Earth was once a fully populated planet filled with joy, yearning, and ambition. People mostly wanting the best for their family and friends. They would do anything for each other, whether it be giving money, a place to stay, or even a shoulder to cry on.
Now however the world is filled with death, sorrow, and betrayal. Families ripped apart both figuratively and literally. Friends throwing each other in the face of danger just so they can have another day of peace in the world.
A couple a months ago, eerie red portals opened up though out the world. They started off as small as the end of a pen, so naturally nobody noticed them. Eventually though they grew to the size of an egg and with the new size people began to become intrigued. When they tried touching the portal they would press upon an invisible barrier that would not allow them to get near. As people throughout the world tried to get their curiosity out of their systems, the portals grew to the size of a small house.
As the portals stabilized, they no longer looked as a swirling mess of blood, in fact they lost their color completely almost turning invisible to the naked eye, but if you focused hard enough you could see a type of distortion of the air.
The portals then completely stabilized and that's when the horror appeared. Zombies, undead, things of nightmares began to pour out of the portals ripping and eating everything in their vicinity.
Monsters that looked like skeletons and zombies with ripped flesh hanging from their frames started to come out in waves.
They stormed major cities, wiping out everybody that couldn't get away fast enough. The weird thing is that portals didn't open up in country sides, only heavily populated cities. So, for the most part, if you escaped the cities you would be relatively safe.
That was until humanity delved back into their past barbaric selves.
With supplies of food and water becoming scarce, due to factories and jobs no longer becoming a priority, people began to murder and steal for their own survival. Nobody would bat an eye anymore if they saw fights over supplies. They became so desensitized by the monsters ripping everybody apart and eating them that if a human did it to somebody else, it wouldn't be such a huge shock anymore.
Of course, humanity wouldn't take this lying down. The world's militaries tried to fight back only to find that their weapons wouldn't work on the monsters. Guns, bombs, and anything else weren't able to kill them.
Monsters, both human and portal creatures weren't the only things to be scared of anymore either. A month after this happened, Earth creatures started to mutate, they would grow stronger, bigger, more terrifying. Even creatures down to the size of ants were now about the size of an average person's shoe. Rabbits the size of a medium breed dog.
All of Earths creatures seemed to keep their respective appetites, but if you missed the kill while hunting, you had better run.
Humanity was not forgotten by mother Earth though. Through all of the bad and worse that has occurred since the beginning of the end, a few military soldiers, hunters, and desperate people looking for food and shelter came upon a discovery.
As long as you kill one of these mutated creatures you are now able to further improve yourself.
These creatures seemed to drop, what the world now calls, spirit modules. They are little balls of light that, if you don't pick up in exactly 30 seconds, would dissapear.
If, however, you were lucky enough to pick one up, they would disappear in between the brows of your head and directly assimilate into your sea of consciousness.
These spirit modules would give miraculous abilities from super strength, hardened skin, speed, pretty much anything you can think of, even weapons. Upon further experiments, these spirit modules were the only things able to kill the portal monsters.
The humans were given a chance to survive and that's all they needed to take the fight back to the monsters that invaded their planet....
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After reading a very crudely written piece of paper that is supposed to be a newspaper, Abel tosses it away in the corner of his little 10x10 room he is currently lying down in.
"I really need to take a bath" He sighs to himself after smelling the clothes he's currently wearing.
Getting up to walk to the bathroom, he begins to ponder about his current situation. "I just turned 18, I want to get out and fight to help this community, but I have absolutely no skills at all"
Walking down the corridor towards the bathroom, he silently starts crying as he starts to remember how he became alone in this large cruel world.
His dad was once a soldier in the Army and once the portals stabilized and released monsters, he was ordered to go into the big city of Chicago and fight. He never made it back home and all that was left was his mother and himself.
His mother thought it was a good idea to travel further south in the state of Illinois, since it was mostly farmers fields and really small towns. It was a good idea until the animals started mutating. Traveling along the road, they ran out of gas in their small Volkswagen car, and had to travel by foot.
Thanks to a couple of good Samaritans, they discovered that there was a small community made of a couple small towns' population. During the travel they came across a mutated dog that was the size of small horse. The dog was so unrecognizable, that it just looked like a ball of matted fur with big snarling teeth.
Seeing the hunger and desperation in the dogs eyes, his mother knew what she had to do. She turned around and smiled at Abel only to say, "Go to the community and seek shelter. I love you and I always will. I hope you can forgive me."
Confused by the loving tone and the words she had used, he was just about to say something when she turned around and started running in the opposite direction of where they were traveling.
He didn't see her die, but he heard the gut wrenching screams. He was so startled and scared by what happened all he could do was piss his pants and stare into the direction he heard the screams, completely forgetting that he was in danger and that he could die at anytime.
Luckily for him, he wasn't the only one that heard the screams. A tall man about 6'6 suddenly appeared as if he were a ghost and grabbed Abel by the shoulders looking at him before saying, "Boy I don't know who you are or why you're here, but you need to run."
Pointing behind Abel the man seriously and urgently says, "Run that way for about a mile, there is a community there that will take care of you. At the gates tell them Roger sent you. They will let you in and give you food and a bed." Before Abel could say anything the tall man named Roger ran towards the way his mother ran.
It hasn't even been a month since he arrived at the community named Edgeville, but with everything that he lost he felt like he was at home. Everybody was decently nice and he even made a few good friends, but the loneliness and darkness in his heart has never fully went away.