The sky turned dark as smoke began forming from the city, birds fell to the ground, screams echoed in the distance as people watched helplessly, as their loved ones collapsed, their skin pale, mouths dried as they drew their last breath.
The true cause of the chaos was in the tower, where he sat in his chair, lost in thought. Suddenly, two men barged into his office, both wearing breathing masks, staring intently at the destroyer.
He noticed their anger for him in their eyes, like fire that could not be extinguished. He watched as they breathed from the mini oxygen tanks once owned by his company.
He turned his back at the silence and just listened to the chaos from outside. The sight was horrible; he could tell the world was ending, but it didn't matter anymore. What was done can't be stopped now, he said to them.
Why did you do this? one of them asked
He said nothing and just turned to look at them with a saddened face, then fell to the ground. Ben, his son, ran towards him and then noticed he was gasping for air, so he offered to give out his mask, but the man refused. Looked at his son one last time as he took his last breath and whispered something into his ear, then died.
Tears ran through his eyes as he hugged his father's corpse. His friend Dan took out a gun and pointed it at him
You will die alongside your father.
Ben turned and then stood up, facing his so-called friend with his eyes wide in shock.
Why are you doing this?
Dan was about to answer when suddenly, they heard a twitch. Both turned to their surprise, the dead father stood up again, but something felt wrong.
Fa-father !
It didn't answer, just stared for a while then it moved, heading towards Dan. Dan took the first shot on it's right arm but it didn't really do anything, it just kept moving faster, took Dan down, forcing him to drop his gun and started eating him alive biting his neck first, he kept struggling. Ben just stood there, watching as his friend got torn to pieces but then again, he had it coming.
Within minutes, he died.
Ben looked towards the entrance as his dad kept eating.This was the moment to escape, but as he moved quietly towards the door. His son at the age of twelve and his daughter, fifthteen. Both with oxygen masks on their faces, came into the room. Both in shock at the sight.
Ben looked at his two children, giving them hand gestures to move slowly.
Sarah noticed this and held her brother's hand, slowly moving backwards. They accidentally knocked over a flower pot on the side of the door, it instantly drew its attention, stopped eating and looked towards them, blood drooling from its mouth.
Run
It got up, ran in their direction, and the boy couldn't move. He was paralyzed as his own grandfather, now dead, was about to eat him. Sarah couldn't move him but it was getting closer and nearly laid his hands on him, Sarah drew a baseball bat from her bag, swinging it at the eyes of her dead grandfather. It worked, blinding it but not stopping it.
Now blind, it became sensitive to sound. Making it more dangerous as they couldn't move or breathe.
Ben looked at the gun beside Dan's dead corpse then at the window.
Suddenly, their father had an idea,then took a risk as he proceeded to take a chair and threw it at the window causing it to break while catching its attention.
It moved towards the noise but didn't fall off but at that time, Ben was able to grab the gun and pull the trigger but nothing happened. It was out of bullets, so he decided to push it off himself and it worked after a little struggle, it fell three story buildings down.
Both him and the children were safe now, but it was short lived as his friend Dan got up and immediately ran towards him pushing both him and Dan off the building.
Both were in shock as they watched their
loved ones die.Sarah went beside the cracked window, looking at their dead bodies then noticed countless others walking around and eating other people.
At that time, her brother just looked helpless, he had just witnessed both his loved ones die.He couldn't bear the thought of this reality, then had an idea of his own.To kill himself, that way he could reunite with them again. So he removed his mask, the only thing keeping them alive for there was no air in the atmosphere, then fell to the floor gasping for air. Sarah ran towards him, putting his mask back on.
Listen to me, Simon. It's not your fault
Simon couldn't say a thing but heard a rigging. He looked behind her to the source of the sound, seeing both his dead grandfather and father, staring at him. The rigging got loader as everything went dark.