The Decaying

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Roscoe POV

You know the government apparently spent millions of dollars for an apparent zombie apocalypse?

And me, along with many of the other poor people in this country believed that all of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars were going to waste. And even if it somehow did happen, (an "apocalypse" that is,) what are the chances that it would be during my lifetime? Little did I know that I was horribly wrong.

Nothing could go wrong in humanity. The world was flourishing, brand new phones and technology. But one main thing prevailed, human weakness. Sicknesses, plagues, and death. Polio had taken a rise again, along with the chicken pox, and the worst one of all, cancer.

Deaths by cancer had increased tenfold and more and more people were dying every year, until he came around.

Mr. Jakelis Maggi. The savior of the earth, the praised one, the smartest man since Einstein. He was the man who invented the cure for cancer. An apparent cure I guess.

The cure was simple enough. It mimicked the decaying process of a deceased body, technically killing the person enough until the cancer cells died. And then the person would be cured within a week, wake up, and continue on with their lives. Oh, and it was cheap and easy to make, it almost seemed too good to be true. Everyone took a chance at this new cure, and everyone was getting healed and walking away from their sicknesses like they were never near death in the first place. Unfortunately everything has their downsides.

This new drug, or medicine or whatever you wanted to call it had something to do with the chemicals in the brain. Noradrenaline, serotonin, and dopamine. I guess it created an addiction to these chemicals which technically caused problems.

Mix the decaying of the body to kill the cancer cells and the addiction to the chemicals in the brain, and you've guessed it. Zombies.

Well, everybody doesn't really call them zombies. They're known as "the decaying," but technically speaking they are living breathing zombies.

How do I know so much about the decaying?

Well, I used to be one.