Post by JAYYBIRD?! on Jun 23, 2011 16:06:59 GMT -5
[/color][/center]WELCOME TO ANTHEM
It use to not be like this. The city of Anthem was..well just your average city I guess. It was filled with the typical rich people, buying up allt eh property to make their businesses, the middle class who lived just under them, working for the rich, and then the poor who slumed the streets in search of spare change. Well that's how it was until they came. The first to be spotted was some boy, who accidentally lit the main street starbucks ablaze. Poor kid. He didn't die, luckily, but several were killed, not to mention the place was burnt to a crips. It was that day that people really got a tasted for the new kind.
The Gifted.
What where they, what were they capable of doing? Well no one was for sure. It took years for someone to come in and start figuring out, but when the A.R.D (Anthem Research Divsion)opened up in town, they took control of the place. It was chaos for a few months. Mr. President at the time decided tha what the A.R.D was doing was the right thing, so he issued the military to start rounding up the gifted folk and flood them into our city. But then one of them rose up, a diplomatic one. He was the one that sat down and made the deal.
The Gifted Were Under His Protection.
Not for long though. The University he opened up in the middle of the city only protected the Gifted as long as they were enrolled, which at most was four years. After that, those who graduated had to fend for themselves. Mr. President bought the idea, and it went into affect Jul 4th, 2012 (Ironic isn't it?) That was the day the Gifted bought their freedom for a few short years. But they didn't excpect what happened next.
A year later the A.R.D had figured out when the Gifted gained their abilites. 15 years old was the age they started showing, at first lightly, but by the time they were 18 they were present and able to be mastered in another few years. So what did they do witht his information? Well they began snatching up all the 15 year olds in town they could , running experiments on them, trying to see just what mutation in the DNA caused this catastrophy. But before they could figure it out they were shut down.
The city laid in wait for the next three years, waiting to see the first class emerge out of the graduation line. The school had opened its doors to everyone, not only the Gifted, so in chance they could be hidden among their fellow peers, only coming out and telling who they wanted.
The Hunters came swiftly.
Mutated agents made from the DNA extracted by the A.R.D, their only purpose was to cleanse the world of the impure. And they began. One after another they hunted the gifted. Some got away, others died. Years went on, The Gifted laid in wait inside their fortress, while the Hunters prayed on the weak outside in the city.
Then, the A.R.D came back to town.
After laying in waiting for years, they arose again, this time with a new plan. Infiltaration. They made a new breed Hunters, gave them a personality, gave them life, and then sent them away to the school.
By now, Anthem Community College, or A.C.C, had nothing to worry about. The Gifted were more trained then the original Hunters that were blind to emotion and prinicple. But then, some started disappearing. A few each semester. The Dean grew worried and began to wonder what was going on, but the studets already knew. Some had seen them, late at night, take their classmates out into the woods only to hear them call out once before their silence muffled.
Now its 2022. A few classmates who have seen what these new breed of Hunters can do have joined together to fight for their rights and to stop the A.R.D. They call themselves Vertias.
Now a secret war rages on in the streets. Most humans don't know about it, but it's happening all around them. Who are you with? The Scientists? The Hunters? Vertias? or do you just not care to see? Either way, I think we can all say 'Fate fell short this time.'[/blockquote][/blockquote]
