It's been 2 years since this bizarre infection happen and we don't know how it started. This ain't no ordinary infection, these things... it's like it somehow mixes human DNA with some wild cat and it makes 'em not only wild... but also rabid-like!

  Me and my wife got separated a while ago, I fear I may have lost her. Now it's just me (Jim), 3 other guys (Nick, Brandon, Tyler), 2 women (Jessica and Mandy), all of us are heading towards to the next town. We are armed with rifles and Machetes, but even then I fear some of us won't make it for what we're about to get ourselves into.

  We reached the town by foot, looking around the town seems awfully deserted with lots of cars scratched and torn apart, puddles of blood everywhere, cracked windows on every building you see. I knew, this is a bad spot to head towards. "There's the Warehouse!" said Mandy. Straight up ahead, a decent size one too. We hope there are more weapons inside. Survivors? doubt it... We started moving across the road heading towards the warehouse. Suddenly, we heard growling... "Stay close." said Tyler, as we huddle together looking at every direction. Frightened, but we're ready. With a flash, Jessica saw something bounce off one of the cars. We start to walk faster... and faster... until we began to sprint a little. The hissing, we can hear it around us!

  Mandy trips and falls on the ground. We turn around with our eyes widened which we know what happens when somebody trips. Mandy turns around and one of those things jumps over the car and attacks her. She screams as it lunges and she tried to push it back with her weapon. Brandon aimed with his weapon and shoots the thing in the head. Brandon runs up to check on Mandy if she is alright. "Did it bite you?" he said. Mandy looks at her arm and notice a terrible scratch wound. "It's just a scratch. I should be fine." She said.

  We then hear more of those things, we look around and started seeing them crawling out. To describe these things, they have human-like bodies yet brown fur, they have large claws, a tail, and large canines with constant drool coming out the mouth, they're covered in wounds, dirt, and blood, and the eyes are pale white. We call 'em the Neko! I told them "We need to get out of here now! Come on!!!" We ran together and those things chased us. They're fast, agile, and can outrun us. So when one gets near, we fire our weapons. We've reached the warehouse and got to the door. However the door is locked. "Hurry we need to get in!" yelled Jessica. Nick uses his rifle and shoots the door handle. The door opens "Hurry and get in!" he said. We ran in and immediately started looking for objects to block the door. I moved a large crate blocking the door that covers half and one of those things started scratching the window from the door and then its claws started to pierce through it. The door won't hold for very long so we ran, though sadly the warehouse is mostly empty meaning we came hear for nothing...

  I broke the back door open and got everyone out. Mandy however seems like she's getting worse as she is still bleeding from her wound. If we ever have the time to find a place to relax a bit, I can help her. We then ran towards another building. Unlike the warehouse, this one is unlocked. "Great, an office building... reminds me of work." said Nick. Everybody went in and went upstairs and hid ourselves in a room. Me, Brandon, and Mandy went to another room to fix her wound. I brought out a first aid kid, took some rubbing alcohol and cloth to wipe the wound. It made her very agitated from the stinging pain. Then wrapped her with bandages. "I feel like shit..." said Mandy. She does seem to look more pale than usual. I told Brandon that I'm going to search around the building if there are any possible resource we can use. Brandon agrees and he'll stay with Mandy to make sure she's fine and resting.

  Walking pass the other room, you can hear Nick and Tyler arguing about something, Jessica is walking down the hallway looking and reading the papers on the walls. She then looks at me "You still think your wife is out there... alive?" and I told her "Yes, if we ever see each other again... I'll promise her we'll make things right again." Then I kept walking as she stayed silent.

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  It is night out, you can hear those things making noises outside. They don't notice us in hear yet, but we're keeping a close watch. Brandon is laying next Mandy, sleeping. Suddenly, Mandy's eyes open and her pupils have become more pale. She looks at her hand and notice her finger nails have gotten drastically longer and black. She licks her teeth and her canines felt razor sharp and long. Then she started drooling and feels like she needed something to eat. She looks at Brandon as her desire cannot be hold any much longer as she gets closer to him and sinks her sharp canines into his neck, feasting on him. Brandon gasp for air but Mandy rips his throat with her teeth, then began munching on him.

  I went to go check on Mandy and Brandon. When I open the door, I have witnessed Mandy eating the flesh off of Brandon. My eyes widened for Mandy has turned into... one of them! She then looks at me and is on a verge to attack me. I raised my rifle and went ahead and shoot in the head. After I reloaded the next bullet, Brandon started rising up and is about to turn, so I put a bullet in his head as well. The others woke and ran to check on who's firing. They caught up to me sitting in the hallway. "What happen?" said Tyler. I pointed my eyes in the room. He checked inside and saw Mandy and Brandon, both dead and notice Mandy's infection. He walks out and yelled "Shit!" .... Nick hugs Jessica as she started crying.

  The noises are getting louder, they're coming, they heard the gun shots and now they're heading towards our direction again. We need to defend ourselves. I got up with my gun ready, however I only have 3 bullets. The others don't have much either. Tyler went and got the bullets from Mandy and Brandon's guns and share and equal amount to all of us. We can now hear them crawling on the building and hearing noises on the roof and windows breaking. So we began to try and find a way out. They're already at the door where we went in trying to break through, we can see them scratching and breaking through the windows. We tried to go to the other way. A door opens and one of them jumps on Nick. He beats it with the gun stock and blow its head off. We came across a fork in the hallway, we see them coming in on the left side so we moved right. We open a door and found a stairway, we can hear more upstairs so we went downstairs. Tyler trips and falls the steps, twisting his foot. "GO!" he yells so we were forced to leave him. We didn't have a choice. They all piled on him, eating him alive as he screams in agony as we got through another door and locked it.

  It appears we've ended up in a basement. It's dark, but we continued our way. Jessica notice something on Nick. "You're Bleeding." Nick looks at his arm... "It's just a scratch, I'll be fine." However, I pointed my gun at Nick and I told him "That's what Mandy said, and look what happen!" Nick laughs a little, "Really? You just gonna shoot me then?" But the look in my eyes, he knows I am serious. He shakes his head "I am not turning into one of those things! Besides, if I wanna go out... then I'll go out with a bang!" Nick pulls out 2 Frag Grenades. He starts panting heavily, "You guys go, find a way out, I'll stay right here..." The door starts to crack and Nick tells us again "GO!" So me and Jessica ran. The door breaks and here comes a bunch of Neko's. Nick pulls the pins and sacrifices himself, blowing himself up and taking a bunch of those things with him. Part of that hallway collapse.

  Now it's just me and Jessica. What Nick did probably slowed them down. Lets hope it stays that way. Jessica drops her gun and started crying again. I turn around "What's wrong?" and she replied "We're gonna die Jim, we're not making out of this!" I walked up and hugged her, telling her "We will make it out of this. As long as there is still an ounce of hope among us, we will survive." Then I wipe the tears off of her face with my thumb. "Now come on, we'll find another way out of here." She shakes her head yes and picks up her gun off the floor.

  As we continued walking through this large basement that feels almost like a maze, I began hearing something. I shined a corner with my flashlight and I saw it... it's one of them... except... I recognize it... the face... it is... my wife... Daisy! She see's me and started crawling towards me making growling noises. Jessica ready's her gun and was about to shoot her, but I stopped her by taking her gun away. "What are you doing, she's one of them!" and I replied "I know... but I can help her..." So I grabbed Jessica "Wait... What are you doing? STOP!" she screams in fear as I started dragging her towards Daisy. Then I pushed her and Daisy grabs Jessica and started feasting on her. I started walking up and began petting my wife Daisy on the head...

  ....That's right.... feed.... Now we're together again....