Wake up 2

Zach was surprised, when he woke up one morning with a stuffy nose, he had assumed it was his allergies. Then later in the day he found that everyone in his family, was ill, except the ones that didn't go out to eat last night. He assumed it was just a mix of slight food poisoning and allergies, and when he meet up with Hector and the other, he though his allergies were getting worse because of the woodlands. Not once did he thing it was the Green Flu, not once. Not even when he was sitting with his friends and the world shifted on its axes, he didn't have the time to think then though.

Zach didn't have the time to think now either, as his body fell to the ground and the temperature of the woods went sky-high. The ground seemed to be shaking.

Shaun ran up to his friend as he started shake, "Zach! Zach! Can you hear me? Hector get the car!" He shrieked as he lifted his friend up from the ground, running to the car.

Zach, all he could hear is his friends panicked worried voices, all he could feel is the world shaking and heating to unbearable degrees. "Some, someone put the sun too close." He mumbled to him self as something wet and cold was laid on his forehead.

Cody put a wet towel on Zach's head as Hector zoomed through the rocky mountains.

Jackie, "no matter how we do it, it'll take three hours... '!' " Her eyes widen as she did a double take of the map.

Shaun, "What! What'd you find?"

Jackie,"It's illegal, but if we drive straight the this mill, then this farm lands we'll be there in 2 hours, maybe less."

And with that they were off.

The main roads

After 2 hours of driving the crew finally makes it back to civilian and the hospital.

Jackie, "Oh my, it didn't look like this, this morning." The streets were full of people gone mad. Some stealing, some fighting, and other just running for their lives.

Shaun, held Cody close to him as random man seems to lunge at the car. He hears Cody scream a bit in shock, "Don't look."

Cody turns his head to looks at Zach sobbing in the back seat, "Will Zach?"

Shaun, notices their almost at the gated hospital, "Nah, he'll be fine." He seems to push himself to say the next words, "Come on get out of the car, we have to carry him in, it seems."

Shaun carries Zach into the building, though security door after security door. Hector and the rest not far behind. A man in a hazmat suit walks up to them with a group of hazmated people around a stretcher.

a few minutes later

CEDA worker,"Excuse me sir but you are not allowed to smoke in here."

Hector closes the lighter actually shutting it on his finger his anger grows at the situation, "Where is here actually, all I've seen is mens with guns mushing me and my friends around without a single doctor in sight."

CEDA worker, " quarantine 1-26 has been filled, you all will be treated and looked after in quarantine room 27." He said as Zach was placed on the stretcher.

Room 27

In Hector's mind, it looked like hell on earth. The plague section to be sure. All he could see is rolls of stretchers, with a few hazmated doctors or nurses milling about. There was a dim light coming from somewhere in the huge basement like room, the sounds of sickness was everywhere, but the place seemed muted to him. He could see people screaming, moaning, and growling? Strapped down to their make shift beds, as family or friends cried next to them, some sick with the illness themselves. Hector couldn't move as he realized he was part of this horrible scene, staring in shock as a doctor strapped Zach to the stretcher, 'For his safety or theirs?' popped up in his head as a watch the man on one of the beds seemed to claw at himself or attempt a lunge at the person to his right.

Cody, "Well Zach be like that?"

Shaun, "Nah, we got him here really fast." He looked at Zach, a beet passed, "You guys should go back to the car in get somewhere safer. I'll call Zach's mom and, meet up with you."

Jackie, "What are you talking about he's our friend too."

Shaun, looked around at what looks like hundreds of sick people losing their minds,"Yeah, you're right. Can you guys go find a phone, the doctors said that Zach will get his own room." He writes the room number on a piece of paper, puts it in Hector's hand, pulls him close, and whispers in his ear, "I don't want Cody here, I don't want him to see this madness. It could mess him up." With that he ran to keep up with the Zach and the CEDA workers moving him.

Hector, whispers to Jackie, "A 12 year old boy doesn't need to see this." As they walked to go find a phone, in the cleaner, brighter area of the hospital.

Cody, "Why couldn't I stay with Shaun?"

Jackie, "Because-" She was cut off as an alarm went off. She turns to room 26 to see the door break open, glass shattering on the clean white floor as a man ran at them. "Run!"

Shaun, watched as Zach just cried on the bed. He startled a bit when Zach grabbed his hand, nails biting into his skin, "Ah!". Shaun tried to pull his hand out of Zach's grab, but he couldn't, "Shit!" He yelled as the pain in his hand grow, "Are your nails made of steel or something? Zach let go!" Shaun yelled, a little panicked as the nails seemed to grow longer and his blood started to drip on to the floor. Shaun put his foot on the bed and pulled his hand. The force freed his hand, loosed the straps on Zach, and caused him to fall towards the door. Shaun held his bleeding hand as Zach seemed to go crazy in the small room, 'Shit, I thought, I thought if he went nuts I could take him, keep him calm, but...' He looks at the blood dripping from his hand, he stands up. The world rocks around him as he unlocks the door, the brighter lighting from the hall shines in. Shaun turns to see Zach lunge at him, they wrestling on the floor, and Shaun frees himself with a good kick. Zach stumbles, shrieks an inhuman noise as all the other people around run from the door.

The crew runs down the hall that leads to room 27. Only to be met by a sea of people, all screaming and running, some away and some towards the other people in the crowd.

Hector holds Cody closer as Jackie loses her footing and get carried away by the huge crowed.

Cody turns and reaches for her, "Jackie!"

Jackie yells to cover the distance, "Go get Shaun! I'll be fine!"

Hector and Cody walks down the blood, dirt, and bile covered steps to find the door to room 27 shut, "Woah." Was all that both could say, the room through the window was covered in blood and filled with screams.

Hector tries the door to see a hand slam against the door, "!". He moves back from the door.

Shaun puts his mouth to the air holds in the door, "Hey..."He's panting a little heavy, "What's with the door?"

Hector, "It's, It's stuck!"

Shaun, "I think there's a button to open it at the top of the steps." He watched as Cody ran up the steps, "Go." He gasped, "Go after him, look after him, and I'll meet up with you."

Hector,"You sure?" Looking between staying with his strange acting friend or Cody, the child and his best friends brother, he sees Shaun nods, "You'd better finds us." With that he ran after Cody, looking back once to see that Shaun had disappeared.