Authors Note: Some of the text (two sentences) out of this chapter have been stolen from the ongoing online novel called Monster Island. I did this only because it's so goddamn good.

Chapter five: Hints

I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way

The first cases started in America, but with the air traffic reaching every corner on the earth the disease spread quickly. If good had been a real being and not a fictional character for people to worship when they needed comfort he would have felt a chill run down his spine when he saw what unfolded beneath him.

I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today.

About noon on the second day of the crisis the barricades around the white house fell and everyone inside joined the ranks of the undead. Except for those who was lucky enough to eat a bullet before being eaten. Mr. President wasn't one of the lucky ones. Seeing the people he once held so much power over come running for him, his flesh, made him turn and run in fear. If he hadn't panicked he would have realized his odds and put the gun to his temple.

Don't go 'round tonight
For it's bound to take your live

Asia, being the most populated part of the world didn't last long. Before the voilence reached the it's gargantuan levels the battle over Kashmir raged, both India and Pakistan throwing everything they had into the fray. It didn't take long until one of the countries fired a thermonuclear warhead against the other. No one knew who started it, but within an hour both countries had used up their supplies.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

Shanghai and Hongkong was turned into radioactive ashes spread in the wind. The nuclear warheads either came from the Chinese goverment, a breakout group of the Chinese military or the Russians, trying to agressively defend its borders.

I hear hurricanes a blowin'
And I know the end is coming soon

Russia didn't succed. It was a big country compared to its number of inhabitants and there was no way that the russian goverment could keep track of all the outbreaks in the rural areas. Soon the infected hordes reached the bigger cities. And in the cities the infection spread like an fire in gasoline.

I fear rivers overflowing
I hear the voice for rage and ruin.

Hours after the first outbreak in the US Europe reported similar acts of random voilence. The virus spread through England and Ireland in a matter of hours. Contact was lost with Berlin, Paris, Rome and Madrid about 9 am GMT the first day. Still no one really knew what was going on. The rest of the major cities fell hours later. The last footage to be seen from Geneva, home of the Geneva convention was looting, killing and the infected swarming the streets. A brief video footage remembered anyone who watched what the human nature was all about. A man had dragged two other men out into the streets, hands tied to their backs. He ordered them to their knees. Then he executed them, two shoots to the head, no fuzz. The second after the last man hitting the ground and leaking his brains out on the street one of the creatures lunged the executoner and bit down on his throat.

So don't go out tonight
It's bound to take your live

Scandinavia wasn't an exception. The only thing that differed was that it took a little longer. The wide woodlands where no one lived stopped the epidemic to spread from the big cities to the rural areas for some time. A day or two. Sooner or later Scandinavia fell, died and got up again.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

Most of Australias Major cities got infected as soon as everywhere else. The countryside however took some time, but in time it fell too.

I hope you got your shit together
Hope you are quite prepaired to die

Africa fared best of all continents. Before it had been a place where horrors such as children as young as ten was dragged out of school to fight wars they couldn't understand occured. The unstable countries—the feudal states, the anarchic backwaters—where you wouldn't dare walk out the door without a gun, where bodyguards were fashion accessories—they did a lot better in the end. The child soliders everyone had wanted to outlaw before the epidemic became the worlds last and only organized army and police force. Ironic, isn't it.

Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye taken for an eye.

In a week only scattered groups of either the luckiest or the worst had survived. The former great cities remained only as tombs, everything once so great was now useless. Only the things that had mattered when we dwelt in caves and fought animals over food mattered now, survival. This was a brave new world. A world where the strong survived on cost of the weak. Only the ones thinking no merce, no remorse lived to see another day.

Don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise.