Chapter 1: Prologue: A Dark World (1/2)

Chapter 1: Prologue: A Dark World

It happened right at the start of the year 2001

Right on dot with the clock strikingnot just a new year, but a new century and a new athered across the world to celebrate e

It was a tis

And a ti, even now, nobody really kno it happened or what it was, but so as dra far, far less personal At least, if it was aliens, then huether Maybe they could have brought their scattered pieces, all their different ideals and borders and peoples, together to et they could see and hate together properly

But whatever happened on this new year, well, there was no rhyme or reason for it

It was just pure chance Pure chaos

The incident known as the Altering

A solar flare, maybe Still a topic of debate even now, a hundred years later Some scientists postulated that it was the leftover eone supernova

Whatever it was, it washed over the world, filling the skies with auroras of countless colors that felt so horribly alien that so them into wide-eyed comas that they never awoke from

Almost forty million people fell into this eternal sleep and never woke up frolobal sches, it was just over half a percent of the world's population

Those, arguably, were the lucky h the chaos that ca patterns and seely impossible colors lit up the sky, electronics failed all across the planet Energy grids grew faulty Vehicles went haywire

Technology, the defining crown that hu, slipped off its head and broke its owner's toe

But that was not it Not even the least of it

Technology recovered back to nor had left behind a farthis reminder deep into their bodies

Individuals all across the world began to develop powers

Powers that corresponded with spontaneously rowths in their bodies

For some, these powers affected theertips Or maybe they could make a pebble float with their minds

For others, it ca their bodies intotheir minds unstable

For further others, it ive the rather on the nose wording, but one could even say they became superhuman