Living With The Dead

by thebusnamedgak

William Todd was your average 11th grader. That was before the dead took over. Through a series of personal trials, William will have to uncover an apocolyptic scandal, and make sacrafices that will haunt him forever, all while living with the dead.

5. Chapter 5

This chapter will solely be a news report. Every now and then, I'm going to throw in news reports, and here's the first one:

This is Darryl Hayes, reporting for CBS news, as we have continuing coverage of the New York civilian attacks. The New York City Mayor has called a state of emergency for the entire New York City area, including all five boroughs. There seems to be an infection that is causing people to be mentally out of control, attacking all people they see. The mayor is urging all people to stay indoors, and away from all infected peoples. We are now transferring live to the President, who is now making a statement.

"At approximately 9:00 AM this morning, New York City police departments first started receiving word of multiple, and identical attacks, coming from a concentrated area in Brooklyn. The reported attacks were violent, and were spreading. It seems that the attacks came from people were infected with a new and never before seen disease. Not much is known about the disease, but we do know that as long as you stay out of contact with the infected people, you will not take on this disease. I now hand it over to the secretary of defense."

We will get back to the secretary's speech in a moment. Right now, we are receiving confirmed statements, from unidentified state officials from Connecticut and New Jersey, that the infection has in fact reached those areas. Now, we go to the Secretary of Defense.

"As the president clearly stated, this disease has affected those living in the New York area. It has also entered regions across the entire tri-state area. To stop the infection, we have sent out our National Guard to contain the infection. Do not worry, but as a precautionary measure, we are instating a nationwide curfew of 6:00PM. Violators can and will be arrested. For those who are still in the infected area, lock and board up your homes, do not affiliate yourselves with any suspicious characters. Keep yourselves armed, and remember, that the infected only want to harm you, so you have all rights of self defense when encountering one of the infected. After the infected areas are sealed, we will come and get you. No questions."

You have heard it from the Secretary of Defense yourself. It seems as if the disease only spreads by direct contact with one of the infected. Here at channel 2, we have been able to produce an image of where the infection is suspected to be. If an area is red, it has been overrun by the infected.