Mankind's Extinction

i.

I was casually walking in the streets of a huge yet semi-abandoned looking city after moving there, looking around, taking in the beauty of every building.

I always liked buildings that looked abandoned instead of modern day ones. There are people around, a lot actually, considering it was saturday.

I then went into a cafe since I haven't eaten breakfast. I sat down, scrolling through my phone as the waiter came to my booth with my order.

The cafe was slightly empty since it had just opened. I listened into the quiet chatters in the cafe as I ate my crepe cake. This is pretty peaceful..

Suddenly, there were screams in the alleyway beside the cafe. Everyone froze, immediately going to their phones and dialing for help, but as I checked mine, everyone apparently lost service. Ah shit..

Grabbing my sling bag and phone, I quickly left the cafe with other people. I stopped mid walk there was blood everywhere as if a massacre happened. Loud shooting and screams where heard all around the city.

I was about to run to my previous direction but seeing more people running away from there, I retaliated and ran the opposite way. Fuck it.

I kept running and running until I reached the untouched part of the city. Everyone was oblivious to what was happening in the other side, but I knew if we didn't warn enough people, the whole place would be a murder city.

Thankfully, a lot of us didn't give up running all the way over here and people believed us. We were about to leave the border of the city until the person beside me got shot.

I flinched, running deeper into the city. People were dying and screaming in agony right behind me as some didn't move too quick.

I was about to hide in a shop, but as I was about to enter, the dead people inside were slowly coming back to life. What the fuck..?

Suddenly, a hand clasped over my mouth and took me into an empty alleyway. "L-Let go of me!" I struggled against their grasp as they hushed me. "Shut up, you don't wanna die do you?" The person sighed.

"I'm Ivan, and this place will be hell if we don't leave." He says. "Great fucking introduction, don't you think?" I scoffed as I shrugged him off of me.

"For your information, I will not be going with someone I just met." I narrowed my eyes on him.

"Suit yourself, but I'm warning you. Those people, are no longer humane." Ivan warned. "Right, yeah okay. As if I didn't just witness someone fucking rise from the dead!" I sarcastically responded.

Shutting up, I heard footsteps coming. "Come on!" Ivan whisper yelled as we ventured deeper into the alleyway and was met with a back door.

We opened the door as quiet as we can. It was a shoe store. "Top ten useless finds during an apocalypse." I groaned as we walked around.

"Okay, that was kinda.. funny, I guess.." Ivan sighed. "What can I say, I'm born a comedian." I shrugged.

"There's a second floor though." I called out as we walked up the stairs seeing a clothing shop. "Okay, hear me out-" I bit back a smile as I rushed to the racks of clothing.

"We are so not going shopping during a shooting." Ivan groans but chuckles right after. I then stuffed clothes I found that would look good on me into the moss green backpack I saw.

I was already wearing a black standing neck, mid thigh dress with no sleeves, black tights and black mesh like arm warmers that reached up to my shoulder. I was wearing black boots already so it was no biggie.

I turned to a balcony seeing another balcony beside us. "Ivan, I think we could jump over there." I called, as he nodded and went first.

Once we were there, we entered the building seeing that it was a grocery store. "Now this is a find." I excitedly said as I picked up my favorite snacks along with fruits and bottles of water while Ivan did the same.

"You know, you never told me your name." Ivan acknowledged, looking at me. "Ivy, Iveon Red to be more specific." I smiled. "Ivan Stone. Nice to meet you, Ivy." He smiled back.