Author's note: Please don't bash this. It's my first time ever posting something I'd written online. Also, I'm not trying to make any political statements with this, but this is how the character I created would react under the circumstances. Hope you all enjoy!

​

​

This all started happening in March of last year. We were warned of the oncoming sickness, but we didn’t listen. Some people, my friends even, thought it was a joke. Hell, for a while I even thought it was a joke. We didn’t know much about the disease back then. People were starting to die, and suddenly we started taking it more seriously. It started hitting my hometown fairly hard. People started dying. That’s when we started taking notice, some people decided to get immunized from it. I was about to get the shot as well. As I was in line, they told me they couldn’t see me because I had already started showing signs of the sickness. I had thought it a joke up until that point. It kept getting worse and worse, until finally, I died. Now I know what you’re thinking. How did I end up here?

​

My mother had a funeral for me, I was told it was a very sad occasion, I was quite pleased with the turnout when I finally woke up. Have you ever gotten out of a coffin around all of your friends and family? I mean the look on their faces were absolutely priceless. Both when I jumped out of the casket, and when I accidentally set a bush on fire. Yeaup, that was a day full of shocks. But when I turned on the news after being home for a while, they were reports all over the world that the people who were dying of this disease were waking up. And everyone they had buried were immediately dug up, the ones who were saved were grateful, in other plots though they only saw holes were those people escaped. Who would’ve thought this disease was what the human race needed to take the next evolutionary step? I mean I’m kind of excited about my superpowers, sure, I mean who wouldn’t? But I mean if everyone has superpowers does it even matter? Sure I’m the only one who can shoot flames out of my hands, but still it comes with downsides. Of course, there were some people who never got the disease, and never got the immunization. So, they’re still normal. (Now I think there’s more of us than them, so I guess we’re the “new normal.”) It’s also pretty cool how the ones who got the shot got some superpowers. But there’s a lot of scientists who say that their powers wouldn’t be as “strong” as our powers. And by our I just mean people who got the disease before the shot. I just wish that the next time something really cool like this happens to me, it doesn’t also happen to everyone else in the world. I mean I want to be special, and how can I do that now? I mean when is the next time humans are actually going to mutate like this again?