Julius Evgeny was once known as an urban legend had been hiding in his house for about a year now
Malnourished his face had caved in his body bone dry and his bones dilapidated, he realized that there was no getting out of this
He was going to stay immortal forever
He rose up in bed to see the cared remains of his house. The standing structure was black, filled with ash and soot, but the floors were no longer there
Julius tiptoed over the wooden beams and then holding one of the beams, dropped downstairs (because the stairs had burned down too) and he left the house
The reason his house was burnt down was that before he went to sleep, he dropped a match in an attempt to end his life. When he woke up, his skin was fully healed, he was malnourished, but his skin was fine
As he stepped outside, he realized that he hadn't seen the sun for so long, which caused his eyes to go into a constant squint. As he walked, his footprints indented the ground
When he inhaled, he took everybody's breath away
When he cried, his tears burnt through everything it splashed against
He used to be a hypochondriac until he met a man named Ryland who offered him immortality. Julius gladly took it but it came with a cost
Once known as an urban legend, Julius now was on the Nation's most wanted list for causing death everywhere he stepped.
Behind him, cars crashed, hearts failed, and flowers went limp and all he could do was close his eyes
From a distance, some kids playing hopscotch spotted him and screamed. They went upstairs to tell their parents, just as they'd been instructed to do.
Thirty seconds into walking and the first moment happened.
A lady who lived on at least the 6th floor of an apartment was watering her plants in a flowerbox when she slipped and fell through the window.
The hard thump of her body made Julius cringe
He looked up in the sky to distract himself and saw an airplane flying
It took a sudden nosedive and began to depart from the sky
And that's when the military came in
As soon as Julius Evgeny singed that contract, Ryland died and misfortune followed him everywhere he went.
Military standard tanks came, blocking roads; the most cutting edge weapons were brought out of the arsenal as they all began to fire at their target: a bone dry 17-year old with drooping eyes and a miserable frown on his face
They had to take him down before he caused any more destruction.
They hit him with bullets, grenades, rockets and explosives
But nothing would happen to this person who just kept walking
It had been fifty years now and nothing much about his feelings had changed
He just wanted to be gone
Behind him, hydrants blew up off their tops, electric lines snapped in half and sparked and buildings collapsed
His tears did nothing but burn the pavement
But after all this running all this fighting, watching building collapse on top of all the people who tried to harm him
Julius Evgeny finally reached clarity
He found a patch of flowers in the bark and lay on the small bed and they died of course
But the grass stood strong and sturdy
So he grabbed a handful of the green pulse of the earth, our oxygen supply, our foundation
And he said "I give you the gift of immortality "
Bullets sprayed into the chest of Julius and for the first time ever, he felt life slipping away. He smiled and simply rolled over into the glass.
His body turned to stone
