Infected
Chapter 1: The Nightmare Begins
My name is Cain Fox. I'm a light blue fox with brown eyes, and I wear a green bandana around my neck. I'm 16 years old and I only live with my mother. Mom is also a light blue color and has lighter brown eyes. She gave me a bandana for my 5th birthday. My dad left mom, when I was 6. So, we moved into a peaceful town called TwinPetal. When we moved there, we met a green and white fox, who's the same age as my mom, named Alex. Alex and mom got along, and I was pretty alone. I didn't have any friends because I was shy and quiet in school. But soon, I met a brown chubby bear, who wears a shirt that says,
"Hug me, I'm fluffy."
He's extremely hilarious and his name is Pillow. Everything was fine, until everything changed on a Wednesday morning. "Cain! Breakfast!" mom called. I groaned in bed, rolling out as I lazily fell on the floor. I got up, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair, and wore my green bandana. I walked downstairs and saw Alex by the door. "Morning!" he said, smiling. "Morning, Alex!" I greeted. Mom set breakfast on the table. "Hey, Zola?" alex said to my mom. Mom turned to Alex. "Is it okay if I take Cain to school?" Alex asked. "Hmm…well, I don't know." Mom said thinking about it. "Please?" Alex added, making puppy eyes. "Yeah mom, please?" I added, making puppy eyes too. I used to do this all the time when I was three. Alex and I begged until mom sighed, "You're just like my son, alex. Fine…" mom finally said. "YES!" Alex and I happily cried. I quickly finished my breakfast and Alex got ready to drive me to school. "Bye mom!" I said, putting on my book bag as I hugged my mom. "Bye honey. Have a great day at school!" mom said, hugging me and giving me a kiss on the forehead. I got in the car and Alex drove me to TwinPetal High school, a pretty big school. Once I got there, I got out of the car, said thank you to Alex who drove away, and I walked into my school. Like I said before, I don't have any friends in school, pillow is my only friend outside of school. I closed my locker and walked to English class. I sit near the window, I like looking at the window when class didn't start yet. I sat down and looked out of the window. It was a sunny morning and the blue sky was filled with white puffy clouds. Mr. Foller walked in the class and started with the lesson. A few minutes later, Mr. Foller chose me to go to the School Office and drop off the attendance. I took the hallway pass and dropped by at the office. When I finished, I started walking down the hall and looked at the hallway windows. Then, I and saw police cars quickly driving by. Odd, I never seen cops drive around in the town.
Suddenly, I heard it, a loud
*CRASH!*
Coming from the window inside of the boy's bathroom. It startled the heck out of me. I heard screaming and yelling. "What the heck?! Has someone broke into the school?" I thought. I heard boys screaming, and the sound of blood splattering. My face paled as the screaming faded. "H-h-hello?" I said, stuttering. I walked to the boy's bathroom door and opened it. It creaked open and I saw something extremely gruesome. Three guys were on the floor, dead. There was a gray bear, standing in front of them, panting with blood dripping off his hands. I instantly yelled, without thinking,
"HEY!"
The gray bear turned around and his eyes glowed red. His fur was covered in blood and sharp teeth were poking out of his mouth. He growled, walking towards me. The gray bear lunged at me, with his sharp teeth. I moved out of the way as I he pounced on me. He tried biting me, like he was a German shepherd trying to rip me apart. He bit my bandana, choking me. "GYAH! LET GO!" I cried, gagging. I heard a small rip from my bandana and I used my hall pass as a weapon to hit the gray bear across his face. It screeched loudly, almost like it wasn't his voice at all. It sounded like a Sasquatch screech, hurting my ears. The gray bear got ready to try to bite me again as he showed me his sharp teeth once more and was about to bite me until I finally stabbed my hall pass into his stomach,
*Shing!*
I recoiled as the gray red eyed bear fell on me. I quickly pushed him off of me. I panted, trying to catch my breath.
"Wh-what the heck just happened?"
I asked, slowly getting up. Suddenly,
"Attention students! There is something going on in the teacher's lounge and the cafeteria. People has broken into the school and now we ask you for an emergency lockdown right now!"
The announcements came on. "It's happening." I replied. Then, the announcements shut off. It sounded like something…or someone was attacking the principal. Then, I heard it. No, not just me, everyone in the school.
"NO! AHHHHH! GET OFF! GET OFF! HEEELLLLLPPPP MEEEE!"
The principal screamed in agony, as I heard the same screeching noise as the gray bear made. The announcements shut off.
*Silence*
My face expression was in complete shock. Then, the floor shook as students and teachers ran down the hall. It was like a deadly stampede of high school teenagers. I quickly ran into the boy's bathroom as the stampede of screaming and yelling students filled the hall. Careful not to step in a pool of blood, I closed the door and started to hyperventilate.
"I…I…don't believe…believe…it….I...don't believe-"
I needed a paper bag, quick before I pass out. I soon calmed down as the stampede stopped. I put down my hall pass and walked out of the boy's bathroom. I checked to see if it was safe and ran in the school hallway. "I gotta get out of this school, now!" I said as I, finally, exited the school. Then, a blue car quickly skid towards me. The window opened and saw Alex, with a worried look on his face. 'CAIN! GET IN!" Alex quickly cried. I instantly climbed in the car. "What the heck is going on!?" I cried. "Something happened on the news, I couldn't remember what though, but we gotta get your mother before something extremely bad happens." Alex answered, quickly driving to my house. "Is mom going to be alright?" I asked. "I hope so, Cain...I hope so." Alex answered. I had the opportunity to look out the window. It wasn't good, more and more people were getting devoured by these red-eyed monsters! I tried not looking out the window, it was too much for me to handle. Finally, I arrived at my house, but all the windows were broken. "No...NOO!" I yelled, unbuckling my seat belt as I ran to my house, screaming for my mother.
"MOM! MOMMY! WHERE ARE YOU!? PLEASE, SAY SOMETHING!"
I tried to hold in tears as I heard my mother groaning. It came from the kitchen, so I slowly grabbed a fire pit poker and walked into the kitchen. I saw a tail, slowly moving across the floor. I walked to it, and there she was. "MOMMY!" I screamed, putting the fire pit tool down and ran to my mother's aid "Mom!? MOM!" I cried, shaking her. "Ugh...Cain! Honey, be careful!" my mom cried in pain as I saw her right arm, bleeding heavily. "Oh god, when and how did this happened?!" I asked. "It's alright, cain...just go get mommy a first...aid kit, please?" mom asked. I nodded, quickly running to the closet to get the first aid kit. I grabbed the bandages and ran back to my injured mother. I wrapped her injured arm and helped her up. "Can you get up?" I asked. "I think so...thank you Cain, sweetie." mom said, giving me a hug. I returned it and we immediately walking to Alex's car. "Oh god, ZOLA!" Alex screamed, seeing her bloody wound. "I'm fine, Alex. I'm alright." mom said, as I helped her get in the front seat of the car. "Okay, let's-" Alex said, about to drive away until I yelled out,
"WAIT!"
"What!?"
"What about Pillow!? I can't leave him!"
"He's 27 years old, I'm sure he can-"
"NO!"
*Silence*
"Please...he's my only friend...please..."
"Fine, just him and we're out of here." Alex said, driving to pillow's house. When we arrived, I was surprised that his house wasn't damaged. It was normal? "I'll go get him, you two honk the horn if something happened." I said, running to get my best friend. "Be careful, honey!" mom called. I knocked on the door, no response. I started to get worried. I grabbed a chair from outside and threw it at the window.
*Crash!*
"CAIN!?"
I shrugged at Alex. I went through the window, trying not to step on broken glass, and called pillow.
"PILLOW! COME ON PILLOW, WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!"
I screamed. I checked in pillow's room, he wasn't there. My heart started beating fast. I checked everywhere, even the bathroom and closet. Then, there was one more place I haven't checked, the basement.
