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A tale of the Shadow Flu
12 years ago
Shadow flu, a fictional disease made up by me! listen closely, because this is an important story element!
Shadow flu is a unique disease, and also a very severe one. Its caused by a fully inorganic gas of mysterious nature, wich is black, cold, and smells unique! Its produced by a strange black flower that instead of enjoying light, warm and clean air, blooms on dark, cold and quite polluted spots, and is hard to get rid of due to the disease itself. The gas dissolves when contacting oxigen, keeping it from spreading further. Upon contact, by breathing it, the victim will begin to feel the symptom in 1-5 days depending on individual. The first stage of shadow flu involves weakness of the muscles: after few steps the victim collapses fully tired and sore. It will seem to be just muscular fever caused by hard working of said muscles. The faint tought is possibly stress to the victim. 3 days later, fever, sneezing and coughing, sore throat, headache, Dizzy feeling, runny nose render the victim bed-stuck. It is recommended to contact a doctor inmediatelly. In 2 days, additional symptoms occur: vomit, nausea, diarrhea, and muscle weakness make the disease worse. Normaly these cause a slight stress on a victim of common flu, but shadow flu comes with a slowly growing occurence of neurogicism wich confirm the presence of shadow flu toxication. Hallucinations, both auditory and visual, occur with time. Victims studied report hearing voices in the day following the neurotic symptom's first appearance. Later these victims claimed strange figures visiting them, talking to them, wich occured to the observers as some kind if imaginary "friend" type of hallucination. As these hallucinations grow from simple to agressive, victims are seen panicing, yelling at something that is not there. Often "leave me a alone" and "Help im being kidnapped" is heard from victims. If the disease remains untreated, the disease will cause the victims to go into an animalisticly agressive state where they begin to pose a threat to anyone that dares to go nearby. They seem to have lost control over their bodies, and also became unable to communicate. This is the final known stage of the disease. After that most people were killed, commited suicide, went missing, or were cured earlier, tho in some cases the victim was able to revert to its original state, but it is rare and took very long to occur. Majirity of the cases also sport black pox spots on them from the third stage on, but early stages may produce some kind of green substance in spots too. Some people produce additional symptoms, not to be mentioned.
Shadow flu is quite a disease that comes from an alien source. Some claim that the final stage is related to the most evil person in a specifical radius. A hivemind status is developed every time that renders the victim to be "makuta's puppet" in a matoranic sense. The shadow flu may posdibly be related to the shadows more than it having very much black to it.
I hope you enjoyed my tale! Be sure not to catch cold and get hallucionate: who knows what creeps your mind may create to terrorize you.
The idea of shadow flu dates back to the mid 2000's or around it. I was inspired by the zerg hyper-evolution virus and later by Mata-Nui online. Now I shared it and wow, I love it! What do ya think?
Note: I discovered a similar disease in SCP containment breach called scp-008. I never heard about it when Shadow Flu began developmebt, but i count it as an inspiration. Both diseases share fever and related symptoms, and both end up in the victim being hostile (scp: zombie; Shadow flu: ???) and each are encountered as gasses.
Shadow flu is a unique disease, and also a very severe one. Its caused by a fully inorganic gas of mysterious nature, wich is black, cold, and smells unique! Its produced by a strange black flower that instead of enjoying light, warm and clean air, blooms on dark, cold and quite polluted spots, and is hard to get rid of due to the disease itself. The gas dissolves when contacting oxigen, keeping it from spreading further. Upon contact, by breathing it, the victim will begin to feel the symptom in 1-5 days depending on individual. The first stage of shadow flu involves weakness of the muscles: after few steps the victim collapses fully tired and sore. It will seem to be just muscular fever caused by hard working of said muscles. The faint tought is possibly stress to the victim. 3 days later, fever, sneezing and coughing, sore throat, headache, Dizzy feeling, runny nose render the victim bed-stuck. It is recommended to contact a doctor inmediatelly. In 2 days, additional symptoms occur: vomit, nausea, diarrhea, and muscle weakness make the disease worse. Normaly these cause a slight stress on a victim of common flu, but shadow flu comes with a slowly growing occurence of neurogicism wich confirm the presence of shadow flu toxication. Hallucinations, both auditory and visual, occur with time. Victims studied report hearing voices in the day following the neurotic symptom's first appearance. Later these victims claimed strange figures visiting them, talking to them, wich occured to the observers as some kind if imaginary "friend" type of hallucination. As these hallucinations grow from simple to agressive, victims are seen panicing, yelling at something that is not there. Often "leave me a alone" and "Help im being kidnapped" is heard from victims. If the disease remains untreated, the disease will cause the victims to go into an animalisticly agressive state where they begin to pose a threat to anyone that dares to go nearby. They seem to have lost control over their bodies, and also became unable to communicate. This is the final known stage of the disease. After that most people were killed, commited suicide, went missing, or were cured earlier, tho in some cases the victim was able to revert to its original state, but it is rare and took very long to occur. Majirity of the cases also sport black pox spots on them from the third stage on, but early stages may produce some kind of green substance in spots too. Some people produce additional symptoms, not to be mentioned.
Shadow flu is quite a disease that comes from an alien source. Some claim that the final stage is related to the most evil person in a specifical radius. A hivemind status is developed every time that renders the victim to be "makuta's puppet" in a matoranic sense. The shadow flu may posdibly be related to the shadows more than it having very much black to it.
I hope you enjoyed my tale! Be sure not to catch cold and get hallucionate: who knows what creeps your mind may create to terrorize you.
The idea of shadow flu dates back to the mid 2000's or around it. I was inspired by the zerg hyper-evolution virus and later by Mata-Nui online. Now I shared it and wow, I love it! What do ya think?
Note: I discovered a similar disease in SCP containment breach called scp-008. I never heard about it when Shadow Flu began developmebt, but i count it as an inspiration. Both diseases share fever and related symptoms, and both end up in the victim being hostile (scp: zombie; Shadow flu: ???) and each are encountered as gasses.
