier, even though what they did nearly obliterated what was left of the already burning Americas.

Nuclear war raged for another six horrible years until practically every innocent civilian and solider had died from radiation poisoning. Great job, USA. We have limited time until that monster asteriod hits us and there are only 56,000 people left on the Earth to save. That's only 11,000 left in North America. That's only 8,000 left from what used to be millions of people and we have to find a way to protect humans so that they don't die off.

Too bad they aren't half god, like we are.

I may sound bitter, but how would you feel if you watched your country torn to shreds by irresponisble management, watch your family burn in flames and suffer from toxic poisioning, slowly observe your world fall to pieces as the US government and NASA rushed to find a solution to save the rest of the human race...all of this observed from behind an uncrossible barrier.

That's Zeus' fault. He controlles what can enter and what can leave, and since the threat to our lives is outside, he keeps us inside the camp at all times, even when I begged and fell to my knees as my mother and sister screamed for mercy, banging on the invisible walls before dying from noxious gases and fire.

So yeah. I may sound somewhat veangeful. But hey, we get to live through a fatal asteriod hit! Our atmosphere will be completly destroyed and probably half of our planet along with every sort of life will explode.

But I'm still here.

Lucky me.

Ariana Ava, age fifteen
circa 2021 A.D.

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