Z APOCALYPSE

CHAPTER 1: Beginning

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Baekhyun

It was just like any other normal, boring day when it happened. I was walking in the hallway with my usual black jeans, button-up shirt topped with a cardigan and a backpack slung in my shoulders, just minding my own business when the world turned upside down.

First, everyone's started getting sick from what I heard was about a virus spreading on a black seafood market at Wuhan, in our country. And then people started having fever and dying. Reinforcements and the military acting on it for a couple of days but they couldn't handle it as it became a deadly pandemic. The next thing we knew, the dead ones started waking up and began attacking.

The faces I knew in that hallway are all now gone. Dead or fed by flesh-eating fuckers who walk like drunkards in the streets and rushes towards anyone who's still human.

Now I'm trying to survive here, caught up in my own survival instincts with some other survivors, Luhan and Taehyung.

Luhan was my classmate in one of my subjects, particularly biology. We don't talk much before because he was this shy kid who just put himself in one corner and listens attentively. We didn't even talk ever since. A few weeks when the apocalypse came, I found him having a fever with the fact that he was hiding in one of the storage rooms in an abandoned wood store for almost two days without water and food. From there, we found each other's company.

Things got hard, people are fighting for food. And we tried to survive at least eating what scraps we found on every store that's if we are lucky to take down the zombies before they could take us down first. And months flew by, together we found another.

The second was Taehyung, I found out that he was a freshman student in another school. He was being chased by a hoard of walkers in the street where Luhan and I are taking. He was terrified and traumatized, seeing his parents being devoured before his eyes. He didn't even talk even the slightest for almost a week.

Then things got harder after then. The virus kept spreading. The infected kept multiplying. And we are being chased whenever we go.

"Baek-Hyung? Can I have some more? I'm still hungry..." Taehyung asked politely, I couldn't blame him, he must have been so tired and hungry from the scavenging. We're also lacking resources now, we needed to get some in the city.

The night already ate the last shine of the sun. The rattling of the leaves made the cold atmosphere have an eerie sensation and here come the usual restless nights of my head wandering away, looking for monsters that make me feel weak. These are the monsters aside from the others that cross the earth. They are living inside my head.

I smiled at him a little and handed him my can of beans and soup. He was slowly opening up, and I'm grateful for that.

"You must have been very tired and hungry. You must sleep now, I'll take the watch." I stated, glancing at the two people in front of me.

This routine has been going for a while now. Risk. Scavenge. Eat. Survive. And risk again.

Luhan was just staring at the crackling fire, I was concerned because after Taehyung had been recovered, Luhan had been all silent these previous days. I know it was hard. It's hard for all of us, but we could at least try.

"Lu, are you okay?" I asked, feeling bothered. Dusting my jeans off from the dirt, I sat on the space between them. Taehyung was now laying on his side, facing me, creeping beside me, while Luhan was on my left side.