The Apocalypse

I could save the world?

I was thinking for a while about what my mother had said about me knowing what to do and didn't realise that Wen had woken up and was talking to Frank about the exact same thing. He didn't understand what was going on either. I mean it's not like I was the one who was raised in a lab and is 'special'. There was a burning sensation inside me as if I was meant to know what to do, but the more I thought about it the more the burning continued until I realise it was at my shoulder. Where rose bit me, I pulled my shirt down slowly over the corner of my shoulder and looked at the bite I had almost forgotten about. Shocked I said "it's healing. Wen it's healing!" she turned her attention towards me, dropping any sort of conversation she was having with Frank and rushed over.

"What's healing?" Frank asked as Wen examined my shoulder. "Her bite, Rose bit her. I can't believe I almost forgot that. Melody this isn't possible!" she got up from her crouched position and ran out the room, I looked over at Frank to see him just sitting there staring at me as if I was some sort of stranger. Before I could say anything Wen came running back in with a wet cloth of sort and came over to clean my shoulder. "This isn't possible." She said while rubbing the scar. "You're immune to it. Melody you are the cure." Wen said shocked. This isn't possible, this is what mother meant? How did she know? Wen turned to Frank, "we need to keep Melody alive and safe, not that we wouldn't already but this is serious now." She said walking away from me and sitting back in her place by the fire.

I was so confused. Rose always said that the bite hurt more and more everyday but I practically forgot about mine. Inside me I know that this is great but I what if I don't want this, I'm going to have to watch the ones I love get hurt and turn into the dead while I can walk around and not turn. Where am I meant to go, if I am the cure I want to help people survive this apocalypse. I could of cured rose before she turned, thinking about her made my mood drop and I remembered back to that day where I had to kill her.

I don't think anything can shock me now, throw me at some zombies, okay. Jump of a building, okay. Kill my best friend, okay. I've done it all at this point, I don't think there is anything else that would shock me to be honest. Now that this has come along, it makes a lot of sense as to why it was easy for me to ignore that I had been bitten, but I just couldn't leave the idea that if I had known this earlier I could of found out some way to save rose from the infection and she would still be here now.

But there wasn't anything I could do now so I decided that the best thing to do was to get some sleep and then get moving to where ever life would take us.

I woke up and Wen and Frank were already awake and looked as if they had packed everything that we had used the night before and anything else we could carry and were just waiting for me to wake up. They were getting close, Wen was talking to Frank a lot more than she was talking to me. I didn't care it's just that Frank is a stranger and at least I've known her for longer than him. But she was the one who was all buddy buddy with Rose and I when we first met them, it was Nicol who was the suborn one.

Maybe things will be different soon, I mean Frank is my brother and I guess that makes us close to each other. I want to know more about how he came to be and what he remembers because this is all still so strange to me.

I stood up from where I was seated on the ground and walked over to where they were sitting in the corner. "Hey. Do you know where we are going now?" I asked wanting to know if they had any plan because I sure didn't know where we were going to go. "Yeah, we are going to head towards Wens home town because she knows how to get there from here and then go from there." Frank said lifting a backpack onto his back and walking towards the door. Wen passed me my bag and I placed it onto my back and followed to the door. This is the start of another adventure, but this time to see if I can cure the world.

We had been walking for most of the day now and I was starting to get tired, I looked up at the sky to see the sun starting to go down. We would have a couple of hours before it got dark, "how much further do we have to go before we get there?" I asked Wen because she was leading us there. She stopped from her pace which was a couple of strides in front of mine. "We still have to go through a couple more of towns Melody, but I guess we can find a place to stay for tonight." I suggested the roof tops, knowing that Rose and I have stayed nights up on them before and had no trouble with zombies. Frank wasn't so keen on the idea but it was the best that I could think of at the moment and we had blankets to keep us warm so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

We looked around at the abandoned shop to see if there was any way to get to the roof top from the outside but with no luck we realised that we would have to break into the shop and get up that way. Wen straight for the door to burst through because it was locked. "STOP!" I shouted, we didn't know the chances of there still being an alarm on this shop and setting it off could make a lot of noise for the zombies to be attracted to. We didn't want that.

I explained this to them both and then walked round to the back door where we could try to get in because the alarm looked only to be connected to the front doors. Holding my breath I kicked down the door, making minimal noise but we could deal with that. Luckily the alarm didn't go off and we rushed in quickly.

I slammed the door shut behind us and leant against it while I searched for my torch seen as is way pitch black in the room. I switched it on only to be faced with the barrel of a shotgun and a person on the other end looking very pissed off.