Early in the morning I decided to go for a run I had recently been disscharged from the millitary, though i took my job very seriously i wanted to enjoy my first week of freedom in the arms of mother nature. i jogged for maybe a mile or so before coming up on a well known local cherch out in front I see a women face down on the ground I run over to check on her but as I get close I notice she's wearing a wedding dress that apears to be staned in away i relise something just aint right.I scan the area but the roads are vacant. thats odd i think Wheres her husband as matter of fact i have'nt seen a single soul all morning. normaly by this time the roads are flooded with people going back and forth to work.

I get on the ground to check on her but as I do she snarls at me. "Whoa! Calm down little missy I'm only here to help." I say to her. She quites down and I move to get a closer look. Underneath her I noitce a white male about 138 pounds with a buzz cut wearing a tux. "Well well...looks like I'm intrupting a honymoon." I chuckle at my joke but then I see that the guy has strange indents on his neck.

"Bite marks?" I think "That dosen't make sence...unless these two are into that sort of that thing. i glance back over at the women to check for any wounds or any thing that might be out of the ordinary next to her i notice a broken vile fear set in. "I need to get these two some help." i muttered geting up to dial 911. I press the phone to my ear and wait pationtly for it to ring, nothing but a high pitched static flows out of the speaker. "Hmm, thats odd" I quietly think to my self "Its almost as if the entire world desided to take a vacation."

I hang up and turn around trying to call a friend of mine to see if he could be of any help. Yet again theres static but this time I hear bits and pieces of speach. "Victor" I manage to make out through the squal of noise "Meet...diner...fith...stone." I think for a moment. "Does he want me to meet him at the diner on the fith of stone avenue?" "Axel you there?" I yell into the phone. More static and silence answerd my question.

I began to lower my phone when out of the blue it produced a head spliting squeal. I let go and covered my ears,my phone hit the concreat pavement with a thud " Fuck!What the hell was that?" I around I knelt down to pick up my phone when something cought my eye. Quickly, I spun around to make sure my eyes where'nt deceiving me what used to be a cuple was now lacking something...the women was no longer there. "Miss" I yelled out :Miss are you there? I looked around for any sign of her "man this day keeps getting strang...er." Footsteps echoed from behind me. I turned just in time to see the young lady lunge at me.

I take a step back tiripping over my own two feet. She let out a howl as she falls on top of me. I press my arm against her kneck holding her at snaps and snarls, I could see bits of flesh dangleing fom her teeth. I reach back feeling for anything I could use as a look in her eyes was blank, the sadness, the anger, the agany, it was as if a thousend soles where crying out for help. Finnaly I grabbed hold of a crowbar gripping it tight. In the distance I notice the silhouette of A man approching. "get off me bitch" I yell as I swing the crowbar forward smacking her across the face.

Letting out a grown she falls to the side motionless. Springing to my feet I charge the young man driving the crowbar into his skull. I sit there for a momment gathering my thoughts. My hands covered with a thin layer of blood. "Not again" I whispered "this cant be happaning." I stumble to my feet, It was then that i reilized the stagaring bodies that where aproching me. The same blank look streched acrossed all of there faces.

" I need to get to the diner, at this point its my only hope." I think to myself as I look around and take a step back. "No time to waist." I whispered as I take off in a full sprint towards the diner. "I just hope I get there in time." I think to myself. I keep running getting closer to some more of what might be the undead. I raise the crowbar preparing to knock somemore heads while I run. "Its just around the corner." I think to myself. "Lets just hope I make it there in one peace." As I turn the corner I feel out stretched arms relizing I excapted death by only a few inches, I deside to glance behind me.

I bash in the skulls of a few of the younger looking 'things' as I keep running. "There's got to be at least a few hundred of them swarming behind me. It's like the cries of pain from those I killed was a dinner bell." I think. The diner is a nice place but the more I think about it the more I realize it's a health hazard. If enough of these creatures pile themselfvs against the glass it will surely crumble under their weight. Just ahead I see the diner the parking lot is empty exept for some junked cars and a few of those creatures. As I approch the front door I ready my crowbar prepairing myself for anything. Quickly I bolt for the door rushing inside. I wedge the crowbar between the handles, sealing the door shut.

I stand there with my back against the door trying to catch my breath. Behind me I hear them throw their bodies against the glass. "Where the hell is he?" I mumble. I began to scan the diner for suplies. Weapons, Food, maybe even a few survivers. I take a few steps forward and call out to any survivers that may be in the building. The lights in the diner flicker making me feel a bit uneasy. Looks like there was a strugle here i think as i notice some over turned tabls. behind me i hear the glass begin to crack making me jump a little. great this is exactly what i didnt want i mumbled to my self.

Just then i hear gun shots followed by the screatching of tires. I look towered the back of the diner where there was a second set of doors. It must have been where they unloaded there suplies for there was no parking lot just a path leading up and arround the building. In no time at all a heavy set Ford f250 came sliding arround the it came to grinding halt i noticed the silhouette of two men climb out of the truck.

Shots ring out as one of the men burst threw the door. The light blinds me for a secound but as my eyes come into focous i see my old pal joe standing in the door way."Victor lets go" he shouts, behind me i hear the shatering of glass i take off sprinting towred the back of the diner. Halfway threw i glance behind me the front of the diner is no longer visable. It is hard to make out any faces among the stampeading heard of bodies. All i could see was a hounded eyes of lost soles pearing at me threw the dim lit building. With each step the lights flickered more and more. I gather every ounce of strangth left in my body and lung for the door.

I lay on the ground dazed gasping for air.I hear the door slam behind me as more shots ring out. I look up my vision blurry i can barly make out the face of the secound silhouette now standing over me. Axel? i say not quite sure of myself. I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and take a minit to clear my head. When i open them again i see an out stretched arm. "This is no time for a nap Victor get your ass up" yells axel over the roaring gunfire. I reach up and grab his hand as he pulls me to my feet.I glance over at Joe to see that hes leaning against the dinner door his arms stretched across the glass pane.

On the other side of the door a mountain of bodys thrashed violently smashing into the glass over and over. Each time they let out an ear piercing wine."Victor, you ok?" asked Axel. I look over at him "I'm fine" I replied as I made my way slowly to the passangers side of the truck. Behind me i hear the glass shatter i spun arround to see joe sprinting for the truck. I watch as one by one the bodys slowly crawled over the broken glass and out of the diner. They let out an angry hiss before chargeing after him. Axel jumped in and fired up the trucks engine "Lets go" he yelled as he stuck his head out the window and fired off a few shots into the crowd

joe leaped into the air bounding off the rear of the truck and landing square in the bed. i jumped for the door and flung it open.I felt a hand grab my left arm i quickly shuved it away as i leap in side the truck. tires sqeal as we speed off out of the parking lot and onto the road.i reached over and turned on the radio. nothing but static axel played with the stations for a bit until finnaly a womens voice came threw faintly at first but then it got clearer. Eergancy Brodast the womens voice repeaded that about 3 or 4 times then she contenued "stay in doors do not leave your homes" her voice begans to fade axel plays with the radio a bit more until the brodcast comes back this time we hear gun shots followed by the voice of a man

"THE DEAD WALK "HE YELLS off in the disance you can hear a strugle, then screams blood curdling screams. As the brodcast fades we all sit in silence aw sruck at what we had just heard. i glance over at axel he just stared at the road with a blank expresion on his face. so where we headed victor he mumbled. i look out the window my families old place i replied why there he asked. i look over at him i just need to pick up a few things i said as i turned to stare back out the window. i watch the horizen as the sky began to grow dark. "looks like its going to rain" shouted joe. i let out a sigh and watched as the creatures lunged at the truck while we drove by. exhousted from all the running and close calls i close my eyes and with in minuts i was fast asleep.