Infection: Dying Days

As I walked down the flight of stairs, I decided that the first people I'm going to look for are Sara and David since the class they have is biology, which is coincidentally the closest to me, it's situated in the D wing, I'm in F wing right now.

When I stepped on to the third floor and into it's hallway, I cautiously did a sweep of my surroundings.Thankfully, other than me, there wasn't a soul in sight. So far so good.

As I walk down the long "L" shaped hallway.

"It's quiet...too quiet."

I noticed an incongruity.

Was the "infected" attracted by the noise coming from the other locations around school? Because compared to those, this place is oddly quiet. Where's the boy and girl I heard earlier?

Could they be dead?

Hmm, putting the voices I faintly heard on the fourth floor together with the overall situation, I can conclude that they must've been trying to get away from the "infected" before the girl, who I believe was called Macy, unfortunately got grabbed by one and killed.

And as for the boy, probably feeling angered at seeing how the "infected" were trying kill his girlfriend, tried to peel the "infected" off of her only to get killed in the process as well.

"... I can't leave off the possibility of them becoming "infected" after being bitten too."

This is the method I came up with after watching how they attacked people. They never used weapons, they only grabbed at their targets trying to bite them.

"Well, whether they're alive or not, it doesn't change the fact that there's an "infected" somewhere around here."

I haven't forgot about this, otherwise, I wouldn't have heard the screams of those two earlier.

I had this line of thought, while I slowly moved towards the end of the hallway with a extra heightened sense of vigilance, ready to attack or run at a moment's notice.

I approach the end of the hallway...

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Disturbing sounds of somebody tearing and eating something could be heard. The closer I got, the more ominous I felt.

When I got to the corner, I slowly poked my around it.

"Sh*t! Why does there have to be two of them?!"

What I saw made me curse under my breath.

Not far from where I was at, were two "infected" in Pelican Soar Academy uniforms, one was made for a girl while the other a boy.

Both of them were crouching over another student's body and happily feasting on them.

Every time one of them bit into and tore off a piece of flesh, blood would splatter, causing their faces and clothes to become drenched blood.

If it wasn't for the fact that I built up a resistance to gory stuff due to playing a lot of

violent Games, I would have definitely puked after seeing such a gruesome scene.

Watching as they were feasting, a brilliant idea popped into my head.

Digging into my left pocket, I pull out a ballpoint pen that I usually use for writing in my journal.

It has a decent enough weight to make a person rub their head when hit so it's perfect for this little experiment.

I want to see what type of trigger would make an infected try to attack you. If I can find out what it is then I might be able to avoid useless conflict.

Holding the pen and aiming like I would a dart, I throw at the head of the "infected" boy.

THUD!

It hit him straight in the head and fell to the ground.

….

No reaction.

It didn't even check to see what was thrown at him.

"Did he not feel any pain?"

Because if not, there's no way he could have ignore that like it was nothing. I experienced first hand how it felt to be hit by that pen, and let me tell you, it hurts!

"Hmm, let's try this then."

Digging into my right pocket this time, I pull out my phone and easily maneuver around the options screen until I find the music playing app.

I click on it, adjust the volume of my phone to where only those in the immediate area could hear it, pick the song "For Elise" before sliding it towards the opposite wall across from the "infected".

Their reaction.

"Aaah!'

"Aaah!"

The "infected" stood up and slowly moved away from the dead body and towards the sound of my phone. When the gotten right up onti my phone, the just pushed and leaned against the wall.

"So they can't see and is provoked by sounds. That's good to know. I might be able to use this to my advantage."

Stepping out from around the corner, I stealthy

try to sneak around them. Although it sucks to leave my phone like this, I don't really need it.

I don't have that many friends to call, just Sara, David, Andy, and the pizza guy.

Looking back on it, it's quite sad.

"Aaah!"

"Aaah!"

Hearing the m.o.a.ns of the infected behind me getting faint, I speed up a little.

Finally, after cautiously walking numerous hallways, dodging and luring increasing amounts of infected, I arrived at D-wing's biology class. It had its door opened slightly.

Why does this place feel ten times scarier than the hallways littered with infected?

Can I leave?

"No, I came this far, I can't chicken out now."

I said to my hesitating self as I stood at the threshold of the classroom.

Those two are damn lucky I treasure them like family. Because if I didn't, I would have left their asses by now.

With a deep breath, I push the door open and enter the classroom.

"Where are they!."

Sara and David weren't here, only flipped desk and scattered papers.

"Hmm?"

Out the corner of my eye, I spot something that was frantically written on the whiteboard.

It reads.

'Desmond if you're reading this then come to the first floor workshop. Me and Sara are there.'

"Good thinking David, this saves me a shit ton of trouble. Now that I know where you're at, I don't have search every nook and cranny of the school."

Excited about finding out their location, I turn and sprint towards the door.

"Oh no!"

However, when I was within inches of exiting the classroom, an someone walks in front of me, causing me to hit and make both of us fall to the ground.

"Ouch!"

I said as I rubbed the back of my head. When I tried to get up, I felt something heavy pressing on my body.

"!!!"

When I looked to see what was pressing on my body, I immediately froze.

"Aaah!"

Laying on top of me was a female infected, whose face was within inches of mine!