It is July the 13 2020 the current universal time is 23:59.

  Everyones eyes are looking at the clock watching every movement of the seconds pointer accompanied by the heavy thumping of 8 billion peoples heartbeat. There is no plane in air, no boat on sea and not one train journeying on its rails. Families are huddled together in their homes, hospitals and retirement homes as if to ensure they get to ensure the next seconds together.

  The streets are devoid of any live there is not even a single drunkard shouting against the sky and not even one homeless person while every homeless animal could not be found since hours. Today there is no place for crime or strife in the human history as it seems all too mundane compared to last seconds one can view and the last breaths one can make.

  But not every found the comfort of his family or friends as the number of suicides set a new high in the human history. The amount of people who fell to the helplessness everyone feels is greater than the population of some countries. Some took a last trip with a golden shot others took simply theirs lives some alone in private hidden away from the public, others together in groups assembled by the same beliefs or the same values.

  Everyone who stayed has only one thing on his mind, the time, and how one second feels like an eternity while the next one as if one had missed it. It may be strained mind or the events which lead to this moment making time today everyone's greatest nemesis.

  While the mind flows with the time the eyes tell different stories, many are full of curiosity others full of hunger for knowledge whilst the brightest eyes are these full hope. They shine with hope feeded with beliefs coming from science, society or religion. With clenched fists and short breaths they look at the time like at a countdown for a race.

  Like everything impossible it begun with a very small change slowly spreading into everyone’s everyday live. Like a hidden truth it spread through rumour. At first only these vanished about which no one even know. Dropout’s, hermit’s or small hidden villages without any connection to the outside world. But the rumour know only about vanishing tourists, travellers, people who were taking a break from civilisation in the depths of forests and valleys. Later one could read new horror stories about ghostly places hidden in mist and teeneger never coming back from them. The rumour grew like a wave making its way through the world turning from a rumour to mystery in a single day.

  The next day it was no longer a mystery but a challenging riddle one has to solve. Small public offices from the countryside confirmed the mystery. Red mist appeared in town and people began to go missing. No longer a rumour but an mysterious it get the name of its harbinger, Red Mist.

  People made the strangest theories for the reason of the Red Mist from pollution to biochemical weapon of an alien race.

  But whatever the reason the Red Mist grew and every government in this world begun its nightshift forcing science, politics oder their military into overtime trying every possible way to stop the Red Mist and take the missing people from its depth. But may it be thousand ideas and millions of tries every effort to stop the mist was without result and with every failure more people and resources were devoured by the red mist. Drones, cameras, vehicles, animals, people everything vanished after a few steps into the mist.

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  The mist not only spread faster cloaking an wider and wider area, it also begun to appear in more and more places slowly approaching the most populated areas on earth. The Red Mist filled old temples, churches, forgotten ruins, ancient groves and places which history was long lost with the flow of time.

  Science try every measure device possible. They tried to take photos in infrared, measure magnetism and every other measurable physical unit but the result was nothing a vacuum of nothing would be much easier thing to prove. Only whilst experimenting with animals it was possible to confirm that not only humans can see the Red Mist but also animals which seemed dependent on their species sometimes obsessed with it trying everything to leave their caretakers and jump into the mist. Only more domestic animals seemed to be vary of the red mist providing some resistance when lead near it.

  Three days passed and the mist become already like a gigantic mesh neat covering the world and surrounding the cities and metropolises of it. Streets, Sea and Sky routes become useless as is it become impossible to avoid the mist on them. People began to fear even the thought of leaving the city and more and more infrastructure become thanks to the red mist useless. Only the smallest governments could still reach their population but in the rest of the world people only felt as if their country has given up.

  With the fourth day no one left their home as there were already some streets and neighborhoods covered in Red Mist. Like a bloody sea it spread through the cities devouring everyone it touched. People knew it would be the last day before they join all the lost ones into the Red Mist. The mist no longer covers only the earth but also the parts of the skies reaching out like a giant tentacle to the moon and the venus in a speed matching that of light and slowly surpassing it making its way towards the sun and to pluto as if devouring our whole solar system. While becoming faster and faster in space it begins to accelerate the speed it is filling the cities with.

  The streets are devoid of any life hidden by a thick layer of red and remaining world population exchanges it’s last most precious words and count all at the same time, the last second, before vanishing in a deep red.

  With the earth as the center of the mist spread looking like a giant cocoon wrapped instead of layers of silk in layers of Red Mist the spreading mist looks like gigantic veins spreading from a heart into the world. It could be also gigantic net making the greatest haul in history trapping whole planets. The Cocoon of mist starts to grow like a heart preparing itself for its first beat. Bleeding but unstoppable a heart one would only could call divine.

  The single strands of the net spread out through space explode at the same time and cloak every area possible in a fine red mist. Red mist outside of over solar system begins to show itself joining the mist originating from earth. It is as the whole universe is slowly cloaked in red. Black holes seems like red tsunamis and asteroids look like gigantic blood cells flying through the world. Everything a human mind knew or an eye ever saw and beyond is cloaked in red.

  Words in different languages like list whispers of something long gone echo through the mist.

  Uncountable amount of planets begin to beat like gigantic hearts. Suns begin to grow like bellies.

  Black holes vanish into thin lines.

  A loud chink sound spreads with the echos like breaking glass or lightning hitting sand. Something broke. The world as we know it holds its breath and stops its exhalation of warmth, energy, everything stops what could indicate the passage of time. In this moment all of the heart like planets thumped once at the same time. As if taking a long breath for the longest time. The entropy stopped, the slow death is no more.

  Reincarnation. Renaissance. True Revival. The new beginning over whole existence longed for. Silence.

  The Red Mist is no more. No earth, no sun not a single star in existence not even space where something could be. All is void. Like a bad dream or like something ripped from its existence, from its past, future and present without leaving any trace or even a thought about it.

  Null.