From Cluj to Athene - Part 8

Three hours later, the plane which is heading to Athena, Greece, it is passing by a few cities from Romania, where they are burning and a lot of explosions is happening, which could be seen from this plane. Like a big explosion from a factory, and they could even see another airplane, not far from them, at about 570 meters from their plane, having some trouble at flying cause of an engine problem, and it is about to fall onto the land.

"That plane, it is in trouble!" yelled Cassandra to a few passengers. "We have to do something!"

"We cannot do anything." said Ho Lee. "They are on themselves. Just like us."

These passengers are looking hopeless at the plane who is having trouble of flying. It is falling a few meters, until the right motors explode and descend from the sky, like a bird who got shot by a bird hunter. Everyone on the other plane looked terrified at the one who fall down, and pray for their safety, while the others are shaking uncontrollably thinking that they might be next.

***

On the control room, the pilots have seen that plane falling from the sky, they looked terrified at the thing they might experience next. "What if the same accident will happen to us?" wondered the co-pilot. "What if this plane will not even make it to Bulgaria, or worse, leave the country without an injury?"

Then, their radio has started to receive some signals and a few messages requiring help.

"Mayday! Mayday!" said a female voice from the radio. "Here it is Capusan Andra! Pilot of Plane 754. We are crashing into Târgu Mureș. We require major help! Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Can someone hear our S.O.S?!"

They were about to reply to this S.O.S. Signal, but the things didn't work this way because right when they were about to reply, the radio was not responding because the plane who was about to crash, has already crashed into Târgu Mureș.

The pilots are feeling down, this incident has made them realize this can happen to them, if they are not careful. They do have an issue, and that is fuel shortage. Their mission it is to land to the closest airport who can provide them enough fuel until they can fly to Athene, Greece.

***

On the class 1, Alina is staying at her seat, she saw the plane who descend from the sky, and it falls into the city they fly by. She is upset that they couldn't help them, but she is also glad that this did not happen to them. Alina it is looking at the other passengers, and she sees them being very scared, other mumbling things like: "We are going to die. We are going to die.", "Please God, save us!", "We need help!" etc.… Alina leaves her seat, and she goes to the toilet because she wanted some peace, splash her face with some water eventually.

She stayed there a bit, looking at the window of the bath, very deep, and she is thinking about the moment she killed her first zombie. It was this day, and that zombie was a man who used to be a hobo, if you considered the clothes he wore before he became a flesh eating monster. She sees the thing eating one of her colleague, and it was a kind person who used to deliver coffee to everyone at the workplace. Sure, he was living alone and got the lowest salary from this police section, but he was still happy. He was also the one colleague who consulted Alina after her little sister committed suicide.

Alina was trying to ask that person what is wrong, but before he could do that, the hobo zombie jumped at her and pinned her down on the floor. Alina was fighting a much as she could to avoid the bite of that hobo who couldn't stop moving. Then, a colleague shot that monster head with the gun and stopped him from moving. Everyone was shocked by the quick reaction of that guy, who it is in fact, the person who got killed when he was at a one step from being rescued and be with Alina nad the other police officer on their way to safety. He was the one who truly saved Alina, also the one, who made her realize this world it is going to turn everyone on criminals.

She checked the monster corpse to see what it is going on, but when she saw the left arm, she sees the entire arm was almost entirely eaten by something. She could see the bone and a small part of meat, and only a red vein, while the other one it is nonexistent there.

But before she could properly examine the rest of the body, another gunshots was heard, and a hard thing fall upon the floor. Alina looked at the thing who fell, and she was completely shocked to see the one who fall was the other co-worker who was eaten by that thing. She looked back and observed the shooter, it is the same person as the one who killed the other monster earlier.

Other cops were yelling at each other and arguing.

"Why would you do that?" said the other. "Alberto could've been saved!"

"You son of a bitch!" yelled a muscular cop who was close to hitting the one who shot Albert.

"No!" yelled a cop to stop those two from fighting. "Do not figh-"

"Could you shut up and run to the roof!" ordered Alina who leaves those zombie corpses and runs to the Armory room to take the weapons she need it, she handed some of those to other cops, who knew how to use it. "I have seen these things in fiction, and if they are true, it means that the only thing who can kill them it is aiming their head."

"Does will work?" asks a dumb cop who forgot that he saw his co-worker shot two things in their head.

"Look the solutions." she says while she shows those not moving corpses. "Now, let's try and shoot the upcoming things." she says while she reloads her pistol, as she looks at the upcoming small herd of zombies coming to them.

Back to the present, Alina washes her blood marks from the zombies she fought earlier, and she is thinking about her sister, who used to watch horror movies when they were little and dumb girls. They did have some great times together before that accident, and now, they are not together anymore. They are parts of different worlds. Alina proceeds to cry thinking about some memories about the world she knew, but she is trying her best to stop crying, but it won't work. She continued to cry for a few moments in the bathroom, while the passengers are feeling unsecured about the last incident they were witnessing on the sky.

***

Alin and Radu are sitting on their seats, minding their own business. Radu reads a magazine about fighting moves, while Alin is using his creative skill to tie three knifes to a broom stick. He got those knives from the one stewardess after he paid her 100 RON (which are 24 dollars, somewhere at 20 euros and almost 40 leva, if you live in Bulgaria), quite cheap, and she gave him the broom stick from a random broom from free, again, cheap from a Romanian stewardess (not a stereotype though).

"Are you creating a weapon?" asks his brother.

"Yes." responded Alin after he tied those three knives together to the end of the broom. "A kind of "spear". I hope it will work."

"Don't you worry if it will not work. We still have our guns." he said that while he punched three times in the air. "We can still break the jaws of some zombies and re-kill them."

"You can say it again." responded Ho Lee, who it is on the next seat to them, and he then introduces to them after both of them turned around to him. "My name is Ho Lee Fuc. Nice to meet you."

"Alin. And this is my brother, Radu." responded Alina, and he shakes Lee hand, then he let Radu shakes the man hand.

"So. You two are good at fighting?"

"Yes, we are." says Radu. "We had our own training building. We trained a lot of people in martial arts and boxing. It was beautiful while it lasted."

"What happened?"

"We went deep into debt, and we have almost lost this building. But today, everything was changing when this virus has spreads. Correct, Alin?"

"Correct." responded Alin who continues to make this broom into a functional spear.

"Awesome. I used to be a writer before all of this happened and now, I am on my way to home. China."

"China? It isn't too far from Athene?"

"It might be, but I will try to find a way to go back into China. After all, I could even try to fly a plane if that's what it will take to arrive there."

"You are such a motivated man." says Radu looking inspired at Lee. "Whatever you need, we are here to help you, right Alin?"

"Right." says Alin who has finished his improvised spear. "This might work."

"Sure. If a zombie showed up on a plane." says Radu in a sarcastic voice. "You would probably have to wait until we land to really use this thing."