Leo goes on to say that Rock Mountain's communication
system is still in good working
condition.
This pleases Jon because he will
be able
to find out what happened to
his friends
and family. Thinking about this,
Jon demands
that Leo get him there as quickly
as possible.
After listening to Jon's concern.
Leo assures
him that he will take him to
Rock Mountain.
The two then continue their journey by walking
along a sunken roadway. Their
path littered
with twisted metal and debris.
They see first
hand the power of Mother Nature.
A tremor then shakes the ground beneath them.
The two men latch onto a fallen
street sign
that says, "Welcome To The
City Of Angels".
With a deep rumble, the tremmor
becomes increasing
violent before it fades away.
Jon and Leo both sigh in relief. Leo then
realizes that he still has not
seen any traces
of human or animal remains. Leo
says. "It
looks to me that every living
organism has
completely vanished." "All
life
gone!" Then looking at Jon
Leo says,
"I can't believe you live
through this!
Jon agrees and says, "I'm
lucky that
I had that pod to escape into."
A few years before Jon was in any danger
the government had a refuge pod
delivered
to his laboratory. This pod was
designed
to give Jon protection against
the building
collasping on top of him. He
had escaped
into this egg-shaped pod just
before this
natural disaster began.
Jon quickly replies, "Not all life has
vanished." "What you
can not see
can be deadly." "There
are still
living microscopic organisms,
insects, small
animals, and maybe even some
humans who might
of survived." Jon replies,
"Yea?"
"Where?" "Not
only has the
world been ripped and torn, the
Madmanm,
the one who wants to rule this
unverse, also
had deadly gasses dispersed into
the atmosphere."
Then Leo laughs, shakes his clenched fist
at the blacken suit filled sky
and shouts,
"The selfish Human Race
were predestine
to self-destruct!" "They
repay
Mother Earth, who raised and
nurtured them
from ancient civilizations, by
turning her
into a cold dead lifeless rock!"
It is at this point that Jon realizes that
he does not care for his new
acquaintance's
attitude. He has his own ideas
about the
future of earth. Plans that could
even include
moving the planet to a new solar
system.
Jon then suggests that they should
find a
place to rest before the the
sun goes down.
He also went on to ask Leo, "How
far
of a journey is it to Rock Mountain?"
Jon has only heard of this place
but did
not know for sure where it was
built. Leo
replies, "It will take a
couple days
for us to get there." Hearing
this,
Jon then replies quickly by saying,
"If
the tremors fade and we surrive
the storms!"
Jon doesn't agree in that this
journey will
be an easy one because of the
unpredictable
environment. Jon believes that
Leo knows
little about how much life has
been altered.
The way it will mutate it's self
to adapt
to this vile environment. All
the various
infectious micro-organisms. This
adaptability
all life is going through to
survive. Jon
realizes that Leo has yet to
see the mutating
beings that probualy still live
off this
contaminated land. This baffles
Jon because
Leo should have seen something
on his way
to rescue him. Some kind of evidence
of life!
Jon also realizes that Leo was
very lucky
to even find him. However, Leo
does not realize
what he has got himself into.
Nothing could
have prepared him for this type
of mission.
After a few hours of walking
they reach the
outskirts of the city where the
terrain becomes
very rugged. The ground torn
by earthquakes
and smoldering streams that run
in all directions.
Scattered flashes from small
fires burning
on the hillside illuminates the
swiriling
clouds black soot.
Finally, they see some evidence
of life.
On the ground, a lifeless yellow
parakeet
lies dead. Jon picks the little
bird up,
tosses it into a burring pool
of liquid,
and says, "Birds will never
fly in this
sky again." Witnessing this
Jon grabs
Leo by both his ears, and throws
him to the
ground shouting "Watch what
you do around
me!" "That bird was
a pet!"
Leo then reminds Jon to do exactly
what he
says or he will not take him
to Rock Mountain.
Jon takes this as a threat so
he tries to
kick Jon in the head. However,
before he
could, Leo grabs Jon's foot and
pulls him
close enough to be able to clench
Jon's throat
with one hand. While Jon gasps
for air Leo
says, "Which way is north!"
Seeing
stars Jon points north. Knowing
the way Leo
does not wait for Jon to fully
revive and
he continues down the street
by himself.
As darkness begins to fall, Leo
continues
to climb up a ridge. He looks
back over his
shoulder and then shakes his
head seeing
how Jon is struggling to keep
up with him.
He then sits down on a large
rock that partially
blocks a entrance to a cave.
Leo then says
quietly to himself, "What
a sad lifeless
city."
By now he is beginning to remember
that at
one time this, "Sad lifeless
city"
was his home. Back before the
explosions.
When the streets were never quiet
because
the unending traffic. Life in
the fast lane
was a daily routine. Then came
political
power struggles that took over
minds of reason.
These faults in the leaders of
the land left
Mother Earth to slowly die in
agony
Land Of No Right
By Jim Morrison
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