Chapter 2
I was hesitant at first to go up to the whole in the middle of the street. I finally got the courage to crawl over and look down. I couldn't see the bottom of the whole. I grabbed a fairly big rock from the rubble and threw it down. I waited and waited for some kind of sound. I waited for three minutes and still heard nothing. I got up and looked around. Although I could see the other end of the street, it would be an impossible jump to make. I turned to my right and saw a sign that said "Rosewater Park." I looked at the map and saw that the road went a "U" pattern and possibly could from here and might be able to get me to the other side of the ditch that lay in front of me. I started to walk along the road. Every step I took was easily heard. It was a lot colder in this section of road than it was just a few steps back. There were trees that lined the sides of the walkway and each one had its own unique scent. It relaxed me and almost made me forget of the ditch. I continued farther and went at the end of the road. I looked to the left and back to the map. I just had to take another left and then I should be out of here. But then I heard a noise. It sounded like a gasping noise and sounded like something was dragging.
"Hello?" I said rather loudly. This town was deserted from life a second ago, maybe someone was over there. I started to run over to where the sound was and turned the corner and looked up a small set of stairs. Something was there, but it wasn't human. What stood there was something so impossible, that I almost fell over and just died right there. The thing smelt of death. Pain and sadness seemed to hang just overhead. Although it was anything but human, it did stand on two legs, but most of the body shined in the sunlight, it looked like it was made out of glass. The shoulders up though were burnt flesh and had a metal plate coming out of the head of it.
"What the hell is this thing?" I said as it started to charge at me with full force. "Holy shit!" I screamed as I tried to doge it, but it pinned me down. It was making these really disgusting noises that sounded like gurgling, gasping and puking all at the same time. I had nothing else to do. I brought my hand back and punched it as hard as I could. That threw it off balance as it staggered back and hit the wall. I got up and quickly looked around for something. By the wall, near the lake, there was a broken rail that looked somewhat rusted. I ran over and grabbed it and quickly swung around and hit the thing. I shut my eyes to focus more on the swing. I heard the shattering of glass and a slight thud of the part of the thing that was flesh, hit the ground. I looked down at the creature and saw that blood started to ooze out of the neck. Disgusted, I started to run out of the park and back into the street. I looked back and saw the huge gap in the street.
"Damn… what the hell was that thing?" I asked myself, knowing that I could give myself no answer. I looked forward and started to run toward the crash site."What the hell is going on here?" I continued running, only to come to another whole in the middle of the street.
"Fuck!" I screamed. I was out of options… the street in front of me was destroyed, and the street behind me would only get me back to where I started. I looked around me. To the right was the huge lake that, no matter when you looked at it, it always seemed like the most peaceful place on earth; and to my left… was a street! I looked at where it would lead me. Other than a gas station, the Brookhaven hospital was the only building I could go to.
"Son of a bitch…" I said to myself as I headed toward the hospital. Every step I took seemed to haunt me. The echo of my footsteps was so eerie, that I had serious doubts about finding all my friends. But I knew if they were here, they would be counting on me to find them. Plus, maybe there was a back road from the hospital that wasn't on the map. I was walking around, seeing if I could see any other signs of life that were actually human. The only reason I honestly didn't want to go to the hospital was because, well, I saw all my friends bodies in that hospital and I didn't ever want to go back there, but today, I knew I had to. And as I stepped up to the front doors, I felt a presence of evil, staring at me inside the building. I took a deep breath and opened the door and all at once, felt my soul leave my body.
