The Lucky Ones - Before This (Prologue)
2000. The last known uninfected year, before the virus spread through touch, and became world-wide in a matter of months. New babies born without the virus, but were easily infected by their mothers and spread it to others.
As the new generation grew and became more hands-on, the symptoms of the virus broke. Their brains were inching towards rotting, painlessly, from the inside out, completely degrading by the age of 40. Their lungs were shrinking and slowly found it harder to breathe. If they hadn't turned into "the Reapers", as they had been called, they suffocated from their lungs completely shrinking and collapsing. Their skin greyed out and caved in to cover the organs, and abscesses flowed out their blood as the human stopped living and they degraded into a Reaper.
What exactly caused the virus outbreak is still unknown to this day, but the government of Broken France, the last surviving country, are doing their best to find the cause.
It's been said that one family was infected, but did not degrade at all. They were able to walk freely through the Reapers, as if they had recognized them as fellow Reapers. Throughout the years, this miraculous genetic flaw was passed down, though only one had survived as the virus had mutated, and killed the family off one by one.
The single surviver is out there today, in the year of 2188, and it is Adrien's job as a hunter to find them.
A/N: I made an adjustment a few attributes of the virus to fix a plot hole or two in later chapters I have planned. Thanks for reading!