Outbreak

Her heart was pounding, her body was shaking. She tried so hard not to let the tears roll down her face.

She suddenly heard one moving closer. The sound of its feet staggering across the floor, made her inhale sharply. She peaked through the crack in the pantry door and saw it reaching its off-coloured hand towards the door handle. She clamped her cold shaking hand around her mouth to keep her from screaming. Just as it was about to open the pantry door, a shrill scream cried throughout the streets. She watched them through the crack as they all moaned and shuffled towards the back door of the restaurant's kitchen. Some younger ones moved quickly out the door as the rest followed.

They weren't human, well at least not anymore they weren't. About two weeks ago everything was fine, people could roam around Sydney's streets without having to hide. People could walk down to the shops without having to risk their lives every hour of the day. Until people started getting ill. The doctors didn't know what it was. At first it was just a rash and blood shot eyes. Then it got worse, their skin started going off-colour, it was like the colour of a corpse, plus the rash got worse and they had scabs all over them. Then just as they thought it couldn't get any worse, the first lady who caught the unidentified virus, was lying in the hospital bed and her eyes started bleeding, she shook recklessly from side to side on the bed, her heart beat was speeding. The doctor and nurses came rushing in, trying to hold her down. They failed. She jumped on the doctor and bit his arm, viscously. The nurse tried to help the doctor but the lady got her too. Because they had been bitten, the virus went into their blood and took over them. Before long, the whole hospital was like that. They escaped and soon nearly the whole town was infected.

She had come across some people who weren't ill but they kept to themselves, because of her mother. She remembered watching her mother being attacked by one of them and getting scratched by it and how she was getting sicker. She hoped that she would get better as that was why she was here, looking for food and medicine.

Another shrill scream hollowed through the city and interrupted her thoughts. She slowly crept out of the kitchen pantry as she was alone now. She looked through the window and saw a woman running down the street after a man. By the looks of the woman, she was one of those things, but the man wasn't. She watched as the lady speed up and tackled him. He wasn't human anymore.

She jerked back, away from the window in shock. She had realised that those two people, were her parents. Hot tears rolled down her face, she screamed uncontrollably. She backed up against the wall and sunk down to the cold hard floor shaking. She cried and shook. She heard them moaning and shuffling towards the kitchen door, she realised that they must have heard her scream.

She quickly hid into the same walk-in pantry that she was in last time and shut it quickly but quietly. She watched through the crack as they came in off the streets and started searching for her. There was more of them in there then there was last time. One staggered past the pantry as she sniffled. It grabbed the pantry door and ripped it off its hinges, like it hadn't been attached to the frame.

She felt around for something to protect herself with, and found a fry pan. It came closer and she whacked its head. Its head snapped off and flew across the room. This caught the other's attention. They turned around staggering and moaning loudly towards her. She backed up into the corner. One grabbed her arm. She screamed.

The end.

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