Nathaniel Drake Short Story

Many, many a year ago, there was a young, regular boy, about six-years-old named Nathaniel Drake. There was nothing really special about him, just another regular child in another ordinary village on Earth in the early twenty-third century. That is, until the Day the Monsters Came. That day, that sad, hopeless day, was one of the bleakest days in Earth’s history. Late one night, the stars fell from the heavens. These stars fell all the time in the form of rocks, in the form of meteors. But these were no ordinary meteorites. These rocks from space, as they hit the earth, broke apart. Each contained an army of hideous creatures. Monsters. The monsters roamed the Earth, leaving a constant path of destruction and chaos behind them. They shaped …show more content…
It seemed as though the sun went out and the stars turned to dust and the moon was too petrified to shine. Human kind hid like animals in caves and underground. They built civilizations, learned to survive. They all hid for a decade, until one. Nathaniel Drake, by then he was fifteen, decided that he was sick and tired of hiding. He wanted to feel the heat of the sunbeams on his back, listen to waves crash on the beach, watch the wind blow through the trees branches like canals, all those small beauties in life that he had never really cared about before, or even …show more content…
Nathaniel and his sister slowly coaxed the humans out of the darkness and showed them the wonders of the world. As nations rebuilt themselves, the two Drake children set up a school called the Drake Monster Academy. There they taught teenagers, starting at sixteen, everything they knew about monsters: care, abilities, identification, and, most of all, battling.
As the world progressed and technology evolved, battling monsters became a sport. Chips were implanted in the monsters, connecting them to a console. That console displayed all the statistics of a monster (evasiveness, defense, attack, and health) as well as their different abilities, or “Powers” that they can use to fight.

Almost a century later, that same building still stands in the city of New York. Almost every young child dreams their nights away over that very school. Especially one. A single little girl who has been influenced by monsters her whole life and dreamed of going to the Drake Monster Academy will, very soon, finally get her