I had this story idea for the Less Than Three thing, which was basically about this guy who is writing a zombie apocalypse story on a forum, where he meets a girl on there, and they fall in like. I scrapped the idea because I was busy and I got bored with it. Anyway, I had written the beginning of the zombie story with in the story. There’s not much depth, as it only explains what had happened. I’ve been thinking of finishing it, although I have no idea how long it’d be.

Summary: Asher Williams is a twenty-six year old survivor of a virus based apocalypse. Having just killed his best friend, he finds himself alone again. He now continues on his journey to find an underground haven, having to traverse the damned world in his search.

The year is 2030, however the world had ended in 2012, when the apocalypse happened. Boy did that surprise everybody. Who would have thought that 2012 would have been the end of the world? All those superstitious nuts were smug…well, at least, before they turned. Those who had looked at the whole “world ending in 2012” and scoffed at it certainly ate their words before they were eating. You see, the apocalypse did not happen by a giant dinosaur-killing meteor, nor did Lucifer and Michael fight it out. The apocalypse came in one small virus.

When this virus infects an organism, it shut down the humanity, leaving only savage instinct and incurable hunger. In essence, they are zombies, the living dead. In this case, they are very much alive. As in the old movies, zombies cannot feel any pain and they keep going until they are either destroyed or feasting. They lack any intelligence; all they wish to do is eat anything and everything, especially flesh. However, unlike those movies, these zombies do not change in appearance. Sure they may have drool and just grunt, but they move like regular humans and even worse, they look like regular humans. Killing your Aunt Marge is much harder when she looks like the same, friendly aunt who used to give you candy all the time. I suppose a silver lining is that not only do they look normal, but they can die like any average human.

In the old zombie movies, zombies were usually created by some secret organization, playing the “this could happen in real life” card, making the movies more scary and realistically. Ironically, the Human Error Virus (HEV for short) was not created by man, or at least not directly. The remaining scientists discovered that the HEV evolved from the common cold virus. Unfortunately, being well rested and having a piping hot bowl of chicken noodle soup won’t solve anything.

Why am I writing all this down? I think it’s because I want somebody to know what’s happened, in hopes that one day, humanity survives this hell. Or, maybe, it’s because I’m trying to stay awake the keep away the nightmares. It’s hard killing zombies when they are still 100% human. I think in those movies, it’s easier killing the zombies because they don’t look like people anymore. They looked like they’ve been damned, like they aren’t human anymore. In reality, we aren’t that lucky.

There are variations of zombies that I plan on adding, named (humorously) after other mythical beings. There are the Vampires, which are zombies who have retained their intelligence, but can only devour flesh. The Werewolves are basically mutated zombies, where the HEV has affected them physically as well as mentally. They are super-strong and super-fast, although they don’t change every full moon. The Demon class are people who have the disease, yet are not affected by it, yet they can spread it to other people. The Angel class are those who are completely immune and cannot carry/spread the virus.

Besides that, feedback is very welcome.