The History of Babylon
The end of the world didn't quite come as many had expected, yet it wasn't surprising.In the beginning of the 21st century the tensions between America and both North Korea and the middle Asian countries came to an all time high. People were stressed, scared and seeking shelters. It was expected that the armed warheads would start falling any day until it hit us. A asteroid, not quiet large enough to destroy the Earth but large enough to throw the world order out of balance. Colliding in the Atlantic Ocean it threw up immense volumes of water and dust into the atmosphere and caused ripples that made it's way long into the Euro-Asian continent. But that wasn't it, that was just the beginning.
In the wake of asteroid came a virus more infectious and deadly than anyone could have imagined. If the asteroid didn't kill enough people, the virus surely did. About one in 50.000 was immune, the rest simply died. There was no cure and with less than 20 hours from incubation to death there wasn't much that could be done. As a result cities were laid in waste, covered with dead and rotting bodies.
And when humanity was on its knees; dying, slowly wasting away. They appeared. First came the ones that didn't die, but they weren't immune, they were something in-between, a mutation. Half human, half something else. The first ones were almost human; there was no way of telling what they were. But it spread and the already diminished population grew even thinner. Some people that came in contact with the mutated virus survived as themselves, some died, and some turned. And as time went by the mutants became hated, they became the target of all the anger and hate that the humans carried. The third Great War broke out, human against alien, living against dead.
The war is over now, no one can say who won, but everyone knows that they lost. The mutants still exist, as do the humans (and the undead) but the humans are the ones that 'rule', clumped up in cities and never daring to venture outside the protective walls out of fear for the mutated, out of fear of being infected. Today we stand in a world torn apart by war, hatred and fear, hope is inexistent and all we can do is to try live on and rebuild the world that we have lost.