Living with the lights out

I was lying face down on the cold floor, Dry blood surrounded my body. Even before I was conscious I felt an uncomfortable sensation. I awoke, feeling groggy and weak, my throat ached as if my vocal cords were brutally hacked at. I moved my arms to push myself up from the cold pavement, it was quite difficult. My arms wouldn’t exactly co-operate, it was really difficult just to even move one finger.

 Where am I? W-who am I? I managed to stagger up. I swayed around looking to find myself at a park. I couldn’t recall how I got here, or even the person I am. I moved forward only to fall flat on my face. I glanced back to see my left ankle twisted in an unnatural position, I staggered back up again. Seeing my ankle like that freaked me out, not because of its position but because I couldn’t feel any pain at all. Moving forward I managed to make three steps before falling down again. This happened one more time before I let out an unnatural growl of frustration. I looked on the pavement to see this black and red gulp in front of me…. Did that really come out of my mouth?  Grossed out I shifted back a bit and stood up.

 Looking in front of me, the pavement and road lead down to a city with tall sky scrapers. I limped towards it, I didn’t notice at first but everything around me was all broken and trashed. The windows on the buildings were smashed, abandoned cars, specks of blood here and there and the sky had grey smoke looking clouds. My limp started to pace up a bit as I noticed some other people were around here, I didn’t exactly know how but I just had a…. sense. Great, maybe one of them is a doctor and can help me I thought blankly. I caught a glimpse of someone running towards a small coffee shop. I had noticed I started to power limp and I started to drool like a dog. The closer I got to that coffee shop the more unhuman I felt.

 I banged into the blocked off entrance and started to smack both my arms repeatedly on the wood. I tried to act more civilized and crawl under but my brain wouldn’t listen. None of my limbs would listen, it was like my limbs were fixed to doing one thing and that was to destroy the blockage in my way. It wasn’t like I could really feel anything at all, it all felt like a dream but I could just slightly feel a tingling sensation throughout my whole body including my head. I didn’t know how long it took me but the wood finally broke and I lunged through, A bit of the wood went through my arm. I could hear a squelch before black started to seep out. My arm? M-my arm? What exactly happened to me!? I awoke to find myself around a destroyed city! Frankly I had no clue to what the name was? There wasn’t anyone around!? I tried so hard to remember but everything was a blur, and even what happened earlier started to fade from my mind. It was like my conscious was slowly fading into darkness and only my body remained.

 Every table was flipped and a lot of objects were sprawled out on the floor. I limped to the counter and looked down to see a body, I surprised myself. I lunged to the body and took a chunk out of its arm. Why am I doing this? They wouldn’t do this? How could I do this? I questioned still gulping down. It didn’t even taste like anything. Am I even one of them? Wait…. Who am I trying to be like? Everything in my mind went a blur I soon forgot what I was thinking about earlier, even what I was doing. I stopped and slid across the counter, I soon wandered out forgetting my purpose. Limping down the road I tried to move my arms on my own, but I couldn’t do it for some reason. I noticed they only moved when I was pursing what was of a food source, I realised as I chased a creature. I sensed something over to my right, down this long strip, I limped down pursing my goal. To find what I was looking for.

 Left, right, left right, left….left… forward, I was turning my head looking. Nothing only a b-building? Black seeped out of my drooling mouth as I locked on target, in that long white thing (Bus) there was food. A stone flew and hit my should as I got closer to the opening. A couple more stones flew at me, I really did try to focus in that direction but everything was still all blurry. I pushed through into the entrance to find two little pink things holding one another as they shivered. I got closer and closer before I grabbed one, they both let out a horrid screech like noise. My vision started to focus on it and I soon realised what I was looking at, it was a human! A little girl! I remembered!