A F T E R M A T H __ upcoming site

[skiSSors]

Well, I'm cracking and making another site -sighs- They hardly ever get past the under construction stage. But I really love the plot I have thought up for this one. I just wanted to know what you guys think of the plot, I know it's really long and it's a really rough draft. But I wrote it more as being meant as a short, story I suppose not an overview of the plot. So if you are wondering why it's formatted kind of weird, that's why.



The year is 2021, and much has changed in the ways of the world. Nothing is as you remember it, even the lives of the animals have been effected by the stupid decision of one person. But I'm getting ahead of myself, the trouble all began a little more than ten years ago.

In march of 2010, a horse was brought into a small vet clinic in northern California, the horses owner said that late last night, she had noticed that the horse seemed a little weak at the knees, and couldn't hold it's head up properly. The vets examined the horse, and confirmed what the owner had said. But also noticed that the horse seemed to have developed temporary blindness, and was not responsive to any of the nerve tests that they preformed. The owner decided it was best to leave the horse overnight, to let the vets watch over him. The vet assured her that it was probably just some food poisoning, and that he had just eaten something slightly poisonous and that it was nothing to worry about. The woman went home and slept a dream free night. When she arrived at the vets office the next morning to check on her horse, she was surprised when no one in the front office answered her calls, and opening the door into the back rooms, she could hear the panic stricken screams of a horse. Running towards the back, where they kept the animals that were spending the night, the owner came upon a scene that terrified her. The vet was holding her horses head down, with his five assistants trying to hold it's legs down, and give it a sedative at the same time. A quick glance over the horse, and a wave of queasiness came over the owner. Just above the horses left lung, a gaping hole with a horrible, dark brown, almost burnt look around the edges with blood seeping from it. It seemed impossibly as if the hole was growing on it's own, and slowly revealing the horses lungs, and the rest of it's insides. The pain stricken screams of the horse were enough to send her into unconsciousness, though it seemed that in the blissful darkness, she could still hear the screams of the horse.

Two weeks later, six more cases of a similar problem had been reported in the same area, all ending in the same manner. After further investigation, it was shown that all of the horses had a connection with the first horse, turned out they were taken there for a horse show some days before the first incident. Many vets had already taken on the case, trying to find out what was causing this disturbing problem. After some testing, it was decided that it was an unknown, never before seen Virus that they called Anthar Rethidium. There was no known cure for the virus, and over the next four weeks, twelve more cases popped up. Fear began to set in on the local horse owners, and all of them quarantined their horses. But to no avail, it seemed as if the virus spread like a wildfire even if there was no immediate contact.

But this was just the tip of the ice burg, over the next two months, over two hundred cases turned up. And every single horse was left dead, and now the virus had spread from California to the surrounding states. Scientists now took on the study of the Virus, trying to find it's weakness. But instead of finding help, they found something that would eventually lead to the destruction on man kind. It was a subtle, but strong sign. There was a 51% chance that the virus could become Zoological, which meant that there was a 51% chance that it could transfer to humans. The government was contacted, but they dismissed it, it was after all only a 51% chance. And the files were put away, and the Scientists funding stopped.

It was forgotten about for almost a week, the cases had stopped coming in and it seemed to have stopped spreading. And then, disaster. In one day, six hundred horses died of Anthar Rethidium. And the government finally decided to take the threat seriously, they took instant and serious action, and seized all of the horses in America from their owners, and took them to a quarantine building in Texas where the horses where locked in small stalls, and studied for signs of the virus. Many of the horses showed it immediately, and scientists began to fear for the existence of equines as reports form other countries of the same problem poured in, and stated that they too had brought all horses in for study into top secret labs. And then, there was finally a break though in the studies. A possible vaccine, that if given before the virus set it, would give the horse immunity to the virus. It was immediately injected into all horses not infected with the disease. And the Scientists anxiously waited to see what would happen, as they injected several of the animals with the virus. And then, to their amazement and relief, the horses did indeed seem immune to the virus.

Though there was still the awful horror of other ten thousand horses death, there was still the relief to know that the species would be saved. But this happiness was not to last. Late one evening, a young lab assistant decided to show off around the other assistants, and injected himself first with the vaccine, and then the virus. At first, nothing happened and elated he went back home to go to bed. But he did not come to work the next morning, and to the horror of his girlfriend, what was left of him was found lying in the middle of his living room. An state of emergency was declared, the virus had gone Zoological and was spreading quickly, his girlfriend was the next to go, and people who had been close to her all dropped dead within the next week. And panic began to spread throughout the United States. And absolute terror broke out, when the scientist discovered that the vaccine they had worked so hard on, was worthless against this new, stronger version of the virus. It seemed that there was no hope for saving the human race.

Within the next two years, All human beings in America had been wiped out completely, and the virus was spreading rapidly through the other countries, and immediate evacuation into space was planned. But the plan was never completed, three years after the first case involving a horse was reported, the last human being died of Anthar Rethidium.

And then, something happened that had not occurred to the human race before their extinction. The horses that had been injected with the vaccine, broke free of their stalls and escaped into the now empty lands. They were confused and lost without human help, for all of them had been raised by humans. But across the countries, a full 500 horses survived of the tens of thousands that once covered the earth. And together, the followed the instincts that had once led them through a wild life. And one again, as it had a long time ago. The land was theirs.

Six years after the mass tragedy, the herds are doing well. They revel in their freedom, but have begun to notice something strange. It seems that there were side effects of the Vaccine that saved their lives, some good and one very bad. On the good side, it seemed that their lifespan had been increased generously, in fact none of the horses seemed to have aged at all. Also, the intelligence was heightened by quite a bit, and these five hundred horses were smarter, and able to survive more efficiently and better than any wild horses before them. But another, dreadful discovery had been made. It seemed that all of the mares injected with the Vaccine, had become in-fertile. None of the mares carried any foals in the six years since the horses broke up into smaller bands. Not a single foal was reported born in all of former America, or even the other countries. The stallions of the herds, as well as a select few mares tried desperately to find a way to change this, but to no avail. Can they find a way to reproduce before once again their species is endangered? And is the Virus really gone forever...

[Ruffian1313]

AWSOME!! I hope you finish this one!!! It sounds amazing