The Grayness
By Kurt Feldmann

One year ago, the world was a nice peaceful place. The grass was green, the cities were normal and okay. People went through their daily lives. Until something dangerous, something dark, something gray, appeared on the planet. The Grayness. It infected whatever it could, destroyed whatever it wanted, and consumed whatever it liked.

 There were no more colors in the world, just white, black, and gray. Creatures came out of the Grayness known as Shadows because there was no light on them. Just pure darkness. The Shadows were not humanoid, more like a creature with sharp teeth and sharp claws that ran on its arms and legs.

 The Shadows infected people and spread The Grayness even more. Mike and the remaining people in their broken-down cities were hiding underground in the big sewer with the military. They were all preparing to fight. “Alright soldiers! We are going out there to teach those shadows a lesson! We are going to wipe the floor with them. Understood?” yelled a military general. “Understood!” yelled a group of military soldiers.

 They all climbed up out of the sewer they had been hiding in. they looked around at the buildings with no color except for black, white, and gray. They looked at the sky that had the same colors as everything else. “Cost is clear!” whispered the general. They all went to a broken-down building and began looking around for some Shadows. “Time to go to the town square! I see some people and Shadows there!” said the general. They all ran to the town square and began to shoot at the Shadows. There were fifty Shadows that began running at full speed to the military. “Fire!” yelled the general. They began to shoot at the Shadows. They managed to get some, but most of them made it past the bullets and infected the military and turned them into Shadows. The remaining military group used their swords and guns. In the end, only the general survived.


 Mike was not part of the military but volunteered to help. He stayed in for that mission because he felt very tired. Mike decided that he would go and look for food with a team to see if they could find anything for the resistance and for themselves. They went into shops with broken glass and some Grayness tentacles. They found some soda and chips and put them into their bag.

They then went to a broken mall and busted down the door. “Coast is clear.” said Mike as his team went into the stores to see what they could find. The mall smelled like decay and sadness, the tiles on the ground were broken and had cracks in them. Mike walked around the mall, looking for a grocery store. He found one, but the lights weren’t working. He used his flashlight and the help of some natural light coming from broken spots on the roof to see where he was going.

 Mike started to walk to the fridge aisle to see if he could find any cold food like chicken anywhere. He found some chicken, a steak, and a lamb. He shined his flashlight to a wall that had some color on it by some miracle. 

There was some graffiti on it which said, “Run over, taken by them, all of them.” That made Mike thought about what was going on in their world. “Why, why does it have to be this way, if The Grayness didn’t show up, we would not have to do all these things, we would not have to struggle and hide in sewers. We could all have a normal life.” Thought Mike as he walked down some more aisles. He punched a hole in some glass. Then, he heard his team member shouting that the Shadows were coming.

 Mike ran out of the supermarket and began to run with his gun in his hand. He looked behind him and saw a giant Monochromatic Eye. A Monochrome Eye is a giant black and white eye that sometimes forms out of tenacles forming in huge clumps. When a Monochromatic Eye spots you, it will alert the nearest Shadows telepathically where you are. Mike looked at the eye and it looked back at him. “GUYS WE HAVE TO RUN! THERE IS A MONOCHROMATIC EYE HERE!” yelled Mike at the top of his lungs.


 The moment they left the mall, Mike’s whole team ran as fast as they could, but they were too late. The Shadows had seen them. The Shadows were running after them at top speed. Mike shot bullets behind him while running. He and his team ran as fast as they could to the base.

 They came up with a plan while they were running to quickly take a sharp turn down an alley to see if they could lose The Shadows. They ran and did their plan. They jumped into the sewer. They were safe for now. Their secret base had not been found by The Shadows. Mike went to his room which he had made in the sewer.

 He put on his blue Jeans, black sweater, glasses, some hair gel for his black hair and splashed some water on his white face. Mike then went to the main area where The Resistance was. Mike unloaded his bag of food and put it on the table.

 Almost everyone ran to the table to look and eat the delicious food. Mike and his team also went to the table to eat. The food was delicious, they had corn, peperoni pizza, spaghetti, and chicken. They also had some water. Mike and his team went to a special table to discuss what they were going to do next. “I think we should just use a Nuke! We have tried everything but that!” said Josh. “No! Man, what if the Nuke doesn’t work? Then everyone will be dead! We can’t do that.” Said Mike. “You have a point in that.” Said Josh. “I guess there is no plan for now.” Said Mike.




Mike sat at the table with his group eating and thinking. “Does anyone have other ideas?” said Mike. There was no answer. Then, Mike heard screeching from above them. “People, remain calm and be very quiet!” said Mike to The Resistance. No one made a sound.

 Then, a loud crash came from far in the sewer. The Shadows found them. “Everybody run!” yelled Mike. They all began to scream and run for their life. The military began firing and The Shadows. People ran and helped others escape from the sewer.

 “You need to go! Your military have done enough work in this stinky swampy sewer!” yelled Mike at the general. “Yes sir!” said the general. The military began running, Mike helped them get out of the sewer. “is everyone out and okay?” said the general. “Yes sir, but Mike is still in there!” said a soldier.

 The general ran to the sewer disk and jumped to get Mike. He grabbed Mike and threw him up and then climbed the ladder himself. “Soldiers! Get some heavy rocks!” said the general. “Yes sir!” said the soldiers as they grabbed heavy rocks and threw them on the sewer disk.

 “That won’t hold them for long. Let’s run!” said the general. The whole Resistance ran as far as they could away from the sewer. At last, they found an abandoned building that had no things from The Grayness. They decided to stay there.


“Is everyone alright?” said Mike. Most of them seemed scared, but were not injured, but some of them were bruised. “Medics! Help the injured people!” said the general. Medics rushed to help people who were injured. 

 “Mike, we have an idea.” Said Mike’s team. “What is it?” asked Mike. Then, a military squad that was badly injured told them that The Grayness had a weak point. “We tried taking down The Grayness, but we failed. We did come back with great information. You see, The Grayness has a core, you know that weird glowing white orb that has weird black tentacles over it? Well, that is not its core, it has an inner core that you must get to. If you have a strong enough sword, and you stab The Grayness in the right place. Maybe you can end this war.” Said a soldier.

 “Luckly, we have already forged a sword that could possibly end this war. We used something that would not burn up but could stay hot for a very long time.” Said another soldier and gave Mike the sword. “we tested it on other Shadows, and they just crumbled down into small pieces of darkness and got blown away by the wind.” Said another soldier. 

Mike took the casing off the sword and saw that it was glowing red, which meant that the sword overpowered the monochrome and was very hot. “The Grayness is the most guarded area with creatures everywhere, you will need to have a team to get rid of some of the creatures.” Said another soldier. “Fortunately, I have a team.” said Mike. “I think I’m in.” said Mike with a grin on his face.


“Before that we do the plan, let’s get food and water for everyone.” Said Mike. Mike and some military members went out into the cold, monochromatic, dead world. Buildings broken, rubble everywhere, broken glass, and infection. “Ok, make sure to not get spotted by the that Monochromatic Eye on that broken down building.” Said Mike.

 They all sneaked out to see if they could find a snack store or grocery store. After looking for hours, they found a store. It was in a mall that they had been in before, but they forgot all about it since all that had been happening. Mike and his military group went to the grocery store and began putting as much food as they could into their giant bags. They went to the drinks, the meat, the cheese, the snacks, the bread, and the sauce aisles. After hours of grabbing food, they had 20 bags of food each.

 They all carried the heavy bags on their backs and made their way back to the abandoned building. Mike set up the extremely large table and put all the food on it, then he began to eat with the rest of The Resistance. They all enjoyed their meals.

 “Alright, I need 5 volunteers to distract The Shadows while I get rid of The Grayness.” said Mike. Then, 5 military people stepped up as volunteers to help him. “Alright, let’s do this.” said Mike with a smile on his face.




After they formed the team, Mike and his group headed out of the building and began the journey to The Grayness. After walking for hours in the cold, gray city, they finally came to the area where The Grayness began. Mike saw a big white orb with black tentacles attaching to the ground and the buildings. The area was infested with Shadows and Monochromatic Eyes and other creatures that were not seen in any other places.

 “Ok men, get ready to start shooting at the creatures, ok?” whispered Mike. “We made sure that you didn’t forget your sword.” Said a soldier. He grabbed the sword out of his bag. “Thanks, if we didn’t have that sword this whole mission would have gone wrong.” Said Mike.

 He took the sword and said “Alright, let’s do this, soldiers, go!” his group ran out of the building they were hiding in and began shooting at the creatures. “If were going to die, let’s make it count!” yelled a soldier. They all continued shooting at the creature. Some Shadows got close, but died right before they could try to infect a soldier.

 But then, The Grayness created more and more and more creatures. The place was overflown and infested with them! Tentacles were growing and trying to grab soldiers by their feet and trying to infect them. Then, a soldier got taken, he got grabbed by a tenacle and got infected. “One man down! We need to keep firing!” said a soldier.

 Then, Mike ran to The Grayness and took out his sword, he was ready to stab the core but then, a tentacle grabbed him and began trying to infect him. Mike used the sword and chopped the tenacle loose, but the tenacle just grew more. “Mike is in danger! Fire at the tenacle!” said a soldier.
 They all began firing at the tenacle. It dropped him and tried to get the soldiers. This was Mike’s chance! He ran toward The Grayness, jumped, and stabbed it. Then, suddenly, everything stopped. There was a great big white flash.

After the flash, Mike saw a blue sky, a yellow sun, and a red stop sign. “HE DID IT!” yelled the military. They all yelled in happiness and lifted him up into the air, along with the squad that helped him end The Grayness. They had a party, all the people ate, drank, and partied. Buildings were beginning to be rebuilt. “I guess we won finally. No more fighting, and no more deaths.” said Mike.


“Sir! Our experiment is failing. He’s waking up!” said a scientist. “WHAT? SET THE LAB ON FULL LOCKDOWN!” said Hydra. The, they heard a very loud crash. “AHHHHHHH” they all screamed. “Now that they are gone, time to wake up Ito.” Said Shiro. Another loud crash was heard from within the lab. “Thank you… for freeing… me my… friend.” Said Ito. “Time… to… find… This… Mike.” Said Ito.