[Fanfic] Sleeping Ones
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deegeeakTitle: Sleeping Ones
Characters/Pairing: America, mentions of other nations
Rating: PG13
Warning: Pre-History Volcanism
Summary: Every Nation has it's Sleeping Ones. America just has a secret about his.
America has a secret.
There are mountains in America, where the Sleeping Ones lay, slumbering underneath tons of rock and soil, bound to the cool earth until something wakes them up.
That's not the secret though. Almost every nation tells stories of Sleeping Ones, so America having Sleeping Ones of his own isn't much of a secret.
America's secret is that they're real, dangerous and not sleeping very peacefully.
There's four of them, his silent Sleeping Ones that never let him sleep well. Two are merely dreaming, bidding their time till they destroy him. One's long dead and he prays it stays that way. The last is slipping away into death.
Yellowstone's been waking up, like some fire demon slowly building an inferno to eat him alive. He knows from the aches of his bones, the memories of the rock and soil, that when it does wake up, it will end him. What scares him the most is how active it is, constantly bubbling and boiling beneath the caldera. The worst thing about Yellowstone for him, is that it's not going extinct. It's alive and if you were to ask him, America would say it's having nightmares. The valley floor formed by the ancient caldera has been steadily rising from the building pressure deep within the magma chamber. It's going to go off and there is nothing he can do about it. And when it does, his world will end. It's why he plays hard and tries to take everything he can in. He doesn't know when it'll go off and America doesn't want to miss a single thing.
Long Valley's mostly silent these days. The earthquake that created a dome triggered a mild panic - last time Long Valley exploded, it covered seven states in thick ash beds. All the scientists who study it keep reassuring him that while not completely extinct, there's little chance of it going off. It doesn't do much to soothe him. He knows that while the magma chamber isn't anywhere close to the surface, seeing the dome terrified him. America knows what it means should Long Valley prove to be asleep and not dead. Long Valley's eruptions were worse then Yellowstone, and he's a dark, rough mark on his back to remind him of it's slowly dying presence.
La Garita Caldera is dead and he's thankful for it. His bones sometimes ache with the remembered pain of the ingimbrite flare up. It hurts more then nuclear testing ever did. According to his geological service guys, it's no wonder why. La Garita is supposed to be the most energetic event since the Chicxulub impact - the one that killed the dinosaurs. 100,00 times more powerful then Russia's 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, no one can really quantify how much damage it did to the world. America really wants it to stay dead and will do anything to keep it that way. La Garita is why he hates winter; the ache seems worse in winter.
Novarupta, is on his Alaskan coast. He wakes up sometimes shivering when his nightmares remind him of how deadly the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is. She erupted in 1912, and was the largest eruption of the 20th century. He should have been meeting the men who wanted to become his next Boss. Instead he was in bed, burns across his back, delirious from the pain. He didn't actually get to meet his new boss till Woodrow Wilson was elected. More then 21 cubic tons of material was blasted into the air - he coughed for weeks, with the persistent dry feeling in his throat. The burn lasted through out the first World War.
He's got more Sleeping Ones, 169 of them at last count that are active or sleeping. Eighteen of them are high threats - mostly the ones lying along the ring of fire. But in the middle of the night, it's these four Sleeping Ones that wake him up in a cold sweat, shaking with the terror that he's dying, choking on thick gases, and drowning under the weight of ash and other materials. He's one of the few who don't leap down Iceland's throat when his volcanoes go off and sends Europe into a tailspin. He just looks over and shares a glance with Iceland that very few other countries understand. "At least we're still here" it says. Iceland nods in return. Japan sees it and understands. Oddly enough, South Italy nods in understanding as well.
America knows one day he'll be responsible for the end of the world - provided they don't blow each other up first. That's his secret, the one he carries around like a weight across his shoulders.
In the dark depths of the earth, the Sleeping Ones lay sleeping and America wishes they'd stay that way forever.
Notes:
Yellowstone: It's one of the few still 'alive' super-Volcanoes. If you want to see how big the caldera is, just look at the park. If it goes, it's safe to say it's going to effect a few things in the world. The last eruption, the Lava Creek eruption was 640,000 years ago.
Long Valley: Another super-Volcano in the US, it too isn't dead. However, it's volcanic activity isn't as large as Yellowstone. It has the largest caldera in the world, and lasted erupted 760,000 years ago.
Novarupta: Novarupta is in the Alaskan Aleutian chain and was the largest eruption of the 20th Century. It was nasty and the only thing that kept the eruption from being devastating on the national scale was that it's located on a very out of the way place.
La Garita: La Garita erupted about 28-26 million years ago and was described until recently as the largest known eruption in the world's history. That's..really quite scary when you think about it. It's extinct now so..whew.
Characters/Pairing: America, mentions of other nations
Rating: PG13
Warning: Pre-History Volcanism
Summary: Every Nation has it's Sleeping Ones. America just has a secret about his.
America has a secret.
There are mountains in America, where the Sleeping Ones lay, slumbering underneath tons of rock and soil, bound to the cool earth until something wakes them up.
That's not the secret though. Almost every nation tells stories of Sleeping Ones, so America having Sleeping Ones of his own isn't much of a secret.
America's secret is that they're real, dangerous and not sleeping very peacefully.
There's four of them, his silent Sleeping Ones that never let him sleep well. Two are merely dreaming, bidding their time till they destroy him. One's long dead and he prays it stays that way. The last is slipping away into death.
Yellowstone's been waking up, like some fire demon slowly building an inferno to eat him alive. He knows from the aches of his bones, the memories of the rock and soil, that when it does wake up, it will end him. What scares him the most is how active it is, constantly bubbling and boiling beneath the caldera. The worst thing about Yellowstone for him, is that it's not going extinct. It's alive and if you were to ask him, America would say it's having nightmares. The valley floor formed by the ancient caldera has been steadily rising from the building pressure deep within the magma chamber. It's going to go off and there is nothing he can do about it. And when it does, his world will end. It's why he plays hard and tries to take everything he can in. He doesn't know when it'll go off and America doesn't want to miss a single thing.
Long Valley's mostly silent these days. The earthquake that created a dome triggered a mild panic - last time Long Valley exploded, it covered seven states in thick ash beds. All the scientists who study it keep reassuring him that while not completely extinct, there's little chance of it going off. It doesn't do much to soothe him. He knows that while the magma chamber isn't anywhere close to the surface, seeing the dome terrified him. America knows what it means should Long Valley prove to be asleep and not dead. Long Valley's eruptions were worse then Yellowstone, and he's a dark, rough mark on his back to remind him of it's slowly dying presence.
La Garita Caldera is dead and he's thankful for it. His bones sometimes ache with the remembered pain of the ingimbrite flare up. It hurts more then nuclear testing ever did. According to his geological service guys, it's no wonder why. La Garita is supposed to be the most energetic event since the Chicxulub impact - the one that killed the dinosaurs. 100,00 times more powerful then Russia's 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, no one can really quantify how much damage it did to the world. America really wants it to stay dead and will do anything to keep it that way. La Garita is why he hates winter; the ache seems worse in winter.
Novarupta, is on his Alaskan coast. He wakes up sometimes shivering when his nightmares remind him of how deadly the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is. She erupted in 1912, and was the largest eruption of the 20th century. He should have been meeting the men who wanted to become his next Boss. Instead he was in bed, burns across his back, delirious from the pain. He didn't actually get to meet his new boss till Woodrow Wilson was elected. More then 21 cubic tons of material was blasted into the air - he coughed for weeks, with the persistent dry feeling in his throat. The burn lasted through out the first World War.
He's got more Sleeping Ones, 169 of them at last count that are active or sleeping. Eighteen of them are high threats - mostly the ones lying along the ring of fire. But in the middle of the night, it's these four Sleeping Ones that wake him up in a cold sweat, shaking with the terror that he's dying, choking on thick gases, and drowning under the weight of ash and other materials. He's one of the few who don't leap down Iceland's throat when his volcanoes go off and sends Europe into a tailspin. He just looks over and shares a glance with Iceland that very few other countries understand. "At least we're still here" it says. Iceland nods in return. Japan sees it and understands. Oddly enough, South Italy nods in understanding as well.
America knows one day he'll be responsible for the end of the world - provided they don't blow each other up first. That's his secret, the one he carries around like a weight across his shoulders.
In the dark depths of the earth, the Sleeping Ones lay sleeping and America wishes they'd stay that way forever.
Notes:
Yellowstone: It's one of the few still 'alive' super-Volcanoes. If you want to see how big the caldera is, just look at the park. If it goes, it's safe to say it's going to effect a few things in the world. The last eruption, the Lava Creek eruption was 640,000 years ago.
Long Valley: Another super-Volcano in the US, it too isn't dead. However, it's volcanic activity isn't as large as Yellowstone. It has the largest caldera in the world, and lasted erupted 760,000 years ago.
Novarupta: Novarupta is in the Alaskan Aleutian chain and was the largest eruption of the 20th Century. It was nasty and the only thing that kept the eruption from being devastating on the national scale was that it's located on a very out of the way place.
La Garita: La Garita erupted about 28-26 million years ago and was described until recently as the largest known eruption in the world's history. That's..really quite scary when you think about it. It's extinct now so..whew.
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Date: 2010-12-03 02:40 pm (UTC)Excellent work :D
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