The River's Nightmare
By Alex Barbour
Chapter 1…God I Hate Mondays
Disclaimer: I do not own anything involving Resident Evil or Capcom. Any similarities are my own, as are the characters, which I have based on some of my friends and myself. I would like to thank Dan for his constructive criticism and Cameron and Dylan for backing me up…When the mood struck them.
Greetings, this story is based on what would happen if a zombie outbreak were to occur on a global scale, the story follows my self and some of my friends in this situation, my influences include RE, Dawn of the dead and most of all…. "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, wonderful book pick it up. anyway… on with the Story!
Beep…. Beep…. Beep…. Beep… Beep. As was the case most every morning the incessant drone of the alarm started the day, Alex sat up and rubbed his eyes as the alarm to continue its wail. Finally snapping, Alex turned it off bringing an eerie silence throughout the room. Alex got up and looked at himself in the mirror. He had always been short and even at 15 he barely scraped 5'1. He wasn't especially strong or well built, but could hold his own to an extent, all the same he was the type who generally preferred to avoid confrontation.
After taking his morning shower and got dressed, Alex got a ride from his father, John, down to the bus stop, as was the case most every morning. Maintaining his seemingly careless demeanor as the bus rolled through the hills to the local high school. Sonoma County was located in the northern half of California; mostly consisting of a few Small towns with names like Occidental, Monte Rio, Forestville and that sort of thing the only decent sized city for miles was Santa Rosa. Alex's high school was like any other, full of delusional pride and school spirit. As his bus pulled up he saw his friends already at the entrance to the school. El Molino High School was different from most schools in the fact that it was all outdoors, the school was consisted of multiple small buildings and you had to go outside to get to a different room. As he exited the bus and strolled over to his friends, he saw them already behaving as their usual selves, Dylan was jumping around acting the obvious life of the party while Cameron sat there and watched, throwing in his own brand of humor once in a while, while Dan simply leaned against the column with a smirk taking it all in while offering no speech in turn to Dylan's loud and obvious sense of humor. Dylan had been short but had grown about 5 inches taller than Alex in the recent months, Cameron was a normal guy, while he was overweight he never let it get to him, and under the fat geeky exterior was enough muscle to take down most people who tried to mess with him. Dan was the tallest and oldest of the bunch having just turned 18 and scraping about 6 feet tall. While Dan rarely talked, he always maintained a sense of calm and could have a sense of humor given the right circumstances.
" Hey guys, how's it hanging?" Alex sighed tiredly; he had never been a morning person. "Alex, you need to cowboy the fuck up" Dylan said matter-of-factly, in true Bruce Willis style, " Why Dylan, it's just another boring day, I'm starting to feel like Alex myself" Cameron interjected. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP… The tone-like bell sounded,
"Oh Crap that's the bell well I gotta go guys, I'll see you later right?" asked Dylan, as he began moving towards his ride to a different school, "Yeah dude I'll see ya tomorrow." Alex replied, as Dylan boarded his bus…. It would be the last time they would see each other under such normal circumstances ever again.
The day progressed as it always did, Alex and Dan spent many of their classes together and it was just a normal boring day, until lunch. Cameron would bring a radio at times just to make lunch a little bit more interesting, this time, what was on the radio was very
Interesting.
"This just in from the southeastern basin, a bizarre murder occurred last night, police are still unable to get a positive ID on the corpse, but he appeared to have been mauled and mutilated by SEVERAL large animals, reports of attacks similar to this have occurred in the Los Angeles area but this is the first reported death of this type to occur north of the bay area. In other news, police in Oakland have just apprehended a man who appeared extremely delusional, the man was seen stumbling around an apartment building last night, moaning and banging on windows, the police were summoned and apprehended the man, who is suspected of cult activity due to the fact that while transporting him to the police station, the man attacked and bit several police officers, the man is now in an asylum and the police who were attacked had to take the day off for emotional reasons. Police still have no idea who the man is and are completely stumped as to the purpose of a cult such as this."
"Wow… that's pretty hardcore eh?" Cameron said as Alex let out a low whistle, Dan looked the same as always, though his eyes were slightly widened, he let out a long sigh as he let his opinion out. "Well, I guess we should head to class and get this day over with. I don't know about you guys, but God I hate Mondays."
As the final bell sounded Alex headed towards his bus to make the journey home. While the bus rocked and bobbed over the countless hills Alex' mind drifted to the topics he heard this after noon on the radio. He usually didn't pay attention to the news and regarded many stories as being blown beyond their proportions, but recent events were starting to bore down on him. He shook his head slightly to erase such thoughts from his mind as the bus pulled into the small town of occidental and he exited the yellow behemoth. Alex entered the car with his father and rode way up to their house in the rural area of Fitzpatrick. Alex walked into his room and collapsed on his bed… he was asleep before his head hit the pillow.
Dan got to his house near the Russian river and planned on just relaxing and playing his latest RPG before he had to go to bed. At about 9:00 o'clock that night Dan noticed that the motion sensitive light near his window had turned on curious as to who might be at his house at 9:00 at night, he opened his blinds, looked outside and saw a figure skulking around in the darkness Dan assumed it was just animal, as was the case many times before, until the figure stepped in the light and he saw that the figure was a man. Dan scrutinized the person for a while, but being very used to drug-addicts wandering around, he wasn't too worried and walked downstairs to inform his mother of the trespasser."' Hey mom, uh there's a guy snoopin around out back." Dan said nonchalantly " what? Are joking with me Dan?" his mother said disapprovingly.
"No mom I'm not kidding, should we call the cops or something?"
"No I will take care of this honey."
His mom then walked over to the front room and flipped on the porch light, opened the door and squinted into the darkness. "Hello, I know your out there, you better get out of here or I'll call the police." She said in a shaking tone. Dan started to walk down the stairs when he saw something terrible. He saw a pale, discolored hand reach out and grab his mom around the neck and pull her out of the doorway. "MOM!" Dan screamed as he ran outside and looked in shock at a mortifying sight. The strange, pale man had grab his mom around the mouth, as Dan watched in horror, the…. Creature… grabbed his mom's head and wrenched it back, so that the back of her head was touching the top part of her back, killing her instantly. Then Dan witnessed something, unbelievable, the man leaned down and opened his mouth, and took a large bite out of her throat. As blood gushed everywhere, the creature let out an otherworldly moan. Then something dawned on Dan, this. Thing… it wasn't human, and that if he didn't run, he'd be in trouble. As Dan took a step back, the creature noticed him and as it, leaned it's head up to look at Dan, his mother's esophagus slid out of her throat still clutched in the beast's jaws. Dan held back the bile that had risen up in his throat and ran back into his room, shut and locked his door and heard a news report on his TV.
This just in from the CNN building in New York, the strange reports of bizarre murders that have been occurring in California have now spread across the nation. Victims sporting bite marks have also been seen in the riots that have been starting up in Dallas. The president has ordered that these people are too be avoided at all costs and that he has called the national guard to quell the riots, now to our senior correspondent in LA, Tom?
Thank you Jake the situation in LA is terrible, the riots have reached an out of control situation and that the lower east side is in complete anarchy. Scientists have been researching and presume that the animals that have been attacking people secrete a neurotoxin that causes people to attack and in some cases, resort to cannibalism against their friends and neighbors. Very scary stuff here Jake, back to you.
Thanks Tom, this just in our own lead reporter Debbie Haverson is in Dallas right now with this report we cut to her live, Debbie?
Thank you Jake as you can see behind me the situation here is true chaos with law enforcement completely overrun while fires here continue to grow and…wait, what's that, oh my god Mike look behind You!
Dan watched the TV in horror as the camera turned around to see a group of people, covered in blood and wounds, reach toward the man holding the Microphone, the man let out a terrifying scream as the group neared him and began to tear him apart, Dan continued to be mesmerized by the terror he was witnessing, the camera cut off and the screen was again occupied be Jake the anchorman, who now was staring at the screen with wide eyes and his mouth agape. He turned back to the camera and offered this condolence.
America, I can only offer my prayer and warning, stay in your homes and lock your doors the threat will pass and-
Dan never heard the rest, as at that moment the power went out and he heard a banging against the door.
Well if you thought that was a little fast then well boohoo this shit took a while, any flames or better yet good reviews are welcome just push the pretty button right here
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