Chapter 1

"KANE LOOK OUT!" I yelled as a flesh eating monster approached my best friend.

Kane with his lightning reflexes dodged the zombies attack stabbing it easily in the chest. I shot another in the head causing it to utter one last spine tingling moan and drop to the ground in a heap.

We walked farther down the alley and spotted another one eating an unconscious civilian.

Kane charged stabbing the zombie and turned to the lady.

I walked over and stared too.

"Do we wait?" I ask.

"No, the change will hurt worse," Kane said in a whisper turning his head away from the woman. "I'll do it."

"No let me you've had enough for tonight." I said, this is always my least favorite part of our job, killing people is not as easy as it sounds but it's for the safety of the world.

I grip the gun tighter and put the gun to the woman's head turned away and pulled the trigger.

Tears fell from my eyes as Kane dialed 666 on his speed dial.
"Were gonna need a clean up crew, were in the alleyways outside the Cascade Church in Monroe Washington." He said into the phone calling the PSA aka the Paranormal Society of America. After explaining how the woman was infected and the number of zombies and how many each of us slayed he hung up and turned to me.

"They'll be here in five minutes; he said it was safe to leave if we want to." Kane said.

"What did they say about…her?" I said glancing towards the woman.

"There going to clean it up and make it look like suicide." He replied not looking at the woman.

"Her not it." I said.

I just don't get how Kane can be so cool about things like this I mean I just killed a person, an actual person with friends maybe even a family.

"Sorry Nikkie but she was about to turn into an it! You saw the bite." Kane said.

"We should go home." I said and we began walking.

We jaywalked across Main Street to the orthodontics and kept walking.

"Oh my gosh!" I said sprinting past the boys and girls club five minutes later.

"What?" Kane asked running behind me.

"We have school tomorrow!" I yelled over my shoulder.

We both ran until we came to the fence between us and the apartments and hopped over it we sprinted up two flights of stairs and to our house.

I turned the doorknob only to find that it was locked I threw open my backpack and tried to find it when the door opened.

"So what happened?" Kandy Kane's sister asked,

"We lived, and why aren't you in bed?" Kane asked out of breath.

"I didn't want to I wanted to hear about what happened now tell me." She demanded as everyone walked into the brightly colored living room.

"Well, we killed five zombies and Nik-"

"I killed three of them and that's all that happened." I said glaring at him. The last thing I wanted to do was make this eleven year old girl think I was going to murder her in her sleep like I had that lady.

"Yeah." Kane said.

"I can't wait to become a slayer!" Kandy said jumping up and down excitedly. "I'll go on missions, kill zombies and get payed for it!"

"Its not all fun and games you have to start training next month then if your ready by thirteen you will then have all the fun like us." Kane said smiling.

"Oh, right." Kandy said with a sigh.

"We should all go to bed so we don't get in trouble." I say trying to get this innocent little girl to stop talking about murder like it's a game.

"Your right." Kane said.

That night I had nightmares, well more night terrors considering all of it's happened before. I had dreams about the mission in Granite Falls at the elementary school. We had to do a quick job because school was about to let out we thought we had all of them but there was one left that had blood dripping from its arms. It bit my mom turned on my dad. Then there was the horror stricken moment when my parents both turned into flesh eating monsters.

I woke up to some one poking my arm.

"Nikkie!" Someone whispered.

I opened my eyes and saw Kane.

"You were screaming in your sleep again." He said looking down at me from were he stood. I sat up and moved my feet so Kane could sit.

"What time is it?" I asked groggily.

"Eleven-something," He said sitting crisscross on the end of my bed. "You haven't been sleeping very long."

I nodded barely able to keep my eyes open.

"Do you want me to leave?" Kane asked watching as my head wobbled.

I sighed then smiled.

"Ok I feel like a five year old again but will you sleep on the floor?" I asked feeling stupid. He nodded then went into his room to get pillows and a blanket.

"Goodnight," He said as he tried to get comfortable on the hard floor. "Don't let the zombies bite."

I rolled my eyes in the dark.
"Not funny."

In minutes Kane was snoring quietly. I don't remember how long it took me to fall asleep but as soon as I did it felt like minutes later I was awoken by poking once again.