Into the Shadows

Nothing knew how to react to the Darkness when it finally arrived. Gods, demigods, mortals; everyone could see it, but no one knew what is was, or where it came from. Eventually almost everything was taken out. The Darkness is brutal, cruel; its creator - sadistic. It is said that the Darkness attacks the amygdala - the part of the brain said to trigger fear - forcing the victim to experience their darkest memories, their scariest thoughts, until they would want to end their own lives.

It started in the sky. The mortals began to notice something strange, something that none of their 'scientists' could answer; the stars were going out. People speculated that they had been going out for some time, and whether this was the case no one will never know. All they did know was that once they did start to notice, the stars seemed to go out much faster and more noticeable than before. So much faster that, by the end of the third day, not a single star on the dark horizon could be seen.

The human race was the first to reach the brink of extinction; only various small groups remain. Being completely mortal, they were the least prepared. When the Darkness began to envelope the world's largest cities, they attempted to use militaristic force- as expected. Of course their guns and bombs were harmless to the Darkness, and they eventually realized this, albeit a few days too late. For by then over three quarters of the population had been wiped out.

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