Meanwhile, Lana was working at the shop helping some customers, when suddenly her heart started racing as well. Almost like that mother’s intuition but different. She knew something was wrong with Adelmo and started to worry.  

She wondered, “What is going on? I must do something, but what?”

She continued to help the people and work around the shop, trying to ignore the feeling she had.

“I know it’s dangerous, but if I keep having these feelings I will have to see for myself what is going on and to see if I could help.” She thought to herself.

While Lana was working, Adelmo moved back inside the building hoping it would be a safe place from the cloud of death.

He started looking over everything and saw the cloud was seeping through the cracks, filling the air around the people on the ground.

Adelmo grabbed his bag from his shoulder and put it on the ground. He opened it and grabbed the sword out, trying to prepare himself for what was about to happen.

He stood up coughing, trying to breathe. The cloud filled the air so thick. It felt like a pillow being forced over your face. With it cutting off your airway, like your being suffocated.

Everyone who was caught up in the cloud struggled to breathe, dropping them to their knees.

While Adelmo was struggling to breathe, Lana was feeling the same effects.

She fell to the floor. Trying to breathe, as if she was there with Adelmo experiencing the same thing.

A customer rushed over to her

They asked, “Miss, are you okay?”

Then suddenly she could breathe again. She had no idea what just happened, but she was OK now and stood back up.

“Thank you for your concern. I believe I am OK now.”  

While Lana was trying to get back on track with the store, Adelmo saw that the air was clearing. Feeling signs of relief.

“That was a lot shorter than what I witnessed at the theater. Maybe I miss interpreted how long it lasts, or maybe every situation takes a different length of time.” He thought to himself.

He went out the door looking over the garden, seeing how many people had dropped dead.

He heard in the distance a woman screaming, “Help me, please help me, something is wrong with my husband.”

He noticed there were more than just him that was dead. There were nearly half the people that were in the garden dropped to the ground.

Moments later, the people that were passed out started to gain consciousness.

Adelmo thought to himself, “Great, Here we go again.”

All these people’s partners felt signs of relief, thinking they lost their loved ones.

They all start hugging each other. One by one, while they were hugging each other, the skin of the people who dropped dead started cracking, splitting and began oozing in their own unique way. You see bits and pieces of what is under their skin.  Able to see the muscles and tendons as wells as parts of the bones as if they were falling apart right before your eyes.

The people that were hugging their loved ones suddenly felt something slimy on them. One pulled away and saw what was happening, started panicking and screamed, “AHHHHH!”

Everyone pulled away when they heard the scream and looked over in that direction, and they saw that something was wrong.

They all start panicking one by one, like a chain reaction. Realizing why the person started screaming.

The people that this was happening to were scared, wanting to know what was going on. They abruptly start dropping to the ground on their knees holding their heads in pain. They all tried reaching for their loved ones for support, but they were all too scared on what was happening.

All of these people are in a tremendous amount of pain. One by one, their minds were deteriorating, they started losing their memory and all their functions on being able to communicate. In a matter of minutes, the pain stopped, and they all stood upright looking at the person closest to them.

They had an urge to feed; Adelmo noticed their final transformation was complete, turning them into the living dead.

Adelmo rose his blade and yelled to the people, “Hurry get away from them, now!”

He ran toward each of the zombies, swung his sword. Slicing off whatever limb got in his way. Each zombie started to drop to the ground, one by one.

There were so many of these things, he knew what he had to do. He had a feeling of confidence towards his purpose.

He never knew how to use a sword properly since he was never trained, but with this sword in hand, he felt connected. He used it like he had been trained with it all of his life.

There were a handful of people who were in shock at what was happening. So much that they weren’t able to move in time, their loved ones attacked them, taking chunks out of each and every one of them.

With each bite of flesh being torn from their bodies. The muscles and tendons attached to it, snapped and tore off into their mouths. Blood started gushing out of each bite.

Adelmo continued killing off all the people coming in his direction.

He yelled, trying to get their attention, “Hey, stop! Look at me!”

He had hoped his yelling would get all of their attention towards him. He then noticed it didn’t.

What he realized was that the first thing they attacked and fed on was someone they had some sort of connection to. They continued to feed on their loved ones as Adelmo came by each of them one by one, slicing off each of their heads.

Adelmo cleared out the entire garden of these zombies.

He couldn’t help but think, “There will be more.”

Adelmo went up to the people gathered off into the distances away from what had just happened. He started checking, made sure everyone was alright.

He saw that some had wounds, those people were worried that they were going to transform into those things too.