It was as quiet as the town normally was ever since the outbreak.
About three years ago there was an outbreak of a virus the world had
never before seen. No it isn't exactly a "zombie virus"
more like it makes those infected extremely aggressive and homicidal.
It also triggers a primal sense within that person that causes them
to crave flesh. More often then not they craved human flesh since
that was most readily available. I had survived because I had planned
out years and years ahead of time what I would do in the event of an
apocalypse like this.
I remained practically silent as I picked my
way through the almost war torn streets of Bangor. Half eaten bodies
everywhere, flipped over or crashed cars, scattered furniture. The
town was desolate. To the best of my knowledge I was the only
uninfected human in the city living among a horde of the infected.
When my options were gone I would shoot my way out of a situation.
But for the most part I used silent melee weapons. Swords,machetes,
hammers, axes, staff's stuff like that. Currently I was going on a
supply run to the abandoned stores which were still pretty much
stocked.
Baseball bat in hand I crept from street to street until
I was outside the Wal Mart which had been abandoned as soon as the
virus hit down. I had been told by a friend who roamed the state (his
name was Ron) that it was just Maine that had been hit but for some
reason I didn't believe it. If that were true wouldn't the government
have mobilised the army to clear the state of the infected? Anyways
that's not important.
As I walked into the Wal- Mart sure enough a
small group of the infected (who I had so fondly nicknamed Dead
Brains) came running at me snarling like dogs. The shortest one
reached me first and a swing from my bat sent his head flying into
the women's department. I got a double kill with the next two before
I dropped the bat. Those last two heads hitting my bat at once dented
it. I pulled a machete from the sheath on my back as I kicked a Dead
Brain away and brought the machete down straight through it's skull.
The final one came at me and I punched it in the forehead with my
spiked brass knuckles cracking open it's forehead as the machete
followed in an arc that severed the Dead Brain's head.
I dropped the
machete and pulled a hatchet out of the sheath at my hip. I dashed
over to sporting goods and grabbed more weapons ,bats, knives,
machete, a new shotgun and I also grabbed a pack of climbing rope. I
went over to the foods and filled my backpack with as much as I could
fit. I went to the pharmacy,clothing and electronic departments for
different odds and ends before loading my haul up into one of the
carts (how original) and headed out.
New machete in hand I was
ready for anything as I made my way back to the old police station
that I had made my home. Well I say I was ready for anything. I was
not expecting to see Ron sprinting towards me like his a** was on
fire. His trench coat billowing behind him like bat wings. He was
breathless when he finally caught up to me. "What are you doing
here I thought you were down in Bar Harbor?" I asked him while
he tried to catch his breath. "
Virus.......left....Maine....spread.....New
Hampshire.....Massachusets.....Dead Brains everywhere." He
wheezed. I patted Ron on the back and he pushed me back. "Get
off me this ain't Twillight!" He snapped. I laughed.
"Same
old Ron" I thought to myself. I had him start pushing the cart
since I was kind of tired and he followed me back to my home where he
flopped down onto the couch I had brought down from the office
upstairs. "This is eh a nice place ya got here" He
chuckled. "Uh Ron that's kinda my bed..." I tried to point
out. "Thanks for the offer I will take a nap thanks bro" He
said cheerily as he really did fall asleep. "Why do I always let
him do that?" I think to myself as I go over into one of the
cells and huddle up on one of the bunks.
Ron woke me up sometime
in the afternoon with a crazed look in his eyes. "Wake up wake
up! Let's kill some flesh addicts!" He shouted. I crawled off
the cot and strapped two machetes to my back, two hatches to my hips,
Pistols to the holsters beside my hatchets and slipped on my spiked
knuckles. I followed Ron out and closed the gate back up so the Dead
Brain's couldn't get into my house. Ron started sprinting from street
to street looking for what he called "flesh addicts" with
his broadsword he had stolen from some comic con nerd in his hand.
"That's it I want to kill something" He said before
sheathing his sword. He pulled out his two duel wield pistols and
started firing in every direction. "Ron you idiot do you know
what you have just done?!" I yelled at him. He got that crazed
look in his eyes as he put the handguns back and pulled out a
sawed-off 12 gauge and a kopesh. "Game on" He cackled. I
pulled one of my machete's off my back and back up to the wall of a
nearby house and waited.
Sure enough the howls of a hoard could
be heard and they came running from every direction as Ron laughed
like a maniac and threw himself at the horde blades flashing in the sunlight.
I always have to save him. I thought to myself as I drew my second machete and charged forward blades flashing as I cut through the horde. Ron started chanting as he essentially danced around killing Dead Brains. "Dead bodies make me happy, even when they try to kill me, Hack and slash and stab em' too, that's what I named Ron will do"
Then Ron tripped and the horde though thinned out quite substantially still swarmed him. I drew out my handguns and started blasting away at the Dead Brains as I shot my way to Ron who was fighting with hidden blades from his knees. I ran out of ammo and dropped my guns as I drew my hatchets and jumped over a group of Dead Brains and landed on the one's attacking Ron. As soon as I landed I was hacking away at the Dead Brain's while Ron cackled with glee.
The horde began to number into the hundreds as Ron and I had our backs to the wall. "You have killed us you idiot!" I yelled at Ron while I hacked at Dead Brains.
Ron merely shrugged as he impaled Dead Brains. "It's how we should go down. Fighting" He tried to assure me. I left my hatchets in the skulls of the Deadbrains and took out my spiked brass knuckles and started punching away at Dead Brains. I accepted that we were about to die but I was taking as many of these f***ers with me as I could. Then something happened. There was the roar of an engine and several black vans turned onto the road we were on and black clad figures burt out of the doors gun's blazing as they escorted us into the safety of the vehicles. Everyone loaded up the drivers burned out of the area and headed towards Brewer. Our rescuers quickly disarmed us and were running bio-chemical tests to assure themselves we were not infected. "Stop pokin at me you freaks I ain't infected!" Ron snapped at the lab techs who were drawing his blood. "Ron shut up" I snapped back.