Theresa

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Genre: Adventure Character: A stay at home parent Setting: A desert

"Aaaarrrghhhh the condition could not be even worse than this". Parched, droughty, and deserted. A stay at home mom along with her children had been suffering in this condition for four endless days already. Unfortunately, their car ran out of petrol half-way through the journey, and got them trapped in this desert area since then.Surrounding them was no more than the scorching sun and the blazing sand dunes. They had thought about giving up for several times now, as could no longer withstand these extreme climates anymore.The air was fully filled with the exhausting heat fatigues drenched in sweat…

… and darkness was falling even though the sun was high. Mika, the daughter noticed it first, a large black cloud was coming fast and blacking out the sun. “MOOOOM, what is that?” she yelled to the mother who saw the oncoming threat and could not answer her daughter’s question. But Lian knew, he’d seen something similar to this on the Discover Channel once before… no, he realized, he’d seen something exactly like this before. It was a cloud of locust, and that meant the situation was only going to get worse. “ITS A CLOUD OF LOCUST, GET BACK IN THE CAR AND STAY LOW” he screamed at his two companions. They noticed the seriousness in his voice and did what he said. No sooner had they gotten into the car and covered their bodies with the blankets that they had did the sky turn black. The windows shattered, and the grotesque sound of buzzing drowned out all thought in any of the three survivors head. And then it was gone, as quickly as it came. Lian was the first to look, the sky was blue again and the cloud of black had passed on further to the east… but what it had left behind was a sight of destruction. The car’s windows were destroyed and everywhere around it lay 5 inch long grasshoppers, Among the grasshopper the little girl, Mika realized there was a small bird. This at first did not seem important but they were all getting hungrier by the minute.

They came up with a plan, to catch the bird before it got away. Mika’s job was to gather some grasshoppers as those too could be eaten. Lian searched for anything that will help them start a fire. Lucky since he was fascinated with national geographic he knew some tips. He took off his glasses to burn one of the grasshoppers Mika had brought back for him. It took some time but with the sunlight hitting the glasses he was able to start the flame. The flames start to build up and sooner or later, the fire is uncontrollable. “NOOO MY GRASSHOPPERS!!!!”, Mika screams in horror as the grasshoppers she gathered are now in ashes. By the time the mom notices the situation, it is too late.

The fire extends off to other dried trees in surrounding them. “Mika! Lian! We have to leave NOW!!”, the mother shouts as she quickly packs their belongings and rush to a safe spot. Mika and Lian follows their mom. Yet at one point, Lian trips. He turns to his side and notices a flamboyant snake. “MOMMY!! HERE’S A PRETTY COLORFUL LITTLE SNAKE!!”, Lian yells to her mom. The mom sees the snake and screams “PUT THE SNAKE DOWN!! IT’S….” she didn’t even have time to finish her sentence and Lian was bit by the snake. The purple poisonous venom drips from his hand as blood oozes out…