One balmy evening, as they sat beneath the stars, sharing a meal and a bottle of homemade wine, a sudden noise startled them. A figure emerged from the darkness, a creature unlike any they had seen before. It was a massive, hulking form, its body twisted and mutated by the toxins that now saturated the world. Its eyes glowed with a malevolent hunger, fixated on the pair huddled together.

Victor pushed Elara behind him, his body tensing as he prepared to defend her. "Run," he hissed, his eyes never leaving the creature : "Get to the house, warn the others."

But Elara refused to move. she said : "Not without you, Victor. We're in this together"

Victor took out his gun and shot the creature, but it had no effect. That creature was getting stronger by the minute. It killed Elara and knocked Victor unconscious.