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
the world however they pleased, the humans too afraid to fight back. Humans are funny in that way. They’re happy to fight their own kind and they love to hurt smaller animals for sport, but when they’re all on their own, or in combat with something bigger, they lay down their weapons and surrender, to afraid of pain, of death, so they simply settle for cowardice.
As mentioned, these days were the ultimate darkness.
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
noticed.
He left. He abandoned the civilization that had been forged and his small family: his parents, and his little sister, Uma Drake, who was twelve at the time.
Uma had always looked up to her older brother, and loved him as birds loved the breeze and fish loved the water. She needed him. So when he left, she was heartbroken. She vowed to wait for him, no matter how long he’d take.

On Uma’s fourteenth birthday, she was still waiting for her brother. Everyone in her society called him “That Mad Boy”. They had assumed that he had been killed in his short moments in the sunlight. Uma believed otherwise. So, that night, she snuck out of their cave and felt the sun on her own back. And she loved it, for she had not been out in the fresh air since she was two-years-old.
Uma traipsed the earth for a year and a day, searching for her sibling. Through her long, weary hunt, she learned. She learned of the world the monsters had created. They had become docile, friendly, even. Very nearly ever monster she came across assisted her on her journey.
On the very last day of her trek, she discovered a grand oasis. She was parched and starved and she hoped the oasis would supply her. As she approached, figures came into view. One looked human.
Uma Drake had not spoken to, or even seen, another human being since she left. When she recognized the shape of the silhouette, she broke into a sprint. An eternity had passed by the time she had reached the beautiful paradise. And, right in the middle of it, surrounded by tens of hundreds of monsters, friendly monsters, lovely monsters, who else could be there but Nathaniel Drake? There was never a happier man, woman, or child on earth as their was that day when siblings finally reunited.
Nathaniel showed Uma what he had accomplished in his four-year absence. Oh, the things he had done, the beauties he had seen. But what caught Uma’s attention the most was his knowledge and affection of monsters. He had met every one, named them, learned to train them, and put it all in a book he had made out of large leaves that he had found. He had even had christened one after his dear sister.
As Uma soon learned of the blessings this new world had to offer, Nathaniel taught her everything: how to care for each monster, what each of their special abilities were, how to memorize all their names, and even how to battle them in combat, in case she met an untrained and violent one.
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
chance…

Her name?
Nadia Montique.