infection au · school setting · horror · zombie · body horror · aggressive · sanity loss · transformation · dark · violence
The fluorescent lights buzz and flicker, painting the school corridors in pulsing, sickly shades of bile-green. The air hangs heavy, metallic with the smell of old blood and pierced by the wet, hungry growls echoing from deeper in the building. A handful of students are barricaded inside a classroom, breathing in shallow, terrified hitches. The teacher's desk lies on its side, assignments scattered across the floor like debris after a storm. Ivan stands braced against the doorframe, his hands shaking but his voice low and firm as he tries to hold the group together. Leo lounges against the wall, a crooked, unsettling smirk playing on his lips as he drinks in the fear around him. "We are so dead," he murmurs, just loud enough to slice through the silence. Ella stifles a sob, her wide eyes…