So I was watching the movie last night and this popped in my head. I'm actually writing this while I'm watching R and M[arcus] grunt at each other.
Hope you enjoy! (AN laugh all you want cuz this chapter is 696 words)
Chapter 1 Grigio —Night of Julie's call
General Grigio could feel that his daughter was still alive even though Julie's friend, Nora, told him she was taken by the group of corpses that attacked their group. He was never one for giving up, and he couldn't possibly keep surviving if his last connection to his wife and the pre-zombie days. When his fleet arrives back to the Stadium, he orders his car and Rosso's car behind him to be ready tomorrow by 0700 hours to resume the search, as his girl should still be in that neighborhood and by then the sun would be at least lighting the streets well enough for his soldiers to see any activity.
The next day Grigio and his eight men quickly head out to search for Julie. Even though they were rushing, it still took a good half hour to arrive at the start of the cul-de-sac. He was able to somewhat accurately pinpoint the phone from which Julie had made the call to the street they were currently turning on. He sent four men to the first house on each side of the street, they continued to scour each house, but there was no sign of any human, live or corpse. The groups took about twenty minutes to search each house and there were a little less than thirty that were attached to this street. If she wasn't in any of these houses, then he would just go to the next street and continue searching the neighborhood until sunset. He remembered to pack enough food and water for everyone to last two days in case they were somehow forced to stay in the neighborhood for the night.
After searching five houses per team (an hour and a half of time), they saw a somewhat scratched up red convertible.
"Rosso come with me to check out that car. Everyone else continue searching," Grigio ordered. Rosso walked at a quick pace to his General. Once he reached him they continued at that pace til they reached the car. Grigio opened the door and began to hot wire it. Soon enough the car growled and continued to purr, meaning that someone had siphoned off gas from somewhere else seeing as their military had already drained all of the cars in the nearby communities at the first possible chance. Grigio disconnected the wires and the car's purrs stopped. Rosso and Grigio just raised their guns and walked to the door of the house the car was parked in front of. Both knew that they ingrained in the girl's head to one find a room whose door could lock, two find a room that could be barricaded easily, and three for God's sake go to the second floor. The second floor allowed time for person to hear the zombie's intrusion, and either got out or sufficiently prepare to shoot hostile.
Grigio and Rosso knew she would be on the second floor, but still needed to be safe and checked all the first floor rooms as silently as possible. They didn't want to have to deal with corpses attacking them with their backs turned. It took five minutes to search the rooms and be satisfied with its lack of any sign of a struggle. The only way to tell that someone was here was disturbed dust and empty cans of food. Both men proceeded walk up the stairs, guns cocked and ready to fire at the first sight of a corpse. There were four doors in the hallway and although they knew she would most likely be in one of the end rooms, still diligently searched the other rooms.
Finding nothing of interest, in any of the other three rooms the men tried turning the knob on the final door, a sturdy mahogany that had both mentally smiling and saying 'that a girl.' Finding the door to be locked, Grigio hooded at Rosso who backed away a bit as Grigio went to one side of the door. Rosso brought his foot up and kicked the door open with as much force as possible. It swung in and both men rechecked their guns quickly surveyed every corner of the room, until finally landing on the occupied bed.
More to come soon,
Mickey