15th June 2024Japanese friends, partners both having surgery. Face, body? Cosmetic. I walked around, it was oddly clean, pretty but creepy empty of ppl. Felt 'after the fall of civilisations.'*Husband wife, doted on their daughter. Lovely girl about 9-10 years old.During celebrations, an intelligent, hungry, determined virus is released. Ppl try to run but it doesn't take much to infect ppl. I held the door closed to try contain it. The infected were ramming the door, trying to get to everyone else. Heard girl screaming for her parents but knew she was already doomed. Her screams cut out with a gurgle.. SilenceThen a giggle, creepy as fuck. The girlvirus was the most intelligent, special in her determination to absorb the world and feed on scared humans, turning them into her grabbing, scrambling, fast parts of her. Seperate but connected. Hive mind. No Queen though, more like a giant data pool. More ppl, more minds, more data. The infected were not mindless zombies, they each had different talents and ways of doing things but they all shared a goal, Absorb the world.I remember a house with so many rooms, gardens, trees, hedges, walls. We ran and fought, killed died. It was horrific. Desperately tried to find their weakness.We managed to find a way to kill the infected. Some sort of acid. It was horrific and killing them also killed one of us to every 2 of them. Finally managed to wipe the virus out.The small group of survivors all mourned in their own ways while trying to rebuild their lives..The parents of the girl mourned the loss of their beloved daughter.I visited one day and found the wife was wearing an odd red "pregnancy front" (boobs and 2 swollen bellies)"I took our rations to the Priestess's of the Temple of (?????) they agreed to clone our daughter," she told me with an unhinged look in her eye. This freaked me out, "Horrendous things tend to repeat if caution is ignored hun," I told her as gently as I could. She just kept adjusting the belly's and tying them tight onto her body. "This was my grandmothers, don't offend it ok?" She begged me."My baby girl, so perfect.." The husband walks in the door to see his wife's beaming smile. "Our girl is back, we have our daughter again!" He looked shocked I could see that he knew his wife was completely lost in her desperate joy. He simply hugged his wife with a nervous smile.The girl-clone was perfect. The same joy, same laugh, same interests. Her parents were overjoyed at having their beloved daughter back. I watched closely, terrified of history repeating itself.. The day history hit again was even worse the second time. The girl was just as powerful to the virus as she was the first time, growing even smarter this time..The parents did everything they could, everyone used the same acid which worked the first few times.. till it started to only slow them down for a short time. The mother gave herself to the daughter, hugging her, desperate to hold her beloved girl one last time. We ran, clawing over walls, hiding for short bursts. I even had an infected bite through the inside of walls to get to us. It was terrifying.We found a way to somewhat contain the girlvirus- some energy pulse in a glass helmet thing. The father tried to link healthy girls to her to help her combat the virus within herself. Instead he unwittingly helped her link and connect more. The daughter, head entombed in glass, surrounded by her sea of she-selves, evolved to put roots into the very earth and spread, fast, cunning and unforgiving.I was among the small group who found a way off the island. The father was with us. We never gave up hope on finding a way to stop the infected again.. I was one of the watchers of the island, seeing what the infected were doing with nowhere to go, held back by the salty tides.The father cried, sobs racking his thin frame.. His daughter was mocking him from afar.. She knew we were watching..My last fly over mission, she'd spoken to her father through my camera, "But father, I'm your same little girl, don't you love me?" She said this in the most sickening sweet, careless, mocking tone ever. It destroyed him.The infected were now all sending roots into the grounds.. it was creepy as fuck to see..We developed a strong energy beam and built it so the island was surrounded by bright blue concentric circles.. Trapping the infected within..This worked but we were all so scared and so on edge.. We never forgot how clever the virus was..The virusroots would play with the beams.. Being destroyed by the blue light over over again, never crossing the tightest ring.
As I sit here, watching in horror as virus roots push through the blue rings start to push through the soil of our new home, I now know she was learning about the energy trapping them working out how to finally infect us all.. I died sobbing in fear..