Anomalies

Chapter 1: Amnesia

Prologue :

It's the year 546 PB, a slight breeze with a scent rust is felt in the air, almost no light reaches the ruins that were once called apartements. The only spark of guidance that can be found here comes from flickering lights of the projectors and screens. Dust covers the place and no sign of life can be found with an unattentive eye. Even so, this place is the refuge for a specific group of creatures.

They look, sound, feel human but they were never considered the same by humanity. They are called anomalies by humans because humans think that their existence is a flaw of nature. These creatures have exactly the same fitures as humans but they have also the special trait to manipulate elements to their liking in a surnatural way. Humans were afraid that some beings were able to wield such power, but a tense form of peace was still maintained between the two species for centuries. 

Until one day, in the year 535 PB, during a political reunion between anomalies and humans in the grand capital that was supposed to reinforce peace, one of the leader anomalies has gone mad and destroyed the chambers, killing every person inside with his power before giving death to himself. This tragedy has been spoken all around the world, causing anger and fear.

During the year, more and more anomalies were seen before causing destruction, killing people in the process. But the event of 535 has driven humanity into a point of no return.

In 536 PB, the war now named: "The Last War" occured and has opposed humanity agaisnt anomalies. People still remeber it as the most bloodshed war the world has ever known, counting millions of deaths on the human camp and only thousands on the anomalies's. The war didn't last long, only one year, but that year was enough to cause the biggest destructions causes by humanity. Even though humans had suffered many more loses, they numbered in the millions, while anomalies numbered only in the thousands. So in the end, they were victorius, even if it didn't feel like it.

Since then, humanity had seen a lot of progress in science and technologies which meant that they were able to control the remaining anomalies a lot easier and even instill fear on them. The most advanced group nowadays already existed before the war, but now changed the name to SARCO, The Special Anomaly Research and Control Organisation. This group alone was able to contain most of the anomalies in the world. Nevertheless, some anomalies were able to escape or hide from the humans, most of them hid in what is called the "underground ruins". Hiding in the shadows, fearing the encounter of humans, the anomalies try to survive in a world where they are not dominant anymore. In that underground city, a young man wakes up in the ruins, confused, lost, but not scared.

Chapter 1 :

In a dark, dusty room, the walls are dry and cracked, the floor tiles are shattered, small roots and grass seem to be growing from the walls. Some old furniture is lying around in a panicked desorder, a now calmed chaos seem to be present in the room. Through a broken door, a gust of wind flies through the air and encounters the hair of man, a young man sitting unconsious agaisnt the wall. The wind seem to be flowing through his hair, then his ears, then his eyes.

Slowly, he opens one of his eyes, it is too dark to see anything, he takes some time to adapt to the obscurity of the room. He then starts to move carefully, first by twitching his fingers, then his feet, then his legs, he now sees the room fully, he tries to stand up but then puts his hands to his forehead, feeling an enormous headache. He groans but is still able to stand up with effort, he feels heavy, like he was unconsious for a long time. The man looks around now adapted to the darkness, multiple desks and screens are seen broken and covered in dust, files are thrown everywhere on the floor, molded and desordonned in the drawers. It is practicaly impossible to depict what most of them say due to erosion and humidity but they seem to be reports and notes of some research.