All Chapters of Zombie Nation: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9
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Chapter One - Doom
I can’t feel my face!I can’t feel my face!!I CAN’T FEEL MY FACE!!!My head rang with a nagging headache as I touched my face all over. I was touching it, but I couldn’t feel anything, it was as if nothing was there.I stared at myself in the mirror. What I saw wasn’t me. I was standing right in front of the mirror, staring at a reflection that was supposed to be mine, but wasn’t. I knew it was me staring at the mirror, but the face that stared back at me was that of a total stranger. What stared at me was a monstrosity. The eyes were bloodshot with a dark ring around both eyes; its face was pale and gaunt. It was the image of a dead man that stared at me. My reflection looked dead, but I didn’t want to believe they were mine.I looked closer to the mirror, and what I saw terrified me, the image of death itself.Was I in a dream? It must have been a dream because that wasn’t me. I rummaged through the entire room in search of another mirror, anything that could reflect my image. I wo
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Chapter Two - We're all dead
I’m Jide Dairo… and I am dead. Literally speaking, I am dead. My heart had stopped and blood had stopped flowing in my veins, yet I was still conscious of my environment. I was alive in mind, but dead in body- I had my memories, I had dreams, I knew people but I was dead, we could be called undead, because we were dead, yet alive.There were others who were raving flesh eating zombies that thrived on human flesh. They were not like us, unlike us they had lost every fibre of their human consciousness; they had no knowledge of themselves and only had one basic need- to eat flesh. They moved in packs uncoordinated with usually skewed postures. They were animalistic and gaunt, debased beasts of a dead earth.Since the earth died in 2012, everybody else died with it. Nobody understood what happened, everything just died, Humans, Animals, Trees… everything. The earth became dark and sullen, no beauty, just gloom. The skies were red, the oceans were filled with black water, and every living
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Chapter Three - I'm Alive
It was total chaos. It was on every channel, news channels, movie channels, sports channels, music channels; every channel had the story of the epidemic showing on it. It was in the news, and it was all around her.Nneka had gotten home from school. Lola was able to see the doctor, but even the doctor had fallen sick. Everybody had fallen sick, and nobody had any idea what to do about it. It was total chaos.At home her mum was already sick. She had called their family doctor, but he seemed to be in bad condition himself. At the hospital, everyone was sick. The doctors were sick and they couldn’t do much to help the hundreds of people that were trying to get medical help. A lot of people had given up hope and had just went back home. The parking lot was crowded with people who were waiting to get in. There were already hundreds of people inside the hospital and the hospital management who looked like they needed help themselves stood behind the doors that were now locked. Mothers were
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Chapter Four - Mother
Can the dead still die? The undead died from the hands of other undead everyday, an unending war of misplaced ideals, power and survival. On the other hand, the question that gave us hope if answered was if we could live again. We had become undead, either beasts of circumstance or intelligent zombies, we were all dead. I looked up at the black sky and saw that it was as dark as my heart was, except that my heart wasn’t beating anymore.News had it that there might just be hope for mankind. Scientists had ran a few test and had been able to cultivate a few living plants after discovering a living plant. Though they had been able to only cultivate plants of the same kind, the aim was to be able to genetically cultivate other plants using the living plant as a source. The theory was that all living things had a similar structure and that diversity was just as a result of differing alterations from the primary structure, which meant they could genetically engineer an apple seed from an
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Chapter Five - Monster's Ball
I was floating, floating in a world that was neither here or in the next, a world of thoughts, pain, and vengeance. My soul yearned for vengeance, but I couldn’t remember what I needed to do or who I was going to face the wrath of my vengeance.I was in total darkness, confused…lost. Where was I? Who was I? Where was I going to? Questions floated in my head. I knew I needed to do something, needed to go somewhere but I didn’t know what or where.Slowly my thoughts began to morph.Okoro! My Mother! I needed to find my Mother, and then get my revenge on Okoro.But was I still alive. Had Okoro killed me? Was this how death felt? The darkness had me confused.The darkness slowly ebbed. The first image that came to my sight was the dark clouds, red, hazy and dirty. It looked like death itself, the sun’s rays came in dull tiny streaks. It reminded me of the world we now lived in, a dead earth filled with hopelessness, sorrow and gloom.I had been dropped somewhere by Okoro’s men. They shoul
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Chapter Six - Yakubu
Was I dead? Yes I was. It gets really confusing to explain the fact that we were dead, yet, we were still alive, and that was the dilemma of the undead. No one really understood fully what that meant, being dead, but still moving around, talking, seeing. We still possessed some of our senses, but we were essentially dead and our hearts had stopped beating.We couldn’t inhale the sweet fragrance of a flower or breathe in the freshness of air. We didn’t feel any hunger for food or anything for that matter; we just existed, damned between death and life. Our souls yearned for life, and some say that is what kept us alive.I had drifted in darkness for longer than I could remember. The last thing I remembered was the light. I thought I was transcending to the next world, but it had just been darkness, and I had no idea when it would end. The darkness was endless, and the feeling of doom engulfed me. I heard nothing...I saw nothing...I felt nothing...I sensed nothing. I had lost all sens
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Chapter Seven - Staying Alive
Six months after the plague, everything Nneka knew was gone- the people she loved, the life she loved, and the world she knew and loved.Everyone around her had turned out dead or into hungry undeads. Some had lost their minds entirely, while others still had cognition- they looked dead, pale skinned and dark lipped but they still had a form of humanity. The world she knew was gone forever, and she decided she didn’t want to be a part of this present world, it was far from what she was used to.She was different from everyone around her, she wasn’t sure exactly why, but everybody looked different. Every moment was gruelling, she was always indoors, and sometimes there were thoughts of taking her own life, but she didn’t consider it much. She had always been a tough girl and had always found her way even in the tightest situations. She had decided she was going to fight it through no matter how long.She missed her life, and wished it could all come back. The fun days of partying, trav
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Chapter Eight - Gone Baby Gone
Okoro was determined to fish Jide’s mother out. Now it was all he wanted to do. He got very bad news just before leaving the settlement. Jide was still alive. He regretted not killing him right there at the settlement, now he had a vengeful brat to deal with.He was going to kill Jide’s mother today, make life more unbearable for the brat, then finish what he started. He was going to tear him into a hundred shreds, then burn the remains and scatter it in a hundred places. Nobody was going to save him this time. It had been a costly journey to Ikeja where the tracker indicated Jide’s mother was. He had lost almost seven men on the way; the beasts had taken over most of the major roads. They had been ambushed by almost a hundred of the flesh eaters in Maryland. They had fought hard, but the abominations were too many, they were lucky to still be in one piece.He still had about fifteen men and three vehicles in his entourage, two four wheelers and one van. He was still vexed by the unne
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Chapter Nine - The End
Okoro stood on the balcony of his fortress as he called it, surveying the surrounding view. Everything was working according to plan, maybe there were a few glitches, but the plan was still intact. Akpos had called him earlier. They had the girl and were on their way. They didn’t find Jide or the General, but he had expected that. Those two were probably on their quest to find Jide’s Mother, and once they got to the house and found out the girl was missing, they would come rushing here.Everything seemed to be working for him. Jide would want to seek revenge for his dead mother while General Yakubu would want the girl, and he would be waiting for both of them. Two birds with a stone.Two Birds…One Stone…He had the world in his hands. He was going to keep the girl alive, and use her as a pawn. He now had the only hope the world had- the only living being, the only none zombie. That alone was intriguing. He was always a step ahead of the world…always.He would wait for them, both Gener
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