Zombified ~

* I'm sharing my zombies-story that I posted on Mirakee 35 weeks ago because I don't have new idea to post another zombie-story. 

* Difficult words meanings: (As the challenge on the app require us to use these)

Zoanthropy = A form of madness involving the delusion of being an animal, with correspondingly altered behaviour 

Widdershins = In a direction contrary to the sun's course, consodered as unlucky; anticlockwise.

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Zombified ~ 

A teenage boy stands outside a musical-instruments shop. 

His eyes focus on a guitar. The cashier is sleeping at the counter. 

"This is my chance!"; he thought. 

He creeps inside and takes the guitar. 

"Hey!" The cashier wakes up and see the boy. 

The boy run out of the shop; while the cashier shout "Thief!" 

He runs through an alley; as far as he can go and as fast as his feet takes him. 

It's a tunnel. That's where he is at right now. 

Still holding the guitar, he begins running his fingers through the strings. 

This is his first time playing a guitar. But, he already plays it so well. 

He falls asleep in the tunnel. It's been nights that he hardly sleep. 

While he is sleeping, a train comes forward in a widdershins direction.

He hear the sound. In a drowsy manner, he tries to stand. One of his feet; his left foot get stuck in between a railway track. 

He stumble; then, fall, yet, tries to get up. 

But, it's already too late.

The train hit him hard. He feels an intense pain. 

His body is there, lying on the ground. 

He looks at it. Instantly, he knows, he is already dead.

It's dusk. The sun has settling down. 

The moon begins his night-shift.

But, it looks bigger than ever. It's like a lunar eclipse phenomenon. 

He posses his own dead body and move his limbs. 

Suddenly, he start to howl like a wolf. He is in a zoanthropy state. 

He darts towards the moving train and attack the train conductor. 

Then, he moves forward. 

The passengers see him and start to get panic. 

"Zombie!" 

"No! Zombies!" As one of them point to the train coordinator. 

2 zombies becomes 20. 

A girl is the only one who survives as she jumps off the train. She safely lands on the grasses. 

She watches as the unstoppable train crashes and explodes. 

She is grateful that she is still alive. 

She walks alone in the dark until she arrives at the same tunnel.  

Too bad the guitar is broken. Or else she can try to play it. 

She picks up the guitar anyway. She thought to get it repaired. 

She arrives at the town that the teenage boy came from.

The cashier of the musical-instruments shop get scolded by his boss; for sleeping during work and also because of the guitar get stolen. 

"That's the guitar!" The cashier exclaimed 

"So, you are the one who stole it?" The boss asked her. 

"No, it wasn't me" 

"Yeah. It wasn't her. It was a boy" 

For returning the guitar, (even though its already broken), the shop owner a.k.a the boss gave her a dollar. 

She happily takes it. After thanking him, she bought a bread with the money and eat it hungrily. She was starving to death!  

The bread was only 50 cents so she had a change of another 50 cents. 

9 p.m.

The night is getting darker. 

Its a silent freezing cold dark night.

The shops in town are closing. 

The residents of nearby townhouses supposed to be sleeping. (Or maybe there's some of them who are still awake.)

As for her, with nowhere else to go, she has become homeless. 

So, she lay down at the corridor of a shop-lot. 

She was about to fall asleep when suddenly, she heard a scream. 

There is a woman not far from her. 

What makes her scream?

Out of nowhere, the horde of zombies from the train crash invade the town! 

Their voiced eachoed, "Brain! Brain!" 

But, they are supposed to be dead! 

Wait. They already dead. So, that means they just can't die again? 

Everyone in the towns are running away from the zombies. 

Some get eaten anyway.  

She see the zombies crack open peoples heads and munch their brains like snacks. 

It remind her to the sentence 'The zombies ate your brain' that appear after players lost Plants Vs Zombies game. 

It seems that the reality is more terrifying than the game. 

She sense a breath at her neck. She turn around and see a zombie try to attack her. 

She dodge it and stumble down. 

Her 50 cent falls from the pocket. 

She picks up the coin. 

The zombie is right in front of her and it grab her wrists. 

She pushes the coin in one of its eyeballs. 

It shrieked in pain. "Argh!" (Which sound like a pirate). 

Another zombie comes to attack her. 

But, a man goes between them. 

No, not a man. 

He's a zombie too. 

He is the teenage boy, the one who attack the train conductor before and the one who started all the chaos. 

"Go! Run! Now!" 

She wonder how he still has his conscience, that apart from being a zombie, he was a human too. 

She runs away from there. Not even looking back. 

Out of a sudden, there's loud sound of thunder and lightning strikes at the dark sky. 

She stops out of shock. 

The zombies look at the sky. 

They are attracted to sound and light. 

The rain start to fall heavily. 

But, its not a normal rain. 

Its an acid rain. 

The zombies cry hysterically as the water corrode their skin. 

She quickly stand under a shelter. 

Not long after that, all the zombies die. 

This time, its a real death. They will not come back alive again.

Their corpses are everywhere in the town.

It will take much time to bury all of them. 

She is the only one who survives from the zombie apocalypse. 

How could she keep living there, as everyone else has gone? 

So, she decide to continue her journey by walking to the next town ahead. 

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THE END 

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© Nuruliffa Emirah

@ nocturnal_enigma (Mirakee)