Ch.1
~1 Year Ago~
Alaina sat at her computer doing what she usually does on a nightly basis. Watching the TV shows she can't watch on TV because she had no cable. She was leaning back, her legs propped up on a chair as she watched The Walking Dead, a zombie TV show that she had gotten into when it first aired. She heard her mom run inside the house after a smoke break and yelled at her to grab whatever she could. Alaina thought it was a joke, but did what her mom said anyways. Brylee, her neighbor and a girl she considered her sister, although they told everyone they were cousins, came running into the house, her parents and two younger brother behind her.
"Can someone tell me what is going on?" Alaina asked, pretty calm for someone who was just told to pack whatever she could.
"Alaina, the TV shows you watch are no longer just shows. They are becoming reality. Now hurry up and pack." my mom said, throwing a medium katana at me.
They had three katanas of different sizes, mostly used as decoration after an uncle had left off island and never asked for them back. Alaina's sister was already holder her knife that had blades sticking out in all kinds of directions.
"Alright, alright. This better not be some sort of sick...-" Alaina was cut off when she heard a scream come from down the hill.
She ran into her room and grabbed as much clothes as she could before zipping up the bag and running back into the living room.
"So where are we going?" Brylee asked, helping Alaina pack up canned goods that were in the house as well as fill up water jugs.
"The basin is safest. We can leave on a boat. My cousin has messaged me saying they are ready." Brylee's mom said, moving to grab some of the water jugs.
"Let's get these in the cars and leave. We'll have to go up and around in order to get out since the lower part of the street is already crawling with them." Alaina's mom said, moving to grab her bag and secure her katana on her waist.
Brylee had the smallest katana in her hand while her mom and her brother, a year younger that her, had a machete. Brylee's dad was holding a shot gun and the youngest was holding a fishing spear.
They got outside and quickly put everything in the trunks before heading towards the boat basin.
"All of our neighbors..." I said, looking behind us as the zombies tried to catch up to the car.
"I'm just glad it's not us." Brylee said, sitting down correctly in the car.
"At least your zombie apocalypse planning went the way it was supposed to Alaina. Thank god you think of weird things when you watch TV shows, otherwise we would be just like them." her mom said, pulling into the boat basin parking lot.
They parked as close as they could to the boat before unloading and getting their stuff on the boat.
"Wow, wow. I thought it was only you five? We don't have the food or water for the extra three." a man, Brylee's uncle, said moving towards us.
"They brought their own food and water. You don't have to worry about them. Just worry about getting us off this island." Brylee's mom said, making her cousin scowl.
"Where is our destination anyways?" Alaina asked, moving closer towards the cabin on the boat.
"La Paz, Mexico. There is a safe haven there." he said, moving to get back on the boat.
"Safe haven? They already have safe havens?" Alaina asked, sitting down as the boat started up.
"Guam is not the first place to be overrun by infected young lady." he said, driving us out of the basin and out into open waters.
It took a month for us to reach Mexico and it seemed as if they were expecting company. The group was lead into the safe haven and accepted with open arms.
"I'm so glad to be on land again." Brylee said, settling into their house.
Brylee, Alaina's mom, sister, and Alaina herself were put together in a house and Brylee's parents and brother were put into a separate house to even out the number of people in one house, as there was only two rooms in each house.
"I'm glad we didn't have to do any fighting. I don't think I can handle killing another person." Brylee said, settling down for their first night in the safe haven.
"Brylee, if the time ever comes, you have to be able to kill. It's either kill or be eaten and I'd rather have you kill. I'm not losing you or our family. Let's get some sleep. Tomorrow we get to meet the other survivors." Alaina said, pulling Brylee into a hug before laying down and going to sleep.
Brylee stayed close to Alaina's side most of the time, to scared to get to know anyone in case anything ever happened. Maybe that's why when it actually happened, they were the only ones to survive.
It happened pretty fast. They had been in the safe haven for a year and nothing had happened thus far. No one was prepared for a hoard to attack. The gates had fallen during dinner, the only time where everyone in the camp eats together, and soon everyone was screaming and things were falling apart. Alaina and Brylee saw their family get bitten right in front of them as they ran towards the closest house they could find.
"Remember what I said Brylee. Climb fast and don't look down." Alaina said, pulling Brylee towards the houses.
They climbed up as fast as they could, keeping their eyes on the roof before laying down flat and holding each other close until the noise stopped and the zombies were gone. They may have fallen asleep a few times, so they didn't know how much time had passed.
"Is it safe?" Brylee whispered, to scared to life her head.
Alaina lifted her head slightly, to see over the roof.
"They are all gone. It's safe, but we have to leave." Alaina said, moving to sit up.
"And go where? We don't know this country." Brylee said, grabbing onto Alaina's arm.
"We have maps. Maybe we'll find more survivors. Besides, we have the cars that were left behind. We can go up north, to Baja Cali, that's the closest place. For now, we need to get weapons, food, clothes, lots of water and we need to find the keys to the car." Alaina said, climbing off the roof carefully in case there were stray zombies around.
"What if we don't find the keys?" Brylee said, climbing down after it was clear.
"Then I guess i'll have to learn how to hot wire a car." Alaina replied, laughing lightly at Brylee's face when she said that.
They quickly grabbed the stuff they needed before grabbing a set of keys from their leaders office.
"Did you find the keys?" Brylee asked, looking around as she stood watch.
"Yeah. Now let's go find which car it belongs to and get out of here." Alaina said, throwing a duffle bag over her shoulder and heading towards the back exit.
"How are you so sure there are no zombies outside these...-" Alaina cut Brylee off by putting a finger to her mouth.
"I am not sure Bry, but we can't stay here either. Remember what I told you on our first night here? It's kill or be eaten. We are the only ones left and I can't lose you okay? We have to be strong for each other. Now let's go. We have all kinds of weapons, but we have to steer clear of using the guns unless we absolutely have to. The noise will attract more of the walkers, so we have to take them out quietly." Alaina instructed, trying to look through the small crack in the gate.
"I guess watching those zombie shows did help prepare for this. Who knew it would actually happen though..." Brylee said, standing close by.
"Yeah. I'm just glad that I actually got into The Walking Dead...I didn't like it at first. I'm glad I continued watching it though, especially now that all this has happened." Alaina said, standing up straight and pushing open the gates.
"Is it even clear?" Brylee whispered in an alarmed voice.
"From what I could see, yes. Now let's get to finding this bloody car." Alaina said, clicking the unlock button on the car before they found a Jeep Cherokee.
"Not my kind of car for the apocalypse, but at least it's secured." Brylee said, loading everything into the trunk after we reached it.
"Yeah. We should probably try and get gas out of these other cars before we leave that way we don't run out of gas in the middle of no where." Alaina said, holding up a loose gas siphon she found on the ground.
"Looks like someone else thought of that too." Brylee said, moving over to show a bunch of gas cans in the trunk.
"I guess I grabbed the right keys then huh? We should still get as much as we can. I don't want to risk anything." Alaina said, moving to open up the closet car.
After filling up three more gas containers, they headed out on the road.
~A/N: Thanks to all who read, comment, favorite and follow. This is the first chapter of many and if you haven't noticed, Alaina (pronounced: ah lai nah) and Brylee (pronounced: br-eye-lee) are the main characters. Travis and Chris are the first characters from the show that they run into, with the rest of the cast showing up later on in the story. I hope you all will like the story :)