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glistening of the calm water. He smiled to himself, thinking this was a perfect day.
    The sound of children and laughter suddenly stopped.
    A loud thunderous noise sounded overhead. The old man looked up to see a large object break apart and fall into the water.
    Everyone looked out to the water, but soon turned their attention back to having a fun day.
    Whatever it was they laughed it off as nothing important.
    The old man still sat on the bench, his mind drifted to his late wife. She had passed away a few months ago and now his life was simply one of waiting to join her.
    He started to cough violently, dropping his ice cream to the ground. He looked around and was shocked to see almost everyone else was coughing too. The old man coughed violently again, covering his mouth with his hand. Once the cough eased off, he moved his hand to reveal that he was coughing up blood.
    Suddenly screams echoed throughout (the area). Parents rushed to their children. Everyone was coughing up blood.
    The old man sighed, “OH NO!”
     
     

CHAPTER TWO
    IMPACT
    “NURSE! WE HAVE MORE COMING IN!” A male voice shouted.
    In the last hour the local emergency medical center had been overrun. The War Memorial hospital was normally for minor injuries, but the last hour had seen hundreds of people walking in complaining of similar symptoms.
    Headaches, blurred vision, sick to their stomach, and a pain in the back of the head that felt like nothing they’d ever had before. Doctors and Nurses were stretched beyond their capabilities.
    People screamed for help. Children cried in pain. A child began vomiting blood. A nurse ran for the child, scooping the youngster in her arms she ran down the corridor to find a bed. Placing her on a bed in the corridor, the nurse looked around for a sign of the child’s parents.
    Checking out the young girl lying there. The nurse could see all the color was gone from her face, her fingers had begun to turn blue as if she was freezing, but a touch of the girl’s forehead was to find it was one of overwhelming heat.
    The corridors of the hospital were beginning to fill fast with severely ill people.
    The nurse trying to help the little girl wore a name tag, ‘Raven.’ The name suited her; she had the darkest black hair and smooth olive skin. She looked like the kind of woman who never needed makeup.
    The child began to shake, Raven held her down to stop her hurting herself. The young child’s body suddenly went stiff. Raven looked into the eyes of the child. Feeling for her pulse and found none.
    Suddenly a loud scream echoed through the corridors.
    She turned to see a doctor running towards her. Behind her a man stumbled. Then he was falling against another nurse. Raven looked on in shock as the man suddenly took a bite into the nurse’s neck. Tearing the flesh away, blood sprayed everywhere.
    Everyone else began to run as more stumbling people appeared.
    “What the hell!” she uttered.
    Raven felt a cold hand grab her arm. Looking down she could see the dead child attempting to bite her.
    “FUCK!” she screamed out.
    She managed to push the child away. Raven ran back towards the entrance, but was stopped by more people being attacked. Blood covered the floors. Raven watched as the sick began eating the living. A man rushed passed her, knocking Raven to the ground. He made no attempt to help her and ran towards the entrance, but was stopped by several sick people attacking him. Raven lay in a puddle of blood, struggling to get to her feet. A figure appeared over her. She looked up to see a large woman, her mouth covered in blood and loose flesh. Raven noticed the eyes were dead, just a misty white. The large woman reached out for Raven.
    Raven kicked the large woman in the kneecaps hard, forcing her to fall back. Raven kept slipping but finally managed to get back to her feet.
    Leaving bloody footprints in her path, she ran away from the carnage. Running along a corridor, she was stopped in her tracks when