Note: This is a story based on the Xbox 360 game "Dead Rising" by Capcom. This story is fictional and is not the official Dead Rising story line. This is merely a fan fiction story based on the game.

DEAD RISING

Chapter 1

It all started with a phone call. That's it, just one stupid phone call. There had been some sort of murder at the Willamette Parkview Mall. And, of course, they wanted me to check it out. It was just another job I had to do for the next paper.

Being a wartime photojournalist, I had to get information about deaths and illnesses and other unfriendly topics. But now, things were always so boring. Sure, you may think seeing corpses every day is interesting, but seeing corpses every day for the past seven years of your life gets very annoying. But it's my job, so I don't really have a choice but to do what I have to do.

After sitting back on my desk chair to have a quick smoke, I left my office and went straight to my car to get over to the mall. I made sure I had my camera, my notepad, and a pen on me, then started up the engine and got going.

It would take me about ten minutes to get there so I had a little relaxing time to listen to the radio. I turned up the volume almost to max and got caught up in the music. I was close to the mall, so I didn't really pay much attention to the road. That was a huge mistake because before I knew it I had run directly into someone on the road and blew him away onto the sidewalk.

I remember being so startled and frightened that I'd get sued or loose my job for this accident. I immediately got out of my car and ran to the person I had just previously hit to aid them.

I check the body and took its pulse. To my dismay the person was dead. That really got my heart pumping. It was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life at that time.

But something wasn't right… this person seemed way too beat up from the accident then he should have. His skin was a clammy purple color, his eyes were pure white looking up at his brain, and his shirt and pants were completely torn up and drenched in blood as if he had gone through a blender.

Also, there was a trail of blood coming from the side of the road from where this thing came from which indicated it was already bleeding severely before the accident occurred. I also noted that this thing seemed to have come from the direction of the mall.

I began to question if this thing was really even a human being. If it were a human, it must have either been tortured previously or was on the verge of committing suicide.

Just then, a cop with a gun in hand ran out from the side of the road where this crazed person had come from.

"Did you get it?" the cop asked and put his gun down. The cop eyed the body. I instantly put my hands up and remained silent. I was so scared of the charges that would be set on me. Would I be arrested? Would I be charged with reckless driving? How long would they put me in jail?

"Don't worry sir, I'm not arresting you or anything of that nature. This thing came out of nowhere. We saw it stumble out onto the mall's parking lot and took a huge bite into the side of a woman's neck and killed her. He then ran away towards the road before we were able to catch up to it. We tried shooting the thing since it was clearly not human, but we could not get a good shot."

I was relieved to hear this. It was not my fault, and in fact, I had helped stop this murderer.

That's when I remembered that I was going to the mall to check out a murder case. Maybe this was the murder case I was going to see, a woman bitten by some freak and killed? No doubt about it.

The officer allowed me to go after a few cop cars came and hauled the body away. They asked me some questions and I answered them respectfully.

Finally, I continued to make my way to the mall. The only problem was I had a huge bloody stain on the front of my car showing that I had just mauled something down and turned whatever I hit into mincemeat. No doubt I'd get some curious, terrified people calling the cops on me.

It was not a good thing to have on your car when parking in a mall. That was only the beginning of day, too.