Thanatos Rising
Prolog
In the year 2008 the world was a very troubled place; wars, famine, pollution, and terrorism was rife throughout much the world. The problems were numerous, and the fear that the world would end in a cataclysmic nuclear war worried many. However, they were wrong, civilization would not end with a bang or even a whimper, rather, it would end with screaming and the sounds of chewing and ripping. Our would destroyed and ripped asunder not by World War Three, but with a single virus, a virus so rare, powerful and deadly that it killed and eventually reanimated billions of people. This virus would be called the Thanatos Virus. Thanatos worked by reproducing itself in the brain, blood, saliva and other bodily fluids, eventually killing its host due to the viruses extraordinarily high toxicity. Thanatos then took control of the lower portions of the brain, and reanimated the person, making the host transmit the virus through bites, scratches, and contact with bodily fluids in open wounds, the process then began once again in another host. This virus had occurred before and our ancestors had tried to warn us about the existence of this virus, the last time there was an outbreak of this virus it was in what would be known as present day Guatemala, it had happed 1100 years before, and it had wiped out the Mayan civilization. The only reason it had not spread throughout the world was the fact that they populations were small and spread far apart, and that jungles of Guatemala caused the rapid decay of the host, therefore inhibiting its spread. They tried to warn us through their writings but we did not understand or listen. However, this virus would again appear in Guatemala and this time there were more people, and transportation was very easy.