The dead awakening

Chapter 5

I wake up in a haze and quickly scramble to my feet and look around me. John is no where in sight and I'm still surrounded by empty halls. This must be one of my dreams because I was never in this hallway and close to my only way out.  The lights turn off and then flicker slowly back on. I peer down at the end of the hallway and see a note on the glass door. As I approach the door I see something on the glass. I squint at it and I see that it is a dusty hand print. Then all of a sudden a man is banging on the door begging me to help him in but the door is locked. His helpless screams disappear as I see the howlers chasing him. I look down at the note and all it said was "your already one of them". I look down at my hands and all I see is drooping flesh and blood. I let out a scream but it comes out as a gurgle because I'm choking on my own blood. I slowly see my self leaving this body and slowly disappear to somewhere else.

I appear in a hellish place where I'm surrounded by the boy and older man who lunge for me but go right through me like ghosts. I feel my self and I feel just as empty. I look up and find the boy screaming at me, " You killed us for your own game. As soon as I died you didn't flinch to murder more after me with you spells. You fucking witch these people should of never cured you, they should of let you burn in hell".

I shake my head and the blackness goes away and I'm still running with John towards the Exit sign with the bright green lettering. We run straight into the door and it opens with ease but what we didn't know was what was so bad on the other side. So far I've feared the dark but nobody mention what terrors waited on the outside.
It was all empty, all the buildings abandoned and sand everywhere it was like some disease had spread and whipped everyone out. Not a single soul stirred but so far we haven't seen any howlers. We walk down the steps and decide to adventure out in search for someone with more answers than what we are working with. The only things we know about is that we have these weird visions that are slowly coming back to us slowly each day about our past lives or future and that by itself is truly terrifying.  I decide to break the silence,"John are you still having those visions? Because I just had one and it was about a little boy saying I was cured way back then, but how am I alive today"? "I'm wondering the same thing why would someone cure us or save us and just preserve us for this day"? We continue walking across the scorching sands for what seems forever until we spot another building. We stroll inside to get away from the heat and look around. " ugh John I think nothing is here....." Then out of nowhere we see this man run and hide. I turn towards the cabinet where he is hiding and walk towards it. I peak my head around the corner an I spook the man and he jumps.  "I'm sorry" I begun to say" We didn't know anyone else was here okay we are just looking for answers". He looks at us very sternly," Ah you are the two kids from the what was it 1800s or what ever it was again. You are the only pure ones from that time period that made it out". "What"? John and I say at the same time. "See a long time ago when disease spread like wildfire many people were selected for test subject in a secret organization. They treated things in you to make you live longer and with out disease, but the terrible and uncontrollable side effect was kissing your memory goodbye . See you will slowly achieve you memory back one day at a time. But like I was saying is you two where the only ones showing positive reactions to the serum and well the others you have seen have gone fucking crazy and out of our control". Well that explains the howler, I say. " But is there a cure for the people"? I'm afraid not, so you are either pure or whatever you want to call those hellish things". Oh and by the way what is your name? "My name is Elbert and I was one of the head people of this facility". Well are there more of us out there? " There are a selective few I've seen but not much by the looks of it". Well should we keep looking for survivors now?Or are there anymore of you to come up with a cure? " Well" said Elbert,"All together there is five of us here and we have been working on a cure but nothing seems to be going right". Dam it there has to be away to save these people." We should go now while we have a little day light, we look for more survivors and you guys work on a cure here",John protested. "No no no, you must not go out at night because that's when they are the most active, I mean they are good in the day but undefeatable at night". Well thank you Elbert we will stay with you guys tonight and set out in the morning. "Yes you two should get some rest, you'll need it".