Larvae

Larvae

It might've started with a simple sniffle or perhaps a small cough, but the way that it spread was astronomical.

I didn't think that my biological weapon would do this. If I had known, I never would have made it in the first place. Oh, how I wish I could go back in time and destroy the experiment. The mass number of people that have died by my hands, that is blood I will never be able to wash away.

It all started one stormy night, it was a Sunday and I was at home with my bug collection. I've always loved bugs ever since I was a young tyke and as I got older the love for them grew in multitudes.

Id started a secret experiment that the US government were none the wiser.

I worked for the Centre for Disease Control and I knew that there was a weapon that we were creating to wipe out the weak. A new plague if you will.

Over population was a big deal in this century and there were more people than any one government could control. The answer to this problem was to create a biological weapon that would kill off the unvaccinated, the elderly and the young. Anyone that survived the incubation period would then receive the antidote and be able to continue living their lives in a better economy. The way that the government and the CDC released the virus was in the water. First, we engineered unnatural clouds and filled them with the virus so that when it rained, the virus would take hold of its hosts, then when people became struck with the sickness, injected water from shops and the tap and these were highly polluted as well. Once the weak started to die, we started reducing the amount of the virus in the water sources until eventually we just stopped it all together.

I don't think we thought that the virus would take hold and mutate so quickly. Of course, I was immune to the virus as I was one of the first people to receive the antidote, as I was one of the lead scientists to develop the cause.

It wreaked havoc through the town in a few short weeks. One person would enter a diner sick and ask for a menu, then the waitress would get sick from the menu. It kept going up until the sick persons plate ended up back in the kitchen and the chef got sick. From there the entire diner was sick and bleeding from the eyes and ears within an hour. That's all it took for the spread of infection to pass from one host to another. By the end of the week, New York was completely eradicated as was Texas, Missouri and Los Angeles.

Now back to the bugs. I found out very quickly that once the virus took hold, there was no way that we could stop it. I thought perhaps creating a special breed of water bugs, they could be used to filter the virus from the water and create clean drinking water again.

We had already diminished more then 70 percent of the population. If we didn't find a cure soon, the entire US country would be expunged of humans.

I had been working on these bugs for quite some time, as I knew signing onto the virus team wasn't a good idea, but I did need the cheque that came with it.

The death toll that belonged to my name alone, is enough to make a war veteran break down and cry.

I couldn't handle the guilt or the mountains of dead bodies that lined the streets. We weren't allowed to burn the bodies anymore as the virus had mutated to the point that it became airborne.

The survivors had a curfew and they were only allowed in certain parts of the town. The swimming pool had been drained and converted to a mass grave.

The water towers were empty as were the dams, but no matter how much water we disposed of the virus kept growing.

My bugs were ready to test and so I began adding them to the water sources that remained.

At first the bugs worked, and people began to get healthier, their bloodshot eyes clearing and the death rattle they had vanished. I felt so very proud of what I achieved and decided to test it with other bugs including flies and cockroaches.