Deltora Quest 2020: Dead Arising


Summary: The year is 2020. Lief, Barda and Jasmine are alone in Deltora, yet not alone. They are faced by hordes of flesh-eating zombies which have taken all of Deltora. Can they survive and leave the land of the dead?

T for blood and gore

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Deltora or related in this story.

The three companions walked down the hallway, and they could see through the windows, soldiers getting killed by extremely fast zombies. The zombies tore the soldiers to shreds. Lief looked away, sickened by the sight. They walked on the edge of the building.

"Wait," Lief said. "I thought we were on the first floor..."

Jasmines looked out the window and realized they were higher up than they should have been.

"That thing probably transported us up here," she replied.

"Anyway," Barda started. "We need to move, fast. I don't like the looks of those zombies."

They kept walking, then heard a hellish moan. Lief went to one knee, rubbing his temple. The sound hurt him, but he managed to pull up his weapon. Everything went quiet, as if the world was holding its breath. Lief looked around, and he heard another moan. Then another. And even more. The three kept quiet as the moans receded. A small shuffling sounded behind them, Barda whipped around, aiming a AK-74. Lief looked around, then suddenly a zombie charged at him, knocking him into the window. Jasmine shot it quickly, with a bullet to its head. It fell out the building, the glass window shattering. Moans echoed throughout the building, and more shuffling sounded through the rooms.

"I think we are in a small situation," Barda said. "RUN!"

They didn't need to be told twice. Barda followed Lief and Jasmine down the hallway, as zombies charged out of offices behind them. The companions sprinted to the elevator, shooting. Lief quickly pressed the button, and the elevator rose...slowly. Lief turned and fired, but it just clicked. Lief reloaded, and looked at the clip. No ammo. Lief placed the clip back, and pulled out his pistol.

"I'm out of ammo!" Jasmine yelled. She dropped her Uzi and pulled out a pistol. Barda kept shooting, the zombies falling. The zombies kept pressing forward, and they got closer to Barda. The elevator opened, revealing a few more zombies.

"Crap!" Lief yelled, shooting the zombies. The zombies fell, and Lief threw the bodies, which were surprisingly light, at the other zombies. Lief and Jasmine went to one knee, shooting the zombies going to Barda. Barda ran into the elevator, and shut the door.

Lief rested against the elevator wall, sweat running down his forehead. The zombies hit the doors, but couldn't get through. Barda pressed the button to the ground floor. The elevator slowly descended, and Lief reloaded. Jasmine breathed heavily, and aimed her pistol at the door.

"Before we leave, we need to figure out where to go." she said. "I heard all helicopters at the airport are gone, but what about other cities?"

"We need weapons and ammo first," Barda said. "There is a gunshop near the city's old walls. But that could take nearly a day on foot."

"But if it does take a day," Lief started. "Any evacuation could be gone. We need to find a car or something."

The doors slowly slid open. Surprisingly, the lobby was clear of zombies. Lief aimed his pistol, and saw a rotting corpse on a rug beside him. Lief turned, and aimed at it.

"It's dead." someone said.

Lief, Barda, and Jasmine turned around, aiming at three survivors. One was an old man, armed with an M16. Another was a boy a little older than Lief, with scars covering his face, armed with a R700 sniper. The last one was a girl, about Lief's age also, with a M14.

"Who are you?" Lief asked.

"I am Joe," the old man said. He points to the boy. "This is my grandson, Nick, and the other is my granddaughter, Sarah."

"I am Lief," Lief said. He gestured to his friends. "This is..."

"Barda and Jasmine?" Joe asked. "I know because you are king, obviously."

"I guess so." Lief replied.

"Come this way. We overheard you in the elevators, looking for a gunshop. There is one close by."

"Ok."

Lief, Barda, and Jasmine follow Joe. His grandchildren follow, weapons ready. Joe goes to a side door, and puts his ear to it.

"Clear," he said. "Go."

He opens the door, and aims his weapon. The grandchildren run out to the left alleyway, away from the street. Lief looks out the door, and sees zombies walk the streets. The wind blows an eerie sound through the city. The zombies moan.

Gunfire is heard, and a man runs across the alley. The zombies grab him, and bite into him, ripping out his organs, and tearing into him.

"Go." Joe whispers to Lief.

Lief carefully walks out, and follows the grandchildren, who are sitting at the end of the alley, near a door. Jasmine follows Lief, and Barda creeps out last.

Barda trips, and the door creaks.

The zombies look up, moaning and roaring.

"GO! GO! GO!" Joe yells. For an old man, he runs fast. Barda catches up to Lief, who fires at the zombies. The zombies sprint down the alley. Adrian opens a wooden door, and shoots a zombie's head off. Sarah and Jasmine run into a room, with everyone else following. Joe shuts the door and zombies hit it. Lief looks up, and sees gun racks everywhere.

Joe sits on a wooden chair.

"I can't believe it..." he said. "What are those things?"

"Zombies." Barda said. "We do not how they got here, but they came from within the palace."

"I knew this day would come," Joe said. "Now. Let's find a radio."

Lief grabbed more M4A1 ammo, and Jasmine grabbed more Uzi ammo. Joe pulls up a radio and puts it on a marble counter. He twists the dial.

"This is channel 94.3, we are on EBM, or Emergency Broadcast Mode. If you are listening, you need to evacuate Del now! We hear Tora is safe, but the creatures are heading north and west, for the gates have not been shut. Military presence was eradicated within seconds as nearly a million zombies sprinted and tore through the soldiers..."

Joe twists the dial, and they hear radio chatter.

"Alpha 8-4, come in!"

"Sir! We can't hold him! AHHH!! He tore my leg off! He's biting Johnson's neck! Andrews is already one of them! We are down, outnumbered 10 to 1! We need help!"

"Roger 8-4! We are sending in...wait...who are you...AH! Zombie in this base! Evacuate Deltora, repeat, evacuate!"

The radio is cut off, and everyone draws breath.

"Deltora..." Lief said. "It's....It's...destroyed."

"I bet the Shadow Lord is behind this." Barda said.

"No." Jasmine replied. "This is too...natural, not sorcery. It must be some type of virus."

"Anyway," Joe said quietly. "We need to move. Tora may be protected, but the path to it will be dangerous. If we do find a helipad on the way, we could evacuate."

The door to the shop shuddered. Adrian and Sarah ducked behind the counter, and retrieved .22 rifles. The door shuddered again.

"Joe," Lief said. "You need to move, now!"

"No..." Joe said.

"Joe!"

"I will not..."

The door exploded, and zombies poured in, roaring and reaching. Everyone opened fire, except for Joe. Joe stood there.

"Grandpa!" Adrian yelled.

Joe didn't move.

"GRANDPA!" Sarah yelled, even louder.

He still didn't move. The zombies swarmed around Joe, reaching for him. One of them bit into his neck, and tore a chunk of flesh off. Joe screams, and Adrian and Sarah fire with even more power. The zombies dropped one by one, but Joe was doomed. Another zombie tore his arm, and blood flew everywhere. The zombies tore through him, and Lief backed up. He hit the wall, and turned around.

Grenades.

"GET DOWN!" Lief yelled. He grabbed a grenade and threw it toward the zombies. The zombies looked at it, but resumed their flesh eating.

"Lief!" Jasmine yelled. "That was not a good idea!"

The grenade exploded, and the zombies exploded, black blood flying, along with the red blood of Joe. All that remained was charred blackness, and the remains of Joe, which is just his body and head.

"Grandpa!" Adrian said. He ran to him, and knelt down.

"Do not worry about me..." Joe said. "Take care of your sister, live well..."

Joe stopped breathing.

Adrian turned to Lief.

"YOU KILLED HIM!" Adrian yelled, pulling up his rifle.

"No he didn't!" Sarah yelled. "He was going to die anyway! You should be lucky he isn't a zombie!"

Adrian didn't put down his weapon. Instead he flicked the safety off, and aimed at Lief's heart.

"Adrian!" Sarah yelled. "I miss him too! But we are in a bigger situation now. Any minute now, hordes of zombies will attack. Your anger is blinding you Adrian."

Adrian dropped his weapon.

"You're right, Sarah." he said slowly. "I don't know what I was think....AH!"

Joe, a zombie, bit Adrian on the neck. Adrian screamed, and pulled Joe off, but a chunk of flesh came off. Adrian looked up, and shot the zombie. He dropped, and was dead.

Sarah started crying, hard.

Lief went over to her, and knelt by her.

"I'm so sorry." Lief said.

"It's okay." she stopped sobbing. "Let's end this now."

She pointed the gun at Adrian, and shot.

"Barda," Lief said. "Do you have that emergency coordinator I gave you, and swore never to use?"

"Yes," Barda replied. "About a few months ago."

"Yes, but I never told you what it did."

"What does it do?"

"It sends a nuclear missile to Del in case of an emergency like this.."

"But there are other survivors here...."

"Barda. They will soon become the zombies. We have to nuke it. The survivors should have evacuated Del. We need to get to Tora, now!"

Lief stood up, and Barda pressed the button on the coordinator.

Words echoed from megaphones throughout the city.

"Nuclear missile has been launched to Del. Evacuate immediately. Expected arrival, three day, 1:01 P.M. Evacuate now!"

An alarm sounded through the city, and more chaos erupted. Zombies moaned as one, and more shuffled out in the streets.

"Crap." Lief said. "We better move, fast."

No-one needed to say anymore. Lief walked to the shop's front windows, and peeked out. Zombies shuffled everywhere, in massive groups of maybe a hundred or a thousand.

"3 million people live in this city," Lief said. "And we hardly eliminated a couple hundred. This will be a tough escape."

"It'll be like carving a path straight through hell." Jasmine sighed. "Del is at its end."

"Not yet, at least," Sarah said, her head in her hands. "I saw four planes leave. I heard they were heading to North America, to the USA."

"The US can't and shouldn't help," Lief replied. "They already have enough problems with the middle east, I don't want to burden them more, even if they are willing to help. Also, I don't want to risk this infection to become world-wide."

Lief peered out the windows again.

"We should find a place to rest," he continued. "We move at dawn. Follow me."

Lief walked to the other end of the shop, opening a door to the alley. Everyone else followed, and Lief peered out, and saw another street. The street had hundreds of zombies, and fortunately didn't see Lief.

He looked the other way, towards a wall. A dumpster stood at the end.

"Follow me." Lief whispered. He backed toward the dumpster. He signaled for the others to climb it.

"Jasmine," He whispered again. "Can you check what is over that wall?"

Jasmine climbed onto the dumpster, and peered over.

"All clear, Lief." She whispered back. He didn't respond.

"Lief?"

She looks at Lief, who stares ahead down the alley.

"What are you looking at?"

She looks down the alley, and sees the death boy again.

"Do you not recognize me, Lief?" the death boy said.

Lief stares at the boy, as the vision around him turned yellow and blurred, only focusing on the boy. The boy grew, and walked forward. The boy chuckled.

"Lief, always staring into space and time. The boy who is armed with the Belt of Deltora."

Lief looked down, and sees the belt at his waist.

"The belt..." Lief muttered.

The boy stepped again.

"Let's see if you remember. I was a Grade Three Ol."

Lief racked his thoughts. Then he gasped. It was Dain.

"I see you figured me out." The boy said. "As you see I am no longer a Grade Three Ol. I am a new G-4 Ol. I can shift myself from young human to old human. I can travel through space and time."

Suddenly Lief appeared in a large planetarium.

"Yes, space and time. I can teleport you anywhere, but it will be only permanent if you are near the location you were at. Otherwise, this will just disappear."

He snaps his fingers, and Lief was on a cliffside.

"I can cause pain and torture, such as throwing you off this cliff. But there was a mistake. I can't kill you in a teleport area, but if I send you back, you can die easily. If I push you off, though, I can cause you much pain. This zombie apocalypse was not my master's plan, but a natural one to add to his list. I can warp through you, but the accursed belt prevents me. The warp can definitely kill you, because I steal your soul and life."

Lief hears the laughing, then screaming, of people.

"It also prevents me from warping through Barda and Jasmine," he continued, "But not the other girl, because she did not touch the belt."

Dain warped to Lief, and pushed him off the cliff. Lief screamed, but suddenly he landed on the concrete in the alley, gasping.

"Lief!" Jasmine said. "What happened?"

"The boy," Lief started. "It's Dain!"

"What?"

"Sarah! Get down!"

Sarah looked confused, then saw Dain at the end of the alley. Dain took a step closer.

Lief pulled up his M4A1. Time slowed down, and his vision focused on Dain. Lief fired, but it was too late.

Dain warped through Sarah, and blood spurted from her whole body, and she fell, screaming as her life disappeared. Lief shot at Dain, and he disappeared.

"Sarah..." Barda said. "Not her too."

"Well," Jasmine said. "We can mourn her death later. Because her scream just alerted a couple of friends."

Lief stood up, and looked at the zombies rushing down the alley.

"Run!" Lief yelled, shooting.

No-one needed to be told twice.

Well, that's chapter 7. Chapter 8 is being worked on now. I wonder who guessed it was Dain.

Shad52 – thanks for another review! Hehe I find this 'wasome' too. lol