Gravitational Cosmic Cloud
It's done.
Unfortunately, there wasn't any time window to prep or scream in horror. This can easily be justified by the scale of this cosmic event.
After all, it was presumably ravaging through massive cosmic bodies; entire galaxies; at intergalactic cosmic speeds. The Earth was merely an average sized planet within our solar system; that's inturn nearly insignificant within the Milky Way Galaxy.
The whole solar system was spontaneously engulfed within the storm upon impact.
That being said, not everyone was oblivious of its coming. The upper echelons, aka governing bodies of the planet; they had intel on the estimated time of impact two months prior to the occasion & had proceeded to lay what possible countermeasures. They had deemed it inconsequential to inform the masses, suggesting the population was better off living their last days in ignorant bliss.
A humanitarian act of mercy; they called it.... as they unsparingly exhausted every ounce of salvageable resources to build bunkers to shelter them few; in an attempt to prevent humanity's extinction.
Yet they weren't the only ones aware of the event, as there were metacognitive figures who could spiritually perceive it from even earlier on. Their reactions were diverse, but none of them set about spreading mass hysteria. In their own ways, they welcomed the occasion; preserving the status quo of ignorant bliss to the masses; .... as an act of humanitarian mercy? In acceptance of nature taking its course.
Dissonance
The barrier thinned & broke loose. The barrier between the physical, spiritual & the metaphysical. The damage was irregular, spanning across all planes of existence.
Such was the unhindered rampage of the GCC waves;
• On the physical plane; Earthquakes, Volcano eruptions, Tsunami, busted electric grids & power plants. Immeasurable damage on multiple fronts, nearly sending humanity back to the stone age, if not that the accumulated knowledge persisted in various forms.
Electromagnetic waves & foreign energies ravaged both living beings & inanimate matter alike.
• On the metaphysical plane; spatial rifts were stranded throughout the globe. And gravity changed. The moon was shining like a disco ball; its rough surface peeling off, ravaged by captivating elemental storms. The sun.... The sun was relatively unscathed.... rather it seemed to have picked up an energy boost.
• On the spiritual plane, the impact was unfathomable. Souls & minds.... Many were torn asunder from their physical vessels, tangled & strewn about in their astral forms by the GCC storms. And the elements manifested consciousness that materialized in spiritual forms.
Resonance
Full Circle. What goes around, comes around. After reaching the highest forms of rampage, the storms started to die out, and the dissonance they wrought began to seek a new form & structure to settle at, turning into Resonance. A resonance that tapped into the residual energy reserves of the GCC waves as a catalyst to form anew; a compatible structure.
• Only a few of the displaced souls managed to survive in their astral forms.
• The struggling & persisting lifeforms that out lasted the storms evolved to survive in the unfamiliar environment.
• Compatible metals, materials & inanimate matter merged & evolved into higher forms.
• The elements interacted with each other, becoming aware of themselves & seeking to understand their presence, in their multiple forms across nature.
The Unfortunate
Reality unfolds in unpredictable ways, & it often begs to differ to established misconceptions. Many didn't make it through the catastrophe; natural selection.
But.... with an even worse fate, some drew the short end of the stick.... perhaps "cursed" would be a more accurate term to describe them? ; they became variants. Disfigured beings whose existence got altered beyond categorization in the dissonance, by sentence of which they couldn't attain any shred of resonance. Doomed to live as irregular beings incapable of either reproduction or multiplication. Free to roam everywhere but never belonging anywhere.
Slumber
After the apocalypse struck & ravaged the Earth from ground to land, from sea to ocean to surface, from trees to skies, from East to West & from South to North. All life was cast into a deep slumber.
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