Chapter 8: The Outbreak

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Today was supposed to be like any other day. It was supposed to be normal. It was supposed to be like any other day. No one would have ever thought. Not in their wildest nightmares not even the Devil himself would dare to tread this horror on his worst enemies.

The sound of rain hitting your car with echoing resonance. The low hum of your engine filling the white noise with nothing playing on the radio. You let out a big sigh, for today was the day where you were gonna meet up with Claire and give your details on Umbrella. It was pretty late at night and you were making your way to the coffee shop. Waiting in the parking lot. You relax and await the text from Claire that she has arrived. You pulled your seat back so you could lay down in the driver seat. The sounds of the coffee shop bell chimes as people open and close the door. Other vehicles going down the street on their daily commute. A couple of hours later nothing from Claire so you decide to try to call her. Calling her phone though proves to be fruitless. No signal. You try to restart your phone to see if that is the problem, but your phone dies. You forgot to charge it during work. To make matters worse you forgot your charger at work. You think to yourself that it can't get any worse than this. Hours go by and you still haven't seen Claire show up. You decide to get out of your car and wait inside the cafe. Opening the door you see that there is only a few people in the shop. You sit at your usual spot and the waitress comes to you. "What can I get you dear?" You tell her your usual order and she nods. "I'll be back in a sec hun." While you wait you play with the packets of sugar and watch the TV. As you watch you see Raccoon News is on. You watch the news as you order comes. The waitress leaves it on your table and leaves. Just before you look back up to the TV. It changes to a horror flick with zombies. The sound of shrieks are blared on the speakers, of a random woman screaming as a badly dressed zombie "eats" her brains. One of the customers were annoyed and asked who changed the channel. It was just a couple of teens who took the remote from the counter and changed the channel. They were keeping to themselves before but you guessed they were bored and switched it. The teens just say "The news is boring and nobody important were watching anyway." Nothing else was said and everyone just continued on with their business. You look to the movie and quietly critique it for how unreal it is. You laugh at the movie if anything. As you enjoy your meal and coffee. A man walks into the cafe. He wobbles to and from and coughs horrendously. He gets to the counter and sits down. The waitress comes over and asks him if he is alright. He nods and asks for some water as he continues to cough louder and louder. People in the shop are deterred and some even leave. The man looks around and grabs a good chunk of some napkins left on the counter and wipes his sweat. You look over worried and assess the situation. The waitress comes back and hands him his water and he graciously takes it in his shaky grip. As he sips you noticed his cheek and eyes were looking pretty bad. Flushed with visible veins showing. His eyes a cloudy white. He pulls his phone out and begins to text. The teens looking over on him start to eye him down until one of them heads over to him. The teen walking over to him looks to be a stereotypical jock with cocky mixed in. The teen sits beside him and begins to annoy him. The man ignores him and continues to text. The teen gets annoyed and says to the man "I asked you a question old man." Once again is met with silence. Annoyed he takes the man's phone out of his hands and walks away with it. You are about to get up and assist until the man himself quickly gets up and grabs the teen by his collar. The man coughing tells the boy to give his device back. The teen tries to get him off but isn't budging. Irritated he punches the man's face and knocking his hood off. The man's head exposed. His hair appeared to be falling out, his face covered in veins and his skin pale. He growls at the teen and punches the kid in the face. The teen's nose bleeds as he quickly moves away from the old man. As the man goes to pick up his device you see on its cover the Umbrella Corp logo on it. This isn't your ordinary phone. It looked to high tech. But there you see on the screen a message. It was too quick when he pulled it back to face him so you couldn't quite get a clear view. The sick man then immediately starts to cough hoarsely until blood comes out. The waitress noticing this goes to the phone and calls for help. The other patrons gather to the man to see if he is okay. The man quickly finishes his text and drops the phone. There he convulses and writhes in pain on the floor. Foam mixed with blood come pouring out of his mouth as his eye become bloodshot and forced looking up. In an attempt to help the ambulance had finally arrived and begin. The two paramedics get the gear kit out and begin to assist the man. Sadly before they could he had already died. One of them had checked the pulse and now see that he is deceased. They both look disappointed and quickly get the body bag. Not too long after the teen boy who had been punched in the nose goes to the body and proceeds to kick it. Patrons of the cafe try to stop him but he just shoves them off. You get up to tell him to knock it off, but he just says "Fuck Off Bitch!" Irritated you were going to settle this.

Then as he goes in for one final kick to the chest. His leg is grabbed. Gripping on to his leg the man then begins to growl and gurgle. The teen shocked tries to kick him off. People of the cafe try to leave but have realized there are already black vans outside surrounding the area. You quickly look around to see that scientists armed with guns rush out and make their way inside. The man bites into the teens leg whilst the teen let's out a painful shout. The man continues to gnaw in the teens shin. Blood splattering out like a burst pipe. Before the man could continue he is immediately shot at, along with the teen. Bullet holes entering and exiting out of them as the scientists continue their volley. Blood pools to the floor as the teen collapses to the ground. His group of friends screaming in horror as one girl rushes out to hold her dead lover. Her sobs ruining her makeup as she clutches to the lifeless body. The scientist round the body of the man and drag it away whilst one of the scientist has their gun pointed at the couple. They begin to shout at one another saying "Clear the body, clear the body!" As three scientist go to the now lone body of the man and begin to examine it. They all seem to be quick and decise as if they had been monitoring the situation the entire time. You begin to analyze the men and their mannerisms. They seemed too convenient to have arrived, even emergency help takes some time to show up seeing that the hospital is on the other side of town. And they all showed up in unmarked, unlicensed vans. But surprisingly enough they all are wearing what looks to be the Umbrella Corp logo, with the words O.S.T.F. under it. You try to think where you've seen the acronym before. The thought begins to itch the back of your head. However before you can come to the conclusion. The woman who was crying to her dead boyfriend suddenly shrieks as you see her once coddling her boyfriends dead corpse like a mother losing her child, to the horrified visage of absolute terror and pain as you see her boyfriend ripping her throat out as she gags and suffocated from her own blood. Unable to do anything the woman passes due to blood loss as her boyfriend quickly goes to attack his group of friends. As the situation grows worse you see the scientist fire to the teen again, but it had only managed to piss him off. With animalistic tenacity he finishes off the rest of his group and attacks the scientists. You see this situation get worse and run over to the counter. Making your way the soldiers intervene and begin to shoot at the infected. You get over the counter and make your way out of the kitchen. You try to open the door but it is locked. Looking through the small window you see more soldiers and scientists outside covering the area. You duck back down before anyone saw you. Sure enough however you look to see where else you could go but see the cook covering his neck after being shot accidentally from earlier. Him succumbing to his wound and fading. You look out through the order window. That the group of teens have become nothing more than cannibalistic monsters and are terrorizing the patrons and Umbrellas men. You see the waitress eye being eaten out as she screams in pain from one of the teens. You see a newly infected soldier rush at his former companions and rips their skin off of their body. Other patrons becoming infected and agitated attacking more and more. You stayed in the kitchen arming yourself with a knife. Hands shaking, heart pounding and slowly coming to mentally breakdown. As you listen in horror as shouts, gunfire, and blood is spilt. Why is this happening, what went wrong?


Thus ends Chapter 8: The Outbreak

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