Chapter 3:

With the Eds:

"Hurry sockhead!" Eddy exclaimed as he held Ed's basement window open while Ed dived in.

"Eddy, I believe I should go home and gather some medical suplies, you know for emergancies" Double D replied as he smiled at Eddy.

"Are you kidding me sockhead! What if one of those things gets to you!?" " Eddy yelled as he looked around catiously.

"Worry not Eddy, my house should be vacant and all I have to do is not make a sound, while I gather suplies, it should be over quicker than you can say human antonomy" Double D said as he started walking towards his house.

"Grr~, just be careful sockhead!" Eddy yelled in a rare worried tone as he went in Ed's basement window.

"...Will do Eddy" Double D said with a smile as he stealthily made his way home.

"Alright lumpy, it's just me and you until sockhead comes back with his stuff, so let's hurry and find Sarah so we can get this over with" Eddy grumbled as he walked upstairs with his gun in his left hand.

"Roger that, Eddy" Ed replied as he waved his rench in the air and mistankinglky clunked his head.

"Sigh~, whatever let's go" Eddy said as he slowly opened the door, which led to the Kitchen.

"Sarah! Big brother is here! Where are you?!" Ed yelled out as he ran upstairs towards his sister's room.

"Lumpy! Be quiet will ya!" Eddy yelled angrily as he chased after Ed up the stairs.

"Baby Sister!" Ed exclaimed as he broke open the pink locked door.

"Ugh, Ed you blockhead! What are you yelling and breaking open my door for!?" Sarah shouted tiredly as she angrily emerged from her bed.

"No time baby sister! We must hurry and go before the dead comes to feast on our flesh!" Ed exclaimed as he grabbed Sarah's baby blue bookbag and handed it to her.

"What the heck are you talking about?!" Sarah yelled as she glared at Ed.

"What you didn't see the news?" Eddy said shocked as he walked in the room.

"What are you two idiots talking about?!" Sarah growled as she glared at Ed and Eddy for an answer.

"Cheh~, I'll show you loud mouth!" Eddy growled back as he grabbed Sarah's arm and dragged her towards their living room TV.

"What's the TV has to do with this?!" Sarah yelled annoyed and still tired from being awaken.

"It's on the news and keep your voice down! We might have already gathered their attention" Eddy whispered as he turned the television on.

~5 minutes later~

"Is... Is this one of your scams Eddy?" sarah said as she stared at the television and disbelief.

"I wish it was... I would've made a killing" Eddy half heartedly joked as he showed Sarah his gun.

"Give me a few minutes to pack up..." Sarah said as she ran upstairs.

"Baby sister..." Ed said trying to comfort her, even though Sarah seemingly hated Ed, Ed's love for her as his sister never faltered.

"Just give her some time to breath Lumpy"

*Knock* Knock* Knock* The door sounded which startled Ed and Eddy.

"Phew~, oh yeah it should be sockhead with his stuff" Eddy said in relief as he opppened the front door to reveal Double D with a brown messenger bag.

"Double D!" Ed shouted as he grabbed Edd to give him a great big bear hug.

"Gah~, See Eddy, that wasn't so bad" Double D said as squirmed out of Ed's hold and closed the door behind him quitely, "Where is Sarah?".

"She's upstairs packing up, she took the news pretty hard" Eddy said as he stared at Double D and noticed that he was sweating profusely.

"Oh my... Well she had to be alerted before something bad would've happened, so we should hurry and leave the cul-de-sac" Double D said with a nervous smile.

"What?! I thought we all agreed to gather all of the others and stay in one house?!" Eddy yelled shocked, that Double D suggested to leave their safe haven. "Besides! We should have a lot of food if we gather up the food from all the other houses".

"Eddy... I took a look through my telescope at home and saw a plethora of those... walkers heading towards the cul-de-sac and by caculation in which the time they should arrive based on their walking speed, they should be here at 12:06 at night".

"So that means..."

"Yes Eddy, we would be trapped in one house while those horrid creatures are outside on our front door step waiting for us to run ot of food, starve and make a single noise in which they would attack" Double D said with a crestfallen expression as he told the bad news.

"Shit.. can things get any worse?" Eddy said as he sat on the floor with a defeated look.

"Umm, Eddy I wouldn't be saying that sort of phrase given the type of situation we are in" Double D said as he sat next to Eddy and Ed sat next to Double D.

"Sigh~, what time is it sockhead?"

"5:32 Eddy"

"Grr, fine! Let's get the others, gather some food and leave" Eddy said as he stood up and walked upstairs, "Sarah! What's taking ya so long!"

"Shut up Eddy! I'm trying to call Jimmy!" Sarah yelled back as she redialed the number again for the sixth time.

[Dials: XXX-XXX-XXXX]

Ring* Ring* Ring* Ring*Riiiing*

The number you have call-

"Grah!" Sarah growled angrily as she threw her phone at the wall and broke it. "Jimmy..."

"Wait so Jimmy is not home?!" Eddy yelled as he burst through the door while Ed and Double D stood behind him.

" I wouldn't be calling him if he was!" Sarah yelled back with teary eyes.

"Umm...Sarah? May I inquire on Jimmy's whereabouts?" Double D asked as he laid both his hands on Sarah's shoulders while staring into Sarah's eyes.

"Sniff, he's with Johnny and Rolf in the forest camping, Jimmy said that they're having an Urban rangers meeting" Sarah replied as she wiped her eyes and calmed down slightly.

"The forest... Which is right by the Park-N-Flush!" Double D yelled excitedly as he thought of a plan.

"The Park-N-Flush? What does that pla-". Eddy's face paled. "Wait! Your not planning on getting "them" are you sockhead?!" Eddy yelled in horror as he realised what Double D was planning.

"Of course! I know they've caused trouble before but we have to warn them of the upcoming danger! Do you want to be responsible for letting their blood be shed, even though you had the chance to save them!?" Double D stated more than questioned as he glared at Eddy.

Eddy looked away defeated. "Fine sockhead. But I'm not gonna like it". Eddy said as he prepared to head out.

"Who are you guys talking about?" Sarah asked as she got a bit nervous from Eddy's reaction.

Eddy turned to face them. His expression was that of annoyance and fear. He began to sweat nervously as he spoke.

"The Kanker Sisters..."

With the Kankers Sisters:

Marie paced back and forth in the living room with a worried look on her face, Lee laid down in the couch, her left arm covering her eyes while her right hand held onto her cigarette, May sat on their sofa with her head in her hands. They all decided to listen to their mom and wait, but Lee decided to set a time limit to 1 hour before heading out.

"Where the hell is she? She should've been here by now!" Marie exclaimed as she plopped down on the couch next to Lee. Their mother had yet to come home from her job in the city and they were beginning to worry.

They were especially worried considering that they knew what was out there.

"You don't think that they got to her do you?" May asked, while fresh tears rolled down her face.

"I'm sure she's fine, you guys just need to calm down and wait for her to come home". Lee stated as she took another drag of her cigarette. She was worried about her mom, but she had to stay calm in front of her sisters, and plus her mom was the strongest person she knew so she had faith in her strength but that still didn't make her not worry.

"Aren't you worried Lee?! Our mother is out there by herself and those things could be hurting her!" Marie yelled as she got in Lee's face.

Lee blew the remaining smoke from her mouth onto Marie's face. Marie growled and balled up her fist as she glared at her sister who was taking another drag of her cigarette.

"What use is there in panicking?". Lee stated simply. "Of course I'm worried, but someone has to be leveled headed and not run blindly into danger". She continued.

"Well I'm not gonna sit around while Mom is in danger! I'm going out there, and I'm gonna find her!" Marie exclaimed, shocking her two sisters into silence.

Lee sighed as she crushed the burning end of her cigarette in her now almost full ash tray. It was an unhealthy way of dealing with stress, but she needed it at the moment.

"I guess I have to come with ya and make sure you're okay". She said as she picked up her rifle and slung her duffle bag over her shoulder. But Marie and May somehow saw that Lee was getting impatient too even though she acted as though she wasn't.

"I'll come too!" May shouted as she went to the closet and grabbed a large hammer. The hammer looked far too heavy for Lee or Marie to swing around freely but May had an unique stregth, but not as unique as Ed's.

They headed out the front door and towards the city, making sure to stay in the shadows. They kept their guard up and kept their eyes out for any of those things. Lee took point, Marie held up the rear, and May took the middle.

They had reached the city in a matter of minutes and were sticking to the the alleyways, as the infected littered the streets and sidewalks. The event that made them discover something about them still burned into their mind.

FLASHBACK:

May, Marie, and Lee sat in an alleyway tired from running from them as Lee mistankingly made a trash can fall over which alerted a couple of them and forced them to fight some off and run. But that situation did had a bright side to it, they all discovered that the infected was mostly attracted to sound, and in which made them become more alert into what they run into.

"Mom's salon shouldn't be far from here. We should be there in few minutes at most".

They all nodded to eachother and got up from their spots.

END FLASHBACK...

They were closing in on their mother's salon. May looked around at the now ruined city. Cars littered the streets, some were turned over, some were on fire, other had dent doors and shattered windows. Glass, debris, dead bodies and blood covered the ground. Plumes of smoke from burning buildings cascaded the girls in darkness as it covered the sky.

"Are we almost there? Cuz' this place gives me the creeps". May shook as they stealthily made their way through the streets of peach creek.

They arrived at their destination with no problems and looked inside the windows to see that bodies were all over the floor with gun shots in their head, but they had to make sure that their mother was in there and that she was okay.

They pulled the door open and stepped into the salon. The smell of iron was strong in the air. Blood stains and seven bodies littered the ground and the three girls stood frightened. There was a woman that was hunched over on the ground in front of them. She was the only one groaning and her back was to them.

"Ar..are you alr...alright m..m..ma'am?" May stuttered as she advance towards the woman.

"May! Don't!" Marie and Lee whisper yelled as May continued. She place a hand on the lady's shoulder.

She soon regretted it as the lady turned around and pushed her over. Her mouth was covered in blood, her skin was a grey color, and her eyes... Her eyes were white and held no life.

May held in her scream so she wouldn't attract more of them as the women crawled onto of her and tried to take a bit out of her arm. The lady was met with metal as Marie's bat collided with her face.

The thing flew back as it's head hit the ground with a loud thud. Marie ran over to it and began to bash it's head with the bat repeatedly.

"You... Will... Not... Hurt... My... Sister... You... BITCH!" She yelled between grunts.

When she was done swinging her bat, the ladie's head had caved in and she was limp and lifeless as Lee walked over to May to comfort her.

Marie walked around the salon and searched for their mother. "Mom? Mom? Are you here?" She called out.

She looked down and took notice of the drops of blood and the bloody footprints that led to the bathroom. She called out to Lee and May and told them to follow her as she advanced towards the bathroom. She stopped at the door and took note if the bloody handprint on the door knob.

As far as she knew, these things weren't very smart so she doubted that they were able to open doors. She took a deep breath and opened the door, but nothing could've prepared her for the sight she was met with.

Her mother, sat on the ground with her back against the wall while her gun layed on her lap. She trembled and sat in a puddle if blood, her neck was ripped open and she tried desperately to stop the bleeding with paper towels, that were now soaked with her blood.

She was pale, and blood dropped from her chin, evidence that she had been throwing up blood. She looked up to her kids and gave them a weak smile.

"My little girls". She whispered as her bloodshot eyes watered.

Marie fell to her knees as tears rolled down her cheeks and fell from her chin. 'We were too late, they got her'.

May hid her face in Lee's shoulder and cried.

"Girls. I love you so much. I've watched you grow and mature and I wanted to see you girls turn into grown and independent women so badly... I was pushing you so you wouldn't grow up like me. I wanted you to be the best you could be". She said in a strained voice. I'm sorry. But I have one last request, and I know it's selfish of me but I want you to end me. I'm in pain, and I'll rather die by my daughters hands than to be one of those disgusting things out there. I need you to do me in, quick and painless if you can". She whispered, her smile was now gone and the tears now rolled freely down her face.

Her words sunk into her daughters' heads. Marie was about to object but Lee stopped her in her tracks.

"Mom... We love you. We always have and always will. We will come back, to give you a proper funeral". Marie said as she and May sobbed and Lee stood there with her fist balled up tightly while tears silently went down her face.

"Thank you girls. I can rest in peace". She closed her eyes and smiled.

Marie dragged May from the room so she wouldn't have to see this as Lee stood there and closed the door, and relunctandly raised her rifle towards her as her hands shook.

"You're a strong girl Lee watch over your little sisters. Make sure you and your sisters grow up to be responsible adults. I know you can do it, I love you girls so much". Her mother said and awaited death's cold hand.

Lee's finger gripped the trigger and pulled. A single gun shot was heard and Lee quickly left the room to avoid looking at her mother's corspe for a second longer. She sat in one of the salon chairs and styled her hair out into a curly bun with her mom's strunchie. Lee stood in front of the mirror, her two light blue crystal eyes now revealed with anger and sorrow as she looked at herself and remembered her mother's last words.

'I love you girls so much...'