lukestokes And The Steempocalypse

The year was 2019. Steem had hit the $26,000 mark. Along with this milestone came a breathtaking discovery. Not everyone could sign up in Steemit. No matter how hard one tried to get people to sign up on Steemit, it was just impossible for some people to join the platform. Steemit was only attractive to descendants of the ancient Greek Gods. Even if a normal human tried to join, a glitch was bound to occur, which prevented them from joining the platform.

Different stories which had been regarded as stories for young children were being revisited. Steemians were finding out more about their ancestry as it turned out that being on the Steemit.com site was unlocking a dormant gene in us. It was discovered that @dan and @ned were both descendants of Athena(don't ask me how), the Goddess of wisdom, craft and war. @jerrybanfield was a descendant of Zeus. @goodkarma was a descendant of Nemesis, the Goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune.

Ordinary humans became scared of the Steemians, who according to them were "freaks". As they have always done with things they don't understand, the humans attacked every Steemian they could find, accusing them of witchcraft. I remember being attacked by some guys with guns. I was only able to save myself because I was a descendant of Hypnos. My brother was killed by some people who had poisoned him. It was a time of great turmoil for Steemians.

While everyone else had found out who they descended from, @lukestokes was yet to find out who he descended from. He had no special abilities and barely escaped with his life when Steemians were being hunted.

At a point, all the countries in the world agreed to round up their resident Steemians and subject them to experimental studies. They saw no reason why every human should not have the special abilities. @roadscape, a descendant of Hephaestus and delegate.lafona, another descendant of Athena were able to manipulate the world wide database, thus temporarily saving the steemians.

A witchhunt for Steemians began and several Steemians were captured and experimented upon. A bounty of $20,000 was placed on each Steemian and several people became bounty hunters.

On a certain day, an alien spaceship entered the Earth's atmosphere. It's occupants were soldiers of to a race that had conquered and destroyed several races within our section of the galaxy and sought to add us to their growing list. They destroyed several cities and laid several human dwellings to waste.

Every nation in the world joined hands against them but they seemed unstoppable. For the first time in a long while, humans and Steemians were working together. Several lives were lost in the war and the aliens took over large portions of the earth.

One day, an earthling group of fighters which comprised of human soldiers and Steemians were camped beside a beach licking our wounds when a small group of alien soldiers arrived. We tried our best to fight against them but they had superior weapons compared to what we earthlings had. For some strange reason, we Steemians could not use our abilities against them hence, we had to stick to using normal human weapons.

During the fight, an alien soldier ran into @lukestokes and threw him to the floor. Just as he was about to finish him off, @lukestokes began to convulse. With this convulsion, the earth began to quake. Everyone temporarily forgot about the fight and left the dead and dying to seek refuge from the earthquake.

During all this pandemonium,@lukestokes rose up, raised his hand up and water rose up from the sea. Like a water-bender from the avatar cartoon, @lukestokes poured drenched the entire beach with water. Loud unintelligible sounds filled the earth as the aliens screamed in pain.

We had made use of fire power against the aliens. It turned out that we had been employing the wrong tactics all along. We watched in awe as the aliens dropped to the floor in agony and slowly disintegrated before our eyes.We won that battle and the subsequent ones under @lukestokes leadership.

Who could have guessed that ordinary water was what was required to stop the seemingly almighty aliens? It was confirmed that the seemingly nimble @lukestokes was a descendant of Poseidon, the God of the sea, earthquakes, soil, storms, and horses.

To cut the long story short, @lukestokes saved the day, helped Earth win the war and brought peace and harmony among the Steemians and the human.

Artwork by @camzy
Story by @illuminatus