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Chapter:3 - Outbreak

  *boom*

  It sounded like an explosion in some action movie but why was the sound of television so high this early in the morning?

  Seems like the sound earlier had woke Shraiyen up but he still was sluggish not opening his eyes as a hint of drowsiness lingered when suddenly,

  *slam*

  Mother opened the door making a loud noise which startled Shailani who was lying on her brother's hand and still in deep sleep, such sound also made Shraiyen flinch a little and by the time he could open his eyes her mother shouted in a highly agitated voice filled with distress, "WAKE UP....something has happened....at the hospital nearby those injured people were also admitted there"

  By now both brother and sister were wide awake as they heard their mother.

  "What happened at which hospital? Is it some attack? Is this area under terrorist attack?" Shraiyen asked as he got down from bed flexing and stretching his upper body muscles then cracking his knuckles and neck.

  "Brotherrrr.... I'm scared...Ma what's happening" Shailani was young, it was understandable for her to be scarred when she heard the words 'terrorist' and 'attack', she got down from the bed and held his brother's right hand with both her hands, looking at her mother with her pure and innocent black orbs like eyes.

  "Your father had opened the news early today in hope to get some information regarding what happened yesterday, but the reporter interrupted the ongoing news and told Ashwanta Wellness Institute which is literally 4 kilometers away from our house was caught in a blast and a government worker that was catching a dog in front of it is currently streaming the incident live which the news is using to show us, what's more concerning is all those who got injured by the strays in our area where admitted there only, anyway come down it's better to be attentive in such scenarios than sleeping around."

  "Alright (Alright)"

  ....

  They reached the dining room, the father was sitting with a grave look, both his hands above the table resting at his philtrum as he leaned slightly forward with his eyes locked on the television where the live news was playing.

  "....got caught in an unexpected explosion. Now repeating the breaking news with upcoming new details, Ashwanta Wellness Institute a well known and famous government hospital where the local patients from the yesterday's incident had been admitted got caught in what seems like an internal explosion.

  It has also been confirmed that this is supposedly not a terrorist attack and has happened due to intense chaos inside the institute itself, the reason yet unknown.

  Take a look at this live video showing the intense situation that is unveiling currently, all the police force nearby had been contacted not long ago and now after arriving they have formed a defensive line..." the reporter was telling all of this without taking a breather.

  What was the need for defensive line when this is not a terrorist attack and everyone is a civilian? Well because

  "...now direct your focus on these people, just what are their intentions and why are they acting crazily have they really disregarded their own lives?"

  'These people' looked like patients as some still were wearing hospital sleepwear, these people first came running outside the hospital entrance in groups, among them a few slipped and rolled down the entrance stairs, still none of these people gave any regards to the ones who had slipped and still continued to run, more terrifying was people who had rolled eight or ten stairs down got up and started running again.

  Under such situations one would expect continuous shouting, screaming and cries of these people assuming they are victims of the explosion that happened earlier, but there was no sound other than that of running and falling, all the expect agonizing screams were instead pouring out from the deep within of hospital.

  Any sane person would indifferently think that these people are scarred witless and are running to seek protection from whatever is happening inside the hospital, but if that was the reason then why was there a defense line formed of policemen with shield as the first layer trying to block the entrance and in the back a second defensive layer of armed policemen?

  "OBSERVE....the reports we received earlier were true, the batch of investigative police groups were indeed attacked, look at these people...have these patients gone insane, what is the meaning of all this"

  Something was strange indeed with these people. As they got closer to the camera, viewers were able to see all of them much clearly, more than half the people were fully unclothed, not just males but females too. Still they gave no attention to their own lack of clothing, the remaining people had mostly half the clothing - wearing hospital pajamas or gowns and some fortunate ones were fully clothed.

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  Clearly that alone wouldn't make the reporter this agitated right ?

  Well this in itself was shocking but sadly these people didn't stop at running buck naked. Some middle aged naked males and females leapt forward and punched at the shields which the policemen were holding, on the other hand around four to five people ran across and jumped over two policemen and continued dashing, one stopped near an electricity pole and remaining sprinted out of the camera frame.

  The one who had stopped near the pole stared at it for a few breaths time and jumped vertically, the pole was of average size maybe around 25-28 feet, if a person jumps and leaps on such pole he would utmost reach maybe around 5 or 6 feet that too if they are athletes but that person...even if he was an athlete....he jumped and covered roughly 55% of the pole's length, one could grasp this in a way that he jumped over two 6 feet long humans standing vertically if not more, following he clasped his body on the pole using his arms and feet, soon he looked up and leaped one's more almost reaching the top and hugging the pole like a child hugs his mother's leg, he then stayed there not moving an inch.

  This was the least chaotic scene, happening at the corner of the camera frame, if we were to talk about what was happening at the center, it was hell unleashed, had it been a news shown after being edited, the complete video would be heavily censored but right now it was live.

  More and more people were coming out of hospital by running, slipping, jumping, some rolling after getting kicked by the running crowd, as these people poured out of the entrance they directly went on to attack the armed policemen, unable to hold the crowd's violent actions the first layer broke down.

  Only sound that echoed after the first defensive layer broke was of continuous firing.

  Since the start of the incident, police had already given repetitive warnings to these people that they should not condone in any violent behavior or else the police would be forced to open fire.

  The armed men were able to successfully hold their ground for seven minutes of pure one sided blood shed that was all still being shown to public, in these seven minutes the crowd of these people had increased, one significant way to tell the difference was the naked attacking the clothed while the clothed kept on shooting the naked and half naked people.

  Suddenly a loud scream traveled through the screen in the viewer's ears, it had originated from the right side of the armed defensive layer where finally a policeman met his fate, after his scream he was seen running away while holding his blood red arm.

  This resulted in weakening of the defense at the right side and within a few breaths time, two more policemen, one holding his red arm and one limping, were seen running away.

  Soon viewers saw the defensive line gradually getting surrounded by those people, among all the firing a girl punched one of the police man causing him to fall on the ground immediately then the girl leapt at the policeman's thigh biting a huge chunk of yellow fat with blood dripping all over followed by that man's harrowing scream.

  "We are receiving another report describing the same kind of situation that is currently happening at Ashwanta Wellness Institute, this other hospital is a mere twelve kilometers away from Ashwanta Wellness and here too the patients of yesterday's incident were admitted."

  This hospital was sixteen kilometers away from Shraiyen's home.

  "All the local police force had been contacted to subdue the situation here also but look at this, the patients of this hospital are also attacking these policemen, what is the reason, is this the backlash of the incident that happened yesterday ? or is this som-

  We have received another video of a hospital twenty six kilometers away from Ashwanta Wellness and look, similar lookin-

  Four videos have been received by our branch situated at the neighbor state, every video we are receiving is of hospitals where the patients are attacking and the police is trying to defend

  Now we have received two more videos from the surrounding states"

  Currently the screen was filled with nine miniature videos, in each one the main center of attention was a hospital with naked and half naked people pouring out and police trying to defend by either shooting or shielding.

  It was nothing less than a hell, from all these 9 videos screaming, shouting, crying, firing of bullets could be easily heard and when combined it felt as if this was a part of movie, because something like this being real? It was hard to accept.

  Some people got shot, some people punched the face or chest of policemen, some leapt at the fallen policemen, some were running and some could be seen hugging a pole or a tree at exceptionally high height with no movement no matter what happened below them.

  Soon a video enlarged where the situation had progressed far worse than any other video, it was of a familiar looking hospital, of Ashwanta Wellness Institute.

  The formation of defensive line could not be seen any more, all that was left were few scattered policemen, some were running for the sake of their life and some were lying with no movement as blood poured out from either their arms, legs or necks.

  The blood flowing from the wounds was getting mixed in the already formed stream of blood that was dying the road crimson red which occasionally sparkled and reflected under the rays of sun.

  Just as all this was unfolding, camera moved towards the same young girl who was holding a yellow looking chunk in her mouth, her hands were coated with blood till her elbows, she was covered by the blood soaked hospital gown in the front half only with her whole back and legs exposed, she was running towards a direction close by the camera person, it was possible she hadn't noticed the camera person, yet he started following 'behind' her trying to see where she was going, immediately leaving the scene and chasing her while keeping a distance.

  In a few seconds, when a person running at her caught the girl's attention, she turned back, dropped the blood dripping yellow chunk, and lunged.

  Caught by such sudden movement change, the camera man froze at the spot and as he was about to turn around.

  *Thwack!*

  *Shatter!!*

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