Neoxian's Prodigious and Desolate Post-Apocalyptic Writing contest! | The Virus

davinsh (53)in #writing • 6 years ago

I woke up in a hospital with an empty dextrose still attached on my arm. Flowers on my table have died and dried up. I am thirsty and no one is there to assist.

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The last thing I remember was I am driving a car fell from the bridge because I avoided a woman running towards my speeding car.

I hear noises outside my room so I pressed the button that should call the nurse for assistance, but no response.

So I stood up, feeling dizzy and dry, I tried to reach for the door. Until I noticed that it is locked and the door is sealed by some plastic curtain.

As I check on the time on the table with a date in it. It was 20 days since I fell in that bridge.

I found a cup of soda on the floor. Without hesitation due to thirst, I picked it up and drink it. I drink it all up despite the taste have gone. An hour later, still no nurse, so I tried to unlock the door from the inside.

As I opened it, doctors and nurses in a hazmat suit are all there busy assisting such numerous patients.

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A foul smell began to linger in my nose. Vomit and feces all around the floor of the hospital. They are so busy they didn't notice I am out of my room until another person in a hazmat suit pushed me back to my room.

Upon falling on the floor, they checked my eyes, ears, and mouth. After such, the put a gas mask on me and carried me out to another room. Before entering the room, they injected something to me, washed, mysted and put in a sealed room. This time, I have my own refrigerator with complete food inside and some medicine. I took the food and eat ignoring the medicines.

After approximately 5 hours, as there is no clock available in the room. They gave clothes and shoes which I immediately wore. Then they escorted me out of the hospital through a tunnel with 5 people still in hazmat suit while me in a gas mask.

They direct me into an armored truck which I ride. I tried to ask what's going on, but all I received was to not get contact to anyone and always wear my mask when going out. Your home is not safe either, so you will be delivered to a government facility for quarantine. Still not finish to ask, the truck's door closed and we drove off.

While driving, I peek at a small hole of the truck and saw a crying girl asking for help from a soldier, while the man is keeping her away from him. Later on, the girl's hair fell off, she fainted and dried up to her bone like a year old dead body. I can't believe what I just saw, in an instant, the girl died and decayed.

Upon reaching the government facility, I was held again in a room and got brief about what is happening.

An unknown virus is attacking the whole country and whole world. And it has killed millions of people already for the past 10 days, including newborn while some are not even born yet.

Everyone has no idea where did it came from and no cure yet as well. But one is confirmed, it is airborne.

I again have undergone the procedure of being washed, tested and provided with new clothes, while the one I wore was burned in a separate sealed room.

I was provided with my own small room enough for a single person with glass walls, living in a big facility own by the government and have no idea where we are. Together with the rest of the people who have a negative result from the virus.

Like everyone else, we are separated from our families and has no idea where they are.

The facility is so safe that we have to eat in our room and we have to wear a mask whenever we want to talk to someone in limited time only.

We were monitored by soldiers in hazmat, every corner of that facility has one. Our hygiene is being taken care off twice a day, and a medicine/vitamin are provided every after meal.

I am asking everyone on how to contact my family but no one care to provide an answer. I even told them to just let me go and just let me die outside to just to find my loved ones. But all I received is a sleeping vaccine.

Until one afternoon, some group of army entered the facility in panic movements together with the assigned doctor to the facility. They were discussing something while the doctor is packing up things while. Through his hazmat, I can say that he is worried. Until, one of us being quarantine just scream and afterward, his head just fell off with a squeezed-like neck. Then this was followed by another screamed "my legs!".I witnessed how her legs dried up and crack, it detached from his body living her seating on a chair.

Everyone panicked. Some went back to their room while some caused a stampede. While I find my way to escape.

I find my way out of the facility... And by my surprise, there no other establishments outside, we are in a desert. It's hopeless, but I have to find my family, so I steal some ride and drive away. Hoping to find my loved ones.