Blood Not Flesh

Liya

What do I remember before the outbreak? Hmmm Not much really. As a kid I took Archery classes, I always loved how the Bow and Arrows looked and how people used them, as a child my first Bow and Arrows were just toy ones, so I wouldn't hurt myself and my parents thought it was just a fad as a kid and I'd get over it, but I never did.

At the age of 9 I asked to take Archer classes and my mother said no because I was a girl but my father was all for it, so he eventually persuaded my mom to saying yet and I took Archery till I was 17 than, I went on my own and would make targets and walk while shooting them at the same time and each time I would hit it dead in the middle.

My friends even trust me enough to place an apple on their head to see what I'm like under pressure, and I never missed which always made us all celebrate. I was Even put into competitions that my father would sign me up for and I loved it, I almost made it into the Olympics but than the outbreak happened the last day of try outs.

I remember my Best friend being there when it all happened I did everything I could to protect her I tried to shoot all the infected that went near her, I turned my back for two seconds to kill one that was going towards my coach while he was running than I heard her screams and got bitten but it, and I shot everyone of them around her, and saw her bleeding through her neck and arms and I just froze I hated myself for that she would have been alive if I didn't turn my back for that split second.

I shot an arrow through my freak head to stop her suffering and ran out slinging my bow over my shoulder and quickly grabbed all the bows off the wall that I could get and slung that over my shoulder as well and ran home. I stayed there and waited for my parents to run though but they never did. I stayed home until I felt safe to walk outside.

I remember going onto the roof and we had this big tree and I would jump into the tree and sit there and shoot arrows into the head of every infected thing that I saw and I could carve it on the tree how many I killed that day and I made it out to be training and also a game, and I would see if I could beat the amount I killed every day, and I did that everyday before searching for supplies because than I knew the area was clear, and I would always take the arrows from their head clean them off and reuse them.

I was only 19 and I knew how to protect myself and find supplies, which always made me smile I would talk to myself and ask my mom and dad if they were proud of me, ask them if they thought I was doing well on my own, and it would make me cry because I never knew if they were dead or alive, and I would never know until the day I found them which is another thing I tried to do every day after getting supplies. I would go out to find my mom and dad.

I remember always checking the places I new they would go, I would check the stadium but it was always the same dead bodies there no new ones, I would check houses but they were all empty, but I remembered I never check the mall so I walked there knowing I would run into hundreds of the infected things because I never once went there to clear that area, and I knew they were drawn to sound so i had to try and stay quiet.

I remember breaking into houses and climbing to the roof tops of the houses that were close to the mall so I could clear a path to it, and I was right hundreds of the infected were there but It was nothing to kill with a bow an arrow when you're up high because than they cant reach you. I checked each one I killed to see if it was my parents but so far nothing, I walked home because it started to get dark and that was when the town flooded with the infected and it wasn't safe to be out at all. 

It took me two months to clean out that mall and I never ran into my parents which was a relief because it meant that they were still alive out there somewhere hopefully. I woke up the next morning and got back in my tree like the usual but here were no infected people. I heard screams from the woods and quickly jumped down and ran towards the screams I looked seeing a girl and a friend or boyfriend of hers he kept shooting his gun and hers looked like it was out of ammo they noise was drawing the infected to them "STOP SHOOTING!" I yelled while shooting my arrows into the heads of the dead "THE NOISE DRAWS THEM TO YOU!" I yelled as he kept shooting, After what felt like forever all the infected were dead and they two looked at me "Are you an Idiot! Your gun shots are what brought them your way the noise draws them out you idiot!" I yelled and the girl looked at me "Tao was just trying to protect me" she said and I rolled my eyes and grabbed all my arrows and put them back in the bag.

They introduced themselves to me as Tao and Chanseul she was 20 and he was 22 they told me they had a group of them only 7 of them right now, They asked me to join them and I agreed and walked back with them, nothing was keeping me in that town I was just there because I had no where else to go. I remembered seeing a cut on Tao's forehead just above his eye brow and I told him to sit and I went in my bag to bandage it up for him, before going any further.

I got the group and was introduced to the other 5 members, Yongguk, Suga, Zico, Mino and Bobby, and I was welcomed into their group after they heard that I helped save their lives. After that our group just kept growing and we invited and welcomed everyone with open arms, because like Zico told me the more members to more easier it is to survive because than you have more body's to help kill the dead when you get surrounded, than you do when your alive, you have more chances for surviving in a group than you do alone, and I believed him.

I always called them infected because I thought this was just a sickness that could be cured, but It wasn't they were all dead, and the disease brought you back alive and your fed off the flesh of the living, Just like those zombie books you read as kids, but now those books were reality and you were living it.