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A New Start
Edgar Gonzalez
Aldo
Fable
The sun came up that morning as if it was a normal day but everything had changed over the night and no one actually knew what had happened, everything just went dark for a moment as if the sun had an off switch and someone had decided to turn it off and after that you could only hear people screaming but the screams faded into the night and today was a new day. As the sun came up you could see plains of grass were buildings used to be but what could have possibly been the cause for something like this. In the middle of everything a dog woke up were his house used to be, he wandered for a while as he tried to realize where their humans were, he started panicking and decided to run and see if he could smell anything familiar. After a little he ran into something he had never seen before, this creature was like him but bigger and he had long hair and a long tail, he got up to him with the hope he could get any help.
“Excuse me sir, I don’t know if you can understand me but do you know where are we?” said the dog-
“How can you do that? How in the hell do you learned to speak horse?”
“What is horse? You are not a dog? What are you? I do not know man; I just woke up here after everything that happened last night”
“I am a horse and I am lost, I am trying to get an explanation as well, I woke up not very far from here but I remember going to sleep in the barn with all my family, and when I woke up everybody was gone, all of them, even our farm was gone”
“We could travel together until we find some answers” said the dog
“I think that is a good idea”
They traveled for 2 days without founding any other living creature, they were about to give up but when they reached a lake to drink some water, they heard something in the air as if a bird had just passed by, and when they turned around they saw this mysterious bird that they have never seen before standing on a tree branch.
“What kind of bird are you? Are you responsible for this? Do you know what is happening?” said the horse
“I am an owl, no I am not responsible for what happen and I do not have an explanation, unless… well it is not possible… it cannot be…”
“What are you talking about?” asked the dog
“Well my grandfather talked about this when I was little but I thought they were only bedtime stories, he said something about the end of times, a moment when everything bad in this planet will disappear leaving us as we were in the beginning, just us animals with the capability to understand one another, he said it was kind of a second chance to start fresh without making mistakes this time, I think that’s what happened. We should see if we can find someone else…”
