by DN

Created on: October 30, 2008

Story time:

Scientists have mutated the measles virus to create a cure for cancer. Yay! Unfotunately it mutates again and ends up having some small side effects: 90% of infected die, remaining 10% lose intellect, suffer from increased rage, cannibalistic tendencies and become hyper sensitive to sunlight to such an extent that it kills them. It also becomes super contagious. On the plus side, no more cancer and improved night vision.

Less than 1% of people are immune. Unfortunately for them, the infected like eating them and three years after the outbreak only Will is left, with his dog Sam of cause.

Life isn't too bad for Will. In the morning he hunts deer which are now roaming the empty streets of new york. At midday he waits around by the docks to see if anyone has responded to his constant radio signal which keeps repeating a message which says something like "Friends wanted, come see me by the dock, I'm there everyday at noon," but he must come across too needy because no one ever shows. In the afternoon he plays around in his lab with infected rats to find a cure. If something seems to work on a rat he catches an infected human to play with. So far they all die on him. At night he locks up his house and has a nice sleep. Or watches a DVD. He's seen Shrek so many times he knows every word of it.

*Spoilers ahead, look away now.*

Isn't it strange how nothing can really happen for three years then suddenly it all happens at once? It's Will's bday, he ends up getting in a fight, his dog gets infected, he kills his dog, he loses will to live, goes out to kill infected at night, is about to die when someone saves him. Someone responded to his radio call. Good timing or what? He stays consious just long enough to tell them where he lives.

It's a woman and a kid, using some kind of bright light to scare away the infected. They're immune like Will, heard his radio call. Came to say hi as they pass through, they're on their way to a place up in the mountains where all the other surivors are. Will seems upset, "No, your ruining the story, I'm suppose to be the last man on Earth. Maybe a girl and a kid I can just about accept, but a whole village of survivors in the mountains? That takes the biscuit."

Night falls, the infected show up wanting candy. "Trick or Treat". Turns out they were followed home last night. Not to worry, Will's had three years to transform his home into a fortress. Less than 3 minutes later the infected are inside. The three run down into the lab, the

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