After she closed the door, Maya leaned on the wall to support her body while closing her eyes.. This might be the dumbest thing she ever did. Nevertheless, that guy was right, she should never step out from the rooftop since it's the safest place away from those creatures but...
'Sister, I tried so hard to sneak this bread for you. It's delicious.'
'Sister, are you cold? I bought the blanket.'
'Sis Maya, please forgive mum. She just stress out. I..I will talk to her.'
'Sister, you..do you hate me?'
'Sis?'
'Sister!!!'
Snap!
Maya opened her eyes abruptly as if in the nightmare, those voice keep haunting her. The thing she hates the most is being indebted to the others. And somehow the person she's indebted to is a person who's also important to her.
Set aside the momentary adrenaline rush she felt at the rooftop, her heart stopped and goosebumps flooded her skin when she heard the many screams sound in all direction. The screams seems far but the agonizing feels in the voice making her head throbbing.
With a lingering fears, she went down the stairs carefully and when she reached the corner of the corridor, she scanned the surrounding and keep herself alert.
She don't have time to feel shock when seeing the fresh blood spilled on the floor and splashed on wall. She covered her nose when the nauseating smell lingering around the area and sometimes would stumble upon a body part of humans belong to the unfortunate students that she recognize from the school uniform. Her clean and white old shoes has long smeared with blood around the place.
The empty area feels oddly weird. Surely, from the incident she saw at the rooftop, these creature should infecting the human through bite. There should be many of them roaming around the school from the lots of screams she heard on the roof. But now she saw nothing as if they disappear and leaving the left over 'food'.
Without her realizing, It's too quiet that she only heard the sound of her breath. In the confusion, suddenly her ears catch something like someone chewing on a hard object. Her feet stopped right in front of the classroom. Maya slowly turned her face to the right and only then she realize that the classroom door was wide open. She has made a grave mistake. The creatures did not disappear but they made nests in every classroom and pile up the corpses as food stock.
She shivered when thinking how careless she is. The screams has long become silence then it's that mean they all die or in hiding?
Maya bend down to avoid alerting by the creatures that had been busy eating and step forward carefully. By the time she was almost past the classroom, in front of her was another wide open classroom and as if her luck had run out, an infected creature whom Maya recognized as a teacher stepped out while staggering like those 'people' she saw risen after the bus crashed.
Her feet instantly step backwards and 'snap!'. She didn't even realized the human bones behind her as she step on it .
Now she faced two creatures that stare at her with greedy looks.
"Shit." She swear plainly. She would gladly swear as much as she like since this might be the last words she ever speak.
'Shit my life.'
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Lica clasped her hand on her mouth to prevent her from making noise. She and the group of classmate looked at each other with horrified expression on their face. The despair they felt, grew since the people on this class remained only girls after the boys go out to find help. Within the silence, the girls knew that the boys will never coming back.
"What should we do now? Staying here is getting dangerous." One of the girl mouthed a whisper.
"Getting out from here is more dangerous. Sean and his friends didn't come back and what did that's mean? That mean they all die." Another girl said with distressed while still toned down her voice.
They all feels desperate and all they could do was muffled a cry. They can't even let out a loud sound as it would attract those monster outside. The hellish situation that happened right now become too sudden. A while ago, they still obediently studying when they saw the scene of people running away from others and just like that, their peaceful time become a mess when one of the student rush into the classroom and closed all the door and tell 'em about the situation.
Sean was the first one to take action into securing them and he also the first one to volunteered finding the rescue and information. And yet, they all not coming back.
Lica buried her head on her knees. Mom, dad, brother...please..please be safe.
"Sister....Please be safe.'' The droplet of tears wetting her cheek as she murmur in silence.
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The school has three floor which is her next destination is on the first floor. Right now Maya still at the third floor that has been in a disarray the moment she went down from the rooftop. The bodies of the humans become mangled with each other until beyond recognized. She does not even know if that part of the bodies are either legs, arms or head.
Luckily for her, a baseball bat that was lying with one of the bodies and now become the only weapon in her hands. Maya looked around her while trying to manage her breath. Right now she was sitting down on the bloody floor while leaning on the wall outside the random classroom. She picked up her glasses which she has placed on the floor. Fortunately, the glasses did not break and only left the blood stains comes from her dirty hands.
She thought that only the two infected was presence here but how would she know that they are all in hiding, planning to trap their victim?
Right now, not only the human bodies are lying here but also these infected bodies sprawled on the floor.
Dead.
Now Maya can recognize which one humans and which one the infected. The infected used to be human before they are bitten thus undergo a drastic mutation from inside and outside of their bodies. Their eyes turn pure white, their skin looked dry and peel off with greenish pale color and their nails turn longer and sharper and colored with dangerous shiny black. Their teeth are still same as the normal human though and yet they still can tear the human flesh without much effort. Their hunger also can't never be satiate.
The worse part is they can't feel pain. If someone want to kill these thing, they must has a strong determination since the infected are obviously undead creatures. However, right now they completely destroyed in Maya's hands.
She can't remember how she did it in the midst of fear consuming the mind but the instant the danger approaching, the weapon instantaneously swing at full the speed.
Since they can't feel pain, they never gave up chasing the free food but even if they are the undead, that's not mean they can't completely be destroyed. The feeling of smashing the bodies that was once used to be a human, the feeling of killing those bodies and feels the blood splatter on her skin feels....
Exhilarating.
Roar!
Oh right, they can no longer speak instead they would constantly let out a growl similar to a beast. Maya concluded.
Hearing the sound of the death, Maya let out a heavy breath. The tiredness from the previous 'battle' still not fade off. She don't even get this worked up in P.E class that become everyone favorite subject.
Still, she want to live and for the first time along with the first killing, Maya knows that her world has become interesting and there's no doubt that she kind of anticipate to know the aftermath of this tragedy. The more reason on why she have to live.
Her rest time was forcibly end. Maya stood up while staggering a bit, not forgetting to put her glasses away. It would be troublesome if it broken since her eyesight had always been worst.
"Well, the movie that I've watch was all a lies. You guys don't look alike those zombies in the movie a bit. Since you guys looks different. I would call you an infected instead." Her eyes turned cold and that once expressionless and lifeless face was replaced by the sinister smile.
Seeing their prey about to giving up herself, the five creatures present snarled at the food delivered to them. In contrast to the humans who run away as soon as they saw them, this eccentric human lunged towards them with a sharp gaze in her eyes.