//------------------------------// // Day Eight // Story: H1P1 // by gamer52599 //------------------------------// January 14 2015 7:21:00:00 Since first infection Dallas, Texas I was working on a personal project (a web page formatting) when I heard a noise from the front of my house. When it happened, I noticed that my ears turned to the noise, which surprised me. When I came to the window to see what’s happening, I noticed that there were police at my door setting up yellow tape. I realized this meant that my self induced quarantine just became official. And now I can’t go outside even if I wanted to. But that’s beside the point when I felt a sudden pain at the end of my spine griped me. Looking down at my pelvis region I find a slight bulge in the back of my pants. Removing them, I find that I have grown a tail, a blue with red highlights horse tail at that. Upon finding a tail on my behind I took my phone out and gave Derick a call. “Derick, I have a tail!” “That sounds unbelievable... But so would being told someone grew orange cat ears. Speaking of which, can you take a picture and show me?” I quickly took a picture and texted it to him. “... Its a horse tail.” “Makes you wonder what I’m changing into.” “Maybe you are turning into a candy colored pony from a magical land.” There was silence on both ends for a time, and then. “Nah!” We both said at the same time. “Anyway,” I said. “lets work with the assumption that I’m turning into something we’ve never seen before, alright.” “Alright.” “Anyway, What’s been happening over on your side.” “Practically nothing. The disease has barely gotten out of the DFW area.” “Sounds great! Lets hope it stays that way.” “Don’t jinx it!” After that we said our goodbyes and hung up, so then I went into my kitchen to get a knife to cut a slit in my pants for my tail, putting my pants back on, making sure my tail slips through the slit. After that a sudden urge swept over me like an instinct had been awakened in me, and I felt like the walls were closing in on me, and I wanted out. Luckily the last person to own this house was paranoid to the max, he was afraid of everything, to the point he dug a who knows how long tunnel in a closet, but I only found it yesterday thanks to my new ears which could hear the echoes in the tunnel. In fact, he was the reason I bought the house in the first place, as It came with his entire computer build and super secure firewall he designed himself, after reverse engineering it, I created my own version that was stronger than his and sold it to a security company for a very small fortune, the keywords are very small. I grabbed a few things before I left, a pocket knife for if I have to cut up my clothes, some more, a flashlight since the tunnel is dark, and a backpack full of food since I have no idea what's on the other side. Then I went into my bedroom closet and pulled up the carpet from a loose corner, revealing the floor boards, lifting them up I opened the passageway and hopped in. January 14 2015 8:00:00:00 Since last infection Atlanta, Georgia Three hours ago I got a call from Allen, and now I have been informed he has disappeared from his home. There literally is no trace of him in his house, or the city for that matter. Besides the obvious problem, it’s also a minor setback in researching this disease, for now I have to wait for other patients to start showing these higher symptoms before I can study them. I’m also worried as a friend, if he was missing it may be due to another symptom, possibly a mental condition. But for now, since there is nothing we can do about it at the moment, I’m going to focus on stopping this epidemic before it becomes a pandemic. With a few isolations and quarantines we were able to slow this thing down. Unfortunately for us, we couldn’t slow it down outside of Dallas, for it was too small and too little reason for them to be isolated. While we said to do it the local authorities just didn’t see any reason for it. Other than that nothing was happening, but we were told we could work on our own projects as long as it’ll help with stopping this disease. As such I asked for the data and the original substance from the biologist. I just got them today so I can start analyzing the virus inside so we can try to make a vaccine out of it. I took the substance to the STM for analysis. Preparing the substance so that it can be seen by the microscope, and I watched as the picture formed before me. And what I saw made me speechless, and to this day I still can’t describe exactly what I saw. The STM allows me to see what proteins are on the virus's surface, but these proteins are something I have never seen before, or since. It has Hemagglutinin, the H in the flu, but it has a number of other antigen proteins in the mix that I've never seen. As such I’m going to tie these all together under a single name for now, and that name is Pestis Incognitus. and with that I have sent them this data as well as a suggestion of the name… H1P1.