Outbreak! Virus 'M'

Chapter 8: Stuff happens

Bearer's POV

I take a step back in horror and cover my mouth with my hand. I hear someone retch behind me. I visibly go pale. This is too much. A take another step back only for the lump of flesh to shiver furiously. My eyes are wide in disbelief and pure disgust. What is this demon monstrosity?!?! I quickly turn and run away from it. Probably a big mistake. I hear the flesh rip and tear. I mentally gag as I race towards the familiar faces. Before I can reach them, something whips past my head and attempts to strike the girl known as Emma. She jumps back before it can hit her. I don't even know what it is. All I know is that it's gross, fleshy, and it tried to kill her. I stop in my tracks and slowly turn towards the lump once again. There's a tear right down the middle where the appendage had sprung from. It slowly retracts back into the ball of nasty. It leaves behind a trail of slime. Yuck. Then, before it could go all the way back into its home, it lashes out. This time it launches towards me.

I was in too much shock to react. The appendage wrapped around my legs and swiftly pulled them out from under me. Suddenly the world tilted and I could see the sky. A dull thud sounded out as my body made impact with the hard cement. A sharp pain runs through me as I lay there. I hear a pair of footsteps rush towards me. My vision is blurred from the loss of my glasses and the fact that pain is coursing through my body. I feel a tug at my feet and then suddenly they're free. A tug on my arm and now I'm sitting up. Still hurts. I rub the back of my head as I carefully stand up. Then I hear a yell of pain and a crash. The poor Emma was thrown into a tree like a rag doll. The tree was small and frail. It splintered upon contact. She lay beside the leftover stump in pain. A trickle of blood seeped from the side of her mouth. Panic washed over me as I watched it happen.

I hear gross wet slushing behind me and whip my head around to see three more appendages inch forth. The lump shrunk as the appendages grew. Nasty. I took slow steps back. Nice and steady. It didn't seem to notice. I focused on making my footsteps lighter and my breath more shallow. It's difficult to say the least. My head was throbbing from my fall. Plus my body feels really heavy. This so agony. Suddenly I hear a snap. My eyes dart to under my shoe and there I see it. A damn stick snapped by my weight. I curse under my breath knowing full well what comes next. A powerful blow to my abdomen sends me flying through the sky just like Emma. I hit the trunk of a thicker tree that doesn't break upon impact. Though I did feel it splinter a little. I land on the ground with a thud and groan in agony.

I look up to see everything is blurred. The others seemed too shocked to move. That doesn't stop the monster. I quick fleshy flash and everyone is sent into the air, slamming against the house we just exited. Their bodies drop with a loud thud, leaving behind cracks on the wall they had just occupied seconds before. The world sways as my eyes focus and unfocus. I try to get up, but everything is making me dizzy. I fall back to the earth. The taste of iron is sickening in my mouth. There's so much that I can feel it dribble out the corner. It's difficult to breathe and even harder to stay awake. Colors mesh together as objects begin to disappear. Little black dots come into view. So many of them that my whole vision goes black within a few seconds. After that, silence...

~time skip~

Everything hurts. My head is throbbing and my stomach is eating itself. I feel like sh*t. My eyelids are super heavy and I can't tell where I am. Everything is silent. Am I dead? No, nope! Still hurts like a f*cking b*tch! Agh! I only now notice that I'm lying on the ground, curled up into a ball while clutching my stomach. I crack my eyes open just a little bit. Everything is blurry and dark. At least I know I'm indoors. Or is it night time? I shut my eyes as I slowly attempt to prop myself up on my arms. I struggle a bit but manage to sit up. My eyes are now fully open and are scanning my environment. I'm in a small room with two beds as the only objects in here. A girl with short hair is in the one of the beds, I'm in the other. I rub my eyes and lick my cracked lips. My memory is all fuzzy and I can't recall what happened right before this. I'm pretty sure I was outside, but I don't know what I was doing.

I throw my legs over the side of the bed and scoot to the edge. It dips from my weight. My feet touch the carpeted floor as I stand from my bed. As soon as I'm up, I collapse to the floor with a thud. My legs are shaking and my breath comes out short. I struggle to sit up a second time. Then I feel something drip on my hand. When I look, there's a red drop of liquid on the back of my hand. Then another splashes. I look up to try and find where it came from. Then I feel something trickle from my nose. I reach up and touch it. When I look at my hand I see blood on my fingertips. I curse under my breath and wipe it away. Great, just great. I can't even stand and now my nose is bleeding... and now my hand is numb. What the f*ck?!