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Tears clouded my eyes as I watched her fade away, her eyes were slowly dosing off to clear departure, the call of nature had her crawling slowly to the heavens gate, taking her away from me, slowly and painfully. The virus had sauntered through her vain, and it was now approaching her brain, she couldn't last a day without the antidote and we had no antidote.

"Daniel, I'm I going t-t-to be f-fi....." She stammered as she spoke her last words, laying boneless in my arms, weak and fragile as a snake, I then picked up my right hand's first finger, slowly dropping it on her delicate lips to make her stop talking " shhhhhhh" I said slowly and tearfully, as losing her was a grief to me.

Anny was my first Love, beautifully endowed with God's image, with an angelic smile which could cure anger, her eyes were the prettiest, gold brown in color which took the rays of the sun to glory, her pointed nose pointed like an arrow to the sky, not to talk of her delicate lips, her delicate pink lips which had the taste of love and passion planted all over it. Her body stature was unique, colored with the natural beauty of the night, dark and beautifully printed. Her waist told the stories of the beauty of African women, how tempting but yet sacred it was . She was a goddess, meant to be worshipped by any man who took her to thoughts. She was all mine, and she was my all in one , my missing piece, my dream and my heart beat, until the dreaded zombie x virus almost took her away from me.

The zombie x virus was a dreadful virus, which was gotten from the wild zombie, it was a zombie virus which doesn't turn it's victim into a zombie, but kills it's victim slowly and steadily, it takes over the mind of its victim, making him or her go insane, draining every memory he or she has, it kills it's victim after three months of acquiring it, dropping alot of symptoms, such as lost of memories, insanity, fiver and weakness. The Lost of memories is the first symptom, it takes over it's victims brain and makes everything and everyone strange to him, it has also been told by religious bodies that this is no virus, instead it was a demon, which was slowly taking over a person, offcourse science and religion always differ, religion always speaks from the expense of the Bible or the Quran, meanwhile science picks from the experience of the earth. Traditional methods has been used to cure this virus including exorcism, but all to no avail, science had also tried in different ways, but nothing really worked, it is as though the virus had no cure. The virus was created by a terrorist named Doctor V Denta, the v in his named stood for virus, showing his speciality in creating virus. After his zombie virus was cured by nothing but a natural sea plant mixed with mango leafs, a concussion made by a traditionalist, in a small village, scientist were looking for scientific methods to cure this virus, not knowing that the cure had already been found by this people, no one knew about this until the government found out that this village was the only place not affected by the zombie virus, so they decided to take a jump into the village, the government rewarded this village for their good work, and also added traditional method of finding cures into the book of law. After this happened, Doctor V Denta decided to be more intelligent, by creating a replica of the zombie virus, which was very destructive in the human body.

" How is she doing?" A voice spoke through from the entrance of the room, it was the voice of doctor Michael. Doctor Michael was a lab scientist, who has been trying his best to find a cure for this virus, he is a really intelligent man in his early forties, he studied lab science and medicine in the university, which covered almost all science areas apart from technology. Doctor Michael seemed happy and in a haste when he asked me how she was doing , but I didn't notice .

" Well you know she is going to die, so there's no need asking me that" I said with a disappointed tone, not caring about anything at that moment.

" Bring her to the lab, I think we have a cure" Michael said with an excited tone, at this point, I didn't know if to be happy or not, I didn't want to get my hopes high until I saw what he was talking about, plus this wasn't the first time he was excited about finding a cure, which never worked.

" As you wish" I said with a sad tone as he helped me get her up, taking her left hand while I took the other, the same went to her foot as we both carried her to the lab which was outside the entrance of our room.

" So tell me, what did you find" I said curiously, not wanting to disbelieve the doctor, I felt like he was using Anny as a lab rat, trying different cures on her, not caring if she dies or not.

" Daniel, I know you are disappointed with our last trials which seemed to be worthless and how my antidotes never worked, but I am really sure about this one, I have no doubt about it, I know how you feel, I have been in this condition before, and that was when my wife had the zombie virus, I was head over hills, trying to find the cure until I heard that the cure had been found in a remote village." Michael said, assuring me that this antidote would work, he then continued " now I have studied this virus and through my research and discovery, this virus was created with both the Zombie virus, with a mixture of it's cure, the cure of the zombie virus has a contamination now because of the chemical added to the virus, which eliminates the cure, that is why the traditional antidote has no effect on this virus, now the virus cannot be cured until the x++ formula has been eliminated. So instead of finding a cure for the virus, I looked for an elimination for the x++ formula, which was easily found, it is the same virus, but the only reason why the subject doesn't behave like a wild zombie is because of the x++ formula, which eliminated the zombie formula, so instead of making the subject act crazy, it slowly kills the subject."

" So wait what you are telling me is that it has been the same virus all along, that it was just a simple x++ formula that was making it indented all this while" I summarized.

" Yes Michael, now watch this" he said while drawing out Anny's blood with an injection, it was important that he tested it before injecting her, incase the antidote was poisoned. He then drops a little bit of her blood on a test glass and measures the antidote then drops it on the blood. "The x++ eliminator has been mixed with the traditional antidote, creating a formula called the "pH tan", we have to wait for a few minutes, if the blood changes color from dark red to blood red, it means that the antidote is the cure". Michael said with clear assurance that he knew what he was doing. The only thing left was my faith, which became stronger than ever before.

A few minutes later, something really surprising happened, something that changed my mindset about the scientist , something that brought tears to my eyes, the blood changed color. When I said something that brought tears to my eyes, I meant tears of joy.

We both celebrated in the lab as we knew that after two thousand one hundred and ninety eight days, the cure had finally been found, which was approximately six years and eight days.

We didn't wait for a second to inject Anny, but since she was a victim for almost three months, we had to keep her in close observation. Dr. Michael really did well in taking good care of Anny, he was able to sustain her for such a long time, most victims normally died before the three months duration, but he was able to sustain her even through the period she became a psychopath because of this I had no doubt that he could sustain her for the remaining three days.

The government would reward Michael for the cure, but Michael never wanted to submit it to the government, because the only thing they would do is make it really expensive, just the same way they almost made the traditional antidote expensive, the only reason they couldn't was because anyone could get mango leafs and sea plants from anywhere.

Michael had a plan to share the antidote to everyone in the city without the help of the government. Well my only priority now was the health of my Anny, I didn't care about anyone at that moment because no one else held my heart apart from her.