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July13th 2004, It had been over two month since that fateful day. The day I lost a father, the day world lost hope. It was a struggling time as people died each day. The world’s population was united as one, yet it was a horrible a time to be alive. Our loss to the giants had put us all under marshal law.

In a matter of 60 days over 2 billion people had died, died from them, died from starvation, died from a broken heart. The death toll rose dramatically, but this day, July 13th 2004 was the day it tapered off. It was the first time that supply, met demand. We could feed them and us, but only with great struggle.

The giants, because of there size ate tremendous amounts of food; they could eat a cow whole and not even flinch. They have been said to be able to eat a thousand men at one time and not so much as have to cough to clear a little room. As I write this, I find it best to describe what a day is like for us, as no one will ever be able to understand any other way.

The moon still shines in the sky illuminating the ground below, we begin to stir from our houses knowing they will soon arrive. Men, women, children, it makes no difference as every able body is needed just to survive.

The day starts out with the gathering of food. Supplies from around the world land here in what use to be New York but is now called Elysium. We call it Elysium because this city is the world’s hub, more then one quarter of the world live here to appease the goddesses. Food, clothing, water, and whatever else they request all ends up here in Elysium.

We struggle to gather the supplies out of the cargo bays as every moment counts, every minute wasted only adds to the chance of there unhappiness, as we have learned that when they are unhappy it only leads to loss of life, to punishment, to devastation. All of which we are unable to stop. We have learned all too quickly that we are at their mercy.

The ground begins to shake brutally, as trees tumble, dust rises as we struggle just to stand. Our heads turn as we can easily see them from what is to us, hundreds of miles away. As they draw near thoughts of worthlessness, enter our heads. We are struggling just survive the wraith of three girls who look to be barely out high school. They literally own us, they own our existence, because at any moment they could stomp us all out with a couple of well placed steps. They walk what must be miles to us with every step, their weight incomprehensible.

Still miles out the black haired girl who we have learned to call Goddess Ash seems to be the leader, As Neon the blue haired one and Ember the redhead seem to do what she tells them to.

Ash looks down at us as she approaches the city. Our hearts skip a beat as she glares at us. The rumbling has now grown to the point where none of us can stand. We crawl on the ground trying to find safety as the sound of buildings collapsing in the city ravage the airwaves; we cringe as debris fills the air making it difficult to breathe.

Ash steps between us all with ease as her long legs glide over the airport and to the basin where we store the food. Ember, sets down a large backpack next to the basin and starts to toss the food in.

Even in fear, we can only stare in amazement as Embers arms grab tons upon tons of food and easily sweep it into the backpack. Ash however like usual turns her attention towards us. Her tattooed arms strike fear as she spits down at us.

We try to flee but the wad of spit looks almost like an entire lake falling down upon us. The warm, thick mucus splatters against us engulfing our bodies as it spreads out across the runway.

“Yew and yer fuckin’ people, use to look down on us cus we didn’t ‘ave money like you do, cus we dressed different. Look at us now, yew could drown in my spit” she snarled as she laughed.

We all cringed as he voice filled the morning sky, the voice so powerful it was like it was keeping the sun from rising. We could only watch helplessly as the old well worn canvas style shoes of neon swept over us, the wind alone sent us tumbling over. The act alone caused both Ash and Neon to laugh as Ember easily lifted up the bag of food that could feed us for a lifetime.

They stomped off away from us towards the harbor. We were just glad that our part of the day was done, and we suffered no major losses. We prayed that our counterparts at the harbor would do as well us. We now started to scrounge up the left over food for ourselves, hoping it would be enough.

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