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[center][h1][color=silver]- The Story Begins -[/color][/h1]
[h2] Chapters and Index [/h2][/center]

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[center][h2][color=silver] Chapter 1;[/color][/h2]
[h3]A Rude Awakening[/h3][/center]

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With the first dawn of 2020 there came a wave of Violet light, and a new wave of mages - the Fifth Generation, they would be called. This hour marks the turning of the page into the new year - and so too, the beginning of their story. 

The FOE were, as they always are, quick to act; rolling roadblocks were set up, the country going into martial law while the agents of the enemy combed the population for magicians or sympathisers, kidnapping the former and executing the latter on the spot. In the new world, magic is treason, and treason means death.

Our protagonists, most of them magicians themselves, were awoken amongst this chaos to the smell of burning and a sense of horror as the truth uncoiled in the back of their minds and smiled grimly at them. Most of them had never considered that they might one day bear the stigma of awakening, many of them had been behind FOE when they started rounding the others up and disappearing them - but all of them were on the run.

The time is 03:00 hours. It is the deep of the night, the bed of stars in the skies above you a facade below which monsters walk. In the background you can already hear gunshots, screaming, and the clatter of batons on riot shields; whether these things are truly happening near you or if the severity of it simply makes itself heard from a distance, you cannot tell. The world is coming undone, like silk thread picked from the seam of the universe, and you are at the end of it. It is beginning, but it feels as if it has been over for a long time now.

You are roused from this reverie, eventually, by the buzzing of your phone. 

You have a text.

"[I]We don't have time to talk right now, FOE will be inside your home within ten minutes. We know who you are and what you are, and we want to help.[/i]"

"[i]Leave through the back door, don't wake anyone up. Cross two streets to the west. Our people will find you and get you to safety. Please let us help you, you don't deserve what they're going to do to you.[/i]"

"[i]Godspeed.[/i]"

" - [color=violet] V. U. [/color]"

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