[ WP ] A group of ants stumbles upon an abandoned ant colony . Inside , they find cryptic warnings scratched on the walls by a series of past inhabitants , foretelling impending doom wrought by something called `` the Human '' .

`` Peter we've reached the mound.'' John said as we approached enemy territory. 
 
 `` The scent is weak, there's almost no sign of life. I believe we can proceed forward without fear.'' Micheal said this with the confidence only a veteran soldier can know. 
 
 `` Stay close and tight we do n't know what to expect, this colony is fairly new. We've been sent to gather intelligence not endanger our lives.'' I spoke to my team of five. We had never encountered an enemy mound before. We had lived in peace for years. No danger, no hostility, we were a large colony with no need to fear a mound of this size. Why was the queen so worried? 
 
 `` Peter, I do n't know how to feel about this. This mound looks only weeks old. It dismal in size, what happened to this place...'' Aaron spoke with fear. He was a young soldier assigned to our watch. I had no answers for him. 
 
 We were a small recon team of five. John, Michael, Aaron, Kyle and myself. This was my mission and I was not about to fail my queen, even if this was just a small recon job. The mound was small still under the rubble of the earth. This colony should have been thriving but all we see is a single entrance. We proceed with caution, entering the mound, no life in sight. 
 
 `` This is primitive! The tunnels have no support and the corridors only allow for one or two ants to proceed without issue.'' Kyle spoke with only the knowledge a former architect would know. He was to help us navigate to search these... ruins of a mound. 
 
 The place was in shambles as we proceeded deeper underground. Tunnels shut, collapsed with no other entrance or exit. The deeper we go the tunnels become larger, more intricate only resembling what should have been a thriving community. Dinning halls and daycare's empty and ruins left in it's place. What happened to these ants? 
 
 `` Help me...'' We hear a whimper coming from across the dining hall. A lone soldier is all we see, at least whats left of him. His body is missing half his limbs, burned and torn apart by god knows what. I've never seen such a thing. 
 
 `` What happened here!'' Aaron spoke as he raised his pincers to the young soldiers head. Merely a boy, his pincers not even the size of his head, young and dying. 
 
 `` Stand down.'' I spoke now before we lost the first and possibly last sign of life we might come across. 
 
 `` But he's enemy! We ca n't spare him!'' He objected. 
 
 `` He's all we have to go by!'' Kyle was speaking up after having walked and inspected every inch of space he could lay his eyes on. 
 
 `` This place is in ruins! There's signs of flooding, collapsed pillars, structural damage not possible by mere architectural design. This ant may have the answers we seek! The queen sent us here for a reason, maybe he knows!'' Kyle had a look about him that I had never seen across his face before. Fear, fear and curiosity. 
 
 John walked over to this boy. `` What happened here.'' The medic spoke and adjusted the boys body and attempted to see if anything could be done to heal his body. 
 
 Up till now we were just exploring, now we were afraid, we did not what what awaited us until the boy spoke. 
 
 `` It was an act of a god.'' He could barley speak and he tells us of gods! 
 
 `` First it was floods... almost daily. The golden floods that would set us back, it was only the begining. Mere setbacks, the floods would collapse our tunnels and slow down our forces, not nearly enough to set us back this far.'' He spoke with a pained expression. How long had this been going on? 
 
 `` They continued day after day and came to a stop... we thought we would be okay. It was followed only days later by storms... hurricane winds with so much strength that it was like silver pincers would slice our mound down to nothing! It destroyed our mound reduced it to nothing but what you see now!'' He coughed in pain, he would not last much longer. John could find no remedy to an ant with half a missing torso. 
 
 `` What happened to you soldier. Why are you like this?'' I finally spoke I needed to learn more. This boy was on the verge of death, barely conscious but he continued. 
 
 `` W-w-we did all we could, traveled the surface, observed the stars! But the fire came last, first it was like the sun was attacking us individually... it got me first. It took half of me and that's why I was put here... away... too deep to be bothered. My brothers were not so lucky. The last I was was liquid fire that destroyed us! I'm luck to be alive.'' He was tired and we were all speechless. 
 
 Suddenly we felt vibrations, the whole mound began to shake. 
 
 `` Whats going on!?'' Kyle shouted. 
 
 `` Defensive positions now!'' Micheal was doing his duty trying to get us back on track. 
 
 `` Oh god not again!'' The boy panicked and trashed trying to get away attempting to walk for freedom from what came next. 
 
 `` Hold steady team we do n't know whats coming!'' We raised our pincers ready for anything. 
 
 `` It's them again they've come back for the queen and I!'' The boy continued to shout. 
 
 `` What is it? Who is doing this?!'' I shouted back, I was afraid. 
 
 `` I-I-It's a... Human.'' He spoke his last words as a white dust stormed filled the tunnels. The mound was overcome with this storm as it tore our skin and broke our armor. I felt this storm rip through me and steal my team. 
 
 I had failed my queen and my team. I could feel my skin dry out and tear away at me. My queen is in danger and I could n't even tell her of the danger coming. 
 
 The Human. 

