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We see the sun slowly rise in the distance it's light slowly revealing a city but this city looks off. The buildings no longer look maintained some look like they are broken or on the verge of breaking well others look like they went through hell and by hell I mean burnt all over and others only some.
But they all look like they have one thing incomen and that is they all look abandoned, no life, no sound, no one.
But except one tall building between others ranging from different heights. That one building has light coming from one of the windows.
If we look closer we can see two figures sitting across one another in what looks to be a living room.
BANG!
The first figure drops it's boots on the table between them and crossing one foot over the other next to a small candle that looks to be the only light sauce for the room.
???: "So it has been 1 year and 5 months since this world has gone to shit" the figures with its feet on the table said in a calm and some what deep voice.
Because of the small candle being the only light sauce and the sun not fully risen yet we can not make out what the two look like.
???: "Well if me keeping track of the date is correct that is." He continued
??: ". . ." The second figure does not respond
???: "Hey have I ever told you what happened to me?" He says as he reached inside his pocket and takes out a cigarette and lighter.
The lighter barley shined thanks to the candle light but we can make out that the lighter looks like a gold flint lock lighter with a rabbit ingraved in it.
As he lights the cigarette we can barley see a glimpse of his face and for a second we could make out that he was clearly a young man with a little bit of stuble for a beard and brown hear covering his eyes.
He leans back on the couch and inhales a big amount of smoke and leans his head back even further and blows it out. Still looking up he continues "You know, when it all started."
The sun started rising enough for the light to reveal the young man, the light rising from his feet first we see he has big black boots barrel being covered by dark gray jeans, looking up further we see he has a whight shirt with a crazy smiling cartoon bunny face where one of its eyes is a X and the shirt is almost being cover by a red checked open button shirt. He is also wearing a 2 dog tags around his neck one having the number 21 and the other being a name, Jack.
His clothes looks some what dirty but not enough to be off putting. But looking past that we see something strange and that is that his skin looks some what gray or pale.
Jack:" Well it went like this."
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We cut to Jack lying on his back in a dark alley way looking some what past out and looks like his not breathing. A cat was also in the same alley trying to jump on a metal trash can looking for something to eat, but doing so caused the lide of the trash can to fall making a lot of noise scaring the cat and causing it to run away.
Jack: Loud gasp " cough! cough! "
Jack sate up straight away because of the noise gasping for air but sadly had to cough as he breathed in to hard.
With blurry vision he looks around his surroundings.
Jack:" Where am I?" He says as he stands up dusting himself off.
"Or better yet who am I?" Jack starts to panic a little or he thinks he should but for some reason he feels calm.
Slowly walking out of the alley Jack nearly gets blinded from the bright light. Jack instantly closes his eyes only to slowly open them trying to adjust to the light. Finally able to see his eyes widen because what he sees is nothing but abandoned buildings and streets litted with garbage, rubble and even a car turned on its side.
Jack:" What happened here? OK I'm getting more questions then answers here but why can't I remember anything?" He says as he clutches his head only to notice something strange, his hand, Jack's eyes winden even further if that's even possible.
Jack:" WHY DOES MY SKIN LOOKS SO PALE!" He yells yet he emiditly calms down
" Hmm ok that felt wired like someone truned a dile what's going on? Dame one more question added to the list."He sighs out.
As he sighs he looks around the street to see anything until he spotted someone, not to far in the distance he spotted a woman standing in the street that seems to be limping.
Jack:"HEY! , WHATS HAPPENED AROUND HERE?" He yelled to the woman, slowly jogging toward her " Thank goodness I found some....one" He slows down only to stop emiditly because what he saw.
The woman hearing his voice stopped and slowly turned around and allowing Jack to finally see her clearly. Her clothing was ripped and filthy, looking to be dirt and dried blood her leg sticking out of her long dress was broken with a bone sticking out but what really caught Jack's attention was her face, Her skin was light gray and looks to be rotting with dead yellow eyes and dark pupils and her entire jaw was ripped out.
Jack wanted to scream but didn't he stood still staring at her, only now he thought
' What is this? Why does she look like that is she dead but then why is she still walking, no it can't be' it finally hit him like a cold shower
' she's a zombie .'
"But how ?" He whispered still staring at each other ' Shouldn't I feel scared why isn't my heart beating fast ?'
"..."
'I can't even feel my heart beat at all' Jack realized but couldn't dwell on it further as she finally moved.
After what felt like a long stare off the woman finally showed sign of moving causing Jack to stiffen his body not sure what she will do, Yet she just turned her head away from him and continued moving across the street disappearing in a other alley way.
Jack just stood there staring into the distance ' Why didn't she attack me?' He thought
Jack:" Ok I have watch many movies and shows about zombie and that was 100% an undead" then it hit him how come he understands what a zombie is but can't remember his own name.
Just as he was about to dive deeper his attention was taken by a small light hitting him in the eyes he turned towards it and noticed it came from a mirror at one of the broken stores, granted it was was broken.
Jack walk up to it not knowing why, he has so much on his mind he didn't even notice. By the time he got there he realized he was looking at himself in the broken mirror.
He noted that he has somewhat long brown hair, gray skin yet not as gray as that zombie, small bit of stuble for a beard and black eyes with yellow pupils.
"WAIT,BLACK EYES!"
Jack stumbles back from shock he quickly went back to look closer at himself slowly started to panic only to calm down emiditly not noticing at that moment his yellow eyes turned green for a split second
"Ok the forced calmness is starting to get annoying, LET ME FREAK OUT DAME IT!"
He yelled.
Looking down with disappointment only to notice he had something around his neck 2 dog tags.
Jack grabbed them to see what's written on them he noticed that the first one said Jack with the rest scratched out." Well I guess my name is Jack something ,something." Looking at the other he got confused because it only said a number, 21.
" Is that suppose to be my age but why would it be on a dog tag could it be a unit number like in the military? Hmmm"
Jack:" Any way I need to find someone more ... living to get some answers"
As if the world was listening he heard someone yell not to far away they sounded like they are in pain.
Jack emiditly sprinted toward the scream not because he wanted to help but because he could get answers he thought, but not noticing how that might sound bad to others.
When turning around at a building he sees a man being almost eaten alive by 3 undead the mans leg was already ripped off and a chunk of his arm was gone probably in one of the undead belly already.
Seeing this Jack yelled "STOP!"
By some miracle the three emiditly stopped trying to eat the man to stood up straight thrn turned to look at Jack.
The man still conscious saw Jack and yelled
" KID WHAT ARE YOU DOING ITS TO LATE FOR ME GET OUT OF HERE!"
Only a few second went past yet seemed like hours the two men noticed that the 3 undead did not move from their spot no longer try to eat the man or even try to go after Jack, they just stood there staring at Jack like if they are awaiting orders.
Jack realized this and tried something "Leave" is all he said in a not so confident tone to the two men's surprise the 3 walking corpses just turned and left out of site out of mind.
Jack and the man just were silent until the man flinch because of the pain Jack was broken from his daze and ran to the man to try and help.
"Hey old man you ok?" Jack said
As he was trying to find anything to stop the bleeding, the old man spoke.
" How, how did you do that kid?"
"I don't know?" Is all Jack said
After a good hour of silence and Jack finding left behind clothes in the stores close by to use as bandages to stop the bleeding. By that time the sun started to set and the old man and Jack were in a broken building with a campfire thanks to the old man having matches.
The old man spoke well looking at the fire lying down having a hard time to breathing
"So kid what's your name?"
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Cut back to Jack sitting on the couch in the now lite room staring at the sun rise by the window.
Jack:" After introducing myself and learning that the old man's name was Fill we talk for some time I learned that when I woke up it was already 2 months when the dead started to rise, Fill said he was attacked because his party thought a 65 year old man would hold them back so they used him as a distraction, Fuckers" Jack took a big puff of smoke then blew it out " He didn't make it through the night and turn into one of them but even in death he taught me some things I learned that I can control the dead when I spoke to them and only after some time I learned I didn't even need to speak at all, as time went I found out I no longer felt strong emotions like anger or fear, for well anything, yet I know I should be, I also no longer sleep or need food or water hell I don't crave flesh like the rest of the dead either.
It's crazy one day you wake up with no knowledge about yourself and it turns out your an undead let alone can control them, let's just say it took some time for me to accept that I'm dead hell I'm still struggling." Jack finally finishes his story and looks at the other figure " Crazy right?" He asked
The room now lite from the sun we can see the other figures is just another undead sitting across from Jack staring at him.
Undead:" Ahhhhhh..." it grunts
Jack:" Why do I even bother" Jack says with disappointed eyes and stands up to leave the room not even bothering to lock the door.
Jack:" Another day another adventure "
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AUTHORS NOTES
Well dang first chapter what do you guys think
I had fun writing this as this is the first time I'm writing a novel
Not sure when the next chapter will be up but hopefully soon have a great day everyone.