Based on "28 Days Later"

. . . Days Numbered . . .

Day 1 We were all exposed to this horrid illness. The symptoms were enough to make you go insane. Red eyes...vomiting blood...extremely violent behavior and blood lust...

Day 3 The infection started to spread...

Day 8 It became one of the worst epidemics people had ever seen. History having no match for it...

Day 15 An evacuation was ordered, but...

By day 20 there was only devastation... sadly, I was a part of it...the screaming, shouting, and killing of people with the red eyes. I couldn't remember what happened the in the crowded streets because all of a sudden it got dark. I woke up in the hospital...

Day 28 I wake to see everything destroyed, my city empty, and everyone...gone...

All in twenty eight days was exposure, infection, epidemic, and, lastly, devastation. I have a feeling...a feeling that my days are numbered...

My head was pounding as I woke up. I sat up and opened my eyes fully to look at my current location. I was by myself and saw that I was in the Destiny Hospital. No nurses...no doctors...nothing was stirring in the halls as far as I could have heard. I stood from my hospital bed and just noticed that it was cold in the room due to the fact I had no shirt on. All I had on were dark blue, long pants and my socks on. I looked in the small mirror and saw that I had bandages around my forehead and suddenly remembered that I was hit at one point and blacked out. I grabbed a random brush by the mirror and brushed my hair before using a rubber band on the table to pull my long silver hair back. I grabbed one of the hospitals white, short sleeve shirts, and put my converse shoes back on.

Walking out of my room and into the hallway I saw cords, needles, broken glass, and may other things on the floor of the hall way. I made my way over to the elevator and was happy to find out that it still worked just fine. I pressed the down arrow and the door opened for me very quickly. I got on and went down to the first floor of the hospital. When the doors opened I saw that exact same thing as I did on the fourth floor. No people and everything was wrecked. I placed my hand over my stomach as it growled with hunger. I looked both ways and to my left I saw two vending machines that had been broken and were open. I walked over to them and opened them the whole way. The first one I came to had a lot of chips and candy in it. I grabbed a bag of sour cream and onion chips, and then walked over to the other machine. I looked in it and it had a lot of soda. I was quick to reach for a root beer. I then looked over at the front doors that lined down the front of the building. Walking over to them I saw that the streets of the city were completely empty. Not knowing what I was going to do when I walked around the city, I walked back over to the machines and placed my drink and chips on the ground. I looked to my right and saw a good sized sack that had a few items in it. When I opened the sack and poured out what was in it, I saw that the sack must have belonged to a patient of the hospital. A little girl by the looks of it. What I saw was a few shirts with rainbows and unicorns on them, which were pink. Next to I brushes, clothes, and pictures, he saw a dark brown teddy bear. The bear had a red ribbon tied around it's neck and a small bell was on the ribbon. I stood from where I was kneeling and looked at the bear in my hands. For some reason, I had this feeling that I had to take the bear with me. I placed it back in the sack and then put in some more chips, drinks, and a few candy bars before walking out of the hospital. With the sack slung over my left shoulder and my root beer in my right hand, I walked down the stairs to the hospital and looked around Hope Square, the heart of Destiny Cities. I heard no chatter of people or laughter of children. All I could really hear was the wind blowing papers around on the streets and sidewalks. I was no bent on learning what happened here since I had a foggy memory of it.

Empty stores, empty buildings, and everything else was completely contorted. Things in weird places, cars on their sides, windows broken, flag poles bent, and stores barricaded with gates. I was going to look atthis one store to see if anyone was in the safely of the gates when something hit my shin. I looked down to see it was a newspaper. I picked it up, hoping it was not to old of a paper. I looked at the date. It came out on the twentieth and since I had lost track of what day it was I assumed it was a good enough paper. My eyes grew wide when I saw the headline.

EPIDEMIC!

Word of a deadly illness had rung throughout the city only 20 days before and no one had really thought of it until it hit the heart of Destiny Islands and it's cities. With a lose of more than half of the islands population, the government has ordered an evacuation of the entire island. The only problem they face is if there are enough ships to take all citizens out of the city. Ships have been the fastest way so far since the bridge from Destiny Islands to Isle Armada are congested. It was filed that Isle of Armada does not want to infection to reach them and they have blocked off the bridge on their end by lifting their half of the bridge. With out the other man at the controls at Armada, no one from Destiny City will be able to leave via car. Only by ship.

The illness does not have a name, but all that have it have been given the name; "The Infected". All who are infected have been killed by the illness due to vomiting of large amounts of blood or they were killed by the people who were running on the streets trying to get away. A long with teenagers and adults, sadly, small children have been catching the illness and attacked many. They were quick a agile in attack, those who were not killed quickly. Many infected others by biting them, breaking the skin. It has also been known that if the blood of an Infected gets in your mouth, eyes, or wound you could be quickly infected. Eyes turn blood red, extreme violence is common in behavior, and continuous vomiting of blood. How much longer will this go on and will it be known as the worst epidemic in history, beating the death toll of The Black Death from the 1300's? Who knows if we will survive or if we will die horrid deaths...

I threw the paper onto the ground and felt like screaming at the top of my lungs. Now that I knew what was going on I wanted to see if there was anyone else left in the city or if it was just me. Oh how much I wished I was not the only one left in the entire city, let alone the island.

I was quick in my search, shouting random names of people, hoping for an answer. I shouted into work buildings, gas stations, toy stores, cafes, restaurants, and any other placed I could think of looking for people. Then it hit me. The last time a disaster hit the city everyone sought comfort in the cities church. I snapped my fingers and smiled at my thought. I started to run down the street with my sack still over my shoulder, throwing my empty root beet bottle behind me. It was only a few moments before I reached the large church doors and opened them without stopping to stare. I walked into the church to conserve energy and looked around. The first room was completely empty. I walked up to the doors to the large service room. When I opened it I walked onto the balcony that overlooked the services. I placed my hand over my mouth after seeing all of the carnage. Bodies were everywhere, blood on the floors, seats, and walls. I took a step back and removed my hand that was now shaking in fear. I took a deep breath as well as swallowed the lump in my throat. I felt like gagging after taking a smell of the rotting corpses.

I took that one step forward and said, in a low voice, almost a whisper, "Hello?" That one word was loud enough to have about four people rise from where they were. At first a smile came to my lips, but only to suddenly turn into a sigh of fear when I saw them running over to corpses to get to the stairwell to my right. I ran out of the service area and then back out of the church to find myself on the streets again and the sun going down. I turned to see the first two doors before the main doors fly open and four men running over to me. I started to run again. That slight second I saw them was enough to see that they were part of the Infected. They were covered in cuts, bruises, and blood was all over them. I turned a corner and heard them slide on the street to quickly start running after me again.

I turned a corner quickly and jumped into a small hole that was made in the side of a building by a car that had crashed into it. The Infected ran right passed me. I took a deep breath and smiled a little, but shouted bloody murder as I was attacked from behind. I flipped whatever that was on my back off of me and onto the floor. It was a little girl in jean shorts and a pink tank top with a fairy on it. I remembered the clothes back at the hospital. She lunged at me again and then I saw her fall back onto the ground from mid-air. Blood went everywhere and splattered onto my pants. I turned to see who killed the small girl. It was man and two other women from the look of it. I looked back down at the small girl and she had a bullet hole in her forehead.

"Are you okay?" asked the male, walking over to me side and placing a hand on my shoulder. He was wearing a dark green paintball helmet, but the gun he had was anything but a paintball gun. He wore a black, long sleeve shirt and thick gray gloves. He was wearing long, baggy, straight leg pants with chains cris-crossing in the back. His shoes were boots that seemed to have a good mount of dried blood on it as well as the rest of his clothes.

The two girls behind him were shorter than him and shorter than me. They also wore paintball helmets, but the girl to his left wore a dark blue one as the other one wore a pinkish-red one. The one in dark blue wore a black, long sleeve shirt that had different colored stars scattered all over it. Her jeans were low-rise, dark blue jeans with blood stains on it. Her shoes were black and blue sneakers. Around her neck was a chain choker necklace. She wore purple gloves on her hands.

The one in the pinkish-red helmet wore a black, short sleeve shirt that said "Coheed & Cambria" on it in red. The style of the letters made it look it lit was written in blood, but outlined in white. She wore a jeans jacket over her shirt which was unzipped. She also wore a necklace that was a little loser than her friends and it had a heart pendent on it. Her jeans fit well from the knee up, but was very bagging from the knee down. Her jeans also had blood stains on it as well. She wore the same converse shoes as me and unlike the other two she wasn't wearing any gloves.

"Good to hear," said the male, "at least you are alight. We better get moving." I could tell by his voice that he was probably a few years old than me. The two girls nodded in response and followed the other man until he looked back at me. "Coming?"

I nodded, but reached into my bag first. I pulled out the dark brown teddy bear and placed it in the small girls arms. That was the instant I ran with the older male and the two girls as I heard some screeches and cries of the Infected get louder. It was not long before we got to a "safe place" as the older man called. It was one of the store that had gates closing it and keeping everything from the outside world away. He closed the gate and locked the doors. He took his helmet off to show his face which looked like the face of someone in their twenties. His hair was blonde and quit spiky.

"Name's Cloud," he said, placing his helmet on the floor. "Yours?" I sat on the ground and then looked up at the man who had addressed me.

"I'm Riku," I said. "Who are your two little helpers?" The two girls looked at Cloud and then at one another. Their glares ended up on me after a moment or so. "Well? Are you going to take your helmets off for me or are you going to just stare at me?" The girl in the dark blue helmet placed her gun down and took het helmet off. Her hair fell to her shoulders and it was a extremely dark brown or it was black. Her eyes were also really very dark. I couldn't tell since the only light in the store was the light of the moon. She smiled at me.

"I'm Alexa," she said. She elbowed her friend who was leaning against the wall and whose gun was already on the floor. She also took her helmet off and placed it on the floor. She looked over at me and took a deep breath. Her chocolate brown hair reached below her shoulders and was in long, loose curls. Her eyes were a light green with blue tints from what I could see. What also shined a little was her lip gloss. She gave me a small wave.

"Name's Aaron," she said. I nodded and then looked back at Cloud.

"Sp, what's up with the clothes you have there, Riku?" he asked me. I looked at him and then looked down at the ground.

"Well, when I woke up...I was in the hospital. All I can remember is that I blacked out at one point during the panic attack of the city. So much screaming and crying is also some things I remember. When I woke up this morning I didn't see any doctors, nurses, or other people. I just got a shirt, my shoes, and grabbed some stuff to eat before I left the building. I read one of the papers I found and read about what had happened, but it didn't tell me where everyone had gone. So, I went to the one place most people go – the church, but when I got there it smelled like rotting flesh and zombie-like people came after me! I ran, got away, the girl attacked me, and you know the rest from there."

"I see," Cloud said. He sat down across from me and Alexa took a seat next to her still leaning friend. We all looked at each other for a moment and then Alexa said,

"Riku, in that bag do you have any food left or maybe something to drink?" I nodded and tossed her a bag of chips and a bottle of Sprite. I tossed Cloud a root beer and a candy bar as well as tossing Aaron a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bag of chips. "Thanks, Riku."

"No problem," I said. "So what are we going to do? If we are the only people left in the city, let alone the island, what can we do?"

"What we have to do is get to the Armada-Destiny Bridge and find a way to get across without getting killed," Aaron said. "We can only travel by day so we have to get up early tomorrow and get moving." I nodded.

"Understood," Cloud said. "We'll head out tomorrow morning when the sun first peaks over the horizon. We have to get to the other side of the city and to the bridge. Remember, when the sun starts to go down we need to find a place to stay immediately."

We all nodded and tried to get as much sleep as we could even though we could hear the continuous screeches of the Infected running around the city.