Over two hundred years had passed since the event took place. This event has shocked the world and thrown it into a state of trauma. Never in the histories of stories had it been recorded that such an event had taken place. It was like what Christians believe to be the coming of Christ. Science couldn't predict it, fortune tellers couldn't foresee it, neither had pastors and priest received revelations about the event.
It was on the 15th of may 2056. At exactly 12:00pm, an object began to cover the sun, half of the world had thought it to be an eclipse or maybe another one of the world's wonders. The leading scientists had already made straight for their labs, some had even formed conglomerates to make findings, textbooks were ransacked, brains were stressed, magazines and journals were checked, but nothing seemed to hold the answer.
Was this the end of the world??? Very few people paid attention to this development. However, at 1:00pm that day, the sun was totally covered by the object. wait! the sun wasn't covered. No...! off course the sun was covered, but the rays from the sun were still extremely visisble.
This object was translucent, it was just a matter of time before one of the conglomerates of scientists came up with the idea of the object being a very toxic gas shaped like a planet. Was this theory entirely true?
Unfortunately, there was something about these rays.....!! they were not ordinarily rays, they were green. This was no eclipse, it was nothing close to what those scientists had imagined. These rays weren't hot, they literally had no feel to the skin, it just felt like total darkness. People were falling on the roads, accidents were happening, planes crashed, ships lost course. This was unbelievable, infact unimaginable, people were falling asleep!! This had never happened before. People don't just fall asleep because a ray touches them, but it had just happened.
This development had shocked the world. Over 96% of the world population had gone to see Esther, just because rays from an unknown object had touched them?? However not everyone had encountered the rays, these ones had already become millionaires in just an afternoon of sleep. They took the initiative to steal. It was like stealing from a world of limitless possibilities, they literally had everything they needed, all they needed to do was take.
With everything that took place, a week later the human race awoke from their slumber. Nearly 70% had awaken, while the rest were left to the cruel fate of nature, yet this was not the end. Everyone had woken up with a unique ability. These abilities where called spirit souls.
Spirit souls were like additions to the normal human physique. They were like talents possessed by individual characters. One's spirit soul could be determined when one got to the age of 10. It was the unlocking ceremony, if a child didn't go through this process at ten, the spirit soul will remain locked and cannot be unlocked. However, children got to die of overflowing energy if their spirit souls were not unlocked.
The case of overflowing energy was not new to the world. it was like a disease wiping out massive numbers every year due to the difficulty of survival.
The birth of the spirit soul hadn't just ended there, man had become a beast seeking for power. This sparked a war between nations of the world leading to mass destruction of land, property, and even technology. Gradually, the world that was beautiful coloured with nature had lost it glow. It looked like a desert, at this point it could be considered a waste land. It was now a land flowing with blood and bitterness.
Yet, man never lost hope, several world leaders came together to form colonies. In this colonies, races had to coexist with each other. Those who were affected by the rays were called mutants while their descendants were called pure breeds. However each spirit soul was usually accompanied with special abilities with respect to the environment and the situation one finds himself. also, the individual could get a spirit soul of self will but this was relatively rear it was as rear as a phoenix feather. Any child who possessed such spirit soul was considered a God amongst men. For instance if one was born during a time of war in a war zone, there is a great likelihood for the child's spirit soul to be a sword or a pair of daggers or an axe.
Bobby was one of the unlucky kids to miss their awakening ceremony. However, he had survived, which was a miracle. It was rear to see such strong willed children yet he had failed to experience the awakening. Bobby's parents were poor and abandoned him on the streets few weeks after his birth. It was a tragedy, he was considered a mistake by his parents. This wasn't the only problem, the colony bobby found himself was another issue of its own. It was the worst colony that existed.
A total of ten colonies formed throughout the continents of the world, and these colonies were ranked according to output productivity, army strength and economic growth and development. The colony bobby found himself was the Coastline Jury. This colony had its main source of income to be the sea. Since it was found along the coastline, it had to rely on sea resources.
However, this was also their major problem. The rays that had affected the earth, had not only affected man, but plant and animal likewise. Animals had increased in size and had become ferocious while plants had increased irritability, they could even communicate with each other. Although human expected changes, these changes were just too extreme. Animals could coordinate attacks against enemies, this was literally getting close to man's level of reasoning.
This was one of the problems that posed a threat to the colonies and prevented expansion of colonies and increase in colonies.
Colonies were also well guarded and armed to prevent attacks and also withstand attacks from ferocious beast.
Although the sea was the richest source of raw materials, the risk of extraction was just exceedingly high. This was also the reason Coastline Jury was the poorest. The sea contained many creatures, creatures that were capable of instilling fear just by the mer site of them. This was horrifying.
Since the city was the poorest and lacked adequate resources to go round, only the rich could live comfortably. The poor had to strive to survive. Dead bodies were not a rear site in the colony, at least every month 5-10 bodies are usually found, yet the death rate couldn't still beat the birth rate.
Bobby had been able to survive till now, nature had not totally abandoned him. He was one of the unlucky ones who hadn't unlocked their spirit soul but had yet survived. was nature playing games with him??? was it letting him live to suffer???
Bobby then vowed inwardly to honour his wife. He was ready to walk miles for his son, he was ready to face death even if that was the only way to honour his wife he was ready. " my son will not suffer my fate!". He said it out loud.