Resurrection of the Villainess: Survival in the the End of the World

THIRD POV—

It was raining heavily and no sign of life could be seen anywhere. It was the end of the world. It's been two years since this apocalypse started. For some unknown reason, humans started to get ill. At first, they thought it was a flu outbreak or something similar but all of a sudden, they started to get seriously ill. Mass deaths of humans were seen all around the world. Yet, it was just the starting of their misery. Those dead humans who were presumed to be dead, came back to life. Though at first people believed them to be truly returned from the land of death to the land of living but after a short time, they were proved wrong.

Those freshly alive humans were behaving like some kind of rabid animals. They were not capable to talk and they started attacking their fellow humans. To protect themselves, normal humans tried to incapacitate or kill them by the application of conventional methods. Soon they found out the only way to kill them was to shoot them in their head or to completely cut off their head from the body. Obliviating them was also an option. These undead humans were called the Zombies. A bite from a zombie caused some kind of infection in the humans. Humans deduced the infection was caused due to some virus from the zombies. They named it as the Crawler Virus. Whoever a zombie bit, that said bitten person turns into a zombie. Zombies destroyed whatever came in their way. They only wanted one thing and that was human flesh and blood. Even the other living creatures were not spared by the zombies. Birds, plants, animals and insects, all got infected from the Crawler Virus. This made the environment unsuitable for the survival of humans.

To fight against them, humans started forming resistance groups. But a few humans who were bitten didn't turn into zombies, instead they got some kind of superpowers. Being bitten was not the only way for the humans to get superpowers, many of them got it when they suddenly experienced high fever in their sleep.

Not all humans were lucky to have these mysterious powers. A large section of them didn't receive any power. They were dubbed as the Inepts while the people with superpowers were dubbed as the Liberators.

The Liberators were considered as the humanity's only hope whereas the Inepts were used as slaves for the Liberators. It was like the rich and poor depiction got changed into Liberators and Inepts respectively.

In an abandoned building, there was a rusty steel cage with a woman inside it. She was lying on the cage's floor. Her hair was messy and her clothes were in tatters. Her name was Elena Acton. She was on the verge of death. She was betrayed by the ones she thought to be her loved ones.

She opened her eyes and tried to stand. But after sometime she gave up. Instead of standing, she sat with her back against the wall. Her stomach was growling as she hadn't eaten for months after getting locked up in this cage.

Outside the cage, there were zombies trying their best to get into the cage and devour her.

It seems this my end. The cage is almost broken and even if it doesn't break down, there's no way I am going to survive, She thought.

Elena cursed herself for believing that they ever cared for her. Her family would always choose her adoptive sister, Selene instead of her. Even the one she loved more than herself didn't spare a single glance at her when she abandoned. Everyone always liked her adoptive sister. She was kind, cheerful, bubbly; she was the complete opposite of Elena. That's what everyone thought. Elena was always wrong whereas Selene was always right.

It was true that Elena always felt jealous when she saw her adoptive sister getting along with everyone, loved and taken care by them, being protected by them. Selene was the darling princess in the eyes of everyone whereas she was the evil witch. The evil witch who always try to hurt the princess.

When Selene alleged that Elena tried to hurt her unborn child, everyone believed her and prosecuted Elena, without even trying to give her a benefit of doubt. Heck, her fiancé, the one she loved, looked at her with cold eyes and even tried to kill her. Even when she pleaded and said that she didn't do anything, no one tried to save her or even tried to stand up for her. Everyone just watched her in disgust thinking that she deserved it.

 Her eldest brother stopped her fiancé from killing her and said, "It would be too merciful for her, lets live her in this cage of this abandoned building. If she dies then it's ok but even if she survives, she won't trouble us and certainly she will never be able to hurt Selene again."

She has always admired her eldest brother. For Elena, her eldest brother was a righteous and fair person but after hearing what he said, she found that she was wrong.

I was a fool. I lived my entire life trying to gain love and affection from them. It would have been better if they killed me. My whole-body just hurts too much. I am hungry and thirsty. I don't have any hope left me to even think somebody will save me, She thought.

Suddenly, the zombies broke through the bars of the cage and started to move towards her.

So, this is it. There is no chance for me to survive. I am an inept, I couldn't even defend myself from these zombies much less escape this cage, Elena thought. Then she took out the poison hidden in her pocket. It has been like this since the end of the world. She always kept the poison in her pocket as she would welcome the death than becoming a zombie.

She opened the bottle and gulped down its content. She estimated she would die in a minute.

As her life was slipping through her, she thought, Sorry fuckers, you won't get to eat me. This life of mine was... pathetic. I regret my life to turn out like this. If somehow there is a next life... I promise not to waste on the people who don't care about me and try to hurt me. I... promise... m-myself.

Before the zombies could devour her, Elena took her last breath and died, leaving her corpse behind her. The zombies stopped their movement as corpses were unsuitable for them to devour.