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// Being Human: Hunter 
// Story: Grounds for the Dead: A L4D2 Story 
// by SCP Pinkamena 
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AN: Special chapters are labeled as "Being Human: [Insert Infected]". These Special chapters will tell how they got infected and turned into Special infected, but each one will be relatively short. About 400-800 words. So now enter the first Special chapter at your own risk...
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Special Chapter: Being Human



Being on the streets of Manhattan isn't easy. Some need to fight their way out, some have incredible luck. Others however, rely on being invisible. That's what Hunter, or better known as Alex Flanner, did. He would hide under his hood and walk the streets as a nobody. He would avoid big streets and corners, watch out for the 'Dogs', and sometimes even joined their crowds and deceive them. But today was different. He saw others eating each other and people killing them to stay alive. This 'Green Flu' was outta hand. He sized up some of them and being ever clever as he was, tried to blend in with the infected. Once had he been almost shot until he got on the ground and begged.

That saved his life in more ways then one. He watched as some of the shamblers ran full sprint after a passing car. His mind was racing after he felt, one, two, three brush against his form. All he did was stand there waiting for them to leave and when they did he ran the opposite direction. He brushed what he could off his hoodie and then the thought came to him. Those who had escaped the infected became infected themselves after a single brush. He looked down at his hands and searched desperately for some thing to help. He spotted a lone roll of duct tape, and the thought came to him.

"Stop the blood stream, stop the infection," He said out loud as he grabbed it and wrapped it around his arms. When  he was satisfied, something happened all of the sudden. His thought was fogged and his head hurt from the slightest sound. He slowly began losing himself and only one thought came to his mad mind.

"Hunger... Infect..." His conscience said over and over. He felt his fingers sharpen as bone and nail fused together, his legs burned so bad that he felt as though he ran a marathon nine time over. His eyes sunk into the back of his head leaving in the dark of his hood. With one loud screech, he jumped to the nearest building in hopes to kill and maim anything uninfected.



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As Hunter threw the memory from his past life away, he watched as the colorful sights and different colored ponies walked by and looked at the group in shock. He did not mind for he wondered if he could spread the Green Flu here too, or were they immune to such things? he did not know, but that was answer he didn't want to find out.