DEADWORLD
by Tim Kennedy
PROLOGUE
It had been just five years since the disease began to spread, now it had claimed the lives of millions across the world. The Vampiric disease hit Los Angeles hard in the year 2014, the first year the disease was discovered. The disease itself was so horrible that many who hadn't even been infected committed suicide to make sure they never were. It had been called the Vampiric disease because of what it did to a person's behavior. Although the disease was never really understood, there were key symptoms: the disease would affect the brain into making a person crave fresh blood, the person's skin would become pale, and finally, they turned into raving lunatics. Scientists were baffled as to where this disease came from since none of them ever got any chance to closely study it without being infected themselves.
Soon after the initial outbreak, the disease swept across the world in a short time, turning 80 percent of the population into cannibalistic maniacs. Some were lucky and escaped being infected. Those people were dubbed the "divine ones" because many said they had to be gods to escape the disease. These "divine ones," who seem to be immune to the disease, began to gather in small communities to protect each other from the vampires the world had seem to become. Unfortunately, no one really knew if they truly were immune to the disease.
After the disease began to spread, one by one, the major cities of the world fell apart. Since there wasn't anyone to look after them anymore, they simply deteriorated. What was left of the cities was nothing more than a vast wasteland where drug junkies and the infected population roamed.
However doomed the world seemed to be, there was still a faint glimmer of hope. Those that were spared from the disease were slowly beginning to take back the once beautiful cities of the world . . .
And so the great war raged on.