The Walking Ed
Kentucky, 2003
Ed was not the smartest of teens in the cul-de-sac; he never did well in school. In fact, he skipped school today because even with his friends there to help him in almost every subject, he felt alone. He had just turned sixteen along with his pals Eddy and Double D. On the day's he skipped school, he would go to the comic book store and spend most of his time there, like as if it was home to him. He drove in his old corvette with the windows opened, the wind beating his green jacket and his short black hair. Ed looked down at the clock, the digital green light showed it was four thirty, he looked up and saw the turn for his school. He decided to go and pick up his friends, and turned sharply at the corner to the school.
Double D and Eddy walked out of their school, called Peach Creek High. Eddy was shorter than most of the kids he knows, and has only three hairs that stood up on his head. Everyday he would scam the other kids with Double D and Ed for Jawbreakers. Double D, wore a black sock with two white stripes on top of his head, and was the smartest of the three. He was the one that constructs the designs of the scams, and would have to build most of it himself along with Ed. Double and Eddy walked down the sidewalk.
"Eddy, I'm a little worried about Ed. He's skipped school for three days straight now." Double D said with worry in his voice. Eddy looked at his friend, he really didn't care if Ed skipped school. In fact, Eddy would join him, but the teachers have been watching him since a recent scam of their covered the gym in blue and pink paint.
"Ah, who cares? If Lumpy wants to skip school then let him." Eddy said looking up at Double D.
Then, the two teens heard a car speeding behind them. They stopped to look at the car, it was Ed's Corvette. Ed stopped the car at a screeching halt, and opened the door in a flash.
"Hop in guys." Ed said with a smile on his face. Double D and Eddy climbed in and saw the large pile of Zombie comics and Spawn books. Double D grabbed some of the pile to make room for him to sit. Eddy sat in the front with Ed, and grabbed one of the comics. The cover had a detailed and gory drawing of a zombie eating a person. Eddy threw it back in the pile and looked at Ed as he began to move the car. They drove down the road, heading to Ed's house.
The three teens parked them selves on the couch in the living room, turning on the TV to the G4 channel. Double D didn't really like the G4 channel, he felt that video games were a waist of time. But the only time he would watch something on the channel was when they played a James Bond movie. Eddy was reading the TV guide looking for something good to watch, Ed was just flipping through the channels. Double D noticed that nobody was home except for them. He turned to Ed.
"Ed, where's your parents?" Double D asked.
"I don't know Double D, but mom said she was cooking dinner for us." Ed said a little confused.
Eddy noticed something on the news channel as Ed continued to flip through the different programs.
"Wait, Wait, Ed go back to the News channel."
A news anchor man with age etched into his face appeared on the screen, the picture of a police officer is seen on the TV. A female voice is heard. "And in other news, Officer Rick Grimes was shot in a car chase with fellow officer Shane Walsh. The two policemen were trying to stop an escapee from a prison in the county." Then the screen changed with the captions: "THE DEAD HAS RISIEN!" The others looked at the screen.
"This is Geoff Williams reporting. We have been given a warning to not go outside. From what eyewitnesses have said is that dead people have attacked them and their friends and has spread around the states. Until further notice, stay inside yours homes."
The screen then went blank. The teens looked at each other dumb founded. The other kids are still not even close to their homes and a viral outbreak of some kind has happened. Ed got up and looked outside the window. What he saw struck fear into his body. A swarm of dead people, or walkers in the books Ed reads, are wandering around outside. Double D noticed Ed shaking, and got up to see what he was freaking out for.
"What is it Ed?" Double D asked concerned.
"Z-Z-Z-ZOMBIES!" Ed said in panic.
"What, this is real! Holy shit! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? Eddy said getting scared by the minute looking out the door.
Ed then ran to the door, and locked it. His friends followed his example and closed the windows and quickly cover the blinds. They then ran down stairs to Ed's room to go block off the window near his desk.
Ed grabbed a small amount of nails and a hammer. Fear began to creep up on him as he realized that Sarah was still out there. But he shook it off and focused on what's going on. Double D and Eddy grabbed some boards from the garage, and ran back into Ed's room. They handed Ed the boards one by one as he quickly nailed them down, blocking any chance for a walker to get in.
Soon they remained quiet and sat in the kitchen table, eating some sandwiches, trying to get their minds off what's going on outside. Ed felt terrible for leaving his sister out there with the walkers, but he has to stay inside for his survival.
"SockHead, do you think this will go away soon?" Eddy asked.
"Well. From what we saw, it might be awhile." Double D said to Eddy still eating his sandwich. Ed was staring at the door, obviously wanting to go out and look for his sister.
"Ed she'll be fine. I'm sure the others are safe inside their houses, besides she's probably at Jimmy's house." Double D said trying to comfort Ed about his sister. Then a hard knock on the door was heard. The Ed's jumped up from their seats. Eddy walked up to it and peeked through the hole to see who it was. It was Sarah and Rolf, and zombies were closing in on them fast.
"Who is it Eddy?" Ed asked, wanting to know whom it is.
"It's Sarah and Rolf. Ed grab something to hit the zombies with just in case." Eddy said still looking through the hole. Ed ran into the garage and grabbed an axe his dad uses for firewood. Ed ran back as soon as he had gone to the garage. Ed got to the front of the door and readied the axe. Ed nodded to Eddy to open it, and instantly Sarah and Rolf jumped in the house. But the Zombies were coming in the house. A zombie was about to grab Rolf as he was getting up, but Ed smacked the blade of the Axe Square into the zombie's head. Blood, and bones flew up and chunks of bones hit the group.
"Ed more are coming!" Double D said trying to help Eddy close the door. Ed side chopped a zombies scalp off, as it was trying to crawl into the house. Eddy and Double D opened the door and Ed kicked the corpse out of the path of the door. A zombie from the side of the door then grabbed Ed, and it was pulling Ed out. "Shit! Shit! Shit!" Ed said trying to push the zombie off him. Double D looked at the axe Ed had dropped, and grabbed it. "Rolf, help Eddy with the door, and keep it closed once I'm out. Once I help Ed, we'll come back in through the back door." Double D said running out the door. Eddy and Rolf closed it with all their might, taking some zombie limbs off as the door closed.
Ed was laying on the ground with the same zombie on him, it was getting closer and closer to eating him. But more zombies were starting to form around Ed, so Double D had to act fast. Double
D ran at the small group and cuts one of the zombie's head in half. Double D pulled the axe out of the zombie's head and took the scalp off of one that was coming toward him. The zombie went limp and bumped into some of the others before hitting the ground, and it gave Double D an opening. "Hang on Ed!" Double D yelled as he smacked the back of the Zombies head with the bloody axe. Ed pushed the corpse off him and sprang up on his feet. Double D looked back behind them. Not many zombies were there. "Ed this way!" Double D said running to the back, avoiding the zombies. Ed followed and was quickly in the back. Ed grabbed a baseball bat that his sister left out before he and Double D went into the house.
Sarah was so happy to see Ed all right and not hurt by the walkers. She hugged him and was genuinely worried for him. Eddy walked up to Rolf, and got his attention. "Hey Stretch why are you and Sarah here in the first place, especially if it's this bad?" Rolf sat down on the couch and looked at the door. "Kevin sent Rolf and Ed boys sister to get you. He said we need all the man power we got." Rolf said. Double D rested the axe on the kitchen table. "Where are they then Rolf?" Double D asked. Rolf knew that they weren't going to like the answer. "T-The Kanker's house." Eddy exploded then, the last place he wanted to be at was the Kanker house. "No way! I'm not going there! No way in hell!" Eddy said walking around in a blind fury. Ed stopped Eddy in his tracks, and grabbed him by the shoulders. "But we don't have much of a choice Eddy, the zombies are already breaking through." Eddy knew that Ed was right, at the rate the zombies were growing, the house won't be able to protect them for much longer. Eddy sighed, then agreed.
The Ed's grabbed some backpacks to carry some supplies, food, water, and weapons. Since Ed's father didn't have any guns, they had to use items like the axe, the baseball bat, and some of the tools that didn't use electricity to run. Sarah and Rolf each carried a hammer and a golf putter. "Okay, lets take a short cut through the forest so we can try and loose some of these monsters and cut our travel time in half." Double D said, about to open the door. As Double D opened the door the group swung at the zombies with their weapons and ran like hell. In just a short time the town was in disarray, bodies laid everywhere, cars were flipped and on fire and zombies roamed all over the streets. They turned down the side of the street and ran even faster when they saw the woods near by. Ed hit an on the neck, decapitating it. They soon made it into the forest.
The forest was thick and dark, it didn't really help that the sun was going down, but the Ed's and the others have to make it to the Kanker house. Ed looked back and saw a large amount of zombies coming at them. "RUN GUYS!" Ed yelled as they tried to stay ahead of the zombies. The run felt like forever to Ed and his friends, like as if time had froze in place. They went to cross the river, hoping it would stop the zombies from chasing them. They soon crossed, and a flash of light beamed on them from the right. "FREEZE!" Yelled a gruff voice. The sounds of guns cocking made fear rise in the group. "Don't even think of running away." The Ed's didn't care they ran away toward the waterfall, Sarah and Rolf ran into the direction of the Kanker house. "What do they want SockHead?" Eddy asked running with what energy he's got left. "I don't know, just run!" The Ed's were forced to stop as they reached the end of the river to the waterfall. They looked down, then looked back at the on coming soldiers and zombies. Ed whispered to his friends. "Jump when I say guys." The others looked at him like he was nuts. The soldiers stopped, and pointed their guns at the teens. "Prepare to fire. Three… Two…" The general was cut off, as Ed yelled for his friends to jump off into the water below. They fell at great speed, with their screams echoing through the small town. The last thing Ed remembers from falling was hitting the icy water below…