In the far future, there will be a war called The Final War. It is called this because of what happens to put a stop to all wars on earth. What put a stop to wars is called the Virus and the Time of Pandora's Box. These things bring about the apocalypse and reduce many nations covered in crawling, decaying bodies to rubble. These nations are bombed enough times to send them back into the sea from wence they came or into radioactive waste lands far more worse than Chernobyl.
The Virus creates the living dead, and was created by a scientist trying to bring his murdered daughter back from the dead. The living dead, better known as the feared zombies, originated in a country far from England, and some ways from France. For almost a year, America, now a simple half of what it once was, was blamed for the outbreak. It was usually where the Virus starts in movies and books, after all. New information came to light when the European Union began planning to attack North America and they stopped, slowly turning against each other.
It is in this way that everything fell into place for Pandora's Box to open. No one knows where the place to release all ghastly beasts is located, nor would anyone want to with what terrible creations they would witness there. From ghostly apparitions to vampires, every horrible creature to ever haunt your nightmares came alive that day. It began what was known as the Time of Pandora's Box.
America and Canada soon crumbled from their foundations. With the effects of most lives taken by beasts of the undead, the remaining barely stood any chance. Those who lived fought back, stealing what they could to survive and building walls higher than the Gates of Heaven. Though they could not hold back the apparitions, they could keep out zombies, vampires, and other tangible monsters.
England and France seemed to hold longest against everything, them and most of the Russian Confederation. Soon the countries lost support from the world and could barely hold on by a string. Germany, the Nordic countries, Africa and most of Asia had fallen in the first few months, seeming to be struck the quickest. Switzerland fell after the first five years, no longer able to use the famous Swiss Alps that had protected them for decades against encroaching legions.
The rest of the world by that point lost contact with every other, and then it was known the time had come. The Apocalypse, Armageddon, Ragnarok, the Time of Reckoning. The End of the World and life as we all knew it. No one was saved from the fate of death and fighting back became a lost cause.
Until, with shocking fervor, the North American nations came back with more ammunition than Switzerland had before falling. Somehow, within ten years, high walls had been built within the countries to protect those still breathing and functioning like humans and mortals, and began to rebuild communication between them and restart factories producing weapons and, more importantly, ammunition.
Most fighters were young teens to young adults, the older men and women left back to continue creating functioning tools of war, aimed to work against those non-living. With these fighters they carried not only bullets and grenades, but grenades filled with holy water and garlic, bullets of silver and bullets engraved with crosses on the bottom ends.
The tide turned in favor of the countries that had held out for ten, long, slow paced years and quickly they overtook the playing field. Men, women and children alike fought, holding nothing back. If you were took young or old to fight or had been crippled, you worked on walls made of concrete and steel, no exceptions were made because all hands were needed. Every person was on continuous watch for the moment you died so your body could be thrown out, no chances taken.
In hardly half the time these nations had succumbed did they have back what was rightfully theirs; their freedom and security.
What finally, truly saved Europe, or at least what remained, was when the secluded countries of Australia and New Zealand took part. Australia had not been affect by the Virus, and had ended up with minor infestations from the creatures that had come out of Pandora's Box due to its overbearing heat and sunlight, but were quickly gotten rid of. New Zealand had cut all contact when things first began to fall apart, knowing something bad was in store.
And then, the war was over. The war known as the Final War ended. No one could believe it. But then again it could be believed. There was no more need for war after this. There was no land anyone was willing to grapple for anymore, no resources anyone wanted more than their lives. The world had fallen into utter, undefinable peace. All at the cost of almost losing humanity.
The age of war had passed, and many settled down with their overbearing amounts of weaponry now aimed at foul things of the night. But overtime people began to feel something was missing, something people knew very well long, long ago before the Final War. And slowly, ever slowly, a law in the remaining European countries was passed, one saying that, while it was alright to not believe in a higher power, you had to believe in one of the following religions if you did; Christian-Catholic or Islam.
No one argued, no one cared. It led them from the dark they had grown suffocatingly used to and so they accepted. In North America, as the three countries now called themselves as a whole in favor of their original country names, no longer believing in countries as the way to live and survive, the people believed in what they wanted to believe, never forgetting their paths during the Final War.
Time Travel was soon discovered by North America and, instead of changing what had happened to them, chose to investigate the past and even the future of which they were no longer certain. Over time they began to gather information they did not know before. The other remaining countries were given this power on strict rules not to mess up what had happened to them, no matter how high the temptation. The cost of peace was high and it was better kept that way.
Peace now reigned.
The Virus creates the living dead, and was created by a scientist trying to bring his murdered daughter back from the dead. The living dead, better known as the feared zombies, originated in a country far from England, and some ways from France. For almost a year, America, now a simple half of what it once was, was blamed for the outbreak. It was usually where the Virus starts in movies and books, after all. New information came to light when the European Union began planning to attack North America and they stopped, slowly turning against each other.
It is in this way that everything fell into place for Pandora's Box to open. No one knows where the place to release all ghastly beasts is located, nor would anyone want to with what terrible creations they would witness there. From ghostly apparitions to vampires, every horrible creature to ever haunt your nightmares came alive that day. It began what was known as the Time of Pandora's Box.
America and Canada soon crumbled from their foundations. With the effects of most lives taken by beasts of the undead, the remaining barely stood any chance. Those who lived fought back, stealing what they could to survive and building walls higher than the Gates of Heaven. Though they could not hold back the apparitions, they could keep out zombies, vampires, and other tangible monsters.
England and France seemed to hold longest against everything, them and most of the Russian Confederation. Soon the countries lost support from the world and could barely hold on by a string. Germany, the Nordic countries, Africa and most of Asia had fallen in the first few months, seeming to be struck the quickest. Switzerland fell after the first five years, no longer able to use the famous Swiss Alps that had protected them for decades against encroaching legions.
The rest of the world by that point lost contact with every other, and then it was known the time had come. The Apocalypse, Armageddon, Ragnarok, the Time of Reckoning. The End of the World and life as we all knew it. No one was saved from the fate of death and fighting back became a lost cause.
Until, with shocking fervor, the North American nations came back with more ammunition than Switzerland had before falling. Somehow, within ten years, high walls had been built within the countries to protect those still breathing and functioning like humans and mortals, and began to rebuild communication between them and restart factories producing weapons and, more importantly, ammunition.
Most fighters were young teens to young adults, the older men and women left back to continue creating functioning tools of war, aimed to work against those non-living. With these fighters they carried not only bullets and grenades, but grenades filled with holy water and garlic, bullets of silver and bullets engraved with crosses on the bottom ends.
The tide turned in favor of the countries that had held out for ten, long, slow paced years and quickly they overtook the playing field. Men, women and children alike fought, holding nothing back. If you were took young or old to fight or had been crippled, you worked on walls made of concrete and steel, no exceptions were made because all hands were needed. Every person was on continuous watch for the moment you died so your body could be thrown out, no chances taken.
In hardly half the time these nations had succumbed did they have back what was rightfully theirs; their freedom and security.
What finally, truly saved Europe, or at least what remained, was when the secluded countries of Australia and New Zealand took part. Australia had not been affect by the Virus, and had ended up with minor infestations from the creatures that had come out of Pandora's Box due to its overbearing heat and sunlight, but were quickly gotten rid of. New Zealand had cut all contact when things first began to fall apart, knowing something bad was in store.
And then, the war was over. The war known as the Final War ended. No one could believe it. But then again it could be believed. There was no more need for war after this. There was no land anyone was willing to grapple for anymore, no resources anyone wanted more than their lives. The world had fallen into utter, undefinable peace. All at the cost of almost losing humanity.
The age of war had passed, and many settled down with their overbearing amounts of weaponry now aimed at foul things of the night. But overtime people began to feel something was missing, something people knew very well long, long ago before the Final War. And slowly, ever slowly, a law in the remaining European countries was passed, one saying that, while it was alright to not believe in a higher power, you had to believe in one of the following religions if you did; Christian-Catholic or Islam.
No one argued, no one cared. It led them from the dark they had grown suffocatingly used to and so they accepted. In North America, as the three countries now called themselves as a whole in favor of their original country names, no longer believing in countries as the way to live and survive, the people believed in what they wanted to believe, never forgetting their paths during the Final War.
Time Travel was soon discovered by North America and, instead of changing what had happened to them, chose to investigate the past and even the future of which they were no longer certain. Over time they began to gather information they did not know before. The other remaining countries were given this power on strict rules not to mess up what had happened to them, no matter how high the temptation. The cost of peace was high and it was better kept that way.
Peace now reigned.