The sun began to rise and the shadows of looming trees made their mark on the concrete road. Ymir's red truck sped through and passed by several signs. Then she saw the skyline of Maria in the distance and the makeshift wall built around it. Ymir pulled her truck to the side of the road to take a bathroom and breakfast break. She looked down at Christa who lay in a ball in her seat asleep. "Alright then, just me this morning" she told herself. She got out of her truck and walked over to some dead trees. She unbuttoned her grey jeans and pulled them down with her panties down to her ankles. She squatted and began to piss. She made sure to stay in cover in case anyone came by but stayed in eyesight of her truck. She took paper towels out of her pockets and cleaned herself off. "Disgusting" she told herself, throwing the used paper towels next to the dead trees.
She walked back over to the truck and saw Christa moving a lot. "Hey Christa, you awake honey?" she asked. Christa remained constantly moving but stayed asleep. "Christa" Ymir said her name and she still had no response. She checked her forehead and found it warm and burning. "Shit" she said. She ran to the drivers side and hopped in. Christa's eyes would open occasionally but stayed shut mostly. Ymir put her pistol on the dash in case it was needed.
Men in white coats surrounded the bed she was strapped to. Two doctors with glasses, one male and the other female directed the other doctors on what to do to her. They injected several syringes into Christa's arms and backs. Christa screamed in pain as she hated needles. She watched the syringes spew a greenish liquid into her veins and then pull out. Christa started sweating and breathing heavily. She struggled to get out of her restraints as doctors held her down. Rod, Christa's father, walks in and looks at his daughter as she struggles. Tears stream from her eyes as she stares at her dad. "Dad!" she yelled.
Rod looked away and ignored her. Christa's eyes turned grey and dull, along with her skin, and she tore through her restraints. She screamed like a banshee and killed the doctors once holding her down. Rod backed away and ran into the basement hallway. The doctors fell onto her bed and bled out. Grisha and Hanji backed up and ran to the door. Hanji ran through and Christa grabs at Grisha's right foot, pulling him in. The door shuts and locks him in with the monster. Christa screamed again and glass was heard breaking throughout the basement, screams following. Gunshots came heavily after and even more screams. Hannes came running down the hallway with his shotgun, "Where's Dr. Jaeger?" Hanji pointed at the locked door as another scream came through. Rod stood back from the door and ran to the stairs. Hannes attempted kicking the door down but made no process.
Christa tackles Grisha down and pins him. His glasses fly off and land next to a red liquid filled syringe. Christa's saliva drips onto Grisha and lands in his eyes, blinding him. Grisha hears the screams and gunshots from his room. Grisha punched Christa in the head and knocked her off. He crawled over to the syringe and readied it. Christa tackles him and bites him in the neck. Grisha stabs her with the syringe and stops her. She lifts her head, stands up then falls back. Her eyes change back to blue and her skin becomes normal once more.
Grisha sits up and holds his neck, acknowledging his death. Grisha takes his phone out from his pocket and dials Eren. "Go home and protect your mother, wait for my guard", gunshots and screams erupting from the background. Grisha dips his right index finger in the bite wound and gets it covered in blood. He begins writing on the blue tiled floor. "Message to Hannes, go get my family and get them to the safe zone...Please" it said. Grisha screamed and hung up the call as he began to turn. The door shook from Hannes attempts to break it down. Christa wakes up and looks around, seeing Dr. Grisha in front of her. "Doctor?" she asks. Grisha stands up and pins her down, the tables turning. Grisha's eyes and skin dull like a rain cloud. He aims for her neck but Christa blocks it with her right arm. He bites to the bone and munches down.
The door falls over and Hannes stares at the sight before him. The blood written message addressed to him and Grisha pounced upon Christa and eating her arm. Hanji follows Hannes and jumps back at the shotgun fire. Grisha's head completely blown apart, he falls over and to the ground. Christa holds her arm and scoots herself back. "Hanji, help her now!" Hannes commanded. Hanji nodded and ran to the petite girls aid. She numbed the wound then began stitching it. Hannes read the message and became concerned, seeing Grisha's cell phone being called by Eren. "Hanji, get her back to Rod then escort everyone out before these creatures get loose. I'm going to the Jaeger household to save them" he told her.
Hannes stormed out of the room and widened his eyes at the sight. Zombies eating and infecting other doctors and soldiers. "Damnit all" he told himself. He ran to the stairs and ran up them then left the building, heading to the residential area. Hanji wrapped the wound around the fainted Christa's arm. Rod came into the room after being scared back. "Here's your daughter, love her this time" she told him. Rod picked up his daughter and thanked the woman. He followed Hannes out and got into his car. Zombies escaped the facility and attacked civilians around. Rod started his car and drove out of Maria and back to their home.
Hanji saw Grisha's phone vibrating and the message in blood. She picked up his phone and turned it off then threw it in the trash. She picked up the body and laid it on a testing bed and put a blanket over him. She got a mop and cleaned up the blood message. She stopped once a loud noise was heard outside. Guards and some doctors ran into her room and hid. Hanji peeked out and saw cabinets blocked the stairs and no way of them moving. "Damnit" she said. She shut the door and locked it. "You guys the only ones left?" she asked them. "No ma'am, they're in other rooms but aren't as protected. Two nervous soldiers wore no uniforms, but only a blue button up and a plaid shirt. "Then someone work that radio and get the military. We're gonna be here awhile" she told them.
Rod drove out of Maria and into the forest near it. He pulls into a side dirt road and stops his car. He looks at Christa's wound and knows it resemble a bite wound. He knows she'll turn and infect him next. He wakes her up and gets her out of the car. He grabs a pistol and hides it behind his back. The doors stay open and a cold gust of wind hits them. Christa's hair flies in front of her. "What? I'm cold and not feeling that well" she tells her father. "You're one of them" he said. He cocks the pistol and aims at her head. The noise Christa made could resemble a baby mouse, a squeak.
"What?" "A man eating creature of the dead. Some of the dead are rising as the virus mutates into airborne and waterborne. No risks this time, you're going down" he said. Christa started sweating and knew she was dead. Then, a zombie came from behind the car and bit him in the neck. Christa watches her father get taken down and killed by a zombie. Then, it looks at her. As it starts to get up it gets hit by a dirty red truck. The freckled tan girl driving stops and looks at the petite blonde. "You okay? Need a ride? I own a cabin not too far in" she told her. Christa looked at her tire on Rod's head and him struggling. He's turned and is dead now. Christa nods and opens the door slowly. She gets in and shuts the door, curling up into a little ball. The woman smiles and hits the gas. A crunch came as she sped off and Rod's body left behind.
"My name's Ymir" she offered the girl her hand. Christa looked at it and shook it generously. Ymir noticed the bandage, "Guessing you know about the outbreak of these things? There was a lab up here in an old hotel and they broke out when a scream echoed from Maria to here. How crazy?" she asked. "Oh, so what now?" "My cabin is about a mile from here. Trust me alright, if I wanted you dead or if I wanted to rape you I would've already. You look too weak and small to resist and no one's around here. I want to survive these things as much as you do" Ymir told her. Christa scowled at her then agreed. The wind blew again and trees shook at its presence. The sun reached afternoon as the wind stopped.
The cabin was in sight. A small cabin with enough room for a bedroom and living room. An outhouse sat outside the cabin, its door open. Ymir pulled up and parked in a dirt parking space. "Reserved for me" Ymir told the girl. They got out and shut their doors; proceeding to the front door. "We'll check out that wound once in here" she said, unlocking and opening the door. Christa followed the tan girl in and shut the door behind her. Ymir pulled a box of nails out of her pocket and set them next to a baseball sitting on her coffee table. "It'll serve as a weapon" she told her new found friend. Christa sat on the old couch adjacent from the table. Ymir went into the bedroom and opened her medicine cabinet, pulling out pain pills and bandages.
Ymir returns to the blonde and gets scissors out. Christa pulls her arm away from the stranger. "Come on, I have to fix it up" Ymir told her. "Mm hmm" Christa shook her head. Ymir reached for the girls arm and Christa put it farther away. Ymir sat the scissors, bandaging and pills next to the nails and reached for the arm again. "Give me your damn arm!" Ymir yelled. Christa squealed while Ymir struggles for her arm. She grabs it and unwraps the bandages. Christa slaps Ymir with her other arm and knocks her down. They fall down together in front of the couch. Ymir pins Christa down and stares at her. Christa squirms around but can't make a move. Christa stares into Ymir's eyes. "Okay, we've bonded enough", Ymir got up and helped Christa up, "Now show me the wound." "Look, if you freak out don't do anything rash" Christa told her. "How bad could it be..." Ymir trailed off. She saw the bite mark but it wasn't fresh and it was stitched. Some stitches had come off and loose. "You're bitten?" Ymir asked.
"I was, well, what you could call Patient Zero. They tested on me and a thing bit me. I've been bitten for about two hours and no signs of infection" Christa told her. Ymir investigated the bite. "You're good I guess. Let me wrap it back up" Ymir said. She made Christa pop a pain pill then rest while she put the bandages on. "So, they like, tested on you?" Ymir asked. Christa nodded and looked out a window overlooking the couch. She saw a zombie roaming freely and run into a tree. "Silly things aren't they? These things are dead people but act like preschoolers until they smell flesh" Ymir said. Christa giggled at the thought of a dead man in a preschool acting as a student. Ymir cut off remaining bandage with the scissors and set them down.
"Done" she told the girl. Christa sat up and looked at Ymir's handiwork. "Alright, night is coming soon and I don't want to be out there with those things. I'll help you into bed" Ymir told her. Christa jumped up and followed the freckled woman to the bed. Christa took off her clothes and left her bra and panties on. She fluffed her pillow and climbed into the kings bed. Ymir threw the covers over her and tucked her in. Ymir left the room and blew out the candle lighting the room. Ymir grabbed Christa's clothes then left the room, shutting the door. "Fuck me" she told herself. She threw the clothes onto the couch and went to her coffee table. She opened a drawer and retrieved her .45 pistol and holstered it in her belt, safety on. She searched through other drawers and found pairs of clothes. "Clothes from my younger days. These should fit her tiny body" she told herself. The new clothes was a grey top and red tights. "They'll show her ass great" she added.
She set them on the ground in front of the bedroom door and got the other pair of clothes. She went to her fireplace along the wall and used her ripped clothes as a fire starter. She used her lighter on them and threw them in. They burned nicely and warmed up the cabin. Ymir felt her pistol, "Just in case Ymir." Ymir looked outside and saw more zombies approaching. "Bedtime."
She opened the door and grabbed Christa's new clothes. She set them on a nightstand next to Christa's side of the bed, the left. Ymir took off her shirt and jeans and set them down next to her table. The pistol and belt on the table within arms reach. "Now here comes the problem" she told herself. Ymir never liked admitting it, but she really liked sleeping naked. It always felt better and it was always cooler with nothing on but your skin. Ymir unhooked her bra and slid her panties down next to her clothes. Christa was busy catching Z's to notice Ymir climb into bed on the right side and cover up. Now the hard part, Christa pulled the blankets on her. That left none for Ymir to get warm. Ymir moved herself and cuddled with Christa for warmth. She slid under the blankets in the process. Ymir closed her eyes, and went to sleep.
She woke up when the sun shone through the window and into her eyes. She opened her eyes and saw Christa gone and her clothes as well. She sat up and the blankets fell off and revealed her bare chest. She looked around and saw the door open and heard a fire crackling. "She know how to start a fire?" she whispered to herself. She got out of bed and slid her panties on. Christa walked in on her picking up her bra. "Eeeep!" she exclaimed. She covered her eyes and her face went red as a tomato. "What? Never seen another set of tits like these?" Ymir asked. She laughed and hooked her bra on. "You can look now." Christa uncovered her eyes and her face returned to normal. Ymir began getting dressed on the bed. "I made breakfast for us" Christa told her. Ymir smiled at her and put her shirt on. She left it unbuttoned and her chest and belly was showing.
"So Christa, your bite doing better?" Ymir asked her. Christa looked at her quickly, "Bite mark?" "Yeah, you told me this story about how you got it while I bandaged it yesterday." Christa began freaking out. "I'm bitten? I'm going to turn! Help me!" she yelled. "Hey! Hey, hey," Ymir put her hands on Christa's shoulders, "Calm down. You were Patient Zero but were cured. You're immune and the cure flows in your blood" she told her. Christa calmed down and took deep breaths. "You don't remember it?" Ymir asked. "I remember arriving in Maria and entering a hospital with my father, then waking up in your arms this morning" she said. Ymir blushed at the remark. "Well, I was just col-" Ymir was cut off by Christa's lip touching her own. Christa stood on her toes to help reach Ymir's height. She let go and they stared at each other. Ymir smiled, "Alright then. We'll live here until you save the world" Ymir told her. Christa nodded, "You bet."
Christa's eyes opened and she moved them around. "Christa! Christa! You alright?" Ymir asked. Christa looked at Ymir and moved around. She couldn't move much as she was cramped up from basically having a large seizure. "I...remember it all now" Christa said. "What? Remember what?" "Me being tested on, meeting you, that night after", Christa winked. Ymir play punched her girlfriend in the arm and helped her sit up. Christa, in pain, sat up and got comfortable again. "Here" Ymir handed Christa a sandwich consisting of ham and cheese. "Maria is over there and 86 is on the other side. You ready?" Ymir asked. Christa took a bite and looked at Ymir with bread crumbs on the corners of her mouth. "Yeppers!" she exclaimed. Ymir put the truck into drive and sped towards Maria.