Yes, I made it. I didn't intend to use it, but, the kid worked out fine for it. It made him insane and all the wounds given to him are healed up relatively quickly. The blood coagulation part of this disease is one of the best. Granted, like any average human, when they die, they won't get back up as an undead, or rather, they won't reanimate as undead. The second they die, they die,but if the host dies to a way that doesn't directly correlate to the heart or brain, or lungs, they can keep going technically, just, not as a typical human would. The disease will just us the body as an empty husk from then, standing around and not to amount to anything much.

It targets life forms, so its not directly targeted at humans, though I tried my damned best to do so. Granted, once an infected gets a taste for human meat or blood they will never go back, they will be hooked. That's how I set this virus up to be. Its too hard to stop once you've tasted the blood.

The virus is bad enough as it is now, it spread among some of the scientists here. They are now in containment cells as well, but I don't think that's the end of our problem. We have 50 scientists working here. 5 of those scientists got infected, 4 of the 5 infected are locked up, for that, we have no idea of how bad everything will get with that one last thing out there. The situation is dire, its containable if we can find them though. The virus takes up to 3 days to fully infect the body. But in some cases, it can take only to 2 days. Its already been 1 day and the CDC has already been reported to help with the problem.

The 1st stage starts after the first day, 24 hours in, so that's bad enough as it is. It is increased aggression and they become constantly hungry needing more and more food. Stage 2 is 36 hours in with distortion due to the host's amplified senses, they hear, smell, see, taste, and feel everything. It drives them insane, granted, I had to subject myself to this... project as well.

We were all subjects, just we had the right little kid come in, accident or not, we had to use the final virus on him rather than wasting another valuable scientist, doesn't look like that worked out so well as it is now. He was subject-064, I was subject-003, the first actual pathogen was infected into me, the previous 2 were just injected with pre-viruses to see how reactions were. In the end, 7 of us were injected with the 1st virus. Only 2 of us survived, me and the one man that's now in Egypt after he gave up on advancing the project.

We both got... powers I dare say. For him, with the cells that were in the virus, it gave him increased eyesight and what seemed to be some superhuman strength whenever the virus started to take control reacting with his anger. For me, it was smells, touches, and tastes, but like him, I also got a super-human ability, speed. It's a fight or flight tactic that kicks in allowing me to run longer and aster than the average human when I get scarred enough to piss myself.

So that was our Stage 2 for us, and that's as far as we got into it. Stage 3 is much worse than our conditions, it kicks in at 50 hours, it is when it attacks taste buds making the host crave meat and hating all other types of food. I myself am a horror and anime fan, so I understood like in Tokyo Ghoul, that my... ghouls, zombies, or creations are fond of coffee as well. It is the one thing understandable. It resets your taste buds. And luckily for those that get sick of meat, drinking coffee or eating coffee beans temporarily allows them to eat the food of their choice.

Stage 4 is the second to last stage and by far the worst kicking in at 55 hours activating hormones that activate ATP cells constantly increasing the abilities to our own, and possibly so on. The ones that exceed even mine and... his capabilities, we call them Discords. Discord means conflict, strike, hostility, that is why we chose that name, they are different from the rest, and cause the biggest conflict between us two, races. Colour and ethnicity don't matter anymore, its just humans, and the ones infected by Discord.

Stage 5 is the final step, extreme Coagulation to body tissue where there are open wounds, healing factors compared to those of tardigrades, for tissue and muscle at least. Once bone is gone, its gone. It can regrow a leg sure, it doesn't mean it'll be completely fixed, it would just be flesh and muscle, nothing to stand on, and it would be all disfigured. Masses of flesh that look like a fungus growing from a tree, all bubbly and odd looking. Aggression levels also go over the top, and their stomachs really only allowing what the virus accepts. Meats, some high protein foods, and foods that will make the host live longer than the typical diets what you'd expect a zombie to have, so they will eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairies.

(This first chapter I can promise will be one of the shorter chapters. Its just mainly explaining the situation and how the virus works.)