Child of the Gods

The Child of the Gods was a rather elaborate and vain title for a man who’s given name at birth was Jacob Andrew Schmitt. Indeed it would have been a very haughty name for the weak and bookish elementary school student who had been pushed a lot on the playground and not made a lot of friends. By middle school Jacob had decided to get in better shape, but he still wasn’t even close to godly. And thought in high school he was vaguely popular enough, though still slightly bookish, no one would have pointed him out as divine. He went to college, in the usual way of things, joined a couple of clubs, graduated with good grades but if you had asked anyone who knew him what they would say about him they wouldn’t have said anything amazing really stood out. In fact what they would probably have said was that he had an unhealthy fascination with survivalist literature, and probably should have spent more time studying and less time day dreaming about being lost in the mountains and surviving for weeks on his wits alone. Jacob finally got a respectable office job, in the middle of a city, about as far as you could get from the mountains, and settled down to life.

That probably would have been the end of our story, and there would have been no mention of the strange title he earned, except that Jacob was born at just the right time for the end of the world. Well not really the end of the world, but certainly the end of our civilization. He, compared to millions of people with frustrated dreams, was given the chance to shine, because suddenly he had the chance to show the world exactly why it was important that he should know how to domesticate a wild deer.

When the earth started to shake at first Jacob thought nothing of it. He was in his office at the time and his building; he knew for a fact, was earthquake proof. He got under his desk of course, but that was only out of pure habit. In the ten years that he had worked in the office not once had anything ever fallen. But then, the earth had never shaken like this before. This time things did start to fall, the roof fell in fact.

To be continued...