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JUNE 3rd, 2017
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
11:47 P.M.

Philadelphia, the largest city in all of Pennsylvania.
The home of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall and other rich historical sites and settings.

Referred to as the "city of brotherly love" and home to the Philadelphia Eagles and other well known sports clubs.

A rich city of culture, class, heritage, and history, truly worthy of marveling.



The cities standard nightly routine of a lit up skyline and streets filled by hundreds, if not thousands, of well paced cars is suddenly and abruptly interrupted by a massive explosion that rips across the night sky, illuminating it in yellowish-red light.
The explosion engulfed a cluster of small buildings as well as surrounding cars, both parked and those driving as well.
A combination of screams, shouts, and alarms cuts through the night air of Philadelphia less than a minute after the explosion.
Flames are billowing up all around and people can be seen rushing about through the streets, as well as scrambling out of and away from the buildings that are engulfed in the inferno.

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His gray eyes snapped open in the darkness of his bedroom.
He raised his head up from his pillow in a hurried fashion, and pushed the covers down from his stomach where they rested down to just below his knees.

The young man reached over and tried to click on the lamp on the night stand nearby.
Nothing.
He pulled the chain three or four more times, and still no response.
He glanced at the digital clock nearby, and saw that it was blank. Dead.

He grabbed up his phone which lay next to the lamp, he unhooked the charger and unlocked it, squinting his eyes to hear closure to read the time on the brightly lit screen.

12:12 A.M.

He clicked off his phone and yawned broadly and rather loudly.
Nothing could be seen of him in the pitch black room, only a silhouette at best.

As he turned his head he immediately noticed the shining through the closed curtains on the other side of the room.

He stood and wiped the sleepiness from his eyes as he ambled over to the window.
As he reached the window, he reached out with both hands and slid the curtains open.

He was met with the sight of a roaring yellow inferno in the distance, farther off in another district of the city, the massive column of flame writhed and twisted in the sky.
He could hear sirens and alarms in the distance, and also noticed the dark shape of a helicopter hovering hundreds of feet over the great blaze.

Another thing he noticed was that Philadelphia seemed to be nearly pitch black.

As he leaned against the window and observed, he counted that only around a dozen or so of the larger buildings and skyscrapers from his viewpoint had any kind of lighting.
Everything else was totally dark.

He lowered his gaze to the street four stories below the hotel he was staying in.
Blackness. Total darkness, no light from anywhere, even the street lights were out.

He didn't even see any cars.

"What in hell-fire...?" The words barely slipped from his mouth in the form of a whisper.

His thoughts were interrupted and he jumped abruptly as he heard a loud crash from the hallway outside, like that of glass breaking, followed by an ear splitting female scream.

This scream was accompanied by loud shouts and what sounded like grunting and huffing.
In fact it all sounded like it was right outside his door.

A bead of sweat ran down the young man's face.
He hustled away from the still exposed window and headed for his bag that sat at the foot of the bed when suddenly his room door began rattling and shaking violently.
The metal on the hinges and door knob clanked rapidly as the door seemed to be shaking and rocking.

The only thing worse than that was the frantic and savage sounding grunting and snarling that could be heard from the other side of the dark door...

12:12 AM

Meleena woke up with a start, nearly falling out of her bed as a loud explosion and a flash of light stirred her awake in her dorm. Clutching the blankets tight, she leaned over to the window to check outside.

"What the hell..."

A large yellow fire could be seen in the distance from the U Penn college dorm, burning brightly as many emergency vehicles were seen flooding to the scene. Was it some kind of terroist attack? Had a power plant blown up? Whatever it was, it was huge.

The even weirder thing was most of the lights in the whole city was dead. No street lights, and most of the buildings were completely devoid of light. Looking around her own room, her PlayStation and TV both didn't have a light on. It must have caused an EMP, or at least hit something to shit the power off for most of the city.

Meleena knew that staying there probably wasn't a good idea, as she got up and padded over to her closet. She was wearing a pair of white sweatpants with pink shorts underneath, a gray U Penn tank top that was soon covered by her leather jacket. She slipped her bare feet into her running shoes, stuffing her phone, keys, and wallet into her pocket.

Why hadn't the alarms went off? There was no evacuation effort, no voice coming over the intercom. The fire alarm was disabled yes, but there seemed to be no evacuation effort. At least, a coordinated one. Just then screaming could be heard in the distance, and Meleena instinctively grabbed her softball bat, reaching into a drawer for a small flashlight.

"Well... here goes nothing." She breathes out slowly, grabbing the door with the hand holding the flashlight as she slowly pushed it open. She didn't know where she was going yet, but she knew she couldn't just stay here.

The dorm hallway itself was totally dark.

All except for one thing, which was a random yellow flashlight lying in the middle of the floor just past Meleena's doorway.

It was very bright and was pointed to the right, down the hallway.

The light was shining on what appeared to be two figures down on the floor.
At a more focused look however, it could be see that it was a woman lying sprawled out on the floor, her dark hair was spread out around her head.

The other figure looked to be a bald black man, he was crouched over the girl with his head lowered.
You could hear him breathing heavily and giving small grunts.
His head continually jerked and twitched as well.
Topping it off was the smacking sounds and the noise of clothing being ripped, as well as what sounded like meat being pulled apart.

Further down the hall, what sounded like slow, shuffling footsteps could also be heard.

After looking down the hallway, Meleena froze as he saw the two figures, the man looking to be physically eating to poor girl laying on the floor. What the heck was happening? Were people cannibals now? She was going to go in to try to save her, but it looked like she was already dead. Besides, she really didn't want to bother the cannibal man. She certainly didn't want to be lunch. So, making sure she didn't mess with the flashlight, she used her own and shined it down the opposite hallway, seeing if she could make her way to the stairs.

She heard a lot of shuffling coming from the gall the other two were in as she picked up her pace, clutching her bat tight. Why was everything and everybody going crazy after that explosion? No power, a huge yellow flame, some guy eating a dead girl in the hall. Meleena almost puked, but kept trudging on as she simply knew she did not want to be anywhere near that shit.

The hallway ahead seemed to be totally deserted, yet it looked as if disaster had struck.

Many of the dorm room doors were standing wide open, and while some were closed and looked to be in normal order, a few of them were actually barricaded with benches from the hallways.

At the far end of the long hallway was the elevator that led down to the first floor and the building exits.
However, the elevator wasn't much good without power.
Luckily though, the closest door to the elevator was the staircase door, which passed by every floor and made it's way down to the bottom floor.

Two figures could be seen standing in front of the closed elevator door, close by, but not too close, to the staircase door.

It was two girls, both were dressed in tank tops and pajama pants, one was barefoot while the other had on lime green house slippers.
The one with the slippers was blonde and the barefoot girl had reddish brown hair.

Both were hunched forward, one was standing in a "vomiting position" with her hands on her knees while the other seemed to be madly squeezing her head with both hands.
One of them could be heard making moaning sobbing sounds.

They seemed totally unaware of anything around them.

Meleena cautiously walked to the two girls, still keeping her bat raised as she inched closer. She kind of made a circle around them, heading for the door with the staircase. After almost throwing up at the sight of a guy eating a dead girl, seeing people was a nice relief. Hopefully they weren't cannibals too however... apparently large explosions make people want to eat each other? She had no idea what was happening, but she needed to get the hell out of there.

"Hey guys, um there was a big explosion, power's done, it's pretty scary. I'm trying to get out of here to find help, and down the other end of the hallway is some guy eating a dead girl. I think. It's... not good at all. So, uh if you want you're more than welcome to come with! As long as you promise you're not cannibal people too... I'd like my flesh intact please." She offered, leaning against the doorway to look at the two.

Something seemed off with them, but it may just be the panic setting in. One looked like they were throwing up and the other seemed to be crying and grabbing her head, all semi normal things in such a situation.

The two girls are hearing the voice both sinultaneously raised their heads up.

At first they seemed confused about where Meleena's voice came from as they jerked their heads around in practically every direction.
Until finally they both looked around directly at her.

While the blondes' face was still shrouded in darkness, the redhead was caught in the light.



They both gave rather savage and aggressive shouts, or loud grunts rather, and rushed forward, the redhead being closer raised her arms to grab hold of Meleena while the blonde closed the short distance.

Suddenly the two seemed to turn their heads, and Meleena suddenly knew that something was up. They did not look like normal college girls anymore. They had the same exact look the cannibal down the hall had. Except these two were grunting rather loudly and grabbing for her.

"Okay never mind then, all you had to say was no!" Meleena said as she backed up into the doorway a bit, swinging her bat at the redhead closest to her. With a satisfying crunch it connected, toppling her into the blonde right behind her. Somehow Meleena had a feeling that it wouldn't keep them down for long.

Melerna slammed the staircase door behind her, looking for the closest thing to put in front of it before bolting down the steps for the ground floor, repeatedly whispering to herself "Shit shit shit shit shit."

"Why is everybody and everything trying to kill me? Can somebody please explain that? First a big explosion happens, now there are cannibals in my school. And those two girls I knew were normal people who went here. What the hell happened to them? Drugs? Insanity?" Melerna whispered to herself, shuddering at the thought.

"Either way, I need to get the hell out of here."

Just outside of the dorm building, out in the parking lot, total chaos it seemed was overtaking the whole city.

Fires could be seen all through the skies across the city, accompanied by the mixture of sounds of sirens, alarms, horns, screaming and yelling, and lots of gunfire and explosions.

The streets were swarming with frantic people who seemed to be running from something, as well as vehicles racing around, or in some cases directly through those in front of them.

Of all the sounds raging through the air, the screaming and yells of panic and disorientation were the loudest.

Back in the parking lot of the dorm, a young couple were nearby the front door, madly yanking on the doors of a blue four-door Malibu.

Both were adorned only in pajama clothing with hoodies pulled over their tops and tennis shoes on their feet.

The girl yelled frantically from the passenger side of the car," Thomas where are the keys?!"

The young man had stepped back from the car door and was rifling through his hoodie pockets,"I-I must have left them inside!"He replied.

"What!?"The girl cried out, having given up on her door as well.

An angry snarl split the air nearby, as what appeared to be a rather ragged looking police officer came stumbling from behind some nearby shrubs.
His black uniform was dirty looking and torn in places.
His face was pale as a ghost and strained with an angry looking expression and his eyes were blood red.
He was running straight toward the couple who were at the car.

The girl saw him first,"Thomas run!" She screamed, as she and the man both turned and began sprinting off across the parking lot, the grunting, raging police officer running raggedly along behind them.

Meleena got to the parking lot, looking shocked as all the horror surrounded her. Chaos. Fire. Destruction. Cars everywhere, even running over some people. The people were frantic, running away from something as they pushed each other out of the way for their own personal safety. Something told her that she did not want to meet the something.

Looking around the parking lot, she noticed that her light blue Porsche was still in the parking lot. "Yes, now I can get out of here... maybe drive some back roads out of the city." She whispered to herself, jogging over to it. Suddenly she saw the couple screaming and running from the cop as she sighed. It seemed like one of the cannibal people, but the two of them were the only non insane people that she saw since the explosion. Her instinct told her to leave them, but her heart said go help. I mean, maybe they could help her? Or, maybe the cop still had a gun on him.

"Hey, run over here! We can use my car!" Meleena called out to them, regretting it almost as soon as she said it as she gripped her softball bat tightly. She knew she would need a home run swing on that cop's head as soon as they led him over there.

The couple sprinted on together with the raging police officer in tow, grunting and groaning as he raggedly chased after them.
The two never heard Meleena's shouting over the chaos all around as well due to their own instincts focusing only on escaping the danger behind them.
They soon melted into the mob of people fleeing down the street.

A loud crashing sound of glass breaking split the air near Meleena, as the nearby glass double doors leading into the dorm were shattered open.
The cause being a young looking Asian girl who had smashed through the closed doors, she staggered forward, shards of glass sliding off of her body and from her hair and tinkling to the ground around her.

She raised her head, revealing the same deathly pale skin and bloodshot eyes that were also bore by the two girls back inside as well as the police officer from just a minute ago.

She peeled her lips back showing her teeth and began rapidly moving her arms as she hustled toward Meleena.
An angry snarl from nearby could also be heard, followed by a man whirling around the nearby corner of the building, his digital camouflage uniform and helmet identifying him as a soldier, unfortunately though, he too shared that same corpse pale skin and blood red eyes.
He and the already mobile young woman both advanced on Meleena.

"God dammit." Meleena mumbled to herself, watching them disappear into darkness before turning her attention to the girl. Of course, she tries to help and it didn't even matter. Everybody was for themselves she supposed. Maybe she should be thinking about that... just getting the hell away from there. Far away from there, somewhere safe, before trying to comprehend what the hell was going on and what to do next.

Pushing the button to her car door to unlock it, she saw the Asian girl burst through the glass double doors. Shit that was really loud... and scary. A lot of people must of heard that. Those pale, flesh eating people that have seemed to take over Philly. Not people tht she particularly wanted to interact with.

Meleena lined up her bat, pinging the bat off the Asian girl's head, seeing as she was pretty close to her. Quickly after that she got in her car, shutting the door and putting her key in the ignition. The Porsche came to life, the engine revving up as she quickly through the car into drive. Pressing on the gas pedal, she whipped the car around, trying to avoid the soldier that was very close if not on top of her car, as well as the girl she just dropped with her bat that was now leaning next to her.

If she hit one of the two in the process, so be it, but she was headed for the west side entrance to the campus and heading for some back roads where she knew it was less populated.