It was an early morning in September. Another foggy gloomy non-sunny day just like the days and weeks before. I can't believe I stayed up all last night, that is so unlike me to stay up until 2 in the morning. I checked my phone and realized that there was an alert saying that my Social Studies assignment was due in less than 48 hours. I panicked with tears in my eyes saying to myself, " oh no what am I supposed to do? I basically had this assignment for 2 week straight and it still incomplete." I saw something on my table. It was glowing and simmering right at me. I jumped out of my bed and walked towards my desk. I looked around the room calling, " Hello? Hello? Anyone here? Is this yours?". I didn't hear a voice so I decided to pick up the map after I was done getting ready for the day.

After I was done getting ready for the day, I packed a backpack full of different supplies for me on my adventure. I grabbed the map and headed on foot. Once I got outside, everything looked so different. It was like I was in another time zone 4000 years ago. I opened up the map and it led me here. I thought to myself, " I wonder why this map led me here without any direction. I mean there's roads and houses however what does this have to do with me being here? Will this help me? Do I need to save them? Why am I chosen to be the one to come here?"

A man comes and approaches me from a distance. He asks me, "What are you doing here?"

I responded, " I don't know? What is this place?"

He tells me, " You are in Eyam. The year is 1664. Who are you?

I kindly said, " My name is Meghan. Do you know why I'm here?"

He responded, " Nice to meet you! My name is Charileson but you can call me Charlie. To answer your question, no I don't know why. If I'm being honest I'm not exactly sure why any of us are here. I mean we didn't ask for this life or this tragedy.

I asked, " What exactly do you mean by tragic? Please don't tell me I'm in the year of the Black Plague.

He sadly said, " Unfortunately, Yes you are in the year of the Black Plague. Here I have a spare mask. The mask that you have isn't going to do you so well nor that not going to help you from staying alive in this epidemic."

He hands me a bird-like beak mask that looks almost like an eagle and a duck or a goose had just given birth and creates this type. I told him, " Thank you! You are so kind. I gave him a smile, " How do I look? Does this make me look like a bird?"

He laughed, " It looks good on you and besides of course it makes you look like a bird."

I turn to my left and right corner, looking all around the area. It seems like everyone is wearing the same mask. I see houses, churches, hospitals, etc. people coming out and going into them. I remember one of my cousins back home was doing research in England , however I didn't know what part or maybe she did the whole. I tried to call my cousins although I am in the 1600's so iphones and cellar data plans were not invented yet.

Wait I thought to myself could this map be a magical way of helping me get through my assignment? I took out my notebook which I've already written down some notes about this place. Maybe with my notes and the research that I did, I might be able to at least try and help the people of the town by saving them with the little information that I have. To tell you the truth it's not much, however it's something and better than nothing.

One of my friends back home and her twin brother did a lot of research on many different types of diseases in order to help their family raise awareness. Each year they contribute and donate to a lot of disorders and cancer foundations. They are a big advocate for people's health. My friend tells me a lot of the research and stories that her and her brother did and found out. She did not mention Eyam Plague however she did mention a lot of other Plagues and epidemics that she found research on. Hopefully with the information that she gave me will be helpful enough to save the town's people or at least try to in the best possible way.

I hunted into my bag and found a book that wasn't there. The book was about the Town of Eyam and it's history. I gently pulled the book out of my bag and started looking through it. I found some very insightful informative research about Eyam and the history. I took out my notebook and a pen, I began writing the information down with little spare time on my hands.

I felt a lot of pain as well as different types of emotions each time I turned , moved, sat, and stood up for even a brief second or two. I knew that it was my duty to save the people. My job was just getting started and it would be completely done by the time I took my last deep blow of slow pacing. Fastly breathing in a state of panic and hope. I had to keep pushing through it and finish the race even if that meant being the last person to go or the first person to die out of zero running breaths.

My body felt aching as I began to weaken. My temperature began to rise every time I did a movement. I was hot, the next minute I was cold. Lumps and bumps started appearing everywhere. At first I thought that they were just rashes from the heat or the food but nope, it was the virus that started spreading to me. I tightened up my mask however that only made things worse because it made it harder for me to breathe. I had to literally save and count how much air I was taking in and out from the environment, especially from the weather. I had barely any oxygen left as I was walking around helping people.

Luckily it wasn't just me, I had a few more people helping me along the way to save people's lives. The bag that I was carrying seemed so light in the beginning, however now it seems much heavier than when I started this journey. I don't think people had presubscribed medication or in general, so this was a lot harder than what I had envisioned the map to take me. The map took me this far into time, especially being around 4000 years away backwards. Again don't mind it although I'll be much happier and appreciative if it was 4000 years forward like in the future. Anyways if the map leads me here, then I will need to complete saving the people of this deadly virus in the town of Eyam before either making another quest or returning back home.

By now my arms and leg should of been trembling. My body was already shaking not only from the coldness but from the sickness as well. I'm beginning to weaken every step I make minute by hour. I could feel myself getting sleepier, tiring, and heavier. I knew that with every passing breath and movement I did my vision was slightly blurred and off like I lost balance and focus. Everything was out of order, sight, and feel for me. Something didn't feel right, it felt off. I couldn't even climb up of anything not even hills, stairs, or railings. Moving just felt like work it didn't feel natural like came easy to me. It definitely felt much harder especially with my light headed as well as my numbness in my toes and fingers as they began weakening for the fifty time even though it's only the fifth time but it's so cold and I'm sore so it felt like it. I know it's not the time to be dramatic however we are in a state of panic of a life or death situation here! It's live or die! A battle of living a life has come and where death takes us away from the people who we truly love and miss all because of History!

After my fewly words of a couple of sentences, I drifted off to a deep deep sleep as I fell off a steep grassy hill tumbling down and hitting something hard, almost like a wooden brick. I'm hoping that I'm still alive with some light minor injuries and nothing major. I was also thinking that I was dreaming about butterflies, unicorns, fruity pebbles and all things about my childhood. I could remember hearing rumbling and voices in my head however I couldn't picture their faces nor could I recognise the sentences that they were speaking. Were they talking about me? What are they saying? I wish I could have heard it more clearly.

I fell fast asleep wishing that everything will be alright. Will this be the ending or is this only the beginning? What will happen next? Am I going to be okay after this? Can I make it out alive?