It wasn't always death and destruction... that came after.
Cities used to be full of people, rivers were full of pollutants and nature was kept at bay by humanity... but what happens when humanity has fallen?
Nature takes back what was once part of it's ecosystem. This has been shown many times, in places like Chernobyl and surrounding area of Pripyat, places where people do not inhabit in large numbers, Nature will always be dominant, no matter how hard we try to fight it back, it will always win.
Speaking about Chernobyl, it was the disaster there 1:27AM on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that began it all, There was a sudden and unexpected power surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a cataclysmic larger spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor rupture and a series of explosions.
These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite. The resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere, That is what we were told, that is what we believed, until the truth came out, but that was only after the first deaths brought it to the foreground, when the dead began to come back to life, monsters from our darkest nightmares. it took Twenty-Eight years for it to happen, making Chernobyl a time bomb.
But i don't want to get ahead of myself, i'll start from the beginning, well at least where i come in, which as you may have already worked out is as the writer of this particular account, See, back then i was a small time writer at the start of the events that unfurled.
now, i could make myself more important then i was but that would just not be conducive to what i am telling you now, let's put it this way, My name is Denan Smith and i was Twenty-One at the time, i had just moved from my old home town in Kent to Leicestershire, i moved north while looking for work with my oldest friend Skyler Rose, who like I, Was looking for a job Writing.
what We found was so much more, We were present at the initial panic and the overall fall of humanity, I'll give you a rundown of the last few days before things went to hell. this'll mainly be parts of my diary from the time, i was always taught to keep notes of everything i see and hear, good thing i did, luckily others had the same idea so it's easy to find videos, diaries and audio recordings of the Plague.
November 23rd 2014:
So today is officially my third week here, Skyler keeps saying "we're bound to get work soon" which i'm now thinking she says more out of hope then actual facts, i've always been one for the facts, like the fact no one seems to know what to do about this Ebola epidemic, it's been sweeping the world, so far England has managed to avoid it.
Amazingly we've actually done well for ourselves on something, on the plus side our new house is pretty large, It's a five bedroom detached house, Skyler and I fought over the biggest room but in the end i let her win, so i took a smaller room to sleep in and a room as my study, we also turned the fourth room into a library, we seem to send a lot of time in there now, noses in books, i swear we aren't like regular twenty-one year olds, that and the ability to cook, clean and live as fully functional members of society, anyway, i had better get back to finding work, i'll write some more ASAP i suppose, not that anyone is interested in my writing.
November 27th 2014:
well that was weird, we were watching Tv and suddenly everything went blank, no TV, no Internet, no Phone signal, just gone, like it was never there, there's been nothing to explain it but looking out the upstairs windows we can see fire far away, more then one, we're completely at a loss, we'll have to keep an eye and ear out to see what is going to happen, i have an interview tomorrow so i'll see what i can garner from the other candidates, i've been asked to head along to the Leicester tribune, hopefully this'll work out, Skyler has an interview there aswel, we'll see whats happening tomorrow, until then i'm off to see what i can find out.
December 1st 2014:
So, After all that all we hear are rumours and speculation, something about Ebola causing people who were supposedly dead to rise, i think that's a load of rubbish, things like that don't happen, it's more likely that untrained people have been doing the checks, these people who have "died" are probably in a deep sense of unconsciousness, waking up in piles of bodies and wandering off to find help, Skyler seems to agree with me so we are taking this with a pinch of salt, now we are both working at the Tribune we are hearing a lot about whats happening, Tv and everything came back the next day, part of a countrywide Blackout, nothing to be alarmed about, it's still quite temperamental so it happens alot, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
December 4th 2014:
Something bad has happened, it's like a plague has swept across African and Europe, people are dying in their thousands, it's like someone made this thing kick off, what we first thought was Ebola is something else entirely, this thing seems to go to an area and wipe it out completely, then moves on, like some Locust horde, the news said that reports show this will wipe out three quarters of the population outright, What is this? they say they've never seen anything like this before, Russia and the surrounding countries went dark yesterday, no sign of anything that'll stop this.
all the government is saying is that people should stay in their homes and not approach others, we had a party on monday night and still have Tara, Crystal, Lilla and Matt here, they can't get back down to Kent becasue all public transport has been cancelled, Matt and i are having to bunk, As are Skyler and Lilla and Tara and Crystal, it's been crazy, people have been rushing through the streets gathering supplies, it's mental to see, Yesterday Myself, Matt and Crystal went to get supplies for the coming weeks and managed to end up in a part of town that amazingly still had some stuff left, though at stupidly high prices.
By the time we got back it was five hours later and we'd seen a large fight break out in the high street, rushing home to avoid more of a scene like that we found the others waiting and looking concerned "what took you so long?" Tara asked as we piled through the door with bags and bags of food and other stuff needed, "we had to slog across town thank you very much" matt decided to snap at her, those two are always at each others throats.
"there was a riot in the highstreet that started about an hour ago, we thought you might have been caught up in it, the military was rolled out to deal with it!" Lilla said, looking through what we had, Crystal nodded "we caught the edge of it as we were heading home, we were lucky" the rest of this evening has been spent with us sat in silence listening to the sirens, the Power went out about half an hour ago and i had to use a lamp we got today to write under.
Crystal is making dinner as we speak, Matt is playing on his phone and the others are reading in the library with the bigger lamp, anyway, Crystal is calling us now, i'll update when i can.
December 10th 2014:
It's been almost a week since my last post now and all hell has broken loose, two days after i last wrote the riots really began, all up and down the country, people just snapped, took what they wanted and didn't care about others, then the military got involved and the shooting started.
at first they tried to maintain a heavy presence and put on a curfew but people haven't listened, it's anarchy because of this virus, France went dark three days ago, people know it's only just beginning for us, the police, paramedics and fire services have all been engaged for the last twenty four hours and fires burn through the night, you'd think that we were in the dark ages.
it's getting a lot colder now and there's only so much we can do, we are all sleeping the same room now to conserve heat, tomorrow myself and Matt are going to look for more supplies, looks like we are going to have to go through the winter like this, i never thought this would happen, spirits are low, and we spend hours in silence, trying to get any information we can in the hour or so that anything works, it's insane it can be like this in the twenty-first century!
looks like we need to get some sleep soon, the sirens are closer then ever tonight, i might suggest to the others that we pack some stuff and leave, might be a good idea.
December 18th 2014:
I have no clue what to say right now, it's all kicked off, we heard shots about six days ago, we've spent the last week fortifying the house, boarding the windows and making the doors stronger, just in case, Well we were fine until that last time to go out for supplies.
Matt and Lilla came with me, we decided to go at night so we would be harder to spot, we headed towards where the shots came from so we could see how in danger we were staying in the house, Well... what we found... was horrific, we had walked to the town center, and it was like a scene from a horror film, blood and bodies littered the floor, the stink of death was strong and soon we were being sick and crying from the stench.
none of us had seen anything like this before, after some time we all managed to pull ourselves together and slowly made our way towards the bloodbath, Matt suggested it would be good to see if there were any supplies nearby, so we skirted the edge and pushed on, after a while Lilla slowed down and looked around and spotting something jogged off after it.
Myself and Matt followed along at a fast pace, and there, almost hidden down a backstreet was a small convenience store, shutters still safely closed, we all looked at each other and then moved towards it, after about ten minutes we managed to gain entry by climbing onto the roof and dropping down into a small area out back.
after we had filled our bags we made our way back out, going the same way so that we could use this place again, as we were leaving Matt nodded down a side road, then explaining to us how there was an army surplus shop down there, and that it might be useful for gas masks so we don't have to put up with the stench again, we agreed and headed that way, after ten minutes we were stood inside the place.
we had to smash a window to get in which caused a fair bit of noise, after grabbing some gas masks, thick clothes and a few other supplies we found Lila looking at a load of knives "we should take them, who knows what people are doing to each other, we need to be able to defend ourselves" after a few seconds Matt and I agreed and grabbed as many as we could, before long we were heading towards the center of town again.
the smell catching on our noses, we put on the masks and proceeded cautiously, Matt leading us, Lilla in the middle and Myself bringing up the rear, as we neared the bodies we noticed something weird, they seemed to have stayed very well preserved, Matt commented on this as I was looking at a body of an old man, who could have been asleep, except for the five holes ripped threw his chest.
Lilla then pointed out nothing had started eating the dead yet, no foxes, birds or even dogs running loose had been near, that should have been our first sign that something about the whole scene was askew, after some minutes of silence we decided to head home, the streets are always so quiet now, it's almost like we are the only people left, it's freaky.
Luckily we got home just before night fall, Lilla said she thought someone was following us back, but we doubted it, i mean, why would someone follow us? they would be in the exact same condition as we are, though now it sounds like there is something moving in the darkness outside, it's kind of a shuffling sound, and i swear i keep hearing moans, i see the others looking too but i'm sure it's just our imagination, surely no one can be out there can they? who know's maybe there is more then just us left.
Anyway it appears Matt's decided to check out the noise, he's heading to the door, i suppose i'd better see whats occuring, there now seems to be a banging noise against the front door, and the moaning noise is louder... i wonder what it is?
END OF PART 1.......
Thanks for reading this guys! if you would like more then please let me know? i'll be working on more for future ventures and could do with feedback!
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