Hello, writers! I have begun a new story for you all.
This one is based on a digital TCG (Trading Card Game) called "Infinity Wars". It is made by Lightmare Studios, and is available on Steam for free!
[THE AUTHOR IS NOT IMPLICATING THE READER TO BUY THIS GAME. ALSO, THE AUTHOR DOES NOT OWN LIGHTMARE STUDIOS OR THE AFOREMENTIONED TRADING CARD GAME]
...Thanks, mechanical voice, you bring up a good point. This is a PURE FAN-BASED WRITING: I am writing this solely because I love the game and the lore behind it. I am NOT trying to recreate game lore or muddle with the chronology the game provides. If you want to know more about the game, go to the Steam Page and play it. It IS for free!
(Random gibberish from background before loud baritone voice yells out) "FOR FREEEEEE!?"
Yes, its for free! (Annoyed huff) Take a look if you want, or don't: I'm not forcing you. Anyway, again, I do NOT own this game or any of the characters in it. I am doing this for the community's enjoyment: If you don't enjoy it, please let me know.
Onward to the Prologue!
They said it was unlike any disaster they had seen before. The Earth's crust shook and buckled as if trampled by a giant's foot, lava and brimstone gushing through the cracks to the surface. Fire scorched the land as ash shrouded the sky in darkness. Even the seas weren't safe, large areas evaporating or petrified under cooling lava. Entire cities vanished into huge chasms or were consumed by fires as metal, wood and glass melted together to make rivers of acidic materials. Lightning crashed down from above, igniting further fires that spread without end. No human survived this disaster, either being burned alive in fires, falling into chasms, incinerated in lava or crushed by crumbling buildings. The animals that did survive were those who either had the sense to flee to the least-affected areas or had the immense luck in that the chaos left their homes relatively undamaged.
The cause of this chaos, they say, was the use of a terrible magic spell developed by the human race on the pinnacle of its evolution. The spell's name has been lost to time, now being dubbed as the "Calamity" because of the sheer destruction it caused in wiping out the human race. However, it may not have been the extinction of the humans—as the 'Calamity' spread across the planet, strange rips appeared in the skies. These rips quickly turned into massive holes, sucking humans, animals and objects alike into themselves before vanishing out of existence. The purpose of these rifts was never discovered, and they never appeared again.
At least, that's what the survivors of planet Earth remember. What actually happened was far beyond comparison. The 'Calamity' was a magical spell with all-consuming destruction, but it almost consumed all reality as we knew it. The rifts that opened on that day were to other worlds, other existences. Those who passed through were sent to other temporal dimensions, other Earths formed by the Calamity. The humans that went through these rifts from the original Earth were forced to adapt and survive. For a millennia, each of these alternate Earths grew, the humans interacting with other creatures in different ways as different civilizations arose from the same primordial creation. Similar to the how the 'Big Bang' created the known universe through a cosmic explosion, the 'Calamity' unlocked passage into the Multiverse through the 'explosion' of rifts between dimensions.
Then, one day, the rifts began to open again…
Yeah, that'll do for now. I don't want to get too far in just yet.
Again, if you are curious about this game, check it out on its Steam page! If you want to play it (and not read this potentially worse story), that's fine too. I'm not forcing you to do so.
Draconos is taking off!