I opened my eyes slowly. I blinked to the steady beat of the heart monitor. I looked all around me and saw wilted flowers and deflated 'get well soon' balloons. I then looked down and noticed that I was in a hospital bed connected to many random machines. The walls seemed corroded with sludge and slime and the floors were littered with papers and broken glass. I was careful to remove the pads and needles attached to me and I got out of the bed.
I stumbled towards the door and turned the knob weakly. I tried to push it open but, the door was stuck. Something was blocking it from the outside. After a few more hard pushes I was able to free door. As the door flew open I went flying with it. I fell on my stomach hard and the wind was knocked from my lungs. I coughed and sputtered. Eventually I was able to stand up again and noticed that another hospital bed was the thing blocking the door.
Out in the hall things looked a lot worse. Vines were growing everywhere and blood and debris were all over the walls and floor. I tried my best to grasp the image I was seeing. The only form of life I saw was dead. A dead body was sitting upright against a wall with dried blood on its neck. It was dressed in scrubs and I deduced that it once was a nurse.
I turned around and saw the exit sign glowing red. I walked forward in that direction. As I neared the exit door I heard some moaning coming from behind me. I turned my head around and saw what I thought was a dead nurse moving. I turned around and began running towards the injured man.
"Sir, Are you okay? What happened here?" I began to question. As I got closer the nurse was already standing up. He then lifted his face and I could tell that things weren't right. He was missing the bottom part of his jaw and had a huge bite mark on the side of his neck. Three bullet holes were shown on the top part of his uniform and he slowly started walking towards me.
I turned around again and this time took off sprinting towards the exit. The 'thing' didn't sprint after me but, it did try it's best to catch up. I threw the emergency exit doors wide open and tripped and fell onto the back parking lot outside. I couldn't stop myself from immediately vomiting once the smell of decaying flesh hit me. My body trembled fiercely as I heaved heavily.
Hundreds of dead bodies littered the ground around me and all of them were covered by bedding. I looked in awe and terror and slowly began to walk in the general direction of a helicopter. Climbing the hill I found that the ones who lived up here were also dead. Everyone was dead. No life anywhere…Hopefully my wife and kid is okay. I continued my trek across the grassy field until I came to our neighborhood. As I strolled down the sidewalk I saw a bicycle.
I went to pick it up. I heard a low groan, rustle of the blades of grass, and then the touch of a cold hand. I reared around and fell on my back as another one of those things tried grabbing me. I stared at the hideous creature growling and reaching for me. I noticed that whatever this thing was now, used to be a woman before this all started. Her hair, even though most of it was missing, was dirty blonde. Her thinning cheekbones use to be full of life. Her eyes sunk back deeper and deeper into her skull but, they once were big and full of curiosity of the world around her.
Half of her body was missing and dried intestines hanged out from behind her. How she was still alive I will never know. I wiped a little sweat from my forehead and climbed slowly onto the bike. I began to peddle towards my house. I dropped the bike quickly and ran inside, searching franticly for my family.
"Lori! Carl!" I cried. No answer. The house seemed pretty empty and the only thing I could find was a small child's book that belonged to Carl. That's when I broke down. I came back out on the front porch and sat on the steps crying my heart out. I was crying so much that I didn't notice someone walking towards me on the street. I looked up and saw the man. I waved to him but, he made no gesture back. That's when a sharp pain hit me and my head started to swim. The world faded to black.