CHAPTER ONE-THE FIRST PHASE OF THE RISERS

104 4 1
                                    

I

GEORGIA RADIATION ZONE (PHASE ONE)

7:22 AM

The scientists were prepared.

     They wore  white protective suits, white boots, and gas masks on their faces. They walked into the Georgia Radiation Zone (GRZ), a hot spot where huge barrels of Nuclear waste was stored in 'The Secret Place', a HIGHLY CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET Project that even the new President didn't even know about.

       Either way, there was a fear, and a real fear, that radiation would leak and spread into the populace of Georgia...and through Austin, Texas, and other cities in the Deep South.

      New York and Los Angeles wee new overrun by Risers; Georgia wasn't overrun by Risers...yet. But, as they worked steadily, something happened.

       A barrel rolled away from its secured area spilled.

      Rodrigo Nunez, Jr., a Hispanic-American, 22, was dressed in the Radiation Suit, and boots. He was over-tired from the previous 24 hour shift and had neglected to wear his gloves. Of course, everyone wore the safety gloves, but Rodrigo was restless from the fear that was growing in his bowels, a fear that gnashed like rat biting a brain...biting...biting..biting...biting..until the brain was eaten away...and nothing was left.

     "Shit!" Rodrigo said, and, as he attempted to put the fallen top of the Radiation barrel, he noticed something else: he noticed a sickly yellow color in the radiation...

      "What is that?" Rodrigo asked to himself, as he noticed it move.

      And it then attached to his right hand.

     And it burnt his flesh off.

     He screamed, as the skin begun to flake...then rot.

    Until the tendons and muscles expanded-then exploded. Then, as the substance of alien origin, mixed with the radiation, it fed on it with an raveneous, evil hunger, that was beyond description. And, as Rodrigo screamed in severe agony, his blood vessels expanded-then burst open in a torrent of Infected blood.

     Rodrigo died.

     And, as other scientists rushed to his aid, and the sirens blared, Roodrigo arose from the Dead. He was now a hybrid Riser...something more evil than the Risers of New York and Las Angeles; something more evil...and more.

       "KILL THE RISER!" Richard James, the Head of Radiation Barrel Management, (RBM), yelled. But, as he did so, the Zombie that was Rodrigo, bit his face off.

       And, as the blood seeped from the deep wounds, Richard James died instantly.

      And, as he arose from the dead, he bit other scientists.

     And, as more and more of them became ravenous hungry Risers, noone cared to stop the blaring siren, the Infected were now roaming the facility, eager to spread the new disease upon the populace of Georgia.

****

Page 4

MANIA OF THE ZOMBIES (BOOK FOUR)Where stories live. Discover now