The Reign of Fire
The Leviathan's Awakening is often described as the literal end of the World. This global scale apocalypse is how many countries, cities, peoples, and all ways of life ended. Scholars say that 75% of all life on Earth ended when the Leviathans came out of their slumber. That was a hundred years ago, and little has improved since.
The Reign of Fire
The Begining
It was September of 1945. The second Great War had finaly ended. Europe was in shambles, Japan had been wrecked, and so many people lay dead from the war. The United States of America had started their relief effort to Japan. Some soilders of both countries atrated reporting strange spounds coming from far out in the ocean. The American sent out a patrol ship to investigate. Unfortunatly that ship never returned.
As the Navy of both countries waited for the ship's return, the tide rolled back on the East coats of Japan. The Japanese and Americans started evacuation in preperation of the oncoming tsunami. When the Tsunami hit, it brought monsters with it.
Japan Falls
The Japanese called them Kaiju. At first, many of the creatures were unrecognisable, but then the people realised that these creature were the creature of legend. They were Dragons.
All these dragons had came out of the tsunami, out of the Pacific. No one had ever seen anything like them. They belived they had nothing to stop them. The destruction of the tsunami had left the defenseless as well. There was nithing anyone could do to stop the dragons from destroying Japan.
Behind the main hoard was the largest dragon ever seen.Nothing could match its size. This one individual was responsible for the destruction the Japanese islands. The main hoard of dragons destroyed many cities, but there were still people. There was still hope. Not with this leviathan. He wanted nothing more than to destroy the first thing he saw.
There is nothing left of Japan. Many people survived, but the islands didn't. It may look like the islands are still there, but remeber, the Leviathan never left the remains of the islands.
Attack on Asia
Fear turned to horror as the people of East Asia realized the awakened hoard of dragons was moving their way. Dragons set cities ablaze. They destroyed herds of livestock. They ruined farms and farmland. Worst of all they destroyed the air itself. The breath of dragons is incredibly toxic. With so many flying overhead and destroying the vegitation around, there was nothing left to breath. Thousands in some horrible areas suffacated from the smoke and toxic air.
No one was sure of what the dragons wanted. Some looked like the good gods of legends and yet they were all so destructive. Their seemingly evil nature not only destroyed the lands but the minds and beliefs of many in Asia. The once noble and powerful leaders were now just monsters.
Moving Westward
The dragons didn't stop. They kept going and going. They went through every part of the land, toppling countries as they went. As they shreded the Middle East the hoard split, some heading south to Africa, the rest heading to Europe. Europe was already ravaged with the war, the dragons only destroyed the remains. Europe and Japan were the places hit hardest by the Awakening. Africa fared a little better. Its vast land and wide variety of untouched wilderness kept the dragons from going after some humans. Unfortunatly, many fires did led to the destruction of many forests and savanas.
Down to the Pacific
Not all of the dragons kept moving west. As small group went south, towards the Pacific Islands. For the islanders, there was no where to go. They were trapped. The dragons tore the islands apart. Few could escape the fire. Many once populated islands were wasted to ash. Some islands were worse than others. The dragons kept moving untill they reached Australia. Some dragons in this small hoard stayed for the vast outback. The rest kept moving across the islands before heading eastward.
Across the Sea
The dragons were not done with Europe. Unsatisfied with the lack of a sutible habitat, the dragons moved west. They moved across the great Atlantic ocean. Or rather island hopped across Iceland to Greenland to Canada. Winter-loving dragons stayed around the coldest parts while those seeking warmer places headed south. The dragons chose to preserve their fire for themselves as they crossed the cold lands, so these places nearly completly survived. Many Canadians living in the northermost part of the country survived the destruction. However, as they are such a small portion of the population, Canada fell as the dragons reached the United States.
The hoard swept across the states like a wave. They left destruction as they went. The largest, most congested cities fell the hardest. With no where to run, cities burned and people died with no escape. The Great Plains burned. The smoke was so bad, cities on the coasts suffocated. The states started to crumble. But the worst had yet to come.
As the dragons kept moving south, they reached Mexico. They burned much of the country, and kept moving. Many dragons, not wanting to fly over unknown ocean, followed the coasts, leading to a congested hoard ravaging Central America. For weeks the giant hoard flew across Isthmus of Panama.
The once lush Amazon rainforest burned to the ground. The heat was unbearable. The smoke was suffacating. It was the same thing over and over again. Some large forest, savana, or plains completely catches fire and burns. The people suffocate with it. The dragons were a moving fire that destroyed everything. Once they reached the tip of Argentina, the hoard dispersed, but their destruction was not over yet.
Yellowstone
The dragons dispersed and spread out among the 7 continents and islands. They were no longer a destructive hoard, but just animals looking for a home. Unfortunatly, some of the dragons like to live in active volcanoes. Some wayward dragons found Hawaii, and settled there. Some other dragons chose to look at a hotspot in the United States. These dragons forced the Yellowstone Supervolcano to erupt. Nearly the entire United Sates was covered in ash, and parts of Canada had layers of ash on the ground. It is believed that this eruption single handedly killed any chance of survival for the United States. Some people survived, but there would never be the United States of America again.
The Fire Wells
As fires all over the world spread, some spread to close to oil and gas wells. Gysers of fire and deadly black smoke were all that some could see. These fire wells were impossible for any common man to put out. With no way to put out the fires, they kept burning. Some fires never stopped.
Flightless Monsters
Along all coasts of the pacific, starnge creatures started ariving. They looked like the dragons yet they had no wings. They were like crocoiles and aligators, if either could run. They were highly agressive, and more dangerous than hippos. They came in nearly all sizes, from as small as a cat to as large as a horse. However, they were afraid of the dragons, and hunted by them. After this discovery, they earned themselves the name Prey Drakes. Don't let this name be decieving. They weren't afraid to hunt humans.
The Aftermath
After the dragons had finished their wave of destruction, things seemed to settle down. The dragons had not killed every living creature. As with their persistance, humans survived. Some countries rebuilt. Most didn't.
Small groups or comunities of people formed. They were usually the remains of cities and towns. As the people stuck together, they were able to survive. However, they had nothing. Few people had the skills to survive in the wild. They were forced to learn how to survive. Children were forced to grow up fast. Easy lives were over. Survival was more important than anything else.
With the end of the world came the end of every country. None survived. All that remains is splinters. Kingdoms and Empires and some of the Greatest Nations collapsed and died in the fire. The people that remained were forced back into the dark ages, with some literly in the dark from the ash clouds of Yellowstone. Human technology was sent backwards. Electricity was no longer possible, the idea of kerosene lamps was fiction now with the fire wells. There were no factories to make anything at all. People were entirely reliant on themselves.
With the burning of vegitation and general lack of humans, wild life flourished. It may have taken a while to come back, however the life grew back. Although potentialy millions of species went extinct, those that didn't flourished. Animals that had nearly been lost sudenly thrived. Vegitation engulfed the desolate ashen cities. Some areas, such as Yellowstone and the Sahara Desert, remained a dead zone. The Sahara Desert even grew, to where it is now almost half of Africa.
Although wildlife thrived, many domestic animals went extinct. If they were inside an open pen or in a barn or home, those animals were dead. Domestic animals have little survival skills, and some were breed to for certian qualities that wouldn't let them survive in the wild. Domestic pets had the least chance of survival. Dogs, a once beloved companion of man, nearly became entirely extinct. Small pets, such as hampsters and domestic rabbits, died out almost within the week of them escaping. More exotic pets had a higher survival chance. Escaped zoo animals almost all died out as well. Strangely, domestic cats managed to survive. They even returned to human communities. Unless a domestic species had a wild counterpart, or still had their natural instincts, then that species was most likely dead.
The dragons had not come and then disapeared. No, they spread out. They intigrated themselves into the enviorments. They took the places of many lost species. Now if they were to disapear, life would surely crumble.
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