Hungry Night

I'm lying in bed awake, it’s three AM. I'm tired as fuck and can't sleep. The TV’s still on, I zoned out while watching shitty pieces of late-night television. The sounds of Disease, a poorly produced hospital drama television show buzzed around in my ear. I started to think about Lisa, my ex-wife. She left me a few months ago. She said my personality got boring and depressing after a while. I loved her so much. The buzzing stopped, my attention was focused on the TV which had seem to turn off by it's self. I stared into the black screen for an all of five minutes, not curious to why my television was off. The next thing to grab my attention was someone banging on my door. “Help! Please help! Open up! Hurry!” I slumped slowly to the door.

I opened the door. A beautiful young blonde girl, probably in her twenty’s was at the door crying and screaming. “He’s going to kill me, help me!” I opened the door and she pushed me to the side running in. I looked to see what was chasing her. There was a man walking slowly toward me. I shut and locked the door not really worried. I turned to the woman sitting on my couch.

“What happened?” I asked while getting my .357 magnum from my end table drawer. She looked at me with teary green eyes and replied.

“My parents came over for dinner, my dad grilled out in the backyard. He must have forgot to close the back door. Earlier I woke up to my parents screaming. I ran to the bedroom to see if they were okay...they were...opened up…dead. There was blood everywhere, it was so horrible. That man was eating my father. I ran out as soon as possible, your house was the closest in sight.” She went back to crying. Eating? I thought.

A scratching sound was coming through the door. Then continuous bangs. The girl screamed as I opened the door quickly and without thinking I shot him between the eyes. He stepped back, I looked at his face. His eyes were black, the skin around his jaw was torn off, he had black colored blood all over his mouth and shirt. The man slowly dropped to his knees as dirty blood poured from his face. His torso fell and landed on my porch. I turned to her slowly “This isn’t a man…it’s a monster.” I said. She screamed and pointed behind me. As I turned back to see three more bloody men with black eyes, growling, salivating blood at the sight of me. I slammed the door shut and locked it as several bangs were coming from the outside. “Get upstairs, quickly.” I told her while moving a table chair against the door knob.

I ran upstairs and looked out of the window. There was an entire group of them, twenty or thirty. I turned on the TV to see if anything was about this on the news. The pail anchor looked scared but talked fast. “There are many sights and reports of the man eating monsters that have now spread to here. It has only been three hours since we have received the first report of them in America. Many and more people are dead and dieing. If they bite you, there's said to be a slow and painful transformation and eventually you turn into one of those creatures. So block off your house, windows, and arm yourself and wait for help.” Many of those monsters came rushing from the back of the news studio and started attacking the news anchor and ate him.

“Oh my god…what has happened…” she said. I looked out the window, then walked to my closet to grab my hunting rifle.

“I’m Adam.” I told her while dumping all of my ammunition into my old backpack.

“Sheri.” She said still teary bur frightened most of all.

“We need to go to Jim’s General Store. That place is pretty sealed up at three in the morning. If we can bust in and barricade it we’ll have supplies.” I said

“They said stay here.” She replied.

“That’s bullshit, we stay here we die.” I opened up my window. “My house is small enough to jump on the hood of my truck.” I took my keys out of my pocket and unlocked the truck with the button mechanism. “I’ll be right back.” I turned around and she grabbed my arm.

“Wait, don't go, you'll get eaten!” She said. “I got a rifle, I'll be fine.” I jogged downstairs and grabbed a chunk of ground beef I had started defrosting for dinner tomorrow.

I reached for my old pocket knife from hunting and cut myself on top of my left arm just a little bit. “What are you doing?” She asked shocked.

“Making bait…” I answered as I turned my arm over and let my blood drip slowly on top the beef. I wrapped my arm with a small towel I had on the table. I slowly walked over the the window and opened it. It's freezing outside. I made sure that I had my .357 and my rifle ammunition and I made sure I had my magnum in my pocket. I handed her the rifle. “I'm going to lure them across the street. When I jump down on my truck I want you to toss me the rifle and hop out, okay?” She nodded. I kicked the screen out and threw the beef far across the street. The monsters quickly ran to the beef. “Hurry!” I said as I moved fast and jumped out of my window. As soon as I landed the rifle landed on my back. “Ow!” The rifle fell off the truck. She jumped out and landed on her ankle. She screamed in pain. I quickly helped her in to the truck, ran around the hood, tossed my rife in the bed and got into the truck.

She yelled. “My ankle!” I cranked the truck up and pulled out of my drive way fast, hitting some of the monsters.

“It'll be okay, pull the seat back and just try to calm down.” I said.

The streets we’re flooded with the monsters, I was hitting most of them that were in my way. “Are you sure about this?” She asked.

“Yes, if I wasn’t we’d still be back there wouldn’t we?” I replied.

“I guess…I'm so scared.” She started to get teary again.

“It’ll be okay. We're gonna get to the store and bandage you up.” I pulled up on the side of the Jim’s General Store. “There’s a latter right there, we could climb up. There's door on the roof that is always unlocked. Can you climb on your foot?” I asked.

“I can try.” She replied. I grabbed my stuff and helped her out of the truck.

“You go first, in case you fall.” I told her. She slowly climbed up, using all her upper body strength to pull on her right leg. When she made it up I swung my rifle to my back and climbed up.

Right before I opened the roof door Sheri asked “How are you positive that the door is unlocked?” I looked back at her.

“I work here.” I answered. I slowly turned the knob and swung the door open. My heart stopped for a second as nothing came out at me. I took out my .357 and walked down the dark stairs with Sheri's weight on my shoulder. I walked through most of the isles looking for the first aid kits. Sounds of footsteps suddenly surrounded us.

“Halt!” Yelled a husky voice. “Man or zombie?” The man yelled as two lights hit me and Sheri's eyes, blinding us.

“We're clean, get the fucking light out of my face!” I ordered.

“Cut em off.” He said. The lights went off but I still couldn't see.

“I'm Shadow, this is Raven.” As my vision got clearer is was to build males wearing heavy police gear and holding automatic rifles.

“Do you know where the bathroom is around here?” Raven asked.

“The rear left.” I answered. Raven jogged off to go use it.

“So what's your story?” Shadow asked.

“Well, I came home after a tiring day at work. I work a twelve hour shift here and it was busy earlier today. I ate some left over chicken from the other night and played some video games. About an hour of that and I had a Mountain Dew, slumped on the couch and started watching Disease and she came banging on my door, the monsters had got to her parents. I gathered up my rifle and magnum and made for the store, and here we are now. What about you?” I asked.

“Me, Raven, and another officer was assigned to bust in a house and arrest some junkies. They were not junkies, they were those creatures. A couple took out my third man from behind, me and Raven got out of there. When we got out of the house there was so many outside. We ran for the squad car and drove here.”

A couple hours passed of silence and darkness. Shadow and Raven were over in their own corner talking. Sheri came over to me and sat right next to me. “Thank you, for everything.” She said.

“Your welcome, Sheri.” I took my cell phone out of my pocket to check the time. It's five o’ clock. I looked through the window and it was still dark. Sheri slowly started to doze off and lie her head on my shoulder. Three hours of nothing passed by. I checked my phone again. It's eight-fifteen. I looked out the window and it was still dark. What the hell? How is it still dark? I gently walked away from Sheri to go see the police officers. “Hey, Shadow, what time you got?” I asked. He looked at his watch.

“Eight sixteen, why?” He asked.

“It's still as dark as it was at three.” The radio they were using on there chests started to give out white noise. After three seconds a soft spoken voice started coming through.

“Any survivors out there, come to the city harbor. I repeat, any survivors, come to the city harbor. There will be boats there waiting for any survivors. The boats will go to France, We have information that they have already developed a cure. The boats leaves in four hours.” Then the radio went back to the white noise, then off.

“A cure? Already?” I said. Shadow looked at me.

“It's possible, France is where it all started two weeks ago. Haven’t you been paying attention to the news?” He said it like it was an ordinary disease, certainly it wasn't.

“No, I certainly haven't.” I said.

“So how do we get to the harbor in four hours?” Shadow said.

“We drive fast, I have a truck near the side of the store. We can walk around the side of the building and I'll give you guys a lift. Grab all of your supplies and pack up” I said.

“We'll take our car.” Shadow said as they left without saying 'bye'. Sheri stuck by my side grabbing food and drinks off the shelves. I unlocked and opened the front door to the store and lead Sheri to the truck with me. She rushed to the passenger seat, I followed behind her into the drivers seat.

“Thank you, again.” Sheri said as we started driving.

“For what?” I asked.

“Saving me, if you didn’t id be one of those…things.” I thought to myself. Does it make me a hero? Like Superman, or Batman? Sheri closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep. I didn’t notice how cute she was without her eyes all watery. Her blonde hair was blowing a little bit outside of the open window. My eyes got heavy as I started to swerve. No, can't swerve, gotta stay focused on the road and get to the harbor. We got to the harbor in a couple hours.

“Sheri, wake up.” I nudged her gently, she woke slowly, opening her eyes gently.

“Hmm…? Are we there yet?” She said slowly and softly.

“Yeah, we gotta hurry before the boat leaves.” I grabbed my bag and hers then left the truck as so did she.

There was a man standing at a gate at the entrance of the wooden bridge of to the boat. He was wearing the standardized army AC-U’s with a M4 automatic rifle strapped to him. I walked up to him. “Are you cut, bit, scratched, or any blood in your mouth, nose, eyes, fingernails, or any other body cavity?” He said quickly.

“No, we're clean.” I answered.

“Okay, go right into that white gate over there.” He pointed right behind him. “That will do a full body scan to make sure you don't have the virus.” Me and Sheri passed the military soldier and entered an eight foot gate. A beam of light scanned our bodies then paper gently slid out of a machine on the other side. A man wearing another soldier looked over the paper.

“You both are clean, there's a room prepared.” He handed me a small silver key that had the numbers '218' engraved in it. “You're room is on the second floor, eighteenth door to the left.” He said.

“Thank you.” I said taking the key, walking toward the the boat. The boat was extremely crowded, Sheri was holding my hand tightly. It was very loud too, lots of chatter saying that France didn't have the cure. And lots of tears and talk about dead relatives.

Me and Sheri made it to the small room. It had a one person bed, a small couch, and an end table next to the bed with a clock. “I'll take the couch.” Sheri said.

“No, you've been through a lot, you deserve a bed.” I put our packs down and laid on the couch. It was lumpy and uncomfortable. Sheri laid down on the bed and curled up with the blanket tired as hell. She slowly started to fall asleep.

I woke up a few hours later to the sound of crying and whimpering. I looked over and it was Sheri crying on her bed. “Sheri...” I walked over to her and knelt at the edge of her bed. “what's wrong?” I asked her. She turned to me.

“I'm scared...what if one of those test's were wrong and I turn into one of those monsters. Or what if someone else is and well die?” She asked.

“It wont happen, Sheri. These scientists are top of the line.” I wrapped my arm around her waist and hugged her gently. “Everything will be okay, we just have to get to France and we'll be safe.” I told her.

“What if we don't.” She replied.

“We will, just go back to sleep, okay?” I stayed there on the edge of her bed until she fell asleep. It took one week of nonstop riding. My back ached because of the uncomfortable couch but we arrived at a harbor in France. We were greeted by solders carrying guns pointed directly at us.

American soldiers stepped ahead of the group and raising their guns. One of the American soldiers yelled over the group. “Survivants! Survivants!” I had no idea what they were saying. Obviously it was French for something because the other soldiers backed down. One of the French soldiers walked up to one of the American and spoke.

“L'abri de survie est sur la route. Les mendecins ont la cure il.” The American soldier shook his hand.

“Je vous remercie. Okay everyone! The survivor shelter is down the road! They got doctors and they got the cure. So please stay together. You're going to be all right!” He said.

“Shit, look!” One of the soldiers pointed out into the distance. It was a large group of the monsters. They were running incredibly fast and spitting up a green substance. Guns started going off, doctors and civilians were rushing out of the shelter with the green substance leaking from their mouths. Sheri turned to me.

“You said nothing bad was going to happen!” She yelled and ran off scared.

“Sheri, get back here!” I yelled and ran toward her, chasing her. “Sheri please, stop.” I ran faster almost catching up to her. I grabbed her arm and yanked her back. “If you want to survive then stop fucking running in random places without thinking.” She turned around looking at how far she had ran.

“Where are we?” She panted. “I don't know...” I replied.

I looked around, apparently we'd ran so far while they were busy devouring each other they didn't even know we were gone. “Where is everyone?” Sheri asked.

“Dead...” I equipped my hunting rifle to my front just in case. A loud thud came from behind us. Sheri screamed while I turned around and raised my rifle. It was one of those monsters lying on the ground. His rotten smelling dirty black blood splattered all over the road. Sheri backed away covering her nose. I looked up wondering where it came from. I heard the sounds of Sheri throwing up behind me as I examined what I saw.

“Um...Sheri...” She turned around coughing, wiping her mouth.

“What?” She replied. The monster crawled to his feet while a large group of monsters were walking carelessly off the roof then slowly scrambling to their feet. Some of them puking on each other.

“Fuck...” I walked back slowly as they stared at me and Sheri.

“Adam...wha-what do we do?” She said holding my arm.

“We run.” I turned around quickly, running as fast as I can with Sheri holding on to me, keeping up with my speed. They followed behind us incredibly fast. If I can't find a way to get out of this we'll both die.

I turned into an alley and found was I was hoping to find. A ladder. “Go! Climb the ladder! I'll be right behind you!” I told Sheri as she climbed the ladder. I shot as many as I could to hold them back. I climbed the ladder after her. When I got on top of the building where the ladder took me I shot the bolts off the ladder to push it over with my handgun from my pack. Sheri sat down for a second while I loaded the guns. “Here, you take this.” I handed her the handgun. “Use it wisely.” I told her.

“Thank you.” Sheri replied. I walked to the edge and looked down. It was terrible. They were clawing at the wall. They're fingernails snapping off. A few off them spat up on each other, burning straight through they're dead flesh.

“What do we do now? We're stuck up here on this roof forever?” Sheri asked me. I thought for a while about what to do. I turned to the left. I stared at the other building.

“The buildings are close enough for us to jump across. If we can continue doing that I'm positive we can get into the military base here and find a safe place to stay. Monsters started to climb up the other buildings, closing us in.

“What now?” Sheri said. I turned around and saw that the ocean was behind us.

“We jump!” I ran off the building and dived into the water. Sheri followed as the monsters almost grabbed her. The harbor was close by and empty, we swam for there.

“Where did everybody go?” Sheri asked.

“I don't know, but I'm sure we can find weapons near by.” I replied. We scavenged around picking up a couple of automatic rifles and hand grenades. “Now we have to go to that survivors shelter down the road to find the cure.” I told Sheri. “Just stay close.” I walked toward the shelter slowly but carefully, with the stench of rotten flesh stuck in the air, blood, teeth, and body parts all over the hard gravel. I ripped the curtain off the shelter to see inside. The 'shelter' was more of a large cloth with a wooden support. No one was in there, but there were lots of metal suitcases with 'Cannibal Cure' written on it.

“These cases are it.” Sheri smiled faintly, “We've got it!”. I turned to look at her.

“I told you we'd be okay.” I told her as we sat there for a few. “Y'know, this is the first time I have ever seen you smile before...It's cute” Sheri's face got red and slightly turned.

A man came through the roof wearing a gas mask and a black military suit, carrying a large silver pistol. “We have the cure.” He looked at us and raised his pistol. “Are you infected!?” His voice sounded distorted through the mask.

“No, we're normal!” I yelled.

“We got survivors. Bring them along? Two, a male and a female.” The man said keeping his gun pointed directly at me. “Okay.” Two ropes come from above as the sounds of a helicopter can be heard from the roof. Two belts with climbers gear were strapped to them. “Put those on, it'll pull you up.” The man said standing there waiting for us. Me and Sheri put them on as soldiers started pull the ropes lifting them to the helicopter.

When they pulled us up there was four soldiers wearing black with gas masks. The other solder came back up with two large cases filled with the other metal cases with the cure secure inside. “Okay pilot, to the base!” The man yelled over the loud sounds of the helicopter. Me and Sheri sat in the helicopter not knowing where we are going.

“Hey, what's going on?” Sheri said trying to make herself heard over the helicopter.

“We're going back to our main base to get the cure analyzed to make more copy's to save our race and stop theirs.” The man next to her replied.

“Is there anyway we can help?” I asked.

“We'll find out.” He said. I looked out the side of the helicopter to see it still dark. I haven’t seen daylight for weeks. All the monsters look like tiny ants, clumsy, evil, fast, ants.

The helicopter eventually landed inside of a large silver underground hole. A light came from the left of me, it was about the size of a door. The helicopter calmed down so now me and Sheri were able to hear each other think. Suddenly lights came on brightening the entire circle. A man in a black suit came out to greet the men in masks and me and Sheri. “Hello,” He said as he shook my hand. “I'm Charlie Marsh, head of the research development in this whole disease.” He shook Sheri's hand also.

“I'm Adam, this is Sheri. We're survivors.” He looked back at me.

“I know, follow me, I have something you might want to see.” He started walking back towards the doorway. We followed.

What we saw was indescribable, there was so many rooms and each were small and had one monster each into them. “Why the fu-” I started to talk then he interrupted me.

“We created the first monster, using a simple chemical unknown by man. This chemical almost instantly kills your brain cells and replaces them with the urge to eat human flesh.” He continued. “The point of all this is to create the cure with a chemical that will replace your brain cells to erase the urge, then sell it and make millions of dollars. Unfortunately it got out of control, so for that matter we assembled our own task force of hundreds of skilled soldiers to take them all out, and help the ones in need of it. Does this make any sense to you people?”

Sheri grabbed his collar and yanked him into a wall. “Those monsters you created killed my parents you fucker!” She punched him hard over and over again nonstop. Charlies face was already bleeding and bruised. He was crying for help but the other soldiers already left and no one was around but us. Only the echos of the banging on the walls and the cry's of Charlie rang down the halls. Smack after smacking sound hit his face hard. I turned away to make sure no one was going to interrupt her. I heard a ticking sound on the floor, I looked down to see what it was. It was one of Charlies teeth. The sounds changed from her fist hitting his face to her fist hitting his face hitting the wall.

“Sheri, that's enough.” I pulled her back as she kicked his face hard one last time. He was crying his bloody eyes out, tears running down his face. Blood dripping from his mouth as another tooth slide down the blood fall that was trickling the side of his face. Sheri turned to cry, the sights of her parents death was probably still haunting her in her thoughts. I walked over to her to hold her gently, comforting her. Surrounded by dead people who remain to be living all because of some mother fucker that wanted money. “I'm sorry, about your parents. This...monster will get what he deserves.” I told her as she turned around, looking up at me with teary eyes. A river ran down her cheek, I wiped it off cleaning her face. She let out a giggle. She looked into my eyes and gently kissed me then turned red in the face.

A loud alarm sound came from around us. “Yes...they're being freed!” Charlie said coughing on his blood. I stood there for a second wondering what that meant until I looked down hall. It was those monsters, just more deformed then usual. Experiments gone wrong maybe? But they were slow, and their groans sounded like they were in pain. Me and Sheri backed away slowly. When they reached Charlie they started to dig their fingernails deep inside of his skin, taking their slow time, pulling down. Slowly their fingernails began to snap off. Some of the others began to bite. He screamed in pain and screamed for help. No one was there to listen. I started to jog quickly down an unfamiliar hallway not knowing where I am, Sheri followed. There was no escape so far, just a lot of empty rooms, nothing more.

There was a sign on the side of the wall with an arrow pointing ahead of us saying 'Stairway exit' on it. I made my way for the exit door. I opened it and started climbing the stairs. Sheri closed it behind her and then she was right behind me. The sounds of the monsters scratching and pounding against the door can be heard from all the way up. The stairs were about six to ten floors. We finally made it to the top, a large silver door with an 'exit' sign on it. I opened it as fast as I can, not hesitating to leave that place without looking back. Outside it was dark, as it had been for the past few weeks now. There was no monsters, all around us was fresh grass. I heard the door slam shut as Sheri was right behind me puffing and panting. “No..” She said. “No more!” She laid down on the outside grass.

“I have a feeling it will all be over soon, Sheri.” I told her as I laid down too. My legs ached and burned. Sheri scooted closer to me until our shoulders touched. She looked at me, I looked at her. She leaned over and kissed me on the mouth. As I got lost into her eyes I went to kiss her back. But at the same time she slowly rolled on top of me, kissing me again. She rested her hand on the back of my neck, barley supporting herself with her elbows on my chest. The tops of her breasts visible. She rested her head next to mine, completely resting her body on me. Sheri slowly fell asleep...I stayed awake.

She had been asleep for five hours now until she woke up. I laid there with her on top of me, my eyes closed, just resting. She gently rolled off of me, probably thinking I was asleep and didn't want to wake me. I slowly opened my eyes. “Adam?” She spoke.

“Yes?” I answered.

“Where are we? I mean, where did the helicopter take us exactly?” She asked.

“I don't know.” A sparkle of light hit the corner of my eye. “Look, over there.” I pointed to a faint light in the distance. “We might be able to find out where we are.”

“But we don't have any guns. Those soldiers took them.” Sheri replied. I pulled two small pistols from my sides and handed her one.

“Here...” she took it. “stole them from the helicopter.” I told her. I stood up and so did she as we started walking towards the light in the darkness.

It was a lamp, a lamp outside of a large green tent. “Excuse me, is anyone here?” I said getting no response. “Excuse me! Is anyone-” A coughing sound interrupted me. My grip tightened around the pistol, hoping I wouldn't have to use it.

“Who's there?” Said a fragile but rough sounding voice.

“I'm Adam, and I have a girl with me, her name's Sheri.” I heard him clear his throat.

“None of your are hurt are you?” He asked.

“No, we're not infected.” I heard a snapping noise from behind me. I turned and it was just Sheri who had accidentally stepped on a twig from what looks like old remains of a campfire.

“Come in, come in.” The voice said as I unzipped the tent opening and entered. It was as big as it was on the outside. There was a small sleeping bag with a pillow. The lamp was in the middle. There was an open backpack filled with food. On the other side of the food there was four walkie talkie's lying down. Sitting in the corner messing with what looks like a fire starter was an old man. A small old man only wearing a black shirt and blue pants. His white hair, bald on top but formed around his head like a cloud. “Hello!” He said delightedly with a smile. “I'm Joseph.”

“Nice to meet you Joseph.” I told him.

“I was just about to have dinner. Will you join me?” He asked.

“Yes! I am starving.” Sheri replied almost instantly.

“Well then, looks like I will be cooking for three.” He said cheerfully, happy to see normal human beings for a change. Joseph grabbed the pack full of food and headed out front. Me and Sheri sat right beside each other as Joseph started the fire then sat across us.

Sheri laid her head on my shoulder closing her eyes resting. Slowly falling asleep at the warmth of the fire. “Poor girl,” I said. “hasn't had a good nights sleep in days.” Joseph looked at me while cooking some beef using an old pot.

“What about you?” He said. “She looks fine, but your facial features say you haven't slept in a good while, or rested.” He flipped the beef over cutting it down some.

“I've been protecting her.” I replied.

“So how did a fine looking couple like you meet?” He asked.

“Oh, me and her?” He nodded. “We...she needed my help one nite...I was available.” I said wrapping my arm around her. Smiling for the first time in days. After a while of cooking, Joseph divided the beef onto three paper plates.

“I don't have forks, knives, or condiments so you'll gotta live.” He chuckled placing a plate and front of me and a plate in front of Sheri. I gently woke her. I ate mine slowly, while Sheri ate her's with no mercy. I gave to her what I didn't eat. “You two can sleep in the tent tonight if you want. There's enough room for all of us.” Joseph said.

“Thank you, sir.” I said to him while burning the paper plates for a bigger fire.

“I'll leave the fire on for warmth tonight, it's pretty cold.” He said crawling into his sleeping bag. Me and Sheri laid next to each other near the opening so she was warm. When Joseph started to faintly snore Sheri whispered into my ear softly.

“I heard what you said when he was talking about us being a couple.” I looked at her.

“I'm sorry.” I whispered back.

“Don't be.” She gently kissed my cheek, wrapped an arm around my chest and fell asleep. To be perfectly honest, I liked the idea of us being a couple. I thought about it some more until I completely fell asleep. I woke several hours later feeling fully refreshed. I heard Sheri giggling outside of the tent and Joseph chuckling. I stepped out of the tent carefully, still a little tired. Sheri ran up to me and hugged me. “You're awake.” She said.

“How long was I out?” I asked her.

“We've been up for only three hours so I would say twelve hours.” Joseph said. Wow. I thought to myself, I slept. I guess it takes a bunch of man eating monsters and a very cute girl to get me to sleep. It was still dark though.

“I miss the sunlight” I said.

“So do I, I haven't seen the Sun in over a month.” Joseph said.

I though I heard faint foot steps for a moment. “Shh..!” I stayed perfectly still not making a sound. They're faces turned as white as ghosts scared to look around. “Do you hear that?” I asked them. The both turned their heads left and right. A monster jumped out from behind the tent and quickly scratched at Joseph. I reacted as fast as I could and equipped my pistol and shot it dead on the side of its skull. Joseph screamed in pain at the one scratch on his arm. I took my shirt off and wrapped it around the scratch tightly. “Joseph, there's a building five minutes away. It has the cure somewhere with it's scientists. I need you to hold on, we'll fix you up!” I told him over the sounds of his yells.

I went in the tent then came back out with two of the walkie talkies. I turned them both to channel three. “Take this.” I gave it to Joseph. “Me and Sheri will be in touch. Just don't give up!” I told him as I got up and started running as fast as I could to the building. Sheri was barley able to keep up. I swung the 'exit' door open and sped down the stairs faster then I ever have before. I got to the bottom door. The monsters were still banging and scratching. “Sheri, are you ready?” I asked her as she nodded. I quickly opened it. We continuously shot off our pistols killing them one by one.

I turned to Sheri. “Stay here.” I ordered her as I ran down the hall to find the dead body of Charlie Marsh. I felt around his jacket to find a syringe in his pocket labeled 'cure' on it. I ran back to Sheri talking into the mic piece of the talkie. “Hey Joseph, how ya holding up? Still alive?” I asked. A weak, painful voice came from the other end.

“Hurry...” I rushed past Sheri as she was right behind me. A voice came from the talkie. It wasn't Josephs.

“Don't bother giving your friend the cure.” A gunshot went off through the talkie.

“Oh my god!” Sheri said from behind me.

“Hello, I'm Mark, Mark Parker, one of the top researchers in this little project. Sad to say in order to get rid of it we are going to have to launch a nuclear missile into the facility and everything around it.” I kept climbing the stairs.

“Shit!” I yelled. “They're going to fucking nuke the place just to get rid of the problem.” I kicked open the door and looked toward the tent to see a man in a white coat get lifted off into a helicopter.

Me and Sheri walked into the grass. We both stopped in our tracks. She collapsed, crying in my chest. I held her up weakly, stunned by the large number of monsters surrounding us. She looked up at me with a tear running down her face. I looked into her eyes seeing her and everything we've been through the past month. I softly kissed her. “I love you.” I said. She kissed me back. I held her tightly. We both looked up, seeing the missile raining down from the dark nights sky above us. She looked back to me and started to speak. “I love-” The end...