"When I looked down below, I saw all the building lights and streetlights start flickering. It was dark and I could barely make out people running around out in the street. They ran out of buildings like they had witnessed something awful.
I heard something in the hallway outside my apartment unit. So, I went to look through my peephole in the door. I saw the lights in the hallway start to flicker then a door opened. It was one of my neighbors that came out of their unit to investigate what that sound was. I still remember their unit's door number was 156. It was a man that came out, Ralph was his name and his wife, Malony, stood in their doorway as she peeped out while also hiding. Ralph called out to someone that was sitting, with their back facing us, at the end of the hallway where the stairs was. From where I was it looked to be a child shaking upright, like the child was having a fit. I watched as he slowly walked toward that child. Maloney told Ralph to come back, but he didn't listen. I could hear gulping noises coming from the stairs. Ralph come closer to the child, and I didn't know what it was that Ralph saw when he stood behind the child but when he looked downstairs, Ralph turned around and started running to his wife. The child then turned his head to look at them but then the lights went off. The couple slammed their door closed and locked it. The hallway was dark but then I saw two dimed red lights flouting far down the hallway next to each other.
My eyes struggled to adjust to the darkness. The red lights slowly started to get brighter, and I could see what was emitting them. It was the child's eyes and the light that shone from his eyes were not red. Instead, it was the blood that covered his face and his eyes giving the light a red tinted color. I could only see his face but then I started to see his left shoulder glow and his wrist glowed. focusing on the boy's wrist where the light was coming from, I saw it was an eye oozing with blood on his wrist that was causing the light. The boy stretched open his mouth and screeched as he rushed towards the couple's door. I could hear Maloney scream as the child banged on the door. With each pound the child made with his hand I could hear the wood of the door breaking.
After seeing that I quickly rushed to my bedroom. I pulled my Glock 19, 9 mm pistol out from under my pillow. I didn't know what was going on, but I still could hear people screaming and screeches outside the apartment building. That child or thing, whatever it was made the same noise plus the scream of my neighbor's wife. I think I'm starting to get the picture. Although I didn't fully know what was happening. I knew something was not right. The man and his wife started screaming, so I opened the door and walked over to their broken door.
I stood there for a moment and saw two red lights shine over Ralph as he screamed and squirmed. Ralph looked like he was holding it up away from his body as he laid with his back on the ground. When my brain could make sense of what was happening, I saw that it was the child's bloody eyes that was shining over the man and out of the child's mouth came two large worms that was burrowing deep into the man's eye sockets. I aimed my gun at the child and shot him.
The apartment lights on our floor level went on after that, but Ralph died, and his wife was inconsolable. I told her to come with me, but she didn't want to. she kept saying that she had to call the ambulance and the police for the child and for me because I killed a child. I told her to listen outside. We could still hear screaming and screeching outside. I then told her that the child was not human and that it killed her husband. I told Maloney that I was trying to save Ralph but whatever that thing did to her husband killed him and I was too late. Maloney started sobbing after that. I grabbed her by the arm and told her that we had to go to my unit because it was not safe in the hallway. Leaving Maloney's place, unit 156, we went to my place, unit 160. While passing one of the other units we saw one of them quickly close. she then started heling and banging on door 157, saying that they were cowards for just watching and demand to know why they did nothing. I then pulled her away from the door and dragged her to my place."
I then interrupted Ahana will she was telling her story to tell her that I could see the one supply box laying on the grass in the distance
"Sorry to interrupt you, but I can see one of the boxes."
"No problem. Where is it?"
"It's over there."
We walked over to where the box was, and she picked it up. We looked around to see if there were more and saw the other supply boxes in the distance of the of the forest. She then walked to the nearest ones we could see and picked them up. She then walked to a tree, pulled out a knife and started carving on it.
"What is that for?"
"I'm marking the tree as we go back so we know where to find them."
We then started walking back to the van on our way back I asked her to continue with her story.
"So can you tell me the rest of your story?"
You are so terrible you make me stop halfway now I don't remember where I stopped.
"You were at your apartment. You save a women called Maloney I think there and took her to your apartment unit?"
"Oh yes. I had locked us in. Maloney was still crying, and I started pacing up and down thinking what my next move was going to be. The screams and screeches were still on going outside. I paced up and down. I thought to myself that I am going to need more guns because I emptied 3 rounds in that thing, so I only had 12 rounds left. I always had the gun on me in case one night some creep broke in and tries to get into my pants, then I can show him whose gun is bigger. It works fine on people just one round is needed, but with that thing in unit 156 and I think there are more of them outside the building thought to myself that I was going to need more bullets or bigger guns or both. I thought of going to my work. There were lots of guns there. but those things are out there. I should wait for daytime so that I can see better, but what if people break in and take all the guns. I looked outside again and noticed that the lights go off where they were and if they are nearby the lights flicker.
I told Maloney that I am going to leave her in my place but lock her inside and that I was going to come back. I told her not to open for anyone as we don't know what was going on. she wanted to know where I was going, and I told her that I was going to get more guns. She begged me to let her come with, but I told her that she would be safer here then to come with me. beside I could move much better own my own. Maloney then said that if I am going to go get guns that she could help me carry more. I told her that I am not going to get the worlds guns, I just needed some. I know how to make them, so I don't need a lot. So, I took my backpack and my gun and left her there.
The hallway was not the same anymore. The floor was stained with small bloody footprints that led from the stairs to the door of unit 156. I walked towards the stairs and looking down I saw the women laying there. She had no eyes and tears of blood flowed from her empty eye sockets. Her guts were on the floor looked like some of it was eaten. As I walked down to where she was laying. I realized that I have seen her before. she was the women that I saw that morning when i left for work. I saw her downstairs arguing with her son because he didn't want to go to school. There was nothing that i could do for her now, so I left here there. As I left the building i thought to myself that I couldn't just leave her lying there but I had to go get the guns first, so I assured myself that I will come and move her body later or maybe call the 911 but either way I should light incents sticks for her, her child and Ralph to purify the place of whatever evil spirit that possessed that poor boy.
Outside, my nerves were on end as the streetlights were flickering. Some of the streets were dark and their screams followed by screeches were the loudest too. Those were the ones I had to avoid the most. I still only had 12 rounds left and I had a long way to go before I reached the Gunshop. I normally had to take the bus to work but there were no buses and I needed to go on foot.
I jogged down the street that led to my work and halfway there I stopped. There was someone just standing in the middle of the street looking up the night sky. He then turned around and looked at me with a thousand-yard stare face full of blood. I was about to ask him what happen but then the lights started to flicker. Yea that was not normal, gotta be a creature. The lights went off and a light started to shine from his eyes as his growl turned into a screech. I shoot him same time. two in the chest and one where his heart was. He stopped and moved back. It looked like he was about to fall but didn't. He then began to rush toward me, and I shoot him in the head. It fell down.
I then began hearing the electrical buzzing sounds and clicks a looked around and to hear where it they were coming from, but to my horror i hear it coming from the lights all around me. I was trapped. the lights in the street behind me, to my right and to my left began flickering and the street behind each of the was dark. in these dark streets i could make out silhouettes with glowing white eyes.
I began running forward. I think they all heard me, now they were coming for me. At first, as I ran for my life, I thought of shooting one of the petrol tanks of the car in the other streets to confuse them so that they can go there and not after me, but I remembered that it was just a movie myth and would not work. They seem to only die if i shoot them in the head but if i shoot them more could come. what am I going to do these things are hot on my tail. I saw some people running in the street in front of me. I run towards them they were a bunch of people, and they were al running away from something. Some of them went and hid under cars some tried to get into other buildings and others ran way. it was chaos and i was bringing more Monters towards them. I ran past them and into a park. It was a small park and there were dark streets all around with lights coming out of people's eyes. I hid behind a bush of purple flowers and heard how the people screamed in pain as the monsters rip them apart. I was trapped this time nowhere to go now for real. as i watched from within the bushes and a bit of a view of the street I came from, but something walked past.
it was one of those things. it kept walking past, but it was sniffing. could these damn things smell us. Could it smell my fear? As it walked about i got my gun ready. I noticed that its eyes were not glowing, and I saw some of them tripping and falling in the dark. I thought to myself what the hell can't these things see where they are going. I saw one of the sniffing around there where I saw some go and hide. it found them using its nose. one of them then stopped moving in front of me. it was now blocking my view the way it was so close, sniffing around like it was homing in on me. it then moved away from me and one of the found someone nearby that started to run and they went after him. I could see that the light went back to normal so i slowly creeped out of the bushes and tried my best not to make a sound. i looked around as i did so and saw no one. so continued to get out of the bush. I then continued to push on forward to the gun shop. it was not too far, and this detour should have drawn most of those thongs away so I should be safe for now.
When I got to the gun store. I found the owner dead, lying on the floor with his eyes missing and a shotgun in his hand. There was a person was lying next to him with a head that looked blown off. I think it was a creature person. That could be the only reason why he would blow of this person's head, unless it was one of those difficult customers that you meet that really test your last nerves.
I then took some guns and went to the back of the store to get some tools in the back room. I had just finish loaded everything I needed in my backpack and was about to get out of the backroom, but the lights started to flicker. One of those things was in in the gun store with me. I peeped out the door of the back room to try and see how many there were. There was two of them i could kill them but then i would only call more of them. I need to get to the silencers. They were right there and so were those things, so I threw two bullets to the other side of the store. they went to investigate it then I went for the silencer. I knew not to run for it because they didn't have ammunition in them, I should know I had to clean and display them, and those things would have got to me before i could put the ammo clip in so i creeped over as fast as i could to the other of the counter and put the ammo in. I peeped over the counter to see where they were and saw my boss standing up. I then reach for a stun grenade. I threw it into the backroom, and they went for it. i locked the door behind the and run for the other door. I then locked everything up trapping them inside. They will guard the gun store until I come back one day.
As I locked up the creatures in the gun store and she someone pulled up in front of me and ask me for the keys to the gun store. I told him that there are too many creatures in there. He then asked me for my guns then I told him that I would give him some if he drove me back to my place. so, he did. There were four people in the car. The driver told me that his name was Luthor and..."
"Wait our Luthor?"
"Yes, our Luthor now stop interrupting."
"Sorry."
"He was escorting a scientist to a military base and picked up 2 other random civilians. Luther was supposed to only take the scientist, but because he had a big heart and good character, he decided to pick up other people along the way too. They were driving to the military base and on their way, they saw me locking up the gun store. He said that they stopped because I looked normal and had guns on me, so Luthor stopped to pick me up and get guns. I said that they can have the guns only if they take me to my apartment. They argued but then agreed to my terms. While driving to my apartment they asked me how I got the keys for the gun store. I told them that I works there as a gunsmith.
When I got back, I saw that the women that was on the floor was gone. When I got upstairs, I saw blood on my door. I went to my unit, and I unlocked the door. Maloney was there alive and well. I asked her what happened. she told me that the people from unit 157 come saw me living the apartment and the boy was dead so they also wanted to leave, but when they got to the stair way a women attacked them. they ran back to their unit but locked one of them out, because they fell behind. The girl then ran to the door of your unit, but the women was upon her and killed her. The rest of unit 157 then tried to use that as an opportunity to escape the apartment building but the creature noticed them and run after them. I didn't open the door for them because they didn't come and help me. look they didn't even help one of their own. I hope the creature gets them.
I told her not to say such things don't and that she good not opening. I told her that there was a driver waiting for us outside and that he was going to take us to my parents. she told me that she had to get some things from her unit. I told her no, that we had to go right away. she agreed to come with me and as we opened the door her husband was standing in the hallway. she then started crying tears of joy and then wanted to run towards him, but I quickly grabbed her. she told me to let her go so that she can go help her husband. I told her that I was not going to let her go to him. she then pushed me and run towards him. I fell down and it attacked her. I got up, but it had already started eating her face. so, i killed it. She died of blood lose in my arms. I then went downstairs, and we drove to my parents.
After I came out of my apartment, I then told them that I needed to go to My family. the other people then said that they don't have time for that and that they should go to the base now. I told them that it is on the way there and that it will not take long. Luthor was ok with it because this meant he could save more people. Even if there was not any more space left, the family can just follow them with a car. The scientist was now ok with this as he factored in that my skill set could be beneficial later in the future as long as I didn't take long
I found her family dead there. I was about to burn their bodies but then Luthor came in with the scientist who told me not to burn them. he asked if he could take the infected brother with to learn about this. I said that it was ok so we wrapped my brother in a carpet and took him to the car. The two civilians said oh hell no. They said that they left their dead loved ones that got killed behind and that I should do the same. They also added that there was no space, and they did not want to drive with one of my dead infected family members. Then the scientist them that we should take the body because they could study the dead creature's body and so we did.
We manage to get to the base without too many problems and Luthor saved as many people as he could. We stayed there for a day and the scientist was about to cut my brother open but then he started moving. The soldiers then rushed him to the base ment were they could contain him. My brother then woke up. The scientists were able to study him and tell us what was going on.
He said that they were light creatures that feared flowers because it gave them hay fever of some kind and reminded them of bees. After some time, their bodies begin to change. They were humanoid shaped and had trypophobia skin (small holes all over their body) with eyes in each of them. Tears of blood would flow out of each eye and each eye had different eye color. These eyes are from all of its victims that it eats. Even though it has so many eyes everywhere it can't see even when the eyes look at you. Some of the eyes look like they have cataract or cloudy because of the light that comes out of them sometimes. Its face didn't have eyes but holes that sniff out humans and had a large mouth with large teeth. When these creatures take their poor victim's eyes, they would normally jump on them and pin them down. They would stretch their mouth wide open and envelopes the human head while their teeth, that curves inward. locks into the skull of a human like fishhooks. The mouth starts to glow on the inside allowing the human to see two worm like tentacles with 4 teeth each that emerge alongside the back of the tough. these worms then envelope the victim's eyes using the 4 teeth to carefully sever the victims eye cord then each worm swallows the eyes. The eyes would then move through tubes in the creature's body via a process quite similar to peristalsis and ends up in one of the holes on this creature's body. the worms also suck the blood out of their victim's eye sockets to nourish the creature's own body with fluid."
After Ahana was done with her story, she then gave the box to me and took her gun out. I dropped the box and rose my hands up.
"Whoa, whoa whoa! What are you doing? Are you going to shoot me?!"
"No, I'm just taking this out just in case. Something doesn't feel right."
"I dropped my hands down and asked her a question."
"What do you mean something doesn't feel right?"
"These boxes how did they end up here all the way in the forest."
"Like I said. The wind could have blown in here."
"All the way out here? Then why were they not at the start of the forest if the wind blew them? How did the wind blow them past these densely populated trees and end up all the way out here?"
"Maybe a whirl wind or mini tornado. Why are you acting all edgy? Do you have another explanation?"
"No, it's just strange and... nothing. Never mind."
"No tell me what you were going to say?"
"Well, I thought I saw someone or something in the corner of my eye, watching us."
"Gho-oo-st?"
"Ha ha very funny. but yea it felt just as creepy."
"Well, whatever it is, it's gone now."
"You know what let us take this last box and go back. This forest is giving me the creeps."
We went back to load the last of the supply boxes in the van. There we found Luthor smiling and Ahana asked him a question
"Have you gone mad why are you smiling here by yourself?"
"Guess what I found."
Luthor the took out something that he was hiding behind him and Ahana answer.
"The keys!"
"Yes, now we have access to other parts of the bunker. I found it over there where our van was."
"Why was it there."
"It must have fell out of one of their pockets when they got here or left here."
Ahana then walked over to him, dropped the box in his hands that she was holding and spoke.
"Good when we get back, I want to take a proper shower if there is one and a long nap. We had a long yesterday that stretched until today and I am tired."
Ahana then got in the car by the passenger side. Luthor and I then loaded the last of the supply boxes in the back and got in. we drove for about 12 minutes and then got back.
Later that day after we opened all the doors and found a medical bay, doc sat down and listen to the recording and made notes. We were all on a break because we were tired. Then I found Doc while exploring the bunker.
"Alright I went over the recordings of our first session and given what you told me. I am going to rule out your condition...
At first, I thought you had Retrograde Amnesia, but you said that you are not from the crash, and you can remember things before you found the van. Then you told us that you are from the city but can't remember how you got there, and you walked all the way here, a distance of 40 miles on foot which normally would have taken you 12 hours to get here but you ended up taking longer. Lastly fact that you can't recall your life before the building and travel a long distance tells me that you have Dissociative fugues.
Unfortunately, this is caused by one of two conditions. In your case you have Dissociative Amnesia. Now people with dissociative amnesia are characterized as not being able to remember personal and certain memories as well as their identity. Sound familiar?"
"So, what does this mean. how did I lose my memory, and will i never get them back?"
"Dissociative Amnesia is cause by traumatic events and or struggling to adapt new life changes. the mind of people with this condition tries to shield them from these stressful factors as a way of coping. I have drawn up three more most likely scenarios of what happened to you.
One is that before of the events, when the world was still normal you worked in one of the buildings then something happened, and you were hospitalized. You remained in a coma until your event started, the end of your world. You were somehow shielded from your event and when you woke up your mind could not cope with what happen.
The second scenario is that you are from the school, and something happen of you had the condition for a long time and no one notice it. it got server over time moving from short too long state fugues. One day you wondered off into the city. As for how you ended un in a building, well maybe you used to work there but the something trigger you and you reset.
If, of cause, you do have this condition rest assured that there is a way to treat it, but of cause more investigation will have to be done and we still need to receive confirmation from the factory before I start drawing any real conclusions."
before I even had time to process what Doc said Azalea come into the room.
"Hey, hate to interrupt but umm is on the transmitter. She has something"
I was so happy when Azalea said that. I might not remember who I am but perhaps I can a least know who I was. I rushed to the telecoms room. I wanted to know who I am.
Who am I?!
I got their and Commander Anderson told me that she has been trying to get a hold of us but the areas communication. she told me that I was not a part of the team and that she was unable to confirm my identity, but she said that she forwards my picture to Head command. the transmission ended.
I thought I was going to get a indication of who I was. now i stood there wondering if I will ever find out who I was
Who am I...?
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