A child wakes up to chaos around him
Looking around, as searching for someone, he gets up from his bed and exits the room, and the child seemingly grew worried about the situation.
He then frantically started to call out someone's name, as they did not respond he started to search for them, it didn't take long for him to find a person but it wasn't in the situation he expected, the one he looked at wasn't human, at least that is what it seemed, it was a creature with really abnormal body parts, it had almost no facial features, it did have eyes but they looked like they were lifeless, it stood there, without even making the slightest movement, staring at the kid, and the kid too staring it back and standing still.
The kid continued to stare at the creature without making a noise, but something happened, the creature which was seemingly still, began to have subtle movement, its arm began to morph onto something sharp resembling a dagger.
Seeing this, the kid began to be wary of the creature, it suddenly swung its arm like a whip at the kid, the kid luckily dodged the attack, and he started to run, he ran until he was out of breath, out of the seemingly large apartment complex.
He looked around to see only ruins of the once buildings and vehicles, it truly looked like the apocalypse, it was too much for him to bear, after all he was about to turn to eight years of age the next month, he cried, he shouted for help, he was terrified, he remembered before going to sleep that his mother said she was going out to buy groceries just around the apartment complex.
He turned around, but was scared to take a single step towards the building he was just in, the kid thought of his mother, and in which situation she would be in, this gave him enough courage to go towards the shopping mart
While walking, he noticed that there were way less human dead bodies than there were people in the apartment, the kid was terrified at the thought of people becoming monsters just like the one he saw while he was in the apartment complex, another thought occurred in his mind, If it would affect humans, what would become of his mother, she was a human too.
With this thought in his mind he began to run, and he ran all the way to the street where the shopping mart could be seen, he was relived at the sight of the mart, he took a deep breath and started walking towards it, he made his way to the entrance of the mart, he remembered the creature from the apartment complex, 'what if there is a creature like that in the mart, what do I do, can I even hurt them' he thought.
He bent down and picked up a steel pipe which was lying on the ground, he carefully went inside there were many refrigerated display cases, as he went forward he could hear faint noises of breathing, and he turned around, to his dismay it was another creature, this one horrifying yet seemed to be friendly, he didn't quite understand it but the creature looked happy to him, he looked around to see if there any more creature but there weren't, the kid curious about it, got closer to the creature, it didn't harm him it just stood there confused, it raised it arm, the kid got alarmed and leaped back, the creature seeing this retracted its arm back looking a bit disappointed, seeing that it hadn't harbored any ill intentions, the kid got closer again, the creature extended its arms again, this time the kid didn't avoid it, the arm had reached the boys head, the creature patted the boy happily, it then tugged at the boys shirt and pointed in a direction at a corner of the mart, the kid confused followed it as it lead the way, a sort of noise was being made at the corner, he couldn't see it as it was dark, the kid followed the creature trusting it, he could see an outline, an outline of a woman curled up, as he got closer he could hear sobbing.
The creature stopped walking, it looked at the kid with concern, now that the kid was calm, and he observed that the creature does in fact show emotion, like humans.
The kid didn't dwell on it too much as there was a much important matter at hand, the human who was curled up on the floor