Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:20:42 PM
You mind your own business, safely tucked away in your own little world of material comfort, blissfully ignorant of the world around you.
You awake one morning and prepare for work. Once your ready to go, you take a few minutes to enjoy your first cup of coffe - god bless french roast! You watch the local newscast as you enjoy your early morning restorative. You notice a story of several grisly murders - murders conducted by a 'cult' or 'cult members'. The one terrifying aspect of these murders is that there seems to have been some type of 'cannibalistic ceremonies' conducted...
You shrug off this story as yet another example of how far the culture has fallen into the sewer. You finish that cup of coffee and head off to work.
When you get home - after dark (of course the boss makes you work late), you notice an eerily quiet neighborhood: no barking dogs, no porch lights on, no lights in the windows of the houses around you - nothing at all. Even the air is still. And speaking of the air, you notice a faint, ever so faint odor. You've smelled it before, but your mind dismisses it.
Anyway, you pull into the driveway of your house. You know your house is empty, the wife and kids are off enjoying their vacation - you really start to hate your boss. As you exit your car, you notice a lone figure ambling down the road towards your house - someone out for a nightly stroll most likely. You turn to enter your house failing to notice the shuffling, jerky nature of the walk.
You turn on the TV and just catch the end of your local newscast. They are recapping a story about another series of murders. At first you dismiss it as a rehash of the story you saw this morning. But you catch an address which causes you to redraw your attention to the screen. You realize this is another story about another series of killings which occurred just adjacent to your neighborhood only a few hours before. This time, the reporter states that police services arrived called on 911 by a resident of the neighborhood. He reported to the police that a group of people had been walking house to house - banging on doors, windows, pulling on gates to yards, and making a god-awful moaning, screaming noise whenever they noticed someone inside a home. The reporter then tells how the police arrived and attempted to stop these 'crazies' - only five or six people.
When the cops arrived, the group turned their attention to the responding officers immediately. One eye-witness tells of how repeated orders by the police to "Halt!" were met only with that moaning noise. The 'crazies' didn't stop, wouldn't stop. The police used tazers - no effect. A backup unit arrived and attempted some 'non-lethal' rounds - rubber bullets from his shotgun. One of the 'crazies' fell, but immediately began crawling towards the cops trying to regain his footing the whole time. Then the witness states something completely impossible - one of the officers fired his sidearm at one of the 'crazies'. The witness says the shot hit the 'crazy' in the shoulder. Incredibly, he didn't stop, didn't cry out, and seemed completely oblivious to the injury. What the witness failed to notice - so did the cops - was that no blood escaped the gunshot wound.
The reporter states that by this time, more police units and one EMS unit had arrived. The original responding police had been able to do nothing to stop the 'crazies' but had waited for additional backup before attempting to physically restrain any of the group.
Once the backup arrived the police now numbering 12-15, begin to attempt arresting the individuals. One of the police interviewed by the reporter states when they approached they noticed they were all suffering from various types of wounds, what looked like bite marks. Their skin looked grey and mottled. One of the group was wearing tatters of clothing and had a fetid smell emanating from his body.
The cops take on the group and begin to arrest them. The 'crazies' immediately attack the officers when they get within arms reach. It takes several cops to subdue one of the individuals. The whole time the 'crazies' try to bite the officers and act in a completely homicidal, vicious way.
Finally the cops subdue all the 'crazies' but the one wearing the tattered clothing. As a group, they converge on the lone 'crazy' and manage to knock him to the ground. In the scuffle, one of the officers receives a small bite, a scrape really, to his right arm. Two of the EMS personnel are also bitten while trying to treat the other subdued 'crazies' prior to transport to the hospital.
The reporter finishes the story stating all the 'crazies' were transported to the nearest hospital for evaluation and treatment. The officer who was interviewed also went to the hospital for treatment of his minor bite wound. As he turned from the camera, you hear him say, "Man, I really feel like crap..."
While you have been watching the newscast, you fail to notice a slight, ever so slight, scratching noise at your front door...