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haha this is so funny but when I first started doing this fan fiction, I didn't know there was a book already out :) Ah well, it's fun to write anyways.
I walked down a dark alleyway, shrouded my shadows. The other corpses shuffling as well, with me in the lead. Although we can't communicate, we do share a similar taste in food. Traveling in packs kind of make sense, especially when everyone and their grandmother is trying to shoot you in the head all the time.
Five minutes had past and we were still walking down the same alley. God, we move slow, this could take a while.
The only part of new york we can't get into is the middle, where the humans have barricaded themselves in with a huge wall. And out the front are military guards waiting to shoot first, ask questions later so you can see why we stay away from there.
MEANWHILE INSIDE THE WALL
Julie walked past the guards, showing them her negative card and towards her father's HQ. Her friend Nora behind her, her boyfriend Perry in front of her. They were on a rescue mission to a nearby private hospital for medicine and treatments. She walked up to the digital screen, which was almost as large as a theater screen you see at the movies.
Her Dad's image came up, a pale, bald man with large crows feet on either eye. They all stood in a line, acing the screen above them.
Her father began, "Hello, and, thank-you for your service today. In the eight years since this plague destroyed out world..."
Julie lent over to Perry and whispered, "You reckon we're getting this stuff for the cure?"
Perry shook his head and returned his attention to the screen, "No one believes in the cure anymore, Jules."
"...Young volunteers like you, to gather resources from beyond the wall." Her father continued. "But first, a word of caution: Corpses.. they look human but they are not. They do not think, they do not bleed. Weather they were your mother or your best friend, they beyon your help. They are uncaring, unfeeling, incapable of remorse..."
"Sounds like anyone you know, dad." Julie muttered to herself.
"...Just picture them as this." Grigio said as the screen showed a blackened skeleton wailing a furious scream. Grigio continued, "As sons and daughters of possibly the remaining human settlement on earth, you are a critical part of what stands between us and extinction."
Julie couldn't listen anymore, she linked hands with Perry and he looked at her. he let go and guested for her to look at the screen, cowardly fear in his eyes. She watched him as he turned away, astounded.
"...Well good luck, god speed and god bless America."
Nora and Julie whispered, "USA...USA...USA..."
The doors opened and the troop squinted their eyes, guns ablaze, ready for action. Nothing. They set their guns down and walked through. It was an alley, with graffiti of how the dead will rise written on walls with paint and spray cans. Too late for that now.
"Sweet," Nora whispered.