*Warning Begining is Stream of Consciousness*
Slowly removing the haze of sleep, I begin to acclimate that I am still in my room, it is still early morning, the sun has not risen yet. Huh. I cannot move my, oh wait there it goes. My arms feel like lead, why are all of my muscles so sore. Did I work out yesterday? Man am starving I could eat a horse. Stumbling down the hallway I enter my kitchen, there my dog Eve growls at me for no reason.
“Now now now Eve this is not the time to be testy.”
Turning to the dog biscuits I grab two. Tossing a biscuit to Eve.
“Now be a good girl and go back to bed, it’s a bit early to be up and about."
I order while munching on my own biscuit. Returning to the fridge and its contents of glorious food within I open up the old door and proceed to gorge myself on all the food within. Tunnel vision disappears as the last morsels disappear into my gullet, getting dizzy I fall backwards onto the ground promptly passing out.
*SCREEEEEEEEEEECH* *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*
I wake up to an awful screech and the sound of car alarms. Groggily I stare at the empty fridge, its door ajar. Wondering how i ate all that food I absent mindedly grab and eat another dog biscuit, tossing one to Eve as she cowers from the noise. I walk over to her and begin to pet her soothingly. “Shussh shush it’ll be alright, just a car accident, probably” The calm reassurence and food alleviates her scared state. Thats when i realize my skin is pretty pale considering that I had a nice tan yesterday. Whatever, I eat another biscuit. Why am I so hungry. Wait. Man these are good. NO WAIT STOP. I slap myself knocking the biscuit to the ground. Eve sprints and gulps it down while I stare in shock. Something is not right. I run to the bathroom to splash water on my face, really I stumbled my way there, hell I shouldered the hallway turn breaking the drywall. Splashing water on my face everything is still the same. Regular brown eyes, same short brown hair, slight stubble from the night just now pale skin. Everything else was the same.
*grumbling* I return to the kitcten to find Eve clawing at the door. Rooting through the closet I pull out a leash, harness and some granola bars i found. Getting Eve ready for her walk was easier than usual, none of her usual bouncy ness. Locking the door I notice that the cul-de-sac is full of garbage, it was trash day and someone did a number on the amassed wealth of refuse. Guiding Eve away from the smelly bits I wandered the neighborhood as usual, well not. There were no people. Saw a few corpses, I think they were werent moving guts everywhere, didnt get close to em, just sort of continued walking, somethings been burning in the commerical district as I can see a huge fire downtown, looks like half the towns ablaze, good thing for the river otherwise id be worried of it getting to my house.
Hmm looks like a person is up ahead, though he is shambling a bit.
“HEY” i announce “Any idea whats going on?”
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The thing I now see turns, an eyeball drooping from one socket, torn clothes and pale shredded flesh great my vision. It stares at Eve and I for a second as if im the most interesting thing at the moment. Then it just shrugs. And starts shambling towards the fire, as I can hear sirens there and they are the loudest thing currently nearby.
“Hey buddy is this some sort of movie set, the apocolapse, a prank? Common, im at a loss here.” I bother the “zombie” once again. “What are you an actor?”
Turning it stares at me, shuffles towards me bit, and holds up a hand, as if it remembers what the wait gesture is but not quite exactly. It raises a single finger, and it falls into his palm, attached by a ligament. Passively observing this he tries the next finger, then drops it raises 2 fingers, shrugs, and raises 2 fingers again and attempts to shake its head side to side, it got stuck on the left side. Its mostly dead eyes appear to plead for assistance. Unnerved I approach it and properly right the head. I take a granola bar, and hand it to him.
“Thanks, i guess, good luck with whatever” i say as i turn to walk away. It suddenly grabs my shoulder with its cold hand, uses its surprising strength to turn my body until im facing the welcome sign by the entrance to the development. It pats my shoulder and wanders off. Looking at Eve I wonder what the fuck I just dealt with, it could obviously read, but shouldnt have been alive either, but it could think a bit i guess?
Continueing the walk I see more shambling corpses they dont seem to react to our presence besides staring, they really like noise their stares are unsettling, occasionally i hear the shattering of objects and screaming but nothing nearby. Once i saw a group of people fighting them but they ran off before i could investigate more. Exiting the development I walk towards my friend Amelia’s house, I always stop by when i walk Eve. The road is the same, but with occasional distruction, rips and tears, sometimes more garbage or a abandoned vehichle, inside of one i find a family sized bag of chips, i was almost drawn to it. Munching we continue on our way, im finally getting sated but still hungry, as if its no longer a desperate need.
Suddenly Eve starts growling at the nearby bushes. The leaves further back start the rustle and grow in frequency as if something is pushing through them, the nearby shamblers move towards the bush (and myself) as i start to back away. Suddenly breaks forth from the foliage a pair of what appear the be little green men, ya know goblins burst out and advance before suddenly noticing the shamblers, they draw knives the goblins(?) attack the shamblers. Its kind of like a bad horror movie where the undead just stumble around and the surviviors are too nimble to be caught but numbers works. Stunned I watch the B actor quality combat, it was like no one knew what was going on. There were several shamblers and only three of the goblin things but now there remains a badly damage green thing while everything else is down. The shamblers all had their heads removed or atleast the braincase destroyed, while the goblins fell to a bashed in head and a ripped open stomach. The last one alive appears to have a broken arm and leg. With a good sized stick I found on the side of the road I bash in the creatures head, it was just whimpering in pain without moving. *ding* A bicycle sounding bell suddenly goes off but I dont see anything around me. I feel compelled to take the necklaces i now notice they were wearing, they have disks of primarily bronze and copper but a few appear to be silverish. Stuffing them in my pocket I turn towards Amelia’s house, now im worried cause until now nothing dangerous has happened.
“Eve, ill meet ya at Amelia’s can you go there now?”
“Woof” *shakes head*
As I see Eve take off to Amelia’s I start to jog.