Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26075314-20160112043427

Hello!? Hello is this thing on!? I can’t tell.

(incoherent muttering)

Oh, it is? Ok. Well, name is Doctor Daniel Valentiene. And this, well, I guess you could call this a documentation. I don’t know if anyone will ever hear this. Hell, I don’t even know if the human is going to survive. But I do know we cannot let this happen again.

That’s right, you heard me. Again!! This outbreak has happened once before. Right now, we’re hiding in deep in a cave. I’m not sure, but I think we’re about half a mile below the entrance. It’s the only safe place left…For now at least.

Ok, now listen, I know how this is going to sound. Hell, I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t lived through it myself. But…we called it a ‘zombie outbreak.’ Beings that are dead, have no heartbeat, no pulse, no signs of life in them whatsoever; yet, they can still move. They can run and jump and climb and do everything a normal human being can do; but, they have an unquenchable hunger for living flesh.

They weren’t real at first. We thought we had made them up. We turned them into a franchise. We made videogames, movies, books, all this shit based off these beings that we thought weren’t real.

But they are real. And we were, inaccurate about their behavior. Even worse than that, we underestimated them. See, when humanity first heard about them, we expected them to be stupid. We expected braindead things that were incapable of moving faster than a shuffle. But…but we were so wrong. I mean, how could we have known? They completely wiped out the entire area where it first happened in less than six hours. The news station put out a broadcast saying there was an infectious outbreak and didn’t give any other information on them. Then, within six hours, the entire city went dark, and anybody who was stupid enough to go there was never seen again.

They were smart. I mean, My God! Nobody was prepared for what they were capable of. They were like “master tacticians” with the strategies they used to take us down. They hit us fast and hit us hard from a total blindside. Within a day, the entire state of Maine was infected. The government set up a blockade and stood guard to try and keep it from spreading.

Then they came from the ocean. I don’t know how they knew to do that, but they somehow knew they didn’t need oxygen; so they dove into the sea and completely blindsided our troops. I mean sure, we killed some of them. But they had the element of surprise. We were expecting them to come at us head on; at the very least, we were expecting to hear them. But they were completely silent as they attacked our troops in waves.

We only got a few things right about the zombies. The first was that they were undead. The second was that they craved living flesh. No matter how much they ate, the amount they could ingest seemed limitless. The third is that they can, and do, infect others. Most commonly, it’s through a bite, but a human ingesting or having an open wound exposed to their bodily fluids will also cause infection.

After they devoured and turned our first line of defense, they pushed their now small army across the country, always traveling in silent, deadly packs. A day later, we started hearing reports of the infected overseas, but now, the initial surprise was over. Humanity started fighting back. A shot to the body didn’t even slow them down, for they seemed impervious to any type of pain, but any kind of traumatic experience to the brain put them down for good; so basically a shot to the head, a knife in the skull, I even saw someone smash the head of one until it was nothing but goop.

This reminded us that our new enemies were beatable. This newfound hope burned into us the desire to live. It seemed like the entire human race was injected with adrenaline all at once, because we surged forward against them with newfound strength and pushed them back. We as humans were finally one with each other. There were no countries, no races and no individuals. There was only survival. Everybody worked together trying to preserve the human race. It even seemed like we were going to win…but then, something happened.

I can’t believe it. I mean, we…we should’ve seen it coming. They were obviously very smart. They were still infecting people by the millions; but, we never thought that they might learn…and adapt.

They started wearing bullet proof helmets. They learned how to use our own weapons against us. They even learned how to disguise those among them that looked better than all the rest with makeup, and they could pass as human…until they got close enough at least. They even started setting traps for us.

With this newfound knowledge, they tipped the scales of war in their favor. It was amazing how quickly the hope was dashed from us. We no longer cared about everyone else. It was now survival of the fittest. We ran away in small packs trying only to stay alive now. We thought of a new plan. We didn’t know if they actually needed flesh to survive, so we were going to try and wait them out by starving them of their food source.

But then, that seemed impossible too. They…they seemed to be able to track us. I’m not exactly sure, but I’m guessing they might have heightened senses or something. It wouldn’t surprise me, those things are like a wolf in sheep’s clothing; disguising themselves in human skin to hide the fact that they’re just a bunch of coldblooded predators, made only to wipe us off the face of the earth.

The latest thing they’ve started doing is…is capturing any women they come across. I…I still have nightmares of the sick…th-th-the sick, abominable and-and grotesque things I saw them do. First, they…they cut off their arms and legs. Oh My God. And…then, they used them to breed. It was so fucking horrible! I saw women of all ages being used only to give birth to a…a-a deformed, hideous monster. As soon as the…thing was born, they ripped its arms, legs and head off and ate it. I guess what I’m saying is, I don’t think they are going to starve anytime soon.

There are some of us left here and there. Small groups are the key. That, and well, we can’t call any place home. We can’t stay anywhere more than about a day. I think this cave might be an exception though; it was almost impossible for us to find, we actually stumbled across it by sheer accident. Not to mention the fact that there are so many different paths to take that those things could spend years looking for us with no luck.

What was that?

(incoherent muttering)

Oh. Oh yeah.

This wasn’t the first time it happened. No, uh, right now, nobody knows exactly how the infection started. And we still don’t, but we just found something truly incredible. Right here, in this cave with us, are the fossilized bones of a velociraptor…and in its stomach, are the bones of a human skull and forearm. The teeth on the human skull seemed to be razor sharp and the fingers look…kinda like claws.

I believe the reason it looks like this is because of the adaptations they undergo to overpower their prey, just like they exhibit today. I don’t know why there’s only one, but that would explain why the raptor is where it is on the evolutionary chain. It’s cold, calculating and hunts in packs, just like the zombies do today. The only thing that could take it down was another carnivore.

I actually believe that the velociraptor was the first carnivore. Every other one after was just a product of different species breeding. That would also explain the Tyrannosaurus-Rex’s short arms and small brain; although, that still doesn’t explain where the zombie came from.

What was that?!

(silence)

You guys heard that too, right?

(a faint voice can be heard) Shut off the recorder, put out that fucking fire, and take up defensive positions!

(jostling from the recorder can be heard but continues playing)

(Doctor Valentiene can be heard whispering)

Listen, I don’t think humanity is going to survive. Those…things…they won. But once their food source becomes extinct, and I believe it eventually will, they might die off.

(I said shut that fucking shit off Daniel!)

If that happens, and another species has become dominant on this planet, history seems inclined to repeat itself!

(Shut up!)

This is a warning. Where ever these things come from, they seem to like this planet. If they die out, they’ll be back.

(Daniel.)

You need to stop them!

(Daniel!)

Your entire civilization is counting on you!

(something can be heard echoing throughout the cave)

(silence)

(silence)

(soft footfalls can be heard)

(GUNSHOTS)

(female voice) ''WHAT THE FUCK! HOW DID THEY FIND US!?''

(GUNSHOTS)

(male voice) ''OH GOD NO! PLEASE GOD! I DON’T WANNA DIE LIKE THIS! PLEASE! I JUST WANNA LIVE!''

(female voice) ''STEVE, STOP! DON’T BREAK FORMATION!''

(Steve’s screams can be heard echoing through the cave)

(GUNSHOTS)

(Valentiene’s voice) MIRANDA, WATCH OUT!

(Miranda’s screams can be heard growing fainter and fainter)

(gunshots can be heard, followed by CLICK CLICK CLICK)

(Valentiene’s voice) ''NO! BRING HER BACK! MIRANDA! MIRANDA! What the hell are you doing with her you bastards?! Why the hell are you taking her away?!''

''Oh God. Oh My God, NO!''

''MIRANDA! MIRANDA! KILL YOURSELF! THEY’RE GOING TO BREED YOU! KILL YOURSELF BEFORE THE–''

(a sharp snapping sound can be heard)

(silence)

(sound of eating and bones crunching can be heard)

(wails of despair echo from Miranda as a faint CLICK CLICK CLICK can be heard and she is dragged out of earshot)

End Recording 