She had just got home when it started. Victoria Thompson, Vic to friends, lived in a small apartment with her son. She had got him when she was young and stupid. The father bailed but Victoria decided to keep the baby. For all her youthful stupidity, that was the smartest thing she would ever do. Her son at 12 seemed to know exactly what to do to prepare for the so-called apocalypse. She had just gotten home after getting the last of the governments prepare-packages, a thing, introduced on day 2. These packages contained just about anything, from water to guns.
“I´m back” She looked inside the kitchen where Simon was organizing. They had got a lot of stuff and they needed to see what went with what. She had been unsure about letting her little boy handling such a complicated thing but he proved himself wonderfully. Besides in the end, she only had so much time on hand and they needed a better picture of it all.
“did you get it” he asked over his shoulder. Victoria took of her coat and went up next to him and started helping. “yep, last packet” She said “you wanna check what it has?”
He nodded mutely and together they started opening it. However just as they got to the packet opened, a tremor went through them. Went through everyone actually and a message appeared
APOCALYPSE SYSTEM IN PLACE
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Both Simon and Victoria had frozen in their tracks when they saw it. “M-mom” She snapped awake to the sound of Simons uncertain voice. “Get the prepare kit ready hon” she said and vent after the guns hidden in the bedroom. However suddenly a heat started gathering in the living room. Before her eyes fire appeared.
However, this fire was not uncontrolled and slowly started to gather. “Stay away, Simon” Victoria yelled with panic in her voice. “What’s happening mom?” Of course, by yelling, Simon did what every person would, and went to check out what the noise meant. “Simon, back” she saw how the fire took on a vaguely human form and with despair saw it look at Simon that just appeared in the hallway. However, when it moved towards him, she saw red “you get away from him!” she yelled, and body tackled it. Of course, body tackling fire wasn’t her smartest moment and the fire made no time making itself known. She screamed as the fire licked her but would not let it go. “MOTHER!!” She heard a scream, but she couldn’t focus. The pain was too great.
She couldn’t stop screaming and it blinked white in the corner of her eyes. It almost got too much, but then the water hit. Simon, for his part, had as soon as he saw his mother on fire went to get a pot of water filled and threw it at her. The fire however didn’t disappear, but she saw something akin to flesh where the water had hit, which the fire slowly started to cover. So she did the natural thing: found a place with relatively little fire, close to what she presumed was the neck, and bit. It felt like she had just poured fire down her throat and she passed out, with her teeth still at its throat. It had gone after her baby boy and that could not stand, even passed out would punishment still be sought.