1 Hunted

Noel runs with frantic footsteps, her thin and malnourished figure carelessly pushed out the other running people in front of her, propelling her to the very front of the escaping crowd.

The voices of those who have fallen to the ground are miserable, their screams of help and desperation rung on Noel's ears. But she steadily runs in front of the crowd without looking back, for she cannot afford the cost that she will carry if she has.

Apocalypse. Noel was born in that period, born in the time of slaughter and desperation. From what Noel heard from the earliest survivors in the base, Aliens suddenly appeared and hunted humans to satisfy their hunger for flesh.

It was the day when the hunters became the prey.

At first, humanity resisted the aliens with their unity and guns, putting up a fight against the outsiders who wanted to eat their flesh. But what can humanity do when those aliens revealed the big guns, their advanced technology? Of course, nothing but run.

In the following years, humanity can only run and hide from the alien's hunt of them. They can only grovel and hide underground.

It was then the time of Bases. Bases we're cities build underground, ruled by powerful people who managed to succeed in awakening a power due to experimental drugs, they're the protectors of the bases, the ones that made it possible for humanity to have hope again.

But that time didn't flourish, aliens still prevail in fights against awakeners and this crushed the hope of humanity. Bases were slowly being uprooted and found by aliens in their searches and some humans betrayed their kin just to save their skins, they told the locations of other bases, and now, they're were slowly hunted one by one.

Noel can only run away from this hunt.

Noel slipped through numerous narrow alleys of destroyed ruins and arrive at the abandoned laboratory she, fortunately, found in her latest search.

She entered through a vent and slowly trudged in, her frenetic breathing can be heard through the silent vent and her body vigorously crawled forward. After crawling for a few minutes, Noel safely entered the center of the empty laboratory.

Noel's malnourished body collapsed to the tiled floor and she clasped her face while breathing heavily, she gritted her teeth in hate and disgust.

"That awakener...!" Noel silently swallowed her words. The awakener who was supposed to protect them, betray them by gathering them in the plaza and letting the aliens kill them down!

"Bastards who only know of saving their own!" Noel swore but she knows why the man did what he did. Everyone is selfish. Even she is.

That man wants to save his own life and so, abandoned the people here. She wanted to survive, and so, didn't help anyone but herself. The two of them are the same but still...Noel can't help but curse.

Aliens had found their base and it won't be easy for her to survive if those creatures roam everywhere.

Noel glanced at the laboratory and was glad that she had the habit of stockpiling food here. Noel accidentally found this laboratory when she stole food from a merchant.

She didn't t explored everywhere in this lab but just stay in the spacious center where the vent leads her, it was then that this lab became her secret hideout. She will gather food and drinks here for herself.