TOUGH

Prologue

~ Year 2035 ~

Life has never been more perfect.

Our little town was lucky, for it had no crime in it, it is one of the lucky ones in the Chosen 7.

I'm sorry, you probably don't even know what I'm talking about.

Something...changed in the world.

People don't know if it some kind of virus, or just plainly normal.

All we know is that there is no logic explanation of what has happened.

At first, it happened only in small regions of the Earth, people didn't really care then.

But as time flew by, it seemed to have affected the whole world.

People would either act crazy, or produce crime.

No reasons why, it just clicked and happened.

Luckily, there were 7 parts of the world, yeah out of thousand of places in the world, only 7.

That were unaffected with "The Big Change".

That's what people call it.

We were even luckier, like what I was saying before, our little hometown was part of the 7 unaffected

So that's our story.

I am currently happy with my family, and today I got home from school.

Something felt strange in the air, something felt really creepy and scary.

It frightened me so I quickly rushed back to my house.

I saw a tree, its leaves were green, then it changed to orange, then brown.

I thought I was just hallucinating, I rubbed my eyes and looked at the sky.

First it was in a shade of natural blue with fluffy white clouds.

I was relieved, but before I could even smile, the color suddenly changed to grey.

Then a mixture of purple and black, then lightning started appearing.

It got worse, it started raining, but not ordinary rain, more like really bad acid rain.

When one drop fell on the tree, it was like kerosene, it burned the tree down.

I was petrified, "Oh no. No. No. No. Please, no!" I whisper-shouted.

Our town was no longer part of the 7.

Our town, our home, was....affected.