THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS

Shino's Team

"Everything is destroyed and abandoned," Yumi said with shaky eyes. They were walking on the deserted road in search of a comm station. The sun was bright and hot, with the wind blowing around, with wastes.

"Yes Yumi," Mirai said with sad looks.

"Everything is gone" she adds.

Kaneki heard them, his eyes assessing the destroyed and deserted environment. 'This is no longer the Tokyo we know'. Kaneki said with tighten fist. 'Damn the virus'. He cursed.

Shino looked to and fro in search of any comm station, his eyes wandered into the distance, he halted seeing a more destroyed area far away. 'Where the Chemical Plant exploded'. He thought.

Kaneki halts beside him.

"My gut tells me we should avoid that place," Kaneki said folding his arms. Shino turned to him.

"Yeah me too, I have that same feeling, we should just stick to this part," Shino said. Kaneki just nodded heading front, he followed ahead.

"Say Yumi, why did you wanna join Shino-san team so badly," Mirai said raising an eyebrow.

"Shino Senpai is amazing isn't he," Yumi said with flushed cheeks and shiny eyes. Mirai's eyebrow twitch. 'You have got to be kidding me, she's just 10'. Mirai thought with a sweat drop behind her head.

Ten looks up, it was like the extremely hot sun could burn his eyes despite the protective gears he wore, how hot was the sun without the gears? that thought ran in his head as he shivers.

"So hot, our climate isn't that hot like this" Ten said halting, observing the sun.

"It could be the cause of the virus," Ryoji said halting beside Ten also.

"Virus are air born right?" he asked facing Ten.

"Yeah they are but it's highly impossible it could affect the sun, I mean it's million of feet away from the earth's rotation," Ten said shrugging.

"Okay then I may need to pay attention to my biology classes if I ever get the chance," Ryoji said sweat dropping behind his head.

"But the chemical plant exploded, it could be the explosion, its effects generally include those of overpressure, thermal effects, ground shock, and cratering," Ten said in deep thought.

"Okay elaborate more".

"There's something called the greenhouse effect, it's a natural process that warms the Earth's surface. ... Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and some artificial chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons. The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth" Ten explained.

"And surely the chemical plant contains all these deadly chemicals, but it's been two years Ten, surely the wind would have reduced the effect, or something," Ryoji said with a shrug.

"Actually, Plants can help to balance the greenhouse effect on Earth. All plants from giant trees to tiny phytoplankton in the ocean, take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. The ocean also absorbs a lot of excess carbon dioxide in the air, That is called ocean acidification" Ten said facing Ryoji giving him a look.

"Right, unless no plant nutrients or water," Ryoji said in realization.

"Precisely," Ten said facing the environment.

"The Earth is weakened, the virus didn't just kill and altered our cellular structure, it literary sucked the earth dry of all nutrients" he adds with a stern look.

Haya squats seeing a plant growing out of the ground, she slowly reaches for it but it died and witters away. Haya froze.

"The earth," she said with shaky eyes.

"It's lost all life" she adds.

Shino halts behind her hearing her words.

"What kind of virus is this exactly, it did this amount of damage to the earth," Ryoji said with shaky eyes.

"An unknown virus, like they say," Ten said with trembling eyes.

"The Sp-virus".

Ryoji gulps hard.

"GUY'S!".

They all turned to the voice, a girl called Ito Azumi, she had short brown hair and grey eyes, she was on top of rubbles close to a desecrated building.

Shino's eyes lands on the building, a sign was hanging loosely on it.

"It's a computer building," Ten said with a start.

"They said any comms station right?" Mirai said.

Shino nods in agreement.

"We could find any plugs or computers of any use there," Ten said as his face lit up.

"WELL DONE AZUMI!" Haya cheered loudly to her roommate, due to the far distance she was in.

Azumi smiled closing her eyes, as she waved while giggling.

Suddenly Shino felt something like a vibration in all his body, his eyes slowly widen, the calm wind around him. 'What's this feeling?' he thought with widening eyes of horror, it was like he was in his own dark solitude, like everything around him seize like he was in an abyss all by himself. And then everyone around him appeared back but none were moving like he was the only one active. His eyes shaking as he stares at Azumi, she mouths something back to her roommate Haya while giggling but even that sound could not be heard.

'Something' his eyes shakes more, as everything was back to normal but not the unease feeling he felt. 'Something is about to happen' He gasps in realization.

"AZU-"

Instantly something fast and deadly from nowhere took Azumi in an instant, blood splashing everywhere before Shino could even finish her name to warn her.

The smell of blood was evident everywhere.

"AZUMI!!!" Haya shouts in tears. This gained the attention of everyone as they turned to see the scene in horror.

A creature unlike anything they have ever seen stood on all fours above Azumi blood everywhere. It was 5 feet tall with long legs, having sharp large claws. Hunched back like position, having meat-like skin which was reddish-brown, no eyes just hump of flesh, ears like a coil with no shape, vibrating like a humming sound. Mouth wide with shark-like teeth, sharp and deadly.

"Hel...help..help..me..me," Azumi said as blood gushed from her mouth, tears falling from her eyes, as it shake in horror.

"Ha...Hay...aa....Haya-chan".