Once upon a time in the not so distant past, numerous tales about vampires, werewolves, witches, goblins, demons, gods, and many more magical creatures were circulated round the globe unceasingly by humans.
Many believed these creatures existed, lurking in the shadows, existing independently from mankind. While, many more jeered at the very thought of it and claimed it all to be folklore. Nothing more than a figment of mankind's wild imaginations.
For centuries past, the world had maintained an abstruse opinion about the existence of these creatures. Unconfirmed of their existences. That was.....
Until that faithful day!
"Bang"
15th of March 251 of the "interplanetary" calendar.
'screeeech'
Multiple sounds of alarms rang out unceasingly, as the entire world was sent in a turmoil.
Like every other day, this day started out great. Actually, it was sunny, with a bright warm, clear and lovely weather.
The gardens were flourishing, birds were chirping happily on tree tops, and sounds of playful laughter could be heard from kids playing heartily in the playgrounds.
Suddenly.....
The winds rose and the lovely weather of spring hanging over everyone's head rapidly darkened. The temperature dropped rapidly and multiple gales formed over the horizons sweeping over the heavens and earth.
Rumble...
Intense rumbling sounds rang out as the Earth shook intensely. Buildings crashed onto another, as unending wails alongside cries rang out.
The whole world seemed to shudder fiercely as many things began to move from their places. Quickly the Earth seemed to have travelled over a great amount of distance.
After about ten seconds later everything seemed to return to normal.
The gales stopped blowing. The Earth stopped shaking and the skies cleared up. Everything seemed to regain it's previous calm.
Except, the skies looked different from normal. There wasn't a single cloud visible up there and instead of a clear blue color, there was a blood red color stretching far into the horizon, looking extremely ominous and foreboding.
The entire world was in a state of panic. Government rescue teams had quickly organised themselves in various countries, and spread out into various cities around the world, tending to the injured and accounting for the dead.
In just half an hour, the death toll had risen to an unprecedented high of over millions dead in various countries around the globe and still rapidly increasing in numbers.
Just as humanity thought the situation couldn't get more worse, multiple sounds of cries and panic rang out in various cities once again.
Outside, the world once knew to humans had changed completely. People were running everywhere, screaming and begging for help as they tried with all their might to get away from other humans. However the most scariest thing was that there were many people attacking and killing other people as though they were beasts that had lost all sense of reasonings.
"Help"
A young couple in love held onto one another as they quickly fled the scene, trying to get away from one of those strange people. The desperation on the couple's face was visible to the world but the way they clung to each other's hand seemed to be worth mentioning.
Unfortunately, in an oversight the young lady tripped over a stone and fell to the ground.
"ugh... I think I broke my ankle" the lady groaned as she struggled to stand up. unfortunately, the sprain to her ankle seemed to be much more severe than she estimated as she immediately fell back to the ground.
The lady looked at her boyfriend and hurriedly called for help in an urgent voice; "Shan Li, help me! we have to escape quickly! "
However, her boyfriend didn't even look at her as he continued running away, leaving his partner behind as though he was abandoning a bag of scraps.
Quickly, one of those strange people, with it's bloody mouth, caught the lady who had fallen and fiercely bit one of her arms, making her cry out in pain.
"Save me" the young lady yelled painfully as she tried to free herself. Her expression was really pitiful.
Unfortunately, none of the surrounding running people could be bothered with here as they were too preoccupied trying to escape the strange people and save their own lives. Soon her body stopped moving.
However, few minutes later, the young lady stood up and began clawing wildly at her hair and skin before chasing in the direction of the noise.
Similar scenes were occurring in every city over the globe as people abandoned their loved ones for a false sense of safety, fleeing blindly in search of a strand of hope for survival.
Quickly the numbers of these strange humans that started attacking other humans seemed to have grown to a frightening amount as countless cities were flooded by mindless humans that would attack any organism that radiated an aura of a living being.
The Survivors ended up calling them the Crawlers.
Due to the fast rate at which more humans were being turned to crawlers, their numbers kept on growing to inconceivable heights.
But the crawlers were not the only issue at hand that humans had to worry about.
Shortly after the apocalyptic scene of crawlers chasing and infecting other humans played out, wild beasts of gigantic sizes rushed out of various forests and began attacking each other as though they had gone mad, with no regard for their lives. Whatever laid in their paths were reduced to dusts as chaos rammed on unchecked in various cities across the world.
While the entire world had been sent to turmoil in an instant with every human struggling bitterly to survive, strange blue messages had appeared silently in every single lifeforms existing on planet earth retina.
[The planet Earth has arrived on the Evolution pathway. Your status screen has been provided and can be viewed whenever you wish. The first time the screen will open as a trial]
...
One month before the apocalypse
"bang!" "screesch"
a shrill sound of brakes applied to the maximum sounded out as a car was seen skidding along the road. Narrowly, the end of the car avoided hitting a youth cycling on a bike by the edge of the road, stopping just a few inches from his face.
"Ugh..."
Nevertheless, due to shock and panic from having almost died the lanky looking youth fainted on the spot.
.....
This inconsequential blackout seemingly lasted an over an entire month before the entire world was sent into the depths of hell