fear no chicken

Last night I had the following dream.

Time frame: Future, maybe 6-10yrs from now
Location: Dallas Texas
My Character:
Science teacher at elementary school.

Scene 1:
Cafeteria of school I teach at.
Kids are eating lunch, seems like a normal day.
It's loud and busy.
Chaotic, but normal for a school cafeteria.
I get my lunch and head towards a table when another teacher stops to talk to me.
Just normal small talk "How was your weekend?" "Any summer plans?"
We start to head towards the same table to sit, when I notice out of the corner of my eye a student who looks troubled.
I stop and try to figure out what is going on.
He seems to be swaying side to side at his table.
Food is in front of him, he looks dazed.
His skins is changing from pink to greenish blue.
Still swaying back and forth.
Eyes look dark and the eye lids are swollen.
I walk up to the child, "Are you okay?"
He moans and looks up at me.
He looks really sick.
I am shocked by his appearance and head to the nurses office.
I look around but cant find her.
I decide to go back to the cafeteria.

When I get back the room is mass hysteria.
Teachers are running around screaming for help.
Kids are laying on the floor vomiting, crying and shaking.

Scene ends.

Scene 2:
Office building. (looks important)
A meeting is taking place with a round table of high looking officials.
One seems to be a Mayor or congressman.
"So what do we know?" says the Mayor
A woman answers:
"At around 12noon today, we started getting calls from different schools saying students were dropping dead in the cafeteria."
" The basic sequence of events is:
1. a dazed and blank look
2. inability to speak
3. violent shaking
4. intense vomiting.
5. This repeats for sometime.
In most cases the children die from everything in their bodies being vomited out of them.
The calls have been coming non-stop since 12 noon today, not only schools but all over the city we have cases of this same sickness.

"Thank you, do we know the cause?" the mayor asks.
"No sir, not yet" the woman responds.
The mayor turns to us in the room.
"You here have experienced these events first hand yet you have not been affected, we need to know why that is. Why were some affected and others were not. Any ideas"
I start to think and replay what happened earlier that day.

"The food" I say.
"It must be something related to what they ate."
someone else : "But not all of the children in the cafeteria got sick, even those that did eat."
Me: "what was the main dish being served at lunch today?"
other person :  chicken tenders
"chicken, it must be the chicken. Somehow either all of a large amount of chicken in the city has been contaminated."

The mayor doesn't believe my hypothesis.
I challenge him.
"Lets test this theory. You have a cafeteria here lets order some chicken, eat it and see what happens."
some of the people agree.
We eat a small amount.
At first nothing.
Then the pain, dizziness, shaking and vomiting start.
We only ate very small pieces, so eventually the sickness stops.
Once the mayor regains control of his body, he takes out his phone and begins to call someone.
His phone is not making calls.
He asks if he can borrow someones phone.
Same thing, the phone doesn't work.

someone rushes into the room and turns on the TV.
A news report is showing bodies and fire and screaming people fill the streets.
Things are getting bad.
the news reporter says that they are being told that no one can leave the city.
The city has been quarantined and no on is coming in or out.

scene ends:

Scene 3:
Standing in a ghost town.

Bodies and blood everywhere.
A fight broke out between the civilians trying to protect them selves from one another.
No one knew what was killing everyone.
Panic and fear created a war zone.
Eventually fighting broke out between the soldiers maintaining the quarantine and the civilians stuck inside.

Scene ends.
I wake up.






have a nice day