The Finals

"We have undergone so much. Homo sapiens they are called? For what wiseness do they even own?" he said as his luminous crown twitched vigorously. ''enough, they think using their 'power' will stop us?'' he continued, "despotism. using that sort of 'power'!".  His face was unhappy and he sulked over every minute that passed by. He had known the hidden abilities that his team possessed but the fear of the future overcame every thought. 

In a deep breath of two, certainty stuck the core. It wasn't the last minute, more was to come for humankind was with not one clue and the future had to change.

And that's how it all began...

In 2019, December, in China's city Wuhan, in a very or absolute unknown world, more than what the naked eye was to see, in the unknown world of viruses, troops and troops, billions and billions, of red triangular crowned viruses with light gray bodies, and others with long blue crowns, most of them varying in colors and crowns but having the same idea and mindset, dossiers were passed through and through, which were held and scrutinized carefully. Everything was held with ultimate anger and displeasure by the unrevealed team that existed in the fine air. 

"Read carefully," he told 

"We are perusing everything," they responded. "

"Got the point?''

"Obviously!"

"Oh, then I'll say what I've got to."

"All ready enough."

"Humans have overtaken the world and polluted everything, they have destroyed everything throughout the world from rivers to oceans and even us as viruses!" Mr. Co told for the hundredth time, "it's something we all know, something that we've always been tolerating them with patience for decades, something we have to change. Just talking won't do. The decades of planning are coming in handy because this is the time in which we are going to do away with them." 

Everyone gave a peal of maniacal laughter and had a certainty that humans would not be able to prevail over them by any chance. "As invisible as we are, is the trick of death to them,'' they told.

On the 31st of  December 2019, Mr. Co send his billions of troops to actualize their long-awaited plans, it was a really important day for all the animals and viruses. All the billions of troops silently traveled in the air to places that had the number one targets, they communicated when they entered their very first victim saying "SUCCESS! ENTERED A LADY, FIRST VICTIM!!". Slow yet devious progress was made...

 It was then that day by day things began to gradually change. The war began...

Families got suddenly and suspiciously ill with difficult colds, doctors were unaware of what the strange cause was for the several people to die.

In different parts of the city, people were mysteriously getting ill, however, the issue was not considered a serious condition until the cases began to highly multiply and the patients faced severe symptoms of the harsh cold. It led to difficulty in breathing and at the end of the desperate victims, death was confirmed. Fears were spread across the country about a "deadly virus", it was stated that it was a Sars-like disease, but was still unidentified. 

On Chinese social media platforms, reports were spread on the deadly virus, warning people to wear protective gear, causing people to be disturbed and worry all day, it was only for china for that short period but when the alarming news of an unknown virus spread across the global news which had daunting headings, countries began to panic for their people and make impulsive decisions by grabbing them out of the virus zone, not thinking twice about the consequences. "Glad about those 'smart' decisions they've made!" Mr. Co told his few remaining members from his team while he grinned, "that's how they'll make our troops spread to other countries.". And he was right. It did spread, badly...

On 13 January, the first case of out of China was confirmed and gave a shock to the world. The victim had relocated to his country from China and so the virus spread. Slowly and gradually, countries began to get patients of the virus, until on 11 March 2020 WHO declared the virus to be categorized as a pandemic and a global concern due to the alarming levels of spread and severity. Doctors promised the people a life-saving vaccination that was to be made, preventing the people from the fatal virus.

Meanwhile, the word kept spreading in the unknown world of viruses, different messages were passed. Some claimed the mission was successful and others said it wasn't due to something called 'vaccinations'. "Great as it apparently sounds,'' Mr. Co told, "but it'll last only for a short time, I've heard about 'vaccinations', something in which they claim if all the human beings were to take it, they would never be affected by us. But we'll be as strong as possible." Everybody's faces turned blue. There was a deep silence... Until a brilliant idea hit Co's head. "I got it!" he merrily said, "What?!" the team said in a voice of anguish, "We've got to make decisions we don't like for the bigger picture. I order you all to befriend or enslave some humans and make them the carries of us!" All the viruses were banished and the order was accomplished in two days.

After months and months, health authorities had noticed the daunting situation that the viruses could spread through humans, after making people believe that it was not due to socialization they were forced to publish in the news proclaiming the situation and so to all human's surprise, the news told, "keep six feet distance when communicating to another person because it could spread via humans.". Everyone was disappointed with their restricted lives and some even got depression after another sorrowful news told that they had to temporarily stay in 'lockdown', which meant being isolated in their homes for over at least three months.

The plan worked very well. People kept spreading the virus and as double trouble, the viruses also continued to work on destroying humans which caused humankind's lives to be messed up and dejected...

After several years when Mr. Co produced with his team dozens of variants because many vaccinations were made against them, people began to lose hope so motivational speakers of that era began to speak and bring the world up with their useless speech, "We'll have to learn to cope up with this, and take precautions but live normally because this unstoppable virus has made the past generations so miserable, but we don't want to end up like that!".  "So ridiculous," Mr. Co remarked, ''How they think that we would be defeated with their stupid 'precautions' while we will end this generation!".

And yes. Generations after generations passed, with approximately only 100 people remaining on earth, it worried the 100 a lot, they were the 100 last or finals of humankind.

After around eight months the nighty nine were gone, living one remaining, surrounded by trillions and trillions of virus and animals all in revenge to end the last living human existing. Tears like an ocean spilled through his face and in a minute humans weren't on earth. Screams of cheer filled the atmosphere and animals of land felt as if they were flying and viruses leaped through the air, everyone felt the exhilaration of victory.

And that's why Mr. Co, is remembered till today for the perseverance he put to expel humankind and let our generation live in such peace without even seeing one of them.

- Khadijah Dilshad