12th March ,11:31pm
Near the border army tent,
“Ah!!!”
It was a place filled with darkness .Lights flickering at a distant place capturing the horrendous event that took place. Standing as evidence are corpses of dead not moving an inch of space and within this piles of corpses, a man stood screaming with all his might. Not even caring of his surroundings. As if rejecting the reality in itself . What was on man mind was utter confusion despair and sheer desperation. An endless hope which he wanted to cling to and disregard the utter existence of the term reality. After a long silence the man finally opened his eyes to view the corpses of his allies, friends and comrades. Unable to bear any longer the man finally escaped reality and began to run and run and run. Hoping to find someone or something to cling to. To find someone to throw himself to. To repent for his deeds cursing his very birth zack ran. But in this desolate space void of humans the only place he could run to was to of his own kind. Then finally he heard a noise . Zack thought it was a calling from a god. But after noticing the thing which made the noise. Zack became fearful. Confused whether they will mistake his as a friend or an enemy. He decided to put some space between them . Then he started noticing an abnormal situation.
“Hey everyone thanks for taking your time to come here?”
A man with full suit began taking as their leader.
“I welcome you all to the party of massacre.”
“Stop with bickering and start the event vlan.”
“Oh.Dont be a party smasher you all have been waiting for this moment for a while .haven’t you?”
“…”
“Then, please wait a little longer and little to my words.”
“Then be done with it”
“Of course. Today we have gathered for the ceremonial ritual to kill the existence which threatens us. Not only us but our entire existence .General Mauvid , gave a report sighting a pile of corpses near the border. Have you all heard that?”
“W-what?”
Bewildered the man acting as a representative of others asked,
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“All our troops have been wiped out!!”
“I’m afraid so. So General Mauvid came with a solution.”
“And what might that solution be.”
“Cleansing of the dead.”
“You surely can’t be referring to-“
“Yes”
“why?”
“No reason for you to know. General Rick.”
“Don’t call me a general .A general protects his subordinates. But I merely sent them to their own death knowingly.”
“Throw the past and live for the future.”
“But anyways cleansing of the dead is a ritual to ward of the evil spirits. But we surely know that’s not it .The true ritual involves slaughter and nothing but slaughter and you still to agree to that!!”
Enraged General Rick asked Vlan ,
“Yes”
Seeing no hesitance in his words Rick felt bewildered. Looking as if he were looking at someone else.
“That’s why we called you general.”
“…”
“You are our best.”
“Just once.”
“Hurray~!!”
“At midnight all our chopper will land on all border army tents and start the ritual.”
“…”
“Isn’t this fun. You can go all out this time. That mean’s unlimited ammos~”
Vlan was joyfully speaking about killing his own people. Humans like himself. Rick’s expression turned morbid not comprehending why he would go that far. He then began choosing his attire and weapons.
Far behind the encampment Zack skillfully hid himself and began listening their conversation .Upon hearing he thought their might have been problems in his ears. After turning into a zombie Zack hearing and vision senses increased or in better terms evolved in a great sense.
“Looks like allying with them is out of the question.”
Then a crazy idea turned up in Zack’s head.
“If I can’t stay with people I might as well find my place in the land of zombies.”
Then Zack again started walking at the opposite direction of the camp inside Nepal or the land of the dead.
13th March Morning at 12:00am
In front of the former town of Belani, Nepal
Zack was walking for hours over hours. With his new transformed body, his endurance, hunger and stamina increased to an inhumane level. He now has no desire to kill or hunt but for some reason he maintained his former intelligence and sanity. After walking for hours in the heat he finally reached a town. As he was a foreigner to begin with he was not knowledgeable about the existence of this town. After reaching the town Zack noticed something interesting.
“Why is there no one in this town?”
While thinking about the matter Zack made his way to one of the houses. The house was small having a corridor ,bath ,kitchen and bedroom. After entering Zack opened the fridge and began cooking a meal .He wanted to know if he could eat normal foods.
“…”
Zack presented his long awaited meal in the kitchen table and began to eat.
“The taste isn’t bad”
From Zack’s perspective the food was normal as any .He became confused was he really a zombie or not? Then what about his heightened senses. At the end everything still remained a mystery to Zack. After filling his stomach with a hearty meal Zack became curious of his outer appearance. Insecurity rose in his heart. With heavy he began looking for a mirror. He quickly found the mirror which he was looking for in the bedroom.
But what he saw in front of the mirror left his mouth agape with awe.