Death Horizon Chapter 3- Away

3 Away

18 May 2011, Monday

5.00 p.m. - London, United Kingdom

The Kyle’s and Caroline went inside the car after they finished packing all the necessary things. “We can’t take the main road. It’s too dangerous. I’m afraid if we get contagious too.” Mr. Ben said.

                      “I want to go check out my mother and father. Please stop at my house.” Caroline said. Her face was hoping for Mrs. Kyle and Mr. Ben to let her but luck was not on her side they didn’t let her too.

                      

                       “Caroline, I’m sure your mom and dad are safe. We’re going to find cure for them okay. There’s nothing to be worry about.” Mrs. Kyle said. Caroline looked away, she looked out the window and wandered, is there any chances for them to safe? But she need to be strong, she need to believe that everything’s will be safe just like she wanted it to be.

…

They arrived at the highway half an hour later. Lots of the car burned because of accidents that had happened hours before. They didn’t see any sign of the contagious persons. Weird, right? Maybe some of them travel to the big city. That’s what Alex thought.

                       

                          “I can’t breathe. Can’t breathe.” Allie suddenly said. She tried to inhale and exhale carefully but it didn’t work either. Alex got up and crawled to the back of the car and took Allie’s medicine. Allie had suffered with asthma since she was five years old. It’s not a normal asthma you had seen before. She had a terrible one, the one that can make her die.

                     

                             Alex helped Allie to eat her medicine. “Feeling better?” Mr. Ben asked Allie. Allie nodded. She rested her head on Alex’s shoulder. Alex took a blanket that they brought from back home and covered Allie with it as the weather started to be colder. Caroline screamed and pointed out.

                     

                            Mr. Ben almost hit the light pole when Caroline screamed. “Why are you screaming like that?!” Alex shouted at Caroline. She pointed out again, the exact same spot, she had pointed before.

                     

                         They looked outside except Allie who was so tired. They saw something moving from behind of the bushes. Mr. Ben looked more closely. “Oh My. Everybody kept quiet. That’s a high level contagious person. It can attack us and killed us.”

                    

                            “Like a zombie?” Alex asked. Mrs. Kyle narrowed her eyes to Alex. It is not a time to talk about something that never even exists in this world.

                         

                            Mr. Ben’s phone ringed. ‘Oh no. Not now, Jeremy.’ He didn’t answer it but then a voice mail came.

                    

                           -Ben, you need to get to the airport now. Please be fast. The last plane is at 7.00 a.m. the next morning. It will take you to France. - Then the voicemail ended.

                    

                           “Mr. Ben, we need to move right now! That thing, it’s running towards us!” Caroline shouted. The high level human contagious was running towards their car. Mr. Ben pushed the car pedal and drove his car at a high speed. Caroline was screaming and Alex was sweating.

                   

                            “I don’t want to die! There are lots of things I need to do more!” Alex screamed. Mr. Ben drove away from that thing.

                 

                           It took some meters so that they could get away from ‘the thing’.  They exhaled after some few minutes unbelievable things happened. “I can’t believe we’re still alive!” The panicked Alex felt better than before.

                  

                            “We’re safe, Alex because we’re in the car. Now, let’s move. We need to get to the airport before seven o’clock the next morning.”

                      

                              They’re away from their house and away from helps. Hoping everything will be safe. What will happen to them? Will they get to the airport on time?”

Death Horizon- Chapter 2 Fears

2 Fears

18 May 2011, Monday

10.00 a.m. - London, United Kingdom

When they entered their street everything was so quiet. Mrs.Kyle kept driving to her house. Allie looked out. She saw a girl was watching them from her bedroom window but her father asked her to stay away. ‘These people are really scared that something might happen to them. What a good precaution, they acted fast.’ But for Allie, her family didn’t acted that fast. If they heard the news, they should be in their house right now, safe with all those walls protecting them.

           

               “Come on. We can’t just stay in this car like forever. We need to stay in the house where everything is safe.” Mrs.Kyle said. They went inside their house and everything was still the same like the last time they were in their house, home sweet home.

          

                “What do we do now?” Alex asked Mrs.Kyle while Allie locked the door shut.

          

                  “Wait for your father. But we need to do something. We can’t just stand here without doing anything.” Mrs.Kyle said. Her face looked so serious but at the same time, she tried to be calm.

           

                   Allie sat on the sofa. She took out her phone and dialed her best friend number, Caroline. At first Caroline didn’t answer but she picked up her phone at the second time.

-Allie! Where are you?-

-Hey, I’m at my house now. What about you?-

-I’m at my house. Do you know what had happened? I watched news and they told that, London 

had been attack by that disease. I’m so lucky; I didn’t go to school-

-I don’t know. My mom doesn’t even want to tell me, you know? But it’s pretty scary. I thought there was school today. So I went to school but there’s nobody there. Then, we stopped at the supermarket and guess what?-

-WHAT? It must be something cool, am I right? - Caroline asked excitedly. She can’t wait to know what had happened.

-I saw a woman bleeding, her eyes were red and she was chasing a girl. And the weird thing is, she just chasing the girl but she didn’t do anything to her. Is that cool to you?-

-My answer is, yes. Yes it is, cool-

         

              Allie was about to say something to Caroline when she heard a scream from her phone and just like that, the signal broke again.

          

              “What had happened?” Alex asked. He walked to Allie. Allie was standing there, she’s knocking her phone trying to get the signal back but there was no use. “Come on. Mom’s signal broke too. What are you worried about? I’m sure Caroline will call you back later.”

           

                Allie shook her head. Then, they heard a knock from the front door. “Get me in! Get me in!” Someone or something was shouting, asking them to open their front door.

         

                 Allie looked at Alex. Mrs.Kyle shouted back. “Who are you?! What do you want?!” There was a silence for a while. Then, the voice came back again.

          

                “Mrs.Kyle, it’s me, Caroline! It’s Allie’s friend!” Allie opened the door. It’s Caroline, she was sweating hard. “I… I… I just saw something. Something that is really scary.”

           

                 “What about you calm yourself first and then you tell us what had happened. Is that alright?” Mrs.Kyle said. Caroline just nodded.

           

                 The door was knocked again and this time Alex was so angry he could shout and he shouted. “Can you just go away from our house and live us here all alone?!” He shouted at the top of his voice. Caroline looked at Alex. She felt annoyed on what he had said. Then, he stomped his feet on the floor like a three years old kid. He can’t take it anymore. The screaming, shouting, crying and knocking made him feel a little bit annoyed. And if this thing would last forever, he would die of stresses.

               

                Allie rolled her eyes. She understood Alex. He’s not the kind of boy who can stand all this things. “Well, dad, you can just open the door it’s not lock.” She said. Then, the door cracked open and it was Mr. Ben. The way that the door was knocked, Allie knew that it was her father.

                                       

                “Hello, my family and please don’t shout like that anymore Alex or I’ll take all your Play Stations.” Alex covered his mouth. Duh, who want to play Play Stations in the middle of a stress condition right now? Weird Alex.

                

               “Tell us more about what had happened dad.” Allie said. She really wanted to know about what had happened but her mom kept keeping her away from knowing the truth.

               

                All the five of them suddenly became serious. “Listen, this is not a normal disease. You can turn into that monster within a second. So, the only thing we need to do is…” 

               

                “Protect yourself from those monsters?” Allie interrupted. Mr. Ben nodded. “And then what?”

                

                 “We need to go away from this city. London just gets attacked by this disease. It spread fast than I thought it would. I saw all those things when I came here alone.” He mimicked his voice a little.

                

                 "Please be serious, dad.” Alex said. “How did this disease came? Where does it come from?”

                

                  “Unknown. We found nothing about this kind of disease. But it started from New Zealand. But it would not kill people. People can become crazy and lost their mind but the only problem is, they could kill their own self.”

                

                     “What do you mean? You think a crazy person could kill his or her own self?”

              

                      “Yeah, of course they can. You never see an insane person trying to kill their own self?” Allie said to Alex.

                 “Yeah, I’ve seen it before. But how they could kill their own self when they are crazy?” Alex asked.

                 “Dude, our brain has that kind of things, like wires. That’s how brain worked; our brains are like the ants working and if it got too frustrated, the wires snap and we can’t control our brains. And then, we lost control and we can’t think about anything anymore. We lost our mind, become crazy and kill our own self. Am I right, dad?”

                   “You’re more than right, Allie. Now, all we need to do for now is pack all the food and waters and your medicine too, Allie because we’re going out from London.”

                   Caroline was getting better and calmer than before. “What about me? My mom and dad just turned into that thing. Is there any chances to save them?”

                    Mr. Ben looked at Caroline. He smiled a little bit. “You can follow us because the situations in London are just as worse in New Zealand right now.” Caroline didn’t looked away but instead she still had her eyes on him. “Yes, we can save them after we find the cure.”

                   After everything’s got a little bit normal, they started to work together. Alex and Allie packed up the food and waters. There were 30 cans of tuna, 3 loaves of bread, 20 bottles of mineral water and some fruits. Lucky for them, they had so many food but will it be enough for them?

                   Caroline helped Mrs. Kyle to pack up Allie’s medicine and some clothes in case of emergencies. Mrs. Ben was checking the van condition.

                  Far away from their house, the city of London was full with all the insane humans. Blood covered the roads and shops. No one was safe there and that’s for sure. And fears overwhelmed five of them.

Death Horizon Chapter 1-Chaos

1 Chaos

18 May 2011, Monday

7.45- London, United Kingdom.

“Wake up, sunshine. You’re going to be late for school again.” Mrs.Kyle (Sarah) woke her daughter up, Allie Kyle. It was a bright morning with those birds chirping in their nest. Like a morning that nothing bad would happen. But the Kyle’s did not know what will happen that day.

         

          “Come on mom. I’m sleepy and tired right now. Wake Alex up first then me.” Allie murmured. Mrs.Kyle just stood there, rolling her light blue eyes.

          

           “I did wake him up and guess what? Your sleepy head twin woke up early than you. Yeah, early after I woke him up. He’s down there, eating his cereal.” Allie jumped up from her bed and ran to the bathroom. That’s Allie. She doesn't like Alex to overcome her. She would do anything just to make herself not being defeated by her own brother.

         

            Mrs.Kyle went down to the living room. Alex looked up at her. “Mom, where’s Allie? I’m going to be late for my school.” Alex is really, extremely different from Allie. He is a quiet boy who doesn’t have feeling and always ignore when people said something to him, even it is important.

         

           “I woke her up. She’s taking her bath now. You know, your sister, she doesn’t like when you overcome her.” Alex just kept quiet. He poured some tea in his cup and started to drink it.

         

           “Hello, world! What a good morning we have here. Sorry, I’m late Alex.” Allie smiled while poking her twin brother. “Mom, I’m coming home late today. Alright?” she said. Alex looked at her, she looked at him. “What?” he shooked his head and got up from his seat. Mrs.Kyle switched on the mini television that had been for years in their kitchen.

          

            As usual, the morning news channel would be opened. “Everything is just the same mom. There’s nothing different, you know. Come on mom, send us to school now. We’re going to be late.” Alex switched off the television. Mrs.Kyle looked at Allie with a face- That guy, is totally different. Allie laughed. “Let’s go mom. He’s right. You go first; I need to get my asthma medicine first. Well, in cast if I was attack by asthma at school.”

         

            “Okay, honey. Please be fast.”

        

             It was 8.30 when they arrived at school which is 10 minutes more before the school started. But the thing that was different that, there was nobody was at school. “Mom, there’s nobody.” Mrs.Kyle looked out from her car window. She went out from her car and stood beside her twins. ‘Weird’. That was all she said when a policeman came to them.

          

              “What are you guys, doing here? Haven’t you heard the news? All the schools in this area will be closed for a while.” Mrs.Kyle looked at the policeman.

         

             “Why are the schools close? I didn't watch the news this morning. Well, I watched it but just part of it.” She gave a glance at Alex who switched off the television. He looked away.

          

              “I can’t say anything. Please, back to your home and stay inside your house, never ever went out until we asked you so.” He said and went away with his bike.” And those three just stand there like three innocent humans who don’t know that their planet was taken by the aliens.

           

               “Get into the car, my twins. I’m afraid if there something dangerous or bad is happening.” Mrs.Kyle said. The twins went inside their mother’s car. Mrs.Kyle drove her car like normal. They almost got hit by a car which was drove at a high speed.

           

                They went past a supermarket where lots of people were pushing carts with lots of food, water, medicine and some other things. They all ran like a crazy person, searching for food, kinda. “Mom, what is happening? Why are there running with those full carts?” Allie asked. She looked scared and was about to cry.

          

                  “Alex, watch Allie. Give to her, her medicine if she gets attack by asthma. I’m going to check out what is happening. Lock the door.” Alex nodded. Mrs.Kyle went out. The thing got more scary went, some of the people keep shouting, ‘WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!’ Mrs.Kyle shivered a little. Suddenly, someone tapped her from the back. She looked back and what a relief it was just Mrs.Hopkins. Mrs.Hopkins is one of her friends. “Oh my, it was you. I thought a stranger trying to rob me. Lena, what is happening here? Is there something that I did not know?”

            

                   Lena (Mrs.Hopkins) looked so terrified. “Sarah, how can I say this thing to you?” Mrs.Kyle raised her eyebrows. “There is a disease spreading through this country now. It turned you into something scary. The news said that, we need to be careful because they believed that, it might spread until here, in London. So that was the reason why those people were pushing carts full of food and water, medicine too.”

         

                  "What kind of disease?”

     

                   "I don’t know but that guy in that news said that, a new type of disease. Ask Ben (Mrs.Kyle’s husband), he maybe know about this. He’s a doctor right? Goodbye, Sarah. Hope you get to meet again after all this thing is over.” Lena walked away from Mrs.Kyle.

          

                    Mrs.Kyle took her phone out from her pocket and dialed ben’s number. It took a several minutes before he answered it.

-Ben, is it true some kind of a new disease just spread through this country? Lena just told me. Say something. I’m so afraid right now.-

~Yes. I’m coming back home right now~

-What?! I’m confused-

~I’ll explain to you later when I get home. Listen; don’t go out from our house. Stay there. Lock your house. ~

-But what about the food for this disaster?-

-Don’t go anywhere except our house, okay?! Close……~

           

                     The signal broke just like that. “Mom looked in front of you.” Mrs.Kyle looked up and, a woman was bleeding, her face was bleeding.  -Aargh! - Mrs.Kyle screamed. The woman suddenly fell down right on her feet. Alex pulled her. She was shivering. The woman suddenly, screams out loud. Her eyes turned to red. Her hair turns to black. And she kept murmuring –Kill, Kill- She got up and ran away while screaming like a mad person and the word, kill keep went out from her mouth. Everybody was just like, -what the…-

            

                      Mrs.Kyle and Alex ran to the car. She started her engine and drove fast. “What did they told you mom?” Allie said. She looked out from the window and saw the woman. And now, the woman was chasing a blonde hair girl. She looked like she wanted to kill that girl but she didn't and blood kept running down from her mouth. “Mom, what is wrong with that woman? She is covered with blood.” Mrs.Kyle didn't answer her. She just kept quiet.

          

                      “Mom, Allie asked you. Answer her. Share something with us.” Alex said but Mrs.Kyle didn't even answer his question. There’s something more that she needs to be worry. She can’t believe of what she had seen.

         

                       In the city of London, people running around, trying to save their lives. Blood covered the road, people screaming, asking for helps, cars hitting each other. Three of them just watched outside from their car window. Allie started to cry. “What is this? What is happening?” Alex hugged her, trying to calm her down.

                        

                      "We’re going home right now. We need to lock our doors and stay at home.” At last, Mrs.Kyle spoke just like her children wanted her to. She drove her car like mad.

                 

                       The atmosphere in London suddenly changed. No laughing, no smiling. All you could hear was screaming, shouting and crying. The same things happened at those persons. Fell down, murmuring –Kill, Kill-, mouth full of thick blood and chasing people without reasons. They’re not killing; they’re just wanted to scare them. That’s what Mrs.Kyle saw.

                

                        ‘What on earth is happening?’ That’s all she could say.