The Solanum Vile by B Stapies (best english novels to read txt) 📖

“Jacob, Is that you?” the figure turned around as if he heard me, I slowly approached the figure and continued “hey buddy I need to tell you something, it’s really important” the figure flinched for a second and I stood like a statue, he slowly put out his hand and grabbed the curtain, I then leaned to the left to see him but then he grabbed the curtain and hopped out in a quick step and jumped at me with red glowing eyes and bloody teeth, someone grabbed my shoulders and pulled me out the door and shut it, it was Jacob. Telling me that the figure I saw was his dad and something had happened to him, “he bit my mum on the neck for some reason”. I sat down in his room in a defensive position and confessed about what happened.
After he finally got it, he backed up in confusion, probably thinking I was crazy and said “so this is all because of your little bottle of substance that was given to you from a missing teacher?” “Yeah pretty much” I replied to his smart mouth comment. We headed out after me convincing him of this incident to the fields behind my house, but first off he needed to pack some supplies. We just needed to get out of range of this bad doing to the town. On our walk I explained that it started off just a thought of genetic problems, only to be touched by the disease will make you sick, but then how could Jacob’s dad have been produced with this contamination without being bit by the dog? Now is it air born? Could I possibly be too greedy and selfish to start such a thing? “NO” this would have not happened if it were not for Mr Marrow, it’s his entire fault, now I endure the pain of stress through my mind. Now everyone I love or have loved is going to die or at least suffer in the symptoms I saw happen because of Mr Marrow, the methods I could now do are almost endless, I could turn back and warn everyone also causing more chance of them being hit with the airs solanum or I could turn to the fields and never turn back. Well Jacob was headed towards the field not worried about me being bit, that’s what a true friend is like I guess.
So like a coward I guess I head into the fields, the Tundra Falls field, looking back at the towns’ factories my house in the distance from the fields, with my friend in search for nothing at all. But I then stopped “why are we going into the fields? without anything to do so, the town is now doomed unless we do something, and I’m most likely going to die or reanimate through the side effects I saw” Jacob who was ahead of me turned around and said “our earth has been dying for generations and no one has been caring” “I guess this is the one thing that will get the message through!”
For all I have heard from Jacobs smart attic mouth this would have to be the most selfishly stupid thing I’ve heard, people are going to die and all you can say is ‘this is what they get for doing this’… I then turned around and walked back towards the town, Jacob turned around and yelled into dawn and darkness “you’ll just take them to their end faster” “the further away you get from me, the more closer to death you and the town are” me like usual not thinking straight still walked towards town’ factory and didn’t look back. Knowing Jacob he would probably go off and save himself, and I still thought he was a good friend. I walked towards town but then heard a crack of the bushes behind me, “Jacob I know you’re their!” turning around there he was ascending into the light towards me, ‘with glowing red eyes’ he ran towards me but I quickly turned around and bolted like hell’
Town Square 'Zombies'

Running through town square dodging the red glowing eyes that were all around me all trying to get their share of ‘food’ as they must have thought me to be. I did not know quite the fact of what I was doing or were I was going, it was already too late seeing people around me being ripped by others from unnatural strength that people must have gained after the symptom of reanimation. But the effects in humans are occurring faster than the dog, the low dementia in people were happening for less than half an hour, I then ran into the town hall were some people were calling me over and defending the hall from them reanimated humans. I safely got to the hall and with hardly a scratch, but I noticed I still had my mark on my hand, in the hall there were a couple of survivors, still without doubt that they will not be reanimated creatures. I heard someone in the back of the hall saying something about their names to be called ‘Zombies’ I had heard the word when I was a little kid, my grandmother used to tell me scary stories with the name, it matches my side effects to solanum, the descriptions of reanimation and initial point of entry, normally from a bite mark, but she never mentioned anything about air born situations.
When all went quite in the hall not without its reasons, it was night time and everyone was sleepy, obviously we had turns at shifts for watchout walking back and fourths through the hall trying to stay awake, someone had woke me up when it was my turn, I tried to keep to myself and never made eye contact with someone, in fact I never really tried to look at anyone not even knowing what they were wearing, I just know there was at least 11 people in the hall. When it was my turn to take the shift through the night it seemed everything was getting lighter and brighter all of a sudden. The low contrast of the atmosphere rising in a fast matter, night became morning before you could say, “I hate Mondays” and of course no one really got that much sleep, but what do you expect from all the screeching noises outside and a stench far more worse than anything you could imagine. No one was allowed to go outside according to the hall keepers’ rules, due to safety reasons. But I had to go, I couldn’t allow them to keep me in, I had to leave at once.
I found an open ground vent behind the second hall stage and climbed in without being noticed, it took me down into an basement were the storage of files and town reports were placed, I hopped out the first chance I got and went upstairs towards the outside opening, it wasn’t safe but I still had to take my chances. So I wacked hard on the opening to open it with one big kick from my right foot and once again ran into the open, for it was my only chance of getting out of the town. I didn’t really have a place to go and I should have took Jacobs advice but I guess I was stubborn and selfish myself thinking I’d be a hero if I could save everyone. I could see Tundra Falls fields from a sudden distance from the towns square fountain still being chased by quite fast people, or ‘Zombies’ I was a lot faster than the zombies luckily but I still had a long way to go till I get to the safe place Jacob mentioned to me. I know I didn’t mention it before but I didn’t feel like it was really necessary, well anyway, Jacob said that if I travelled far through Tundra Fall fields and went through the open mist of Triway swamp there would be a safe place, maybe a safe house. I only guess that is where Jacob had gone to. So that’s pretty much it, I’m on my so called quest towards the safe house, after running through the fields I lost the zombies running after me, it seems as if time has been flying ever since I have been bitten by that stupid dog, well I guess I deserved it after what I put it through but yet again, I’ve always hated dogs. Now walking on the Tundra Falls trail going through the trees and cold forest, at about 9:00am in the morning hearing nothing but silence.

The Journey

It hit darkness once again as if the world was speeding up like a really fast vehicle, the sun crossing the sky like it had a place to go and a reason for it to go in that one direction. On the Tundra Falls trails there’s not much to see, the usual trees because it was autumn the trees were a beautiful orange and yellow colour, the natural beauty the earth has to offer, and all that is around is other trees boulders creeks and lovely animals. The beauty for which the earth once had without humans, the destroyers of the planet right now and for what? Am I the reason for this doing or is Mr Marrow? I ask myself this question repeatedly, still not to know what of the vile that I once held would that vile of liquid destroy the last living beauty to earth. Or is it doing something good and destroying the destroyers? I still could not believe that I out of everyone have survived this disease attack on mankind just still walking alone in darkness of the forest I surprisingly made it to the main front of Triway swamps waterfalls before full sundown.
Through the water falls lovely sight I walk, making my way down through the mist and the unwanted smell of natural swamp water, I could finally not feel alone with the sounds of toads and frogs croaks all around, the crickets enlightened me and my thoughts. The darkness and light swift of air on my face made me feel something new in my life, knowing the fact that all I have left to live is gone but still feeling a slight happiness towards my life’s end. As I walk