Bloodbath

Chapter 1: The beginning

“A small meteor struck earth in a small town called Sidonia on the 25th of April 2020. In the early morning a virus was released and the residents of the town of Sidonia turned into the walking dead. Overnight the town was completely destroyed and a week later a city close by fell victim to a massive horde.”

It is the year 2025 and 80% of humanity has been wiped out as he stood looking over a horde. How did it get to this, why did you have to die! As he stood alone facing the massive horde that wiped out his squad a bright light filled the night sky.

What happened, how did this happen. Where am i. I heard a voice calling my name” Alastair!”. As I recognize the familiar voice, tears form in my eyes. It is my best friend Allan Bailey, but how he died when the apocalypse started. I turned around to see him as he called my name again. I asked hastily what year it is as he replied that it was the year 2020, I realized that I was send back in time. “Did God give me a second chance, what happened did I die”. With a worried look in Allan’s eyes he asked if I’m alright but I did not answer as I am thinking of an explanation of what happened.

My name is Alastair Coleman and currently I am 16 years old. In the year 2025 I died or more specifically I was sent back in time to the year 2020 to the time before the virus was released and the world changed forever. How it happened I do not know, what I do know is that it’s a blessing and I will save those who are dear to me.

I realised that Allan was busing shaking me since I am not paying attention to him, I returned to reality and looked at him with a serious face as the following words left my mouth. “Allan, you need to listen to me today is the 24th of April am I correct. If it is a meteor will land on earth in 12 hours’ time. As soon as the meteor hits everyone on earth will be infected by a virus and those who are not tolerant towards the virus will change and become zombies, before that happens, we need to prepare”. As Allan looked at me, he bursts out laughing, thinking that I am joking he shrugs it off as one of my jokes. I grabbed he’s arm pulling him back and said “Allan please you have to listen to me what I am saying is true in 12 hours’ time everything we now know will change”. 

As he realized that I’m being serious, a look of terror washed over his face. With a shivering voice he asked what he should do. First, we should procure food and water as it will be difficult to gather the supplies once the apocalypse starts. Second, we must gather weapons to protect ourselves, but before that you should contact your parents and inform them of what will happen and ask to keep themselves safe. Allan took out his phone and proceeded to call his parents, I did not have any parents because mine died in a car accident a long time ago. Ever since then Allan and his parents took care of me and event sent me to school. I hope they are safe.

As Allan returned after calling his parents, he asked what about Margaret Pattinson. I almost forgot about her, today was the day I asked her out. Just as this thought left my mind, I heard her and her lackeys outside the room of where we were standing. As the door was opening, she called out my name with the proposal letter in her hand and a mischievous smile on her face. With the words “Surround him” leaving her mouth I instantly knew what was going to happen next as it all happened before.

As Allan and myself stood next to each other, surrounded by Margaret’s lackeys she stepped out from behind the classroom door holding the letter I wrote. “Did you write this to me, why would I ever accept someone as worthless and pathetic as you”. As those words left her mouth a marched towards her grabbing the letter and ripping it apart in front of her. With a shocked expression on her face, she asked why I ripped the letter apart. “I see now how blind I was, how could I ever have fallen for an ungrateful wretch like you”.

‘In my past life the same thing happened but instead op ripping the letter I was beaten and could not move, because of that was unable to protect Allan from the dead.’

Furiously she ordered her lackeys to beat us, but instead of receiving the beating we delivered it instead. Margaret fled in terror as she saw how her henchmen were lying on the ground helplessly begging for us to have mercy. As we left the classroom, we headed towards the exit of the school in search of a grocery store to stock up on supplies. Since it was not the apocalypse yet we could not just take the food, I cannot afford to be locked up for stealing food. As I was deep in thought Allan took his wallet out (I forgot he belonged to a wealthy family) he turned to me and said “Might as well use it now since I won’t be able to soon”. Since we procured enough food needed a weapon for the time been. Something with reach that is not too heavy to swing and also that is not too long to be uncomfortable. Something like a crowbar or a metal pipe since we are still minor, we are unable to buy a blade.

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Next to the school is an old abandoned factory maybe we can find something there. When we arrived there an ominous feeling befell me. As I turned around a bright red light replaced the sun for a short period of time and a meteor could be seen. My eyes widened as I realised that it was the meteor that will release the virus. “How could this be was it not supposed to only come tomorrow”. I turned around and shouted to Allan to get down and take cover it was already too late. 10 kilometres away from where the factory is the meteor landed and a powerful shock wave shook across the earth blowing everything away. Allan and I was hit by the wave and n hit my head against the wall behind me. As blood flowed over my one eye a tried to crawl towards Allan that was unconscious on the floor. Luckily, he did not get seriously injured, just knocked out. Once I reached him, I tried to stand up and pull him into the office where he was laying. As I closed the door, I lost consciousness and fell down.

When I regained consciousness, I was still there were I passed out, as I slowly stood up, I called out to Allan as he was not next to me where I left him. A feeling of cold sweet befell me as a thought that he turned into a walking dead crossed my mind. The door behind me suddenly opened and Allan walked in greeting me. Allan explained to me that I was asleep for about thirteen hours, he woke up about a half an hour ago and went outside to fetch the food. Luckily the food did not get blown away from the shockwave. When stepped outside I realised that since my rebirth a few things have changed.

The main problem now was that the source of the spread of the virus was inside the city, which means that the concentration of the virus will be much more here for the next few months until the infection spreads. We have to get out of the city before we get infected with the virus, but first I have to find Her. 

‘In my past life the few lucky humans that survived the first catastrophe, among them was a select few who gain enhanced physical abilities like enhanced strength and speed. Some speculated that instead of turning into an undead their bodies adapted to the virus instead and unlocked their physical capabilities, others says that it was a blessing from a God to aid mankind in their struggle for survival. Later a group of Hunters found a serum from an undead corps that could enhance a normal Hunters physical capability permanently. But the problem was that only they knew the type of undead that produced the serum.’

‘Food became a source of currency for those that survived and the serum that the Hunters found monopolized it so if anyone wanted it had to either join their organization or pay a large amount of food for the serum. Later a group of hunters found that some zombies evolved and were called Higher tier zombies. They are much faster and stronger that the Lower tier zombies. There were reports stating that hunters fought against Elite tier and General tier zombies were Elite tier zombie had specific abilities related to their build. In each tier of zombie starting from the Elite tier there are four types.’

‘The first undead that appeared was classified as the lower tiered zombies it had a more human like feature. They were humans that just turned undead but does not have the ability to evolve into either one of the other three types of undead. They usually walked around during the day time but are inactive during night time. We called them LURKERS.’

‘The first of the Elite tier undead had a slim build with sharp teeth and claws, had fast speed and slightly more intelligent that the others. It knew how to sneak around and stalk its pray. His skin was grey almost like ash with no muscles nor hair on his body and has bright like green eyes. They only appeared at night as that was the best time for them to hunt. We called them REAPERS.’

‘The second had a larger build, significantly slower but had patches of hardened skin much like armour on his body to protect itself. He had more strength than the others but his intelligence were much lower. Its skin was dark grey and the hardened skin had a whit tint to it and its eyes were blood red. We called them SAWANSINGER.’

‘The third type was rare to find and if you do see it RUN. It had a massive size and was fat. Its body was had blisters that had a lime like skin covering it protecting its shoulders, knees back and heart. Inside was a toxic gas that could turn a human within seconds if inhaled. It has a long tongue that is powerful and if you are grabbed you will be swallowed hole. We called them BLOUTERS.’

‘The fourth type had a feminine build. It usually had long straight black hair covering its face with pale white skin and wears a white nightgown covered in blood. It wakes sound like someone is drowning to lure you in if not it will chase after you, upside down on its hands and feet. It sucks her victim’s blood dry hens the name BLOODY MARIE.’

Note: all text that is typed in ‘ ’ happened in the main characters past.