'the dead rose, they rose for ruin and destruction, and from the ashes of that destruction, a new set awoke to continue the work, and so it was death and destruction again... an endless inevitable cycle... this was the apocalypse...'
Day One
There was still a lot he didn't know, he had also not forgotten the fact that while others were falling unconscious, only him hadn't.
'Perhaps not'.
Indeed, this was just one corner of the world, perhaps somewhere else there were people like him who were... immune? to the broadcasted sound.
The ... creature snarled and growled, it turned it's head back and forth, then raised its head and sniffed around. It paused, and then began sniffing again, it threw it's head left and right erratically while sniffing, there was a moment where the pause grew longer, until...
SNAP
The creature suddenly turned it's head and looked at his direction, it paused for a moment, sniffed, and then...
"Shreeeeee!" It hissed.
Dion's heart suddenly stopped beating.
With startling speed and aggression, the creature rushed towards him hungrily, they weren't that far to begin with so it was upon them in a moment.
"It... it's... it's a zombie!" Dion yelled.
Dion was rooted in place by fear, but he suddenly felt movement beside him and he heard James shout with stunning clarity.
"Move!"
Dion didn't know how, but he staggered out of the way at the last moment, the beast flashed passed unable to stop it's momentum in time, thus given the two youths a few moments of reprieve.
The zombie tumbled over due to its improper footing, and landed on one of boys who were bullying him minutes prior, the boy who was paralyzed and could only move his eyeballs looked on in terror.
The zombie raised its head and shook it about dazedly, then it paused and sniffed at the air, it sniffed the air chaotically for a few moments, then it paused and slowly turned it's dead eyes downwards to look at the terrified boy in the eye.
Face to face with the abomination, the boy's eyes grew wide and desperate, tears streamed down his eyes as he looked up pleadingly, it seemed he could feel it, the cold breadth of hades welcoming him from a feet away.
But irrespective of his pleas, the former shy human boy opened his mouth wide, the blood he had vomited up previously suddenly made the scene blood curling and bone chilling, and then it bit down on the boys neck.
Flesh parted, tendons split and blood flowed, those teeth sunk into his flesh with ease, with a work of his jaw the zombie tore out a mouthful of flesh from the neck, it chewed and then swallowed, then screeched.
"Shrrreeeee!"
Dion and James watched on in absolute terror, they watched vividly a scene that would come to change their lives forever, there was something scarring, traumatic and lifelong disturbing about watching a person - still alive - being painfully aware while he was carnibalized, and his eyes...
Those eyes, the boy was paralyzed and incapable of moving, but he could still feel pain, as such his eyes were the only way he could show it.
In a daze, Dion didn't take his eyes off them as he saw the light drain from them little by little, drop by drop and which each passing moment his life slowly left him, and with death on the horizon they turned cloudy, unclear and... dark.
James seemed to be the first to break free from his trance.
"Run, damn it," he yelled.
'Huh?'
"Run!!"
'Yes... run, I have to... I must...'
With swaying steps he turned towards the school block and dragged the both of them there, James had recovered somewhat but not completely, right now he could move his limbs albeit stiffly so he needed support from Dion.
They had barely moved when Dion froze in place after hearing a familiar and traumatic noise, it was the same one he heard when the shy kid had his bones breaking and mending itself, the same sound he heard before that shy kid turned... turned to...
But this time it wasn't from him it sounded, instead it was his victim, the bully, the bully Dion had watched as he died
Dion froze again unable to move, it wasn't just him, several similar incidents were occurring across the lying students, a few were already twisting at odd angles while those bone cracking noise resounded.
Those turning were few, incredibly few even, across all the students lying here they numbered roughly around sixty some, but those turning were perhaps five or six at most, terrible few, a miniscule amount by that standards, but...
Dion's eyes darted to the bully who should have been dead, and he felt his blood turn cold.
What if they were all like this, what if they were like in the movies, what if a single bite was all it took for a sane person to turn into such a mindless cannibal.
As he thought, the next set of zombies arose and sniffed about, then pounced on the defenceless students lying closest to them.
Dion watched in horror, his brain calculating, when the victims turned and their victims also turned in turn, he looked at all the defenceless students strawn about...
How many would survive?
The recovery from the paralysis wasn't uniform, as they were some like Dion who weren't affected, then others like James who recovered speedily, so by now most people were already capable of using some parts of their body, which was why...
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!"
Suddenly heart stopping screams resounded across the yard, chaos descended, blood spread about, flesh was skewered, lives were lost only for them to arise with a hungry fervor to pass their fates on to those next to them, and it was at that moment, that bloody moment , witnessing that gruesome scene, it was then that Dion realized it.
This was an apocalypse movie...
And he was one of its cast.