From Ashes

Prologue

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It ended as most things do in our history: with violence and bloodshed. But the war that followed was not one between humans. If only it had been that simple. Having been in control of the food chain for so long, humans felt rather intimidated when intelligent species other than their own came into the light. When vampires and were-shifters, dwarves and the fae, phoenix's and other such creatures originally thought to be the stuff of legend revealed themselves, no longer content with hiding in the shadows, well, let's just say human's reacted as we always do when we feel threatened: with fear and aggression.

No one quite knew who made the first move, whether it was a premeditated plan or an act of simple self-defense but that did not matter in the long run. All that mattered was that an Elder vampire was left with a stake in her chest and her blood all over the hands of a human male. A few weeks later, a few humans walking home from work were found the next morning with their throats torn out. A few weeks after that a vampire den was razed to ash. Acts of violence continued to pop up all over the globe until one night when it became too much for the leaders of the world to ignore any longer.

The night had started out peaceful, a small coast town sleeping underneath the stars, unknowing that their fate had been sealed as red eyes gleamed in the dark of the forest. Between one cricket chirp and the next, the night was suddenly alive with the sound of screams, dark shapes darting between buildings. From each house they visited came the echos of wails, a noise of pure agony that was swiftly silenced, a pool of red quickly spreading across the floor as bodies thumped to the floor. By the time the sun peeked out over the mountains, all was silent. An entire town decimated just like that; innocent lives taken all at the cost of revenge. A call to arms quickly followed this heinous act and countries once considered to be enemies now banded together against this new foe that threatened their way of life. Every able-bodied individual was called into action, whether they wanted to serve or not.

The violence now escalated to a world-wide level, the carnage that followed was too much to describe. Homes were burned to ash, women and children slaughtered in their beds without mercy. Up to this point, the other species groups had tried to stay out of the fighting, but when a wolf den was targeted instead of a vampire den, the werewolves put aside their prejudice against the vampires and swiftly joined the violence. Now a three-way war, there was nowhere on the streets that was safe. When the fighting started turning in the supernatural groups favor the humans turned to desperate measures, because how could humanity fight against not one, but two other-wordly species? Frantic to turn the tide in their favor, the humans turned to science to find a solution. A top secret group was assembled to find a chemical solution to their problem, and find a solution they did. Now a couple of years into the fighting, humanity was now prepared to release its ultimate weapon.

Missiles containing a deadly virus were launched towards enemy camps, a virus that was created to target the supernatural genes in their enemy and destroy those cells. However, because of the limited time, the human government was unable to perform trial testing before releasing said missiles, so they were very unsure of how this virus was going to react when introduced to a living host. The fallout from this one act was something no one saw coming until it was too late.

Instead of targeting the supernatural DNA, the virus destroyed the prefrontal cortex in any living host it came across, be it human or supernatural. Anyone infected with the virus lost their ability to control their impulses and reasoning, leaving behind living husks that hunted down anything that moved. In the aftermath that followed, countries scrambled to discover just what went wrong and in their hesitation came their downfall. Cities fell and countless died. Once considered enemies, now the different groups were forced to coexist in a dying world.