There was humming and light singing coming from the kitchen, also a sweet aroma too. Rapunzel, with her long long blonde hair all bundled up into a messy bun, was cooking with her lovely mother. Making lunch for every member of the household.
"Rapunzel, add the garlic salt, please?" Her mother asked. On that, Rapunzel reached over and grabbed the seasoning to add into their eggs. At occasional times, Rapunzel would stir the eggs, until her mother said she didn't need help anymore.
The blonde lightly skipped out of the kitchen to sit next to her father, who was browsing through the old family photo book.
"What are you doing, dad?" Rapunzel asked, peering over his shoulder.
"Oh, just remembering old memories." He told her, smiling lightly
"This one is your cousin, remember? She came over for your birthday two months ago." He pointed to a photo of a little blonde girl who was holding a grey colored bunny. Rapunzel giggled and nodded in reply.
Her father reached his hand out to grab the television remote to put some channel on that would keep him company in a way, turning the T.V on to a news broadcast. His eyes rolled before flipping through another.. And another.. And another. All news broadcast. He gave up, placing the remote on the table and spoke angrily;
"I didn't buy this damn thing to always watch the fucking news on every channel." He grumbled, Rapunzel gasped lightly and looked up at him.
"Dad, you're swearing again." She told him.
"Oh, was I?. Shit." He replied.
"Daddy!" Rapunzel yelled.
"I'm sorry!" He yelled back, before the two shared a good laugh.
While her father flipped through albums instead of watching the T.V, Rapunzel overheard something on it that intrigued her. "There has been an outbreak. All through the world, some scientist decided to experiment with animal and dead humans cells. They created a new type of disease; a new type of.. Thing. The scientist calls it the 'Flesh Eater' disease, and it's.. It's- Oh god.." Rapunzel's eyes were wide for the important information.
"It's.. It's eating the living. The dead, are rising and eating the dead." The woman had let out a scream as to the other co-workers of hers, he camera fell forward and taped the white tile for a moment.. Then, it stopped right after blood was painted on the white tile.
Rapunzel jumped higher than any before, all because there was a pounding at the door. It was so forceful, it felt like the door would just break off it's hinges. Her wide green eyes followed to the door, there was still poundings.. It scared her a little.
"Rapunzel, dear. Will you see who is out there?" Her mother asked.
Rapunzel gulped quietly, but did so anyway. Walking over to the door, standing on her tip-toes, she looked through the peek-hole to see someone so bizzar looking. It had a full white eye, flesh missing, and the other eye was missing. It was hard to make out but it looked like there was flesh hanging from it's mouth. The pounding ceased for a while, but it continued. The moment it did, Rapunzel was immediately thrown off her balance and hit her butt on the ground.
"Ow.." She said quietly. Rapunzel ignored her fathers questions of being asked if she was alright, making a dash crawl over to the balcony. Peering out of the glass door, the news was right. There was other people eating the others, screams were heard lightly from beyond the glass door.
Rapunzel's head turned to see her parents walking over to the door. Unlocking the door, the young blonde gasped and tried to stop them; "No! Don't! Don't open the door!" But the door was already swung open and three of those things ran in. Even though Rapunzel saw one, in that time there could have been more. She ran quickly to her bathroom that was in her bedroom, one following hot on her trail.
Making it just in time that the one had no idea where she had went, she locked the bathroom door and darted to the other bathroom door that would lead her to her parents bedroom, locking that. Rapunzel looked around for anything to use as a weapon or a hiding spot in case.
Nothing- Except the cupboard under the sink.
Moving the cleaning supplies and woman supplies to the one side, Rapunzel climbed right into the cupboard and shut the door quietly. Reaching out to grab a flashlight she had pushed to the one side, and held it nearby in case.
Moments went by, it felt like hours. She turned the flashlight on, her eyes immediately closing to the light until her eyes adjusted, flashing it at her watch.
5 P.M
She counted the hours.. Trapped in that little space for nearly 6 hours.
Pushing the door open, and then placing her toes to touch the ground lightly before standing up and stretching. Rapunzel walked quietly, her bare feet made no sound, and once at her door that led to her bedroom, her ear lightly touched the door.
No snarling, nothing, but still not sure it's safe. She opened up the door just no bigger than an inch, peeking her eye through to look beyond. There was no one there. Rapunzel closed the door quietly, and reached under the cupboard to grab a spray bottle that had blue liquid inside it.
Opening the door a little more than an inch, Rapunzel swung the bottle a little before throwing it. It hit the leg of her bed, making a loud thack noise. Then it went down and hit the ground, making another loud noise. No one came, so Rapunzel's bad gut feeling went away.
Immediately, Rapunzel dashed out to the living room, then making a turn to the kitchen. She looked around, the food was still there; uncooked. But never mind that, she looked around for a weapon that could really help her against the dead. None that she saw of- until she opened up the door to the kitchen knives. Grabbing onto the sharpest one she could find.
"If those things eat people.." Rapunzel muttered.
She walked out of the kitchen, and immediately stopped the moment she glanced at her parents.. All eaten, bloody and disgusting. It's hard to make out what her mother once looked like. Rapunzel crouched down, tears fell from her eyes and onto a part of her mother's face.
"Goodbye.. Mommy, Daddy." Rapunzel wiped her tears away, before dashing out the door. Not wanting anymore tears to fall or to feel like it was her fault.
She knew her way around her city, it was small and unique, so she took the shortcuts, avoiding any sound such as snarling or squishy sounds. After finding her way out of her town, Rapunzel looked at the sign that said "Now Leaving: Corona City."
There was a rush of cold air that made her shiver, she let down her hair that shown it reached just a little past her butt.
"Now what would dad do if he were alive?.." Rapunzel asked herself. A hint of sadness in her voice, but she remembered the camping trips and got rocks, along with sticks and bark. Just nearby the road, she set up a circle of rocks and created a fire old fashion way; with sticks.
Once it was a success, she fed the fire only bark once or twice. It was warm, really warm, but not enough to keep her cozy like she was just hours ago. Sweeping her hair back up into a messy bun, she laid down and slowly went to sleep.
By the time it was 3 A.M, Rapunzel heard a snap of a stick- which immediately woke her up for being a light sleeper. Once she sat up, she targeted the sound, it came just west of her. Reaching for her knife slowly, Rapunzel almost grasped it until she heard a sound of an arrow unleashing. It impaled the flesh eater right in the head, making it fall back to the ground and not move once.
Rapunzel looked to the side of where the road was. Seeing a really curly, curly red head that was decked out in dark colors and had a crossbow in hands.
"Aye, I saved ye life." The voice had a hint of Scottish in it.
"Thank you." Rapunzel spoke after a moment.
There was a moment of silence. Until the other female had spoke again; "Put the fire out." Rapunzel must've had a look of confusion because the red head spoke again; "Put the fire out! It attracts more of thaim!"
As told, Rapunzel blew the flame out since it wasn't strong enough, and she had no shoes on. The red head grabbed something from what looked like her backpack, but Rapunzel couldn't make out what it was because it was now dark.
Once the woman was done searching, a bright light shone.
"Oh.. Flashlight. I forgot mine.." Rapunzel muttered lightly.
"I amaist forgot about me flashlight also." The red head spoke while sitting down next to Rapunzel.
"Why are you here?. You look like you.. Are traveling.." said Rapunzel.
"Well.. My brothers- wee little devils. Are up in another state. This was happenin' all over." There was a pause. "I need to tell thaim.. That our maimmie and faither had perished." Rapunzel gasped lightly, placing her two hands over her mouth.
"And I want to make sure they're completely safe."
Rapunzel reached out, placing her hand on the red head's shoulder.
"This whole thing.. Made my parents die also." Rapunzel spoke quietly, a cracking in her voice happened mid-sentence.
"Seems we have one thing in common. Whats your name?". She asked Rapunzel.
"Oh! I'm Rapunzel."
"I'm.. Going to call you Punzie. You're name is really long. Sheesh." Rapunzel laughed, and the other female continued;
"And my name is Merida."