Book 2 : BTS 👀, Skz🥰, Ateez✨

Apocalyptic Oneshot (Ateez)

"I'm tired"

It's late in the morning as Ellie gets up from the old classroom. She is all alone. It's been a few months now that she hid into the most infected part of the country.

The Infection.

An overall fiasco that the government couldn't watch over for. Five years ago, when Elina was 17 years old, an epidemic started in the center of the country. People began coughing. Being quarantined.

Nothing was really mentioned on the media.

Except that more and more people were falling ill in an unknown manner. People began disappearing and soon the streets where empty.

People didn't get out anymore, worried about getting infected by "the invisible virus". The government tried harder than ever to hide the effect of the disease. The bloodthirst and need of massacres of the one who got sick.

The Infected slowly lost all their fluids and all life in their eyes disappeared: they became Zombies. The media called them Infected to be less dramatic. People that were over 45 years old where the one who got the disease the quickest. And later on, it was discovered that it was through a bite. Or if saliva touched the skin of someone uninfected then...It was already too late. It penetrated into the skin and people became sick. High fevers, swellings and finally they lost their fluids. It was disgusting.

Ellie had gotten to experience it first. Her father that was on the older side, asked to be killed before he fully transformed into something dangerous. Yes, the infected acted exactly like zombies.

They couldn't talk. They couldn't see. But they were ten times stronger. Their hearing was ten times sharper and their saliva, the only fluids they still had, more poisonous than ever. It was frightening, but Ellie's mother was strong. A strong woman who protected her daughter from getting bitten.

And killed herself and her husband before causing more harm.

Chaos exploded in the hospitals. Infected were out of control. Ellie had no choice but to run, horrifying images forever imprinted in her head. Reaching for her house, she had managed to survive there for quite a bit. The electricity was still working, but the internet wasn't. Calls couldn't reach out and the TV stopped working. Her neighbors and everyone in her village ran away. Or tried at least.

Ellie managed to get away and joined a group of young people. She got under the wing of someone called White. He was 26 years old. A leadership and a way with words that convinced a lot of people to follow him including Ellie. He had money, contacts and more importantly he had weapons to defend them.

They established themselves in a neighboring city. And everything was good at first. They were around 300 hundred people all communicating with each other and trying to survive together. But, all good times come to an end. White became more and more strict. Ellie that had gotten under his wing tried to reason him, but it was to no avail.

He put a dictatorship into place. It could even be called a cult. He painted his whole face in White and began ordering people around. Punishing people when they didn't listen to him. Ellie was just like the others, but her punishment were harsher and she had to stay by his side at all time. On a leash.

You shake your head remembering the times. You were now 22 years old. Living in an old high school in a city crawling with infected everywhere. Nobody would think of searching for you here. You had changed sites several times to avoid getting in the Whites way. White and the Whites.

'Crazy.' That's the first word that pops up in your head as you grab your backpack and walk out of the school.

You've developed an ability to make no noise while walking during those five years and the Infected that you meet in the school are unmoving. You learned how to slow down your breath and it's been months since you've talked out loud.