The world once fell, The Apocrypha War, a war so long and devastating it left nothing but a broken world, now run by organised crime, corporate conglomerates, highly corrupt and authoritative governments and superhuman weapons, everyone must survive in a world dominated by the strong and the wealthy for the gods have abandoned them.
Helpless, you sit there helpless, hunched over, bleeding and broken, civilisation fell just as you have done, corporatisation, corruption and fear brought the world to its knees, unrecognisable, broken, bloody and crippled as the powerful few stand there. Laughing as blow after blow lands, your friend lays behind them in an even worse state, beaten and stripped for all their worth as the animals masquerading as humans, as peers staring down at you ask, "Why didn't you listen, why didn't you do as we said, you are the gravel used to pave our streets, you have no worth, you know no one. We're Nostro's regulars, we're immortal you useless whore." They berate and beat you, degrading your humanity as if you're merely an object, less than human, and to be used as seen fit.Â
"Look at you" the middle boy says as he bends down and lifts your bloody, swollen head. He looks you in the eyes, Heartless and filled with arrogance "I'm bored of this" he says as he drops you back onto the stained, litter filled concrete of the school yard. As you lie there you feel the blood pooling in your mouth, the warm metallic taste building as you can only watch through blurred vision as the assailants start to walk away, laughing and talking as if they hadn't just committed an act of violence befitting of the harshest sentencing. As your consciousness fades you can only mutter a few words, "Pl.. Please helâŠ" "Shut the fuck up, gravel shouldn't speak" one of the boys says as he takes a single step, pivots, and with all his might, kicks you in the ribs, the force is so great that your ribs shatter. In shock you pass out instantly unable to process as you skip across the yard into a wall.
Hollow, that's all that could be heard, a hollow thud as a body was flung across the yard into a wall, the force of the kick strong enough to leave an indent as brick and mortar fell shattered with the body. No passer by dared help the two students as they were merely students themselves, not even the adults would react out of fear that they themselves would face retaliation from the demi human students. Candidates for a human weapons program let alone demi humans back by a cartel. Nobody would step in to help, nobody should.
"Oh" a male student walked up to the mangled body, "Help, why ask for it in this world?" he asked as he knelt before it. "the fuck you doing leon?" the attacker asked. "What am I doing?" Leon reached for a packet of cigarettes in his blazer pocket. "I don't know what I'm doing these days, what about you Lester?" Leon asked as he slowly began to rise, lighting the cigarette. "We're conducting some light pest control." Is that what you call this Arthur? Leon asked, looking past the boy towards the group's leader, the one that beat and shamed the student prior. "Could it be anything else, she's not even worth whoring out in Nostro's brothels, " Shrugging his shoulders he responded in arrogance.Â
The weather was already dark and miserable, as if on the precipice of unleashing a torrent of rain and wind, became silent, no wind, no birds, not even then rat infested buildings made a noise as all the onlookers knew one more was to be added to the casualty count, one more victim of Arthur's brutality, merely a statistic of the Nostro Cartels prodigious and well kept demi humans, each with the strength to cleave a main battle tank in two, with the durability to wither and artillery storm, each treated to the best luxuries. Four individuals of that calibre against one student, so steeped in poverty that his shoes were worn flat, his uniform creased and tattered.
"Yeah" Leon said as he drew from the cigarette "go fuck yourself Arthur." Arthur's eyes widened, an evil grin spread across his face like a contagion as murder flashed across his mind "I'll see you in hell" Arthur exclaimed in a loud calm sinister tone. Lester started to move towards Leon, the other two started to transform and build up power. Time began to slow, as a single rain droplet fell towards the ground, passing by Leon's face, he exhaled. Everything moving in slow motion, he flicked his cigarette, "sure" he muttered under his breath.
A bright flash as lightning arced down towards the school yard, weaving its tendrils through the air at light speed, as instantaneously as it was perceived by the onlookers soon drowned by the crashing roar of thunder reverberating through every bone, every nerve. Nobody was left in the yard, no victims, no demi human attackers. As chilling as the thunder and as sobering as the attack, the yard was filled with blood and the now mangled corpses of the deceased demi human, lifeless and unrecognisable, the smell of burned flesh and metallic blood permeated the air against the wet petrichor smell of rain, the crowd could only look out in horror at the piles of meat and shattered bone their tyrant peers had become.