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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: The Fall

10th February 2024.

It was a normal day as any other in the busy streets of Kenya's capital. Carts, buses, motorcycles and private vehicles moving to and from the CBD ferrying people to different destinations.

Somewhere in the city. A famous location for travellers, inside the coach station chaos had anraveled.

Started with a mild headache, next came the increased temperature, difficulty in breathing then he collapsed on the floor.

Concerned netizens rushed to help the poor guy who had most probably received and accepted the call from death. Some felt sorry for the guy, others looked around to see look for cameras thinking it was one of those TikTok pranks.

One minute,,,,,two minutes,,,,, three minutes. It happened, there infront of the crowd, the young man stood up staggering, his eyes,,,well I don't know what they looked like I wasn't there.

The guy who had tried CPR earlier moved close to check on him. His hand placed on the young man's shoulder trying to call him.

That's when it happened. He felt a strong grip on his arm, before he could register what happened he felt a sharp pain on the hand. He looked, there, in front of his eyes, the young man had bit of half a pound of flesh from his arm.

He could see dark lines spreading from the bite. Before he could register what was happening, the poor Samaritan collapsed.

By now everyone present had registered what was happening but it was too late as the first patient zero had already infected ten more people in the group.

You will think with how many zombie movies people have watched, they will take down these group before it spreads farther but that's just wishful thinking.

Everyone wants to be a hero during an apocalypse that's until it happens. The first thing that will come to mind is run, nobody wants to be a full time carnivore even full time vegans still give blowjob's. Fear gives birth to chaos and chaos brings even more chaos.

20 minutes from the first infection, more than one thousand had been infected. The police had come in trying to bring order the Kenyan way, tear gas, batons and of course bullets. Makes me wonder how that's supposed to stop riots when it just angers more people adding to masses.

What started as people running for their lives, turned into a war with law enforcement, then back to everyone running for their lives as the number of infected swelled.

One hour after the first infection.

The infection had now turned catastrophic, it was chaos everywhere, the military had been deployed but they weren't doing fine either.

Bullets rained, zombies falling after losing limps but still crawling towards the civilians running around trying to get to their families.

Everywhere around the country chaos had erupted. People shouting for help, others crying for their dead loved ones who later came back to life munching on their flesh.

10 hours after the first infection.

By now you could say the country can't be saved. Nairobi was overrun by zombies, buildings were burning and the looters were trying their luck by looting many ending up as zombie food.

Everyone had already received news from the RMS media house, it wasn't just in Kenya but the entire world was in chaos. Some countries were still fighting, trying to contain the infection within the area it erupted but damn, even the dead in morgues were rising everywhere adding to their insecurities.

One day after the first infection.

The country had turned silent. Streets looked deserted except for the zombies that were now moving around drawn by sounds of car alarms and the movement of feet running around. Survivors would occasionally run from building to building looking for a safe hiding place.

In just a day, more than has the world population had fallen turning into full time carnivores. Africa had gone silent, though some countries were still trying to hold on. It won't be long until they run out of supplies and joined the masses.

The United States, China, Russia, France, India and many other countries with strong military presence were still holding on, pushing hords back. Soldiers were tired, civilians had given up, governments had fallen and they knew, it won't be long now.

Nobody has ever stopped and apocalypse from all the movies and shows they had watched.

Many governments had retreated to bunkers to preserve what they called civilization, the human species and whatnot.

Day two after the first infection.

Everything had gone silent. Abandoned cars littered the streets. Military tanks, crashed helicopters, blood and growling zombies was what remained in the streets.

All over the world, the scenes didn't change. There was no more government, no military, nothing just abandoned and crashed military hardware.

What remains is a sight, an image of a fallen world. Maybe there might be some hope after hiding underground for 200 years. That is if they don't feast on each other.

14th February 2024.

Many warlords had risen by now, creating shelters for their fellows, some with good intentions others, let's just say like in every apocalypse, the most dangerous aren't the monsters but the humans themselves.

Those countries with large populations were now hot no go zones due to the number of infected roaming the streets.

If survivors were still there, they couldn't be saved at all. Broadcasts had been issued for those who weren't infected to stay indoors and pray that help will come their way.

The remainders of governments had assured to send help and even given coordinates of safe zones they had created through the emergency channels. Survivors had been asked to find each other and try reaching these camps together avoiding crowded areas and maybe they'll survive long enough.

15th February 2024.

Most essential facilities had now broken down and no longer functioning. Water was unavailable, probably due to broken pipes, most places had gone dark after electricity went off in major cities around the world.

It will take a week for the whole world to go dark turning everyone blind at night. I would say that's the worst that could happen, but nobody knows about the situation in the wild. We both know it a place filled with predators and now everyone was turning into one.

What's happened to the real predators is unknown since nobody had tried exploring the wild. Maybe they just went in and never got out.

By now, it's obvious the world can't be saved and everyone has to survive to the best of their abilities.

The world has fallen, humanity faces extinction. Not from a falling meteor or a solar flare but from something they kept thinking may happen but never took the matter seriously and now it happened, none were ready for this, it was all like a movie brought to life.

Even nukes couldn't launch, someone had hacked and locked every government out of their arsenals preventing launch or manual detonation, saving the world from nuclear winter or the likes that could've happened.

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