[ WP ] In another universe , an apple a day actually keeps the doctors away . One day , you forget to eat your daily apple .

`` You forgot the cure?!'' 
 
 It had been 14 years since the event. Scientists called it a medical miracle before it flew off the handle. A certain virus which was inhibiting a culture of human-like cells, which the scientists were using to synthesize a cure for, dissapeared on it's own one day. Baffled, the scientists left it under observation for another week. It is then that the truth dawned upon them. A virus, to be alive, must, to some extent, fuse with it's host. Otherwise it is a dead organism. This virus had n't fused to the host. It had fused to another virus which had fused to the host. Somehow this killed both the virii. 
 
 Jump several years, scientists noticed how this process could be used to kill *any* virus. It was implemented into medicine as a cure. 
 
 It was named proditor ( Latin, traitor ), because it turned on it's own species. How apt that name was, even now. 
 
 A new fungi began inhibiting dying organisms was also seen to have been thwarted by proditor. Not other fungi. Only this one. The fungi was a strange specimen too. It would occupy the dying, but spread to the living, given prolonged physical contact. It was common to see scores of ambules occupy a dead body, and spread to many living too, in minor degrees. Especially doctors. It was pretty harmless though, and proditor could be used to kill it anyways. Or so we thought. 
 
 One day, 14 years back, a doctor was researching both proditor and the fungus, which he named ambule ( Latin, walk ). He was infected by ambule and he knew it, but was n't worried, until one day he noticed it *inside* his skin, through a tiny rupture created by ambule roots. He took a dose of proditor for a day, and observed his arm. He realized how the growth of the ambule *accelerated*. He made a record of multiple other things related to them both, but did n't publish anything. 
 
 Ambule had evolved to collaborate with proditor. 
 
 That's when it began. 
 
 Doctors worldwide began to be affected by the combination of ambule and proditor. This was named bestia ( Latin, beast ) not because it was almost invulnerable to medicine ( which it was ) but that it made it's host feral. The moment bestia came in contact with the pre-frontal cortex, the host would go wild. They would be overcome with superhuman strength and agility owing to bestia's steroid-like character which forced more neurons to fire at the same time. 
 
 Put in easy words, we had a zombie apocalypse with doctors as the zombies. 
 
 The worst part of it all was that bestia had to feed. The doctors resorted to cannibalism. Over the years they adapted to become nocturnal, could differenciate between those infected and those not, and could smell *the cure*. 
 
 One day a man who had eaten nothing but apples was consumed by an infected doctor. For some reason, the doctor began writhing in pain, till her body eventually shrivelled up. The nutrition provided by the human body was immense, but they had to reduce eating humans to survive, now that we had the cure. Their numbers, though, did n't fall, because they noticed that if they had prolonged physical contact with someone, or had an exchange of bodily fluids ( I mean biting, no one would make love to a zombie doctor ) the victim would be infected by bestia too. To make things worse, entire apple orchards began decaying due to, no points for guessing, proditor infecting live apple cells. Proditor, after turning on disease, went back to their side and turned on humanity. It truly was a traitor. 
 
 Other than apples, no other fruit or meat gave such protection. We needed apples to survive. 
 
 I worked the night shift whilst guarding the apple orchards. Only select people were allowed inside the sealed chamber to prevent apple contamination. Mine was a dangerous job. And as fate would have it, I forgot to eat an apple today. I'll have to think of another way to keep that doctor away. 
 
 I'm scared.
