A young couple from Germany were marveling at the stunning Karera Waterfalls, situated in Burundi. Ben the blonde-haired man in his early twenties held his young wife Berta lovingly in his arms as they enjoyed the scenery.
For years they had saved money and made preparations for this adventure around Africa that was supposed to be coming to an end soon as they made their way towards Ethiopia from where they would fly back home.
Berta already visibly pregnant with their first child took her phone out as Ben went close to the waterfall to pose for a picture. All the while their guide a middle-aged bold and fat Blackman kept an eye on them to make sure the two didn't do anything stupid to get themselves hurt.
While watching the two the man felt a slight sting on his neck. " AHH! " He grunted in pain and placed a hand on the wound and turned around to see what had just stung him.
Behind him, he saw the strange young American boy no more than 18 years of age standing there. The boy was dressed in all black for some reason even though it was sunny outside and extremely hot.
For a while, the man had been suspicious of this strange boy who spoke very little and didn't take any pictures like all the other tourists. Taking his hand off the small wound on his neck the Blackman noticed blood on his fingertips.
Seeing this he immediately flew into a rage. He couldn't see any weapons in the boys hands but he was sure he had done something to him. Grabbing a hold of the boy he yelled. " What is the meaning of this! Do you want to die, huh! "
The boy just smiled from under his hood as his demonic-like red eyes seemed to glow bright red just like in the stories his mama had always told him. Frightened he took out a handgun from his pocket and pointed it at the boy saying.
" Demon! What are you! What do you want! "
Seeing this the German woman screamed as the man ran to his wife in worry.
Then they all heard the boy slowly count downwards. " 4, 3, 2, 1 show time. "
The Blackman froze in place, his whole body seemed to become stiff. Then In front of all their eyes, the boy disappeared into thin air like he wasn't ever even there.
The frozen Blackman then fell to his knees coughing out blood and then he slumped over seemingly dead.
" Kyaahh, Ben what's going on? Is he dead? Who was that boy and where is he? " Berta started yelling frantically as Ben tried to calm her down.
" Take it easy Berta, deep breaths. Just calm down. Whoever that boy was, his gone now. Right now we should just get ourselves down the mountain and to the nearby village. Then from there, we can call for help. " Rubbing Berta's back Ben tried to calm her down.
Just as Berta seemed to calm down to Ben's relief the Blackman's body started twitching as if it was having a seizure. His body tossed and turned violently then his back bent and a loud gasp could be heard as if the man was trying to breathe in a massive breath of air.
Then the man slumped down again into an unmoving lying position. The couple scared to no end slowly got up to two feet and started to back away.
Backing away Ben stepped on a small branch creating a loud snap sound that echoed throughout the waterfall.
Immediately the Blackman's eyes shot open and his body turned to look at the two tourists. Then without a second thought, the man let out a beastly yell as he charged towards the couple.
Jumping in front of the charging man Ben was knocked to the ground as the Blackman savagely bit him into his collarbone. The force of the bite was so strong that it ripped through Ben's shirt and shattered the Blackman's teeth as they impacted with the bone.
Ben yelled in pain as he tried to get the man off of him. Standing to the side Berta screamed but almost immediately ran to her man's aid.
In desperation, Berta pulled and pulled on the man without any success until he suddenly turned towards her and tackled her to the ground.
Noticing this Ben though wounded pushed his body to the maximum and jumped on the crazy man's back. Putting him into a choke hold Ben tried to pull him off but then he too just like the Blackman before froze.
Freezing there in place he then fell off the man as the man continued to eat his screaming wife alive.
Twenty seconds then passed and now the three were standing there bloodied and wounded but seemingly in perfect peace with one another. Together they just watched the waterfall like a bunch of zombies. The. Almost as if getting bored by this their attention was taken by the birds flying all around.
Like a bunch of dumb zombies, they started to head towards the forest and the sounds of the birds. Stumbling on roots and rocks they then arrived at a tree where a bird was singing. Desperately the tree tried to claw and jump at the bird but failed.
Seeing this the clocked man face palmed himself. Then he opened a game-like screen in his head unnoticeable to all except him. Looking at the options there he arrived at a rare skill called. [Finger of dark creations, Level 1]
It was a skill that he had managed to pick up after gaining level 4 in his rogue class. Apparently, his accumulated kills that the Goblins had gotten earned him a special unique skill. With this skill, he could turn the dead back to the moving dead or turn the living into the moving dead. Basically, he could infect corpses or living people with a zombie virus.
Having already tested this ability out on some animals. He had found out that despite creating these zombies himself he seemed to lack any control over them. The zombies would just as much attack him as they would attack anybody else like a bunch of hungry beasts.
Despite all of this the zombies would be a great asset to him and his development. Or this is what Chad thought as he pressed the upgrade button. Immediately 10 souls were exchanged and the skill turned to level 2.
Immediately the Blackman seemed to change. His nails became longer and thicker like the claws of some kind of a beasts. His skin seemed to become a bit rougher and stronger. The muscles bulged a little and even his teeth seemed to become sharper. But to Chads surprise only the Blackman seemed to change. Maybe it was because he was the only one of the three who had consumed flesh? He wasn't sure.
Nonetheless, with this upgrade, the Blackman instantly changed plans and started to climb the tree where the bird hid.
Noticing this the bird started to scream at the man in a panic. But this only seemed to motivate the zombie even more. Then as he got in too close the bird simply flew away and left it's eggs for the Blackman to enjoy.
Using his camouflage skill Chad was intrigued by his new creations. Though he did feel a bit sad about having to turn the German couple into zombies. Originally he had planned to travel here to Burundi with the excuse of doing research for a school project about climate change and shit. But in reality, he wanted to use Africa to gather more souls and experience points.
The goblins while quite effective at hunting down animals and grinding experience for him. They just were too slow. And so he had traveled to Africa, his plan originally was to take the tour guide alone into the jungle and use him as a test subject but sadly the German couple had come along and he wasn't going to pay an other 20 dollars for a tour to the waterfall.
Also going to Africa was a good way of avoiding all the awkward situations at home. Apparently, a week ago his sister had secretly taken a naked photo of him as he had slept and then spread it amongst the girls in school.
Intrigued by the photo the girls had then decided to play a little prank on him but things seemed to have gotten out of hand. And so after that the atmosphere at home, in school and especially with teacher Julia seemed extremely awkward so he had decided to take a quick break from school.
Also, he had figured out that his skill called strong body seemed to be changing his body in slight ways to that of a goblin he figured. And apparently, goblins sperm had an extremely strong aphrodisiac type of odor that seemed to be one of the reasons that the girls around him seemed to be acting so rashly.
Chad Redfield
Rogue Level 4
[STATS]
9 strength
14 Agility
14 Stamina
7 Intelligence
7 Spirit
[SKILLS]
Level 2 (Sudden strike)
Level 2 (Vital Strike)
Level 2 (Camouflage)
[Unique Skills]
[Finger of dark creations, Level 1]
[Bloodlines]
(Greenskin bloodline)
Level 2 (Strong Body)
Level 2 (Green Spores)
Level 2 (Goblin Vision)
Level 2 (Uncontrollable Rage)
[Weapon Skills]
(Rogue weapon skills)
Level 2 (Unarmed combat.)
Level 2 (Knife fighting.)
Level 2 (Throwing.)
Looking at his stats now Chad felt quite satisfied. Though he still couldn't upgrade his skills past level 2 this was still a good start. Also, his pawns Will and Greg had also leveled up to level 3 warrior and a rogue. But even with their increase in levels, the two brothers seemed to be completely unaware of the reason for their sudden increase in strength.
Thinking of home Chad then started throwing stones towards the direction of the path that led down the waterfall. Little by little he did this to lead the zombies there where he wanted them to go.
Doing this was extremely slow as the zombies constantly wanted to head off into some other direction in search of the singing birds. Chad's annoyance and heat started to build up as he sweated heavily.
Thanks to his camouflage skill he could pretty much turn himself invisible but he couldn't turn his clothes invisible which was a huge problem. That's why right now he had forced himself to wear this simple black leather drifters outfit. Without it he would need to always run naked and hide himself whenever he came out of stealth. But there was a great upside to the skill and that was that it didn't require any stamina or anything. He could keep the camouflage skill activated as long as he wanted, as long as he didn't take any hits from a person. Like having someone bumping into him on the street he had found would throw himself out of stealth.
Then after a little while he could see it. A farmhouse right past the jungle trees next to the road. Then he also smelled it as the zombies seemed to do as well. Tasty food was being cooked in the houses little kitchen.
The zombies and he ran eagerly towards the smell. Now Chad could smell it so clearly, it was bacon and he was hungry. He could even see the smoke rising from the houses small chimney.
Then with the Blackman in the lead, he burst through the shabby wooden door that wasn't even locked. Chad immediately heard the people's fearful yells. Then the Blackman disappeared inside the house outside of his vision followed by the two other white zombies.
Horrendous screams of fear and death could be heard as Chad then entered the house. In there he could see the family of ten people fighting off the zombies with knives and pans. Already a few of the younger ones had bleeding scratch marks from the Blackman. On the floor, two young women screamed as the white German zombies bit on their necks. The women's supposed kids tried to pull the zombies away but it was no use, they weren't strong enough with their malnourished bodies. Seemingly the main man of the house, the father had managed to stick a knife into the Blackman zombies gut but it obviously had in no way stopped the zombies assault.
Now with a knife in its gut, the zombie had managed to grab a hold of the man's hand with his now sharpened teeth. The man bravely held the zombie at bay despite his wounded hand. But unknown to the family it was now just a matter of seconds before the ones bitten or scratched would start turning into zombies.
In the meantime, Chad sneaked up to the fireplace that still had a pan full of bacon there and then he took it. As well as that he noticed a car key at one of the corner desks in the room.
Quickly stuffing the bacon into his mouth Chad then took the key and went outside to find the car. Looking around the building he then saw a truck that seemed as if it was straight out of some apocalypse. Nonetheless, he hopped in it and put the keys in. Then with a few turns of the key, the thing started.
Just then as he pressed down on the gasspedle and went onto the dirt road. The small houses door burst open once more. This time the three original zombies now all mutated came charging towards him followed by the 10 new Zombies.
Honking his truck's horn Chad then headed towards the other nearby farmhouse in the distance. Around him, much of the forest had now turned into farmland and in front of him, there was a collection of three houses.
Alarmed by the noise of his honking horn the people came out of their houses to see what was going on. Driving past the 14 or so people standing outside, Chad could see them pointing at him saying. " Look mother there is nobody driving that truck. It must be possessed! "
With their attention on the supposed possessed truck, the people didn't even notice it the zombies running in behind the truck covered by it's dust cloud.
Looking through his rearview mirror Chad could then see the 13 zombies crash into the people and start another bloodbath. Once more the people fought desperately but were quickly turned into zombies and overrun by their own.
Then again Chad honked his horn and led the slowly growing group of zombies onwards. From house to house he went along the road and as he drove onwards he even noticed zombie dogs now joining the group.
The dogs being much faster than the humans forced Chad to push his shitty truck to it's limits. Many zombies were left behind without guidance to wander around the area as they wished but still, enough of them still followed him to take down any regular civilians that came in their path.
Experience points started to accumulate up like crazy until finally as the sun started to set he heard it.
[Level up!] Looking at his stats he saw an immediate increase but not much more.
Chad Redfield
Rogue Level 5
[STATS]
10 strength
16 Agility
16 Stamina
8 Intelligence
8 Spirit.
But he did gain one new skill called. [Kick.]
Seeing the skills name Chad felt quite disappointed. He already knew how to do kicks so what was the point of having a skill called kick.
Nonetheless, having almost 100 souls already accumulated Chad decided to upgrade the skill nonetheless.
With that done he then turned his attention back on the road and the light of a small town shining in the distance. Not stopping for even a second Chad simply drove past the small town and left it's fate in to the hands of the zombies.
Seeing that his zombie experiment seemed successful Chad simply continued onwards from there. His target was the southern border of Burundi. Along the way, he planned to turn people here and there into zombies. Like so creating small pockets of zombies everywhere that would hopefully slowly spread further and further.
And seeing as Rwanda and Burundi both have close alliances with each other both of them held most of their military which was about 62 thousand people strong at the Republic of Congo's borders. Because of this and the constant threat of war with the Congo, they would most likely be slow to react to this new zombie threat.
How would the world react to this sudden appearance of zombies in Africa Chad wondered as he drove south word's, his next destination being Tanzania.