AST
PHASE 1 . BEGINNINGS

Boulders began to descend the hills and mountains. Towards the valley and the lowlands. With different sizes,

they hit the foundation of the building and hit everything that was passed. The ground shook with them. It started slowly, the longer it shook the more violently. The ground surface is infinite. At the end of the land, the sea water began to recede. Many fish are left on the surface. Once again, the roars of monkeys and other animals began to rumble. Dogs barking. The cat and mouse are running away. The pilots began to move their paths. Trying to signal but not sure understood by

every human.

Again. The sound of debum was heard from the middle of the ocean. A split second later, the fiery red liquid splashed out, and like a vomit it gushed extremely high. No exception, the air temperature that was initially low, is now heating up along with the turmoil. Flooding the ocean with lava that stings freely. Followed simultaneously by another cone. They exploded, flooding around with an immeasurable outpouring of tantrums. Discharged. Annihilated.

Is this the end of the world?

The answer is .. no.

This is ... the form of renewal

the world.

***

All the television stations are broadcasting the hottest news now, including a television screen in one of the houses. The sound coming out of him was inevitable. Noisy filled the volume of the room he could reach. While a girl with a sparkle of black hair that was scattered was devouring a piece of bread while watching the television screen. A moment later, his phone rang—unched his focus.

“What's up, Nancy?” ask someone behind the phone.

“Did you forget something?” Nancy asked back. “Yu!”

“Ah, yes! I just remembered!”

“What? Shrink your television volume, Stupid!”

Adara Yusagi. The girl with an outcast mane rushed to turn off the television she had been watching since and got back busy with Nancy, her interlocutor behind the phone. He hurriedly put on his school attribute while receiving a call from his colleague until he finally came out of the residence to go to school. For a while he turned off the call from Nancy until they finally met at an intersection.

“Do you have amnesia, until you don't remember Adnan coming home today?”

Nancy sneaked a question before Adara was free to open her mouth. “Why do I even remember that?” pissed off.

Adara smiled the horse back at him. “He hasn't contacted me since yesterday ..”

“That's a surprise for you, Stupid!” sela Nancy deftly. “Adnan knows that his arrival will definitely surprise you. Ah, I imagined that he would come to school, kneel down, and give you a most beautiful gift in front of the teachers. Hmmm .. definitely so sweet once!”

“Do not be silly!” Adara quickly clung to her colleague's head until Nancy grumbled. “I don't want to deal with the counseling teacher anymore after my affair with Harumi that time,” he added a little upset.

“Ai-ai, Harumi is too childish for you. Yes, a macho guy like him cries in the middle of the field. Just because, you refused his love. Haha. How sad! Isn't she ashamed of her sixpack belly? Is it not-don't .. it's because she's plastic surgery? Geez, how sad you are, Harumi!”

Adara just smiled knots befell him. A Nancy can make excessive jokes just to drop one's self-esteem. Like this time, Nancy never liked Harumi's character and she is very relaxed mocking him now. Luckily Harumi—young who had liked Adara—had not been to school in the same place again. If Harumi had heard Nancy's joking chirps, then it would have been certain that the brunette girl was languishing in the UKS room or crying in front of the counseling teacher after meeting the young man.

“So ... what will you do when you meet your little friend later, Yu?” nancy's question changed the subject. Yu, is a call from her to Adara.

Adara thought for a moment. “Entah,” answer is short.

“You don't want to take her around town?” ask Nancy again. “He hasn't been home for four years, right?”

The black-blonde girl nodded, confirming Nancy's question. “I'm just afraid that I forgot to

his face,” he said chimed in.

“Ah, you're right too,” murmured Nancy. “Four years was very long. Surely Adnan has changed a lot.”

In recent years, disasters have begun to take over human life. There's about three to five

calamity— or even more—which occurs and increases every day to reduce the area that was originally used as a place to live, is now narrowed due to the effects of the disaster. Some of the devastated states chose to join and avoid forming alliances that could bring down their systems of government. Yes, joining a superpower is the only way to sustain life, although there are also some countries that join with other countries until finally formed two alliances in the world. The world has entered 2085 and many developing countries have turned into developed countries. The line of disasters that increasingly occur inevitably from mistakes made by the inhabitants of the Earth itself. Rejecting slick ideas to preserve the blue planet and still using the old method is one of the causes.

Adara and Nancy, meanwhile, are among the millions of human beings who have survived the barrage of large-scale Earth damage. However, in anticipation of the undesirable, the central government decided to merge the country they were living in with one of the alliances. That way, population growth and development can still be arranged in such a way that there are no obstacles that interfere with the stabilization of the country.

Adara's eyeballs were again directed at a television that was deliberately installed in front of one of his school buildings. News of the disaster again spread. Not a few students whispered to each other about it.

“Disasters are increasingly happening,” said Nancy, “earthquakes with large magnitude to cause tsunamis, land collapses, and also volcanoes to erupt. Are we entering the end of the world?”

Adara turned her face to Nancy. The brown-haired girl's face looked at him wistfully, slightly bowed like an anxiety perched at the nape of his neck.

“The world is not over if Earth still leaves a handful of fools like us, Nancy.” Adara chimed in while patting Nancy's shoulder. “Keep being stupid if you don't want the world destroyed,” the candle then.

Nancy looked at Adara. The girl was always relaxed when anxiety was like a thread

tangled around it. “Don't joke at a time like this, Yu!” snapping Nancy while trying to reach Adara's backpack because the girl began to mingle herself who was easily anxious at something. Until finally, Adara's phone rang and unraveled the conflict of the two.

“Adnan?” muttered Adara while looking at her phone screen.

“Hah? Adnan sent a message? What like?” Nancy immediately approached Adara with curiosity.

What surprise will you give me later?

Adara frowning. The young man hadn't contacted her since yesterday and now he's sending her such a message.

“Aha! Adnan must have prepared something for you, Yu. Hence, he asked you,” guess Nancy

springy.

A second later, Adara's phone rang again. Adnan made a call to a seventeen-year-old girl

“I'm waiting for you in class, Yu!” the cry is on Adara. The black-blonde girl turned around for a moment and showed

cue ‘oke’ on him.

“What's up, Adnan? Why are you just calling me now? I was in school to know!” adara once received a call from Adnan. “Where are you now?” tanyanya while leaning on one side of her school building.

“I just got off. Last time was delayed because there was a little problem.” Adnan answered while occasionally looking at the circular watch on his left wrist.

“Down?” Adara frowning.

“Iya. Landing means,” replied Adnan again. “Indeed you thought I could get on a plane with such a storm, huh! And also ... there was an earthquake just now near here.” Adnan's voice slowly shrank. “You okay?” added later.

“Iya. I'm fine.”

“Ya. I'll pick you up after school.”

“Not necessary. We meet tomorrow only,” elak Adara.

“Tomorrow? It only takes two to three hours of train travel there, right?”

“Iya, I know. But I have additional training later, so chances are I'll be home tonight.”

“Tak what. I said I wanted to pick you up, not meet you. After all, taking care of my transfer letter is also long and definitely until night. So the time is right until you finish training later,” said Adnan. His eyes occasionally looked in one direction where he could stop the bus heading to the station. “Wait for me, yes!”

Adara smiled knot. “Alright,” timpalynya. “Do not get the wrong address. Walk east, you'll

finding my school.”

Adnan's smile was engraved clearly, revealing a row of white and neat teeth. He nodded, then whispered

in between the roar of the bus that came and stopped in front of him. Adara frowned, looking at something that the young man had just said and was completely inaudible to his ears. A few seconds later, Adnan suddenly disconnected the call.

“What did he say earlier, huh?” muttered the black unraveled girl as she turned around to go to her class.

Adara's legs started to slowly move. Not yet had time to tread on the floor tiles of his school building, a very loud shrill sound was heard. Silencing hearing until everyone there shut both their ears.

The curl was heard for a few seconds. Adara releases the palms that cover her ears. Wander around for a moment. His steps were again moved, while his two eyes spread their gaze in various directions.

“What was that?” muttered.

His heart suddenly tightened. His breath is hunting. Especially when the shrill is back to sound. It is like a shrill on a very high-octave loudspeaker without pause. The voice again silenced the curiosity of the souls who heard it. A few seconds later, debum immediately replied. The ground began to crack rapidly. The birds begin to twitch each other out of nowhere

comin' in. How to fly they are like drunkards, until finally some fall because they lose their balance.

Adara's eyeballs are whizzing. Seeing the tiles he was walking on started to crack slowly. His eyes shifted around

where he could see many cracks of various sizes starting to form. Hard debum was created again and made this girl turn her focus in one direction. Adara remembers once the silent mountain in one corner of his city was a dead mountain. But what he saw was very different. Frighteningly. Stimulate adrenaline and shock into a whole unit in one hit. Red liquid splashed from the tip of that mountain cone. Several times and formed a stream of fiery red rivers. A cloud of smoke billowed and began to fill the sky of the city.

Adara's worries grew as the land began to falter. It feels like moving slowly. It still is

you can keep the balance at this time. But for the next shake, Adara was no longer able to hold her body. The ground seemed to shake violently—naik-down—and damage all the things that were on it. The walls began to crack and collapse bit by bit, while the lava liquid that had since formed a stream flow, was, now began to flow ferociously towards the middle of the city where many residential areas and the main government building there—including Adara school.

“What happened?”

Hysterical cries and roars of crying began to flare. Adara can't dodge it. But one side of her thinking begins to worry Nancy.

“Where is Nancy?” his inner.

Steps staggered. Adara started running towards her class. But something's in his way. Not a small thing, but a big one. Super big. His classroom suddenly collapsed exactly ten meters from Adara's position before he stopped his steps and looked up to him with his position that had fallen because he avoided the ruins. Cries and screams began to seep into his ear hole. It quickly invaded his brain.

“NO!!”

But he didn't see Nancy there. His gaze was like splitting up and looking for each other for the whereabouts of the haired girl

that chocolate. Something was blocking Adara. The ground was no longer hit. But in one direction, a fiery red river flooded the city slowly.

Adara rise. He realized that he was locked in this place. Surroundings have been complicated by the ruins of his school building. There was only one fissure where he could escape before the lava devoured him.

In her stifled cry, the black disembodied girl began to crawl up the stairs that were still

shaped. Until felt if the place stands now is one part of a series of multi-storey buildings in the school that still remains. Adara took a look back, seeing the fiery red liquid accompanied by heat begin to devour the ruins of the building.

“What should I do? Why is it like this?” thought kalut.

Adara came into a room. His movements quieted for a moment. The library room where one of its sides was facing out had collapsed. His eyeballs could see a sea of hot lava had devoured the city. He inched back with his mixed feelings . A gallon of drinking water perched in the dispenser he was forced to grab and used to flutter his entire body.

He doesn't know what he's thinking right now. Blank. He does everything reflectively. Adara didn't even

aware of the reason he flushed his body with gallons of water at least one-third of his parts. His reflexes re-digest the surroundings. Adara tried to grab some bookshelves attached to the wall and ended up sitting at the very top of the wooden shelf.

Adara's really fucked up. His brain cannot think clearly. A thread of tears that had been pounding his cheeks

let it flow just like that. His eyes were all reddened, while looking outwards at where the sea of lava began to rise. Adara curled up. Praying in his mind was the only thing he could do now.

***