Gaea's Call

by That Canadian Guy

It's been 100 years since the fall of humanity began, now a young boy Max of a northern forest village must save the very thing that destroyed most of modern society in the first place. Can Gaea the lifeforce of Earth allow him a second chance to right his wrong doings and save his family, friends and nature from Mankind's greed and hatred for nature?

Nature's Call

The very thought of our planet having a mind of its own has eluded our minds for centuries. Starting off with gods, and then turning to science. Very few people believe that nature would react to our actions accordingly.

The wealthy individuals exploit the planet to make commodities available to citizens at a price. Politicians were being bought out by the wealthy to let them do as the please, without any care for the consequences.

As the population grew, the need for more products increased as well. These businessmen tore down the forests, paved over lakes and rivers and destroyed ecosystems. They were literally drying up the planet…until the planet and nature itself could take no more and decided to fight back against us.

In the very core of what was once the Amazon, the last tree stood. The last obstacle between new cattle farms and the forest itself. The men came with chainsaws revving, getting ready to receive their last big payload. The blades began tearing away at the tree; bits of wood were flying in all directions.

Then the machines stopped, its users frozen in the very spot they stood. The branches from the tree came swinging down, impaling the workers, leaving their lifeless bodies holding the tools of their demise. This was just the first stand of nature's retaliation.

Earthquakes then spread around world triggering eruptions from volcanoes, the winds carrying the ash leaving cities covered in a thin layer of ash. From the ashes rose new forest, and thus used the ash as fertilizer to spread their ways out of their boundaries and towards the cities. The reclamation of nature had begun.

The roots of the flora climbed buildings, layered the streets and destroyed the infrastructure. They began to go after the populous; anyone the roots could grab would be imprisoned as new trees grew around them. No one could escape the trees in the beginning, military weapons did nothing but delay the inevitable, scientists would come up with acids, infections, anything they could use to kill the plants. The plants managed to rapidly evolve to gain immunity or defenses to what humans could throw at it.

The fall of humanity and society with it had begun.