It had once been an idealized upper-class town; the main street was always in perfect condition with cobblestone central road giving it a great look. The old classical style streetlamps lined the roads down main street with its rows of two to three story tall brick buildings which contained multiple small business. The local coffee shop was always busy and as the people who lived in the town got their coffee before they got into the cars to get onto the highway to commute to the larger city to work. There was a shopping center by said highway with multiple fast-food places, large box stores and the like but they were kept away from the main street.
The community pool was full of playing kids in the summer and in the fall the whole town came out to support the High School football team. Rows of almost identical two to three stories suburban homes filled the nearby streets and overall, it was a sleepy town where nothing strange happened.
That was what it used to be.
Now the classical style streetlamps lie in the street, buildings are marked with bullet holes and bomb blasts. Blood covers a lot of walls in, abounded and burnt-out cars filled the streets. A few military vehicles which had been keeping a checkpoint on the highway where destroyed/abounded as well. The side of a tank split open by claw marks as a Humvee rested on the side after being flipped over multiple times. Dead bodies lie in the streets as well as multiple remains of clothing, not all the bodies were human. Some fires still rage and every so often the sound of gunshots could be heard but the calls of animals could be heard more often.
Those calls didn’t come from normal humans but instead a type of human animal hybrid, all of them used to be humans but where now those creatures driven to infect or kill any human they came across. Transformed by a bite or exchange of fluid they had gone through the town in a few hours after the nearby larger city had fallen and containment failed. They now moved through the streets, buildings and even flew overhead. Some of them were searching for loved ones, their still semi-human mind searching for them to find their fate or infected them if they were still human. Some were looking for new homes or food for their new bodies and others where starting the process of rebuilding because while some of the more intelligent ones they where animals hybrids now they remembered enough of their human lives to want things like power and running water. The lesser intelligent ones, the ones who became only a step above animals themselves where following more base instincts not interested in forming a new society. Others were just looking for any human they could find.
And there where some humans left in the town.