Zombie Wasteland

The Secret

    The three of them have a look of surprise on them. I'm sure my mouth was open as well. I stand up, "But I thought zombies eat humans or have the urge to eat them. Also they stink however my breath smells like a candy factory. Zombies also are not in their right mind but for me im in my right mind enough to know im not a zombie, dont forget the fact im talking, not grunting or drooling."

    Dr. Dove walks up, "Calm down, I know all of that which is why i'm so confused. It says your infected but as we can all see you are not a zombie. It makes no since." She takes out a Q-tip and sticks it in my mouth, gagging me, and takes my saliva and gets more of my blood. "Take him out to eat. I'm sure he's hungry after not eating for 5 years." Ben asks, " How do you know it's been 5 years?" She smirks, "It's amazing what computers can do. Now go along I need to concentrate on the tests. Also get him some new cloths and a shower."

    They take me to a restaurant called Zombo. Bell says, "It's an all you can eat so dig in." I gladly scope out my favorites from when I was little. I get steak, mashed potatoes, corn, cheese pizza, and root beer. I sit down drooling at all the good food. We all pray then I get my fork and I dig in, but as soon as it hits my mouth and I swallow, I run to the bathroom to through up.

    I get back from the bathroom and they all look at me. Ben, more than a bit concerned, asks, "You ok?" I look at them and sit down, "It looked really good. I dont know why it tasted so disgusting. Man either your cooks are really bad at cooking or my stomach is upset." Bell says, "Or the fact your infected." We all go silent. Awkward.... Jack speaks, "Relax~ Dr. Dove already said he wasn't a zombie. After we get him to take a bath and get new cloths for him we'll go check the results, ok?" We all nod.

    Man that shower felt awesome! The cloths feel a lot more comfy too. I walk out feeling awesome, nothing could ruin this... other than we getting the results and it turns out I am a zombie. They start walking back to the lab and I follow them. I know im not the only one who feels anxious, I can feel it in the air.

    We get there and Dr. Dove is sitting in the chair. "How did it go? Do you feel much better Ren?" I nod, "The shower felt great and these cloths are comfy as well but.... I threw up as soon as I ate the food." She didn't look surprised, "Sit down. I got all the results back and I will explain everything as much as I possibly can. However, this is a really complicated matter." We all sit down waiting for her to speak.

    She starts speaking and my heart beats so fast from being anxious, "He is in fact infected. However he is not a zombie. On the contrary he is the exact opposite of a zombie. As you have seen, His breath is sweat, not nasty; He is sane, not insane, the only thing they have in common is they both have extreme physical strength and speed, and the most outrageous, he does not have an apatite for humans." We all let out a sigh of relief. "I'm not finished." She pauses and resumes, "He however does have an apatite for zombies."

    We are all dumbfounded. Now i'm positive my mouth is hanging open. Even Ben hangs his mouth open. Dr. Dove puts on a plain face, "Close those traps before a bug flys in there." I close my mouth and say, "I want to eat those disgusting rotting things? Sorry but my stomach says otherwise."

   She gets up and walks over to a cabinet and pulls out something. We all say at the same time, "Ewwwwww." She pulls out a zombie arm. "I thought you wouldn't believe me so I got one of our scientists to invent a machine to turn zombie flesh and such into little beef jerky sticks so you wouldn't gag at the thought of eating zombie."

She hands me the stick of rotten flesh I sniff it completely thinking I will gag but instead it smells really good? I motion Jack over here thinking he is the type of person who wouldn't mind trying something new. I hold out the zombie stick, "Here you sniff and see if it smells good." He sniffs it and gags, "Ugh dude, how did you smell that and not through up??" I shrug my shoulders.

I stick it in my mouth and my stomach growls. I didn't realize how hungry I was; I scarfed it down. Bell walks up, "So does this mean he isn't a threat? Are we gonna do experiments or what?" I look up licking my fingers, "Errr experiments? Please don't, I think 5 years of being a test subject is enough.."

Dr. Dove looks over at Bell, "He's right Bell, I think he has had enough. But with his Zombie like abilities, I dont know for a fact but I think he is sorta undead like the Zombies. Maybe he can reattach himself like them or can only be killed by having his head chopped off. What we do know for a fact though is that he does have supernatural strength and speed. We could use that to our advantage to find a cure for all of this and fight the zombies."

I speak up, "Where is my choice in this matter?" They all look at me. Dr. Dove says, "Well where are you gonna go hmm? Are you just gonna live on the streets and starve to death? Cause there is NO zombies in these walls and you cant go outside without a blue mission card."

I think for a moment. After what seems like hours I say, "On one condition, you help me find my parents and... make more of those zombie sticks. By the way, the zombie food, do you have a name for it? You know, like beef jerky?" They all make faces like they are thinking of a name. Then Ben says, "How about Zomb Jerky?" Jack says, "Ok then! Looks like you got name for you very own food Ren!"

Then I remember something, "Weren't y'all supposed to explain everything to me? Not lust explain everything about me?" Bell walks up confidently and holds out her hand, "Join ZombKill and we'll explain everything about what has happened in the past 3 years, I dont know what happened during your 2 other years those are personal but everything else will be explained in detail."

I grab her hand, "I already told you I would join, I would starve if I didn't, plus I want to find my parents and find out what happened, right?" I wink. They all smile and Bell shakes my hand and hands me a blue card, "Welcome to ZombKill, Ren."    

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