The December Plague started weeks before the massive Children's Parade. But Neil Newton didn't know that. Neither did anyone else, not at first. It didn't matter that he was wrong, in Neil's mind it started with the man in the park. Or, more specifically, with the vicious bite the man had given Neil. The parade had been horrific, devolving into a senseless brawl within moments.Neil was sent to the hospital for treatment without having the chance to...