When They Rise

"It was truly unknown how the disease came around. If it spawned from science, from a divine being or from the hell-fires, people like you, people like me, every single man, women and children have being in a constant struggle ever since. When the dead tore and broke the bonds of the grave, the rose, they killed, they slaughtered until we were at heavens gate itself. We still struggle today, to fight against the gate, to fight against extinction, to fight for our lives."

George H. W. Bush

Introduction
It was May 1997, thousands of people waking up like they usually did, and as they would have, they turned on their television and listen through. It was in May in which a certain story broke out. Two children in the traditional small American town of Grand Coulee had been bitten by their mother, before they turned on their father. All four were subsequently taken into custody by the police, and over the ensuring days, they slowly grew more vicious before attacking their captors. The news began to feed through the story as it grew; stories of police attacks over the town, people having bite marks before growing incredibly vicious and turning against their friends and neighbours.

Citizens began to worry as the situation grew worse. Days, weeks, months passed as the U.S politicians continued debating what to do, and the disease spread. Many people began to wonder if the so called "zombies" had arrived, those that featured in the well known books and films. They fled the towns, the states and even the country as news of the situation was hard to get. A blockade of Washington was called for by Bill Clinton as the zombies spread. Eventually, the blockade failed, the police and state troopers stationed either fleeing or being turned.

Eventually, a year had passed, and the so-called zombie disease had spread further, encompassing not only the west of America but also nation-states that had unfortunately traded with the U.S during the initial outbreak, and they had essentially taken over. By this time, people on the frontier with the zombies or those behind the enemy lines began to notice things, things changing within the zombies. They began to speak, they began to use tools; a new age was emerging.