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Conclusion
Ray, Darius, Chris, Kristina and Skylar decided it was in their best interests to stick together. They fixed up the old farmhouse that Kristina and Ray had been staying in. Water was easy to acquire since they could just get it from the nearby waterfall, boil out any impurities and then drink it. Food was always a pressing issue and became the most prominent reason for wars worldwide. Kristina started a tomato garden in the backyard and Chris, Darius and Ray went into downtown Sioux Falls almost weekly to acquire canned goods. Life wasn’t easy, but it was life nonetheless. Things were never going to go back to the way they were, not for a long time at least. This didn’t bother Kristina, Skylar or Darius though since they had each other.
Chris was reading and learning more from Darius with each passing day and Darius had high hopes for him. Darius often told him that if things someday returned to normal that Chris would make a fantastic lawyer. Chris and Darius often spoke in private, they figured they knew the truth of The Dark Star and how it was all a government plan the reduce the population. They knew that spreading this information around would likely only result in them being killed, so they kept it to themselves, hopeful that someday in the near future the world would be ready to accept the truth about the largest catastrophe in human history; a catastrophe that they had conquered and overcome completely.
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The Wrath of Yellowstone Trilogy
Preppers Fiction
Frank Montgomery
© 2015
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BOOK 1
Chapter 1:
Chad Marks is simple man. He’s by no means unintelligent; he just revels in the joy of the small things in life. He lives a simple life but he’s an overall happy person. Living in Fortuna, North Dakota is definitely not for everyone. The town is incredibly small and in 2011 its population dipped below 100 people. Since there is a lot of open land in Fortuna, farming is the primary, well actually, the only real industry to speak of. Money had always been tight in the Marks household and Lynn, Chad’s wife of 3 years, hated the fact that he spent so much extra money on his ‘hobbies.’ Chad is what you might call an overly paranoid person. He has been clinically diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and he often has panic attacks.
His main paranoia stems from the fact that he is confident that a global disaster is on the horizon. Lynn is always telling Chad that he’s going to scare their young kids, Bryce and Tammy, 9 and 13 years old, respectively, with his rants about global catastrophe. Chad has always been prepared for the worst, in his backyard he has an old brown RV stock-piled with a 2-months supply of canned food (tuna, salmon, beans, peas and soup), 6 gas masks, 5 machetes, 5 pistols, 2 shotguns, 15 grenades, 80 liters of water, 20 gallons of gasoline and a massive gas powered generator. He is constantly adding to his inventory and the backyard RV has become the root of almost every single fight that Lynn and Chad have had over the past year and a half. Chad continues to tell her that it’s for the good of the family, but his concerns seem to be falling on deaf ears.
The Mark’s small bungalow seems to be shrinking by the day as tensions continue to rise due to financial strain. Nobody can seem to get away from one another and over the past few months Tammy and Bryce have both declared that they hate their father multiple times. These statements came about when Chad had to break the news to his kids that the family didn’t have enough money to put them on the baseball and soccer teams that year. Kids being kids, they never quite understand the reality of money and budgeting. Chad knew they didn’t really mean what they said, but that didn’t help him sleep that night, and it certainly didn’t help him dry the first tears he had cried in many years. Every day that passed Chad was feeling more and more broken. His best friends, Todd and Anthony, obviously noticed a change in his demeanor, but they knew that Chad would never complain about anything, so they decided to ask Lynn what the problem was. After speaking with Lynn they decided to give Chad a surprise.
Chapter 2:
Chad woke to find that Lynn was already gone. He glanced at the clock, shocked to discover that it was already nine. He had completely slept through his alarm and the sound of her leaving for work. Lynn worked down the road at a local veterinary clinic. She was an assistant to the head veterinarian and they mostly cared for horses and cows. Chad hopped out of bed wearing only his briefs, tripped on one of Lynn’s bras and nearly smashed his head on the end of the bed, but he caught himself just in time. He sauntered into the only bathroom in the house, which was very small and horribly designed.
He turned the tap on, splashed some cold water on his face and gazed at himself in the mirror. Twenty-nine years of life had not been kind to Chad. His thin brown hair was clearly beginning to bald; his large beard seemed to tease his hair with how full it was. He had been planning on shaving for three weeks now, but every time he got into the bathroom he decided that he didn’t have time. He turned to the side, still looking intently at his reflection. He tried to suck in his plump belly as he reminisced about the tight abs that used to be in its place. He put both of his hands on his stomach and gave it a couple of loud slaps,
“You’re pathetic, where the hell did you go wrong,” he said quietly to himself.”
He jumped into the shower and lazily washed himself off, knowing full well that he would be filthy in about twenty-five minutes. When he was done showering, he dried off with the only towel left in the bathroom, unfortunately it was already soaking wet as Lynn had used it to dry the floor when she was done showering. He put on his work jeans and a thick blue flannel shirt, grabbed a few granola bars and headed out the back door. When he got outside he was surprised to see Todd and Anthony waiting for him next to his old brown RV.
“Ya still sinkin money into this piece of crap?” Todd said as Anthony broke out in a chuckle. Chad brushed the comment off and tried to figure out what his two buddies were doing at his house this early in the morning.
Todd had been Chad’s best friend since they were 6 years old. He was 28 years old and a few inches
shy of being 6 feet tall. He had long blonde hair, pale blue eyes; he was sporting a red baseball cap and dark black aviator sunglasses. He wore a dark blue sweater and red basketball shorts. Chad and Anthony often joked about how Todd looked almost identical to Brad Pitt, in the movie ‘Troy.’
Anthony was almost 7 feet tall and he was one of the only black men in Fortuna. He was 28 years old and he had a completely shaved head. He was wearing torn jeans and a black t-shirt. Both Todd and Anthony worked on the other side of town, at a farm owned by Todd’s uncle.
“What are you guys doing here so early?” Chad said with a confused look on his face.
“Well the three of us are about to drive 8 hours,” replied Anthony with a grin.
Chad didn’t respond.
“We’re going to Yellowstone!” Todd clarified.
“Ya man we already checked it over with Lynn and we got some workers from Todd’s uncles farm that are going to tend to your fields for a week.”
Chad was ecstatic; Yellowstone National Park was a place he had always wanted to go. He had been once as a young boy, but the memory has faded so much that he feels as though he was never actually there. Yellowstone is the largest caldera super volcano on earth. The park is primarily located in Wyoming, but it also extends into small regions of Montana and Idaho as well. Essentially the entire park is inside of an active volcano. Yellowstone brings tourists from around the planet because it has some of the most amazing geologic features and wildlife you will ever see.
Chad was fully aware that Yellowstone was an active volcano with a definite capability to put the world in jeopardy, but he didn’t fear it like he feared other things. Chad’s main fear was a meteor strike. He knew that even a meteor smaller than a minor city could strike the earth with enough force to peel its crust away into a massive tsunami of volcanic rock and scorching lava. If he dwelled too much on the thought, he almost always had a panic attack. Experts believe that Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption, but they say that eruption could happen anytime within the next 20,000 years. Chad liked his odds of not being alive when Yellowstone decided to blow. For the time being, Yellowstone was a park worthy of great appreciation and admiration for its stunning beauty. Chad believed that the fact that Yellowstone could possibly someday end human life on planet earth, made it all the more mystifying and gorgeous.
“That’s amazing boys, when are we leaving?” Chad said excitedly.
“Right now man!” Todd exclaimed. “Get some camping gear together and let’s hit the road,” he continued.
“Can we take the ol RV?” Asked Anthony.
“Na man, she’s all loaded down with supplies and I need to do an overhaul on the engine. It’s been giving me some trouble lately and I don’t fully trust it yet, I mean it is a 1990 model after all,” Chad said with a smile.
“Alright then, we’ll take my SUV,” Todd decided.
Chad hurried inside to grab some supplies. He hadn’t been this excited for a very long time. Before running out the door he slipped into the bathroom to take a leak, on his way out he paused to look at himself in the mirror. He gave himself a wink and a smile and scurried out the door, the anticipation was killing him.