The year is 2035 of the Gregorian calendar and world War 3 has begun.
A battle that will shape the very physical world of man an outcome that could have only been prophesied to have been inevitable. As many predicted in their hearts the East, Russia,China and North Korea have made an alliance of war against the known world claiming that those who ally with them, will reap the benefits such a conflict would bring, it could only be described as the ultimate communist crusade.
Nations such as Iran with its failing regime cling to power with a last desperate cry of a mother whale wheeping for its dead calf, as it screams religion and caliphate,using race to unite for one cause jihad many Arab nations join out of fear or a cultural push within the countries people themselves,African nations joined by religious similarity and the promise of wealth join the war by parroting that this will be the ultimate retribution against colonialism,while the corrupt wait to feast on the entrails.
The US and it's allies in America, Europe , Australia, Taiwan ,Japan,South Korea and many other Nations not listed, join to take down the beast of communism while being torn apart by internal conflicts such as religious riots sabotage,looting,and non Nationalist activism.
The race begins as nuclear war heads are mass produced and auto plants boom in America.
The result was increased mining of coal leading to the release of excess carbon in the air, and causing rapid changing weather patterns, war led to ,sickness and disease forming plagues,famine, and death, the clouds darkened, the seas were bathed in oil and sunken metal ships.
Science turned to an excuse for moral depravity,self preservation, while conspiracists break the minds of the already broken weak minded.
The religious claim the coming of God,As if the four horseman have descended to feast on man's pain,man returns to the old ways,the desire the need to live in the moment spreads,Satanism ,cults of indulgence,and human sacrifice become everday televised news,as if unknowable lovecraftian horrors watch from beyond Earths atmosphere, slowly corroding the minds of the populace.
Crows scream and sing the song of death as graves line themselves with rows of crosses while those unable to have their bodies properly barried turn to ash and spread with the wind.
The lawless rule while the arrogant profess to be God, the rich and the Billionaire prepare to be rulers of the new world preparing their children to inherit it, birth rates increase slavery pokes it's head as it's justified,by using the worlds condition.
The poor work in the slums, while science makes rapid breakthroughs during the heat of war, by developing a never ending clean energy source.
In the year 2065 the allied forces capture peaces of china's heilongjiang, and Jilin and places one of it's top commanders Charles Smith the 3rd as it's supervisor.
Charles the old a United States veteran at the age of 30 his lieutenants Jeff John's ,Owen Williams and David Brown gave him this nickname because despite being very young when they first met at the age of 25 grey sideburns appeared on his otherwise smooth blonde hair.
He was tall pale skinned with a neutral hue and stood at an impressive 6,5 feet tall an imposing giant to his soldiers yet showed clear muscle and flexibility. His eyes were deep and a light shade of blue he wore green military pants a black belt brown leather jacket with a fur coated hoody specialised leather gloves and black heavy duty boots with a green shirt underneath.
He was hard headed claiming the cold was nothing thanks to years of training. The border takeover was swift his skill with a katana was well known his hand to hand combat prowess made the enemies moves seem scripted when he fought he could seamlessly switch between multiple weapons including a short dagger or dual wielding two 9milimeter pistils his aim perfection a supersoldier trained in the art of war for the times, master of 9 martial arts.
He was a deeply religious man so he kept his soldiers from the woman focused on gathering material securing the perimeter and the annihilation of all potential rebels and scouting the area the securing of the air space and building a safe base.
He soon Broadcasted the takeover to the citizens who were already well aware the information caused tears to flow as the people had relations with the soldiers that were killed pretrolling the border.
Charles himself was a warrior a leader in battle but communication in a foreign language he did not know, not so much hence the allied Nations sent him with Samantha Murphy an Irish born red head on her father side and a native Chinese on her mother's .
At the twos first meeting on a navy ship Charles hard headedly declined needing help citing one of his lieutenants partial understanding of mandarin as he proclaimed to his superiors.
Only for Samantha to push ever so closer look him in the eye and point to his chest as she exlaimed that she had worked her entire life for this and had learnt not just mandarin but different accents and local languages she was also an expert on history and human integration.
Her brash act took Charles for a loop he stroked his head and agreed the action left a deep impression the controled area was mostly rural the people were told to continue on as normal while the closest village where their base was located was isolated.
With her help Charles established an impartial justice system to gain the peoples good will this angered his troops who had thought there blood and sweat far from home would be rewarded and being so far away the woman seemed eye catching causing unrest.
In a newly commissioned bar Charles and Jeff shared a drink. Jeff dark skinned a short tapper hair style with a muscular frame who seemed to always be wearing formal uniform. Your more on the books than me Charles said with a smirk ofcourse that's the reason I survived all this time, Jeff replied his voice deep.
"You Quit smoking", jeff said as he stared deep into Charles eyes,"ofcourse your nagging finally won me over", said Charles , "is that all" jeff said, Charles with a solemn look said "no this is perfect I feel like I can finally get away from this war ever since I enlisted at 18 all I've known has been this war".
"I'm looking to settle down ever since I was a kid my old man put survival at the top of my priority turned me into a killer a hunter who could fire a gun at 6 with the mentality to witness death at 7 and direct it towards our enemy at 8 I don't blame him but I want peace the peace he lost when mom died In that terrorist attack the peace he lost in that fire".
"Did I tell you the story of this katana said Charles Jeff shrugged you've mentioned it once or twice well let me tell you again said charles I had a Japanese comrade we fought together he taught me his culture and I taught him mine and this sword is the last relic I have to remember him by that same year my father died alone and I wasn't there I was in war so I carved on this blade the year of my greatest grief".
"I see Jeff said I've heard of you and Samantha is there a thing going on you haven't told us about it". Charles blushed as he looked away from Jeff's stern stare taking a sip of beer as Jeff tapped him on the back and began laughing.
"It's been a year since we setup camp in this wreck I'm planning on shipping my family here sometime soon if anyone deserves happiness for there dedication its you".
The soldiers who had been apart of the mission began sharing there religious views and being apart of the community building relationships although some were scorned churches had been built simultaneously the culture of the native people were not forceful destroyed or suppressed.
Soon Charles the old had married a certain green eyed glasses wearing redhead and wore a two piece suit for the first time in his life the next year Charles slept in his lovers arms stroking her belly singing to his unborn child tales of war that's all he knew tales of lovers parting ways and new love being found.
16years had passed and Charles had two children a four year old girl and a 17 year old boy he spent his time teaching him self defense hunting skills he named the boy Zagreus and their mother named the girl Sophia.
Zagreus saw his father treat everyone with kindness and even the Natives treated him like family he went to the same school as them participated in the same Celebrations as them at this point even the Natives were allowed to enlist in the cause as soldiers and factories were built funded by the Allied forces
It was the winter festival and the most extensive battle since the first ten years had begun rockets launched turning the skies into fireworks 9 nukes were launched in two days equating the record of the first 10 years the biggest forest on Earth was burning down something in the air signaled the war was reaching its climax
The distress caused marches The mainland sent a message to the people of the occupied lands a threat that if they did not aid them in breaching and taking back the territory they would be slaughtered aswell at the height of fear and panic the perimeter was breached.
Charles soldiers turned against each other native against native non native against everyone else a mob with pitch forks ran up and where charging at Charles house he ordered the evacuation of his troops but for that to happen a portion of his troops had to stay behind.
As he was about to make a final decision as he was comforting Samantha and a crying Sophia an explosion rang in their household knocking him out for a split second he Quickly got back his balance instructing Zagreus to take Sophia who was unconscious and Samantha away using the backdoor to run into the snowy forest
In a split second Samantha Carried sophia and began to run.Her experience in athletics allowing her to cover a huge distance but her age and the comfort of her clothes including her lucidity at the time posed a great problem.
Charles looked at Zagreus for the final time and exclaimed ,"runn!!!", With his remaining strength as he armed himself to the teeth with a pistil and katana and grenades strapped on himself
Zagreus followed his father's advise and ran arriving 3 meters behind his mother she explained that there was someone waiting for them with a car and everything would be alright.
He heard 3 gunshots behind him coming from his former Home he felt pain betrayal but as tears streamed down his eyes all he could think is, "a man should not cry who's going to give them sophia mom confidence if I cry".
Charles faced each man one by one in hand to hand knocking many of them out in one punch following up with drawing his sword and delivering bilateral slashes as the opponents increased he took out two pistols one for long range and the other close range as he named them ebony and ivory in honor of an old game character he used to play as he made a slow retreat out he threw some grenades aswell.
Only for him to turn his back as a shot was fired close to his heart he slowly stumbled to the ground he knew this day would come his chickens had come to roost he lived by the sword and no matter how much he tried to justify it he would die by the sword as a last ditch effort off pure instinct he threw one last grenade.
As Zagreus ran they reached a frozen lake two shots were fired as if they were animals being hunted his eyes blood red as he forced himself on the floor of the frozen ice.
Samantha cried out "she's dead!!" as two more shots were fired piercing her throat a limp Zagreus without words fell to his knees and cursed
Why God was there a God did he exist was this retribution to the family he was born into
This
As he drowned in his own blood and his tears became blood a single sentence kept repeating in his head," gaibian!!...gaibian!!! Zhe mingyun!".
This is a story of magic fate and pride