Author's notes: hello everyone and welcome to my first ever fanfic, it is based off of the game left 4 dead but with my own made up survivors, I hope you enjoy and I hope i do a good job as this story progresses.

P.S This chapter has since been altered slightly and has had stuff added since its release, nothing substantial has changed except a few spelling errors and adding some more meat to the chapter.

Chapter 1 Jake

A prison bus was cruising down one of the many main streets of the city of Fairfield, it only carried one prisoner and the bus driver turned around to look back at his one passenger, "ok Jake we are almost there just don't break anything on the bus understand?" Said the driver, the man Jake simply grunted and looked at the window. He was unaware of how pale and cold the driver was and a few horse coughs escaped his throat, but Jake simply stared out the window. Jake was a tall man about 26 years old and about 6 ft 2 he had long blonde scruffy hair and emerald green eyes that held a heavy burden on them evident by the sharp gaze they gave off. He wore an orange prison suit with a white wristband on his left wrist and a gold studded earring in his left ear, and he wore white and red converses on his feet.

Jake was exactly the sort of person he looked like a petty criminal, he had been arrested several times for several minor things like getting involved in bar fights, petty thefts and other things just like that and to be honest he hardly cared about being arrested for things like that, however he did care about the reason he was arrested this time, this time it was different and not in the nice way. This time something serious had happened and Jake and been blamed for it, he cursed himself over and over for being in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was only trying to help, now he was going to prison for a rather long time, he remembered the life he had before now, jumping in an out of groups of gangs and such and such entering back alley card games and other stuff. He remembered a guy he still owed money too that he met a few months back, some biker named Francis or something like that, well looked like he was gonna be waiting even longer for his money, Jake just hoped he wasn't the sort of man to charge interest for late payment.

5 minutes went by but to Jake it felt like 2 hours, he began to fiddle with his wristband as he got bored of waiting, the thing that bugged him the most was this virus that all the news channels were on about that they started calling the green flu. He was bugged because according to the news the virus turned people into animals that began to attack their own people and then there were bizarre cases of sick people developing special abilities. He was bugged by the fact that this virus was supposed to affecting the whole of Pensilvania and yet he hadn't seen a single infected person not that, that was a bad thing or anything but he was still confused as to why he hadn't seen a single zombie. He simply sighed and went back to twiddling his wrist band and then stopped when the bus shook violently and then jerked left throwing Jake out of his seat.

Jake then got up and looked towards the front, "hey buddy you alright?" Jake asked and the driver turned around and once Jake saw his face worry stretched across his own face, the driver had white ghost like eyes and had pale like skin with green checks showing illness, "yeah I'm fine just sit down ill get ya there" said the driver turning back around and having a slight cough. Jake was now very worried but he didn't let it play on his mind, he wasn't the sort of person who thought too hard about something that may just be little and nothing to worry about. His worry soon returned when he heard the driver throwing up and then the bus began to jerk left and right, Jake did the only thing he could which was to buckle up, he then looked ahead in horror as a lorry coming in the other direction was now in the path of the bus." Oh shit-" was all he could manage to say before the two vehicles collided and then there was the sound of metal scraping metal before all went silent.

Jake woke up two minutes lately and groaned as his left leg hurt a little but he then crawled our from underneath the bus and looked around, people were screaming and running around and then he saw other people chasing the screaming people pouncing on them and ripping them apart. He then looked up in alarm and gasped there standing in front of him was the bus driver except he didn't look friendly anymore, he had blood red eyes and blood dripping down his chin and on his shirt. He then screamed like a banshee and charged at Jake, Jake ran backwards and then tripped over but turned around and saw a cop car with the trunk open and a pump shotgun sticking out. Quickly pulling himself up he charged for the trunk as the infected driver chased him, he then flipped the shotgun over as the man pounced on him , he then aimed the shotgun upright pulling the trigger and blowing the drivers head off.

He then stood there in shock for a full minute before more screaming broke him out of his trance, he then opened the trunk fully and found several useful items, first he found a gym bag and many shot gun shells in the boot where he stuffed the shells in the bag and put it on. He then found a flashlight and some rope and put them in his bag, he then looked around and then saw dead people laying in their own blood everywhere around him. "I gotta get out of here" he said as he began to leg it down the street towards a 5 star hotel his newly acquired shotgun in his hands, as people around him were murdered brutally by there own fellow citizens. Jake didn't look back once only shooting at the infected person that came too close for comfort, he needed to find a way out of the city and fast and hopefully meet some other survivors soon enough, because the situation was going to hell in a handbasket real fast.

End Chapter

Author's note: well thats the first chapter done, its a little on the short side but the first 4 to 6 will be short as they are simply about meeting the characters and them meeting, but if this story goes well the chapters will get much longer as it goes on so thanks for reading and criticism is accepted if it helps me improve.

With that being said thanks for reading and I will see you all in the next one

Adios