I had no idea what was going on, yet in the next moment, a police officer came in asking me to take a walk with him. As I walked out, I looked at my mother and she looked back at me with a look of indifference. With no cuffs or anything, I walked down the stairs with the police officer who had his gun drawn. He opened the back of a van and told me to get in. I took one last look at the building my parents were in, and then I punched the gun out of the cop’s hand and started to run. He picked up the gun and fired at me, but the bullet missed. I kept going, and a guy and a girl were walking in front of me. I pulled the pistol out and told them to walk with me. I grabbed the girl and put the gun to her head and turned around towards the cop, but he just kept on firing at me, with no care for the girl I had in front of me. The hostage situation wouldn’t work. I took them with me and ran into a train station. At this point they weren’t even my hostages. They were just running for their lives as well. We climbed over a barricade in the train station that said “Station Closed”, and we continued on. Two shots from the cop’s gun rang off, and they both hit me in my left shoulder. I tried to phase it out and just kept running.

We reached the area where the tracks should have been, yet there were no tracks. Instead, there was flowing water, with these man-like creatures swarming through the water, moving like salmon very quickly through the train tunnel. I called to them for help, and they stopped moving. One of the creatures stood up, and had a kingly look to him. Their skin was scaly and fish-like, yet they had the shape of a human. The one that stood kind of reminded me of a Greek god. I asked for his help and he said he could make me one of them, but that he did not want to get involved with the conflicts of others. I continued to ask for help, until a shot was fired. The cop shot at the creature, killing him. All of the other creatures made a huge groan and we started moving along with the flowing water. Very quickly we were down the tunnel and into safety. This is when I, along with the other two people, was turned into one of them. I looked over at my shoulder, which had two sets of wounds, two entering and two exiting, and they began to pulse and turn scaly. Soon the wounds were gone and I began to swim along with the others.

I then entered a flashback. I was in the same city setting as before, yet it was not completely destroyed. I was walking through the empty streets with two other people, when a crazed man emerged from an alley way and started to chase us. We ran through a small back street and jumped onto an exterior metal frame fire escape to the top of a building. When we reached the top we ran towards a large chimney stack and started to climb up it. The inside of the stack was full of bushes, but by pushing them out, we opened a hidden entrance. We Jumped down, and entered this big room. All of the windows were spray-painted white, so that diffused light was coming it, yet nothing of the outside could be seen.

There was a decent sized group of people congregated in the room. They did not say anything; they just remained in their positions and looked on. The silence was interrupted though, by the sound of a helicopter’s propellers slicing through the air. The sound sent everyone in the room into a panic. They began screaming and running around the room, yet not really going anywhere. The helicopter sounded as though it was right above the building now. The chopping noise became deafening, but that was the least of our worries. Cracks began to form in the ceiling, and through the cracks began to drip this very thick yet clear gooey liquid. A bit of liquid fell and landed on one of the people, and as soon as it made contact, the person began to quickly dissolve into a puddle. More and more of the substance was dripping around the room, and all I could do was try my best to avoid it. As more people were hit and turned into stains on the floor, I picked up chairs and started throwing them at the windows. With light fully coming in, I raised my voice as high as I could and yelled “I surrender!”

The flashback was over, and I was now standing above a sewer lid with the two people. We were now outside the city once again, but the area we were in was still populated and in good shape. We started walking around, and after a few blocks, we came to a dead end. We stopped and surveyed our surroundings, but a feeling of horror returned. In the distance of the city, another explosion erupted, sending a familiar glow outward. As soon as I saw it, I started to move, yelling to the others to follow me. I ran to the nearest sewer cap and ripped it open, ready to jump down. Instead, the opening revealed the hole to be blocked with garbage. I continued to run in the general opposite direction of the shock wave, and continued to look for an escape route. With no opening in sight, all we could do was run. As we went on, we began to run across a bridge, and I ran to the edge. I looked over the edge to see a river flowing outwards. I called for the others and said “Jump!”

We hopped over the rail and fell into the water. Once we hit, it was like I returned to my element. I started to swim and I moved at an absurd speed. I moved faster and faster and swam deeper and deeper until any light was visible and I was only moving towards complete darkness.

I ended up in a residential area and bumped into a blond girl who said hello to me and asked me if I had a place to stay. I asked where she was staying and she pointed nearby and said I could stay the night. We got to her place and ended up going straight to the bedroom. I went on the bed, but the girl said she would be right back. She opened a door and I could hear that she was walking down a bunch of stairs. I then heard a very evil sounding female cackle that sent chills down my spine. I got right up, and started running down the stairs to see what was going on. I got to the bottom of the stairs and there was just an empty space with no doors leading anywhere. The only thing present besides a grimy brick wall was a broken gas pipe that was shooting out a short length flame. The house then started to shake, and a strange object started shooting out of the gas pipe. I started running back up the stairs and got to the apartment, but all the windows were sealed shut and covered with some kind of metal sheets and all of the doors in the house disappeared.
The place was very dark inside. In the upper corner of the room I was in, a man with wings similar to a pterosaur appeared. He just floated there, and then raised his hand. Crashing through the wall were these two very tall worm-like creatures that had long cylindrical segmented limbs that held inside of them some kind of biological tissues and other living matter. They began swiping at me, and as I dodged them, I looked to my empty hand, and with a flash, a sword appeared and I started to attack them. I started slicing their long limbs down, and the creatures got weaker and weaker until I finally killed them. With the death of each creature though, two more came up from the cracks of the floor. The man with the wings began to laugh now, as he pulled out a huge gun and started shooting at me while I was dodging the attacks from the tall creatures. I held out my arm at the bullets, and although I didn’t stop them, I slowed them down enough where I was able to dodge them.

With an end of the fight not looking very close at all, I reached into my jacket and pulled out a bomb that was the size of a football. The man and the creatures completely stopped as I tossed it towards him and ran out of the room. With an unbelievably large blast, that room was vaporized and the entire building exploded upwards into many pieces. I was thrown in the air and everything slowed down. In mid air, I was able to move around to avoid pieces of shrapnel and large blocks of the building that were blown apart. As I looked around it was now day time outside, and there was a huge hill that had a giant tree on it (kind of like the one at disney). I reached the climax of being thrown in the air, and started to fall. I looked up at the tree, and in the many branches I could see the face of a woman looking at me. Once again time slowed down. I reached out, and a branch shot out to me and wrapped around my arm and swinging me to safety on a large empty grass field.

Part III

This part started aboard a pirate ship, Where myself and two other men, dressed in 1700′s attire, were walking towards a tower that was on the ship. When we got there, we met up with four men. They were speaking diplomatically to each other, but as soon as they saw me one of the men shot the other, and threw his compatriot off the edge of the ship. He then then ran for the tower on the ship, so I followed with one of my friends and the other one stayed back. We got into the tower, but it was completely empty. We looked around and then at each other with puzzled looks. Then all of a sudden, with an explosion, the tower was blown to pieces and at that moment I realized that the ship wasn’t even on water. As the tower started to collapse, I could see that the ship was floating in a gaseous atmosphere, similar to the cloud city from Star Wars, and there were a bunch of ships in the area. We were thrown into the air, and instead of the garments we were wearing previously, we now had green suits that had cloth connecting all of our limbs to give us some drag as we began to fall.

In the distance there was a group of flying creatures coming toward us. They looked like giant platypuses with wings. As they got closer, I reached into my jacket and took out a small device and I started blowing into it to call for their attention. They looked to me and turned to our direction and flew over to us. One of them flew under me and I hopped on to it and started to ride forward. As we continued on our path, We started to see land masses. In an effort to let myself know what was going on, I started explaining to myself that with what little land there was left on the earth, certain countries claimed what was left and broke up into territories as they expanded towards the sky. From my viewpoint, I could see Egypt’s land, Russia’s land, America’s land, and China’s land.

We looked for a place to set down, but a bunch of ships coming towards us stole our attention. The largest of them all flew right next to us and a speaker shot out a man’s voice demanding that we surrender. I was looking for a way out, but before any plan could materialize, they started shooting the creature I was on and we started to go down. I jumped off and grabbed on to the outer shell of the ship, and held on and got to a ledge on the ship. I stood there for a moment until a screen shot out of the outer wall asking for authorization. When I didn’t do anything, a siren started and out of the ship shout out robotic claws connected to the ship by tentacles that started chopping at me from all angles. I quickly maneuvered around the outside of the ship swinging and climbing around while the claws chomped at me while I dodged them. I found an open space into the ship and climbed into it. After crawling through the bowels of the ship, I walked into a room that was full of birdcages with cloth covering them.

Part IV

This part started in a modern urban area. It was a little strange because since I was thinking about recording the adventure that was taking place, In the spot I was lying down in the dream, I was scratching the words “I was in a modern urban area” on the stone below me. I was lying on a ledge of a building looking down at an alleyway. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a ninja star that was wrapped in leather lace and waited for a bit. I saw a man walking down the alley and then a bird flew on to my shoulder. I held the star to the bird’s beak, and then threw it at the guy. The impact of the star only startled the man, but the bird followed quickly and went straight for the guy, tearing him apart. The bird finished the job and returned to my shoulder.

I stayed in the same spot and waited for another person to come out. I took another star out of my pocket and held it up to the bird’s beak. A group of men came into the alley way surrounding one man. I waited until they got close and threw the star at the man in the middle. The bird followed and took the guy out, surprising the guards. I got up and waited for the bird to return to me.

The men below saw the bird fly to me and started climbing up the building after me.I ran through a door and entered a huge hall that had a giant swimming pool in the middle and had a line of statues of demons alongside the pool. I started running to the other side of the hall that had a big spiral staircase on it, and as I passed each statue, the stone began to crumble and a demon exploded out of it and started chasing me. The bird left my shoulder and started picking at the flying demons, keeping me safe as I approached the spiral staircase. I started running up and the frame of the staircase kept me safe until I got to the top. I reached out for the bird to land on my arm and as I got to the top the building started to shake and I made my way to the wall which had a figure of a man with no face coming out of the wall. I put my face right up to the blank space on the statues head and my face started to be sculpted into the statue and a building high pitch scream kept on getting louder and louder until my face was complete and then with a flash I was out of there.

After the drop was complete and everyone’s attention was on the crates, I walked over to the military blockade, and through a sheet of bulletproof glass, I told the guy behind it that I had just been shot. He saw I was the only one around and told me to quickly go into this small metal door. I ran through it and it was a war zone on the other side. There were old tanks on fire and soldiers running all over the place, which I thought was pretty odd for a disaster area. I was led through an alleyway and met up with a medical helicopter. They bandaged me up and said they would give me a lift to a safe location. I hopped on the chopper, and they took off.

This is where I saw the true amount of the damage that had been done. I could see that I was in Brooklyn, as Manhattan was visible across the river. Every bridge connecting the cities was destroyed and the water level was a lot lower than it was before. The pilot of the chopper told me that there was some kind of attack that had to do with setting up a huge detonation by the fault lines New York City was on, which in turn led to a massive shift of land causing all of the boroughs to move farther apart from each other. Beneath me, I could see small groups of military fighting some enemy force that I was not aware of.

I finally made it to the safe spot they were talking about, and it was not much different from the place I had come from. There was a very large mass of people around this one building that did not sustain any damage. Lots of people were going in, but I didn’t see anyone coming out. They walked me into the building, bypassing all of the people trying to get in, and I ended up in an office. An old man with a white robe on came into the room, and told me I was lucky to be alive even after being shot, and asked me if I wanted to take the test. I had no idea what he was talking about, so I just said yes. He gave me an envelope and told me to push the red button on the door when I was done. He left the room and I picked up the envelope. Something outside the door caught my eye. It was a line of people in white robes and white paint on their faces walking by. Once they passed, I heard screams. I walked out to the doorway and noticed no one was in the hallway. I started to walk towards where the screams were coming from, and saw a closed door with a small window on it. I peeked through the window and saw two men strapping people with black paint on their faces down to beds and injecting them with a big needle. Soon their bodies went limp and they were picked up by the men and thrown into this big furnace on the other side of the room.

I was snapped back to attention as I heard footsteps in the distance, and I started to run, trying to find the closest open door. I tried the first door, but it was locked, then I saw another door with a small window that had the lights off. I twisted the doorknob and it was unlocked. I went inside, closed the door, and then hid. I waited for the footsteps to pass, then I surveyed my surroundings. It was some kind of store room. I started looking around through drawers and cabinets, and found a white robe. I started looking through more drawers and found a jar of white paint. From what I saw, I came to the conclusion that the people who passed the test were given the white robes and the white face paint, while those who failed, got the black paint and were euthanized.

I put the paint on my face and put the robe on. I waited by the door and listened. I heard more footsteps coming. I looked down the hall and saw another group of people with white robes walking down the hall. I quietly twisted the knob and pulled the door slightly open. Right when the last person walked past the door, I opened the door and took position behind the last person and followed. They walked down spiraled stairs that led underground. I kept my head down and just followed the person in front of me. We ended up in this long underground tunnel. There was daylight at the end. We got outside and there was a small dock, with a boat waiting. We all got on the boat, and set off.

The location we arrived at was unknown to me. It was like some kind of secret utopia. It was like everyone had no idea what had just happened. Kids were running around happily in a small park and people populated the streets. We made our way into another building where we showered and were given new clothing. I walked through this maze of a building, going from small room to small room, bumping into small groups of people that were sitting around in the rooms. I made it out, and I was in a big city with blue skies. I had a key in my hand and an address on a piece of paper and that was that.

We returned once again, and the house was a different color again. It was time for another meeting with Zev, so we repeated the steps to meet up with him. Once we got to him, things started to get strange. His side of the room vanished, replaced by a strange looking vortex. I had no idea what it was, but it shot images of grief directly at me. My mentor was still next to me, also getting hit by the barrage, and yelled to me to stay focused. After a while it was over, but Zev never came back. We ran back to the book, and my mentor said that Zev had to have seen that too, and said that we had to see him again to see what that was.

We connected to Zev and he was back, but different. He was sitting on a bed, and he had this crazed look about him, and he was wearing an oddly colored suit. He had three men next to him, and there was a cage with this huge demon-looking creature inside of it. It seemed like Zev got that same vision, yet wasn’t able to overpower it. He started to ramble on about “the end” that was coming. My mentor was trying to talk him back to sanity, saying something how Zev was the only other person around that had the same knowledge we did, but it did not work. Soon after that, the three men jumped from Zev’s side to our side, engaging us in combat. Zev got up from the bed and opened the cage. The huge demon jumped out at us and ran straight for me. Before it could hit me, my mentor jumped in front of me and began to grapple with it. He was extremely out sized, but somehow he kept up with it. At that point one of the three guys was gone, and one jumped at me but I grabbed his head and slammed it into a wall, and he vanished. At that point my mentor yelled something like “There’s only one way to end this!” and then threw his arm into the demon’s chest causing a flash of light. A white light engulfed both of them and with another flash, they were gone. Zev let out a scream of terror and vanished.

I was back in the house, and yet again it was a different color. I was all alone, and I didn’t know what to do. I went over to the book, put my hand on it, and concentrated. This time I was looking through my own eyes, and I just got out of bed, right when I stood up, I felt like I was alive again. The ordeal came to an end.

We walked a bit and ended up arriving at a cave-like entrance going into the hill, which seemed to be part of a mountain of unknown size. We ran in, only to meet up with a group of people sitting around some kind of equipment crates. A woman approached me and grabbed onto my arm and started to lead me into a corridor. My brother followed along, but she turned around and said, “You, stay here” to my brother. I continued with the woman and we turned a corner and there was man who kind of reminds me of Morpheus from “The Matrix” standing ahead of us. He shook my hand and shows me around this big military complex, saying that our military has taken a big hit and that we were trying to gather up forces again. He told me that they have developed a security system that counters the zombie creatures.

They drilled holes into the mountain side that would lead the creatures into traps that would make them fall into these huge shredders. He shows me a video feed that displays the security system, as zombies fell into the shredder. Somehow, a group of zombie creatures managed to get through the shredder system and get into the complex. An alarm began to go off and people got up from their chairs and started to run around. Everyone was passing guns around to those who did not have any, and my brother rejoined us and threw a rifle to me. We gathered together at an entrance, and zombies began pouring out. In a barrage of fire, every creature that came in was stopped by a wall of bullets. The firing went on for a little bit, and then this chapter of the story was over. Things now entered into a time warp.

Part 2

Time rewound to the point where I was out on the sidewalk running, although this time around I was with a group of four people; two girls and two guys. My brother wasn’t there this time. We were all running, looking for a way to get out of the city, and we saw a guy driving a van that was empty. We quickly opened the doors and hopped in. He didn’t have a problem with what we did, so he continued to drive on. We drove up north to get out of the city, but at one point, the other people in the van said that they didn’t need me anymore. They then open my door, the driver pulls out a gun andshoots me in my side, and the rest of them throw me out of the car.

I rolled on the pavement, joining the chaos of people running for their lives. Police were shooting at everyone, bodies were on the ground, and was still on the ground trying to figure out what just happened. I got up and I started to walk up the street. I was kind of in a shell shocked state at this point, as all the sound around me was muffled and everything was moving in slow motion. All of a sudden, someone grabbed on to my arm and started to pull me into an alley. The shell shock finally went away, and the screams of the people around me entered my ears. It was my friend Anthony, and he started telling me that someone stole his car, but that he knew a way out of the city through an underground tunnel.

In order to get to the tunnel, we entered this huge hotel building, dodging people who were running around the place. We went downstairs to the basement and got to a dark hallway. He looked around to make sure the coast was clear, and opened up a little door that was hidden in the wall. He tpld me to dive in, so I did. Past the small door was a slide that went on for a short while and led to another small open gap in a wall. I crawled out of the wall and Anthony was not far behind me. We were now underground and there was a long tunnel ahead. When Anthony got out of the wall I started to run down the tunnel but he yelled “Wait! That’s not the right way!” I gave him a weird look but he just responds, sayingm “decoy.” He turned to his right and opened another small hidden door that led to another slide. We went down even further underground and got to a dimly lit room with a big metal door showing the only way to go, which Anthony said was the entrance to the tunnel he spoke of before. We opened the door, but what was on the other side was not what we expected. The underground passage was a huge space that had tall concrete columns going up high into darkness and metal catwalks were all over the place. The main downside was that the entire area was swarming with zombies.

This time around, the zombies were not the blood lusting creatures from before. These ones were organized and articulate. Instead of coming at us demanding our brains, they spoke to us, demanding us to join them. Among the crowd was Anthony’s girlfriend, who was the only notable one there. Realizing there was no way out, we agreed. Before darkness took me, all I heard was, “you won’t notice a thing”.

I woke up among the crowd, feeling quite as I did before I went out. Anthony was there too, and I asked him if he was ok. He said he was fine, but when I asked him if he felt anything when they put him down, he had no clue what I was talking about. After having a few brief words with some of the other undead, it was evident that the crossover to becoming a zombie was a new beginning, with all of the past erased. That was not the case with me, as I had full recollection of what happened to me. I searched my pocket and pulled out a gun, but a huge zombie guy came up to me and said “None of those work for us”. He pointed a gun at me and started pulling the trigger with no effect. I took the gun and looked at it, and it was fully loaded. I pointed the gun at the guy and shot him in the face, killing him. Everyone looked at me in shock and awe, and then laughter started to break out for some reason. After the laughter died down, there was some silence only to be followed by someone screaming “We’re under attack!”

The crowd started to move around to different posts, but I had no idea what was going on. Someone else yelled “They’ve sent another batch of scouts!” and at this point it seemed the zombies were much more developed than meets the eye, as they had computer surveillance systems in place and small robot sentry guards patrolling the area. I started to move to another section of the underground lair and came to a catwalk elevated over an area that went down into the dark depths of invisibility. In the darkness small red lights became visible. The brighter they became, the faster they moved. Then, four legged robots emerged from the darkness and started shooting lasers at all nearby zombies. One of the sentry bots came to my side and started blasting the scouts and took a few out, but a stray laser hit the sentry, knocking it out of commission. I picked up the arm of the sentry and began using the guns on it to shoot the scout robots. After eliminating the threat, I turned around and ran into a dark door way, but once I got in, the adventure was over.