Chapter 02: Supplies (Re-made)

I got a bit of a haul from my neighbors. I had an increase in my ramen reserves, bringing my total up to 20, a couple more water bottle packs, a pack of cigarettes, some beer bottles and ooh! some ground beef. I found it in a mini freezer alongside the beer and i also found some chips packets. I reckon i could survive a week with my supplies, if i used them carefully.

As mush as I want to stay here in my home forever, I don't have the luxury to, i want to find out what happened to the world, where did these zombie's come from? Are there people like me that survived if so where are they?So many questions yet no answers. To get those answers, I have to step outside and find them.

Even if I don't want those answers, The zombies probably won't leave me in peace, someday there is gonna be a zombie or God forbid multiple zombies that are gonna pass by my house and when they see me their gonna want to know how I taste like. And despite all those issues and there is one bigger than them, FOOD! I can't exactly make food out of thin air.

So I have to go and seek out food, the best place would be to go to the store. The store is just down the street,left to my apartment, even though it's close there are bound to be some zombies around the store.

Its best if i have a better weapon than my bloody pan and secondly, I need to have some medical equipment for emergencies. Too bad I don't have something to make a proper bludgeoning weapon out of or would a sharp weapon do as well, in the movies a zombie wouldn't go down as long as it's head remains intact. I'll have to test that theory but at least, i can make some cloth armor-to protect me from the disease, at least.

I collected various fabrics from my neighbours and I'm now covered head to with a makeshift cloth armour. This should protect me from the disease. It's...about time i head out now...I can do this, i already killed two zombies, what's a few more, right? anyway.

I also had myself a makeshift cloth bag in order to carry stuff in case if there isn't a bag at the store. I also cleaned my own carefully, I would've liked to clean it more properly but I had neither the time or resources too. I had brought my kitchen knife to test my theory on the first zombie I found hopefully it would be a success.

I removed the leaning mattress from the guard rails and put it back as I step down on the stairs. When my feet started to make noise, I tried to walk more silently and finally reach the end. Looking around both ways there was one zombie facing the other way on the left side of the apartment. Ahead of the zombie there were loads of zombie at North West of the apartment apparently fighting each other and well eating too.

I took out my knife,held it with both hands and got close to the zombie, it was hunching it's back there looking around and sniffing repeatedly. It started walking ahead, I quickly got close to it, it started turning it's head but a second too late as I had pierced it's forehead with my knife.

As it let out some moans and started to fall. I had concluded that my test has succeeded. I was growing concerned for myself. I had started looking at people as just zombies, something to kill. I was losing my sympathy for them. Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I gotta focus or I'll get killed. I started walking ahead and heard chewing and groans with moans.

Shivers went down my spine. I walked slowly towards the source of the sounds. I peeked from outside of the alleway and saw a slightly obese bloody zombie eating the legs of a human. The zombies face was bloody, it kept on chewing, it bit off huge pieces as if to swallow them whole. What was strange about it was that it didn't eat the clothes, only the flesh and even from the flesh it left out somethings. It showcased a degree of intelligence which the previous zombies didn't have-no wait the third zombie! It was sniffing and was hunched down on purpose.

How did I miss that? they aren't mindless. Then why were those ones from before so different, they acted as if they were dazed like ZOMBIES! but these ones show animal like behaviour. The third zombie was acting as if it was hunting.

Realisation dawned on me, they are becoming intelligent! but why weren't the first ones like them is it a time thing? Were they zombies not long enough? my future is getting more bleak by the second. Calm down, I'll deal with things one at a time. I stepped inside the alleway way, careful to not make any noise.

I made my way towards the the back of the zombie, slowly but surely i got there. The zombie did freeze up sometimes-scaring the hell out of me, turns out it was... i didn't exactly knew what it was doing,it just sometime stared at the flesh in annoyance then stop eating a part of that flesh but when it was done eating that part it would eat the part it didn't like, either it was smart enough to make minor plans like that or it was just that hungry. No matter what is was? It did not let me have peace in my mind, pessimistic thoughts kept in popping up in my mind about how I'm certainly doomed but I tried to ignore them everytime.

When i finally got behind it, I took a deep breath in and raised the slightly bloody knife above my head and lodged it deep inside the zombie at the left corner of it's skull. The zombie went down with a silent grunt but it's death didn't give me the peace I wanted. There probably are thousands no tens of thousands of zombies just like this one, what am I going to do?! When I don't even know how the virus transmits.

Calm down Aiden, clutching my head with both hands and closing my eyes. I inhaled and exhaled slowly and repeatedly to calm myself down. After regaining some peace in my mind by not thinking of my possible short future, I .. noticed something.

I noticed that everything was outlined with some sort of transparent color, something that if I didn't actively look for I wouldn't find it. 

Observing this spectacle, I completely forgot about my bleak future. The dead zombie's were also outlined like everything else was, i went towards the zombie I just killed, beside it the remaining piece of foot it was muching in before and then saw the outline from up close-it's so ..strange. Amazed, I tried to look even closer at the foot but finally, I gave up my determination for not getting in contact with zombies and tried to touch the outline. A decision I came to regret as i got hit by a sudden headache.

"ARRGH!!",groaning painfully,I clutched my mind with both hands letting the pan fall to the ground. It took a few moments in reality but for me it felt like hours-ooh..ooh..oh!, I got a few visions and a huge load of information in my head.

I looked towards the area where the remaining foot that i touched but it was no where to be found. The visions were of exactly that foot. The vison showed me everything about it, I had seen and even now see the piece of flesh in my mind even now but it was different than my thoughts, imagination or memories.

It was something similar to 3d image or model and it was kinda greyed out but at the same time it wasn't, like I had two copies of the information, one that was greyed out and the other normal. I was confused-why is it like that?, my face strained in confusion. I imagined it to be to normal then right in front of my lap some thing wet appeared.

I opened my eyes startled, in front of me was the same missing half eaten piece of foot. A bit of blood also dropped on my clothes-Did... I do that?..Am I hallucinating?,carefully I touched the piece of flesh but soon as I felt it, I quickly took my hand back. I stared at the piece of flesh,amazed"Oh my God.. I really made that appear",whispering to myself.

I only imagined it to be normal like the other copy of itself but instead it appeared Infront of me, I still have it inside of mind with nothing changed, what exactly did I do? Did I somehow store it in my mind and brought it back? No that can't be it because I still have it in my mind with nothing changed or did I make a copy of it appear. I tried to repeat what I did that caused it to appear and something dropped right at the same place. 

The possibilities are endless with this...where did this ability come from? Since from when could I do this?So many more questions that just pop up by the minute but they remain unanswered.

However I got these powers doesn't really matter in my situation, I might just really survive in this world. With this ability i reckon my food problem should be gone that is...if this ability is as good as i think it is which it probably isn't but still though I now have hope in this hopeless world.