The Truth of the Snake

Will looked up in horror as the sky bled fire, glowing specks of celestial light raining down from the heavens. He ran and so did everyone else. Not that it helped. God could not save them, they had nowhere to run. This was the day of the first Impact.

Collapsing upon them, the sky brought fire and ash, heralding the arrival of much worse things. When the smoke finally cleared, the celestial beings began their conquest, burning life as fuel for the motor of war.

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A rough breakdown of the story:

After countless, unspeakably powerful creatures descend to the mortal plane to fight a war that was started aeons ago, the world is thrown into chaos. A large portion of humanity dies and those that remain are left to pick up the pieces. Will, a young boy who hopes to become a hunter someday manages to survive the destruction of his village through sheer luck, making him the only survivor. Destitute, and with a monstrous storm closing in, his only option is to turn to the very thing that destroyed his village for help. A giant snake that fell from the sky like a meteor, crushing everything he'd ever known beneath it. The snake offers to help, even granting him new abilities so that he might survive the ensuing turmoil of war. However, as Will quickly learns and as the God-emperor once said:

Never. Trust a snake.