Detox LLC.

Devil's On The Details.

On March 11 of 2020, the world has declared an emergency state due to an asteroid that was bound to clash with earth. After several meetings and negotiations, between the leaders of each country, they determined the best bet for the human race was to launch a rocket which through magnetism is able to change the course of the asteroid by keeping a trajectory within its range. They made this choice since they assumed that destroying it could just put some countries in jeopardy due to its size. We were advised to not go out during that week. Since this plan wasn't a sure shot, they wanted everyone to spend this days with their loved ones, because "you never know".

That night I went out and barely could find enough stuff to make a meal because by the time I got the store the shelves were almost empty, the panic was palpable, everyone was running as if they had a place to be, but none of them knew where it was.

As I was getting in line to pay, I kept looking at the people around me and it was as if my new passion was to be able to determine how they were feeling and who they were based on how they expressed their panic. Honestly it was simply easier to worry about anyone else's thoughts than my own, since I really didn't know where I was with mine. As I was getting close to the register I fixated for some reason on the guy in front of me.

He was at least 175 cm tall, white and at least 65 years old. However, what actually caught my attention was an Owl tattoo he had on the back of his neck. The tattoo artist really did beautiful work with the colors, because I could feel how the Owl was evaluating me the same way I was evaluating it. The man’s hands were also noticeable. It was evident that he was a veteran or at least that is what I thought, because he had hooks replacing both of his hands. At this very moment I let my thoughts wander once again and started to take guesses in my mind on who was this guy was and the type of person he grew to be due to his situation. Was he bitter? Or had he found a new purpose and felt grateful about the life he had?.

I can't remember how long I was stuck on the thought, and I would've probably considered it for another millennia, if the lady at the register wouldn't have screamed "NEXT!", as if she was doing everything in her power to get me out of there as fast as she could, so she can do the same. I put everything I had on the counter and as she was charging me as the guy came back and asked for the time and quickly left the store after getting the time.

Quarantine

During those days, when being with your loved ones was the most important thing, I found myself in a different country, in a different city, being a total stranger to myself and the ones that I thought were closed to me at the moment.

The last couple friends I could count on were back in my country; I'm from a little town called "Juana Diaz" in "Puerto Rico" I used to love just to walk further into the mountains just to enjoy the quietness and patience of nature and wait till the sun set day after day from the mountain.

We visited this place several times and at some point we found a little oasis on the opposite side of the mountain with water was so clear you felt like falling into the sky when going in.

I remember this was the first place I ever had sex and where I smoked for the first time. One morning I was drinking my coffee sitting at the emergency exit and I thought about all of it and how vivid it felt, as if I could just walk out of the house and be there once again. Us sitting on a towel or anything we could find, endlessly talking about the future, and about things like “how many kids we were planning to have, where we were going to live and what we were going to dedicate your life to?...These were things that seemed really easy to define at the moment in time.

But as my Dad used to say "El caminito se ve muy fácil antes de empezar a caminar...desde la salida puedes apreciar la meta, se ve la salida y el camino parece que no tiene ni un solo bache, pero a medida que empiezas a caminar, notas unos cuantos hoyos que a la distancia no se veian, notas que tal vez las sandalias se te estan rompiendo de tantas piedras que pisas, la meta ya no parece tan cerca porque comienzas a notar que ya llevas un rato caminando y no llegas, El caminito es bien complicado, pero debes tener pendiente, que ya has visto la salida...es cuestion de poner un pie delante del otro. Ya saldras!.

English translation: The little path looks easy before you start, you can see the goal line even before you start, the road seems to not have one hole or bump, but as you start walking, you start to notice the holes you couldn't see from the distance, your sandals start to break due to all the stones you have to stamp on, the line doesn't seem that close anymore once you start to think about how many you have passed since you started walking. The little path is pretty difficult, but you need to have in mind...that you have already seen the line from the distance, which means is just a matter of patiently keep putting a foot in front of the other. You'll make it out!.

As I reminisced on these thoughts, I started to feel more and more alone, so I called Adonis who was my best friend and basically the only person I could deal with lately and also the only other person that I knew was feeling the same way I was feeling right now.

Luckily for me whenever I called he would pick up. We started catching up, we talked about how I was broken hearted and he was not even interested in dating anyone, he talked to me about his son and how happy he was of finally being able to share some time with him without any drama...we both agree on how disappointed we were about life, how no matter how much you think you're saving eventually what you have won't be of any value and how nothing even goes the way is supposed to go. However, we agreed on how living this bullshit is what eventually or possibly will show us a solution along the way.

We kept talking and doing stuff while being on the camera, we didn't say it, but we mentally agreed on knowing one of us could go insane at any moment without the other.

I took a drive after debating for a while on how much I needed to breath some fresh air. During the afternoon they announced that whoever couldn't buy everything they needed, will have from 5pm to 9pm to go to the closest store and get anything that they could possibly need and I used this chance to drive to the closest beach instead.

I enjoyed a sunset once more and almost felt how my soul was being kindly being recharged by the sun.

At the end I decided to go to the grocery store at the corner close to my place before going home. It was 8:30Pm and by that time there wasn't a living body outside any more. I went into the grocery store and grabbed a couple beers, bread and some frozen pizza, I also took a couple of those Jamaican meat paddies that I like. When I got to the register I noticed it was the guy with Owl tattoo in the neck and he was very educated. As I was walking out another guy came in.

I got into my car and before I drove away, I remembered I needed a Pipe. As I walked in I'll describe what I saw as much as I can, but you have to understand there's just no way of explaining if what I saw and the way I saw it was actually the way It happened. In front of me there was a 2 meters tall humanoid form of what looked like a Big Owl. It's arms both still shaped as hooks, from torso to legs looking a bulky body, with some add ups on the back who looked like two sharp blades that this creature could contort at will. The creature’s head looked and seemed to be the head of a regular barn Owl.

Catharsis

"Come Of The Living Hoax"

I didn't notice how long I stood there, looking at this strange creature. I was definitely scared but at the same time what was happening in my eyes seemed so unreal that I didn't thing about it twice. Then I started to think that something I took earlier had me hallucinating. Adonis who remained in the call asked me what happened and I answered between weird laughs, "Let me show you". I turned the camera around and his face went blank, at that moment I knew I messed up and that this was real. And as I turned around to start running, the creature calmly asked: "How far you can go?" I turned around and took a pre roll I saw behind the counter. I lit it up and took a couple of puffs, while this creature was performing something that could only be described as Cell sucking his victims in DBZ.

"Keep in mind I'm describing this for you the best I can and you will need this information".

Nothing was left of him, the creature turned to me and I could read on its chest "J-C.US" as it was getting close, it switched its appearance and it turned out to be the guy that was behind the register a moment ago, he introduced himself as "J-C.US" but said I can call him "Jay", he told me to calm down, that I was safe and he was just performing the "Global warming" to Earth, he explained it's a Detox process his kind performs from time to time on Earth, as the Earth needs to be saved from its own creation. He told me they called themselves "Centurions", and that Earth is the tiniest but most important piece in the Universe’s gears and that without it the Universe itself would cease to exist. That's why they come to our place with this procedure where they eliminate or remove 91% of the population in order to keep enough in any hemisphere to reproduce.

He told me they will remove everything that is heavily Earth and leave us with solutions and technology to start a new civilization. He added, that there's no need of fighting as I realized we don't stand a chance and everything they do is so our existence can continue. Before he left he set up an organization for us the ones who knew the truth to have a way of communication so we could continue doing their work on Earth and they instructed us on how to pass this information to coming generations and on how to keep the secret. He called this organization "Luminancy".

Before he got on what I would call his ship, I could see on his ship what could be read as "Detox LLC.".

If you're reading this it means you're one of my descendants and it's the moment for you to carry the fear and sadness, we have carried for centuries for knowing we are a mere stain in the road for them, we can do nothing but live in fear and wait for the day the Human race goes so wrong again, that they have to come to the "Globally warmed" Earth again.

At least that's what they think...what they don't know is that they gave us a way to be prepared next time and I know at the moment we can't do anything, but be patient and prepare, so one day we can fight back and be the owners of our destiny. maybe not this century, or the next one...but I am confident in believing, we'll leave the Human Race with its own Protectors.

Simon J. Montero

January 25th of 2022