Maine Street - Part 5

One bus stops from running because of the driver, who sees five people on the road, laying down. The driver is feeling scared to see that, and he tries to dial the authorities, and by that, an ambulance to come and pick them up. While he was trying to call the ambulance, a few passengers are leaving their seat and come there to see what is going on. And from those passengers it is also Raoul, and this incident is making him feeling uneasy.

While the bus driver was trying to call the ambulance, one of the passengers goes to the bus driver, and he tells him to continue moving. The bus driver did not listen to him. The passenger who demand to see the bus moving is already feeling angry that the bus was not moving, he was about to yell at the bus driver, but another passage, a lady, stops him. The passage doesn't care what is happening, he just wanted to see the bus moving.

Raoul looks closely at those corpses there who are highlighted by the bus lights. He sees that one of them moves from those five bodies. Then, a body from that pile raise up on his feet. Raoul could see the body who raised up it is a man, wearing a plain t-shirt, a cap, a pair of pants and having blood all over his clothes. The "man" walks closer to the bus, where one of the passengers, decides to leave the bus and goes to the man there, together with the bus driver, hoping they might be able to help the poor man. But they have made a mistake, because the man catches the bus driver hand, and he bite it.

The bus driver yelled, and he kicked the "man" in the upper body. The man fell into the other corpses. Then, the bus driver looks at his arm, he sees the mark of the bite which covered almost the entire hand. He sees blood dripping from there, and on the next moment, before someone could help the bus driver, he falls on the concrete.

A few passengers are leaving the bus to see if they can help the bus driver, but Raoul and three other people remain there. One of the people there is calling the cops, while Raoul is taking photos of this incident, hoping that this article will give him some money in the future. But, when he was about to do a third photo, the bus driver raises from the ground, and he proceed to bite the other passengers who were trying to help the poor man.

A few passengers were running back to their bus while others were trying to stop the bus driver, but to no avail because in the next seconds those five corpses have also raised from their ground and walk to the people there who would not be able to protect themselves. One of the passengers enters the bus, and he locks all the door of there. The passengers from inside the bus were trying to open it to let the other enters, but the man who closed the bus doors tells them.

"Look! There are no humans there."

"What are you talking about?" asks a man in black skin, muscular and wearing business clothes.

"These are zombies." says Raoul to the people and everyone turns to them.

"Zombies?" asks a lady scared. "No. No! No. It cannot be real."

"It is, lady!" says the man who locked the bus. "And now we have to remain here, or else we will all be bitten and risk to become like the bus driver and those five corpses!"

"But what about the others outside?" asks the man who was sitting next to Raoul. "Some of them will need our help."

"And what do you suggest?" asks the same man. "Letting them here, might create a mess. And we don't know how is making those people turn into these things."

Then Raoul, who once had an encounter with Pierre, remembers the time he told him about the lady who scratched him, saw him transforming and run away from him. Raoul then tells them about the encounter with Pierre and the things he told him, even though it wasn't much, the guy who sit next to him tells Raoul.

"The scratches and… bites…" say Raoul while he takes a look at the people outside who are devoured by a few of those zombies, he feels scared, and trembles out of fear that the reality has now become something like this. "Can transform the humans into those things…"

"What are we going to do?" asks another lady from the bus.

"Foremost, we have to wait for the authorities." suggest the guy who locked the bus. "And then we will figure it out what we are going to do next."

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" asks the same lady.

"It is our only option. What do you want? Risk at running into the forest to the nearest city."

"You're right." Says Raoul to the survivor, and he is looking at the lady. "Our only way to survive it is to stay still and wait for the authorities."

A knock can be heard on the bus doors. Everyone jumps, and they are looking at the door, where a zombie is hitting the door of the bus with his hands. Raoul notices the light of this bus is turn on, and he has an idea. He goes to the bus driver, dodge three survivors who were on his way and the press on a button to turn off the lights of the bus. Then, he looks at the survivors, and he says to them in a whispering manner.

"Quiet. They might be attracted by noise and light."

A few people from there listen Raoul order. A girl however, looking scared at the windows where a zombie is eating a girl, she vomits on the bus, scaring everyone, disgusting a few people from there, and making a man hold his mouth. Raoul is going at that women, he asks her if she is alright, which the girl replies to him with a question.

"Are we going to die?"

"No… We are not going to die." Says Raoul hugging the girl, trying to make her feel better. "We have to wait for the cops to show up, and then we will be safe."

"Why don't we drive this bus?" asks a man in the bus.

"It is risky." says the guy who was sitting next to Raoul. "Don't you think the other cities have caught this virus too. What do you think would happen if we drive to Paris or Marseille? We will be fucked by a ton of these creatures."

"Just like in the movies." says a woman that is sitting on the front seat. "We have to remain here and wait for help."

They stay on the bus. Then, Raoul, trying to lighten the mood and not looking at the zombies who are walking around the bus and eats the bodies of the other passengers who weren't able to escape, he asks these eight people on the bus their names.

"My name is Raoul. I-I was a journalist at a newspaper. Nice to meet you all."

"My name is Tim." says a bald guy with a stuffed beard to the people there. "I am an engineer at a nuclear plantation. Nice to meet you, Raoul! And everyone."

"My name is Sophia." says the woman from the front seat. "I am a stunt actor. Nice to meet you."

"Yeah. Um… My name is Élan." says the guy who was rushing to close the bus doors. "I… I was a school teacher. But now… I guess I am a man without a job."

"We are in the same mess, Élan." tells Raoul to that man named Élan.

"My name is Frankie." says an old woman trembling. "I-I am scared."

"We all are scared, Frankie." says Tim to Frankie. "But we will all be alright as soon as the authorities are going to show up."

"Name is Virgil." Says the guy who was sitting on the same seat with Raoul, but he sits on the seat from the other side where Sophia sits. "I was a comic artist, but I think I will be during this post-apocalyptic event."

"My name is Clara." Says the teenager who puked a few moments ago. "I am sorry for the mess I have done. I am a student at Nuclear Engineering University."

"Good career choice you've chosen." says Tim to the girl.

"Thank you." she replies with a smile at Tim, then she is looking at the seven and eight persons who are sitting on the seats, each other.

"I am Ludo, and this is my wife Carrie." he says the man to the survivors there. "W-We are married, and… We were working as vets."

"Vets, huh?" says Élan. "You two could be the only source we've got to the closest doctor."

"We are doctors who are specialized in taking care of animals, not humans." says Clara to Élan. "But, we will try our best to even take care of humans."