The Awakening: Prelude ( Post 2012 Fiction Novel)

Hello all,

I have been writing a story for a good amount of time and I want to see what the general public thinks. If it goes well, I will release more chapters....Here is the prelude, enjoy!

Prelude

These times are a rarity, I thought. Not many people actually realize the situation theyre in when they are this deep in it. Its always an afterthought, I should have done this or I should have done that. I pondered this as I sat ominously, floating throughout the afterlife on earth. It seems as if I am moving with the wind, a very relaxing feeling. I can feel myself stretching my mind to limits that were thought unknown, it happens naturally. You see, I am in a moment of deep relaxation and mental clarity. I am able to think through things logically and view situations in a third person. I am amazed at what I can do with my mind, I never knew it was capable of such magic.

The outside turns completely black. I am stunned immediately for a couple of reasons: How did I not know I was outside until now? I have never been outside and have only heard of it through stories, I know I would have recognized something like that! Also I know for a fact that there are not any animals grazing anywhere! They are all dead with the storm.

My mind tells me to stop thinking, to just go with the flow. Pay attention. I begin to let loose the societal norms that my brain has been glued too over my upbringing. I shake the influence off with a flicker of my shoulders, it feels great. I look out in the distance and I see a city, it feels like I am familiar with this scene but I know that I am not..

I gently float throughout the ruins of the world that awaits, the sights are humbling. As the black rain is pouring all around me, dripping right through my transparent body, I stop completely. I know that I have reached where I need to be, to see what must be seen. It is a large pile of rubble that goes high into the sky, I scale it with my eyes from what I believe to be its bottom and all the way to the top of the black sky. To be honest, its hard to tell when the trash stops and the sky starts, but I know this place is important. As I begin to focus on the subject at hand, my ability to focus fades away entirely. And just like that, his dream is over and he is back to dormant rest. It is strange how some things can trigger the end of dreams, perhaps that is why they are so hard to remember.
The rain stops and our hero exits his dream state and begins to rest his mind. It can only take so much, just like any other part of your body you must use it wisely. Roland lives in a different time from what we know. He is the only chance this humanity has to rebuild and flourish, wish him luck on his journey, for he will most surely be needing it.

The year was statistically 2012 when it all happened, an event so large and hideous that it could only be the result of a supernatural experiment gone wrong. This is a world where time is no longer tracked in the same ways as before. These people are caught between the ending of one world and the beginning of another. No one knows exactly what happened anymore, there are stories of many different times from m any different peoples. Some speak of an attack from the sky, raining fire and electricity instead of the black liquid that falls out now. Some speak of the gods, who were angry at our race and punished us by darkness. It was once even told that this was all the doing of one man, who claimed himself a god amongst earth. That he was the cause of all of this and that this hell on earth was the result of his actions alone! But no one will ever know, if they are to find out it will not be by way of natural human abilities.

I ask you… How are we to shape our future if we are unable to see our past? The history of the world before has been decimated, this is a time of ruins. The world lay in black, as if it were catapulted into the Netherlands of space millions of miles away from any stars, planets, meteors, or whatever else might be out there. Unfortunately, the people who survived the event have to live in this darkness. Alone and scared, having to start from ground zero and no one to show them the ropes. The outside is no longer a place where humans are to be caught wandering. The darkness has weaved itself in and out of every single living thing on this planet. An evil so starving for vessels that it occupies an endless amount of energy and space. A world without light is a world without protection. A world left open to the dark for the taking. A world of unknown….
Hundreds of years in a world without light, clean air, and inhabitable conditions can turn anyone mad I suppose. I had always hoped that a man with muscles as rippling as his intellect would arrive sooner this. A man that understood the importance of honor and morals, a man with the qualities of a hero. But this is the game of the gods, and we were never able to control the development of human behavior. The personality of a human, the desire of a human, the strength, the valor, the behavior, are all random. The mind can choose whatever it desires, a foolish move indeed but it was what was voted. I must admit that it has made this game rather interesting. It was a shame we had to end it after so long, but Zerceo had clearly gone too far. The god of war, as he used to be known, was deeply involved in this contest from the beginning. A plan thought out 6,500 years ahead, he is the spirit of conflict for a reason. A way of life that had been so distorted by conflict and chaos that true peace never would have been possible, Zerceo made sure of it. It is true, he planted his footsteps in this trail long ago and it was my foolishness to not think ahead. Alas I shall move on, we are all on level ground again and I believe that I have discovered the next great leader of the human race.

The Sphere was a place where the greater spirits could gather and discuss amongst themselves the meaning of the universe. At one point in time they decided that they could not make a decision on what the meaning was unless they could examine a species head on , from start to finish. And so they did ( 4 times to be exact) . The sphere was a meeting place of many spirits; great and small, distant and close, ominous and tired. Some were so glorified as to earn titles, such as spirit of : Love, Conflict, Courage, Deception, Happiness, Light, Darkness….etc. The list is endless, and not every spirit holds onto their title. If a spirit is defeated in battle upon human earth, then he is to be banned from playing for the next 1000 years. Of course there are battles between the spirits on how the game is to be played. It is much like a democracy, how they decree the rules of the game. The majority vote takes the winner, in the case of a tie it is as simple as a revote. Keep in mind that this was also a place of deceit and evil, for the game meant the world to certain players. The kinds of players that would do whatever it took to skew the odds in their favor, whether it was murder or rule breaking ( Both end in banishment to the void ).The 2 players that are the most pivotal in the game today are Crotag, spirit of Honor and Xiken, spirit of corruption. We are in our 400th year of the fourth Age of Human Kind, the Diamond Age. A most pivotal beginning for the further development of humans, as their have been 3 previous annihilations in the course of human history. Some players have played all three, Some are new to the game entirely, but all play to win the game. Let the games begin!

Indentions............Not just one fat block of text, please.... Reading now but please fix this for the sake of me and others. Blocks of text make me wanna

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Better? Thanks for reading.

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Story obviously set in a world where 2012 went off. These people live deep within tunnels of the earth, some of the few that were allowed to remain on earth and continue the further development of the human race. In this book I use a lot of cool things ATSers would like to read about. i.e. meditation, projection, telepathy, aliens, conspiracies, list is endless...