Ruins (Prologu chapter 1-2 and part of three done)

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Ruins

Prologue

The houses were dark besides the flicker of the TV and computers, if they had any. The silver sliver of the moon gave off light to the humans as they celebrated the New Year. What they did not know was that their lives would end as soon as the clock strikes twelve midnight. The families walked around their houses passing out treats and noisy toys to the children. All stood up and started to count down with the TV. They counted down from 10 and ended at zero.

Pops bangs and other noises filled the night. A few miles away sirens blasted through the night. Men struggled to figure out what had happened; they all stood in front of a blinking screen. “The nuclear missiles have been launched!” One man screamed. The president came on screen.

The president, a dark short haired that everyone listened to, he was the boss. In a blue suit he looked at the men with a scowl, “What is going on here?” he demanded to know. “Uh sir…we may have triggered nuclear weapons, or an explosion is happening in California.” One man said.

Before even the president could lecture them a white light flashed through the building, more black then white. All around the world the black or white light burned everything in its path but a few creatures. All around the world death overcame everything, besides the lone survivors.

For many days the sun was blocked by thick black smoke. All around the world cold struck everyone, plants and animals started to die. The earth became a deathbed for many on it. The human race died in an instant but not all from the nuclear blast. Although that Is what many thought, it was really something much bigger then that.

Nothing remained living except a few creatures after a week of the blast. Ocean life even could not stand the week, almost everything was dead. But, a handful of humans and wolves survived to save the glint of life. Somehow the glint of life had survived and now something else had come.

For once in on earth things evolved from the two surviving species. Even humans started branching off into different races. They all adapted to survive, each one a different new kind became. It happened over many of thousands of years. Peace became a settlement to the world with these races. Like blacks and whites living together as one in harmony.

A small male voice started to speak, “Now no normal humans live in what used to be California. Now Scranton, the races have different symbols. These are the raves that sprouted, Vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, dragon riders and the rarest elemental controllers better known as Sirens. Also creatures that used to live underground that are now extinct are called wolf bane.” The voice finished and the video started again, but different this time.

Vampires, they are not the creatures humans would think of them as. They were cold stubborn creatures that grew but never actually grow older. They only have fangs when hungry or mad, they do not eat others. They eat normal human food like back in 2009, pizza and everything else. Sunlight does not hurt them; it only makes them grumpy and angry. Vampires tend to keep to themselves and in the shadows.

Werewolves, mighty powerful beasts, but they do not show it often. They have the power to change into a normal sized wolf with huge strength speed and agility, also two magic skills. At 20 the young werewolves learn these magical skills, but it is rare that werewolves have them. Most of these creatures are friendly but some are stubborn, they are also warm creatures and can change whenever they want.

Now Shape shifters however are much different from all the others, very special creatures indeed. They have the ability to change into any living thing that they have seen, including extinct species. They are natural born leaders and not many girls posses this power. They can also be easily angered and are protective over girlfriends, or if they are a girl boyfriends.
Dragon riders, just humans that ride dragons right, wrong, these creatures are like shape shifters they have two magical skills that connect them with the right dragon. Most of them take on shape shifters as boyfriend or girlfriend. They choose one of the few types of dragons which will be explained in the next chapter.
Then there are Elemental controllers or sirens. The control the elements the gods do fire, water, ice, wind and darkness. Not many have this gift and most people who do are rich. These people have to have personal trainers because sometimes some can not control their powers. Some do go to school but only to learn other things besides their powers.
Finally there is or was wolf bane, evil extinct creatures that lived underground. These creatures have a wolf body head and front paws, they all look the same. Also back kangaroo legs with one pair of scorpion feet behind that. Their tail is a stinger from a scorpion; they are the size of a normal past human. The only way they could tell each other apart is from birthmarks. They once tried to take over the surface world.
As you were told earlier there are gods of the elements. Their names are Site god of fire, Tor god of water, Bear god of ice, Sky god of wind and finally Zom god of darkness. Each one controls their own element; also they divide the heaven world into different regions. It depends on what personality you were born under, like if you almost had an evil personality you were born under the sight of Zom. Then when you die you go to live in that gods region.
Site the god of fire; she is a stubborn and hated goddess. If you were born under her sight you are stubborn and are easily angered. Like fire inside you sometimes you have random outbursts of anger. Site land is an anger field a lot of people there fight but when site comes everyone is at peace. Who knows maybe stubborn people can get along?
Tor the god of water; he is a forgiving and helpful god. IF you were born under his sight you are forgiving and helpful. You help your parents and others in need, also forgive very easily. His land is beautiful, it has rivers flowers, and anything a human would class heaven. When you die if you were born under his sight you go to his region. Will they start fighting?
Bear the god of ice; he is a fierce and brave god. As you know if you are born under his sight you have the same personality as him. In his world there is mountain ranges and many lakes, also a bunch of danger. It makes it fun for the dead people to take action. Why?
In the next chapter you will learn about Zom and Sky, please insert next disc. A Blank screen appeared and a small video popped out of the school TV. A Beeping noise hung in the school room until it turned off. Everyone stopped and laughed when the teacher entered the classroom, with nothing but underwear.

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Chapter 1

The history film ended five minutes before school; so Jake just sat in his seat and waited for the bell to ring. His other classmates messed around changing to leopards and lizards and playing with each other. They were all shape shifters, not many girls had this gift but if they did never attended class. Maybe they were just scared of turning into a huge meat eating animal, who knows. Almost only guys took shape shifter classes, they all thought it made them look cool and rich too.

A small ring flowed through the classroom, everyone but Jake picked up their stuff and left. Jake flipped his arms around his neck and slipped further into his chair. He wad sort of a solitary boy, he was cute and muscular. Jake had short black spiked hair; he almost looks like a hedgehog, his hair anyway. He was sixteen and still counting, also he was a bit big for his age.

Finally he got bored and left class, heading down the schools narrow hallway. He exited the school and turned to another narrow hall leading to a chamber. Jake looked at one of his friends that had already gotten there. The chamber was dark and gloomy, their normal hangout after school. IT was Fenris, fren for short, a young werewolf boy about fourteen.

Fenris was short but very stubborn, unlike Jake a natural born leader like most of his kind. Fenris had rusty red hair that was curled around his chin. Frizzed in the back his bangs were not in the many. He always wore heavy metal things like chained pockets and tight black t-shirts. He was born under the sight of Sit so no wonder he was stubborn, but he was one of the little gang.

The others started to enter the small chamber. They all seemed to be tired; they were always tired on Friday. IT was sort of always a bad day for them, but it was not all bad. Sora was first to enter and he was pale white. Jake always classed them little ranks like him he was the leader, and then Fenris was the body guard.

Sora was the joker of the group always trying to make remarks, also he was a vampire. Although no one thought of him as funny Jake classed him as the joker. He was the youngest of the group at twelve years old, with dark brown hair that appeared black. Normally he would enter with a smart remark or joke but today he was silent.

Then Kalik entered also known as kal she yawned, Kalik was the deputy or second leader of the group also a dragon rider. She is a tall skinny girl with long silky blond hair. She was wearing a shaggy sweater, with blue jeans. Kal cared for everyone when she could, also Jake was her boyfriend. Everyone classed Kalik as the medicine kitty of the group.

They all just sat down and waited for the last member. It was Alissa although they called her Alice. As soon as two minutes past of course Sora had to say something. “Where is that girl, she should have been here ages ago!” he growled. Jake looked at Sora and gave him an evil glare. Alissa finally entered the chamber.

Alice rushed into the chamber her short curly hair waving like a flag. She was the groups pet shy and smart too. The only reason they let her join was because she was a Siren. Alice is seventeen with short black hair that curled in the back and flipped out in the front. She wore funny glasses with straps to keep them on. None really cared for her only that she had amazing power and complete control over it.

Sora looked at Jake and just shrugged, he pulled out his I pod Cimarron and out his head phones in his ears. Jake stood up and at least tried to start a conversation, “so what did you guys learn in class today?” hr mused. Everyone stared at him as if he was joking. Kalik jerked up, “Did you know our races are all related?” She asked. Jake looked at her, “Yes.” But then he shook his head and sat back down. Here goes the lecture, he thought.

Taking in a deep breath Kalik started to explain, “After the explosion many humans died. But a year after the survivors started to evolve because of the chemicals they had been breathing. All the regions had different chemicals, so each human group evolved to the different races today!” She went on happily about the lesson. Then finishing she sat back down and smiled.

Jake shook his head then looked at them all. Sora listening to his music, Kal falling asleep Fenris talking to himself and Alissa writing on some paper, they just wanted to go home. Sighing he decided to leave them be, soon the others went home too. Maybe tomorrow would be a better day, it was Saturday class.

Jake lived alone after all his parents died in a fire. The first thing he did when he got home was train; he liked to train changing into different animals faster. His record at the moment was 5 seconds for 10 changes. To him that is pretty good. He most favorite changes were t-rex and wolves. They were hard to control so it made it harder for him to train.

When a shape shifter shifts into an animal they must first try to control that animal. Because when they change part of the animal comes along with it, they either summit to the animal or control it. Most of the big or powerful animals are hard to control, but come seem to cope. It is a very rare gift to have the power to control a huge creature like a giraffe or dinosaur.

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Chapter 2
The dark shadows of the cave made Shadow feel safe. Wolf bane live under ground and Shadow was their leader. The race all looked the same the only way they knew who was who, was by their birthmarks. For shadow, he had a scar across one of his eyes, wolf bane were part wolf, dragon, kangaroo and finally scorpion.
What they actually looked like was really revolting. They had a wolf body with front paws, their back paws were kangaroo legs. Also they have a pair of scorpion legs and a poison filled stinger. Their size grew up to the size of an adult human. They were led by Zom, lord or god of darkness. There were others but only wolf bane followed Zom.
Zom, the god of darkness he was just pure evil. He once tried to take over earth but failed now he was trying again. Not many are born under his sight and all wolf banes were born under his sight. If not their soul turned good and that made Zom very angry. But he still advised prophecies to the race, and one of his pupils had not been born under his sight, brother of Shadow.
Shadow crawled around the narrow tunnels of his kingdom. His scorpion legs carried him to a huge chamber where all the wolf banes worked to get to the surface. The wolf bane smiled at their work, Zom had helped them do it. Or so they thought, soon the surface world would be theirs. To rule over the races until the end of time.
Their work came to a halt as Shadow walked onto the high ledge. One of the workers was Scar, shadows brother. Shadow had blood red eyes and the most intimidating smile ever, everyone respected him. Scar on the other hand hated Shadow and his eyes. Scar was different from the others he had bright blue eyes but the others all had red eyes.
Shadow let a great howl escape his throat and every wolf bane grew quite. “Zom has told me some good news. In four moons we shall reach the surface! Then when I summon Zom we shall enslave the earth.” His speech touched all but his brother.
Scar never wanted to be a wolf bane. He was different from the others; maybe somehow he had to warn the surface dwellers. His mind as everyone started to work after shadows speech. Scar lifted his eyes to his brother, why should he continue work? After all he hated shadow, and all the wolf banes.
Shadow glared at his brother, he was always in doubt of the wolf bane ways his brother. Jumping down from the high ledge he crawled up to his brother. “Get back to work scar” he demanded, Scar looked at him hastily. Disobeying him felt wrong; after all shadow was his older brother. Shadow glared at him harder; soon Scar finally followed the others back to work.
The surface world thought wolf banes were extinct. This is what makes them powerful; when they break the surface they will destroy all. Although there is a prophecy that Shadow did not tell them about because one reason was because of what it foretold.
Creatures from the dark will return foretelling of new earths fate. For only souls who are solace and true may conquer. The creatures will enslave all in the shadows of the inside. Blood must feed the dead for Zom as the summoning howl is dealt.
For only a group of friends both loving and true may try to stop these creatures. But they must look out for the betrayer. For he is trusted his skin is as cold as his heart. For they must figure out before it is too late one of them shall be lost forever.
Zombies will come from the past only then will the vision be released. All the gods but Zom will be enslaved. But who shall be free at this time? Will everyone face the same fate as the world or will these friends succeed.
The thought made Shadow growl with hate. For the friends might be able to stop him, that made him very angry. The sooner he found who these friends were the better. Also he could get his brother out of the way. Throw him with these friends of the surface world.
Scar had followed Shadow crouching on his front paws. His brother jumped in front of him, “What were you up to brother, spying on my plans?” he asked Scar. Scar backed up a little now standing up. He snarled at his brother softly.
Shadow growled and raised his scorpion tail. This was turning into a fight, or just a test to see how weak Scar was. Scar leaped onto his brother and bit down on his tail. Shadow threw him off and snarled; Scar got up and attacked again. They smashed into each other biting and avoiding each others tails.
The first thing that went through Scars mind was stinging his brother. He threw Shadow to the ground. Scar stomped the ground and trapped Shadow with rocks. Scar raised his scorpion tail at Shadow with a growl. His blue eyes blazing with anger, was this the right thing to do?
“Really Scar, your own brother you’re going to kill your own brother? I mean I would have let you rule next to me, but your heart is filled with good” Shadow taunted Scar with his words, reminding him what his place was. He felt the rocks that were holding him loosen. Stepping in front of his brother he smiled, “Pity really…… Get back to work!” Shadows voice seemed to shake the whole under ground city.
Scar lowered his tail; he was going to have to listen. Slumping away he started to work again. They were all slaves!! After all Shadow wanted all the glory for only him, they were only his servants and Shadow was Zoms’ slave.

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Chapter 3



Kalik looked at her classmates as they entered the room. Today they were getting their first dragon, everyone was excited. Dragons had evolved from the handful of humans also, some believe when you get you egg it picks you. Kal sat in her seat and pulled out a book about dragon types. The types are fire, water, air, earth and darkness she was going for a fire type.

Fire dragons grew faster then any other type. (About 10 feet a night or 2 feet a night) They are easy to train and very loyal, also very strong then most. Fire types would always listen to their riders’ commands, sometimes they would never leave there side.

Water on the other hand grew very slow. In constant need Kalik thought it was too much work. They were stubborn and you really only fight when in a water fight. Most riders got them to win contests in the dragon festivals. The water dragons had beautiful scales.

Airs grew a little fast but not as fast as the fire types. Airs are naturally trained when born, although most of them had hawk like wings, they are good if you enter them in races. They are good fighter too.

Then there were earths that grow only if you let them blend with the land. To Kalik they were just useless. Most people only used them for guards, but the earth dragon was the one who could talk. Unlike the other types it spoke all sorts of language.

Finally there was the darkness dragon. The school did not give out these dragons because they are just pure evil. After all some have special powers that are out of control. So they keep them in a facility. That way they could not hurt anyone and could not go into the wrong hands.

The teacher entered the room with a huge blue bag. The bell rang and everyone got into their seats, Kal put away the book and waited. Mrs. Oland did not speak much, she just wrote down the work on the chalk board. After she finished writing this is what she wrote:

Fill out paper, eggs will be passed out after paper is graded.
Kalik got out her pencil and waited for the paper. The teacher passed out the papers and sat down at her desk. Kal filled hers out in flying colors, all it was, was questions on what dragon you wanted. Getting up out of her seat she turned it in and sat back down. Oh! She could not wait to get her dragon.

After a few minutes everyone finished. The teacher pulled out some eggs, they were all shiny red. Only three students got those eggs, one of them was Kalik. Through rest of the school day everyone got their eggs. Kal started down the hall and headed home, she wondered what the others would think of her. After all she was skipping them and going home.

Normally Kalik would meet the others in the alleyway but today she went straight home. She got the egg she wanted, the egg would hatch soon and kal would have to look after the young dragon. The day soon turned to night and it was the full moon tonight, just right to hatch a fire dragon egg.

Kalik put her egg on the porch in her backyard. She sat down on a fold out white chair and watching the moon light.