Post by Gifted on Dec 14, 2014 2:40:43 GMT -5
The climatologists sure hadn't expected this.
Despite the warnings of scientists the world over, there was too much money in not taking care of the earth, so the human race just didn't. It was predicted that the earth would get warmer, that there would be an increase in the severity of hurricanes and a rise in sea level and all those things did happen - briefly. But when humans chose to invent technology that allowed them to live on through those changes rather than try to play doctor, they had to face a consequence they didn't expect; the earth died. And when it died, it took every living thing on its surface with it.
The hurricanes stopped and the water receded. The world was reset to the best overall time for humans and unable to advance further or decay further. This was great, except for where they ended up. Since the human's greed prevented the earth from being cared for, the earth and everyone on it were sent to hell.
This had a lot of surprisingly positive side effects. We still got weather, but it never became severe enough to end lives. Aging and dying became an active rather than passive process as they now lived on the same plane as a large portion of the dead, allowing people to choose to stop aging at whatever age they liked and live forever so long as they weren't killed. So the human race adapted to not being able to see the sky anymore, to the uncomfortable heat and the deadly, barren landscapes beyond what was once the edge of their world. But not everything about their new existence could simply be adapted too.
The demons of hell, while at first annoyed that the civilization of humans was now infringing upon their territory, soon grew to love the plentiful food and power source the humans gave them. Donning human forms they blended in with civilization, corrupting all humans in their path and leaving chaos and death in their wake. The humans couldn't adapt to them, couldn't fight them. They couldn't get rid of the people who got corrupted of their own accord, or stop them from corrupting others, even before the demons came into the picture?
And yet, some small subsection of humans could. The ones born with the right blood, or the right gift, the right mutated genetics. No one was quite sure what made a slayer a slayer. They all had the same blood type, but they weren't the only humans with that blood type. Maybe one had to be born in hell to properly become one. In any case, at about four or five, a layer's power would first reveal itself, and they would be forever marked. Slayer children grew up fast, and trained hard. Those who accepted their roles took up their weapons, learned their rituals, and vowed to wield only against the demons, the evil creatures of death and chaos. That is their one and only mission.
But being a slayer is dangerous, quite apart from the obvious threat of death. Demons revel in the corruption of humans and corrupt them just by being around them, and slayers are still human. Any occupation putting one in such close proximity to demons, even slaying them, leads to corruption. A Slayer must take great care to keep themselves free of the demons influences, for a Slayer falling to corruption has far greater consequences than any old human. A fully corrupted Slayer becomes possessed, an easily manipulated puppet of demons consumed by their own desires imbibed with their Slayer strength and the strength of the demon they will eventually become if left unchecked. As of now there is no known cure for possession, and it is up to the other Slayers to put their possessed comrades in arms out of their misery before the hurt someone else. Some slay for the glory, some slay because it is their duty and some because they want to help the human race survive. Everyone has their own reasons, but they all have the same goal: To find the hidden demons, and to kill the hidden demons, until there are no demons left that dare cross onto planet earth.
Despite the warnings of scientists the world over, there was too much money in not taking care of the earth, so the human race just didn't. It was predicted that the earth would get warmer, that there would be an increase in the severity of hurricanes and a rise in sea level and all those things did happen - briefly. But when humans chose to invent technology that allowed them to live on through those changes rather than try to play doctor, they had to face a consequence they didn't expect; the earth died. And when it died, it took every living thing on its surface with it.
The hurricanes stopped and the water receded. The world was reset to the best overall time for humans and unable to advance further or decay further. This was great, except for where they ended up. Since the human's greed prevented the earth from being cared for, the earth and everyone on it were sent to hell.
This had a lot of surprisingly positive side effects. We still got weather, but it never became severe enough to end lives. Aging and dying became an active rather than passive process as they now lived on the same plane as a large portion of the dead, allowing people to choose to stop aging at whatever age they liked and live forever so long as they weren't killed. So the human race adapted to not being able to see the sky anymore, to the uncomfortable heat and the deadly, barren landscapes beyond what was once the edge of their world. But not everything about their new existence could simply be adapted too.
The demons of hell, while at first annoyed that the civilization of humans was now infringing upon their territory, soon grew to love the plentiful food and power source the humans gave them. Donning human forms they blended in with civilization, corrupting all humans in their path and leaving chaos and death in their wake. The humans couldn't adapt to them, couldn't fight them. They couldn't get rid of the people who got corrupted of their own accord, or stop them from corrupting others, even before the demons came into the picture?
And yet, some small subsection of humans could. The ones born with the right blood, or the right gift, the right mutated genetics. No one was quite sure what made a slayer a slayer. They all had the same blood type, but they weren't the only humans with that blood type. Maybe one had to be born in hell to properly become one. In any case, at about four or five, a layer's power would first reveal itself, and they would be forever marked. Slayer children grew up fast, and trained hard. Those who accepted their roles took up their weapons, learned their rituals, and vowed to wield only against the demons, the evil creatures of death and chaos. That is their one and only mission.
But being a slayer is dangerous, quite apart from the obvious threat of death. Demons revel in the corruption of humans and corrupt them just by being around them, and slayers are still human. Any occupation putting one in such close proximity to demons, even slaying them, leads to corruption. A Slayer must take great care to keep themselves free of the demons influences, for a Slayer falling to corruption has far greater consequences than any old human. A fully corrupted Slayer becomes possessed, an easily manipulated puppet of demons consumed by their own desires imbibed with their Slayer strength and the strength of the demon they will eventually become if left unchecked. As of now there is no known cure for possession, and it is up to the other Slayers to put their possessed comrades in arms out of their misery before the hurt someone else. Some slay for the glory, some slay because it is their duty and some because they want to help the human race survive. Everyone has their own reasons, but they all have the same goal: To find the hidden demons, and to kill the hidden demons, until there are no demons left that dare cross onto planet earth.
