Chapter 1: The Beginning
Gumball and Darwin were at home playing a video game while Anais was reading a book about physics. Nicole, their hard-working mom, was making dinner while Richard, their lazy father, was sleeping on the couch. As Nicole finished making the food she shouted," Dinner's ready!" and everyone quickly came to the table. Gumball was about to take a bite of his food when suddenly there was a thud at the door. "What was that?" asked Darwin. "I'll get it," said Gumball with a sigh of annoyance. As he approached the door there was another thud. Gumball opened the door and stared in shock at a man with at least a quarter of his face ripped off. The man groaned and walked towards Gumball. "Who are you?!" he exclaimed in fear. The man groaned again and Nicole ran to where Gumball was standing and said," Who are you and what do you want?!" He responded in another groan and reached his arms out to Gumball. All of a sudden, a knife stabbed into its head from behind. Blood seeped out of the place it was stabbed and it fell revealing the person behind. It was Mr. Fitzgerald. As he took the knife out of its head he said," Come with me, this area isn't safe." " What the hell is going on here? Who was that man?" asked Nicole. " It was a zombie," said Mr. Fitzgerald cleaning the blood off his knife with a white towel." If you get bitten, then you're good as dead. You get infected by that disease they carry and become one of them, the undead. No one knows yet what caused this zombie outbreak, but we've got to survive until rescue arrives, which might not even happen. In the meantime, why don't you come with us. We want to find as many survivors as possible." " Where exactly are we headed?" asked Anais. " At least out of the city," answered Mr. Fitzgerald. " Gumball and Darwin, you can sit with Penny. Anais, you can just sit on Gumball's lap. Nicole and Richard, you can sit in the back. First, we're going to the school to see if anyone decided to go there to survive. We have to hurry before it's too late." Everyone got in their spots in the car and Mr. Fitzgerald started driving. As he drove, they passed by tons of zombies. He was careful not to hit them or else it would slow the car down or damage it too much. They made it to the school, but before they went in Mr. Fitzgerald gave them each a pistol (even Anais)." Where did you get these?" asked Gumball." Dead police," said Mr. Fitzgerald," When we get in the school, shoot all the zombies in the head. It is the only way to kill them. You could also burn them, but we don't have molotovs or anything like that." He opened the doors to the school and they held they're guns up ready to fire. One zombie was walking down the hallway and Gumball quickly shot it in the side of the head. Gumball looked in all the classrooms, but all he saw were zombies in each room. He shot them all and headed for the auditorium. He went inside and saw all of his classmates. Everyone stared in fear, but then their face showed relief as they realized Gumball wasn't a zombie. One of them, Tobias, then asked," Is there rescue yet?We've been waiting here for a long time." Gumball responded," No, and there probably won't be. We might have to survive without their help." Gumball then lead them out of the auditorium, knowing that it was safe in the school since all the zombies inside were killed. Mr. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Penny, Nicole, Richard, Anais, and Darwin met up with Gumball and the other students at the exit of the school. They decided to steal five cars from the parking lot of the school (each of the five adults drives one car) and head for somewhere to spend the night. They drove until they found a pharmacy. They got out of the car and prepared to kill the zombies in the store. Nicole opened the doors and they went in and eliminated them all. When it got dark they locked the doors and slept on the floor. Gumball was awake, unlike everyone else. He was thinking about the next day and what it would bring.