Raising Hell: Virus

By Aaron Abilene

A group of survivors in a city overrun by zombies find themselves being saved by 2 people who were experimented on by the evil company that unleashed the zombies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Syphon Creative
• Release date: Feb 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223855811

Book preview

Raising Hell

Written by Aaron Abilene

Ravage City Zoo.

Ravage city appears to be seemingly abandoned except for the screams coming from the Ravage City zoo.

Marcus, Darric and Melissa are seen shooting at a demonized tiger.

Carlos and LJ are seen shooting zombies in the office.

Melissa: What the hell is going on?

Marcus: I don’t know but I don’t like it.

Darric: Why does crazy shit like this always happen in a beautiful city like Ravage?

Melissa: What are you, gay?

Darric: No.

Melissa: Could’ve fooled me.

2 demon tigers are seen running toward Melissa, Marcus and Darric.

Melissa , Marcus and Darric open fire on the tigers.

The tigers continue toward the group.

Alice jumps in front of the group and shoots the tigers in the head and says Lets go.

Marcus: Who are you?

Alice: My name is Alice. I came here to help you people make it out alive. Now come with me.

Alice leads Melissa, Marcus and Darric to the office.

Carlos: Hey, is someone out there?

Alice: Carlos?

Carlos: Yeah.

Alice: It’s Alice. I have some people here that were outside battling it out with the animals.

Carlos walks over to the door and opens it.

Alice, Melissa, Marcus and Darric walk in and shut the door.

LJ: Shit, I’m glad to see you, Alice. I thought we was the only 2 motherfuckers in Ravage City that was alive.

Melissa: Hi, I’m Melissa Mills. You have seen me on television, or read my articles in the paper. Can someone tell me what in holy hell is going on?

Alice: Well, Melissa, what you need to know is that this is Ravage City, and this type of thing happens here all the time.

Marcus: Okay, that’s good to know because now I know what to expect in this crazy city. By the way, I’m Marcus.

LJ: Hey bro, I’m LJ.

Darric: I’m Darric.

Zombies are seen entering the office building.

Alice: I think we have company coming.

Carlos: Why?

Alice: I heard something moving in the hall.

Carlos: Okay, lets get rid of them.

The zombies enter the room with the group.

The group opens fire on the zombies.

The zombies fall to the floor.

The group walks out of the office building.

A giant mutated lion jumps off of the roof of the office building and lands in front of the group.

Alice: Shit.

LJ: I don’t know about y’all, but I ain’t trying to get ate by no fucking, lion from hell.

Alice: Shoot and move. Don’t stop, or it will get you.

The group starts running, shooting back at the lion.

The lion starts chasing the group.

Carlos: Our bullets aren’t hurting it.

The lion continues running toward the group.

Alice: We ran out of room to run.

The group stops and turns around and sees the lion slowly moving toward them.

The lion starts to run at them and leaps toward them.

Everyone screams.

Virus knocks the lion out of the air , tackling it.

LJ : Shit, that’s a brave motherfucker.

Marcus: Who’s that guy?

Carlos: I don’t know.

The lion gets up and swats Virus away like a bug.

Virus stands up and dusts himself off and says Oh, you want to play like that?

The lion runs toward Virus.

Virus picks up a car that had been overturned and throws it at the lion. Sending the lion through a building.

LJ: Remind me not to fuck with him.

Virus walks over to the group and says Hey, Alice, is everyone okay?

Alice: How do you know my name?

Virus: We were at the lab together. It’s me, Virus.

Alice: Holy shit, Mark, I thought you were dead. Runs over and hugs him.

Marcus: How did you throw that car like that?

Virus: Well, Alice and I were given some sort of enhancers when we were at the lab so I’m basically a real life superman now.

LJ: Why you call yourself Virus?

Virus: My real name is Mark Grimes. They gave me the codename Virus when they started doing the experiments.

Alice: How have you been Mark?

Virus: Okay I guess, just been killing shit that’s already supposed to be dead. The usual Ravage City stuff.

The lion is seen standing up and runs toward the group.

Virus spins around and shoots the lion in the head splitting its head in half and walks over and shoots it again until the clip is empty and says You might be the king of the jungle but you’re in Ravage City now bitch, and me and my people run this shit.

LJ : Yeah.

Alice: We need to get to the front gate so we can get on the tram.

Melissa: That means we have to make it all the way to the other side of the zoo.

LJ: Shit, that also means we got to go through all the animals to get there.

Virus: That also means we have to swim across the gator pond because I was just over there and the bridge is out and the boat sank.

Melissa: There is no way I’m swimming in gator infested water.

Virus: Don’t worry that’s not the worst part of our journey.

Melissa: Gee thanks. I really needed to know that if I survive the swim through gatorville that I still have something worse to look forward to.

Everybody laughs.

Alice: What’s on the other side of that door?

Virus: That’s the east concourse. That’s where they kept the primates and plant eating animals.

Darric: Wasn’t there an elephant show around here somewhere?

Virus: Yeah, it was over by the dome.

The group enters the east concourse.

Zombies and mutated apes are all around them.

Virus: This should be fun.

The group open fire on the zombies and apes.

The apes run toward the group.

Virus shoots all the apes in the head.

Alice shoots all the zombies.

LJ: Okay, what’s next?

A rhino is seen running toward the group.

The group look at the rhino.

Virus: I got it. Shoots the rhino with an rpg.

The rhino explodes.

Alice: Which way, Mark?

Virus: Okay, that door to the left goes to the elephant dome and from there we can go through the T Dome and across the pond to the lion exhibit and out the front gate or if you want to really fuck things up , we can go out the door on the right and end up in the south corridor which is crawling with about 15,000 zombies. It’s your call.

Alice: The left sounds fine to me.

The group enters the elephant dome where they see the gate keeping the elephant in the dome lying on the ground with the body of a zookeeper under it.

LJ: Shit, what happened here?

Marcus: It looks like the elephant escaped.

Alice: A normal elephant couldn’t have destroyed that gate.

Melissa: Great , now we have a mutant elephant on the loose.

Virus: Anyway, that door goes to the T Dome.

Carlos: What’s in the T Dome?

Virus: Plants.

Carlos: Okay good so we can relax , right?

Virus: Let's wait and see.

The group enters the T Dome.

Darric: What is that noise?

Carlos: It sounds like a bee.

LJ: That would be one big ass bee.

Virus: There’s something moving up there.

Marcus: What is it?

Virus: I don’t know but we’ll soon find out because we have to go up there to get to the pond entrance.

The group walks up the stairs to the walkway.

Virus walks over to the ledge and looks down and says I think I found what that noise is.

Darric: What is it?

Virus: A giant hive of giant bees.

Carlos walks over to the ledge and looks down and sees the bees and says Holy shit.

The group walks over to the ledge and see the bees.

LJ: That’s some big bees.

Melissa: How the hell did they get that big?

LJ: Baby, in Ravage City everything is big.

Virus: Yeah everything except his dick.

Everybody laughs.

Virus: I’m gonna get rid of the bees.

Carlos: How?

Virus drops a grenade into the hive and it explodes and says Like that.

The group continues down the walk way.

A giant vine grabs LJ by his right leg.

LJ: Somebody get this thing off me.

Darric cuts the vine in half.

Another vine grabs Virus by his left leg.

Virus grabs the vine and rips it up by the root and throws it over the ledge.

A giant bee starts trying to sting Marcus.

Marcus shoots the bee.

Virus: Okay that door leads to the pond.

The group enters the gator exhibit.

A giant gator is seen sitting on shore.

3 gators are seen swimming in the pond.

Alice: I see 4 gators, anyone see anymore?

Melissa: I see 2 more on the shore over there.

LJ: How are we gonna make it across with all these big ass alligators everywhere?

Virus: I’ll take care of the gators . The rest of you wait until I say it’s clear.

Everyone: Okay.

Virus walks over and grabs the alligator that’s on shore by the tail and launches it through the air toward the north concourse.

The gator lands outside the office and eats a hyena.

Virus walks over to the waters edge and shoots 2 of the 3 gators in the head and pulls the other out of the water and opens its jaws and says Hello, anyone home?

Everyone laughs.

Virus shoots the gator and leaps to the boathouse in the middle of the pond and starts to aim at the gators on shore but just as he looks through the scope a gator jumps out of the water and tries to eat him and he falls back and shoots the gator. He aims back to where the other gator had been but it’s not there and he says Where did it go?

The gator is seen walking behind Virus and it leaps toward him.

Alice shoots the gator.

Virus spins around and sees the gator and says Holy shit. Thanks Alice.

Alice: You’re welcome.

Virus: Okay it’s clear.

The group swims across the pond.

Virus: The observation deck is just on the other side of that gate. We should be able to see the front gate , the tram station and whatever will be standing in our way from there.

The group walks through the gate.

A mutated bear is seen standing near the stairs to the observation deck.

Virus: Crap.

Alice: What?

Virus: There’s a bear guarding the observation deck.

Alice: Shoot it.

The bear notices the group and runs toward them.

The group opens fire on the bear.

The bear finally collapses a few inches in front of the group.

The group walks by the bear and start up the stairs to the observation deck.

The bear is seen standing up and starts running at the group from behind.

Virus spins around and shoots the bear in the head just as it’s about to attack him and says Motherfucker.

The group turns around and sees the bear lying on the stairs.

Marcus: Shit, does anything ever stay dead?

Alice: Sometimes.

The group walks into the observation deck.

LJ: Cool, binoculars.

Carlos: Where?

LJ picks up a pair of binoculars and throws them to Carlos.

Virus: Someone look through that scope and tell us what you see.

Carlos looks through the binoculars.

Darric looks through the scope and says Shit.

Virus: What?

Darric: The tram station is on fire.

LJ: Fuck.

Melissa: Let me guess, it gets worse.

Virus grabs a pair of binoculars and looks toward the front gate and says Shit, the street outside the front gate is filled with zombies and dead animals and that elephant we talked about earlier is right outside of the gate.

Melissa: I knew it.

Alice: What do you see, Carlos?

Carlos: You don’t want to know.

Alice: What do you see?

Carlos: There’s about 50,000 zombies on E 5th and 10 mutated animals in the lion exhibit.

LJ: Shit, we got to go through the lion exhibit to get to the front gate.

Darric: What are we gonna do?

Marcus: My vote is to stay alive.

Virus: We don’t have enough people to fight through all those zombies and I don’t think we have enough ammo to take out the animals.

Carlos: So, what are we gonna do?

Alice: We have no choice . We have to find a way out of the zoo but we can’t let them see us.

Melissa: How do we do that?

Virus: There’s an underground tunnel in the aquarium that leads somewhere so lets check it out and hope it leads someplace safe.

The group enters the tunnel and comes out in the subway terminal.

Subway.

The subway terminal looks deserted.

Virus: It looks like we’re the only ones here.

Melissa: Good, we can rest.

Virus: Not quite, we need to look around, and see if we can find anything that we can use.

Melissa: Are you saying that we need to split up?

Virus: No, that would be the dumbest thing that we could do.

Alice: We should check every room down here. Maybe we can find some weapons.

Virus: Let's start with the men’s restroom.

The group enters the men’s restroom.

Blood is all over the walls and floor and a butcher knife is on the sink.

Virus: There’s a knife. I’m gonna check the stalls.

Darric walks over and picks up the knife.

Virus kicks open each stall but the only thing he finds is a man’s head in the last stall.

Alice: There’s nothing here.

Virus: "Let's