The Ancient Within

The Ancient Within

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Our species has adapted through many years. We've learned, created, and destroyed. This planet created us how we should be, but the tables have turned. We have made the planet a wasteland, we've killed and destroyed what this planet has given us. And now it's fighting back. Now humans are becoming less advanced and animals reverting to their most wild. Things that have long since been claimed as folklore and extinct have come back. It's been 100 years since the planet began life's 'de-evolution' process and humans are finding that they have as we would call it magical powers. Some seem to be like our super heroes would have, others control elements or animals, others have a mixture of power, and a rare few have the ability to use every 'magical' power. This is the story of Zander and his journey with one of these rare humans.
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The ice deep in the north has melted to reveal a new world hidden under the ice. It holds vegetation and animals that seem unworldly when compared to ours, but hidden in the deepest part of this world is another cave with the oldest surviving strains of an ancient bacteria capable of taking host of dead creatures and reanimating them into beasts worse than before. This strain had grown weak over the ages and was nearly extinct, but the human immune system, never being exposed to this, caused the strain to thrive inside its new unexpecting host and spreads out to the world. It starts small, just a speck on the hands of a few people, but soon, it spreads to door handles, pens, books, chairs, things like that. It continues spreading and now has infected its first corpse, the remains of an ant. This new creature comes and spreads to that ant's nest and then to the animals that eat them. Before less than a month passed, the virus had spread to a graveyard in the hidden grottos of the Yukon. This virus, now able to think from the new minds of fresh bodies, can strategize. In only another week, the epidemic had spread to the northern edge of the United States. Spreading further and further in, people began to notice this strange happening. From people disappearing to entire towns popping out of existence, the bacteria continued to spread. To keep order, the governments had those who disappeared erased from existence, but it wasn't enough. The takeover of those long gone happened in less than three weeks and society collapsed. Spreading overseas, it began its removal of life in Europe, but that's a story for another day. We now come to those few remaining settlements in the collapsed U.S, now called The Crumbled Land. What does this new land hold hidden deep in the remnants of its former glory?

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