CHAOS

I was with my wife and kids and we were on our way to visit one of my wife's brother-in-law. My wife was driving the black SUV and I was sitting in the back with the children. We did not know his house but we expected to find him by the road side near a bus stop where we were to pick him up and go to his house. But when we reached the destination where we were supposed to meet him, we found that he was not there.

I rolled down the window and asked one of the people whether they have seen him and we were told that he was actually waiting for us but being a cop, he was suddenly called for an emergency at the police station. So we drove on to the police station and parked near the Recreation Club where there were hundreds of people. I was wondering what all these people were doing here. They all looked excited as if they were expecting something to happen.

Then I saw him. He did not see us because we were inside the vehicle. He was talking to someone and telling him that he was expecting us and when we arrive we must be allowed to get drinks and anything that we wanted. I was just about to open the door and let him know that we have arrived when it happened.

There was a bright flash which covered the whole sky. It was like the explosion that Sara Connor saw incinerate school children in the movie Terminator. But this light was not hot, it was just bright and for a moment I could not see a thing. When it cleared, I noticed that everyone and everything had disappeared. The clouds had fallen from the sky and they were just hovering on ground level like thick smoke. The earth had been split into many small islands floating on some kind of lava.

We got outside the vehicle and were joined by a few survivors. It seemed only people who were either indoors or in vehicles that had dark tinted windows survived the effects of the bright flash in the sky. Some of the people who had survived had turned into creatures, or Zombies if you like. These creatures were moving in packs, howling and attacking the few human survivors. There was chaos everywhere.

To make matters worse, we were joined by an old man with a very long white beard who kept prophesying more doom and taking away the little hope that we had. This man was dressed in robes and he had a wooden stuff in his hand. He almost looked like Gandalf but without the pointy hat. His eyes did not have the blacks in the men but where all white like a peeled boiled egg. I knew that there was no escape from this woe but having someone hammer it in your heard every second made me loathe him.

We started moving among the fallen clouds not knowing where we were were going. Then we heard a howling. The Zombie like creatures came in a pack of 7 or 9. It was obvious that they had not seen us so we quickly hid in the fog. Unlike your familiar Zombie, these were quick and they ran past us like wild dogs. As soon as they had passed, the old bearded man start warning us that soon the sky would be very dark and then become red and incinerate all of us.

"That will not happen" I finally said to him. "Why are you saying all that? Can't you see you're scaring the kids."

But before I could even finish speaking, the sky started turning into a crimson colour. I lost all hope. The howling creatures were also coming back. We all ran and hid ourselves under some foliage and  fallen clouds waiting for our inevitable deaths. We waited. Nothing happened.

I came out of the fallen clouds where I was hiding and to my surprise and amazement I saw the dark reddish sky start dissipating and in it's place a blue sky with a few white clouds started spreading across. I turned to the white bearded man and said.

"I told you it was not going to happen. See? The sky is coming back." I said.

Then I woke up.

It was such a strange dream cos it felt so real. I stayed in bed staring up and reliving everything. I then looked the watch and saw that it was 05:14 hrs and only a quarter of an hour before my alarm.

Then around 09:00 hrs when I logged on to my Facebook account I saw this status update by a friend;

How was your night?
1) Nightmare
2) Awesome
3) Not bad
4) Snappy (whatever that means)
5) Full of bad dreams
6) Full of good dreams
7) Other (specify)

My comment was: "Mine was Number 5. It was a combination of Terminator, The Living Dead and a snippet of 2012." to which someone responded "lol. Henry. Too much movies in your head. I have made a point to only watch comedy."

Could she be right? Have I been watching too many Zombie movies lately? Apocalyptic and Zombie movies are some of my favourite movies genres. I watch these movies without effect because they fascinate me. According to WebMD, there are many things that can cause nightmares and these include late night snack due to increased  metabolism, medication, drugs such as anti-depressants  and narcotics, withdrawal from medications and substances, sleep deprivation and the list goes on.

But whatever caused the dream I had, one thing that stuck in my mind was the Zombies. The Zombies in movies and books that I have read do not move very fast and they are incapable of climbing on top of things or over fences. But the Zombies that I saw in my dream were very quick. They were as fast as dogs and were not mechanical in their movement.

I have been thinking about the impossibility of a Zombie invasion if they were as slow as they are portrayed in movies. How can such slow creatures overcome a mighty army like the US Army by just biting them and with all the state of the art weapons? Maybe it is time someone created a movie with fast Zombies that are capable of opening doors, brandish a gun and climb a fence.

By Victor Habbick freedigitalphotos.net