Years END

i.

-22 YEARS PRIOR: 2020-

"Sir! It's the moon! Something's happening to the moon!" A man, dressed in a lab coat ran over to a middle-aged man with the thickest specs known to mankind with stress already etched into his forehead. Placing a small tablet on his desk in front of his superior was in a mode of panic.

"What the?" The older man spoke with a high pitch of confusion. A scanner was in front of him with readings of the moon completely off the charts and absolutely abnormal. They were sporadic, chaotic and terrifying. His shot out of his chair, him and his subordinate running to an observation room where they would watch live video footage of the room from a satellite they sent out years ago.

Rushing into the room, they were met with a panicked staff. Rows of computers were where a staff of 10 analysis's sat, drumming away at their computers and pulling up charts and readings one after another. The screen on the main wall, large and showing different angles of the moon. Something was definitely wrong.

The older man ran to a woman trying to sort through papers and information while bouncing back and forth to her computer.

"What's happening?!" She turned her confused, shocked face to the man.

"We're not sure, Sir!" Then, all was still when someone called for them all to look at the TV screen. The moon began to split open.

Crevices deepened, craters opened, rock shook and shifted and soon something was springing from the rock itself. From inside the moon, burst roots. Roots upon roots, looking to be as thick as house and bending and moving at unbelievable ways. Pulling and forcing their way through the surface of the moon, rock and surface were shattered and sent propelling towards the earth like meteors.

Alarms throughout the facility began to blare with sudden, dangerous meteor impact imminent. The room flooded back into a panic as people ran back and forth. Yelling and trying to wrap their head around anything they could so they could at least begin to offer some explanation or even start some hypothesis on what the hell was going on.

The moon was breaking apart right in front of a young man's eyes. He just stood among the chaos, not moving and staring with wide eyes.

Watching as the moon was soon encircled with roots, somehow green as it held the moon in a cage. All while a single, indescribable tree sat at the very top of the space rock.

That tree- the Moon Tree- was the beginning of a very long END.

-Present Time: 2042-

"Earth's Near Doom. END as the government dubbed it. 22 years ago a strange phenomenon occurred on the surface of the moon causing roots to suddenly begin to grow and encircle the moon's surface and soon a forest stemmed from the center. The Luna Lingo- most commonly called The Moon Tree- is the center of the forest of the moon." Namjoon read to himself as he shut himself in his bunker nearly hours ago, hiding from his aunt who was more insufferable than the air outside.

The destruction of the moon 18 years ago was massive worldwide devastation. Over half the population worldwide perished as the tides changed and became violent and demanding. Storms sprung and ripped nations apart and to add on to the abnormality, the roots of the moon began to inch towards the Earth.

Plunging straight through the atmosphere as fiery vines like vicious snakes, they soon latched themselves into the Asian continents. These roots were called Connectors. Anywhere a Connector was located was almost immediately sectioned off from the rest of the world like a new Area 51 as the governments of the world kept it a completely off-limits area. There were a total of 13 Connectors on the Earth's surface from the moon.