It was so sudden. No one saw it coming, they announced it on the radio, there was a disease... It was spreading fast... They said that people were eating each other, it was complete chaos. They told you to stay put, but you did what had to be done.
The apocalypse, that's what this is. In less than a week, the world was brought to it's knees.
The disease all started from scientists trying to create a cure for cancer. The disease killed cancer cells, yes, but after four weeks, it started eating skin cells instead, infecting them. In two weeks, most of the world was injected with the disease and the entire world was being infected. It slowly caused the person to lose their sanity, the process so painful and vicious, it made one wish for death. People were killing themselves on the streets, which were filled with screams of pain, the suffering so obvious you couldn't miss it.
Cancer had become a passed down trait, it was in over 90% of the population, although the machines to 'cure' it, could postpone it... You would still die young.
The disease is like a form of rabies, it infects the brain after half a day of suffering. If the person survived, they turn. If they die, they raise again after twelve hours of death, twelve hours exactly. The only thing that can kill them is destroying the brain. They don't have special powers, except their nonstop persistence, and their screams are enough to cause people to go insane if they dare listen for too long. All you have to do is tune it out, push it to the back of your mind. The sounds torture you, screaming and screeching, it echoes in your mind, makes you want to kill yourself. It makes you wish they would just rip you to bits, rather than listen to it anymore.
The disease is in you, but cannot enter your bloodstream. It sits waiting patiently for your body to die, but one can only turn if you die, or if another, who is infected, causes a wound, the disease will enter and infect the blood stream. It shuts down your body, your lungs, your heart, the immune system, everything. The only thing that works will be your brain, which will stay as smart as the person who infected them was. They can form plans to ambush, herd together and speak their own language. They know how to walk and eat, but they don't need sleep, water, or even need to breathe. The only 'human'-like trait they posses, is the need to eat... To need to eat flesh. They can only run as fast as the person infected could, if they were fat, they would run at the same speed, with no ability to go faster, even if they wanted to.
When bitten, the disease has less then two minutes before it will spread but it takes a total of twelve hours before they lose to the infection, so a quick cutoff of the body part, and a strong person's will, can survive, they will expierence the suffering but it only lasts about six hours but that can kill them off or you'll be forced to kill them on their wishes.
The First sign that the disease has fully spread is muslce spasms, and their veins will pop out from underneath their skin. Withen theTwo hours after being bitten, they have lost most control of their limbs, which means the muscle cells have stopped working, the last cells will keep their muscles going until the tenth hour. They have a slight fever and the veins are throbbing a slightly darker color.
The Fourth hour, their facial muscles are slowly dying, they can still speak until the tenth hour but it is hard. Their eyes start getting bloodshot and their skin turns a slightly greenish color, just a tint of green. The fever has rose to about one hundred and one and will only climb higher.
The Sixth hour, your fever is getting higher, it's gone up two degrees or so. Your veins are growing darker, and your skin gets a tint of a disgusting brown mixed with the green. Your pupils get a little redder and your skin has started decaying, it is being eaten away slowly and steadily. Starting and spreading from the area you've been bitten in.
The Seventh hour, the pain enhances by tenfold, as your bones become weak as they are eaten from the end side, until they are almost hollow, barely able to hold you up.
The Eighth hour, the cells have started eating away at your facial muscles more, your eyes have a blood red ring on the outer area. The fever is so hot, you don't have to touch the skin to know they are too hot.
The Nineth hour, the fever raises and so does the pain, the rabies has already started controlling as you are forgetting minor things like, why are you tied up or why are people watching you, who are the people caring for you, and why it is hurting so much to move and such. You are also becoming snappy and aggressive, often trying to fight people but having too little movement of your body.
The Tenth hour, you cannot even twitch a finger in your arms, the entire muscle cells are eliminated and you can barely speak, your eyes are almost completely red, and your lungs are starting to be eaten, very slowly. The ability to breath easily is gone, you can hardly open your mouth for water or food. Your temperature is almost one hundred and fifty but your are being kept alive. You cannot remember things like your age, what's happening or where you use to live and work at. This is the third worst hour.
The Eleventh hour is one of the worst, you cannot breath clearly anymore, your lungs are barely together, your heart is hardly beating, you cannot speak without coughing and trying to vomit. You can't vomit because your stomach has been eaten till it's barely even there, your bladder and intestines are gone. You cannot remember your last name, who your family is, and personal things. All you know is your name, gender, and sometimes an important person to you, such as your wife, girlfriend or lover. This is the second worst hour. Your skin is disgusting and eaten away, your temperature has gone up about two degrees and have not gone up since.
The Twelfth hour, this is the worst hour. Your heart and lungs will be eaten, any cells left are infected and you are vicious, violent with no memory of your name, gender and everyone is a strange enemy. You will turn when your heart is officiually is eaten away, which gives you three minutes before they turn, as they die for three minutes before the brain is jumpstarted by the cells and it will be infected and violent, ready to kill. Animals go through the same thing except they lose their memory instantly.
Will you survive? Will you meet rapists, murderers, looters, scavengers, cannibals or good people? Who knows? Just don't get bit or scratched.
