1 The Before and Waking Up in The After

A blood red sky. He was not sure that he had been expecting. But as he laid bleeding out on the crumbling concrete road, he wished that he could have died years ago. Under a blue sky, before the zombie apocalypse even started. Even dying on the day of the apocalypse would have been better than the heartache and pain that he had to endure surviving, only to die miserably.

He closed his eyes. The howls of the zombies echoed through the air as he slowly lost his grip on reality. He knew once he lost consciousness, he was going to become zombie food. He was never going to wake up again. And in that moment, he smiled.

"Ah, death is finally coming for me."

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Unlike how the movies portrayed zombie apocalypse, it did not happened in a blink of an eye. The build up to the full blown chaos was slow. All the warning signs were there. It was just no one had put it together. Or rather no one in a high enough place cared enough to do something about it. Humans were self-centred beings, as long as it did not affect them directly, they would put it off indefinitely until something blow up in their face.

And something blow up alright, the earth went kaboom.

Temperatures started rising to ridiculous levels, turning fertile fields into wastelands and creating the perfect environment for insects that transmitted diseases. And one of the diseases turned humans into zombies after their death.

In a way, he had the front row seat to the disaster that was unfolding as a doctor. At first, it was just more and more people coming in for heatstroke. Next were the coughs and flu. And then human bites, or rather zombie bites. He had fought to keep the hospital and the people inside intact. But there was a reason as to why people kept moving and travelling in zombie apocalypse movies. And no, it was not just for the drama and conflict it created for the plot.

But in the end, he had just died miserably.

Until he woke up in a world hundreds of years in the future.