The Last Thing You See
I went to visit my friend Tony in West Virginia and we were bored, so we decided to mix our messed up brains together and write a story. This is what we came up with. Ta-da! Enjoy!
Prologue
The world has changed.
It is no longer this comfortable world where humans can do normal people things. It's not safe. It's not happy. It's horrible, dangerous, hell. Now, you may ask, how did it get to be this way? What happened? Well, have I got a story to tell you.
Back in the year 1861, a significant event sent the United States into turmoil. It split because of different opinions of an issue. States seceded from the Union, and so was born the Confederate States of America. The Yankees and Rebels fought and fought against each other, neither side really getting anywhere. While the human world was split apart, they thought the cause was slavery. But no. It was much, much more.
The president of the United States of the time, as you may know, was Abraham Lincoln. He led the great Union against the Confederacy, blah, blah, blah. But Honest Abe wasn't so honest about everything.
He was really a demon, who had the idea that humans were more than just food. He wanted them to live in peace, free from demon interference. A sympathizer. Not one demon could stand to talk to the man, always talking about the equality of humans. He could not accept the idea that demons were greater beings. So he decided to take charge.
Becoming the president of the United States was truly a way to do so.
As president, he appealed to most people. A hard background man, becoming great and overcoming this and that. He spoke of equality of all man, blacks and whites. What he really spoke of were humans and demons. The reason he didn't speak the truth is that us demons wanted to stay secret. Humans were known for rebelling against a greater species and succeeding one way or another. We chose to not start a problem and just kill as needed instead of for fun and thrills. But old Lincoln decided it was time to make the demons of the world see as he did.
Another man, a demon, decided that Lincoln needed to be put in his place as a lesser demon. Lincoln was only a generic demon. Something called a Lunar. They drew their power from the moon and could do simple things with said power. This other man, was Jefferson Davis. He wanted to stand against Lincoln, but in order to do so, he needed man power. So he waited for the right time, socializing with the Southerners, putting out words that convinced the states that succession was the way to go about keeping their precious slaves. It worked. He had a large amount of humans and demons alike thinking as he did. So when the time came, and the seceded states needed a leader, they all remembered Jefferson Davis.
And boom! The army of the Confederate States of America became the army Davis so desperately needed.
Lincoln heard word of Davis and immediately called for the army of the United States to be ready. And in July, 1861, the wars began. The humans called it the Civil War, a fight over slavery. The demons saw it as the Awakening War, a fight for dominance in the world.
A charade as large scale as the Civil War could only be held for so long. The humans really didn't participate too much. Humans fought against humans, demons against demons. The most famous battles were fought between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. General Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, was a demon leading legions of demons. Every single soldier in that army was a demon. The mistake that Lincoln made was trying to make a large enough army of demons to take on that one. Most demons sided with Davis, believing that demons were gods above men, so that made it difficult to form a large army. He managed somehow, although not all of the Army of the Potomac was demons. The human brigades, Davis tried to keep away from battle, but it didn't always work. Eventually the humans needed an end in the war. The Civil War officially ended in July, 1865. The Awakening War continued on, privately and in a matter not involving guns and large confrontations.
Over the years, humans would sometimes notice things and credit it to the coming of the end of the world. Every time a panic epidemic showed up, the fighting would quiet. But it always picked up after the supposed date passed. The last one was of the world ending in 2012. The Mayan calendar stopped there. Humans are so simple minded, it's ridiculous. That one turned out to be true, to a point. It was the end of the world-as they knew it.
December of 2012, the Awakening War got out of hand, and the world of demons was revealed. It is not known how exactly or when in December it happened. But all anyone knows, is that it made life a lot harder than it used to be.
For humans, at least.