Chapter I

Elliot Greene awoke to two sounds; two sounds that would change her life, her plans, her future, and her views on the world as she knew it.

The first sound was the loudest. It was a sound she had heard before, one that would have struck fear into the hearts of almost every other person on the planet. Elliot knew this sound all too well. The cacophony of wails, screams, and moans were unmistakably those of the living dead, and Elliot was well educated in the department of zombies. Her position in the CIA's covert department of the study and annihilation of the zombie race had taken her to places and situations overrun with the living dead, and she knew them better than probably any other person on Earth.

That sound she was prepared for; her entire house was built solely on the precedent that it must be fit for a zombie outbreak and attack. And so it was, with its ten foot concrete walls, reinforced steel walls, and first rate security system, this building was a good place to be when there were thousands of zombies howling outside your bedroom window.

And Elliot's first thought was one of pride in herself at accomplishing all this, and a feeling of confidence in the fact that she could survive this.

But those thoughts were scrambled by the second sound.

The sound of two voices saying two words.

Two words that began a series of events that would alter Elliot's life forever.

As Elliot opened her eyes, she heard the two words spoken from the two people standing at the foot of her bed. In unsion, the woman with the microphone and the man with the camera said,

"Day One."