NationStates Jolt Archive


A Not-So Merry Christmas in Agrigento

Agrigento
25-12-2004, 01:24
Government District, San Biagio Platani
San Biagio Province, Nord Regioni, Agrigento
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T'was the night before christmas
all quiet in the city,
he murdered his regret,
and buried his pity.

Everything was set,
the only soul stirring,
frost on the windshield,
the engine was purring.
Across the snow covered field,
he saw his objective
looked through his sights,
he was very selective.

The shots rang out,
through the cold winter's air,
with hopes that the Reaper soon would be there.

The bodies on the snow,
so gently they lay
how far he would go?
no one could say.

He put the car into drive
and drove with great care
speeding his way into the government's lair

The Government Building stood with great pride,
he armed the device and continued his slide.
Crashing through barriers, great and small
he swerved around a solid blast wall.
Machine gun fire lit up the night
but now began a true fire fight.
The fire engines were warmed, as the sirens began to wail
taken from their families in a cruel winter's hail

T'was the night before Christmas
and all through the street
debris lay strewn, across the hot concrete.

The block was burned, the building lay shattered
its solid bulwark, through the air it was scattered.
The fire spread, with all too great haste
as the great city went from treasure to waste.

By the night's end two-hundred lay dead,
all because of one man, and the hatred he feed.

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Like so many carrion birds the news vans and camera crews swarmed around the disaster site and congregated around every police or government official they could find. People awoke from their peaceful slumber, dancing sugar plums be damned, for miles around the epicenter of the blast.

Members of the AIA Bureau of Domestic Affairs were hurried to the mountainous city in the middle of the night, taken from their families just hours before christmas morning. No amount of snow could prevent the people of Agrigento from finding out exactly what went on.

As rescue operations commenced, the Military went on high alert, watching for any further attacks originating from outside the country.
Iansisle
25-12-2004, 01:36
((oooh, interesting! Who was this fellow?))