Army of True Salvation - Chapter 2：Prologue

How will the world end?

Do you think it would explode, like a comet would hit it? What if there was war… will it disappear?

There were a lot of questions circling inside Sheloah’s head about the end of the world but when people talk about the end of the world, the concept that would pop out on her mind would be…

Zombie Apocalypse.

She kept thinking that the end of the world would be a zombie apocalypse. She can’t help but think of it. Maybe because she was influenced by the video games she played and the animes that she watched.

She kept imagining what if… the end of the world would really be a zombie apocalypse wherein people fight zombies everyday. It would be a survival!

Well, it’s not that Sheloah likes fighting all the time… it’s just that she yearned for some action in life since everything for her seemed a little boring!

She imagined getting guns, shooting all zombies down… holding a knife, slashing the zombies by their neck or chest… kicking and punching them… killing zombies by groups then people would make their group bigger.

‘Ain’t it awesome?’ Sheloah thought to herself.

But if a zombie apocalypse would happen, would it be like the games she played or the animes and movies that she watched?

In High School of the Dead, it started in school. In the anime Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka, the zombies were vulnerable to sunlight.

In the game Left 4 Dead, there were various types of zombies such as the Tanker and the zombies in that game could run whereas in Call of Duty Black Ops, the zombies there would be slow at first before they could speed up. In Zombie House and in Resident Evil, the zombies can even use weapons.

In movies like World War Z once a person was bitten by a zombie, they turn into a zombie for a span of 12 seconds or sometimes for 6-12 minutes depending on the person who was bitten. For Warm Bodies when zombies eat brains, they could feel how it was to be human again by looking into their targets memories through the brains they feed.

There are a lot of theories about zombies from animes, games and movies… but from all these, they all share one thing in common…

Zombies react to noises.

Sheloah sighed as these thoughts circulated in her mind. She was not paying attention in class because she found it boring that’s why she decided to let these thoughts come and distract her for her own amusement.

She thought what if a person became a zombie. Will the cure be like in World War Z that people would need to inject some illness so they won’t be noticed by zombies? In Warm Bodies, should people smell and act like a zombie so they won’t be attacked by zombies?

There are a lot of things people don’t know about zombies. Heck, how can people know about them? A zombie apocalypse didn’t even happen in real life. These zombie stories are just figments of people’s imagination.

Sheloah shook her head a little as she thought of this but still, she thought that this can still be a possibility.

She looked outside the window near her seat and thought: if a zombie apocalypse were to happen, would the information from the games she played and the movies and animes she watched, be useful?

Sheloah stopped thinking for a while and looked at the board in front of her. She is already a fourth year high school student and like a typical student, she found every lesson, especially the first period in class, boring.

She gave herself a sigh as she continued looking at the board but their attention was stolen when suddenly, a bang was heard from their classroom door. The students looked at who it was and noticed the guard of their school with extreme panic on his face.

‘What’s wrong?’

“You are the first and nearest section that I can warn this about,” the guard said and the students started to whisper.

Sheloah looked at Veon, her seatmate who was also her friend. She smiled at him and said, “Do you think there’s a suspension of classes because of the guard’s panic?”

Veon chuckled slightly. “I think so… if it’s the reason why he panicked,” he said and they both looked at the guard again.

“What’s the problem,” the adviser of their class asked as the guard took a deep breath.

“Huh? What do you mean,” the adviser of the class asked again and the guard now looked at the teacher with a serious expression, with panic evident in every word he said.

“Just run! Something happened with the other guard I am with when he was bitten by a dog a while ago,” he said then suddenly everyone in class became noisy.

Sheloah looked at Veon and he looked surprised and dumbfounded as well by the news they just heard.

The guard changed because a dog bit him? What does he mean? Does the dog have rabies? Why is this happening in school, of all places?

“Wait, sir, you’re saying–”

The adviser didn’t get to finish what she was about to say when they suddenly saw a person pulling the guard away and bit him. Everyone in class was surprised; they shouted as they watched the scene. The class president of the school calmed himself down before he shut the door tightly.

They heard the guard screaming for his life. They saw his blood splattered on the classroom window and a lot of the students now had fear taking toll on their body. Their body started shaking in fear and some were even crying.

Sheloah stood up as she held her mouth with her right hand.

‘I was just thinking about zombie apocalypse a while ago and now… is it becoming a reality?’ Sheloah thought to herself as they saw the commotion happening outside their classroom through the window.

‘What are we going to do?’