Dead Lands
By Reptilious

Chapter 1: A Dead Realization.
I awoke in the cryo-bay of building C-13, I wasn't a soldier, but I had been cryogenically frozen to see the future, but the power had shorted out and I was awoken, as an emergency protocol, what seemed to be a mere 30 days later, everything was dark.
I saw a person who seemed to be dragging something along the floor, the sparking light from the broken Television outlined them faintly.
"Hey!" I shouted, banging on the door of my Cryo-Tube, the figure swivelled and something seemed to fall out of them, I took to attention to it and as the figure dropped what it was carrying and staggered forward, stepping into the bright blue light emanating from my Cryo-Tube, which had it's own generator.
It seemed to be a human, but why were their intestines dragging behind it?, why were their eyes glowing like embers from a fire?, why was blood spewing form it's mouth along with a hideous balck liquid that gathered on the floor in a sickening pool. The person growled and threw themselves forward, it was an uncoordinated attack and the zombie ended up head butting the thick glass door, it stumbled back and slipped, it's intestines broke and a chunky yellow goo splattered onto the door.

The Zombie righted itself and moaned miserably, and, seemingly to maintain it's own dignity, grabbed the body and dragged it away. I slipped out of the Cryo-Tube as silently as I could, and stepped around the liquid piles gingerly, the zombie groaned in the distance, there was a hiss and a horrible, bloated creature attached to a vending machine started gurgling.
It's gurgle changed to a scream that sounded almost human as a group of intestine-looking barbed tentacles sprang from it's stomach, I could see the head, which was human, only horribly mutilated, and the outlines of the arms, which were also twisted and mangled. The tentacles reached for me and I screamed like I never had in my life, my scream and it's combined in a horrible chorus as it's horrendous appendages leaned forward, as well as the flames flickering from the top of a busted radiator that framed the horrible monster before me in a terrifying light.

I turned and ran down the hallways, a skeleton burst from the darkness, weilding a cleaver and screeching, I ducked under it's brutal swing and kept running, my sides burned furiously and I could hear the clicking of the skeleton's bones as they rubbed together. I saw the door, with two more of the wall-bound creatures on either side, they started screaming and reaching out, one snared my arm and tore a whole chunk of flesh out. The tentacle snaked back and my vision blurred as I screamed in pain, the Skeleton came through the doors with it's cleaver and shrieked as it saw me, wielding it's blade and flailing it wildly, the skeleton ran at me. I screamed again and a gunshot was fired, the skeleton's sternum shattered and it kept on coming, more gunshots echoed through the destroyed city of London.

The skeleton finally was brought down after having all it's limbs chopped off and it's skull shattered, as well as it's struggling torso being collapsed by a huge, muscular figure who stamped it into the ground.

"Heard you screaming like a girl, and we saved ya, how about a thanks and..Mark! get this man a bandage, and Rezchak, stand guard!" she yelled at the huge figure, who, through my blurred vision, seemed to nod and a low grunt emanated from him.

"Th..thank you, kind people, wha..what's happenin' everything's going...Dark" I stammered, getting quieter and quieter as I passed out.