Not A Human Anymore (Adam Brown's POV)

The young man opened his eyes and found himself lying on the cold marble floor with a pool of fresh blood the white room with huge glass cryogenic capsules and the large screen appeared to be a black and white, fuzzy, and blur,

Adam got up and saw his faint reflection on the cryo.

  Bloodshot eyes with opalescent honey pupils, a mix of hypnotizing and terrifying eyes that look like undead;

Tone-muscle tan brown skin with visible blue and violet veins on his neck, cheeks, forehead, hands, and torso;

lips are now chapped and tinted black and judging from his recent features, he is not human anymore.

  How did this happen to Adam?

  Suddenly, a disturbing memory flashes in his mind. It happened a while ago, when a horror outbreak began here in the laboratory room which is confidential and no one except the Very Important Personnel here in this room.

  Adam Brown is also there as a GUINEA PIG and unfortunately, some of his fellow mates who are also defenseless experiment trials and errors like him turned into a zombie when they suddenly went dead and a few minutes later they reincarnated into horrendous brainless man-eating monsters

  When they saw it, it was utterly too late for them, even the staff who worked and stayed in the white room full of the laboratory were slowly devoured by zombies as their excruciating screams and deafening whimpers could hear.

Adam witnessed it with his two honey-naked eyes thus the young man panicked at this incident become a horror.

  Unfortunately, the black-brown young man is also a victim as he can't get out of the room without getting bitten as he's also cornered by zombies.

  As his arms were bitten by one of his fellow subjects, Adam quickly pushed the zombie whilst he groaned in his low deep husky voice and ran away and hid beside the cryo as the screams of desperation and hopelessness were all he could hear he's shivering by too much fear of how chaotic in hell the room was.

  While Adam was curbing himself, he felt a sharp pain and had a terrible sensation both in his body and mind, as it kept distracting him from his wounded arm getting bitten by a zombie.

  Adam starts to hallucinate things, as he lets his tears trickle down both of his cheeks. He clutched his head while his deep husky voice is weak, hampered, and heavy, as his breathing are irregular, shallow, and emphysematous.

  He can't tolerate the tormenting pain he suffers right now as it feels like there's hydrochloric acid inside of his body that is being pumped up through his veins, making his limbs melt as the strong burning sensation is pure agony for him.

  For a fraction of a second, his head felt like it sunder and almost opened in half as his head almost exploded together with his brain and skull. His headache is worse like he's being stabbed by trillions of needles in every second of his torture pain in his head as he's choked sobbing due to the immense pain he is suffering.

  He wasn't sure of how long he suffered from his dreadful experience it lasted, but it felt like hours had passed before his watery vision started blacking out. His energy is worn out and almost sucking him that his time as a human is ticking before he finally lost unconsciousness.

  And that's what happened to Adam before he was back in his consciousness, Surprised different features he had as he saw his reflection, even its fainted he realized that he turned into a ZOMBIE.

  Adam felt puzzled and mad at himself cause he was not a human anymore but become the UNDEAD BEAST.

He's back on his track as he is lost in his thoughts when four subjects who had also turned into a zombie, keeps banging on the door, desperately to get out of this bloody mess room as they are desperate to hunt down the other places looking for the victims as their feasts.

He can't tolerate He suffered in a tight-security locked laboratory room quarantined for 8 years and he turned into a zombie instead of a human.

  He is mad at the world and what he is mad about right now is the only thing he remembers was he turned into a monster and the 8-year hell experience of his life as a subject who was forced to participate in the gruesome experiment.

  The recently turned black-brown-haired zombie took a step and saw the fellow four men who also turned into a zombie, he pulled a zombie who wore a lab coat with formal business attire. Instead of getting out of the way and helping them to open the door they kept banging, his hands reached out to the back of the zombie's head and dug his long, sharp, and tinted black nails into its skill as he compressed it harshly without mercy.

  With his inhuman-like physical strength making a starving beast struggle to get out of his grasp, he keeps compressing and adding more pressure as he excavates it deeply. It didn't take long before it stopped moving thus in such a short time, the head of the zombie was brutally broken out.

  The broken skulls and ruptured brains scattered everywhere but his eyes were focused on the odd little crystal-stone-like capsule and its color CRIMSON out of place in all the mess.

  As Adam was curious and thrilled about what he saw his adrenaline rushed through his veins, it was like he finds amazing as he found an amazing Ruby gemstone.

  The black-brown young man picked up the capsule and suddenly calmed his head from it keeps pounding and nerves suddenly soothed him for a moment.

  Adam keeps staring at the crimson-colored crystal-like capsule as his instincts call him to SWALLOW this capsule as he is confused about why would he have to intake this capsule. His instincts crave this item as it keeps screaming internally thus he placed his palms on his opened mouth.

  He munched the crystal capsule as his opalescent honey orbs widened to savor the taste then he swallowed the fragments of the said object.

  His senses are awakening and corrupting him as he badly wants to consume more crimson crystal capsules when he kills a zombie. He felt like one crystal capsule was not enough for him as he was hungry and craving it. The three remaining zombies keep banging on the door as they don't care about the world but only to fill up their greediness and own selfishness, and their selfish desires of zombies are HUMANS. They want to consume humans without limits. However, Adam is different, as his only desire is the crystal capsule that came from the zombie's brain.

  He couldn't control himself anymore as his sight darkened, and then it turned into an infrared vision with a crimson-color cylinder in the brain of every zombie. Adam turned into a zombie, but not a regular one, instead, a dangerous beast. To attack them, his nails became longer as he had black and red slimy tentacles on his back. The tentacles are crawling on the ground to grab their ankles as he pulls them up and hangs them.

  Their loud groans and hisses could be heard by the black-brown young man clearly as he gave them a murderous gaze.

  He added three tentacles and morphed into a spear as he punctured the chest of the zombies in a flash, creating a hole and he is a RED ZONE type of zombie. As he slowly let go of the zombie one by one in slow motion, he instantly crushed their head as they burst out and his white long sleeves were stained by their blood splattering everywhere, even his handsome features were now marked by their black-red blood.

As he saw the three crimson crystal-like capsules lying on the ground beaming bright with fragments of pulverized skull and squashed brains then blood, he instantly grabbed the capsule and consumed it. His head slowly calms him down and doesn't feel throbbing thus Adam realizes his actions as he is slowly back to his consciousness. He instantly regretted it as he realized how beast he was, even if they were zombies, what he did to them was completely wrong as he killed them just to satisfy his selfish desires but he'll suffer a hellish migraine if he can't consume the capsule.

  Adam was not a regular zombie but he became a mutant zombie as he could make his nails longer and turn into claws plus his black and red tentacles danced around behind his back Adam saw his reflection on the cryo as his sight turned back into a normal vision.

  He hates this transformation as a single tear falls on his cheeks. He felt like his throat closing up.

  Adam sobbed into his hands with a strangled scream, his shoulders trembling.

  He can't believe that he become a horrifying beast plus his memories are completely lost, he is desperate and slowly accepts the fact of what happened to him not until he hears a bell.

  A SIREN BELL THAT MAKES HIM DEFEANING.

  Adam suddenly stopped in his tracks. His black-tinted nails slowly back to normal, his tentacles shrinking until they disappear. When Adam almost got out of the room he saw a beaten-down book on the wrecked office table and instantly grabbed it.

  It says

  PROJECT EXPERIMENT 101: PROTOTYPE VIRUS TO MAKE HUMANS MORE POWERFUL AND IMMORTAL

He can read the words and understand this as he gritted his teeth while clutching the book. What shocked him the most was that the organizations listed were the ones coordinating and cooperating with this gruesome experiment and he felt familiar with this organization imprinted the word JADESON INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY – DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH SCIENCE.

  His intuition tells him that he has a connection to his past about the Jadeson International University yet he chooses to get out of the laboratory room. Adam brings the book as he releases a tentacle and morphs into a spear he breaks the door with the force of his inhuman strength and leaves the laboratory room.

  As he managed to get out of the room, he faced a swarm of zombies as Adam chuckled in his deep husky voice.

  "Good day for me, cause the more zombies I face them, the more my hunger fills up my selfishness." Adam's infrared vision activates and summons his spear-shaped tentacles and attacks them all without breaking a sweat.

  As he successfully finishes them in one blow, the crystal capsule shines bright on the ground which makes him grin evilly. Adam took all the capsules as his tentacles morphed his hands and grabbed them carefully.

  He also squatted to pick the capsules while his tentacles doing their job.

  Adam knows what he did is cruel but this is his guilty pleasure, yet Adam feels weird cause why he doesn't attack humans? He doesn't crave human flesh and brains which makes him confused if he is a REAL ZOMBIE or another type of monster he transforms into.

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Adam is now free from the research headquarters place but he has to hide as he chooses to take the route of the forest. As he enters the forest he doesn't hear anything until he feels something in his intuition. It was not until he saw huge red-orange flames bursting up in the sky as the ground shook that makes him lost his balance in the commotion and he was splashed by mud.

  Adam does not realize he lost the grasp of the beaten-down book he brought from the headquarters as it is left unattended when he gets up and finds himself a place to hide and shelter himself. The black-brown-haired mutant zombie moved to conceal himself behind an overturned bus and continued to observe the situation.

  Adam preserves some capsules in case he'll be starved and to soothe his head from the terrible migraine he suffers.

  It was already late evening and he didn't see humans nor zombies in the forest as he wondered where are they now. He thought that maybe they failed to survive.

  Even Adam felt guilty of what he did to the zombie, on the other side of his thoughts, he badly wanted the zombies to turn into a human and him too, but that would be possible?

  He has a strong sympathy for humans as to why he can't do that and his superhuman powers to protect innocent ones as they wouldn't want them to turn into a zombie.

  He'll be more guilty if they did cause there's a higher chance he could brutally kill them with his hands and eat the capsules.

  Adam is busy stargazing while he is inside an overturned bus. He felt like someone was there, according to his intuition and instincts.

  He left the bus opened the door and checked if there is someone was there.

  Adam keeps walking until he is almost halfway out of the forest. He realized it was not safe for him if he got caught by humans instead of zombies. He almost turned his back and left but caught attention when a young maiden with scarlet red hair came to the entrance of the forest holding a flashlight with a khaki sling bag.

  With his still figure partially hidden from sight and with the darkness of the forest, the mutant zombie remained unnoticeable.

  Adam was sure that she was a survivor and he was very circumspect of the possible consequences when he bumped and approached humans.

  Adam saw the scarlet red-haired young maiden squat down as she grabbed something on the ground, he realized that she was holding a book that he found at the headquarters but he was unsure if he'd grab the book or not. But he won't attack humans and kill them. He is not that kind of monster even though he turned into a horrifying beast.

  Unfortunately for Adam, he got caught when the young maiden stopped in his tracks a few meters away from him and used her flashlight to look around the forest while arming herself.

  As the young maiden pointed the light in front of him her flashlight blinded him he didn't flinch and remained expressionless but deep inside, Adam got frightened and almost made a panic attack but his urge not to harm this human was what he fighting his inner self cause he knows she didn't meant harm even she pointed the black-brown-haired mutant zombie a gun.

  Adam takes a closer look at the young maiden to make it see more clearly even the lights are blinded to him. She looks haggard, pale, exhausted, and terrified as her facial expression says it all.

As he continued to focus on her, a distant memory seemed to flash in his mind. It's a memory from when he was in his senior year of high school. He remembered a girl with the same scarlet red hair who frequently came into their classroom to talk to all the people who happened to be their classmates, she was friendly and outgoing with her closest friend who was the handsome chocolate-brown-haired man. He remembered how he always caught her from a distance when she secretly looked at Adam and quickly turned away with a blushing face when he happened to glance in her direction.

  Because of the memory playing in his head, the mutant zombie unintentionally moved to take a step in her direction. He felt so familiar to this young maiden according to his intuition.

  He badly wants to hold and touch her but he can't completely remember her yet why does he desperately want her? Is that woman really important in his life when he's a human?

  Why can't he remember things about her?

  He was snapped out of his trance when a gunshot was fired his way, making him stumble a few steps backward.

  He was equally surprised when the bullet lodged itself in his shoulder but did not penetrate his skin. A mixture of pain, confusion, doubt, and dread was shaken in his mind and senses. Inhumane, monster, beast, demon, and undead were five words echoing in Adam's head again and again.

  He felt puzzled and sad when Scarlet, chose to run away instead of shooting him again, which the mutant zombie was in pain right now.

  He wanted to chase her and stopped her. He wanted to catch her not because he'd devour her as his dinner but instead to hug her.

  Adam felt weird but his heart beats fasts when he saw a beautiful plump lady with a scarlet red hair color and he desperately wanted to hold her, but how?

  She is really scared of him and he hates it for that cause he is a monster now.

  When she saw her crying as she uncontrollably sobbed over their unexpected encounter while the other woman hugged and reassured her, and two men who guarded her and started to patrol the place they were sheltering for security.

  Adam chose to leave the place while he hid behind the tree but tears welled up in his opalescent honey eyes, letting them fall on his cheeks as he was sad and broken while he balled his veiny big hands on his fists, as he whispered and looked into a beautiful moon and disorganizing millions of stars twinkling in the dark pitch black in the sky.

  "I look like a monster, but I'm not a monster. When we see each other again, I'll apologize to you properly and you'll be safe in my hands."