A World In Chaos

Chapter One: Five long ones

Jay Walkman stood at the edge of the cliff, his silhouette a stark contrast against the crimson and grey-streaked sky that stretched like a never-ending canvas above the deserted city. The crumbling buildings below bore the scars of an event lost in the dim echoes of time. The hustle and bustle that once filled the streets had been replaced by an eerie silence, broken only by the distant caw of a lone crow. Jay's hollow eyes scanned the horizon, a silent witness to the world frozen in time after the catastrophic event known as the great axis death.

Five years had slipped through Jay's fingers like grains of sand since that fateful day when the earth had ground to a shuddering halt. The repercussions had been swift and brutal, as if nature itself had recoiled at the violation. The skies had darkened, once-vibrant ecosystems withered, and whispers of a new, insidious threat lingered in the stagnant air. AWIC 217, a deadly virus carried by relentless swarms of mutated mosquitoes, now prowled the decaying streets, extinguishing any flickers of hope that dared to defy the encroaching shadows.

Jay's search for his missing brother, Eli, had become his solitary purpose in the bleak landscape of the new world. His every step was a pilgrimage of survival, each heartbeat a reminder of the family he had sworn to protect. Desperation clung to him like a second skin, driving him forward through the maze of twisted alleyways and derelict buildings in a relentless quest to find a sliver of light in the suffocating darkness.

As Jay's solitary odyssey reached a critical juncture, a glimmer of hope beckoned from the shadows in the most unexpected form. High up on a crumbling overpass, a man.. armed with a makeshift crossbow wearing a sleeveless shirt and black dirt crested jeans. As they lock eyes the faint rattling of a near by busted rusty car grew louder as a deadhead drug it's rotted fungi riddled corpse from underneath the undercarriage. Jay pulls out his axe and prepares to fight as he see's the man pick up and haul ass. He screams "HEY WAIT". No reply as the man runs off into the distance.

Feeling distraught and about to collapse he finds a nearby building to settle in for the night. Before entering he knocks on the cracked and brittle door frame and then... Silence.. not a fucking sound.. Jay made his way inside and looked around. Just one room with a couple of items. Most notably a record player from before his grandparents time.. grandparents.. something long gone in this world.. and a crusty couch but, a couch none the less.

He settles in and prepares to sleep the night away when he hears a knock, he freezes... panic kicks in as he slowly stands and makes his way towards the door. "Who's there"? He calls out with a stern and deep almost husky voice even he hardly recognizes.. silence.. "I SAID WHO THE FUCK IS IT"?! He yells even louder and.. again nothing. He makes his way to the door preparing for the worst when he pulls the door open wide and... Nothing.. but a basket. A basket which wasn't there when he entered. He slowly approaches and opens the container. Peeking inside he spots an apple, a bottle of water, and a book. Looking around he stands there silently, seeing no one not even a deadhead he turns and walks inside, slamming the door and leaving the basket on the cold cracked cement.

Lying on the couch he starts thinking.. "Maybe Eli is dead". "Maybe I'm wasting my time, maybe the hope I have, however little there may be is for not and.. maybe it's just time to give up". Falling asleep he listens, gunshots in the distance.. deadheads howling in the night... Buildings collapsing around him.. He falls asleep peacefully accepting the truth.. He gives up.

A couple blocks away stands an old apartment. Windows boarded with the bridge leading to the entrance extremely dangerous to cross. Inside there is a man and a woman. Their names are Lexus and Jason.
Meeting not long after the great axis death the two formed a bond and eventually fell in love.