Prologue
"Dad,I'm scared!" a little girl said from behind a man old enough to be her father. The girl was eleven. She had brunette hair with a gentle curl and her eyes were dark emeralds. She was wearing a flannel plaid purple and gray shirt,blue jeans and black boots. Flannel plaid shirts were her favorite type of shirts to wear. She wasn't your typical little girl. Unlike the girls in her school, she liked the outdoors,hunting,camping,fishing,anything her dad could do she could do! Likes to wear her hair down than up,she prefers to have her hair curl than straight. She was just like her father in every way. Her favorite activities are wrestling and swimming in the lake. On her first hunt,she caught a small brown rabbit with her trusty machete and claimed as HER dinner! Her trusty machete was a Christmas present her dad gave her. Her Grandma was pissed when he did that yet she let her keep it. Her Grandma was also mad about her dad nicknaming her little Ass Kicker. The machete had engravings on it. It said'To my beautiful little Ass Kicker,Love Dad'. Ever since she kept with her at all times! That was sorta about to come in handy because on this day the dead decide to rise again and eat the living in order to surive. Once you are bitten by one of them and you don't kill it after that,you become one of them or a meat pile for vultures. Her dad and she were trapped in the basement. They were huddled into a corner,blood was all over the man. A little blood was on the little girl. The man looks at the little girl and says "Alice, you see those basement doors over there?". She looked up and left of her. There were slivers of light shinning through small doors. She looked back at the man,she nodded. "When I say,run... you run!"He said in a hushed whispered. "What! But Dad I can't leave without you!"Alice said. "You have to! We will meet up at the old park. Okay?!"He says. Alice looks at him then the doors. She started to cry but nodded in reply. After the man hugged Alice,he kissed her damp cheek."We'll meet up again."he gives her a small smile,she matches the smile on the man's face. "I love you.". "I love you too." As the man walks over to the door where the dead were banging on the door violently,Alice walked over to the other doors. He held on to the handle of the door with his hand and the other with his crossbow. He nodded which meant that was her cue to run. She burst through the doors and ran as fast as she could. She regrets running away instead of helping her Father but she did as she told. She stopped because one of "them", for lack of a better word, was in front of her. These 'things' were no longer human..but..WHAT were they? It ran towards her and knocked her off her feet:knocked the breath right out of her. She caught its head just in time! As she held back this "thing" with one hand,she used her free hand to grab her machete. She stabbed the "creature" as hard as she could through its head! Suddenly,the "thing" stopped moving. Alice opened her eyes and saw that. She took her machete out of what had once been a head. Once she stood up she wondered if this was the only way to kill "them" because when her father shot one of those "things" in the heart and it didn't die. She saw a another one,it was a kid. About her age but that thing was one of the creatures. She knew what had to be done. She charged at and sliced it's head off. She looked down and saw that the jaws were still moving. She did the same thing she did with the first creature. She jammed the sharp blade between the eyes and finally it was dead. Her theory was correct,you have to destroy the brain.
She took a minute to look at the creature. The flesh was rotting,it's eyes were rolled in the back of it's head. One thing was for sure to Alice...she didn't want to become one of "them"! She remembered that she was out in the open were "they" could get her! She went back to running while killing some of "them" along the way. Finally, she found a hotel but was filled with those creatures. Nothing Alice couldn't handle! Once she dealt with all of "them",which took all day. She decided to stay in the hotel until it clears up more. Besides, it was one of those hotels that had a kitchen..and where there is a kitchen...there is food! Days later she remembered that she was suppose to meet up with her father at the old park. Though when she went to the park...he wasn't there. She killed every walker(that's what Alice decided to call them.) to be sure that he wasn't hiding behind one of them. He wasn't behind any of the walkers. Alice assumed the worse...the walkers got to him. Alice made a pit stop at what Alice once called home. She killed a couple of the walkers. There, in her father's room was a picture of her mother and father. She took it with her to the hotel. Along the way she grabbed some supplies. After she put the canned food and fruits in the mini fridge. She laid down in her bed and cried herself to sleep. Her father was dead.