This is a fanfic about Dead Island, and Dead Island Riptide. Unknown if I'll continue after that, as I don't own Escape Dead Island or DI2.
The main OC in this is named Grace Chicago. Let's begin.
It was a very wild night. The night was host to a very big party that was happening on Banoi Island's beach, a concert hosted by the one and only Sam B, famous rapper and amazing singer. But for me, I couldn't go. Not because I didn't want to, but mainly because I had duties back in Moresby. What were these duties?
"Fuck, why are all of these people coming in here with bite marks?" I asked in annoyance by the sheer volume of people coming to the hospital that had the same exact wound. Bites, all of them being from human teeth, and each looking nastier than the last.
"If you ask me, we need to get this hospital in a quarantine setting. I think it's another outbreak, Grace," said the head doctor, her being 70 years of age. And when she said outbreak, I knew that it would be bad. It was an outbreak of Kuru, only native to this island!
"What should I do, doc?" I asked her in concern.
"Get the hell out of here and run. We all know the dangers of Kuru, but this time, it might be bigger. We've never had people bitten in this amount before... go, before-" she was about to finish before one of the victims then lept from their bed and immediately grabbed hold of the doctor and proceeded to bite him on the neck! I shrieked at this and immediately slammed my knife into the victim's head, me gawking at how doing so made the victim then spurt blood before falling over... and I only then noticed that this Kuru was bad.
"That victim... she was dead before that happened! S-She just, got up after dying... and did THAT?!" I shouted in shock... and then, shortly after, I heard screams. Screams emerging from everywhere!
"SHIT RUN! We need to run!" I shouted out loud as we then proceeded to grab as many knives as possible and us doctors ran through the halls, doing everything we could to avoid getting bitten by the infected! After rounding the first hall, a sudden big boy slammed his giant fist into the head doctor and started to chow down! I was filled with tears on my face as I ran for the stairs and started to run down all the flights, slamming my doctor's knives into any of the infected I saw, me having to put at least 20 people out of their misery by chopping off their heads! And when I finally got down to the ground floor and opened the door, I was greated by another one, who screamed loudly and slammed its arms into me, which caused me to fall down and for the monstrous innocent bystander grabbed my arm and bit me, right on the shoulder! I shrieked loudly and proceeded to slam my cleaver into his head, me then wincing from the pain as I felt... wrong!
"D-Dammit... h-how long do I h-have?... I-Is this how it's going to end?" I asked in concern as I felt... overwhelming pain. Not from the wound but... all through my body! I pulled myself into a nearby closet, one that I heard some dripping in. Most likely blood from a dead person walking... I closed the door and waited for the end... but just when I felt ready to give up hope... I felt something else.
"EEEEEEK!" I shouted in absolute, excrutiating pain as I felt my hand get zapped by something! I felt like I was getting zapped like Frankenstein's monster! I finally pulled my hand away from the zap and gasped at how it was from... a tazer that was dropped in water! I grabbed the tazer, feeling rejuvenated... but how? Why did I feel so alive when I felt like I was about to become a mindless spawn of Satan?! I opened the door of where I was and spooked an innocent bystander, who immediately grabbed one of the knives I'd dropped and slashed it into my arm.
"OOOOOOOWWWW! What the hell was that for?!" I asked in anger as he then looked at me in shock.
"Jesus! Y-You're alive?! You're not like the others?! W-We need to get moving, now!" he said, me then retracting the knife out of me and... feeling no more pain? Before I could ask anymore questions, the man grabbed me and pulled me out of the closet, him then slamming his way with me through more and more of the kuru infected people until we got out of the hospital.
"What's going on?! Why am I not getting infected?! Why are these people coming to life after death?! And who the hell are you?!" I asked in anger as he rushed me to a truck and had me join him in it, but in the back seats.
"Questions will be answered later, but right now, we gotta get to the beach! There are four others at the hotel down there that are immune to this disease!" the man said.
"Immune?! But that's impossible! A-And how the hell do you know that?! AND WHO ARE YOU?! Answer at least one of my goddamn questions after basically kidnapping me!" I shouted angrily at him.
"Ugh... my name is Sinamoi. Remember, the lifeguard chief at the beach?" he asked, me sighing. In my haste, I didn't recognize his looks... but that begged the question. If I was supposed to turn into a flesh eating monster... and I somehow didn't... then what did I look like?!
"Can I have a mirror?... And the rear lights on? I want to see what happened to me," I said, him then nodding as he gave me a pocket mirror and then turned on the back lights. I looked at myself in the mirror... and saw someone that wasn't me. It looked like me, and it moved when I did... but it had lime green skin with dark blotches in numerous spots, a few red boils around my arms and legs, and I had... no damage in the arm he attacked me with?! "Oh my god... I'm a monster..." I said in shock as I cried again, Sinamoi speaking after.
"No, you aren't a monster. The real monster is the one who brought in whoever patient zero was. You were at that hospital as a doctor, do you know anything about this?" he asked.
"The head doctor told me that the bites were due to being bitten by those with Kuru... it's a rare breed of rabies that exists only on this island. It infects your mind faster than normal rabies and makes you die faster as a result... but I know Kuru lore from the back of my heel to the top of my head, and it's never been able to revive people from the dead, make the bodies faster after getting infected, or mutate me into something like this! I look like She Hulk with a case of mumps! I'm hideous!" I said in anger.
"Kuru, huh? I think I understand now... but we need to find those others first. My info guy said they're at a hotel in the resort. The names were Xian Mei, Logan Carter, Purna Jackson, and Sam B," he said, me gasping at the last and second ones.
"Logan Carter?! From the Patriots?! And Sam B?! FAMOUS RAPPER?!" I asked in shock, me feeling the fangirl emerge from me as I felt super excited.
"Wow, maybe calm down a bit? We need to- OH SHIT!" Sinamoi was about to finish before he had to drive super dangerously as a whole mess of traffic was getting caught up in the tunnel, some cars on fire and zombies throughout the whole thing! He managed to make it through JUST in time! One second later, and we would've been piled up in the center of a giant pile of cars, all of them starting to leak gas and catch fire!
"FUCK! What the hell is going on here?!" I asked before I then felt a giant boom happen elsewhere, me seeing debris fall down in the distance! A helicopter flew away from near the big highway into the capital city of Carlson! And I saw a flume of smoke over there, too!
"SHIT Did they just bomb the highway?! We need to get this shit under control right now, goddammit!" Sinamoi shouted in anger as I nodded in agreement. The sun was finally starting to come up... and I didn't feel the least bit tired. "This... is going to be a very long day..." I groaned.
Things went to shit extremely fast as we drove through the streets towards the hotel. We'd managed to rescue at least 5 other people, each one looking stunned by my appearance, but not speaking a word as they had to share seats in the car or hitch in the trunk instead. And then, finally, we reached the hotel, where Sinamoi proceeded to give me the plan. He gave me a weapon in the form of a machete and told me to find the four by any means necessary. He even gave me their face shots!
"How do you have all this information?" I asked him.
"Answers later, for now, just go in there and find them. I heard they're immune, so make sure they don't die," he said, me frowning as I then went in and proceeded to search for the four's rooms while taking care of the infected people on the way... it made me so sick and disgusted, seeing all of these innocent people that had been turned into monstrous maneaters. I even saw some of them eating a little girl, her skin almost all gone from her torso down! I felt like puking a good few times at this, but I'd managed to find all four of the quartet and give them the rundown... and of course, each one said the same thing when they saw my face.
"What the fuck is up with you?! Why do you look all green?! What's going on?!" they each said in their own ways.
"I'm uniquely immune, I'm a sentient zombie, and I'm getting you to safety. We need to get the hell out of here," I said to each one, me then leading our group down to the bottom floor and out towards Sinamoi's truck, us grabbing a separate one that was available for them and me, us then driving down to the lifeguard station and getting in, but it was at that point that we saw the place was filled with infected!
"Shit! What's wrong with 'em?!" Sam B asked in concern.
"It's a disease of some kind. A mutated version of rabies that only exists on this island. We need to defeat their heads in order to truly kill them," I said, them nodding as we then proceeded to slash and bash each of the monsters on the way, us then hearing something on a radio that Sinamoi gave me.
"Mayday! Mayday! This is flight 108! We're experiencing heavy turbulence! We're making an emergency landing in the jungle! Mayda-" the radio said before we got to the roof of the lifeguard station and we saw the plane fly overhead and through to the jungle, us hearing the explosion shortly after.
"All those poor innocent people... what is this?" Xian asked when she saw the smoke rise in the jungle... but Purna looked angered.
"I saw the back of that plane... someone shot at it with a missile on the tail! Someone shot that plane down as it flew over the island!" she said, me gasping at that.
"So much for the military being the good guys! We need to find out what the hell is going on, and fast!" Logan shouted angrily as we then slammed our way into the main room of the station, having killed all the zombies and us then giving the go-ahead on the lifeguard radio.
"Sinamoi, the lifeguard station is cleared of all the infected. Come on in," I said, him then speaking after.
"Knew you could do it, good work. We're coming right now," he said as I then noted that each of my allies had gotten bitten at least one time, even though they were minor.
"Why the hell aren't we turning into those freaks?" Purna asked in shock.
"Sinamoi said that he was told you four were immune to whatever this thing is. But he won't explain why... when he gets here, pump him for info, as a group," I said, them nodding as the man then walked up the stairs and they started to question.
"How'd you know that we were immune to whatever this disease is?" Sam B asked in anger at him, Sinamoi frowning at him.
"I'll tell you when I contact the one in question," he said as he then went to the radio and tried. "Contacting Ryder White, come in, Ryder White. This is Sinamoi, do you copy?" he asked, waiting for a good three seconds before the voice appeared.
"This is Ryder White, did you manage to find the immune?" asked the voice on the radio, me speaking to him.
"How'd you know we were immune, huh? And who the hell are you?" I asked angrily.
"And who might you be? I don't recognize your voice," he said, me being confused.
"My name is Grace Chicago, resident of Morseby. And I demand answers!" I frowned.
"You have something in your genetic makeup, something that gives you immunity to the virus. I am unsure what it is, but I can say this. You'll need to find a way to me. I'm holed... in...-" he said before the thing got tons of static and the connection got cut.
"DAMMIT! What the hell is up with this damn thing?!" Sam B asked, me being surprised by him and Logan being quite angry people...
"It's because of a big storm that's coming in the distance. Come tomorrow morning, a monsoon is going to reach us, which will make everything harder on us. That's most likely why we can't get a signal anywhere past this island and why White can't contact us that easily... now, do you want to know anything else?" Sinamoi asked, me sighing at that.
"Please tell us what's going on. Purna said that plane that came in and crashed in the jungle was actually shot on the tail. Someone wants to keep us on this island with these infected people. We need to know why we aren't getting too much help," I frowned.
"I'm in full agreement with Grace," Xian said, obviously the calm and collected one.
"It's some kind of infection, a rare form of rabies that's called Kuru... but this strain seems to be even more dangerous than all those in the past. From white I heard from White, we think that someone messed with the virus to make it deadlier. He said we needed you to make a vaccine, to save a lot of lives, including his wife, who's become infected with the virus," he said, me sighing at that. "He said they're trying to keep her from turning, but we only have until dusk before it's too late. So for now, we need to get some help. I need you to split up and do some work to help us out."
"One of you will go get some gasoline from the gas station to burn the bodies. We don't need the infected to smell 'em and come in droves.
Another will go find some fresh water and food for our group so we don't go hungry.
Someone else has to go find a signal enhancer from some of my friends at the lighthouse.
And finally, one of you will need to go to the hotel so you can find an armored truck, so we can get more supplies in Moresby and beyond. If anything can get through the car pileup in that tunnel, it's that rig.
And the last one will stay here to protect us in case more of them bloody bastards attack this place."
"I think I'll go take the job of going to the hotel. I need to see if there could be anyone there that needs rescued," I said, the others nodding at me.
"Be careful, that's all we ask," Purna said. I nodded at her and then went out on foot through the resort proper. Why? Just in case I found any others that needed help.