The Infection: Survivors

Chapter 1

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 Chapter 1

My head felt heavy and throbbed violently. I opened my eyes slowly but it was hard, my headache was really bad. Seconds later, my stomach started to growl and I bent in pain. I was starving and completely dehydrated. Confused, I tried to remember what had happened before I fell asleep and where I was but it only took a few seconds to everything come crashing down on me. I whimpered, my head throbbing once more.

Cautiously, I opened the locker's door and crawled out. When I tried to get up, I fell, roughly, on the floor. The dizziness was making it difficult, but I managed to walk to the door and peaked through the small window. I didn't see a soul.

My body started to shake violently to a point where I couldn't hold it and emptied the contents of my stomach on the trash can. I stayed bent for a few minutes, trying to calm myself.

It was all true, the wolves had escaped and they had killed everyone. My mind started racing, thinking on what to do. I had to call someone...But that was just stupid. For what I had seen through the window, the corporation's facilities were destroyed and they had invaded the town. Therefore, this situation was already known so I just had to wait for them to rescue me. However, I couldn't stay there, I had to find something to eat and drink and find a phone, so I could call someone to pick me up. My legs were still shaking, but I managed to reach the door and insert the code to open it. The sight was even worse than what I had imagined.

The pavilions had their doors hanging from the hinges, the windows didn't have glasses anymore. The buildings were burnt or completely destroyed. There were cars thrown randomly and, the worst part were the bodies that were disposed on top of the, once lush, grass that covered the grounds. They were bloodied, torn and bitten all over. They seemed...chewed. I fought the urge to throw up, again.

But then, something caught my attention. From the corner of my eye, I saw movement. Slowly, I turned my head to see if it was a scientist but what I saw had frozen me in my place. One body was moving. One dead body.

It was a keeper, I had seen him once, but he was completly torn. He tried to get up but he was missing a leg and an arm with part of his shoulder. His neck was broken, so his head was hanging. His face was completly destroyed and there were deep gashes on the rest of his body.

I couldn't speak or breath. I started to walk away but I stepped on a twig and the cracking noise made the "creature" look at me. Hair was growing on his body, the ears were bigger and his teeth, the ones that he still had, were larger. He looked like a wolf.

The keeper's eyes looked soulless and he couldn't speak properly, only make noises. He tried to run towards me.

Scared, I screamed and started running. He fell on the floor but more bodies were coming towards me, some were rising, others were already around the facilities, eating other dead bodies.

Those creatures, half-humans half-wolves were the obvious result of some kind of infection trasmitted by the wolves in the labs. While I was running, I realised that many of the infected were chasing me. I ran faster.

The gates were right in front of me.

Running faster than ever, I passed the gates and started to run towards the big city. The adrenaline was helping me but I knew that, when it ran out, I would be in big trouble. I was breathing heavily, with cramps in my legs and sweat dripping down my face, but I tried not to stop. On my mind was just one thing, the desperate need to flee from the city. If I could travel to Canada, I would be safe because there was no way they would allow the plague to trespass their territory.