Shadow Viral Infection

Typical things would turn out this way. I stood in the middle of a horde of flesh eating monsters created by man kinds mistakes and why? Cause I loved my friends and my family and so I was now the bait to make sure everyone got away. May god save my soul if I even had one anymore. Being what I am, you would think it would drive me away from being the hero, at this very moment I so was going against all the rules. My name was Travis, still is to some, but to everyone else I am known as...

Shadow 

Viral Infection

This all started out like every typical day. First the basic information. My name is Travis, I'm 21 years old and work at a deli in a local supermarket. I'm not the greatest son my parents ever had, rather a big disappointment among my family. Being the eldest son and one of the smartest grade wise they expected me to go to college and make all this money and be rich. Instead I skipped a few years after I left high school and choose to get a job. I figured responsibility would make me a better student one day plus I could pay for my own stuff for once instead of relying on others. Well nothing ever turns out that way and I ended up in a job that most likely wouldn't get me anywhere and still living with my parents. I didn't get my license yet so I had to walk two miles back and forth between work everyday. Which in this heat is a pain. It didn't help my black hair had gotten longer than normal and now pretty much covered my face causing the heat the be intensified. I was tall so I doubt that helped much either and I was slender to go with my height. You could say I was very average. Lately I wasn't feeling to well but because I couldn't afford a doctor I ignored it and pretended it was just my imagination. So today was no different than any other day, beside the fact it was senior day at work. Which meant every elder in the universe converged at one place to buy lunch meat. So after eight and half hours of hell I was on my way home to do even more chores and probably get yelled at for something or another. Mistakes now that was the one good thing I was a expert at. I made quite a lot except at work. My usual track home involved using the old abandon railroad tracks that ran behind the city I lived in. If you wanted to get somewhere, this was the best way to get there fast and without any interruptions what so ever unless you count the occasional bums or drug dealers who if you ignored them they ignored you, most of the time. Once and a while police would make a run down this way but otherwise a rather peaceful walk. This particular night was clear and you could see the full moon as clearly as you can see the ocean while standing in it for lack of a better phase. I was in no rush to get home so I was taking my time. My shirt a dress shirt untucked for a more comfortable walk home and my navel blue pants pulled down a bit they were two sizes too small so they felt uncomfortable all day and I needed to breath at some point and time. I had left my tie and hat back at work as I had work tomorrow and figured it would be a waste to bring it home. I hated wearing ties to me it was so pointless. So taking my sweet time not even paying attention a stranger came up behind me. Now I would say she snuck up on me but the moaning sounds gave her away and I quickly turned too see this creepy lady with what looked like blood running down her entire frame and her curled hair encrusted in mud and some other form of dirt running at me with bloodshot eyes pale as the skin of a vampire in some old vampire movie. I admit I froze up for a second there. When I finally recovered she had already closed the distances between us and lunched at me this crazed look on her face. I was freaking out as she grabbed my hand and took a rather large and painful bite into my arm. I screamed and pushed her off me but not before the nearby neighbors what few did live by the tracks came running. Seeing the strange lady attacking me and the blood rushing from a large area on my arm they quickly pulled her off and moved me away. Last I thing I remember is a dark red haze cover my eyes and the sounds of snarling as the lady took a bite from her captives as they restrained her. 

The first thing that came to mind when I finally woken up was, damn it I was having such a nice nap. It really was a nice nap at that I found out later that said nap was actually a month long. I remember waking up to nothing but death silence. Silence you never know it but it can be such a bliss. For someone whose last memory was being bitten and passing out to find himself awake in a strange white room I reacted the way any good man should. I screamed and than I screamed some more, by the time I stopped my screams were ringing off the walls. Made me feel better. After calming down I took a look at my surroundings and found that I was in what looked like a hospital room. But if that was so, why was it so quiet. Not a single sound not even a bird could be heard in the silence. Truth be told it frightened me a little. Okay a whole lot. The second thing I took notice was the fact that in the mirror beside me stared back a different person than what I'm used too seeing when I wake up in the morning. First sign something was wrong, pale, very pale. Second and most unsettling thing were my eyes. Normally I have a average hazel eye color now my eyes were almost as pale as my skin. Clearly I was either dreaming or I was dead. Shaking my head I jumped out of bed and when I say jumped I literally mean jumped, I surprised myself when I easily moved from the bed to the floor and landed gracefully on my bare feet right onto broken glass. That is when I noticed that I wasn't bleeding at all or for that matter I couldn't feel any pain. While that may have been a good thing my attention was attracted to the person limping toward me at the entrance of my room. When you say rotting corpse what I had in mind was skeleton of some sort. This was more of a half naked old lady her breast drooping over the side and her eyes dead to the world. Moaning was all I could hear from her and she was rapidly moving toward me. So what I do, I ask if she needs help. "Ma'am do you need anything?" Nice guys finish last right? Said lady growled at me and did a bull rush right at me. The fact she had blood all over her and reminded me of a bad horror flick caused me to panic and as she launched herself at me I raised my leg and felt my foot connect with her body. In a literal snap I not only felt but heard every bone in her body break one by one before her lifeless body hit the floor hard making a loud squashing sound as blood slowly dripped from the spot where my foot had connected.