Nova Roma

Checking through the window you could see some bodies on the floor, but there seemed to be no traces of those creatures, we went down to the first floor where we had breakfast of some dried meat that was in the house.

Time passed and we decided to venture to the temple of Jupiter when I asked my mother why we had to go to that place and not try to leave the city she only answered with a smile that this was the safest place in the city.

We removed the makeshift barricade that we made at the door and left, outside there were blood marks on the walls and floor, we continued our way until in an alley we were ambushed by a group of survivors.

They checked every part of my body and that of my mother looking for some weapon according to them but the only thing they did was to touch us, fortunately, their leader stopped them before they wanted to do anything else with us.

They tied us up and took us to their base, which was an old city pub, along the way we could see a few bodies of women who were naked and tied up just like us.

This alarmed me and my mother because we did not want to end up like those poor women, on the way I could see a piece of sharp wood, very carefully throwing myself to the ground making him go through an accident.

I managed to hide the piece of wood in my clothes, none of our captors realized that I had a sharp object in my hands, when we arrived at the pub they locked us in the basement where we could see these bastards abusing girls and women who were trapped.

To our fortune, the place where they placed us was a somewhat dark corner of the basement, next to us was a beautiful naked woman who seemed to have been turned into one of those monsters.

I knew it was a matter of time for us to suffer the same fate as the poor women who were being abused in front of us, very carefully use the edge of the piece of wood to be able to break the ropes that bound me.

One of the damn slags approached my mother with intentions of abusing her, very carefully I managed to cut the ropes that prevented me from moving and taking advantage of my distraction I approached the woman with black eyes.

It was a dangerous move but it was the only thing I could do if I did not try my mother would be abused by those shits, carefully cut the ropes that held the woman and she was released.

I do not know if it was due to hatred or luck but ran directly over the garbage that was about to abuse my mother, taking advantage of the chaos of the moment I took my mother’s hand and we went out through one of the small windows in the basement.

We ran for some time until we got safe behind a house, my mother had torn clothes, so we decided to go to one of the houses to find a change of clothes.

When we entered we could see that the occupants of the house were hanged in the living room, at least we knew that we would not find unpleasant surprises in that place, we took our clothes and some food and left to continue our way.

The journey was quite calm until we found a carriage with some swords inside, the horses that once threw the carriage were turned into amorphous masses of meat we could only recognize by the nibbled bones.

The carriage seemed to be from army supplies unfortunately before we could take some swords and crossbows for our defense accidentally mother stumbled and dropped a sword to the ground.

Because there was no sound in the silent streets the noise of the sword’s fall was quite loud, at that moment we could see how those monsters came out of the streets running.

We ran leaving behind anything that could be a burden on us, this time without deviations we climbed the avenue until we reached the temple of Jupiter where we could see on the stairs of the temple corpses of legionaries.

Their bodies were scattered around the place, the armor they had despite being iron were chewed as if they were paper, ignoring this we climbed the stairs and entered the temple.

When I wanted to ask my mother where we had to go, she took a dagger from her clothes and punched her chest, at that moment a light absorbed me, but not before seeing how my mother was devoured by those monsters and ended up in the conference room where we met. "

Hellena approached Felix while hugging her, remembering all the painful moments made her cry on Hellena’s chest, Flavio, on the other hand, was angry that he couldn’t be with them and take care of them.

The feeling of helplessness in Flavio was such that when he squeezed the coffee cup unconsciously he broke it quite easily. "Daughter, I don’t have enough strength to go to Rome personally to cut the eggs of those bastards or turn the city into ruins by removing any Zombie on the road.

But I am sure of something and that is if someone tries to do something similar here with you, your sister or Hellena will not hesitate to make them suffer the worst torture while they are alive and even in death they will not have rest because their souls will make them suffer in the new tartar"

Felix after crying in Hellena’s chest for some time fell asleep, Flavio carried her to the room she had prepared for her, when he left her on her bed she covered her with the blankets so she wouldn’t go cold and kissed her his forehead, after this he left the room where Hellena was waiting for him.

"Sweety I know that it does not apply to me but I want to act like Felix’s mother, hearing her story makes me want to protect her and take care of her as my daughter."

Flavio smiled and hugged his wife "Don’t worry we will take care of her, I know she wants revenge but it is very dangerous to return to Rome if I am not mistaken the description of the monsters coincides with something called zombie.

They are beings that act by instincts and will attack regardless of the place or how injured they are, but I don’t know what caused their birth, any virus, magic or something else.

It is dangerous to go check it out without mentioning that something of that magnitude is enough to end all human life and we do not have the weapons or the population to return.

Besides, we have our problems with the damn jungle if we are not careful, it could destroy us without much problem, great changes are affecting the world we know, we can only wait and see what the future has in store for us..."