1 The White Light (Prologue)

Year 2019

A distant, blinding white light grew brighter and brighter. People stopped and stared wondering what it exactly was, until the white light began to rival that of the sun. Soon the light engulfed everything. For an entire 5 minutes all anyone could see was white. Very slowly, it then began to die down. Everyone's eyes slowly adjusted so that the world came back into view.

As everyone took in their surroundings, a huge overwhelming shock consumed them. Some were lying on the ground motionless. Those still standing felt an uncomfortable feeling in their gut, that soon spread throughout their entire body. They felt a new surge of energy. Fire, ice, and other things sprang from their bodies destroying whatever was around them as they had absolutely no control of the new found power. The world was thrown into complete disarray.

It was later discovered that the human race had new found abilities awakened within their bodies. Their bodies were also strengthened and able to reach new physical heights never before attainable. Those whose bodies could not handle this drawn out power died. Therefore, the human population saw a dramatic decrease. Some didn't gain any ability at all, those who became known as handicaps.

The world changed drastically. It was chaos as people began to abuse their new found power. Some countries' governments were overthrown by powerful groups formed by the most gifted and powerful ability users and their followers. Some countries began to invade others in order to gain more influence. The world was reverting back to survival of the fittest.

In order to try and combat the chaos, countries gathered the strongest ability users they could find In exchange for large amounts of money and other priviledges, they formed different organizations to make and enforce rules and laws to keep their citizens in check. For example, America established the organization known as the American Authoritarian Association for this role.

This succeeded in lowering the chaos within coutries, however, this didn't stop countries from making war with one another. Countries began to focus solely on building up their military power in order to deter other countries from invading or in order to invade.