The Beginning Of The End

Chapter 11

The scientist get right to work on us, as we enter the laboratory. They start asking us questions like what blood type we were and things like did our families have any autoimmune diseases. And who turned in our family during the uprising of the zombie plague. 

After telling her my blood type i get the reaction i always have got for like 17 years now, I tell her again, my blood type is AB+ Not as rare as AB- but rare enough.

"Okay, first things first. There's no way that you are an AB+ That's the second rarest blood type in the United states. Even if you were an AB+ You would be a very lucky human being in this apocalyptic world. You see, when a zombie bites a human, it mixes its DNA with the alive DNA, but the blood type has to either be the same, or a compatible mach in order for the zombie to even think about biting you...The only way an AB+ Person can be bitten and turned by a zombie is if the zombie was AB+ or AB-

"No way. So you're telling me that all this time I have been running from those things thinking if they bite or scratch me once, then I'll become one of them. And now you're telling me that even if I do get bitten there is a 1 out of a 1,000,000 chance that I could turn into a zombie."

"Yes I am, now don't get too cocky, I still need to find out what gene type you carry."

She takes three tubes of blood from me and tells me to stay put, she also tells me that if I am a beta that she'd be forced to either kill me or lock me up in a cage, due to the virus that won't ever leave, and all it would take from me was a scratch and the person I scratched would be infected.

"It'll take about 30 seconds to find out what you are, "The Commander says waling in."

"Hello, Sir." I say skeptically.

"Oh please call me Jack, I really do mean you no harm."

"Commander Jack!!! Come here Quick, and do not touch him!"

He looks at me very confused and leaves me there wandering if this was it, was I a dangerous beta, I couldn't live with myself if I was, I would never be able to kiss someone.

I hear them trying to have hushed voices but I still hear them.

"Jack, is he patient Zero. I thought he was killed?" 

"Pull up the kids DNA records and any family he has in the U.S."

"He can't be patient Zero, But there is one other thing. If he is related somehow to Patient Zero then he could have somehow inherited the virus, we still don't know how patient Zero got it. For all we know he could of been born with it." Commander Asguard states.

"It says here that Brian Lennox was the only known carrier. I don't think that was Jason's name."

"I walk over to them and speak up."

"Son go back to your seat, they both yelled"

"Well I am f*****g sorry, I just wanted to know why you said Brian Lennox?!"

"That's classified information, and we can't tell a citizen like you, especially since you are only 17." The female doctor rudely states.

"First of all there is barley anyone left not infected in the world now, so I think it's okay to tell me some; classified information. Second of all Brian Lennox is my deadbeat dad, He left about 2 years ago and hasn't said anything since, the only thing he said was that  his sister, My aunt Tilda has all the answers, she was like him, but much, much older.' I say.

"If Brian Lennox is your father like you say, Starts the Commander. If he is your father then you are the world greatest weapon against the Zombies. Your Father was patient Zero and he was a betta and an Alpha. But for some reason he could tell the zombies what to do like he was in control of them. He's patient Zero due to him receiving the first cure for death. Jason your father didn't leave 2 years ago. He was murdered 2 years ago. Your mother found out. But she also found out what we had planned with him. She only agreed once we payed her a lot of money and in cash. Your father woke up about 48 hours after the cure was injected into him. But then something went wrong. Everyone in the room that he was in suddenly turned on the other scientist who weren't in the room. They were fine for about 10 minutes but the scientists who had been in the room with your father and had given him the cure and been there for the process of his reanimation. They had gone on a lunch break. When people around them started to notice they were acting weird. Then exactly 10 minutes later chaos broke out as the 16 scientists went crazy and started convulsing. They went into a coma after they stopped convulsing. We took their vitals and they were still in healthy condition so we had them in the hospital wing of the laboratory not thinking much of the situation at the time but then the next day they all woke up at the same time. But their eyes were milky white and they were showing sighs of aggression. Then one of them bit into one of the nurses and 30 seconds later she was biting into people as well. Then as a safety precaution we have in place of an intruder we have a vacuum device that sucks the threat out through tubing in the ceiling and shoots them out of the building. But that was the biggest mistake we made that day now 5 months ago. They made their way to a small town. And once the first person was bit the town was overrun with zombies within 45 minutes and no one remained uninfected except for the kids. Some of the kids turned like 2 or 3 of them. But we noticed that some of the kids had bite marks on them but weren't crazy. We had then realized that they were immune. Our mission to quarantine the area was abandoned when the zombies started closing in on us. And we got word that Brian had escaped while all the guards were with us on the mission. Commander Asguard explains.

"Okay that's crazy. But how does this have to do anything with me?"

"Your father gave you his rare genes. He was a Betta and an Alpha meaning he can both spread and control the virus as he likes. Commander Asguard says.

"Okay, Well that's a lot of new crazy information. Since the tests are done can I please leave yet?"

"No you are not going anywhere, you are to stay here so we can run more tests on you." The Female Doctor blankly states like it's a duh statement.

"Umm Okay, can you please tell me what these other tests are then so I don't go into them not knowing what to expect." I ask.

"We are going to bring some of the infected in here. But not just any. But the first to be infected. We've caught a few of the scientists that were infected from the air surrounding your father."

"Wait what!!??" I yell in protest as a door is opened and they run out the other door. Sealing me shut inside with the Zombies responsible for spreading this horrid disease.

Once the door containing the zombies is opened. They charge into the same room I am in. I fully expect them to take bites out of me. They see me and come closer to investigate me. One of them sniffs me and backs away from me as fast as possible and the others suddenly become very aggressive. They start snarling at me and then all of the sudden each of them are shot in the head. And they were all inches away from me.

I look up to see Commander Asguard in a window with his gun still pointing out.

5 minutes later

I get my nerves calmed down and they begin to tell me their theories.

Apparently my blood holds a natural cure since I have both the alpha and betta zombie genes in me. Making me 1 immune and 2 the cure. They both tell me that they won't drain me of all my blood like you'd see in some stupid horror movie. But all they need is 4 vials of blood to get started with a cure. And synthesize my blood so it can be massed produced.

"So what do you say Jason? You ready save the world?" Commander Asguard asks me. With a hint of playfulness in his voice.

"Yeah. I just wish it was my doing and not my deadbeat dad's. He passed on these genes to me. I wish my mom had instead of him. But yeah take the blood. I want to see how it works too if that's okay."

"Well without you there would be no hope in a cure so yes you can see how it works. I'm going to have you eat a big meal and drink a lot of water before I take your blood. You are a bit dehydrated and I bet your hungry to begin with so follow me to the mess hall. Or the cafeteria in your terms." He says with a smirk.

I eat and drink a lot and am told that tomorrow I'll give the blood. He said they'll try to cure a newly turned zombie with a few cure trials. A few with my raw blood. And a few with some of my synthesized blood. Which isn't hard to make if you're got a laboratory for it. Which apparently they do. They'll do this with the synthesized blood until they find the best version of it.

Tomorrow's gonna be a long day.