Brutal Chaos

                                                                  Brutal Chaos

Chapter 1:

  Mathias is running down the street with Collin flailing and wailing so loud  his ears are begun to ring and can no longer hear the approaching danger vigorously running behind him taunting him to keep the chase going. "These sick twisted fucks." Mathias was thinking to himself. Down the side walk and into a dark alley they dart. Mathias begins his frantic search checking every door, bard windows, and fire- escape ladders. Reaching the end of the alley way he sees a steal alley door to what appears to be an apartment type building due to the long ago potted plants which once thrived. Mathias turns around to look down the long alley way which he was sure their death awaited them. He was right three scavengers were slowly making their way down they are all grinning from ear to ear showing what little teeth they still have taunting and antagonizing them both with every step.



The local human scavengers a ruthless band most of them crazy due to the hard life they have lived. These pathetic excuses for human life rape and murder and steal what ever they get their hands on with no hesitation. As they approach closer and closer one of them says with a sarcastic tone and licking his lips."Come here little boy lets play!" Holding Collin tighter Mathias forces his way in the rusted shut door grabbing his automatic fires a small burst at the charging group while running in which was able to hit one of the smaller ones in the chest. The scavengers stop in amazement and look at their fallen friend which gives Mathias a second to hush Collin by putting his hand over his mouth and dash down the dark stairs from just inside the steal door and down a long hallway where there is only one door on the left. As he opens and enters the door looking back he can see the scavengers just making it down the stairs. He rushes in “Damn deadbolt locks!” frustrated he couldn’t lock it he didn’t notice the corpse on the floor and almost stumbles with the added weight of Collin. Hearing keys rustle as he kicks what appears to be the landlords decomposed body. Mathias picks up the keys to notice they are in what appears to be an apartment sub-basement storage facility. That has caged walls from floor to ceiling and sturdy steal doors. Panic starting to kick in knowing they should be coming thru the door any second. Franticly shuffling thru the keys to get the locked cage doors open and inside just in time as the scavengers bust in Mathias gets the main cage locked. Running to the furthest storage room to find a place to hide. And desperately try to calm Collin down as those two scavengers scream in a tangent, beating and prying doing their best to get in.



Stooping down behind some boxes still covering Collins mouth and doing his best to keep Collin quiet. In hopes these scavengers lose interest or think they found another way out. A loud screech and metal slicing thru skin is all that can be heard. Collins eyes widen in horror as he hears the sounds of death fall down swiftly to our former scavengers. Sniffing during this dead silence is all that’s heard now like a hungry carnivorous animal that smells fresh meat close at hand. Mathias knows all to well what new predator is lurking around. A black hand must have heard our commotion. The black hands a new breed of human cannibals mutated and deformed from years of eating human flesh turned brutally crazy from the viral strain. Sniffing louder and louder and in the direction of the two hiding in the cage. Mathias knows this thing must be silenced. Very slowly he looks over the boxes to see how many of them are out there he scuffs up against a box and knocks over a lamp that was stored inside crashing to the floor pieces scattering the black hands sees Mathias like a cat of prey and begins to very loudly screech and make some high pitch sounds to call others. Mathias lets Collin go his screams stops the Black Hand from making any sounds. Mathias looks thru his red dot scope from an mp-5 he was gracious to find earlier tonight firing one shot while the black hands attention is on the three foot dinner, its head exploding as the bullet enters the cheek and spraying the mutant’s brains all over the wall behind it.

"You are safe now lil man!"  Grabbing his son and placing him in his lap Mathias crossing Collins arms with his own and they both rock back and forth vigorously. "Shush its ok buddy daddy has you!" Collin begins to finally relax.

As Collin sleeps Mathias rummages thru the boxes of stored goods for anything to block the alley windows and shield off their new safe house from the exterior door. Looking over his shoulder as well as noticing the pungent smell Mathias gets up and heads to the exterior door pulls out the keys to lock it. Before he begins to go thru the bodies he thrusts his long knife all the way down to the hilt below the chin up in to the brain to each of the fallen souls that lay below his feet then begins his search for anything that maybe of use then one by one hauling the bodies out in the hall just so he didn’t have to smell those reached beings any longer. "Damn you bastards smell bad!" he says out loud with a disgusting look on his face. After relocking the exterior doors and the cage doors he quietly lays down next to Collin for some much needed rest that he has yet to have for a very long time.

This was a vivid dream beyond his normal he has had in long time, a memory of the past he has tried to forget but can not. Its almost dawn and they are running for their life, not much different  then any other day but this time there is a third a familiar face but and almost forgotten one, slightly blurry from the years of not seeing Shannon the mother of his child. Just a hint of what she looked like is all that is left, long blonde hair past her shoulders, petite with delicate features. They are running faster this time being chased by a Black Hand out of a building and to the side walk filled with cars. Mathias is leading them and notices some keys still left in an old pick up truck he runs around climbs in and the engine turns over with much hesitation at first but does fire right up. Mathias looks up thru the windshield and sees the Black Hand burst out of the door a block up from where they came out," Fuck I thought we lost him!"  Mathias gasps then looks at Shannon holding Collin," Hurry get in! " as she is about to climb in Collin screaming out of fear and all the chaos Shannon looks at Mathias deeply " I cant do this, we need to leave him here he will get us all killed!" With a pale blank looking face "I can’t do this!" Her voice dropped almost to a whisper, as she is about to drop him right there where she stood Collin facing her reached up to grab her arm with a single tear and blank face looking down at Collin "I am sorry son!". Right at that point the Black Hand that had been running up the block launched from the side and tackled them both, Mathias jumping out to dash behind the truck to where they all had fallen as he gets around the vehicle he sees in horror as the mutant bites down on the same arm Collin was holding on to dear life for then the Black Hand lunged forward savagely biting at Shannon’s throat like a rabid dog ripping thru flesh and arteries. During this Mathias picks up the make shift weapon the mutant dropped while attacking his family and with one swift vicious blow crushed his skull with a crack and squish like sound. Slumping down over the two he loved so much Collin begins to move and make noise. Tears of joy were cut short from Mathia safter looking around the destroyed neighbor hood through all the fight and all the chaos had got the attention of a few other Black Hands in the area and were racing full force to their next dinner. Desperately Mathias picks up Collin and manages to get them both into the truck and lock the doors before the other mutants reach them, now Collin is screaming like never before Mathias puts the truck in drive squalling tires as the Black Hands beat on the back of the truck repeatedly while screeching as they are going down the road Collins scream suddenly stop which startles Mathias thinking his only son has just died, looks down at his precious son  grabs his hand holds it tightly and looks into Collins wide open blank eyes in time to catch his pupils change from blue  into and almost orange color then back to blue with a few flakes of orange, they turn down the next street headed north the sun is coming up almost blinds him burning his eyes.

Waking up in a cold sweat and quickly glancing next to him Collin sound asleep it has been almost three years since his mother has past he reaches over to his son and gently so not to wake rubs his sons arm where he was bit no scares, no other sign of infection. Looking at Collin nothing appears to be wrong but he is not normal the blood curdling screaming fits, at almost four he can't or won't speak, insanely rocking back and forth as to sooth him self similar behaviors you use to read about when looking up autism. While lil man is still asleep time to scavenge the apartments! he says to himself, looking thru the storage room Mathias finds a couple of bags which he stuff in his bag grabs his gun and quietly lets him self out locking each door in his path, "He should be safe as long as he stays asleep!" Mathias says softly. As he opens the exterior door to the hallway were the decomposing bodies are litter  his instinctually learned tactful military approach enters the hallway with the mp-5, closing the door and kneeling down to stuff a small area rug at the base of the door to muffle any sounds Collin might make reaching up to lock the exterior door to the storage facility eyes never straying from the hallway side to side he glances in expectation. Down the hall with swiftness and cat like assured steps and a keen ear for any unusual sounds Mathias works his way up the stairs to the first floor apartments where he came in at reaching the top of the stairs sweat beading down his face, even though it is still a cool February night the sweat is pouring down and his heart is racing. Mathias gets to the steal door to the alley and as quiet as he can shuts and locks it from the inside, " false sense of security I guess." not knowing if the other entrances are secure yet. As he slowly and precisely patrols the corridor, Securing the first floor is his only thought at the moment listening intently as he goes the rifle never drops constantly swaying side to side in search for its next victim, he makes it to the main entrance it is a full glass front but luckily it was installed with a mall type roll cage that Mathias managed to get down and locked. Stopping for a second to face the hallway and listen for anyone or anything for that matter that might have been intrigued with the sudden noise of the roll cage. As he keeps walking the halls he comes across a closed elevator which no longer in operation like most of the world and next to it a fire escape stairwell that he cant secure at the moment, thinking to himself Mathias says You have spent enough time playing, "He will wake up soon!"  So Mathias swiftly heads back to the stairwell of the sub basement opens the door to listen intently for any sounds from Collin or anything for that matter nothing could be heard.

It appears to be a square hallway apartments on both sides of the hallways five stories high the first floor opens to the atrium through one glass door Mathias begins going thru apartments slowly trying not to make much sound he goes thru everything that would help with their survival, really not much left  from years of scavengers but hopeful Mathias looks for antibiotics, first aid stuff, weapons and food and water after grabbing all he can carry he heads back down to the basement ensures the small area rug is tucked under the door from the inside he quietly lets himself back to the area where Collin is sleeping quietly, Mathias leans down to give his son a gentle kiss on the forehead knowing its only a few short hours till sun rise Mathias settles him self down finally for the rest of the night sleeping soundly for once.