Pitch Black | Part I

The people living in the Philippine archipelago has inflicted themselves with a virus that turns humans into creatures that can be compared to the undead. Something you once read, watched and thought as fictional has now came to life, a zombie apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to survive this new era? Or will you fall along with your other brethren.

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Walking through the creepy, desolate roads of the once bustling highway, I am met with a shrill scream from somewhere nearby.

Running into action, I take off in the direction of the sound, only to be met by a distorted human being with dry, wrinkly, gray skin and dark red spots all over its body. The creature has thinning grey hair, comparable to that of a 100 year old man, and a thin, bony frame, as if it hasn't eaten for months. This can't be human, I thought to myself, as I stood still in shock at the creature in front of me.

"Help-" a weak voice calls, snapping me back to reality. I see a woman in a wrecked car, whose windows are broken and whose doors are falling off, shielding herself from the creature who looks as if it came from the dead.

Grabbing a glass shard from the remains of a nearby car, I slowly walk towards the odd creature. Raising the glass shard, I stab this creature I conclude to be a zombie. However, as the glass sliced through it's skin, past where I assume to be the heart, the creature only halts its actions and turns to face me.

Being this close to the creature, I can clearly see it's withering, wax paper-like skin, and catch a whiff of a scent that can be compared to that of a dead rat. It gnarls its broken, mismatched teeth at me and makes a deep, rumbling noise, which I assume to be a growl as it prepares to pounce on me. That's when I make contact with the soulless, bloodshot eyes of this creature.