A World Turned Twisted: Fear is Forever!

CHAPTER ONE

For Brian and Reg Owens, two modestly young good-natured brothers who didn't recognize their neighborhood anymore. From what they could gather, based on their own observations from within the comfort and moderate safety of their parents' home, they helplessly stood watch and witnessed a harrowing series of escalating events unfurl outside, peeking out between the  openings of wooden slats of boarded-up windows.... windows that clearly compromised a good portion of the house.

The brother's had one such vantage point from one of the boarded-up windows which offered them a particular view that presented a familiar sight and yet, the view of the neighborhood street appeared as anything but. What they'd seen, with their very own eyes, came to be the complete and utter obliteration of their once peaceful and happy idllyic neighborhood, watching as it were systematically tore apart limb from limb and destroyed from the inside-out!

The neighborhood streets were filled with all sorts of debri, there were dozens of wrecked cars and deserted trucks, some of which had been set ablaze and were still on fire, still burning fiercely with the vehicles leaving plumes of dark smoke billowing in the already-spoiled and hazy air.

There'd be piles upon odorous piles of rotting trash scattered and strewn about on many of the streets, lawns and sidewalks of the neighborhood and with so much garbage lying around, factored in with the high amount of radiation that was already present in the air came coupled with a horrid stench that also languished within the town's air and all of the surrounding neighborhoods which smelled horribly tainted and foul!

The issue with all the town's trash and foul-smelling rubbish littered everywhere would only continue to worsen as time passed on. The blatant neglect however would soon come at a grave cost when the town slowly begun to suffer a strange period of decline, which entailed entering a process of some sort of 'reverse transformation'?

The world had turned itself upside down, everything seemed unreal. How could this be? The neighborhood outside their windows felt completely foreign to them, it was now a very strange and dangerous place for anyone who hadn't gone crazy or succumbed to madness. Those that were still good people to their core, with their morals intact and were still trying to survive, if only to search for answers and maybe, just maybe find some way to reverse the world's bad fortunes.

Brian and Reg were twin brothers that were still juggling the complicated trials and challenges of their tenuously young-adult years. Coming-of-age at a time when the world's populations collectively began their 'Fall From Grace'. Everything had changed in an instance when the "Vendetta" made itself known to the world. Now the brothers had to balance their own growing insecurities in their ability to sufficiently adapt and survive within this lawless and horrific landscape, all while simultaneously learning to navigate the tumultuous road to their maturity. The two brothers relied on each other for their survival, they'd experience several setbacks along their 'trial-n-error' journey to adulthood.

Both Brian and Reg would come to learn that together would be the only way they stood a chance. The two of them understood that they were barely able to keep their heads above water on a day-to-day basis as a pair and probably wouldn't stand a chance alone, if they wound up going their separate ways, they knew almost for certain that they'd be as good as dead if they journeyed outside alone. Both Brian and Reg were becoming aware of this fact and brothers being brothers, they blamed each other for their constant inadequacies when it concerned their adaptability to survive anytime they took the risk and ventured outside.

A couple of months had come and gone with the two of them nestled safely inside their house, they'd made little to almost no progress when it concerned certain accomplishments both had planned for and were still unsuccessful. It reached a boiling point of tireless deliberation between the two brothers where they finally took desicive action and mustered the courage to set foot and find themselves outside and no longer in the realm of their comfort zone, that comfort being within the walls and relative safety of their parents' home. The moment held some importance as this would be one of only a few times the brothers had actually walked outside since that dreadful day when they witnessed the death of their father.