Falling Gears: Ancient Days

Chapter 1 Stories from Shattered World 1.1 A Fallen World

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No one knows how it happened...

Where it started...

we don·t even know when it happened...

We·ve been suffering for thousands of years, since the day they woke up from the underground, bringing the hell to us, destroying everything we built for centuries, and now, we only have suffering, death and war.

The world itself isn·t the same it was in the past, it became a mysterious and dangerous world, where no one can save us from the monsters, the dead walking again, ancient creatures, being from other world, it doesn·t matter, we·re doomed anyway, even the gods are very busied to handle all the horror this world have to face, and we can·t do anything about it, this is how the world is, but everything has a beginning.

The wicked dead almost brought humanity to extinction, and erased all we could ever know about how it was that era, a few human managed to survive and stand against them, and after centuries of hunting them, they recovered earth, we had another opportunity, with the time, our knowledge started to increase again, technology and science became our priority, it was our key to prevail against the endless hordes of the resurrected dead.

We reached our most advanced era at the moment, our technology was great, and our society became invincible, but we are humans, and as our ancestor, we surrendered to the thirst of power and domain, we started fighting ourselves, and in the wars, and for the surprise of everyone, our tech was enough powerful to menace the very existence of the planet, we·ve doomed ourselves again, as we always do, but then, someone appeared from the chaos,

and rising his hand to the sky, he showed us a power that in our hole history was considered a fantasy, a legend, against anyone could believe, he.......... 

The voice coming out from the device stopped suddenly, only a static sound was left.

-Damn it, this thing is broken-, a female voice says loudly and throws the device to a wall, destroying it, the blue haired girl gets up of the chair she was sitting it, and looks with visible anger at the pieces of the recording device, then, another figure stands at the other side of the room. -You·re making to much noise Thundra?, are you destroying the ancient tech again?-, the figure said to the girl

-And what if i do?, it·s not like i lost important stuff, none of this garbage is useful- she answered defying her brother.

-Anyway, that·s not the reason i·m here, our father wants to talk with us, i don·t know why, just come with meboth left the room and started to walk around the castle they were, a flying castle full of machines and engines floating in the sky, breaking the clouds in it·s way.

-Only for you to know, i was hearing dad·s history- Thundra said to her older brother.

-Hm?, i see you really wonder how that story finishes dear sister, i wonder how you don·t know such a famous story.- Urum, how it·s called her brother, said to her slightly smiling, -I·ll tell you then...-

Before the great war, magic was a fantasy tale for humans, just some material of legends and stories, no one would even dare to think that they were close to find out a truly surprising truth, magic was real, it is unknown how it was discovered, but the discover was a boulder falling from a mountain, and their consequences of knowing it·s potential were beyond anyone could imagine, humans combined their technology with the magic and became extremely powerful, they had the power to stomp the hordes of the dead, they had the power to destroy cities like if it was nothing, that power was the cause of the war, we we·re corrupted by our own pride and wanted to have domain against the others.

The magical weapons altered the earth, causing it to unleash disasters in a cataclysmic level, billions died in the following months of the war, and we were not able to repair the damage we·ve done to our home, we were at the edge of extinction, but then he came, Destinus, the fate sorcerer, with a god-like power, and rising his hand to the sky, he covered all the corners where our sun had influence, and using their gravity in his favor, he made the other seven planets, and another small one too, making them collide with our world, at the same time, we managed to cover every single life form in a barrier, protecting them from the destructive event, he fused all the 7 seven

planets in our solar system into one, and he used his power to rebuild it, making it similar to earth, he created a new world for us, after such and godly and heroic act of power, we abandoned the war, tensions still, and the small conflict continued, but at least, we had a home to start again, that day, our new planet was called Certhores, and Destinus became our guardian. Thundra walked with we brother as she was amazed by the story of her father, she always knew that Destinus was a powerful wizard, but she she never thought that her father had such level of power, Thundra and her brother, Urum, are two of the six children of Destinus, and also they are very powerful wizards, Destinus always had faith in their power and trained them in battle and sorcery, so they could join him in his mission of protecting Certhores. Both brothers entered a big room, full of books, weapons, and objects with inscriptions, a sort of armory combined with a trophy room, the other four brothers we·re in the room, waiting for them, in the center of the room, a figure waits in a throne, covered with light, he finally speaks

-My sons, you·re finally here- Destinus talked calmly, -I have something to tell you- he said as he gets up of his throne and walks to his sons.

-You must be prepared, because i want you to help me in the riskiest mission we ever had, what we are going to do now, will decide if our world has prosperity or it is destroyed-.