Dying Light: Volatile Virus

After a moment, you get up from laying down after you collapsed, and you see Crane leaving you once again.

-"Wait! Crane! Why you leave me behind over and over again? We were sent together for this mission! I was sent to be your supporter!"

Crane: "Don't take it wrong, but the mission was rejected time ago. My only mission is to save as many as possible, and you are constantly slowing me. And you're in the line of life and death, so get into a safe zone you didn't destroy to remain human."

Then, Crane jumped, doing parkour as leaving you once more by your own, along with questions you couldn't understand.

You look around as you noticed something, and you stare for a moment the injection of Antizin, now empty. You grab it to examine it, and then, you notice it can be opened and replaced with a new charge of Antizin, for inject a new dose. You put down your backpack, open a box of Antizin, check if all are fine, and see all doses are perfectly fine, so you grab a dose, and place it in the injection tool. Then you place everything how it was, get up, and place it in one of the pockets on your vest, having it in case you need in an emergency, or for anyone else.

After a moment, you remain thinking, as you look down. Was any of that real? Was a dream? Who you killed in reality if was a dream?

So many questions to wonder about, but no answer, except being a side effect of being infected. But was just the process of transformation into an infected, as first stage, is becoming a Viral.

You get up, and look down. Still at the middle of the night, you see infecteds wondering around, growling in search for anyone.

You suddenly cough blood, and move back, slowly falling while losing your balance. You sit down, no matter if you were heard or not, as you start not being able to hear properly, but you continue seeing fade red lines in the sides of your view, while you look at your hands, as if the gloves were strangely being infused with your flesh as shaping to strange claw fingers.

Did the dose not gave much effect? Was the dose injected in the end, and now was useless? Something was wrong... Not something, but everything.

You grabbed the injection, and injected yourself with Antizin, hoping that maybe, and only maybe, the dose was very low compared to what you needed. After injecting yourself, you waited, and slowly, your vision started to get blurry, but also remaining very clean, as if you couldn't see properly, but yet, capable of seeing everything very clean and smoothly, while the red lines were also changing of color, becoming blue lines.

Something was wrong... What was going on?... Why it doesn't work?... It is too late?...

You slowly looked up while as you got up, looking at the sky, the clean sky, along the bright light of the Moon, glowing the emptiness of the darkness the night is.

You could feel it, as if you had something inside you, inside your arms, inside your veins. You feel your arms cold, and yet, internally burning with high intensity. You feel your chest as you desire to enrage, letting an endless fury out of you, break things, destroy anything in your way.

After a moment, you jumped down, but when you landed, you fell supporting yourself in your legs and hands, then when you got up, you were seeing everything changing between blurry and perfectly cleaned.

Your vision was a mix of night vision along blindness. You continued your way, as you could only walk, as your body feels heavy.

In your way, you continued, but every Volatile and Viral seemed to ignore you completely, so you continued. You didn't saw Volatiles as used to be, but more as with a blue fade outline glowing light emanating from them, while from Virals was a cyan fade outline glowing light emanating from them.

You couldn't understand, why the infecteds ignore you? Why that color being emanated from them? You became one of them?

Your questions had to wait, as you were walking towards the Tower. You needed answers, you had supplies. You were going to use the benefit of being a Nightrunner for obtain answer, while accomplishing your tasks as Nightrunner, providing supplies.

After a big walk, everything slowly seemed more cleaned, but with a different way. Your vision was changing, adapting to the night, you were capable of seeing near entities with a glow distinct light emanating from them, as Volatiles remaining with Blue, and Virals with cyan, but Night Biters were Light Blue.

But after a moment, you started hearing a very distant voice, with motherly worried tone, and yet, eve if you heard it coming from very far away, you could hear it as clear as if was aside.

???: "My child. Come and find me. Do not worry, do not be afraid, as I am the mother. I am not omnipotent, but I heard your struggle. I answered your call. They don't need you, and I have all the answers you seek. Come and join the cult of the Sun, become one of the children of the Sun, as the light emanating from you is more bright than any star."

-"... I have a mission to accomplish, sorry mother, but I can't afford in letting anyone die."

Mother: "Such strength, is only a direct bright hope of light given by the Sun itself. I do admire you, Marco. You are persistent, brave, strong, determined with high perseverance. Your kindness for worry for others is more than clear as water. But I can hear from you how you struggle to understand why the one who was supposed to be your teammate abandoned you multiple times. Tell me, is he really worth of you? Is he really in your side? I will you something, something more than answers alone, but all the tools you need and more to save everyone."

-"... I'm not sure, what I have to do?... What GRE would do?... I only know the training I was given, the lessons I learnt..."

Mother: "You have to accept it... Embrace what is happening, accept it as a gift, as you are capable of controlling it. Marco, my child, you are special... Very special... Do tell me... Will you accept to join the cult of the Sun?... Will you accept me?..."

-"... Yes, mother... But I have much things to do... Much who I can save... Much who I can assist... Much who I can protect..."

Mother: "I understand, you have a long path before you. Just remember... You have a place to go when you see they reject you... Those you try to protect and save... But even when you see only darkness, remember to embrace the Sun... Remember to embrace the light guiding you all along..."

You suddenly stop after a long walk, as you suddenly notice how much you walked without noticing, but then you look to the Moon, and then you raise your arms, as trying to hug the moon, with open hands.

-"... Mother... How do I embrace the light?..."

Mother: "... Appreciate it, value it, open to it... Only when you truly accept it, is when the light will truly glow your true path, with high intensity bright light... Only when you accept what it give you, is when you will ascend. You are only a start follower right now, but your ambition of being something more, is making you reach further in very low time... You can become the successor of the Sun... Marco, accept it with everything you are, giving yourself completely to it... Become the endless bright light glowing in the endless darkness of those who are lost, become their Sun..."

You took a deep breath while closing your eyes, slowly moving your arms to wide open for a hug. After a moment, you slowly feel the burning feeling across your veins, being canalized in your blood.

After a short moment, you decide to move down your arms, then you open your eyes, and continue your way towards the Tower.

After a big while of walking, you finally reach the Tower, but before really reaching it, you have to get up of a big wall. So you simply jump, easily reaching the top of the stone wall, jumping multiple meters up with ease, and having a very strong grip.

You get up, and then walk a little bit, now being in front of the entrance of the Tower. the purple UV light covering the entrance and the little hallway to go inside.

You move to go inside, but when you enter a little and the UV light reaches your skin, you feel it hurt, slowly increasing exponentially, and when you move slightly more, the light covers you, making you suddenly blind after a purple flash.

You dash back, as you feel your head burn and hurt a lot. Slowly, you recover your vision, and start feeling better.

It was clear, you became an infected, as the virus of Harran was all inside you, and all over your body, but yet, not over your mind.

You don't feel hunger, you don't feel any normal zombie symptom, yet, you remain calm at this moment, but also an endless flame flowing in your veins, and an endless enraged burning feeling over your chest and heart.

The virus of Harran wasn't any zombie virus, was much further and deeper than any other virus that could ever exist.