Genesis: an origin, creation, or beginning.
(Morning of January 19th, 1993)
Today was supposed to be a normal day for William King. He would sneak out of the house early, trying not to wake up his girlfriend Meridan, and head out to meet up with his comrades. They would hide out in an old train station, under the city and away from government trackers.
They had power, cable, food and a barely functional landline. Sitting around a rectangular table William bought for $15, they would discuss anarchy and overthrowing the government. The usual. Rent was only affordable if they all pooled extra money together. William King was only 17. There wasn’t much else that he could really do than that. He wouldn’t be able to afford his apartment and his base. He wouldn’t be able to feed his girlfriend, which would be disappointing.
After World War II and the win of Adolf Hitler, many humans were crushed under his boots. But humans were found to not be alone in the universe. There were beings that hid in realms under the Earth’s crust. Beings that did not believe that the Earth was being taken care of. Beings that did not agree with the tyranny of Adolf Hitler.
Hitler was executed April 30th, 1945 by the hands of Russian dignitaries and their allies: the first found Vampires. They were humans that were genetically mutated to not need nourishment and lived in the Antarctic, a place without sun and easily prey. They were taught to pass on their genes to one another, often breeding with their own brethren. They complexities dimmed. They grew sick. They began to feed on one another until that became the only thing they craved. They became cold blooded cannibals.
A virus developed between them and nearly wiped them out. If they could not feed, they could not live. Few survived and travelled north towards the equator, passing on their hunger for blood to hundreds of more men. It was solely passed through blood to blood contact. The vampires would feed, then would feed their victim. Colonies formed and appeared around the world.
Unlike fairy tales, vampires could walk in broad sunlight. They need not burn. They could fight urges. They morphed to fit present civilization. They signed treaties and declared peace.
The treaty of 1950 laid down a truce between humans and the vampires. All humans had to do was supply blood and social security. So, in trade for help with medicine, the vampires would be given the blood that would normally be generated from blood drives. After years of surveying, the humans found an average amount to give out monthly so that they’d never run out of blood to give their comrade.
Around 1975, many other races had been found and discovered on Earth. Lycanthropy grew more popular after its first sight. It was not seen as a disease or as a disadvantage to humans. It was a neutral mutation in its truest form. Every second moon, they would completely lose control of their morals and body, turning into a wolfman.
The worst to appear, first discovered by a 9 year old William King, was the goblin colony. Beings born from underneath the Earth’s crust, created by an otherworldly magic or some other mumbo-jumbo like that. Don’t eat. Don’t sleep. They don’t enjoy eating very much (unless it’s your colon) and don’t die. When one is killed, another is born from the dust. They’re ugly, stubby and sluggish.
Faeries were the most confusing. No one particularly knew when, why or how they came to Earth, but once they arrived respect was required. They are practically immortal. They hold the strength of ten thousand men. And above all, they are painstakingly beautiful and could lead you to your deaths if you wronged them. Usually only seen as troublemakers and evil, they are shown to be very kind sometimes. Don’t mess up the unseelie with the seelie ever. Always ask a faerie which court they belong to. Their biggest fault is that they can never lie, but they can deceive. They long for love and the ownership of a person. They want to share their “warmth”. They want someone to belong to them.
