Unsightly zombie

Insight

Insight

Four beings stood in a small clearing.
Three of the figures stood directly across from the lonely figure in a stance that screamed confrontation and bloodshed. The two men on the edge of the trio stood tall, the left man shorter than the right. The man in the middle wasn't a man at all , but a hunched over beast resembling what was once a man. It was straining on its thick chain leash and tugging fruitlessly towards the lone boy that stood opposed to the duo and the muzzled man beast.

The man on the far left stood and smirked.
"You're fighting a loosing battle, three against one. You can back off now or we can set the beast loose on you and you can be eaten alive."

The lonesome figure grimaced and snarled with the knowledge of his own defeat. Not saying a word the lone boy began to think. He wanted to be selfish and run back into the arms of his beloved, but he also wanted to fight even though it was definitely a pointless battle that would crown him the loser. He wanted to fight for revenge for himself, for his family, and for the world the duo had managed to ruin.

The lone boy acknowledged his defeat and turned to retreat away from the clearing, but before he could truly retreat from the pine surrounded clearing and return to his humble abode. A drastic and horrid snarling was heard. The boy knowing better than to look did so anyway to satisfy his aching curiosity.

The man beast's muzzle was removed and revealed its left mandible hanging on by a few ligaments the man beasts lips were rotted away and the teeth were dirty and stained with blood.
The beasts glowing red eyes never moved from the lone boy. The man beast's eyes were filled with bloodlust and complete starvation that would never really be truly satisfied.
The only thing still keeping the hungry beast back was the leash around its neck.
"Sorry, but you know far too much, so you must die. OPTION TWO IT IS! Go get 'im Frankie poo!!!" The left man cheered enthusiastically.
While the man on the left snarled in contempt. "Dewy, what the hell have I told you about naming the cannibals?"
The man presumably called Dewy frowned and tears started to drip down his face. " I'm sorry!"
The right man stared at Dewy for a long moment before smiling softly. Ignoring the man beast and the problematic boy, the right man leaned over the beast and gently pulled Dewy in by his thumb and pointer finger pausing only when their faces were inches apart
"I can't stay mad at you Dewy especially when you cry like that" The right man said fascinated as he closed the gap and lovingly kissed Dewy.
The boy stared shocked and began to creep away. When the right man and Dewy stopped kissing, the boy had made it to the edge of the forest before Dewy noticed and smiled insanely.
"Run little brat run." The boy paused contemplating that he screamed "I HAVE A NAME" before he concluded it was a bad idea and ran.

As he ran into the forest of pine trees he could hear two clicks and the beasts snarling intensify. As the teen boy ran faster and faster his heart beat skyrocketed and adrenalin flowed through his bones. The boy could hear rapid footfalls behind him.He breathed in and out rapidly.
In the cold, dark, unforgiving pine forest he could've seen his own breath if he wasn't so concentrated on running away from a monster that wouldn't hesitate on eating him alive. Fortunately he wasn't completely focused on running away he had a plan. Trying his absolute hardest he increased his pace and could hear the monster falling behind slightly. Finally he put his plan into action as he jumped onto a pine tree and quickly scuttled up the tree.
The monster moaned and shakily climbed up after the teen. The boy panted and kicked the man beast when it came to close causing it to fall and climb back up only to have this process repeated. After several cycles of this pattern the dull man beast caught on and grabbed The boy's leg as he kicked and they both came tumbling down
As The boy hit the ground with a crack he struggled to move but it seemed he had no feeling in his legs and lower back. The boys eyes widened at this realization. He took a moment to ponder but the man beast wasted no time and was on top of its prey in a second. The man beasts teeth sunk into the soft skin of the boys chest and pulled on the skin.
The skin could no longer tolerate the rapid stretching and began to tear. The boys' pain filled screams tore through the air.
The boy frantically punched at the man beast on top of him to no avail. He spastically moved his body doing anything he could to get the beast off of him. With a frighteningly hard shove from the boy the man beast finally tore off the boy's flesh causing the boy's screams to start again far more intense then before and suddenly stop when he saw his chance, trying his best to ignore the intense pain he shoved the man beast off himself, dragging himself away from the beast until his belly hit something hard and sharp. Cringing through the extra pain he quickly grabbed the rock from underneath himself.
Feeling the beast on top of his upper back he quickly turned over and smacked the man beasts lower jaw off. The jawless man beast brought his struggling prey closer until its movement ceased as the boy smacked the beast's head as hard as he could. With a wet crack the beasts skull caved in and the monster ceased all movements. The boy lay on his back panting not moving his body until he grew tired of the weight on his torso and shoved the beast off
of him flipping back on his stomach.
The boy lay in an unmoving heap resigning to his certain doom. He was going to die there was no avoiding that. He would either bleed out alone in the foggy pine forest or a cannibal would find him an eat him up granted he wouldn't feel most of it, but he was fairly sure that seeing a fellow ex-human eating your knees as you died didn't seem exactly pleasant. Even if he got extremely lucky and he didn't bleed out or a cannibal didn't find him he would starve to death or become so dehydrated his body would resemble dried seaweed. He closed his eyes and stayed like that, hoping he would bleed out quickly. And he was, he could feel himself fading quickly about to fall unconscious until he heard two pairs of footfalls coming from the direction he supposed his feet were. Not even bothering to look up he summoned his remaining strength he rolled back on his back and croaked defeatedly.
"W why, would you infect the world?"

"Because, the world is far better like this. You're too young to understand, after all you were only child when the infection started." Right man panted.

"S so? My family is dead and gone, the world from my view sucks." The boy said venomously.

"And your point is? Even though all your family is dead doesn't mean a thing to you does it? You've still managed to find companionship with that other boy," Right man smirked

The boy sat up a little bit and stared at the right man incredulously.
"You've never felt a bit of empathy, have you?"

"Yes maybe once, but it's not holding me back anymore!" Right man smiled.

"You're a psycho." The boy glowered.

" I confess, I do question my own sanity sometimes. But does sanity really matter here? Yes, because sanity here gets you killed. You have to do the insane to survive, like kill the recently infected regardless of your relationship." Right man smiled

"Would you, would you kill Dewy?" The boy smirked triumphantly.

The right man leaned over the boy wagging his finger.
" I don't ever have to. Because we've made ourselves practically immortal with a cure. Granted we need to eat humans, but we aren't mindless monsters"

" So the only difference between bloodthirsty disgusting monsters and the cannibals is that they don't have a consciousness." The boy snarked.

"Haha very funny let's see if you have that snark after we make a meal out of you." The man snarled.

"Hmmm, can you start with my legs first? It seems I've broken my back in the fall!" The boy joked apathetically with his horrible situation. Before clutching his chest and falling on his back coughing up blood his strength disappearing as quickly as it came.

"Haha funny!" Dewy laughed at the dying boy in front of him..
"Jaaccceee can we keep him?!"

"Sure Dewy, if he survives a while longer we can administer the vaccine and torture him for all of eternity." Jace smiled dreamily.

The boys irises flashed a dull shade of malevolent red.
"Oh, look. It's already starting! Although, with that wound I doubt he'll survive long enough to become a cannibal!" Dewy laughed hysterically.

The boys now red eyes took notice of the gun holster on Jace's hip before he pitifully sat up and tried to weakly finger the gun out of its holster. Jace jerked his hip away the first few times before he gave up and stopped. But the boy couldn't do it he had no strength left and he couldn't grasp the gun properly.

When Jace handed the boy the gun The teens eyes widened in surprise before he aimed the loaded gun and fired.

A sharp pain flooded the right side of his head before he felt nothing at all.

The boys body flopped back. A hole on the right side of his head. Dewy stared shocked at the carnage before smiling at Jace. "How'd you know that he was going to?"
Jace glanced back at the body. "There was only one bullet in that gun, he had to make the shot count the best that he could. If he killed you or me he would still die even if you or I left. The cannibals would've found him eventually or he would've bled out, so he was selfish and saved himself suffering instead of doing the so called right thing to do and killing the villains" Jace walked away and Dewy followed like a lost puppy before Jace said one last thing about the matter.

"I think he was the actual villain."

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