Habit

8:30am,Stalk City "Why are you taking this like its not a serious matter,this is a freaking serious matter!",Aisha exclaimed. "We know!!Okay,we can't just agitate like chimpanzees",Natly said. "Of course we should agitate,this is death we're talking about,matter of fact its way more worse than death!I don't wanna turn into a freaking flesh eating zombie!!",Aisha yelled. "No one is gonna turn into a zombie okay?!",Lany exclaimed back. "You don't know that!You don't know what's gonna happen and stop being so freaking optimistic,its not going to help anyone you hear me?!",Aisha yelled back. "Well its better than freaking out and being perssimistic!!",Lany yelled. "Aisha calm down!!",Natly said. "I am calm!!",Aisha yelled. "No you're not,get a grip damnit!",Natly exclaimed. "You get a grip!This is an apocalypse,you know what that means?!It means total obliteration of the entire human race itself!!",Aisha replied. "Yes,I'm quite familiar of what it means and freaking out and yelling on top of our voices is not going to solve anything!!So just,take a deep breath",Natly said.Aisha frowned a bit,then she dropped down to her knees and leaned back against the wall. "So what's our plan?",Kaine asked. "Well,I guess we'll just have to sit tight and wait,...the Marines will come and save us",Lany said. "I'm sorry..what?",Kaine said. "Sit tight?",Aisha said,"do you have any idea of what you're implying right now,I really don't know if I should be elated or flummoxed because what you just said is highly irregular" "Precisely,we can't just sit on our asses and depend on those marines,they don't even know that we're here",Natly said. "I suggest we head to the West side,my girlfriend just said that its a bit peaceful there and there are many individuals",Kaine said. "Mmm,that could be a useful plan",Lany said."But I think we should depart tomorrow,right now things are still heated up" "Agreed",Natly said. "So for the mean time we just have to gather food,anything useful as a weapon so that we'll make it through the night...I saw a store earlier when I was outside",Kaine said. "You mean when you were about die",Aisha said. "Thank you for the rephrasing",Kaine said in a sacarstic manner. "Okay,let's head out then,but first we ought to check if its clear",Lany said. "Okay sure",Kaine stood up,"Arrghh",he groaned then he dropped down,"Argh,had forgotten about my ankle" "Let me see",Lany approached him and touched his leg,"I'm gonna put it back on a count of three okay?" "Okay" "One!!",Lany counted as he twisted it back and Kaine grunted. "The fuck,where's two and three?",Kaine said. "They were eaten,....by zombies",Lany said. "Its not hilarious!!",Aisha said,"let's go then".They exited the hotel and went downstairs.They exited outside.

Special Forces Base

8:50am Every individual who was taken to the Special Force's base was checked and tested for immunity in their bloodstreams,to make entirely certain that they were free from the virus. "Mom,what are we going to do about Kaine?I miss him",Hanna said. "I miss him too baby",Nina said,she approached a random soldier."Um excuse me Mr my son-" "Step back Miss",he replied. "Okay just listen,my son and I got separated before me and my daughter were brought here,can you please go back to Stalk City and search for him,I beg you",Nina pleaded. "Ma'am,that complaint is not the first one I've heard ,a lot of people here also got their loved ones trapped in that city too,so I suggest you sit tight and let us handle our jobs",he said.Nina stood back. "Ugh fuck!...Kaine I hope you're okay,you too my husband",Nina said to herself hugging Hanna.

Stalk City

9:00am "Just grab the important stuff and head back",Lany said as they split up into different rows searching for food. "Bags",Natly said. "Yeah,most likely our primary priority",Aisha yelled behind another row picking up food and snacks. "There should be meat here",Lany approached a storeroom entrance as a zombie leaped against him and he felled with his back with the zombie fighting him on top of him."Ughh,ahh",he quickly grabbed a plank beside him then it went for a bite as he stuffed the plank in its mouth with it trying to bite it off. "Lany!!",Kaine and the others rushed to him. "Uggghhh,yuck",Lany said watching its open mouth and its saliva flowing along the plank.Kaine hastiy grabbed an axe and swang it and it went deep in its head,then it quickly stood up and attacked Kaine. "Kaine!!",Aisha called out. "Haaa!!Get off!!",he held its shoulders avoiding to get bitten on his neck then its head was chopped off and it dropped down together with the body.It was Lany,he had grabbed another axe.Kaine was panting hard and so was Lany and the others. "This ought to be useful",Lany said. "We need to get out of here",Kaine said. "Shit!!",Natly said looking on her phone. "What is it?",asked Lany. "No service",she replied "What?!".Kaine unlocked his phone.There was no service either."No no no no....damnit!!....my battery is also drained" "We'll find a functioning car,to use to charge our phones,we might also use it interms of transport if essential",Lany said, "That might be of use",Aisha said. "Okay,let's get out of here",Natly said and they exited the store.

The West side of the town

10:30am "Alright everyone,gather everything you see as food,water,weapons,torches.We ought to survive until the Special force team or marines come to our aid",Jackson,a man of mid thirties said.They were in a large mall with a lot of people taking habit in there. "Who placed him in charge?",asked Kira.She was brown haired,beautiful girl of late teen.She was eating a protein bar.Sitting at the stairs. "Himself I guess",Gail replied.A friend of Kira's,pretty and blonde.She was sitting right next to her. "Oh.Those so called self-proclaimed 'I wanna be a leader just because I'm good at talking in front of a crowd" type of people?",Kira replied as she took another bite. "Hahaha,probably,those are also the ones that would end up calling themselves the hero of Justice",Gail said. "Haha,you catch my drift cupcake",Kira said and took another bite. Gail noticed Kira's forceful hunger and then saw her hand which was holding the protein bar trembling a bit together with her lips.Gail then touched Kira's trembling hand and it stopped and Kira looked at her.Then she sighed,and she faced down. She deepened her hand into her hair. "I'm scared....and I miss Kaine,...I so want him,I want to see him again...and the service is no more",Kira said and checked her phone. "I know,I'm scared too,and you will see him.Let's be scared together,maybe it will be less scary",Gail said. "Haha,its better than being scared alone",Kira said. "Now come on,we don't want the hero of justice to bite our asses for not co-operating",Gail stood up. "I would rather be eaten by a zombie than have him bite my ass",Kira replied. "Haha,not physically silly,it was just an expression" "Yeah yeah I know",Kira said.

Stalk City

14:40am Kaine heard a bump sound while he was half alseep.He opened his eyes deliberately. He saw that everyone else was asleep,he heard the bump sound again.It was coming from the hallway. He got up and steathly placed his ear against the door,he heard it again.He slowly opened the door and peeked in the hallway,to the left,then to the right and widened his eyes.It was a zombie.It was headbutting a door endlessly,from a distance apart in the hallway.Kaine carefully stepped back and turned around and woke the others. "Uh not now",Aisha said. "Shhh",Kaine hushed to all of them and mouthed,"there is a zombie in the hallway" "What?!",Aisha whispered. "We must leave now",Natly said. "Lets take the important stuff and stuff them in our backpacks,leave the blankets",Lany whispered. "Okay let's go",Kaine said as he took the lead and stood at the door and peeked,he saw it,it was still doing it.He signaled them to step out and one by one they turned left heading to the next upstairs.They walked deliberately looking back keeping any eye on the zombie which was headbutting the door. "We're almost there,keep going",Kaine whispered.Then another zombie appeared from the downstairs where the first zombie was. Kaine's eyes opened wide.It saw them and they froze...... ...... "Uhaaargghhh",it howled and they began to come running and there were also the others tailing them. "Haaaaaaa run!!!",Kaine yelled. "Shit ,shit!!",Aisha exclaimed in fright. "Where?!!Up?",Natly yelled. "Yes yes!!Up,up!!",Kaine yelled back. "Why are we going up?How are we going to go back down?!",Lany asked. "So you rather go down to where the whole gang is at?If you really want to be zombie snack so bad then be my guest because this snack is not going to get eaten!!",Kaine yelled. They went up until they reached the rooftop,they went out and closed and locked the door. "Well,what now?",Lany asked, "I don't know..",Kaine went to the edge and looked down."ouummm,that's really far down" "What are we going to do now?",Aisha asked. "Yeah,what's next?",Natly asked too while dripping with fright as they heard an intense pounding sound on the door and they all startled and faced it and froze. "What was that?",Aisha asked.They heard the pound again. "Guys?",Natly said.They heard it again.Kaine began to pant sharper every second. They heard it again and again and again,the door was breaking and cracking apart. Then it stopped....... .......... They all breathed a sigh of relief then the door broke as countless inestimable zombies broke through "Ohhhhh shhiiittt!!!"

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