Ground Zero: An After Zombie Origin Novella (Last of Us Book 1) by Nikki Landis

Author:Nikki Landis [Landis, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nikki Landis
Published: 2019-10-29T05:00:00+00:00

Natalie

A BITTER CRY OF HORROR and despair echoed from my chest as I shoved the mass of bodies backward with the bat and slipped inside the empty stairwell. Slapping my palms on the door, I shoved with all my might and managed to miraculously shut the damn thing without prolonged effort. My knees gave out beneath me as the stinging bite of tears filled my eyes and overflowed. Exhausted both mentally and physically, the horror of losing my best friend was too much to contemplate.

“Tara,” I whispered with agony.

It wasn’t fair. She didn’t deserve to die and become one of those monsters.

What the hell was happening!?

My shoulders shook with the overload of emotion and all of the crazy shit that had happened over the last hour and a half. I just lost my best friend and humans were now trying to rip each other apart and eat the flesh from one another’s bones. Holy fuck!

Could this day get any worse?

Wiping the tears from my face, I rose to my feet and froze when I heard a noise echo up from below. I was on the third floor and had planned to run down the stairs and into the freedom that lay beyond these hospital walls. More complications or surprises was the last thing I needed. Moving slowly, I crept down the stairs and hoped nothing was in this stairwell besides me and creaky metal. Maybe I only imagined the noise from a minute ago?

The familiar shape of a man was hidden in the shadows on the second-floor landing. A blue uniform caught my attention and I relaxed when I saw it was someone I knew.

“John, you scared me. Have you been outside yet?”

He stepped forward into the meager light and my hands clamped down on the bat when I realized he was no longer the same as the last time we met. Deep scratches marred the exposed skin of his arms while blood was splattered all over the maintenance uniform. He appeared like some horror movie killer ready to maim and dismember his victims.

What should have been the dark stairwell was now illuminated by those ominous and eerie green lights. The backup generator must have been fixed by someone around the same time that I entered. John’s face turned toward mine and I screamed as the mangled and chewed flesh hung from his jowls in meaty ribbons. Large bites had been torn from his left cheek and most of his jaw. He huffed and shook like his body was in convulsions, but he didn’t try to lunge forward.

Instead, his mouth gaped open wider and he suddenly regurgitated. A disgusting and vile concoction of the worst smell known to man erupted from his gullet. The vomit or spew must have been stomach acid, bile, and tainted blood because it was a consistency and color that I couldn’t quite pinpoint and I nearly hurled up the contents of my own stomach in response.

The retched puddle landed only a few inches away, sizzling and bubbling on the ground.

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