"THE ARK OF HAON"
By Phillip Lelis Jr.
Copyright 2003

Chapter 1

War Of Idols

                                                                                                                                          

To know is stronger than to believe that all dreams and miracles are possible. Some said there was a beginning; some said there would be an end. And some came to know one day that the end was just a new beginning.

 

 

It was exactly seven long years since the Great War of 2035 and finally the skies began to look blue again. There were just too many Gods for too many people who caused too much suffering in the name of religion. There were already enough lives that had been lost over the centuries over similar views of religion, worship and beliefs, but some just never gave up.

Little did anyone know that an extreme group of fanatical terrorists managed to smuggle two very large atomic bombs into the United States of America and conceal them in the cities of New York and Los Angeles. They also planted one in India, Japan and England all ready to detonate simultaneously in the name of their God and holy idols.

Luckily Japan caught four of the terrorists and their plot in progress. They had concealed one weapon of mass destruction on a cargo ship in the harbor outside of Tokyo. With the use of drugs and some old fashion torture the Japanese persuaded the terrorists into gladly giving up their information, then they were quickly executed. England found their hidden device in a London church and dismantled it just in time.

But the other two countries were not so lucky. While a desperate frantic search was taking place in India and the United States the bombs were detonated. These modern doomsday termination machines of death were much more powerful than the weapons of the previous century and many millions upon millions of lives were exterminated in the carnage.

Within a matter of minutes India lauched a nuclear warhead at their long time enemy Pakistan for they were the first ones to blame. When the country of Pakistan detected the Indian rocket headed in their direction they responded with two humongous ones of their own.

 It all might have ended right there except one nuclear rocket from Pakistan traveled off course and landed in southern China. For that mistake China responded with three twenty five-megaton nuclear cluster missiles and that was the last of the country known as Pakistan. Now all that remains is a parched radioactive landscape looking similar to the surface of the moon.

The moment the U.S.A. learned that the terrorists were paid by Iraq and Iran one of their submarines in the mediterranean slammed a fifteen-megaton antimatter warhead into each of the front doors of Tehran and Baghdad. Now there is just one deep scorched hole in both of those locations.

The U.S.A could have retaliated much more but they had the sense to realize that there was already enough damage done to the planet. For weeks huge pillars and plumes of toxic black smoke could be seen for a hundred miles rising up from the blast sites. When the smoke cleared the whole world stood stunned with shock as the skies turned muddy gray and radioactive fallout and poisons rained down from above. Nothing on the biosphere would ever be the same again.

That was the day the planet Earth slowly stopped functioning and started to fail. The world banks fell, the international stock and trade markets collapsed, and money became nothing more than paper. Total armies became unglued and started forming renegade groups to loot, salvage and take whatever they wanted. The weak and innocent fell prey to the wrath of the evils that were now taking place on what was supposed to be a civilized world. The strong, cold blooded, unforgiving, merciless and heartless prevailed in controlling and ruling everyone and every resource available. In cities everywhere electrical power plants slowly ceased to operate as conflict, fighting, madness, riots, disease, famine, radioactive mutations, anarchy and chaos spread through every land.

A few remaining factions of what was left of the worlds governments were driven into protective hiding by the over crowded masses and the relentless chaos. Their mission was to continue on with their research and regroup communications within themselves and the other remaining governments.

Chapter Two

Summary