The Power of the Bloodlust

Finally, after four years of high school, I've graduated and I can now join the Navy SEALs. But first, I'm going to celebrate graduation day with a party with my other fellow 2019 graduates. After that, I'm gonna relax for a few days at home and then enlist.

Now, I know this sounds perfect, I thought so to, and it was! Everything went perfectly, up until I was on my way home from enlisting.

Now lets see, what went wrong again? Oh yeah......  MY LIFE WAS RUINED!!! And this is where my story begins...

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My life was perfect. I was just accepted into my dream job of a U.S. Marine, I know I know, weird profession right? But it just seemed right to me. So that's what I did. I also graduated High School with a perfect grade, 4.0 grade average, all four years, so ya, great life.

Now that I was SUPER hyped up, I decided to turn on the radio for some tunes.

After a few songs of EDM, the station was hijacked by the government  for an emergency broadcast, "ATTENTION U.S. CITIZENS! We have just received intel from the Navy SEAL team 10 about a high probability terrorist attack on our country. There primary target is the state of Ora-" I had just entered a tunnel so the radio cut off to static, and I decided to just turn it off and just continue driving.

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After driving for about another two hours I was back inside the borders of my home state of Oregon, just cruising along without any traffic. 'Now that's weird.' I thought, 'It's rush hour, the highway should be packed!'

That's when I saw a bright flash off to my left, follow by deafening boom and a shock wave of debris (is that a cow?). I only had enough time to say a partial phrase, "Oh Shi-"