The Sickness

Album 1

My Killers Name is Mary

My world had been flipped upside,what I used to know was just a faded memory, a realty that had now turned into a dream.the place I used to live in Arenab, is infested with "the sick" I now have to move away to a place that's more protected and safe to a village that's more safe, to a kingdom that's more safe, to the biggest and most powerful kingdom of all Saileen.

I walk through the uninhabitable desert wasteland, it's the only way I can go if I'm going to make it to Saileen.The roads are filled with "the sick" and there's no Trailman in this world that would carry me through to Saileen, not even thinking that we would make it that far.

The desert is a cruel and harsh place there's no town for miles in any direction, half the plants are poisons and the other half are too stiff and dry to eat. Most of the rations I packed are gone assigns it's only been three days. Ahhh my head is spinning, and my vision is blurry I can't stand and become unbalanced, I fumbled onto the ground. I'm thirsty, just so thirsty, hungry just so hungry. My eyes slowly begin to close, I struggle to keep them open but temptation is setting in and just as I'm starting to close my eyes, out of nowhere in the corner of my eye I see a human like figure in the distance.

I gather up all of my strength to get up. I stagger towards the figure hoping that they'd have some water or have a shelter nearby. As I approach the figure i see that it doesn't look like a normal person, their posture looks slouchy and bent, and they seen to be limping and moving very slow then I realized. It was one of "the sick"

I didn't have enough energy to fight nor did I have enough to run. It slowly approached me, I was in awe, how could such a ugly creature be considered to once be human. This " person" was ugly and disfigured, large areas of her skin had been

taken over by the disease and became a dark black tar color, it was rough and bumpy like bark on a tree, the only way I could tell it was a woman was because of the few strands of hair coming from her head and her body structure,but besides that she wasn't related to the human species. Horns where protruding from her head, the same color as her skin, she looked gross, bloody, sad and sick. I can't believe she used to be human, but you know at one point she was, so I was going to give her a name Mary, the first thing that popped into my head.

I'll say the sick come in many different looks and forms and this is one of least grotesque. Mary looked me straight in the eye, I started to shiver,she lifted her hand up and pointed east. then put her hand down and dropped to her knees, then to the ground, she was dead.

I guess Mary's greatest desire was to die. I crawled over to her body to search it, looking at her up close I see that she was wearing a nurses outfit, there must be a hospital near by. I searched her body for anything that would be of use to me, I found a nurse ID card, cough drops, and some syringes. Looking at her I could see how depressed and distraught she was, the only thing I could see in her eyes was pure sadness. I lifted my camera up to my head and took a picture. I ate the few cough drops she had in her pocket and started to head east, soon I found a small town. I guess I was wrong about there being no Towns in any direction, but I never came across this town and I've traveled this way before. At least I think I have, I mean if I just cut across the desert instead of using the roads I would get to Saileen faster and it'd be safer, right? Well it doesn't matter now this town is just like the other towns, rundown, scummy, and had a medieval look. One thing was different though it didn't have any kings flags anywhere to determine wich kingdom it was from this was one of those "independent villages ". I started taking lots off pictures, I've never been to town like this before, it was so empty, I decided too look for the hospital hoping they's have clean food or water. Har..har..Harwin hospital,hopefully it was nearby or even in the area, who knows how far that lady walked. I found it right in the middle of town, I walked up to it and banged on the door and pulled the handle it was locked, on the side was one of those id card door locks. There was no possible way I was going to get in, there was no hope, I should just give up, is what I would've said if I didn't have an id card.

The large steel door opened slowly, it slide from one side to the other. lights flickered in the halls, the floor covered in blood and spread around, as if someone was trying to clean it up with a mop, but failed miserably. I pulled out my sword and stumbled inside cautiously. The front desk was abandoned and messy, I walked through the wooden gate and headed towards the door in the back. Back here it was surprisingly clean, things were straighten up and put away but most of the drawers were empty. As I approached closer to the door, I heard the rustling of papers and people's voices.

My sword was ready in hand, as I got closer and closer the sound became louder and more clear. I prepared myself for the worst and busted through the door swinging my sword frantically hoping to hit anything in front of me.

"Ouch!"

"what the hell are you doing!"

There were papers scattered through the air, blood dripping on the floor, the screams of a woman, it was a perfect little moment of chaos. I lifted my camera up to my head, and took a picture.

"BAM!" The papers flew through thee air gliding with the wind, slowly descending to the ground. Spinning, and rotating, everything around me becoming blurry. My hands empty and my vision toward the ceiling depleting, dissipating, fading, until there was only darkness.

"Is he going to be okay."

"Why do you care? He hurt you."

"I don't think he meant to, I mean it didn't look like he had an intent to kill."

"I know what he did back there was pathetic."