A/N: (I'm bolded. Kat's in italics)

Hey there my Zens, Zack here.

Yo. It's Kat.

So, here's a Christmas/holiday gift for y'all.

I was against it! I just wanted to sleep and watch Doctor Who.

Yeah, yeah. Back to the point. This is a collab fic the two of us have been working on for a while since what... April?

It's been a long time.

It has indeed. So, it is our great pleasure to reveal to you all what we've been working on for so long in secrecy... BRINK!

Yeah, yeah. It was my idea. At first I was going to do it alone.

But then she was like "Xendork! We should write this together" and I was like "M'kay"

I proposed the idea. Yes.

You proposed most of the ideas.

Yes. Wrap it up.

Yeah okay. Let's move this along and leave you to read the prologue... Bai

Later!

Our land is called Brink, formerly known as Earth. It's called such because we're on the eve of war all the time. The brink. If just fits, so it stuck.

Once all the physical catastrophes with all the continents breaking up then colliding and such that started in 2013 stopped, the government system collapsed. Mass suicide soon followed, but many survived in the new world of a single large island surrounded by a single ocean.

The new continent was Brink, for the world and the continent were one in the same. It was shaped like a rounded rectangle if you're looking at it as a map with north as the top. Brink consisted of marshes, plains, beaches, forests, and mountains. Only one hot grassland existed, and that was towards the very south part of the continent.

People who had lived on the internet chose to take action. The leaders of the world were chosen from democracy choices. Thus, the leaders of the world all came from YouTube. If you didn't have at least a million subscribers, you couldn't be a leader, but you could be a sub leader under another kingdom. These leaders were called Kings. Normal citizens were forced to choose their favorite king and join their army and kingdom, living under their rule.

There were alliances between Kingdoms, and of course, some didn't survive forever. Some turned into criminal bases. Some destroyed themselves. Those that did survive stayed strong. They became the stuff of legend.

As to be expected also, different kingdoms could always wage war. The possibility of war wasn't impossible, but a large chunk of technology and advanced guns were lost during the disaster. There were more important things to use metal for than on guns too. One of these important things was the discovery of magic. Like any other weapon, magic had limits, but it became a widely used for day to day life as well as combat.

Mutations happened occasionally, magic was discovered, and new species appeared in the wild. It was rumored that even werewolves and vampires existed, but only just that; rumors. Slight hybrid making was possible, but nothing ridiculous like transformation or speaking animal languages. Or so common knowledge says.

By the year 2020, the world had changed drastically. Climates became ever dangerous, the humanity lived on a single island, and rivaling gamers ruled the world. What could possibly go wrong with that?