Malattia

Chapter 1

Warnings: Profanity

Chapter 1

Dear Diary,

It's been a long time since I've seen normal human life. Ever since the multiple outbreaks of a disease called the Malattia (I just call it the plague) spread across the globe, once normal people started to turn violent and beastly. Literally. Horrific monsters roam in place of the once human towns. I have somehow survived (duh) and question whether I was even meant to or not... As much as I hated some parts of my family, I guess I miss them... Anyway, I should go find a better shelter before the monsters around wake up.

Jay sighs as she closes her diary. She stretches and gathers all her items into a small bag. The brunette gets out of her tent, disassembles it and packs the pieces into their own bag before heading out in search for a new shelter. She looks up at the dark sky and starts to head away from the old hiding place. Jay walks silently, occasionally passing a sleeping or blind monster. One monster was covered in scales that glinted in the pale moonlight while another was bigger than the trees surrounding it. Jay looks at the monsters she passes with a look of horror, fear, and sadness.

"Those were once people... With families and lives... Now, it's just this.." She whispered to no one in particular and kept moving forward.

As Jay walked a glint of red in the woods caught her eye, she turned to the source of the red and put her hand on her pistol. "shit.." she whispered as a giant serpent-like monster appeared out of the shadows. Some red liquid like substance spilled from its open jaws. Jay tensed up and pulled out her pistol, staring into the dead red eyes of the monster as she cocked her gun. As the monster progressed towards her, Jay quickly shot her gun. One shot after the other, yet the monster never went down. "FUCK! WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" Jay yelled before realizing her mistake as many other monsters began to sturr awake. " Nice going dumbass..." Jay whispered to herself as she turned and ran the opposite way.

Jay panted as the monsters gained up on her. She began to zigzag around, trying to outsmart them. As she zig-zagged around she didn't see the rock right in front of her. She yells as she falls to the ground and cuts her leg on a jagged rock. Jay cries out in pain as she stands back up and resumes to limp away from the monsters.

As she ran Jay could hear the hissing and roars behind her slowly getting softer. She looked behind her and saw that some of the monsters had turned back around into the deep, dark woods. She slowed down as the last monster went back into the woods. She sighed and sat down on the snowy ground to catch her breath. She fell back and laughed at her near-death experience. Jay looked back at the woods and gave it a middle finger before standing back up and brushing herself off. She looks around at the new area and starts to walk with a little limp. After walking around for half an hour she finally saw what looked like an abandoned cabin.

Jay pulls her gun back out and starts to hobble over to the doorway. When she reaches the door she pushes it open with the pistol. "Hello?" Jay called as she stuck her head through the open door. Slowly walking in, Jay looks around and grips her gun tighter as she walks into each room investigating it. Once Jay went up the stairs she saw that a door at the end of the hall was wide open. "Please don't be a monster, please don't be a monster, please don't be a monster.," Jay whispered and walked down the hall to the room. She held her breath and walked into the room.

"Oh, nothing..." She said, breathing normally again. She lowered her gun and looked around the room. "It's nice," Jay said as she looked at the different pictures lined up on the dresser. She looked at a cracked picture of what looks like a family. Jay smiled grimly and quickly walked to the full-sized bed in the middle of the room. The brunette dropped her stuff on the floor and flopped face first onto the bed. Groaning, she rolled over on her back and looked up at the ceiling. Jay felt her leg start to throb, "ah, shit. I should probably fix that up." She said, sitting up and looking at her bloody leg.

Jay dug around in her pouch trying to find some way to stop the blood. "...Ugh, come on there's gotta be something in here." Jay felt light headed as she looked for something to use as a bandage. Black clouds formed around Jay's vision as her hands and lower half of her body stained red. Jay groaned as she pulled out an old shirt and ripped the bottom half of it off. "Fanculo(Fuck)..."

Jay winced in pain as she tightly wrapped the cloth around her left leg. She saw spots as she desperately forced her hands to tie a knot. "Shit... please work please." Jay begged as her vision blurred and darkened at a fast pace. Jay started to feel the room around her sway before the darkness consumed her.

The last thing she saw was two red orbs.

When Jay opened her eyes all she saw was darkness. She looked around trying to see if there was anything around other than the black void. "Ciao?" Jay cried out "Is anyone here?" Her voice echoed in the dark space. Jay stood up and stretched before walking around trying to find anything that would help her in this situation. It felt like hours later before Jay saw something in the distance. "Hellooo!?" She yelled starting to run over to the new area.

The dark void like place started to fade behind Jay as she ran into a monotone version of the woods she was just in. Jay slowed to a halt and looked around this eerily familiar forest. She started to slowly walk around, her breaths coming out as little puffs of air as little shadows whispered and scurried around the roots of the dark trees. "Ciao? Is anyone out here?" Jay yelled out as she whipped her head around with each shadow that she saw in the corner of her eyes. "Hello," A dark and haunting voice said smoothly back to her. Jay shivered as she felt a cold wind go through her body right after the voice finished. "Who are you? Why am I here? What's going one?" Her voice rising higher at the end. The voice chuckled "So many questions, I wish we had enough time to discuss all of that, but now you have to wake up." Jay closed her eyes as the last two words echoed in her head getting louder and louder, wake up, wake up, wake uP, waKE UP WAKE UP!

"WAKE UP!"

Jay shot up, breathing hard as she looked around the room she was in. It wasn't the woods anymore, it was the bedroom that she passed out in. "What the hell," Jay said, her speech slurred as everything in the room spun. "Finally you're awake, I thought you died or something!" A male voice said in front of her "Also, profanity." The voice added. Jay squinted to focus on who was talking in front of her. A few seconds passed before the blurry blob went to focus.

The handsome man in front of Jay had dirty blonde hair and decently tan skin. He had a deep brown and a Chips Ahoy™ original bag blue eyes. Jay gagged. "What the hell, you're ugly as fu-" Jay covered her mouth realizing she just insulted the person who either saved her or was about to kill her. "Uh, thanks?" The dirty blonde said, scratching his neck. "Well, you're probably wondering who I am and how you're on the bed and not on the floor, or dead." The man said, Jay nodded curtly in agreement.

"My name is Jack, I live here." 

EDIT: 

We redid this chapter a bit and edited some of the words so yeah