1: Beginnings

This is an explanation of all that happened to introduce the New Age and slightly describes its inhabitants' situation.

 

 

               "Yuna," whispered a boy, sliding his fingers up and down the blade of his sword. It was tattered. "I’ve learned a lot since I started participating in the Tournament.”

                He looked up at the sky.

 

                “It’s been a year; I’m eleven now,” he said, pausing.

 

                He thought about all the events he had gone through before this day.

 

                “You’ll protect me. I know you will.”       

 

                He smiled and stood, clutching hard the hilt of his weapon.

                He sheathed it and started into the snowy deserted plains, watching wearily for others. He soon disappeared in the encasing white.

 

*             *             *

 

                There was a point in time where a thing such as time was recorded. It ceased after the Great Flood.

                Most of the technology of the world was lost at that time as well; the world had basically gone through a resurgence of sorts.

                Eventually though, the high water levels receded, the humidity alleviated, and the average temperature dropped to 34 degrees, Fahrenheit.

                The humans that didn't die from the temperature decline evolved somewhat radically. It was, to a certain extent, sardonic.

 

                Instead of growing hair all over with more intensity and thickness than usual and instead of a natural slowing of metabolism, as one would assume would happen if the world was subject to an average temperature drop, humans became almost hairless, and more athletic than ever. The epidermis, however, thickened fivefold.

 

                The hair we retained was the hair on our head, which grew differently for each person, and the increasing of our metabolism required us to hunt and eat more food.

                Our digestive system eventually integrated into the respiratory system and replaced it, leaving us without the need for air and such. This was good because, as you’ll soon read, every plant was killed, and oxygen rapidly disappeared from Earth.

 

                As a result of the Great Flood, nearly all land animals died. Humans were the only ones smart enough to stay afloat.

                As a result of the cold, all the plants died and the sea animals froze to death.

                As a result of the death of all living things except humans, we became cannibalistic.

                We were, basically, the entirety of the food chain.

 

                Though we needed to eat, and humans were the only food available, we still had a sense of humanity in us enough to only feast on the newly dead. Though, there weren't enough newly dead to feed a race so we invented the Second Age World Tournament.

 

Author's Note

Made the title of the book with Photoshop. :]

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[Ashley]

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