Chapter 4

     I awoke at I think 8:30 am. Tabitha was standing next to me, looking at the gash that was no one my face. I opened my eye and she jumped back a bit.
     "Bro, your eye kinda freaks me out a bit." She said and sat on her bed. "So, why is your eye red now?"
     I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "Apparently I am some kind of immunity or something, I found that out yesterday." I got up and got my shirt on. "Is Krystal still here?"
     "Yeah, she stayed up all night reading one of the books you brought home with you." she said and walked into the living room. "Now she is cooking, it smells yummy."
     I gained my composure and walked in. Krystal had made breakfast burritos, with sausage and eggs. "Good morning sunshine." she said and handed me my plate. "Heard you met with the protectors."
     "Yeah, can you tell me what the hell is going on with me?" I said and stared at her, growling in the back of my throat. "Why the hell is my eye red?"
     She sat down next to me and took out the book the professor had given to me. "Basically, there was a genetic trait that a cultist group called the Sons of the Spore came up with to protect all the future generations of them. It allows for immunity from the virus in two forms, the red eye, which you have that protects you from all forms of infection minus direct bites. There is another on with pale purple eyes, that is full immunity." she stood up in front of me. "The only reason that this is obvious is that you got non defiled blood in your eye."
     She then cut her finger open and sprayed the blood at Tabitha, hitting her in the left eye. I stood up and slapped her. "What the fuck is your problem lady?"
     "Look at her eyes." she said and whipped the put pressure on her cut.
     I stepped closer and looked at Tabitha's eye. Her left eyes was pale purple, with her other eye being gray, like normal. "Holy shit Tabi."
     "What?" Krystal said and walked over to her. "Holy shit, she is immune!"
     I shook my head and walked over to the book. "What the hell is the plan they have?" I then looked to Tabitha and noticed she was sitting there wide eyed. "Sorry Tabi."
     "It's okay," she said and walked over to me and Krystal. "But tell me what the hell is happening."
     Me and Krystal looked at each other. "She deserves to know Zack." She said and opened the book.
     She pulled out a piece of paper and opened it up. "Basically, the protectors need proof to show everyone what is happening to get them on board, so they have a plan to break into the guard tower to get the codes to get into the hospital."
     "Why the hospital anyway?" I said over Tabitha's head. "I heard them talking a bit about it before I was really in the room. Ain't it a safe place anyway?"
     "Wrong." She said and pulled out three pictures. "They use the place to experiment with the freaks. They even kidnap people from here to use." she said and handed me the pictures.
     They showed a young man being dissected. The person looked like it remained alive through the removal of his heart in the second picture. The final picture showed the man bite on of the doctors on the wrist. I recognized the young man then, they were working on Slippy.
     "God damn." I said and gagged. "That is what they do to you if you are sick?"
     "On some occasions yes." Krystal said and took them before Tabi could see. "They wanna get in and get proof of the infection and to kill him. They are using him as a breeder."
     "Breeder?" I said and cocked my head at her. "What does that mean?"
     "Well, basically, they are using him to infect other people to make more freaks for them to experiment on." she said and shook her head. "Poo bastard."
     I slammed my fist on the table. "that bastard was my room mate at one time. I called the hospital, I am the reason that he is there right now."
     Krystal's eyes got wide. "I am sorry Zack, I didn't know."
     I shook my head. "It's fine, at least he didn't turn into what ever the hell he is here." I turned to Tabitha. "You okay sister?"
     "Yep." she said and finished her burritos. "Krystal told me yesterday, I find it kinda cool."
     I paused and stared at her. "You are one morbid kid, you know that?"
     She smiled at me. "Thank you!" she looked at me. "I ain't a little kid you know that?" she hugged me. "You can tell me this stuff." She said and walked into her room.
     I walked over to Krystal and stood in front of her. "So, she took that pretty well." I said and watched her put her MP3 player into a little speaker she got from a friend of hers. A techno metal song kicked in.
     "Yeah." she said and looked up at me. "She ain't a little kid any more. I know your afraid to lose her, but you are gonna suffocate her if your not careful."
     I cringed at the thought. "I know, but she is all I have left, you know. Mom died in a wreck with a semi truck, and dad killed himself a week later. I was a freshman in college, so I couldn't take her in." I lowered my head and shook it. "She has to live in foster care, and she hates it, I know that. She must hate me."
     Krystal hugged me. "You know that she doesn't hate you for all that?" she asked and I shook my head no. "Well, she knew you needed to finish college. She is actually afraid of holding you back."
     I walked over to the couch. "So, who do I have to contact to do this stuff?"
     She shook her head. "First, you go talk with Tabitha."
     I felt like I shrunk to the size of a ant. I stood and walked slowly to the room.
     Tabitha turned to me. "Hey bro, what's up?" she said and turned off the music.
     "Tabi, can I talk to you?" I said and motioned for her to sit on the bed.
     She sat and I crouched next to her. "I am sorry I failed you sis. Since mom and dad died, I have been to protective of you without being there for you."
     She slapped me hard across the face. "Shut up Zack." she said and stood up. "Cut the sit. You did not fail me!" her tone softened. "You needed to finish school. We are together now so move on." She said and walked into the front room.
     I sat, on the floor, dazed for about ten minutes. I finally got up and walked into the front room. I sat in the chair next to the couch.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3
January 3rd, 2013

     I woke up to the sound of A knock on the door. I went to it and saw that it was Fred, carrying a stack of DVDs. I opened the door and he walked in. He went to Tabitha and handed her the DVDs.
     "Thought you might like those." he said and sat down on the couch. "So, Zack, how do you like Sanction?"
     "What do you mean?" I asked and cocked my head at him.
     He laughed for a minute and then regained his composure. "The name of this safe zone."
     "Oh," I said and blushed over a bit. "It's pretty nice I guess. This is a huge area, with a lot of room for everyone. We have a lot of stuff to survive. We should be good till we are let out."
     Fred laughed a bit and he was about to talk, but was cut off by a knock on the door. I walked over and saw that it was Krystal. I opened the door and Krystal walked in, carrying about five movies with her. Tabi came in and hugged her. Fred shook his head and me and him left the girls alone.
     We walked to the cafe and Fred was talking about what it was like to fly fighter jets. How awesome it was to soar in the sky and how awesome the ground training he got was. We got to the cafe and he led me to the back. There was a huge book case that had a huge collection of horror novels. Fred pulled one of them out and the book case slid to the side. It revealed a hidden hallway. I recognized it as the closed storm shelter.
     Fred waved for me to follow and as soon as we got inside, the book case slid back into place. He led me to a room that had six other people sitting around a circle table. There was a podium at the opposite side of the room, with a old man standing behind it.
     "Please be seated Mr. Cent." the man said and pointed at a empty chair next to Fred. I sat down, looking around nervously.
     "What's going on here?" I said and tried to sit up, but Fred put a hand on my shoulder and forced me back down.
     The man next to me took the bandages off of my face, revealing the gash I had on my face. Everyone in the gasped when they saw my eye. Fred handed me a mirror and I saw what made them gasp.
     My good eye was the normal light blue, but the eye that had been bandaged was not red instead of my normal color.
     "Mr. Cent, It appears you are one of the few immune people. You are the kind of person we need in this dark of times." The man at the front of the table said and then stepped into the light. I could see he was well into his eighties. "My name is Professor Artemis Asland."
     He had Fred let me out of my seat and motioned for me to follow him. He led me to a curtain and nodded at the man standing next to it. The curtains were drawn back and I saw a little girl laying on the floor. The lights were turned on and she got herself up. She slowly walked to the window and stared at us. She then snarled at us and started to hit her head against the window, causing dark red blood to come from her head.
     I looked and saw that she was covered in blood and pieces of flesh were missing from her body. She had a bite mark on her arm, that looked the same that Slippy had. The Professor nodded again and the man closed the curtains and turned out the lights.
     "That is what is happening on the outside of the dome. It is not a another strain of the swine flu of H1N1 like they are telling everyone." he paused and pointed at a poster on the wall showing mysterious viruses. "It is called Homonian 1 Zombati 1, it was discovered in the start of the crusades by a child of a cultist leader, named Oro. He made the H1Z1 in 1943, with the help of Adolf and a team of scientists."
     I shook my head in disbelief. "How much of an idiot do you think I am?" I said and walked towards the exit.
     "Then do you know why they took your friend away when you described what was wrong with him?" He said and I paused.
     "Okay, I will listen to you guys, but if I don't buy it I am out of here." I said and took my seat next to Fred.
     "Okay, basically the reason that we are here is to hopefully help us all survive the apocalypse that is happening outside." He showed a map of the area. The dome was blue, but all the areas around it were red. "We are safe here, till they decide to use us as test subjects."
     He brought up a picture of the counter. It was at 1,230. "Eight people have been used to make more of the things like I showed you a few minutes ago. They plan to, in a few weeks, unleash them to infect everyone here, and to fully observe what happens to people in a situation like this. This is why we must prepare the people here."
     "How are we supposed to do that?" I asked and stood up. "There are guards everywhere. How are you guys gonna do that if they watch everything and can tell if we try to smuggle things to people?"
     The Professor handed me a book. I opened it and found a .22 pistol with a silencer on it. "We can get these to each apartment in a matter of just a few hours. We can do this before they unleash the freaks of nature." he paused. "If we can't stop them that is."
     "And how the hell do I fit into this?" I asked as I walked towards the door. "I am a sales associate at a local Wall to Ceiling and a college kid, not some freedom fighter or something."
     "Mr. Cent, I know this is a lot to take in, but please go home for today." he motioned to the guard to open the door. "Just know if we don't do something, you might lose that sister of yours."
     I froze at the thought of it. "Okay, to make sure my sister is safe, I will try to help you guys out."
     "Very good Mr. Cent." The Professor said and smiled at me. He got up and handed me a book. "Take this with you, along with the book with a gun in it. It has our plans hidden in it. Our agent, Ms. Watts will help you with this stuff."
     "Krystal is one of you guys?" I said and smiled as I walked out the door. "Figured, she was yelling about something a day or two ago about this."
     I walked to my room and saw that Tabi and Krystal were watching the movie very closely. A man was walking out of a pool, and I saw both were blushed over. Both waved and Tabitha froze when she saw my bandages were off.
     "I'll tell you tomorrow sister." I said and turned to Krystal. "Stay here tonight, you two need a girls night, sleep over, whatever the hell you want to call it. Okay? I need to speak with you in the morning."
     She nodded and and they went back to watching the movie. I put both of the books out of reach of Tabi and laid on the bed. I stared at the ceiling for several hours, listening to the two of them having fun. Finally I let myself go to sleep.

Chapter 2

Chapter 2
January 1st, 2013

     We spent the rest of the night sleeping. She woke me up and even made me breakfast. It was sausage and eggs, she said it was a apology for sleeping through last night.
      We watched a movie or two. One of them was a old cartoon with a blue alien and a little Hawaiian girl. The second was a old zombie movie. It was about a old house that a small group of people took refuge in. They were there for as long as they could, ultimately being killed off one by one. Tabitha was hiding her face at one point, when this little girl bit the woman.
     I looked at the clock at the end of the second movie and saw it was 1 p.m. I fixed us both a sandwich and she was eating it slowly. I decided that we needed a palate cleanser after that last movie, so I got out a movie I picked up from the movie store I was to return the next day.
     She enjoyed the movie and laughed the whole way through. At the end, she was in a very good mood, so she got on the game system to play this game that her and her best friend, and my ex, Krystal, played.
     Krystal was on, yelling at people to stay in their houses. I grabbed the head set from Tabi.
     "Krystal, what's the matter?" I asked in a stoic voice. "What are you yelling and going on about?"
     "Zacky, listen, I am in the same housing thing as you, but they wont let us on campus." she typed on a key board. "There are no riots, there is a case of rabies or swine flu, or whatever the hell they are calling it." she closed something that sounded like a lap top. "But the dead are coming back......." the connection got cut off.
     The internet and cable was cut off. They left the radio on, and we heard the stories about rabid people. And this new disease that was a mutated form of H1N1. They said that the disease was not air born any more, but was when it was first a problem. They said it was now spread through bites. Tabitha made a comment about the zombie movie and tried to text someone. The towers were shut down, it looked like at least.
     We finally gave up and just slept, it was all we could do.

January 2nd, 2013
8:36 a.m.

     We were awoken by the speakers outside telling us that we were now allowed to go into the campus. So we got around and got outside for the first time in a day or so. The air was thick with the smell of smoke.
     We looked towards the city, but our view was being blocked by a dome. At the top was a giant air filter. As soon as it was turned on it made the air much more breathable.
     Things seemed calmer than the 31st, but were still on nerves end. Tabi ran over to Krystal and tackle hugged her. She even smiled at me, which was a first since we broke up. She absolutely hated me.
     They herded us to a stage that us a display with the numbers 1,238 on it. The person on stage told us that this was the number of people there, all fully health. If anyone gets infected or dies, the number will go down. They even set up a full town using the arena and school building.
     They then let us go around everywhere except for the hospital and front gates. They said the reason for this was that there was a safety concern due to illness.
     I felt a sharp pain in my side and remembered the wreck I was in. I sucked it up as Tabi drags me to what used to be a stadium. But was turned into a market area.
     They had guards everywhere. Each was armed with with a gnarly looking gun that was called a FAMAS. They were at every booth, making the place super safe. I for the first time in two days felt totally safe.
     A pilot ran over to me with a huge smile on his bird like face. "Zack Cent? Is that you?" he said and hugged me, putting strain on my wounds. I yelled a bit in pain and he put me down. "You okay brother?"
     "Yeah, I am Zack Cent." I raised my shirt and showed him the bruises. "And I got into a wreck I guess three days ago."
     He grew a little pale. "Sorry dude, didn't know that you were hurt." he raised his sleeve and showed me a air plane fighter pilot tattoo. "You remember me dude?"
     "Falco?" I said and looked closer. "Is that you? You ain't so small anymore dude."
     "I know." he said and pointed at a small cafe. "Meet me there tomorrow, we need to talk." he said and ran to catch up with the other men in uniform.
     Me and Tabi walked with Krystal to the dorms. She hugged us both and I pulled her to the side. "Hey, Krystal, can you watch Tabi for a bit tomorrow?"
     "Uhm, sure, why?" she said and looked into me in the eyes.
     "I need to talk with Fred, just me and him. I need to get some info from him." I looked at Krystal and her eyes widened a bit.
     "Okay, we can watch a few chick flicks and have some fun." she smiled and walked over to Tabitha. They talked for a few minutes and I heard Tabitha squeal with joy and hug her. I saw by her expression that she was very happy.
     We parted ways and she went to her room. We got into our room and went to sleep.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

December 31st, 2012

     The sky was clear that day. I walked out of my dorm and took in a deep breath, cherishing the smell of the freshly cut grass. I waved at a few people as I made my way to my old, beat up red car. I got inside of it and made my way to work at the local Wall to Ceiling.

     The drive was boring, the traffic was exceptionally horrible that day. I put in the first C.D. I could find and put it into my C.D. player. It came on and I found myself headbanging along to the music. What happened next is still kinda blurry in my mind.

     My car got hit on the passenger side. It flipped a total of five times before coming to rest against a tree.I unbuckled my seat belt and fell, hitting the ground with a thud. Several people had already rushed over to me and I could hear a siren in the back ground. The next thing I knew i fell backwards, hitting the ground with a thud.

     

     I awoke a few hours later in a hospital room, with my little sister sitting next to my bed. She looked up and came over to me.

     "You okay bro?" she asked and squeezed my arm.

     "I don't think I am dead." I said and tried to sit up, but when the pain hit my I fell back down. "Did I break something?"

     "No, you were badly beaten up, and there is a pretty good cut on your back and face, the one on your face needed stitches." She hugged me. "I thought I might have lost you there."

     I hugged her arm and smiled at her. "Sis, it will take a hell of a lot more than a wreck to kill me."

     She smiled and walked to the window. "I hate being in foster care,you know that?" She said and walked over to me. "But I have to look after you for a week okay? Doctors orders."

     I nodded and smiled. Since out parents died a few years ago, she lived in foster care while I was finishing college. After I graduated later next year, I was to get a apartment and she was gonna move in with me. I swore that to her a few months back, and everything was in place to it to happen.

     She smiled and took the cell phone out of her pocket. She got a huge smile on her face. "Hey you remember that James guy?" 

     "Yeah?" I said and forced myself to sit up. 

     "Well, he wants to see you tomorrow." she said and half way frowned. "You don't like him much, do ya?"

     I looked her in the eyes and hesitated. I knew how much she loved this guy. "Nah, I like him, he makes you happy." but in the back of my mind I was thinking about how much I hated him.

     She smiled and hugged me. "Thank you bro." she said and sat back in the chair. "The doctors are gonna be in in a bit to look at ya. I am staying her tonight."

     "Shit, I can't leave till tomorrow?" I said and laid back down on the bed. "What am I supposed till then?"

     "Sleep, watch T.V." she tossed me the remote. "Find a cartoon please?"

      I flipped through the channels till I found this old kids show with a yellow cube guy. It distracted Tabs till I was done being poked and probed by the doctor. They gave me this weird medicine that made me go instantly asleep.

     I awoke to the screams of my sister. She was shaking me and pulled me out of bed. "There are riots going on outside. The police have ordered anyone able to move to get out of the hospital. They are gonna escort us to the campus."

     "Whats the cause of this?" I said as we were put into the van. My head was still swimming.

     "Something about politics, like there is every four years." she said as we started through the crowds of people. "Strangely this is the only place with riots."

     I nodded and pushed her head down as we made our way through the crowds of people. I didn't want her to see what was happening. There was a lot of people attack each other, and I jumped a few times when I heard gun fire.

     We got to the campus and they escorted us to my room. They made us stay in the room and locked the door with something. Tabitha was watching news reports when suddenly she began to sob and scream. I ran over and saw that James was on the screen, getting attacked by several people. He was bitten by one of them and the blood sprayed the camera. A police officer came over and shot the people attacking James. He then turned to James and I heard him say "I am sorry" and shot him between the eyes.

     I sat next to her and held her for a few hours. My room mate was pushed in and looked at us.

     "Yo, Zack, you and Tabitha okay?" he said and stood in front of the T.V.

     "Nah," I looked at my sister. "She saw someone she knew die." I looked up at him. "What's happening out there Slippy?"

     "They put up these huge wall things." he showed us a picture on his phone. "This place is on lock down, no one in, no one out."

     I shook my head and got Tabi into my bed so that she could sleep for a while. I walked back in and saw he had a gun in his hand.

     "Why you have that dude?" I asked as he put it into a lock box.

     "It's crazy out there dude, I stole it off of a guy I saw on the street." he took off his jacket and I saw that he was covered in blood and had a bite on his arm. "Some crazy bitch bit me."

     It was discolored, a brownish purple color around it. He looked like he was in very intense pain. 

     "How long ago did it happen dude?" I asked and got a bandage for it.

     "About three hours ago." he said and denied the bandage. "It stopped bleeding a hour ago."

     I nodded and looked at the clock. It was 10 p.m. on the 31st. It was almost 2013, the year of recovery. I sat next to him on the couch. We were watching the news, not being able to watch any of the new years eve coverage. At midnight Slippy ran into the bathroom and threw up. I gagged at the sound of it.

     I walked in from the front room and found him sitting on the floor, shaking violently. I took his temperature and it was 103 degrees. I drug him into the living room and called up the medical station on campus.

     A man got on the phone with me and sent to men to come and get Slippy. They had me and Tabitha moved to a different room, one in much better shape and had better stuff in it. They sent in me and Tabitha's bags that had our cloths and some personal effects in it. 

     They made us both bathe with this weird soap that was very course and burned like crazy. They, after being satisfied that we were clean, left us with the explanation that it was a swine flu outbreak. They then walked out saying that we were safe.

The History of the Sons of the Spore

The cultist group The Sons of the Spore was created in 1187 A.D. by a man named Judas Mizkart, a Jewish scientist obsessed with the thought of becoming immortal. He created the group to help find the ways to make himself immortal. Over the next two years he did experiments on a total of five thousand people, mostly the homeless and sick. Some of the experiments involved seeing how long a human would stay alive after being cut in half and how much pain they could tolerate before dying. In 1189 A.D., at the start of the Crusades, a small group of templars infiltrated the group and attempted to kill Judas. Seeing his death as being near, he sent his only son, Oro, with three of the Spore's high Priests to the north, to what is modern day Germany. On the way to a small village named Makeze, one of the priests found a ancient tomb. Upon investigation, Oro found a vial of a strange green substance. Taking the lid off of it, the air was filled with a strange spore. Oro immediately fell unconscious to the ground. When the priests found him, he was in a deep, near death sleep. They carried him to Makeze, were they put him in a bed, we he would sleep for 754 years. He was found on June 1st, 1943 by three nazi SS officers. He was taken to Auschwitz to be looked at by notorious nazi docto Josef Mengele. Three days later, Josef electrocuted Oro, causing him to finally awaken. Upon getting dressed as a doctor, Oro spoke. He had managed to pick up German in a matter of three days. He explained who he was and even showed Josef the bottle that had held the spores that put him into a coma. Upon orders of the Fuhrer, he was sent to the Eagles Nest, were Adolf Hitler was staying. After three months of talking, he put Oro in charge of the super soldier program. He was sent to a small island off the coast of Britain, were he could do his experiments in peace. He worked around the clock with a team of a hundred scientists, he finally thought he had recreated the spore that had put him out for 754 years. When tested on a subject, it had a different result. He did in fact "DIE" but came back to life a hour later, with a huge blood lust. It was deemed as the first zombie. When Adolf heard of the success, he went to the island, were he sent three hundred soldiers to be turned into the undead and trained as a invincible army. The tests went wrong when the test subjects got loose and killed most of the troopers. Tho Oro did observe that when bitten, within 24 hours, the victim would turn into one of the undead. He and Adolf Hitler managed to escape the island before it was destroyed by three prototype nuclear bombs going off under the surface. The book and Oro went into hiding at the end of the war, and to this day no one knows were he is. But one thing is known, the reason the group was founded was searching for what Oro had accidently found, the spores that caused immortality.

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