Plague: Death was only the beginning! by Donald Franck & Francine Franck

Author:Donald Franck & Francine Franck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-04-02T23:00:00+00:00

“Sometimes stuff happens that we cannot control. Sometime people do it on purpose.”

-Thoughts from the Author

Chapter 26

Worldwide Deaths: 321,000,000 est.

Jakarta, Indonesia at one time had one of the highest population densities on the entire planet. But two month ago, death started to stalk the streets and the city became a tomb. This population density worked against all efforts from the government to control the deaths that raced through each apartment building and tenement square, shantytown and high-rise; it seemed to stump the city flat as hundreds fell in the streets and alleyways. Eight weeks after the first plague carrier arrived in the city, the city was completely empty of life. Estimated at over twenty-eight million before the event, its entire population now consisted of two cats and one dog that were somehow immune to the plague. By this time, the city was unable to support any higher type of life as the death and corruption filled the waterways and streets to overflowing. A formerly busy intersection now only held decayed and rotting corpses, one of which displayed a large carrion beetle that crawled into one empty eye socket and out the other. The ground around it swarmed with insect life in their millions as they moved from a period of famine to feast in a single generation. Other corpses were covered with blowflies and maggots as the former superior life form integrated into the last puddle of goo for this massive city.

Finally in a distant slum, a thin trickle of smoke appeared. The weather in Jakarta had been wet and humid for some period of time. But those conditions were finally changing as more clear weather dried the wood and cardboard that were the cheap and plentiful building material in the ghettos around Jakarta city itself. Now this wisp of smoke seemed to be the gathering itself with a deep breath that exploded across a much larger area of the ghetto. Soon it drew in another larger breath of air into the area and seemed to explode still farther as the first visible flames appeared. Running faster from room to sign post to ghetto wall, the flames ate their way to a point where the liquefied fat of the decaying bodies began to burn. Like the wick of a candle, the flames raced along the clothing and caused the countless bodies to combust in an orgy of smoke and flame that continued for months. Jakarta, the teeming city, burned.

Across the planet, similar events either started or had already consumed vast areas. Most would burn for years to come as the impossibly large stockpile of combustible material fed fires that reflected the hopeless status of the tiny survivors to control it. Driven from their homes, the uninfected ran directly into the infected as the cinders and ashes fell about them. In many cases, both were consumed along with the dead.

Vast areas of the planet still held millions of living and breathing survivors, huddled in their boarded up doors and windowless pools of black.

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