~*Prologue*~
"F-fired?" Jack stammered.
"That's right, Jack, Dan, Joe, all fired." The boss said. "But, Mr. Lenson..." Dan started. "No buts!:" Mr. Lenson yelled. "You caused a meltdown in there! Your fired!" The three men looked at each other. "It was that girl." Joe said, eyes narrowing. "What girl?" Their boss said, fuming with rage. "A young girl in high school, she jumped in and started pressing stuff."
"Now what makes you say that? Get out of here." Mr. Lenson said, pointing to the door. The three men walked out. That's the day it started.
Those three men stayed in the basement of Joe Jackson's house. They stayed up for days on end, making something that would make people blind or perish. It was called, X347-B. It all went wrong, though. They never noticed. They dumped a whole vial full of the chemical into the lake. That lake led to the water filtration plant. It was swept there, never filtered out because, it was just like the water itself. People drank that water out of the sink, or out of a water purification system. It was like rabies, slowly spreading to the brain. But, with horrible pain. The chemical reached the brain of an organism, to slowly kill them. It turned them into a monster, modifying their traits to make them super-powerful, strange looking, and completely insane. They went and bit people, then died. Weird, right?
Chapter one~ Life is a crap.
"What?" Lily shouted. "What do you mean? I have to get back home!" The flight attendant stared. "I'm sorry, miss. We can't let you. You know about what's going on there, don't you?" Now Lily was enraged. No, more than that. Exploding wouldn't even help it along. "Of course I do, stupid!" She yelled. "I want to go home and get out of there with my stuff before the house is crushed! What more do you need?" The attendant pressed a button. Oh crap. "Security!" she yelled. Lily narrowed her eyes. "Oh, afraid to come out and fight me? Huh? Are ya'? Get your hands off of me!" she screamed as the security guards grabbed her arms and dragged her away. "Stop! I mean it! God, don't understand English?" They threw her outside. "Yeah, you'd better run!" She walked back to her car. The black Corvette with a royal purple stripe along the left side. She cursed as she failed to get the door open. She tried again. Finally. Now, she could go get her boyfriend out of the hospital, after breaking his arm in a fight down at school.
As she finally pulled up to the Kasai general hospital, she didn't see him there. "He must be hurt pretty bad..." she said softly. He usually didn't lose in a fight, she should have been there. She walked inside, and walked up to another desk. She needed this more than the plane, so she knew she should behave. "Uh, Kuro-hi?" Her last name. Odd, right? "I'm here to see Karu Black?" her boyfriend. The nurse smiled. "Yes. He was mentioning something about you. In 48-A down the hall. "Thanks." Lily said as she started down the hall. "47-A, 47-B..." she read off the names. "Oh! 48-A!" She opened the door. "Karu!" She gasped. "Lily?: He said, weakly. "Karu...god. Are you okay?" her voice full of concern. She never acted like this unless something bad actually happened. Karu sat up, and groaned in pain. "Y-yeah. I'm fine. I get to go home tomorrow. That's a plus." She had to argue. "But your arm..." she looked down at the cast. "Oh, I know, babe. It was bloody and everything. But I still won." He smirked. She giggled. "You don't need to win to impress me, you know. I love you no matter what." She sat down next to him, and put her head next to his neck. "I'm glad your still yourself." he kissed her gently, since moving strained his arm a bit. "You know I always will be. And it's why you love me, stupid." Lily laughed, and kissed him on the cheek. She pulled away quickly when the nurse came in. Blushing, she sat down on a chair next to the bed. It was simple, really. She greeted herself to Lily, gave Karu some shots, some painkillers, and some more gauze, then left."That was quick." Lily giggled.
"No kidding." Karu laughed. Lily looked over at him. "Can I sleep here tonight? On that chair? I'd rather not leave, if that's okay." he looked at her, his eyes filled with humor. "Uh, why can't you?" Lily chuckled a bit. "I have no clue. I was going to even if you said no, anyways."
"Of course. " Karu replied as he lay down on the bed again.
Lily fell asleep on the pull-out chair at the hospital in her boyfriend's room. They were watching some Anime show and she dozed off. Karu had watched her sleep for a bit, her breathing slow and calm. He had looked over at the TV after 3 minutes and slowly fell asleep as well. He was hooked up to 2 Avs, one for blood and one for medications. He had no problem with that. It was quiet in the room, until the doorknob opened. Lily, being a light sleeper, awoke. "W-what do you want?" she said weakly. The sun got in her eyes, and she placed a hand on her forehead to see better without the glare of the sun. "Who are you?" It was a nurse. "Hey there Lily, just giving Karu here some medication." Lily nodded and shakily walked over to her boyfriend. "Karu...Karu...wake up Sunshine." Karu rolled over and muttered, "Five more minutes, babe." Lily prodded him. "Get up you lazy slump." He looked over at her, his brown eyes matching her blue eyes' gaze. "What...? I can's make waffles now." he said, smirking. She giggled. "Very funny, Karu. Now take your medicine." He groaned with pain as he sat up, and Lily rushed to his side. "Karu!" she gasped, her voice full of concern. The nurse looked at her kindly. "Once he takes this he'll feel better." she kindly said. She had a kind voice which you could believe when she said that everything was going to be okay. Lily nodded. "I'm counting on you for that."
Lily and Karu sat for a while, talking, eating, and watching TV. The nurse came in every few hours now, since Karu was going home today. She walked in, with her sterile white clothing. "Hey guys!" she said. Lily's head turned over to her. Karu was mesmerized into the TV. Lily punched him in his good arm. "Hey!" his head snapped to his girlfriend, then to the nurse. "You two will go home today!" Karu was excited. "Awesome!" Lily nodded. I'll fill out the paperwork. Lily lurched over to the table with a clipboard and filled out the medical bill expense information, patient information, all that jazz, then looked over again. "Done." she smiled. Her boyfriend stood up. "Alright then."
They exited the building. Karu rushed Lily over to her car. "Come on! Hurry up!" he called. Lily walked over to him and held his hands. "Stop." He looked at her. She'd never been so...calmly stern like that. "Lily, what's wrong?" She looked him in the eyes. "We aren't going home, Karu." Sadly to say, she was right. They weren't going to go back to the apartment, as much as she longed for it. He looked very confused. "But...where are we going then?" Lily stepped closer to him. "Honestly? I have no idea."
"This town is a biohazard."