The Last Survivor

Mission-6 Safe zones

You wake up in a sweaty mess and breathing heavily. You get up and walk towards the bathroom and wash out your face. "Can't sleep huh," Gloria said suddenly which made you jumped when you heard her. "Huh! Oh. Yeah... it's just I thought it would be safer after we revived lots of people. I thought that the cure would stop the curse from mutating," you respond. "It's ok it was your first mission. Even if people still die after the cure was spread look around society is rebuilding families were reunited and people were given relief even a second chance. What we did was good. We will continue forward even if more people die we have to keep going if not then what's the point," She said. "You're right I just can't get the image out of my head just Hanz's body burnt to a crisp in the pile of rubble," you say. "But think what about the guy, Seamus right? What about him," she says "he must feel worse because he was the one who did the attack,". "Yo- you're right I gotta see if he's ok," you say. Gloria stops you from running off and points towards the window and says "first you need to sleep you also have a mission in the morning,".

You wake up and eat then you grab your gear and visit the makeshift post office you send a letter to Seamus making sure he is in good shape. After sending the letter you exit the base and head over to another danger zone. On the way there you almost get hit by a boulder that was thrown by another big monster which the locals now call a "Dozer". You report the dozer's location and Henderson responds with "we have a search and destroy squad heading your way now continue to the next danger zone I will debrief you when you get there,". You then continue the journey to the danger zone and on the way you test the grapple rope which you find could also be used to swing from the roof tops to lower grounds. You fail to get a good swing and get your ankle caught on a lamp post which made you twist it. You press on and when you finally make it you call Henderson and he says " we have set up a windmill and lights on the roof of the building you just need to hook up the power and generator to the windmill. Then you have to jump start the windmill but I'll explain as you go ok?". "Got it," you reply. You climb onto the roof and grab the cords and bring all of them close to the nearest generators. "Alright now we labeled the cords in number order just plug them in like so," you plug each light in and then ask what is next. "Now what you are going to do is open the panel on the north side of the windmill and connect the cables from the generators to the color coded ports,". "That shouldn't be too hard,". You say. "Oh this is just to prepare you for the real mission," Henderson said. The words made you freeze in fear of what the actual mission is. After connecting the cables to the right ports you ask "ok done now what?" "You must use the crank in the middle of the windmill to jump start it," Henderson responded. You find the crank and spin it until the windmill moves. You pick up the radio and say "done what's next for this mission?". "Now you have to wait till night for the rest of the mission," Henderson replies. So you take a little shopping while you wait for night and buy a first aid kit, a flashlight, and lastly a UV flare for emergency purposes.

"Now that it's dark out the cursed will leave the building allowing you to get in there with less risk. Once your in you must destroy the curse totems. These totems allow them to mutate to the special cursed that we saw earlier. When you finish killing them you must bring UV lamps and generators into the building to turn it into a safe zone. Do you got that?" Henderson asked. "Got it," you reply. You climb down the side of the building and enter through an open window. The smell of rotten flesh and decaying corpses hit you even before you crawl through the window. You sneak past the sleeper cursed and find the Totems. They look like a living people slowly being consumed by a type of flesh. The people's ribs were ripped open, their eyes were missing and replaced by a constant stream of puss, their arms met the same fate as their lower half glued to the floor by melted flesh, cracks in their skin glowing in the lack of light, and their heart exposed to the world beating a painful rhythm slowly dying. You took out your machete and cut the totem. A piercing scream came from the totem. You continued to slash it until it collapsed into ash. The sleeper cursed weren't sleeping anymore and they lunged at you attempting to kill you. You slashed and shot at them until they died and continued to kill the totems. Each scream hurt your ears more and more. When you were finally done you heard a thud come from on of the windows the same type of cursed you saw back at the courtyard. It has the same split open spine with tentacles coming out and its throat and tongue hanging out of its neck. You run out the window and grapple upward towards the safe zone you set up earlier that day. The cursed grabs your leg and you kick at its face and you hear a crack when you kicked its jaw. The cursed just snarled in response and grabbed your thigh pulling you downward away from the safe zone. You pull on the rope hoping to get away from the creature. It tries to bite you but your kicking keeps it from biting. You remember that you have a flashlight. You take out the flashlight and shine it in its face blinding it. The cursed let go of your leg for a brief moment and you pulled as hard as you could and climbed into the UV light and you look back at the cursed it jumped into the light and it screamed as the light made its skin burn. The cursed staggered for a few minutes but recovered and continued towards you. You pull out your pistol and start shooting. You empty the mag into its face but it continues walking. Out of ammo you resort to the bow that you got from the facility. You knock an arrow and release the velocity of the arrow makes it pierce straight through its eye and the impact from it makes the cursed head explode in a rain of blood and other bodily fluids. You head inside of the safe zone because you know that more are coming.

You wait until the screeching stops and look outside of the safe zone. You see no curses and head back inside and set up more UV lamps and generators. You finally finish the project and head to bed on one of the mattresses on the floor. When you make it there you see something glowing outside the window. You hide and peek through the window and see a human looking creature. The creature has wings white as snow and a halo over their head. The creature looked angel like but not the ones from stories you have heard.

The creature had a comforting aura and was herding the cursed and after awhile it raised its hand towards the group and a beam of light came from his hand as soon as the light disappeared the cursed were human again but they still had injuries like the other survivors. You swiftly turn around and grab your radio and speak in haste to anyone who heard and say "My name is y/n I just made a new safe zone and as I finish I came across a new creature that looks angel like, it has golden hair, blue eyes, white clothes, and is able to cure the curse. I repeat, I have discovered a new creature capable of curing cursed...". As you finished the sentence you hear knocking on the door of the apartment you peek the door and see the angelic creature. It opens its mouth and says "young one would you kindly let these poor souls in to safety,". "How do I know you're not a curse trying to trick me?". You ask. The creature replies "because if I was I would have just burned you along with this entire building,". You nod in defeat and let the others in. They each thank you one by one and all of them have a scared and confused look on their face. They all asked questions from "what date is it?" To "How many survivors are there?" And "Why do you have wolf ears and a tail?" You answer as best you could. You look around the apartment and find can food and clothes. You pass around the clothes as on of the people who were saved took the liberty to hook up the buildings power to the windmill. After a few tries the building finally came to life and you took a the canned food and helped one of the "saved" which is what you started to call them. One of the Saved came up to you and said "hey does your tail always disappear in the light?" You look behind you and find that your tail is gone as well as your wolf ears you tell them "I didn't notice until now, huh I guess this has to do with the curse that I was given". You find messing with the way your tail reacts to light amusing. After messing with for a while you notice that your tail can still interact with the world even if it disappears.

Your radio clicks and you hear Henderson say "Y/n come in what is this about an angelic creature?" "It cured people Henderson like it was nothing," you reply. You continue to describe the creature to Henderson and get off call. You tell everyone "get some sleep everyone we have visitors coming tomorrow," "what do you mean?"One of the saved asked. "It means some of the other survivors are coming to help with renovations to fortify this safe zone more,".

You woke up to banging from the roof. You get up and climb to the roof and find people building weapons and other components to make the apartment building much safer from attacks. As you look around Henderson calls you and says "ok that is all the jobs we have for you you might want to head over to the berserker faction there they can teach you ways to fight opponents much stronger than you.