Genre: Sci-fi
Plot: Global warming melts a glacier and wakes a frozen ancient predator
Words to use: Snow, ice, thaw, virus, fang, prey, hunt, breakaway, living, extinct, prehistoric, poison, ozone, hyper, cretaceous
During the cretaceous period, before time remembered,
walked an ancient predator,
a prehistoric killer who stalked its prey without mercy.
Its hunger was insatiable.
Uncontrollable lust for blood and bile.
It ravished all in its way. Fear spread even with the slightest sound of its roar in the distance.
All life scrambled, running over each to find somewhere to hide.
Before a whimper could escape their lips, those caught were ripped open and eaten.
The weather drastically changed, the snow and ice without notice,
a drastic change from the usual warm environment.
Without the warmth of the land and sky, most life extinguished,
extinct.
Those who survived, scratched and hungered, but overcame.
Every single day, the hunt for food meant life or death.
Time felt thin, stretched and unbearable at times. But, it moved forward…
Life began to improve, the ozone correcting itself,
rays of sunlight beamed through, warming the ground,
causing layers of ice and snow to melt from rolling hills
and broad valleys, and flowing into crevasses and cracks
like claws in the worn rock. Joy returned,
the times of long ago forgotten,
a dream emerging from a nightmare.
Roars of predators were not on the minds of offspring
who flourished after the great thaw.
For a time, the idyllic sound of birds sang from the dense green leaves of trees and bush.
Perpetual ease and freedom of oppression ruled the land. The ice became only a memory to life.
But it passed like the cold and like a virus spreading,
a hyper expanse of sky with no clouds,
the heat began to rise from the ground,
the soil that didn’t get quenched from morning dew nor afternoon showers.
Even the mountain tops, which had remained frozen solid, began to melt.
Water rolled down their sides, filling lakes and streams.
Centuries had passed since waves of heat wilted the happy flowers,
they no longer danced in the cool breeze, but hung over,
petals fell one by one, twirling their way down
to be stomped down by mindless feet attached to thirsty beasts.
A few landed on the limp head of a delicate fawn hidden in the yellowing grass.
First, a fang appeared through the layer of ice,
then a twitch of muscle made the ground rumble,
a breakaway boulder rolled down the steep slope,
exploding as it hit the bottom, shards of stone flew in all directions.
The poison of the predator returned – sudden and fierce.
It came with a roar that found innocent ears.
Their end without notice nor warning.