Thread: Zombie Nation (Puppet_Mistress, XanderX)

Six years ago on July 12th scientists from all over the world gathered at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. These scientists were brought together to work as a team to find a cure for the epidemic known as HIV. The virus had gotten out of control in the decades since it had been discovered. People were becoming victims of the virus everyday. These scientists worked night and day experimenting on the virus trying to make a cure. On December 17th two years later a cure had been believed to be in existence discovered by the same scientists that had come together four years before. They had named it Lotus after the ancient Asian belief that the Lotus represents the virtues of sexual purity. It was the perfect name for what they had believed that they accomplished. The cure had been distributed to patients infected with HIV. The test subjects responded at first positively, but after hours of observation the patients started developing a fever. The doctors on watch had no idea what was happening. The animal primates they had tested with the cure had had no such affects. They were baffled. The fever climbed higher. The doctors took more tests and came to find that the virus was mutating rapidly destroying the cells of all the subjects involved in the testing. It was terrifying how fast the virus was mutating. They proceeded to try and find a clue as to why the virus was responding so poorly to the cure. In the process of doing more tests one of the doctors was bitten by a patient. In just hours he was showing signs of fever. Upon taking samples from the him the scientists and remaining doctors discovered that he was infected with a combination of both the HIV virus and the cure Lotus. It was a horrible mutation of the two together that seemed to kill the victims slowly by a rising fever and then hours later reanimating the brain enough to function with only primal instincts to kill and eat, the infected seemed to only want the flesh of the living. After much deliberation they decided to call this new strain of the virus Dark Lotus. The virus was contained. Just over two years later in the coldest winter ever recorded in Atlanta, Georgia the virus was stolen by one of the junior scientists assigned to the upkeep of the virus. He was on a need to know basis and had no idea of the virus's mutation. He stole the virus, set free the test subjects, and escaped the facility unnoticed. After doing that he made more of the virus that he thought was the cure for HIV and started traveling the world distributing it to many HIV positive victims. He was unaware he was really letting Dark Lotus take over the world. In the process of distributing the virus the male was then infected with it himself. He died still unaware of the nightmare he had unleashed on the world. Humans left and right were infected with a deadly virus. Killing them then reviving them with the basic instincts to hunt and feed. Later after the initial outbreak the infected would be referred to as Zombies. No conscience and the need to feed on raw flesh were dangerous, and highly contagious. These abominations really put to use the term Survival of the fittest. If you were not strong and did not fight you would not survive. And survival was the only goal. Our story takes place in March and will continue until the end. Our story contains the characters Cady O'Connell and Xander McGowan. Both completely fictional, and capable of great things. Some terrible, but still great. Stay tuned, and enjoy. -Puppet Mistress.