Emily’s breathing was rapid and shallow as she felt like her skin was on fire, sweat was soaking through her blood-stained cloths. She remembered stories online and in the news documentary the first signs of someone going through the changes of the furry virus and this was it. The virus was rushing through the body, taking out the immune system and replacing it as it prepared to transform her into a half human half animal creature.
Now the time that took was different for each person, she knew at best she had maybe half a day, likely she had less than a half hour before she would leave humanity behind.
She rolled over on the couch she had fallen onto in the teacher’s lounge of his own university. She didn’t know which building she was in, maybe it was even the one she had gone to every weekday for her own degree. Her degree wouldn’t matter in her new furry life, there had been some signs of some furry creatures keeping their intelligence but most seamed to be mindless animals or just a couple of steps above that.
She could ear gunshots coming from outside and screams as well. She winced as a spray of bullets came through the window smashing into the cinder block wall by the door. Some people where still fighting outside but she knew most of the army soldiers had been trying to keep the highway open, the local police running this airborne evacuation center didn’t have the firepower to take on one of those monsters yet alone how many attacked them. She could still hear the helicopters which had been landing outside, those who had gotten onboard at least had a chance, she didn’t.
Her breathing began to stabilize, that meant the virus had worked it’s way through her system and now it was a waiting game. Would she have minutes or hours before she grew fur, scales, feathers or whatever and became one of those creatures.
Suddenly she heard the sound of footsteps outside and the door leading into her room opened.