Chapter 1: What is Survival, and what is Living?

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‘ ‘ = Thoughts

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~ ~ = Third Person

[ ] = Time Skips

I am freezing to death

And bleeding to death

But the blood is frozen so mostly freezing to death

‘Sigh’

I sigh mentally because my lips are no longer moving and some of my upper and lower teeth are frozen together

‘Ah well, at least my death was cool, hehe get it? “Cool”’

[A few hours ago]

The ferry I was on carried around 100 people including the staff. Our destination was the Antarctic.

Our reason? To start our new lives.

It’s been 170 years since all the ice melted and what it revealed left the world slack jawed.

ALIEN CIVILIZATION! Or rather, dead alien civilization.

We found weird humanoid corpses which were deemed to be the previous owners of earth.

After nearly 200 years of testing and exploring the cleaver people said it was safe.

So for a world full of over populated cities and a crumbling eco system, an unpopulated, safe, ready built continent, was nothing but God send.

Anyway, I was one of the many who went to live there and start anew.

We were 3 days into the voyage and there was only 2 days left, everything was ok.

But that all changed when the fire nation attacked.

Nah, just kidding, it was the pirates not the fire nation. They high jacked our vessel.

It was looking bad, we weren't exactly "legal" immigrants you see, every one on board had there own story; be it fleeing crims, people ridden in debts they can't pay or just lucky bastards like me who climbed up from the slums. I doubt anyone would miss us if we disappeared.

luckily the fire nation didn't know that.

We (the passengers) were cuffed and only given food once a day.

All the strong looking ones were shot in the leg and given basic first aid so they wouldn’t bleed out, but they could not run. This, by the way, included me. Even under the circumstances it felt nice to be recognised.

Well I am almost 6 ft tall and although I never had the money for martial lessons, you pick things up if you fight as much as I. I'm quite the scrapper, not trying to brag or anything.

Anyways.

On the 4th day after being high jacked the pirates found what they came for; one of the passengers was hiding millions, probably something they stole from the pirates going by how he was crying out to them before he was executed.

Won't say it served him right... but it served him right

I decided to leg it, or "hop it", because the pirates probably figured out we weren't legal.

The waters were no longer as cold as it were in the past and if I could just get a hand hold on the hull of the prate ship, I can later climb aboard when there guard is down. This actually wasn't the first time I've done this, although last time it was on a river, and my shot leg wasn't in the best shape, plus I still got caught... But I don't really have a choice if I want to live.

I'm not naïve enough to think they would simply let us go.

It was quite easy sneaking to the edge of the ship as the pirates were all moving in one direction (their ship), just throw something in the direction other than yours and keep moving as quite as possible.

*Sigh* thinking of what happened next makes me sigh even now, underwater.

Just as I was about to hop of the ferry (literally).

The ferry blew up… Damn it there are pirates sill on board!

Screw you pirates! At least wire you bombs properly!

I was out side the range of the fire but the bomb was never an incendiary bomb, but a shock wave one.

It put a huge tear in the hull and nearly split the ship in two.

I was also was caught in the shock wave. The bones in my legs were almost turned to powder, I think my left lung was crushed and I probably had a bad case of internal bleeding and torn muscles. As if that weren’t enough, a piece of shrapnel from the blast embedded itself in my lower back causing profound bleeding.

I blacked out for a second due to the pain only to be woken by the burning cold water of the Antarctic sea.

‘Fucking fire nation'

I didn’t really struggle; I knew I was a dead man walking,

Or swimming/drowning.

I never really cared for life, and life never really cared for me.

Never knew my parents. Although it says I grew up in an orphanage on my forms, I spent more nights outside than in. The orphanage had little room and I gave my space to the sickly little girl who was found with me. She was probably my sister but I haven't though of her since she betrayed me for some food. Actually it was probably her betrayal that let me survive for so long, she hardened my heart and gave me a ruthlessness that I needed.

That said, I never did take revenge after I escaped, didn't even take back the space I gave her.

Went to the second layer of hell they call a school, more of a drug market and blade shop.

I left top of my class (not really saying much) but had to turn to petty theft and pick pocketing to get my daily bread. University? That was way out of reach.

Eventually I became a martial arts instructor and opened my own dojo where I lived.

I had no "girlfriend" but I have screwed a few.

In the 2212 riots my base (an abandoned tree house in the abandoned Part of the city) was burnt down. Strangely however it seemed that the only places with destroyed buildings were the slums and not were the upper class lived, heck there were palisades and soldiers lined up, as if they were expecting it... this happened all over the country.

And then on my way to the new world I was blown up! HAH screw you.

I was ok going quietly in this quiet blue world.

But then I made eye contact with a woman slightly below me.

She was making a red fog in the sea behind her, probably a heavy case of "metal in your back".

Then I see her face, a desperate face, a stubborn face, a naïve face.

‘The little brat isn’t even thinking off leaving her

I don’t really get it but is that what you call family love?’

I think back to my youth, always alone with no one to support me,

‘How many times did I whish for a mother to comfort me, or a father to guide me?

Wow now that I think off it I was really weak and needy back then, well I guess kids are supposed to be weak and needy

*mental sigh* screw going quietly, maybe I’ll get some good karma by doing this’

Using my hands and dolphin kicks to get to them I grabbed the cuff of the little girl’s shirt in my mouth and the woman in my left arm.

The combined effort of me and the little brat got us to the surface where I floated on my back whilst treading water with my right arm and floppy legs to keep the pair’s heads afloat. Mine however was not supported by a 6ft buff guy so kept going under.

‘Wow now that I look at them the brat’s cute and the woman’s a knockout straight 10.

If you weren’t unconscious and I weren’t dying I’d probably try flirting with you’

My gaze drops to her chest which was sticking to her wet, half see through, shirt.

‘Actually who cares, that won’t stop me’

“n-n-n-nic-nice b-b-ra-bra” (me)

‘I blame the cold for this atrocious pick up line!

I’m normally I slick playboy but right now I’m not in my best state’

The brat looked at me funny and might have blushed but I can’t really tell since all our faces were red with the cold.

‘Sorry brat, but I’m no Lolicon, give it a few years and we’ll talk’

I was slowly losing my vision (and sanity) when a life boat came for us.

[Present]

Once out of the water I was laid on my side so not to push the shrapnel in my back further in.

‘heh, still trying to save me? How cute’

By now I could only see shadows and hear murky sounds.

I was surrounded by 3 Big Shadows and a Small Shadow. There were also 2 more Big Shadows a few meters away.

Soon however my 3 Big Shadows left to join the other two big shadows.

‘Too late for me I guess’

The little shadow however did not move.

‘Probably the little brat,

thanks but I’m done for so hurry to the side of your watermelon mother little tomato,

I hope you use the life I died for wisely young grape fruit’

As if she could hear my thoughts she moved to where the 5 big shadows are after saying something I could not hear.

Now I couldn’t see anything beyond the blur that was probably my nose. My vision suddenly darkened and I lost all feeling.

‘I wonder what’s on the other side

Hope it’s nice.’

However such light-hearted thoughts were forgotten as I was claimed by an abyss of pain and loneliness.

AN

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