Aftershock

Page two: The search for more

I began to scavenge the town, the only things I found at first were empty sports and goods warehouses and such, but then my vision panned to the split in two school, their desks had some silver rodding holding them up, I thought for a minute and came to a conclusion, I'll scavenge it for extra supplies, I climbed through the window hanging by a single bolt, the room I had entered at was splattered red. . . like the ending of MacBeth everything there was dead. . . I peered across the rooms looking upon the many carcasses of the students, a slight frown and a small tear escaped, I pulled myself together gun at hand ready for anything to approach, I began to creep down the long corridor, it felt everlasting, all of those rooms felt so familiar yet so distant, honestly I started to feel depressed about this area but I slapped myself, obviously something heard it. . . footsteps, I began to get my gun at hand loading it immediately when suddenly the footsteps stopped, it knew I was ready. . . I began to skulk forward unaware of what is about to face me, a band of three children rushed forward at me steel pipes from their desk in hand, it seems along with whatever occurred the fungus also grew in strength and in size, they were all infected with Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis the zombie fungus, I gasped in terror and swung back with all my might hitting a child in the forehead with the barrel of my Smith & Wesson, it fell back for a minute and then continued to run at me determined to harm me, they lunged at me but I just barely managed to strafe away, I began to run, since I have a smaller, lighter feminine frame I managed to run at the speed they were, they were slowly catching up, I ran forward in a slide managing to make two out of the three trip, I pushed the last one aside and continued to jog in that direction, I fired three of my hollow point 100 grain bullets into one of their chest, they sat there motionless the blood spilling out mixed with the fungus' spores and juices, I continued to run as fast as I could, one of the children through their steel pole and got me right in the thigh, I screamed out in pain and rolled over, I managed to fire my gun straight into the fungus, the only thing keeping these unbearable creatures moving, it fell lifeless, the third one didn't give up the pursuit, I pulled out my kitchen knife and threw it directly at the third child, it just barely cut off the fungus, the child let out a loud cry and a growl before it fell motionless, deceased, I pulled myself up picking up the silver rods cautiously occasionally firing a bullet or two into the dead children due to frustrations, I managed to snap the silver rods in place as a crutch, I limped to the next room, they were the only things that remained in this building I could tell by the looks of it, nothing in here would survive unless it evolved the way these children did, well less evolved more possessed by a mutated fungus. . . I peered into the next classroom, my eyes widened and glistened in hope, I managed to get over to the teacher's desk, I pulled out a confiscated weapon, a long bladed k-bar knife weirdly it had a spike on the bottom and a wrist strap, "what has the school system come to" I sighed replacing my old knife which was lodged in the fungus child's head with the new knife I recently found, the blade was completely engulfed in pencil shavings and the hilt was faded out, a child had been drawing on it with a pencil, I began to limp to the next classroom, i heard slapping when I put my ear against the door, I saw a pedophile raping a child, I aimed my gun directly in between their eyes and fired, "necrophilia and pedophilia always disgust me" I mumbled to myself, the child's mangled corpse was half strung over the scratched up desk and half dangling, honestly if it was violated any more I think that it would become pregnant from beyond the grave, I chuckled at my idiotic idea and crutched to the next room, I slammed open the door infuriated over what I have previously seen, the next room was blank, it looked completely untouched, i wandered in the odd room. . . the door from the corridor looked so destroyed while the door from the inside looked perfectly fine, my gaze drifted around the room eventually it settled on the fine looking radio, the distance between me and the radio soon closed. . . I heard static coming from it, I quickly shut off the radio mumbling to myself "this could save me many times. . ." I stuffed it in my satchel filling most of the room left over, I crutched over to the desks I brushed my hand across them a thin layer of dust flew away immediately leaving fingerprints in the dust, I began to stare intensely, I felt intimidated by the footsteps that occurred soon after they were not of those weird fungus kids. . . they were bigger, more gigantic, it sounded as if a goliath was trampling through the halls, I heard a loud angered cry, if it saw the corpses i'm doomed, I soon began to sweat climbing out of the window as fast as I could, while I was climbing out I noticed something a giant print was in the chair near the teacher's desk, I barely managed to get out before the goliath arrived in that classroom, he prompted up the corpses in chairs and acted like a teacher, I felt sickened by the way he played with the corpses as if they were ragdolls, a tear began to swell up in my mind of my father's abusive behaviors recycled constantly the sexual abuse and more. . . I smacked myself and managed to limp away from the old school. . . my gaze soon panned out away from the school, I noticed a strong figure in the distance, it seemed strong and it didn't have any mutations, I crutched over to it and attempted to talk to them, it was a boy, they looked around my age despite being much taller and stronger "e-excuse me" I stuttered out, they turned at me with a sharp glare, I've never been much for social interactions, the man soon pinned me down without a second thought in my head my face turned to red