New World, New Love By Jay Bates
Chapter 1
The day's work was done and supper was ready. Eli Grant Fields sat down to his supper of gumbo, Cajun rice and cornbread. Not only did it smell wonderful, it tasted fabulous. Today was the first real day on his isolated Hamlet, and he couldn't be happier about it. With all the chaos of the Decades War groups of people like himself had worked together to build self-sufficient cities. Today the walls had been completed and the gates can now close.
They had all the resources that they could imagine and every citizen had to have a necessary skill to the future of the community. Eli was to be an educator, preservationist and head up barter and trade. Money had become less and less valuable as the government cared less and less about the citizens. Barter and trade had become the way of survival. Because of this the ancient city-state was back.
The Decades war was born out of several contributing factors. Botched middle eastern policy had created problems that escalated to a boiling point. Israel and its few regional allies finally decided to form an offensive, but as they did US and NATO forces withdrew support and condemned their actions. With Israel and Saudia Arabia on one side with nuclear weapons and Iran and Pakistan armed the same as the other it ended with millions upon millions dead and not a single surviving soul in the entire middle east. The former fleeing refugees were now a group of endangered Semitic races. It was estimated to be hundreds of years before the land might be habitable again.
It the wake of the Middle East disaster the rest of the world began to quickly destabilize as well. China decided to call in all the worlds debts they had loaned against. Of course no nation could pay that and it led to more war. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet took this time to band together to stand up to Chinese oppression. Russia invaded the eastern block and even tried to take Alaska away from the United States. Texas decided to break away and they even invaded Mexico.
The European Union collapsed. NATO disbanded. A terrorist attack at the United Nations building caused a further disruption in international politics and not one was in a hurry to resume. Even Canada violated the Treaty of the War of 1812 and tried to invade Maine. Eventually the only continent not to be in conflict was Antarctica.
With Texas leaving, being in a land war with Russia and Canada the US was stretched thin. All public services were stopped. No welfare, no public aid, no social security and no Medicare. Systems began to collapse all across the nation and eventually Martial Law was declared. Local police forces were militarized and local resistance militias sprung up. A growing nation of over 300 million hade become barely a million strong. The world as a while was now less than 50 million in population. It was in this chaos the city-states began to re-emerge.
How Eli had survived the last 20+ years, he wasn't sure. Too heavy for the Military draft, to insignificant to get on the radar of the police or the militias, and somehow had stayed healthy as the medical systems collapsed. The war had begun when he was a kid, and once he was old enough the military was still strict about recruitment and later with College and then as an educator had protected him from service as well. When the Ozark city-state was proposed Eli was approached for the founders to help develop their constitution and to help recruit the tops of every field to make sure that they would not only survive, but that they would thrive.
Doctors, Engineers, Scientists and more -- all the tops of their expertise. They would not be denied any amenities or services. Medications, vaccines, and treatments would be made and developed again. Factories would be in place to develop and build products and resources. Food production was projected to be greater in availability than it had been in years.
100 founders, 5,000 recruits and 35,000 approved applicants made for their new community in the Ozark Mountains of Southern Missouri. The Ozark constitution was modeled after the long ignored US constitution and was accepting of every race, region, and sexual orientation. Eli was proud of what he had helped to accomplish. They even had founding treaty and trade agreements with 90 other city-states around the world.
Eli reflected on the past and their recent accomplishments as he celebrated the first official day of the completed city, 5 years of hard work had got them here. As a cornerstone member of the community Eli was about to not only have his only own home, no apartment or dormitory, and he had selected for himself a small 2 bedroom Craftsman bungalow. Plenty of space for one person all alone.
As Eli finished his time of reflection a depression set in. For as much as he had lived through and accomplished, he was all alone. Sometimes his bed felt very empty.
In the early years of the Decades War the last great medical miracle had been created the Rainbow vaccine. A series of 7 injections had eradicated every single sexually transmitted disease. Not only had to stopped transmission it also has been able to cure all those affected. The world saw this as a positive at first, making more people about to fight, but soon levels of sexual awakening were happening that hadn't been seen since the Days of Sodom and Gomora. In this Eli had his Sexual Awakening.
Eli stood at 6'4 and spent most of his life pushing 300lbs. Brown hair and hazel eyes, he was average to look at down to his 6" cut cock. The only thing that he was proud of about how he looked was that he was extremely hairy. He was matted in lusciously thick brown fur. A bear, and proud of it.
He had spent years visiting every adult theater and arcade that he could find. Nothing had excited him more that the many hours of play. It was everything he could imagine with as many different types of people as were willing. In all his adventures there were a few things he was certain about: He was a top. He loved oral. Most of all he liked his men to be as hairy as he was. If there were smaller and geekier, all the better. He'd had a lot of play, but no love. Was the perfect geeky little otter so hard to find?
As Eli finished cleaning up supper he had decided that he would just head to bed as he was exhausted from a very long day. But before that could happen a breaking news bulletin was about to rock the entire world.
Chapter 2
"This is a message from Wilson Watson, President of the United States." Suddenly every TV, cell phone, computer, tablet or smart device across the United States was activated in an emergency broadcast. What they didn't know was that similar messages were being broadcast all around to globe.
"My Fellow Americans, I come before you to announce the end. They end of the conflict. The end of the decades war. The end of America. The end of all nations.
"In Historic talks between the leaders of every surviving nation have come to the same conclusion: We have failed. We failed at actually faking are of our citizens. We have failed to be good neighbors. We have failed to good stewards of the Earth. We have failed in nearly every conceivable way.
"In a unanimous decision at those historic talks it was agreed upon by all the surviving governments that to end all national conflicts that this could only be solved in one way, by ending all nations. Effectively at midnight tonight, Eastern Standard time, the United States will end.
"The end to the nations and conflicts is being carried out in several different ways. For starters anyone outside has probably already noticed the numerous bright lights in the sky. This was the launch of ever last nuclear weapon on the planet. All are headed on a trajectory that will send them straight into the sun. This will destroy every last one of these weapons without harming anymore individuals. We all know that nuclear has to come to an end, the tragic loss of the entire middle east can never happen again.
"Every violent criminal in every jail and prison around the globe was executed one hour ago. All others have been released. I personally take responsibility for those deaths within our nation. It was decided that no one should hold the responsibility of housing these people for the all the foreseeable future.
Every military sea vessel is currently sinking in the Indian Ocean. As this is the deepest sector of the oceans around the world, these ships will be unrecoverable. There have been 76 city-states that have arisen in America; we once tried to destroy them. Then we tried to ignore them, but now we are entrusting all the remaining military arsenals to their care. All remaining military hardware and weapons will be divided between the city states based off there estimated populations. The lower ranked remaining military personality will begin delivery shortly. These personal and their families will be asking for sanctuary, the leaders of each community can make their own decisions of course, but I ask for compassion. All Generals and Admirals that were those that carried out the sinking of the vessels, I hope only the innocent have survived. This was carried out by my orders.
" All historical and cultural items and library of congress materials will be sent to the most centrally located city-state, which also has the space to house it, Ozark. I ask that they share with the other 75.
"All world leaders, from every level of government will be in exile starting tomorrow. I encourage no city-state anywhere to deny them refuge. The few remaining royal families have been resolved from their seats of power. No longer will any family be deemed more important solely by birth.
"In the days of the American Colonies they would say, God Save the King'. Then the saying became, God Bless the United States." Now I say to you all, `May God Bless You. And good luck."
As everyone watched in disbelief and shock they say the president raise a pistol and say," Now I carry out my punishment for my actions." He placed the gun to his temple and fired. All the screens went blank.
Eli sat there stunned. Had this really happened? Had this really happened everywhere? His stunned shock ended as he heard the sound of heavy equipment coming towards the eastern gate and then the sound of helicopters in the sky. He then got a message from the community leaders to meet those incoming with the historical archives, he would take them to the limestone vaults for safety and cataloging.
His exhaustion was overcome by adrenaline. He would have a long night and many days ahead of him. He slipped on his shoes and holstered his weapon and headed for the door. Who knew what all awaited him?
Thanks for reading. This is my first story. I hope to get more chapters shared regularly. Email me jaybatesstories@gmail.com if you have any constructive assistance.