The city was silent. The power had failed in major parts of the city meaning that there was complete darkness. The moon was obstructed by dense cloud coverage. The hospital was only illuminated from about halfway up.
Inside one of the many rooms a man sat on the edge of a hospital bed. He had been there for some time waiting for another radio broadcast. It had been sometime since the last one.
The message had said to proceed to mercy hospital to meet up with evacuation teams. When he got to the hospital it was under siege from the horde. The sounds of gunfire which he had heard had died away a while ago.
Now he was left alone in the hospital, praying for another transmission.
'Come on John keep it together.' he said to himself.
Suddenly a sound alerted him. He waited in tense silence. Then he heard it again the unmistakable sound of a woman crying.
'Shit' he said.
He walked carefully out into the corridor. He looked up and down the corridor. Near the stairs in the gloom he saw what he was looking for. A woman was sitting in the dark crying.
John left the room and walked down the corridor away from the woman.
Next thing he knew the sound of screeching had filled the air. He had hit into a fire alarm. The woman stood up and started running towards him screaming. John was paralysed with fear.
Just before the witch could attack him her head exploded. Her body fell to the ground to reveal a man standing behind her holding a shotgun.
'Let's get out of here' the man said as he threw a lead pipe towards John. 'They're coming'
They began running towards the staircase at the far end of the hallway. A large group of infected emerged from a door. At the front of them was an infected crawling on all fours wearing a hooded jacket.
'Keep running' the man with the gun roared.
They passed through a door and the man stopped to close it. After he made sure it was secure he looked at John.
'Name's George.' The man said.
'I'm John' John replied. 'How did you find me?'
'I heard the radio transmission. Lucky for you I was there when you set off that fire alarm.' George replied.
'Thanks so what now?' John asked
'We should continue towards the roof to find out about getting evac.'
George started walking up the stairs. John followed him.
At the top of the stairs was a ladder.
'This ladder will take us out onto the roof.' George said.
The two men started to climb up the ladder. It lead to an exit beside a small hut. Both of them proceeded inside it.
There was a radio sitting on a small desk. George picked it up and started speaking into it.
'Does anyone read me this is Mercy hospital evacuation centre. We have two survivors. Does anyone read?'
After a few minutes a reply came through. 'This is Ted Davis. I'm not really from the military but I got a chopper and I'm not too far from the hospital. I'm coming up to the roof meet me there.'
'Yes we are on the roof' George said 'We can meet you on the helipad. We can bring medical supplies.'
'That would be appreciated' Ted replied.
'OK we'll be on the helipad in one minute.'
George quickly ran towards the medical cupboard. Only one med kit was left.
'John, grab some ammo' George said.
John quickly picked up lots of different ammo. Then the sound of the helicopter filled the air followed by the screams of infected. George and John begun to run towards the helipad.
They reached it just as the helicopter landed. The door opened and a woman stepped out holding a machinegun.
'Hurry' she shouted.
They reached the helicopter and climbed in the woman followed and the helicopter took off.
'I'm John, he's George' John said
'I'm Annabelle' the woman said.
'Where are we going?' George asked
'The airport. Apparently there's a cargo plane transporting survivors there.' Annabelle said
The helicopter speed away as dawn began to approach. The survivors had a chance to prepare because they knew that when they got to the airport the short period of peace amongst the chaos would end.