Adventures Of Bayek: Through The Void And Beyond

The world went silent after the Roar of the beast rolled across the land. Bayek used his sense to search everywhere in a three-mile radius. A shiver went down his spine and his body began to ache. The growing pains, from pushing his limits were kicking in.

Setting his gear in the truck with an unconscious Maggie inside of the pickup. With only his two blades Bayek walked back towards the school. Something was gnawing at him. It was a weird sensation that made him feel uneasy and wronged. And if his hunch was right, it was possibly the last easy day he and his people would have.

Approaching the school. Bayek continued to scan for a presence. Walkers were a bit difficult to find, because they are technically dead, they gave off the same presence whether they were walking or had been put down for good... The only difference was, when they moved the energy around them would fluctuate. This fact is why Bayek was uneasy. The beast that could have potentially gathered a horde, maneuvered them, and was smart enough to wait and prey, is an extreme threat. Even for him. Though, that didn't stop him from hunting the thing down.

Entering the school, Bayek picked up on multiple walkers, all unmoving. Although, when Bayek turned down the first hallway, the walkers were 'alive' and well yet, unmoving, like they were awaiting orders. The entire scene was peculiar to say the least. Snapping him back to reality Bayek sensed something, deep beneath him, under the school.

'I wonder...' he thought. Taking slow and calm steps, Bayek weaved through the walkers... And they still did not move. 'Absolute control... But is there a limit?'

Bayek continued to brainstorm ideas as he made his way to the school bas.e.m.e.nt.

While Bayek was on his little hunting excursion. Maggie's condition was getting worse. She was burning up at inhuman temperatures. Her veins were pitch black and her body secreted a grayish black mucus. Pain wrecked her body and it felt like needles were piercing her skull, poking at her brain. Maggie's was changing from the inside out.

Bayek's POV

Shit! I just stepped in something thick and mushy. It probably f.u.c.k.e.d up my boots.

The school bas.e.m.e.nt was empty when I arrived, there was nothing but the smell of death and entrails covering the floor. Towards the back of the bas.e.m.e.nt, a hole was dug where a pipe should have been. The closer I got to it, the more concentrated the stench of rotting flesh became.

Climbing in the hole, I traveled a couple yards and found myself covered in flesh and entrails. The odor was horrid, concentrated enough to taste it in the small tunnel.

Towards the exit, the sound of savage eating could be heard, the swishing and squelching sound lingered between the sounds of chewing.

I poked my head out of the tunnel and saw the bodies of walkers 'alive' and sprawled out on the sewer floor. Their guts and part of their limbs had been eaten. In the center of the walker donner party a more healthy looking walker sat eating from an average walker. Ravaging the corpse at an incredible speed. Looking up at me with blood shot eyes and pitch-black veins riddled across his body, he c.o.c.ks his head to left, examining me.

Popping the pain killers to numb the pain in my body from overusing my Qi. I start to revolve my qi once again.

C.o.c.king his head to the right. The new variant and I never break eye contact

"You. Kill…Mine!" the variant struggled to say , his throat bulged, and he let out another gut filled roar. Before taking off. The Walkers that were on the ground being eaten from, started to rise and m.o.a.n.

Looking around I didn't give them the chance to find solid ground. Stepping through the walkers, I cut them down. Concentrating my qi. I push off of the ground and do a complete 360-degree spin , sending a Qi slash to cut through the heads of the walkers attempting to surround me.

Once their bodies hit the floor. The variant appeared, faster than the average man. Blade against fist, I fought. The variant was fast, strong and agile. Blocking the variants every strike I continued to toy with the thing, getting a feel for its strength. I handled him with ease. But something didn't feel right. Pivoting on the ball of my right foot, opening towards my left. I directed his strike past me, into a wall.

The power of the strike allowed the variant to penetrate the wall wrist deep.

"you are strong" I mutter, while bringing my blade down on its arm, severing it. My second blade penetrated its sternum, and then It's spine. Twisting the blade, its entire spine shattered, and its body dropped.

I waited, watching it lay there. It was active, but unable to move its body. during the time I observed it. Nothing happened. "so that's the end of your mutation?"

Putting my blade away, I walked away, not before crushing its head under my boot.

I struggled to return top side, dispatching the remaining walkers in my path. My body had passed its limit and was close to shutting down. When I reached the Pickup. Maggie was covered from head to toe with what looked like, blood and tar. And she permeated a stench almost similar to the variant. And the most horrid part about it, I didn't even open the truck door yet...

Breaking the windows to get back in. I started the truck and drove in the direction of the Greene farm. Some ways away from the town , I pull over to the side over road and black out.

Third. POV

Bayek now stood in the depths of his subconscious with a world of information swirling around him. playing the events of the day, over and over again. It felt like days to Bayek. As he watched Maggie and himself slaughter the horde, the variant and the similarities between the now sick Maggie and the sewer rat that Bayek had put down.

"I get it, we're all infected!" Bayek shouted out. Like most dreams, the subconscious was trying to tell Bayek something that should be obvious… the virus originated from humans.

The subconscious world flashed again to his time in high school biology, and then to his time in the military he learnt about the effects of mustard gas. Then to his few college biology courses. This riddle felt ten times longer to solve then the last one. At first Bayek thought his subconscious was giving him a way to avoid the virus's effects, like a key to a treatment that was more than obvious. But it turned out not to be the case. After awhile longer. Bayek notice one similarity that they all had. It was not biology, but the subdivision of biology. Genetics…

"It isn't a virus at all. It's an expressed genetic mutation…"

The world shattered soon after, and Bayek woke up in a bed on the Greene farm