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The End of the World Spell
Infection
Professor Jean Colbert was very surprised when Miss de la Vallière actually succeeded in something.
Waving the smoke away from his face, he finally could see a darker spot in the cloud where there was nothing before. As the cloud cleared, he could finally make out what stood there.
It was a man. Which was impossible.
And, yet he still stood there. He certainly wasn't like any man he had ever seed. His clothes were so strange.
He wore simple cut pants and a jacket, but both were made of a material he couldn't quite identify. The hooded jacket looked almost like leather, but there was something just a bit off about it.
The man was still standing completely still, even as murmurs began to rise among the students. Jean started to crouch down so that he could see what lay under the hood. But he froze as he heard a strange noise.
Clack-clack-clack
It sounded like someone's teeth were chattering. But it was a warm day, who could actually be feeling co-
The man lunged for Miss de la Vallière. He was unbelievably fast and before Jean could even stand up straight she was screaming in pain. The man was gnawing at her shoulder, blood spurting through the air.
Somewhere he got hear a student retch.
He lifted his staff to do something before he realized he couldn't. He was the Flame Snake. He burned down whole villages. He didn't - couldn't – do delicate work.
He was all but ready to drop everything and bludgeon the bastard to death when he suddenly let go of his victim and ran at another students. Jean didn't let the moment go to waste.
Even as he wove the magic needed for his spell, he noticed how strange the man moved. It was unnatural. How something that twitched that much could be so fast, he had no idea. Even as the fire (the seductively familiar fire) bloomed from his staff, he felt a shiver run down his spine.
The blast caught the man fully.
He was enveloped with flames. His flesh was melting of his bones. His eyes had popped. His lungs were boiled from superheated air. The smell of scorched flesh and hair reigned supreme.
The Flame Snake didn't fuck around.
But there was a student down. She was losing too much blood, much, much too quickly.
The whole incident, from the man lunging to his apparent death, had taken only seconds.
As students scrambled around to do something, Jean was relieved that someone had the sense of mind to help him in assisting Miss de la Vallière. Miss Montmorency was sprinting at Miss de la Vallière. What she hoped to accomplish, he didn't know, but all help would be appreciated.
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Miss Zerbst and her familiar smothering the flames of the man who had so suddenly turned this holy day into a horror show. Then his focus was solely on Miss de la Vallière.
The wound wasn't very big, but it had nicked some arteries and her heart was pumping out way to fast. Even as he watched, even as Miss. Montmorency ripped her dress to shreds for something to slow the flow with, the flow stopped.
Oh Brimir.
Not again.
He closed his eyes to murmur a prayer for the late Miss de la Vallière. No-one deserved to die like that.
He was surprised when he suddenly felt breath upon his face. Opening his eyes, he only saw a blur as the dead girl bit into his arm.
And – oh Brimir, save me – everything was suddenly so loud, so bright – please, Brimir - and there were too many people and sounds and his arm hurt and his chest hurt – help! -and his head heart andeverythingwastoo – NO! -suddenandhewasdyinghewasDYINGandhedidn'tsayhewasso…
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AN: Just your run-of-the-mill crack!zombies.
I particularly had World War Z (movie version) zombies in mind.
I confess, the title and hooded jacket was mainly a way to get you guys to think it was Alex Mercer (seeing as I'm doing the Rosario+Vampire/Prototype-thingy), but that was just me trying to be too clever.
Anyway, I try to keep the POV's diverse between the chapters, but I'm not quite sure how well it works.
Next chapter should be a silly/funny one.
Read, enjoy, review.
~GrinGrin
PS – it may be some time before I update again. My attention-span is growing shorter again.
Written: 16/12/2013
Posted: 16/12/2013