Talent

Archaeologists found a peculiar stone in a cave somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. They surmised that it was an object of worship for old cultures, one that gave them 'powers', some of which depicted on the cave's walls. But, they failed to notice the warning from the ancient civilization. Once they took the stone into the world, everything changed forever.

America was the first. The citizens there began to develop supernatural abilities that couldn't be explained by science alone. It started off with just a few, but, as more and more babies were born; the abnormal traits became more and more common. Some children were born with physical changes, while others had abilities that couldn't be discerned from a single look alone. More research was done into this, and it soon became apparent that these traits had been dormant in the human gene pool for quite some time.

Dubbed Talents, these abilities ushered the entire world into a new era. America dominated the world with an iron fist, nuclear weapons of mass destruction rendered obsolete when pitted against soldiers that could manipulate the wind itself, or summon tidal waves. Because of this, every other super power searched endlessly until they all found their own stone.

There were seven other stones, and they all did the exact same thing: they brought chaos.

All this newfound power bred carelessness, and all eight of the super powers in the world went to war. They completely reformed the earth with this war, setting everything out of whack. The more they used their Talents, the more the world changed. The war was only ended by the emergence of a ninth combatant, the magical creatures. Dragons, centaurs, elves, and things of the sort seemingly came out of nowhere. They were all different species, but they seemed to have one very clear common goal, and that was to stop mankind.

This story takes place after the end of the war.