Fifth Prophecy: A City in Agony

A CITY IN AGONY It is a colossal city built along and across the coast whose elevated skyscrapers rise as concrete and crystal columns that make the tower of Babel look as a naive project to reach the heavens. It’s midday and the sea looks calm and quiet as an immense sea of ice, blue and shiny. The combined energy released by dwellers of this city resembles a gigantic acoustic shell. The colors of this energy shell, which is unnoticed by the inhabitants of this enormous city, reveal that something is going to burst into their lifes. Energy fields interweave and clash generating great energy streams that resemble a lightening storm. However, for the people of this city this is a clear and sunny day that goes normally. It is perhaps too clear for a normal hot day. A soft murmuring of five seconds, which is only perceived by the rats, comes from the deepest part of the earth. Scared rats run under the sewer lids, their squeaks resound in a deafening way. Minutes later there is another stronger murmuring from the earth that lasts a little longer. It has just the power to make vibrate the tiny particles of dust accumulated on the borders of the sidewalks. Due to the noise of the city, people don’t notice anything. But in the parks, the birds have abandoned the trees. More than 30 minutes later occurs a more intense rumoring from the earth that lasts even longer. This time the rumor was noticed by some people. Some people start to look worried, others run to the phone cabins to call their relatives. Suddenly a terrifying roaring raises from within the earth like a monster that comes out with the fury due to the abrupt convulsions of the interior of the earth. The floor sinks in some parts swallowing parks, houses and buildings. People run terrified. Great blocks of concrete and glass fell from the heights smashing everything, and creating enormous clouds of dust. The roaring continues at the interior of the earth and the floor continues to wave as in the middle of a painful convulsion. Heartrending screams are drowned by the enormous crash which seems not to have end. Many buildings fall, explosions can be heard everywhere. The waste waters run over the rubble. Clouds of dust mix with violent flares and black columns of fumes. The tragedy reaches cataclysmic dimensions, very few things remain up. Explosions can be heard two hours after the earthquake. Everything is chaos and confusion. Electricity does not work, water system is broken, and telephones do not function. On the highways many cars have fallen into gigantic cracks open by the shake. After three hours the earth still shakes and roars. People who start to walk on the streets seem like automats, like zombies. The news of the tragedy goes from state to state, from nation to nation. Ten days later the rubble hasn’t been removed. No statistics about damages and victims. Corpses still lie everywhere, the stink becomes unbearable; a cloud of flies invades the city. Many survivors have left, many were left in misery. Vandalistic hordes have looted the markets that lie under the ruins, and provisions are scarce. The phantom of an epidemic hangs around due to the deficient health conditions. Epidemic is a victor phantom that seizes many undefended victims. Indefatigable is the struggle to produce a vaccine, but the factor that triggers the epidemic is very complex. Survivors fall dead everywhere, thus, complicating the situation. The government is left with no other option but to declare the city in state of quarantine to stop the dissemination of the disease. Nobody is allowed to leave until the critical episode is resolved. These measurements cause panic among the population and their relatives in other cities who believe that their beloved ones were abandoned to a sure death. Twenty days after, the electricity is reestablished in some areas. The water service still faces serious difficulties. Helicopters flight over the city dropping provisions, blankets and medicines. The situation is still chaotic. The nation and the world have been shocked by the dimensions of the tragedy.