Z APOCALYPSE

CHAPTER 3: Baekhyun

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BAEKHYUN

I pushed the metal trays and cabinets towards the front to prevent the zombies from reaching out to our limited space. It made a clunking sound that reverberated throughout the room along with the gargles of the infected. 

Finding a way to escape, I tried to grab things in front of me that could help us get away from the commotion.

"Stay here!" I shouted as I grabbed bottles of alcoholic liquors and poured them on the stacks of cartons and folders. Frisking my pants, I used a lighter to start a fire that drew the zombies' attention.

I looked at Luhan briefly, he was terrified but he tried hiding it as he gripped the riffle that was pressed on his chest.

"Luhan, shoot from the left part and I'll clear the front!" I hissed, slashing the heads of the infected forward.

I heard Luhan curse as he fumbled on his weapon trying to put down the ones that came too close.

"There's so many of them!" Luhan reached out as I sneaked into the middle of an empty column of cabinets to throw the liquors in the middle of the hoard.

"Argh! What should we do?!" Taehyung panicked. 

"I'm trying!" I shouted. I'm trying but there are so many of them.

I used the empty handgun in my belt to break the glass on the window from the edge and made sure that it was clear.

"This way!" I shouted after the glass broke and made a passageway as I heard the roaring of the zombies get louder and nearer.

They quickly struggled to climb up as I used my sheer strength to lift them so they could reach the passage.

I needed to save them. I must.

"Go! We don't have enough time!" I shouted back as I kicked the head of the ones that reached over on the columns of the cabinets.

I grabbed Taehyung by his arm and shoved him above the open window. Luhan followed after he threw his backpack first on the window and then his body second.

The zombies are already piling up and from the looks of it, they are too hungry to even focus on the spaces to grab me. It was me who they were after. Their eyes are focused on human beings to the point that even if they walk on fire, they don't give a damn.

"Baekhyun! Climb up now!" I heard Luhan shout frantically. His voice is more like a shriek than a normal statement.

I kicked on the cabinet up in front of me to gain momentum but the cramped space between me, the wooden cabinet and the hoard of zombies wasn't allowing me to climb up.

Either I turn around and focus on climbing and leave some zombies unattended and bite me from behind or I'll keep shooting and attacking the one who's coming towards me. Either way, it's a dead end.

Fuck, I am doomed.

The fire that I started, began eating the whole place, burning the fleshes of the zombies walking through it. The dark smoke attacked my nostrils and I felt like I couldn't breathe as dark smoke spread like wildfire. It smelt like burnt hair and the smoke was too thick.

I tried again, slipping through the cabinet to find another way out and that's when the cabinet fell towards me and the top blocked the passage where Luhan and Taehyung escaped.

"Baekhyun! Climb!" Taehyung panicked as he stretched his hand towards me.

Fuck.

Luhan got over his stomach and pointed his rifle at the silhouettes of the hungry dead  but he did not pull the trigger.

"Smoke too think Baekhyun! Grabbed my hand!" Luhan shouted but I am more focused on my breathing and vision at the moment than what they were saying.

"I can't!" I shouted back as I tried to look for the passage but the smoke hurt my eyes. Feeling the cold wall hit my back, I used my legs to hold the cabinets from pushing forwards and this resulted in me enduring my back with the broken pieces of glass.

For a moment I almost heard a woman wailing in agony as it captured the attention of a few zombies, clearing the end of the cabinet. This allowed me to sneak myself into the small space that led me to one cabinet divided by metal screens...

That's when I finally got stuck.

I felt dizzy as the zombies were coming in my direction. I couldn't move. The smoke filled my lungs as I was already faced with a zombie. A thin screen divided us.

I coughed hysterically, damn it got me now.

The zombies finally pushed forward, making the shelves pin me from the wall.

I yelped as I felt stinging pain from behind my left shoulder blade. Probably the shattered glass piercing my back.

"Baekhyun! Come on!" I heard Luhan shout desperately, I felt his hands grabbing my wrist but he failed in an attempt to lift me because I was already pinned in between the vending machine and the wall.

"Baekhyun-hyung! Please! You can make it!" I heard Taehyung call up, shouting my name and reaching for their hands but the dark smoke and blinding orange-yellow light coming from the fire was already a clear ticket to my end.

It filled my lungs. I couldn't do anything but hear the cries of Luhan and Taehyung while the sound of zombies filled my ears. I was already facing the zombies as they chewed in the air.

"I-I'm sorry." I cried as I closed my eyes to accept my end.

I heard bombs exploding not far away from us. Probably the gasoline tanks.

And all I could feel was the zombies' hands running through me and pulling me.

"Hold on." I heard a foreign voice. Hallucinations.

I tried opening my eyes but I couldn't. The smoke stings my eyes and it swam through my lungs.

I already felt so weak and fuck, my back hurts.

And then I finally blacked out into oblivion.

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