[Story] Elixirs Part 1

Day 2,049, 12:25 • Published in India India • by Broken1

Kane threw the homemade explosive at the sentry; it wasn't hard for civilians to get hold of weapons, even after control had made it punishable by death for merchants to sell anything that could be used for ‘violent actions’ as they called it.



Many of the soldiers, including Kane, had spent most of their childhood hunting for food and forging weapons from trees and twine or any other materials they could find in the open woods. The boys would spend hours on end in the woods improving their aim and honing their skills while the girls would learn how to sew and cook and clean with their mothers. For most of the boys, target practice with homemade weapons was the closest thing to entertainment they could get.



As he thought back to his childhood, Kane shuddered. You would think after two thousand years it would be much easier for a person to shut out pain, but as Kane found out, it always finds a way to seep back into your subconscious and rise to the surface when you least expect it.



However, if it wasn’t for those childhood struggles Kane realised, he probably wouldn't be able to do the unthinkable act he had set his mind on doing for the past five years.

But not only Kane was immortal. Everyone was soon becoming immortal since Ludwig Julwits had invented the non-aging pills. After his discovery of Lingonberries, on the planet Faldor he had become the most famous scientist the world had ever known. But even though the world adored him like a 5 year old adores a teddy bear, Kane hated his guts.



Kane’s memories evaporated instantly and he was brought back to the battlefield as the cold, hard glass shattered over the Inconel 625 metal shield casing protecting the machine. It was expertly and cold heartedly built with the sole purpose of destruction and murder. Kane knew it’s weaknesses though and the carefully concocted green liquid oozed out enveloping the sentry. The acid slowly burned through the metal dissolving the exterior of the weapon and exposing it’s delicate insides. Seeping into the circuit boards and wires, the toxic green liquid mercilessly destroyed the sentry, reducing it to a seething bubbling mass spread out on the cracked floor. Kane marvelled in his success before sprinting towards the stone wall encompassing the only city he had ever known.