Manga Egg on Your Face - Synopsis

[yakiimo]

I've already gotten a couple of pages done, but that little piece of me wants to know if anyone would actually read this stuff but me. And even if not, it's all for fun anyway, right?

In a world where elves learn alongside humans, centaurs work factory jobs and a team of goblins oversee the building of a new highway, there is very little room for oddities.

There is a legend of a demon who possesses mortals. It takes on a host, gains its power, and destroys whole civilizations.

In the year 2013 AD, the veil between the world of men and the world of Faery fell. Humans with the souls of the Others were transformed. Buildings were overtaken by hills and mountains; housing complexes became vast plains. Much of modern life was lost in the rolling green of another chance.

In the years following, the world had to relive the Renaissance, the Victorian Age, the Industrial Revolution. Over 300 years after the tearing of the veil, the demon rose up from its prison deep within the earth. Many died, both human and Fae. Whole races were nearly wiped out of the earth. Just as men were on the threshold of technology, they were thrust backward once more by the demon.

After nearly a year of war with the monster, a group comprised of many races gathered together to seal it away into a crystal. It was smooth and warm to the touch. They knew that should anyone ever willingly form a pact with the demon, disaster would soon follow.

Another 300 years passed. 600 years after the Tearing, the demon was found again. The legend of it had spread all over the world. The desire by crime lords, corrupt barons and holy men sang sweet in the veins of men and Fae. It passed through many greedy hands, but none were so willing to make the pact to set the demon free. They all knew what would happen at the end.

At last, on a winter's night, a young boy seeking revenge stumbled over the stone. A street urchin who had wronged him lay dead and frozen in the snow. Taking up the stone, he ran, never once looking back but always hearing footsteps.

Over the next few months he held conversations with the stone, not knowing what was inside, only hearing the sweet promises it cooed into his ear. The boy's name was Jim. With a promise of revenge strong in his heart, he made the pact with the demon. It was too late that he learned about his eventual fate.

The demon fed off of the life of others. It started with the harmless drinking of negative energy. Harmful anger and hate, spite and jealousy and depression were all taken from unsuspecting victims, leaving behind an euphoric state of glee. It was only after these victims came to enjoy the feeling, craving it more and more that they changed.

Their hate overtook them, growing stronger without the knowledge of how to control it. The demon took and took until eventually the person died. But she died with a smile on her face. She was the only one to die.

Jim didn't remember what happened after that.

In the following 200 years, he never killed anyone else.

We arrive at the present day, 800 years after the Tearing of the Veil, where Jim is once again alone. Once again he killed a young boy who longed only for death. He thought he was doing him a favor, but when the blackness came, he knew he had done wrong.

When a young man stumbles upon Jim in the forest outside of his school, the boys' futures are changed forever.

Can they stop the demon before it regains enough power to be resurrected? Will they be able to stop this and thus save Jim's life? Or will the demon be freed and all life be lost to its horrendous and destructive power?

The story will have suspense, love, comedy. All the things that make a story great. But a story can't live without audience.

Do you think you'd read it? I know it's kind of long, but it's mostly back story.