The Last Survivor {Complete}

Chapter 1: Sudden Company

The wind was howling, it's hot air beat against the universe, flaming several greens with monstrous figure in orange and red. The ground was cracked, buildings were torn apart. The old magnificent skyscraper was now dusty, filling the windows with sands and vines including cracked holes. Before this, it was standing tall, blazing under the lights but now, it is slanted. The colourful billboard crashed into the other building, just right above the roads filling the ground with dangerous scrapes of glass harming whoever who walked through it without good shoes. For some moments, the wind stopped only to be accompanied by the sound of cracking glasses nearby. The very thin air had become mankind most greatest enemy. It wasn't just hot, but it was deadly.

Jax heaved and panted as he jogged up the rocky hill made out of none other than two cars stacked up like flapjacks, joined by a few fallen rocks. His forehead was filled with sweat streaming down like rivers and his hair was unruly. His brown eyes were tired from the continuous running day and night. Jax leaned onto the wall of the stone only to jolt up cursing at the heat coursing through his skin from the back. His fingers fiddling into the pocket of his trousers, producing a bottle of water he managed to salvage from a shop which had collapsed underground three yards from where he is now. Jax squatted down on the ground looking out at the cracked roads and buildings.

"Great way to spend my lunch time." Jax mumbled in particular to no one.

For three months, he had been running around trying to survive under the scorching sun. Ever since the rain stopped after a massive thunderstorm, the crops began to dry, the lands began to crack, and humans went insane like cockroaches running away from its attacker or a housefly flying in circles avoiding the spatula. Jax watched them grew mad. First, it started with a sharp piercing scream from the person. Next, their eyes began to bleed, then their nose. Their teeth started falling out. It was a painful death. They walked around like a ghost till their skin began to tore bit by bit.

Having those memories in his mind, Jax let a soft chuckle to escape his lips, his fingers brushing the bridge of his nose. No, they weren't zombies like in World War Z or even The Walking Dead or even from Train to Busan, but to him, it was worst. He closed his eyes, recalling his own witness. It was his one and only family member. He had made sure she survived, made sure she would stay alive like him, but her immune was so weak that slowly she began giving in into the heat. It was one night, while they were both taking refuge under a building, the skies had been filled with stars, but the ground was still hot. So, after searching, they found a cool spot and began to rest. Then, it happened.

She retched in the middle of the night. Blood pouring from her mouth as if someone had ripped her throat out without mercy. Then, she started screaming at the pain, rolling onto the ground. When she turned to look at him, her eyeballs were filled with blood, blood pouring from her nose and her teeth started to fall out as he watched the gums dried up. Somehow, Jax felt like it wasn't just the heat, but it was a certain kind of virus in between the heat. After a few moments, she stopped talking. Her legs found their way up from the ground as she began to walk under the skies, the moonlight gleaming on her torn skin as the skin shed like snake's skin and she walked losing herself on the roads.

After almost some time of dozing off into his bubble of dreams, Jax was snapped up from his reverie, his brown eyes caught sight of a figure running away from a creature behind them. Now, this is new. Jax had seen humans going crazy but he had not seen animals chasing after them. Taking a step forward carefully, Jax noticed a black dog, it's mouth baring as its skin began to tear bits by bits. It was then he realised that animals and humans both have different effect by the heat. Looking around, he noticed a rock, his hands immediately reached towards it ignoring the heat burning on his palms as he aimed it directly onto the dog which whined before rolling onto the ground. Taking another stone, Jax aimed it towards the dog again hitting it right at its head as the animal turned around running to the opposite direction.