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Punks of Nature
Punks of Nature
We had lost our sky, our land, our home. The end of the world had begun, it wasn't anything similar to what we had thought it will be, and it was a surprising event. It wasn’t what the bible said, nor what the Mayas predicted. Our friends had turned their backs on us, and what we rejected becomes our only choice.
After we were attacked we didn’t had no choice but to escape, leaving our family and friends on the way. They rapidly took control of our houses, the streets, the skies and the seas; there wasn’t an extended list of where to seek for refugee, so we decided to go in the sewers. There we found a completely different world. A creature that seemed to have the leader role in there approached us, but we didn’t understood what he was saying. They guide us aggressively to what appeared to be a kind of cell in were we stayed, they gave us crumbs of food and water, it wasn’t much but it was enough. Day after day more and more refugees started to arrive, but still no one could understand what these creatures were trying to tell us.
One night, a family arrived; they seemed to have been thru some difficult times. They were 3, the mother, the father, and a girl named Ayxa. Ayxa was 3 years old, she couldn’t have a serious talk with a grown up but, it seemed that she could talk and understand with our savers. After we realized this, we try to mobilize to try and find the leader who guided us here. We searched for hours and after a long search we finally found him. There we realized that the creatures, our savers, weren’t nothing more than rats and some insect.
We saw how Ayxa was communicating with them, they talked for hours. It was really obvious Ayxa’s body language, we could easily tell when she was scared or when she was relaxed. What the rat, the leader, told Ayxa was this:
“It’s hard to explain what is happening. For hundreds of years the other rats and I have been building the resistance in which we could refugee from the other animals’ plans. We collected crumbs and old food to survive. You humans didn’t understand the purpose of our actions, so we decided to act hostile for a while. The other animals, the ones you called your best friends, considered us punks, they said we were rebels. We didn’t want to participate in their evil plan to take the world, they pretended to be your friends for all this years but their intentions were never good. At these hard times, you without knowing it created this resistance. It’s time us to help you in your misery. We’re stronger than them, we’re wiser than them, and we all together will succeed.”
We then realized that the resistance wasn’t just build by rats; there were also cockroaches, crows and all kinds of spiders. That’s when we decided to join them. We had simple works, because we were bigger we couldn’t help them in the exploration tasks, but we helped with food and strength when needed. We were a team, like in the old times.
Alejandro de la Fuente
L. Alejandra Davila
