Running to the last light

'Last mission briefing before dropping' The GRE woman's voice said.

I checked my parachute for the last time, and I began to stare at the plane's cargo door.

'You mission is to locate Kadir Suleiman, in the chaos of the outbreak, he stole a verry sensitive document, that contains information capable of threatening the excistence of humanity itself' The woman said.

'The radio that you already have is the only one that can break through the city wide jamming' The woman said.

'Twenty seconds till we reach the droppoint' The pilot said.

I stood up, and I started to run in place in anticipation of the cargo door opening.

'Ten seconds tilll we reach the droppoint' The pilot said.

'Crane, if you fail your mission, thousands will die, remember that'

'I'll do all I can' I said.

'We believe that our hope in you is not futile' The GRE woman said.

'Droppoint reached in five, four, three, two'The pilot slowly counted.

I stroked my ten days old beard and kracked my knuckels.

'ONE! GO!' The cargo door opened, and I was almost blasted from my feet by the strong wind.

I ran towards the edge of the plane, and i jumped.

The strong winds caused me to spin a couple of times, but I managed to regain control after a couple of seconds.

Beneath me, I could see the city of Harran appearing beneath me.

I activated my parachute, the parachute activated without problems, and I began to slowly twirl down.

The city began to open up under me, and I could slowly start to see buildings seperate from each other.

To my left I could see Harrans stadion, and to my right the large skyscrapers used to house thousands of Harran's residents.

My descent accelerated and I looked for a good landing spot.

The wind forced me towards the houses just by the large skyscrapers.

I managed to steer my parachute at a large suncreen in front of the houses, and I prepared for landing.

Despite this not being my first time landing with a parachute, it was far from my first, this was always the risky part.

'Speed never killed someone, suddenly stopping has' I said to myself and smirked.

Just before I landed I rolled, reducing the impact of the fall.

The force of my fall was still to much for the sunscreen, and I ripped straight through it, and I tumbled to the ground.

Hastedly I tried to remove my parachute from my suit.

Just as I was about to remove the parachute from my head, I could hear people approaching.

'I told you it wasn't a normal dropping!' One of them said.

'Break his legs and arms, then take him to Rais' Another one said.

In one move, I removed the parachute from my face, pulled the gun from it's holster, and aimed it at the first of them I saw.

'Back of scum!' I said loudly.

They began to circle me.

'Don't shoot, sounds draws them' the largest of them said, while he dragged a large fire axe.

'Don't make me shoot you' I said, now aiming at the tall one.

'If you shoot, you're dead' The tall one said.

Out of nowhere, one of them struck me from behind, and in one instand they where all atop of me.

They started to kick and hit me with their fists and feet, I just managed to roll to my side, freeing my pistol arm.

In the struggle I felt flesh that wasn't my own, and I fired the gun.

I heard it cutting through flesh, and second later the screaming.

The two other guys jumped away from me and started to run.

'Leave him! He's not worth it!' The large one screamed.

I struggled to my feet, and looked to my right.

I saw that I hit the man in the shoulder, blood was gushing out of his arm, and he was screaming in pain.

It didn't took me long to realise that he know brought me in danger.

His screaming would certainly draw in infected, if the shot earlier didn't draw them to me.

I quickly snapped the guys neck, but it was too late.

In the left corner of my eye, I could see one zombie running towards me, his hands stretched in front of his torso, and a strange growling noice came from his mouth.

I wanted to back off and run away, but it was to late.

I chrashed with the zombie, and fell down.

'No no no no!' I screamed as I tried to kick it off.

But the zombie was faster.

I almost felt like time was slowing down.

Despite my years of training in the army, this was completely new, and the zombie overpowered me.

It took my arm, and bit me hard.

I screamed my lungs out as he teared through my skin, muscles and bloodvessels.

Suddenly, someone else kicked the zombie off me, another one dragged me away into the house.

'Get him away!' I heard a man's voice saying.

The man finished the zombie with a baseball bat kick to the head, and followed us into the house.

But from outside, more zombies came.

The man desperately tried to fend them off, but their combined strenght was to much for him, they tackled him, and began to tear at his flesh.

'Amir NOO!' the woman who dragged me screamed.

'GO!' Amir said, as he was being eaten alive by the zombies.

The woman closed the door behind us, and locked it, granting us a temporary breathing moment.

'Tower, this is Jade, mission accomplished' Jade said over a radio.

'Did you make it?' the voice from the other side said.

'Amir is dead, but I will bring in someone else' Jade said, and she silently started to weep.

She looked to me, and our eyes made contact.

I could see blue eyes and long black hair, she smiled at me with tears in her eyes.

The next moment, I fainted from the bloodloss.