Jacks And Jokers

Before.

Our world used to be similar to yours. Before the separation, before the fallout, before the apocalyptic world that I now live in. How about this, I'll start from the beginning of what is relevant? Just, far enough to give you a good picture.

It all really started close to the end of the year 2019. Someone in China was eating a bat. Not really knowing what they were doing, the person enjoyed their meal. I can't really blame them, they were probably hungry. A few days later they died of the flu.

Strange thing was, it started to spread. It was flu season so everyone remained ignorant of a new disease spreading. Some avoided it, though not many. In a normal checkup, a patient was getting cough syrup when they showed some strange symptoms not associated with influenza. Soon a new disease was discovered and was called the Wuhan virus.

This Wuhan virus spread like a wildfire. Soon more countries were infected. China started blaming the virus on America calling it a bioweapon. America remained silent to avoid conflict. 

As the disease spreads so did fear. Chaos was instilled within even the calmest of people, putting the world in pandemonium. A vaccine was nowhere in sight.

To make things increasingly worse waves of locusts were making their way across the world, blocking out the sun like ominous clouds.

Things were starting to stir. China was lying about its death rate. Up to one-third of their population was dead, and that was just the beginning. Two months later half the population of the world was gone. Tension was building. Anger between all nations mounting. China blamed America, Russia backed them in fear of no trade. Britain sided with America to prevent large casualties in hopes to avoid what this tension led to.

Finally, it rolled downhill extremely fast. Nuclear bombs flared left and right, and billions more died. This is where the end truly started.

The Wuhan virus, which had since been renamed Corona Virus, had mutated into something. No one knows what happened, it may have been radiation, or either side of the conflict creating a bio-weapon gone wrong, but everything went from horrible to horrendous.

Monsters were formed out of the bodies of those killed by the new strain of coronavirus.  The few people who survived were not safe, even if they got better.

Any attempt to escape their recently transformed friends resulted in innocent people being shredded to pieces and devoured. A small portion of people made it to some rumored safe-havens. This is where The King, The Queen, and The Jack emerged. The 'founding cards' brought order and safety to everyone who survived. Creating a new safe place where they were safe from the savage monster outside city limits, and soon they created a perfect chain of cities. Safe, happy, they slowly made the world a better place. 

Now I live in that 'Utopia'.