Here is entry number one in New Works Friday. let me know what you think, and I hope your interested in seeing where this is going, now I won't say that every NWF is gonna be this story, but as of right now I will be exploring this for awhile. Do note that this is more like a first draft of these stories, it is by no means a polished product. Hope it's not terrible. Enjoy.
The year 2012 was predicted to be the end of the world, and to some it was, there were many deaths, but in reality what it was meant as was the end of an era of living. On September 24th 2012 the dead began to rise from the grave, beginning what was known at the time as the Zombie Apocalypse, this would later be revised seeing as how it was offensive to the undead. The first wave of the undead was like any normal horror movie, Zombies coming out of the ground and biting people, those who were not eaten became Zombies themselves, but what people began to notice that was strange was that those who were bitten did die, and did become Zombies, but still had brain functions, they were still very human, this would later be explained by the fact that they were not dead for very long before reanimating. The people who died and were reanimated had no recollection of who they were, and were born with "The Hunger." They would eat their loved ones, not because they were mindless, simply because they were reborn and no longer knew these people. When the government figured this out they began a study, capturing any and all Zombies that still had cognitive abilities, hoping to use them as some sort of biological weapons, or merely as target practice. Sometime around 2015 life had returned to mostly normal, or as normal as it could, most of the Zombies had been cleared out by the military. Unfortunatly no one looked into the cause of the Zombie attack, but not to worry on August 14th 2015 the San Andreas Fault opened up, destroying a large portion of California, and out came more Zombies, this time dressed in armor with shields bearing a Purple skeleton hand grasping a Black skull. They didn't attack they just stood there as news crews and the military approached, millions watched as out of the fault six hooded figures in Violet robes appeared. One stepped forward and showed his face, it was nothing but a bleach white skull. "I am Omino, leader of the Undead, we come in peace and wish to speak to you about the horrible event that happened three years ago on September 24th." He explained to the people that the Zombie outbreak occurred when their lower class, the mindless Zombies, tried to take over their government, which was ruled by these Six robed figured, called The Hex. He referred to himself as Hex Omino, he was part of the upper class of the Undead. The one's like him were referred to as "Muertos" their people appeared in Mexico hundreds of years ago, at the time they were a monarchy and it was their Queen Mictecaihuatl who they worshiped in their old tradition. The Skeletons later took on the name Muertos once the Spanish fused traditions with the natives and Dia de los Muertos came about. The Undead Middle Class was made up of the Zombi, which were Zombies with cognitive abilities, much like the humans who had died when bitten then come back. Those who were Zombie had only been dead from anywhere between a second and a hundred years, anytime longer then that their consciousness began to fade and they would become the Lower Class Zombies who lost all power of thought beyond their next meal, or so it was thought until they tried to overthrow the government. Hex Omino said that his people wished to live side by side with Humans, and that they were willing to share the secrets of the dead with the human race. Of course this sounded great and all, the only problem is that the Zombie's and the Zombi's main food source seemed to be humans, the Muertos had no need to eat, seeing as how they had no organs or meat on them. The Hex known as Hex Agon solved this problem by stating that all Zombies would be kept back in the Underworld, and that Zombis did not eat esclusively Human flesh, Hex Agon was working on a substitute that could be used to satiate The Hunger, and that with the help of the Human scientists he would be able to finish his work.
Over the next 50 years the Undead began to integrate into Human society, of course doubling the population of a planet in a matter of 50 years can be a problem, especially when one considers that not all Undead were good people in their Predeath. The Hex assured the Human race that once someone dies they cannot carry memories into their Postdeath. The only ones who had any recollection of their Predeath were the Hex, that is why they were chosen to lead, they were special, any and all information of the Muertos Predeath was kept under very tight security. A new class sytem began to establish itself in the world. At the top were the wealthiest Humans, then the Muertos, next the Middle Class Humans and the Zombie were seemingly one class, next the Lower Class Humans, and finally the Zombies. The pyramid that was the human class system got taller with the lowest layer far exceeding the top four combined. But there was nothing that could be done, extra measures were taken to insure that the Zombies did not break out of the underworld, nor were they allowed to unionize like before, they were treated the worst of all creatures, living or dead.
75 years later, the year 2140, Humans and Undead have been living and working together for a better tomorrow, the Muertos have established a project for a new colony on the Moon, their workers don't need oxygen, the project is nearing completion and soon the entire moon will be inhabitable, even for humans. The plan is to move the two upperclasses to the moon, a plan that does not sit well with most, unease permeates Earth, and the leader of the project, Hex Achord has gone missing. Here is where our story starts...
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