Short Story (Cerpen)

Zombie Metromini

Category: Fiction Fantasy Short stories

Title: Zombie metromini

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The sky was still dark, the sun had not emitted its rays this morning. I've had 2 months of semester break and it's time to go back to college. At 5am I went from house to campus. Today I deliberately got ready earlier than usual because I did not want to come late again to campus because my campus is very far away. It took more than 2 hours to get to the campus, I had to go to the place with a single ride and then connected by metromini bus then take the train until finally take the campus bus to campus. This morning wearing a red t-shirt, long jeans with a grey sling bag, I walked alone. When I got off the angkot then took the metromini bus to continue the journey as usual, but like something different today, maybe I'm too early so it's dark and the lights on the bus aren't turned on so I can't see the people on the bus. But I can still pay attention to their behavior and facial expressions. By the time I got on this metromini all the benches were filled except for the one empty bench I was now sitting on. The bus was traveling slowly but did not stop to look for any more passengers.

On the way I always pay attention to my surroundings, there is no sound of people talking, no one who pays attention to the road or fiddling with hp just for smsan or status updates. All were silent and motionless even the driver and his forehead did not say a word, all the passengers were seen sitting with their heads bowed without holding anything in their hands. The kenek came up to me and rang a coin in his hand and I immediately paid the fee to the kenek. I began to pay attention back around me, could it be that they were still sleepy so they looked helpless or they all looked like zombies. It was too soon for me to conclude all that. Strange was almost to the station but there was not a single person who went down along the way, arriving at the station I immediately went down. But they all did not come down even though usually a lot of people who get off at this station, maybe they really get off at the final destination of the bus. My mind is too bright everywhere to think about it. Arriving at the station at exactly 6 am I immediately bought a ticket, I waited for the train that would come soon with a mind that was still filled with questions about the oddities that occurred.

Tomorrow I want to see if today will be the same as yesterday, whether I will experience the exact same event in metromini. Then when I climbed the metromini it turned out there was only one empty seat and it was located at the back in the right corner. Today is not much different from yesterday but different is that I hear so many voices even they are all silent. Their mouths all spoke without pausing for a moment to sigh. But I did not understand what they were talking about, their language was too fast and messy. It was really weird and made me feel dizzy so I took a headset to listen to music from my phone. I had unknowingly fallen asleep along the way and woke up when this metromini arrived at the station. Without any suspicion I descended and did not realize that no one had descended from the metromini and their voices were still heard until I came down.

When I started thinking all sorts of things about them, I suddenly heard a sound like something was falling and when I saw that it was a ball as big as a spherical chimney, it was white but there was a black sphere and the ball was like an eye with its veins that looked red. I convinced myself that I was just hallucinating, that guy took the ball and he put it in his eye. I started sweating and hoped this was really my hallucination. Suddenly the voices of the two people who were fighting over an object in their hands, but the other passengers ignored them both. As I tried to see what they were talking about, I started to get nervous because it was a hand that had slipped out of the body of one of them. They did not look like fighting but rather like they were playing by exchanging their hands.

My body was getting more and more immobile, it felt like all my nerves suddenly stopped, for a moment I gulped to hold the fear inside me. I hope that not all the passengers in this metromini are the same as them, I hope there are still people like me so that we can help each other. Then I tried to talk to a woman who looked neat like a career woman and asked her where she was going down, she was silent for a few seconds and replied in a soft tone. He said he would not come down and would never go down forever. His words surprised me so much, I already knew that he was not a human like me, I did not continue to ask back. And the feeling I was saying that they were all really like zombies that I had been expecting, all along, because there's no way I'm always riding the same metromini at the same hour as the same passenger and there's only one empty seat for me. I didn't want them to realize that I knew their identity, I tried not to look like a very frightened person from seeing a ghost. Even though the station where I got off was still a long way away, I wanted to quickly get off.

As I was already standing at the door to get down, suddenly their eyes were all on me, their pale faces were looking at me very coldly and seemed to want to keep me from going down. It seemed like they realized that I wanted to try to escape because I didn't normally get off when I didn't get to the station. I still intend to go down, just one more step I can get out of this mysterious metromini, but the driver didn't stop this metromini and the geek didn't care about me when I knocked on the roof of the bus to get off. I began not to twitch, my heart grew louder, my breath gasping, my breath gasping, when I wanted to jump out of this metromini but my body felt stiff and unable to move but I kept trying to move my legs so that I could jump even though this bus was running but the road was not speeding like metromini usually who always want to precede other cars. My body was already completely sweaty, my eyes wet from holding back the tears that were about to fall, I wanted to cry and scream but it was all for nothing. They all started to stand up from their seats with all their might while closing my eyes I stepped my legs and I felt my body falling on the asphalt. My legs and hands were injured by scratching the asphalt but at least I survived the zombies in the metromini. I immediately stopped a taxi and I did not go to the station but wanted to go home and meet with my family to tell me all this and I would definitely feel comfortable being near them because of me they know they're not zombies.

After that day passed, I did not go to college for a week because my body was still in pain and still traumatized by the incident. It was time to go to college so that I did not miss a lot of lecture material, since that incident I had no longer left so early, I left 1 hour longer than usual and I no longer have strange events in metromini. I don't want to find out what caused the deaths of all the passengers in the mysterious metromini, but many people say that 2 weeks ago there was a metromini that exploded without knowing why at 5 o'clock in the morning and the rest of the passengers were burned to death. Hearing that story I was increasingly haunted by thoughts about the events of that time. But I tried to forget about it and live my life normally.