Derrick woke up early as usual, his work always took priority. He was twenty five years old, fresh out of campus and he was already wishing he would go back and just party all day; adult life was not as simple as his parents told him. After putting on his business suit and having breakfast, toast and bitter coffee, he got into his company's car.
"I hope traffic will be slow today," he told himself as he drove out of his estate and into the freeway. Even at 6:00am, traffic as as thick as ever so he just sighed with disappointment. In order to not get bored, he decided to watch a movie using the car's dashboard screen.
Two hours passed and Derrick was starting to get worried. His boss was a hard ass so he was sure he would get chewed on even if he tried to explain his tardiness. He was deciding whether or not to take a shortcut when the earth started rumbling.
He got hold of his wheel in fear as the rumbling became even more intense. A truck in front of him fell due to the inertia of the shaking fluids in its load while the air was filled with screams of fright and pain. Derrick did not dare to let go of his steering wheel as if it was his lifeline, looking around with fear. The bridge he would cross to head downtown suddenly collapsed, sending vehicles and people to the cold waters of the river below. After what seemed like hours, the shaking stopped and he sighed in relief. Hesitantly, he opened the door of his car and shakily got out. The rumbling had shook him so much his balance had become messy for a while.
Looking around, all he could see was destruction! Some stupid people had thought driving away would be wise and ended up losing their lives in accidents. Some buildings in the city were demolished, the bridges were all destroyed and it seemed like the river banks would collapse soon and it would flood upon the city. That was bad because the Mayor had not yet captured the alligators living in there that some jokers had dropped in as a YouTube prank!
"What's that?" someone suddenly asked out loud, pointing to the horizon. Derrick looked at where he was pointing at and his eyes widened in shock. A bright light was creeping towards them, swallowing anything it touched. It was so bright nobody could see what happened to the things it touched.
Derrick quickly got back into his car, revived the engine and did a U-turn right into the other lane. He drove off towards his house, looking at the light as it made its way towards him, like a predator playing with prey. He thought if he would make it inside a building, it would be swallowed up and destroyed in his stead.
Without traffic in his way, he was actually das enough to outrun the light to his house. Without even switching off the engine, he ran out of his car and got into his house, locked the door behind him, went into the basement, locked the door too, and hid under a desk. Huffing and puffing, he waited for the house to disappear before deciding to move, but to his horror, he saw a light go through the house walls and right through him before he saw darkness!
Throughout the world, the same event happened; earthquakes followed by the moving bright light that encompassed everything and everyone! For three whole days, everything was silent! There was no wind, no waves, no tremors, nothing, like Earth was holding its breath in anticipation of what to come.
Every living organism was changing whether for the better or for the worse. Plants were evolving to become more powerful while animals were evolving to maintain their lives or lose it. After three days, the evolution stopped and the first to wake up were the dead. They were the animals that could not finish their evolution safely and thus became the Undead. They attacked the still unconscious evolving animals in order to feed and in turn finish their new evolution. The purpose of Evolution has always and will always be to make the organism become stronger and adopt to new environment. This time, the Undead had come a few minutes victorious in their first fight with the living and caused the population to decrease by 63%! However, the plants also needed energy and thus, the Undead became their source, somehow bringing balance in an orthodox method. When the living survivors finally opened his their eyes in their safe places, they immediately knew things would be different from now on. Why?
They could feel the power inside of them and instinctively knew how to use them. It was not that they could use them at the get go but rather knew what they were. Second, all across the surface of Earth, plant life had spread like crazy!