Cannibal In An Apocalypse

1-Escape

Ethan ran in the hallways for what felt like hours passing by and each second piercing screams would be heard all around him.

Everyone around him wasn't paying attention to the escaping patients and were more focused on the danger up ahead.

Zombies were everywhere and everyone was being attacked ruthlessly.

He saw a young lady with black hair, Mrs Keller, she was the one that had "taken care of him" while he was in the laboratory. Keller was pushed around and a zombie had grabbed her.

"Serves you right asshole!" Ethan yelled to Keller and continued running.

Someone had bumped into Ethan and he had fallen over and a zombie was about to attack him but it instead got pushed around by other running people.

Ethan quickly stood up taking a second to inhale the air before continuing to run. He went up stairs and had finally seen a big door up ahead.

He opened it and the sun shone on him brightly, it hurt his eyes, he hadn't seen the sun in 2 years. He was kept in the laboratory since he was 19.

He ran outside and saw even more zombies. 'so this is it huh? An apocalypse actually happened..' Ethan thought standing still.

He quickly shook his head, there was no time for thoughts right now, zombies could attack him at any moment so he needed to find a safe place and something to protect himself.

It wasn't long before he had found a safe building to stay in. He was currently in an apartment looking out the window while a little girl was behind him.

"Are you sure no zombies are coming up here, sir?" The little girl asked. "Yes I'm sure" Ethan replied and he went over to the kitchen looking in the drawers.

The place he was in before had never given him what he actually needed, he felt like his whole body would combust if he didn't get food right now.

He picked out a big knife looking at it for a second. It gave him deja vu of a very specific day... He looked behind him at the little girl and walked over to her keeping the knife behind his back.

"Come here" Ethan ordered and the girl took one step forward before pausing and her eyes widened.

Ethan took the knife out from behind his back and immediately stabbed the girl in the chest. It hadn't gone completely through her chest but it was a large wound.

The girl started screaming but her shouts had ended shortly after Ethan had stabbed her in the head multiple times.

He didn't want to prepare anything and just immediately went to bite her hand, ripping her flesh off with some help with the knife too. He licked the blood off his lips and continued to eat her arm.

He hadn't tasted human flesh in 2 years and then it was only a bit.

Suddenly the door flung open and a man burst through the door sweating and holding a bat. His eyes widened on the scene that was in front of him.

"Emily!" The man cried out and his eyes landed on Ethan, he put his bat up in the air ready to strike at him but a zombie from behind had tackled him and bit him on the neck.

Ethan quickly stood up tightly squeezing the knife in his hand and stabbed right through the zombies head. It was surprisingly very fragile so it was easily penetrated.

Ethan pulled the knife out and looked at the three bodies around him. "Thank god an apocalypse is currently happening so the police wouldn't really care about this at the time" Ethan thought and started walking towards the door.

He walked downstairs to the floor level and opened the door looking around before exiting. The screams of terror from others hadn't stopped but it had gotten a bit quieter.

He also looked down at himself, he was wearing a white shirt and pants that were big for him. "Maybe I should look for new clothes later" Ethan said to himself.

A groan was heard from behind him and he pulled out his knife in front of him and turned. A zombie was about to lunge at him so he quickly put the knife behind his head and struck straight at its head when it was close enough.

Blood spattered around him and the zombie's body fell to the floor.

Ethan stared at the body for some time thinking whether he should try to eat zombies too. Then a voice was heard behind him, a familiar voice that had been with him at the Laboratory.

"Help!" The voice shouted and Ethan jolted back staring at the person that was 10 meters away from him. It was Atlas, his best friend.

"Atlas!" Ethan shouted panicking as he sprinted towards him but it was to late, three zombies had pounced on Atlas ripping his head open and tugging it from eachother.

Ethan couldn't bare to watch and immediately stabbed the first zombie in the skull and quickly pushed the second one, that was behind him, back. He grabbed the third zombies head and smashed it into the second ones.

He looked down at Atlas's distorted face which was pulled apart by the zombies. His eyes began to water and tears ran down his cheek as he fell to his knees.

He had seen terrible sights of bodies decomposing and being torn apart but it was worse now since now the person dead was actually close to Ethan and someone he cared about deeply.

No, he couldn't let himself act so weak especially when any second now he could get attacked. He picked himself up on his feet and took one last glance at Atlas before moving on through the city.