(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Prologue

Chapter -1: Prologue

When the world first fell apart, the chaos that followed swallowed the lives of millions of people. Gates, wide portals in varying shades of toxic colours, opened up, exploding and covering the world with monsters and creatures previously only told in storybooks.

Devouring, destroying, consuming everything and everyone in their way. Governments crumbled, cities were toppled, and countless lives were changed and ruined.

During this time, when hope was lost, and fear consumed every human being on the planet, something magical began to happen.

People began to be born with powers that had only been heard of in stories, surprising themselves, surprising others as in tense moments of extreme fear and worry, powers would explode out of them and protect them, and others. Slowly, as more and more of these people were found or created, hope began to return to the general public.

That was, until the first person with powers exploded, decimating a camp of survivors, and fear ran wild once more.

The powers had a cost, and unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a way to relieve it. Over time, the person with powers would begin to lose themselves to insanity, until they would finally snap, break, and explode, like a bomb, causing chaos and destruction.

It became common practice for them to take themselves out before endangering others, tears running down their faces as they held guns to their heads. Those who couldn't do it themselves would hire others to do it, creating a fucked up cycle until one day, another type of power was found.