Bang! Bang! Bang!I felt my breath quicken. I BJ and I stood there for a couple of seconds.BJ's eyes remained shut as he waited for my signal.Bang! Bang! Bang!"Now!" I yelled.Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked directly at the door as he clenched his battle QUAX arm...My grip on his back intensified as I planted my feet on the floor even more strongly.Ooooiiinnn~A blue beam began gathering at the tip of BJ's battle QUAX fist area.The entire living room dazzled from the glow, and from the outskirts of the household, blinding rays of light could be spotted escaping the windows.Screams rang out from behind as the blue beam shot forward.It blasted through the door as it increased in size and pulled everything in the vicinity into its centre of gravity.Boom!It exploded with intensity after reaching a particular distance. Meanwhile, I and BJ slid across the living room due to the powerful recoil pushing us back."Hnnggh!" I groaned while closing my eyes as I struggled to sto

In horror, I turned to see David's arm outstretched as he got accosted by three infected monkeys."David!" BJ's mother screamedI BJ and I turned around swiftly with our spears poked forward.Unfortunately, infected humans were blocking our path to him."Get out of my way!" BJ screamed as he blindly hit an infected with his QUAX in rage.Bang!The infected head made a loud cracking sound as its body spun from the force of the hit, and it slammed heavily into the ground.With the way the human infected blocked our path, I could have sworn they knew we were trying to get back to one of our own and planned to deter us. I had two energy charges left, but if I made use of one in this situation, innocent people would be harmed. The energy charge had a large area of concentration. "Arrrrrgh! Please h-help!""David, use your knife!" I screamed at him."Dustin!" Bella's dad called for me.I turned to sight a gun flying in my direction. I caught it and centred it in the direction of the appr

However, in the next instant...BANG!A loud gunshot rang out, and the next thing I witnessed was the monkey's head exploding into pieces right on my face.I felt my face burn from the hotness of its black blood as I yelled out in pain."Fuck!" I rushed to rub my face with my sleeves."Don't let it get into your mouth!" Bella yelled."Water! Water!" I screamed.My mother who had a backpack strapped to her shoulders quickly brought out a pet bottled water and handed it to me.I wasted no time in making use of the contents to wash my face and mouth of the blood.After spitting for the umpteenth time I finally stood up while clutching my right arm.The people around us had left us behind and kept running for their dear lives while my group wasn't interested in leaving me behind.The black blood on my face had been cleared but I was left with reddened cheeks, forehead and neck from the burn.As my vision cleared, I viewed the bloody carnage of the monkey's corpse but then I also noticed w

If we didn't leave the street, we were going to be the next victims.I urged myself to move faster as there was no guarantee that shooting at them would even yield any results since the military was having a hard time as well.The mosquitoes were fast and managed to repeatedly escape the projectiles showered at them. They seemed to be even more deadly weapons than what the military had in their possession as they repeatedly sucked people dry, turning them to dust.I heard the sound of vehicles ahead and spotted more military transport trucks."Everyone, get on the trucks!" a soldier shouted.I counted six of them, but we were still a long way from getting there. My little sister breathed heavily as she ran, but she didn't stop.My legs were aching as a result of running, and the QUAX arm did nothing to help my situation. I could also see that BJ was struggling with his, but there was no time to stop and unequip them.Normal weapons seemed to be having difficulty penetrating the tough

-For some time, the drive was silent except for a few snores that came from the survivors within the truck.BJ and the others had slept off as well.As for me, I couldn't sleep. I could still hear the screams in my head and see the vivid images that flickered through my brain.As I lay in place, looking through the window at the night sky, I recalled the past events that led up to that pivotal moment when everything changed.We hadn't realized that the after-effects would be this unbearable. Hell, I even thought the rumours were strengthened by jobless and lazy people who didn't have better things to do.The government hadn't said a thing at the time, so I wasn't inclined to believe the rumours. I thought we were safe, but now it turns out that the truly delusional one was myself. It made me wonder what would have happened if it occurred years ago.As a kid, would I have been able to make it? Would I have been able to protect my loved ones? Would I have been able to survive? I just d