I couldn't feel anything, but I heard everything around me. I heard dad scream... "OPEN UP THE DAMN DOOR FUCKTARDS, OR ELSE I'LL BREAK IT OPEN!"

My feeling came back, and realized mom was holding on to me, her two arms wrapped around me, squeezing me and brushing my hair back and forth. She whispered in my ear that everything was going to be alright, but i was shivering a whole lot. Couldn't even think to stop.

"It's okay baby," Kate stroked my hair over and over again, which just overwhelmed me more. "Everything will be alright... everything will be alright. I won't let them hurt you. Jospeh kicked and pounded at the door as hard as he could. Each time he did, I jumped slightly. Kate was not impressed. "Joshep-honey, please stop that! You're scaring poor Zane. She's already scared as it is."

"No mom, I fine." I tried to untangle from her, but once I did, I immediately scooted back into her arms. I was trying to be tough... really did, it's just hard to be tough sometimes.

"HELL NO!" Jospeh shouted at Kate. I thought he was losing it.

"Those basterads could've HURT YOU! Hurt you both! AND I PRETTY SURE THERE AIN'T ANY MEDICAL CLINICS AROUND HERE... 'EH? What do YOU think?" Jospeh kicked the door. "I know honey... but..-" Kate tried to say, but, of course, Jospeh cut her off. "NO! None of those 'buts', I'm getting you girls outta here. These people are sick. I overheard them saying something about EATING ZANE KATE! EATING OUR CHILD. What do they think they are? Cannibals?"

"Probably are..." I whimpered to myself. I knew they heard me though.

"Oh honey." Kate reached over to me and held on as tight as she could. "You'll be okay."

Jospeh kept pounding on the door for about 15 minutes, pushed and pulling in everyway. Grunting and shouting as loudly as he could. He found a crowbar underneath a bunch of boards and tried that out... didn't work. He kept pushing and pushing until he finally slid down to sitting position, leaning against the door. The last thing he did was yell through the door and punch it as hard as he could... then he gave up.

"I give up." Jospeh said. His stomach heaved up and down as he breathed as heavily as he possibly could. Kate looked over to a vent that was about to fall off. It didn't look secure, and she could take it off by using her fingire-nails. She walked over to it to give it a try. POP! The vent cover fell to the ground with a big pop and thunk. Jospeh jumped, then looked over to what Kate did.

"Holy shit!" He almost screamed. "How did you...?"

Kate lifted her fingires and smiled. "It was about to fall off anyway." Jospeh laughed and skidded over to where the vent fell off to peer inside. "That's pretty small. A small hole, is what I mean." He said, his voice echoed off the walls of the steel, concreted area inside the vent.

I got up. "Um... is it too small for me?" I asked.

"Oh no, you are NOT going in there." Jospeh said. He carefully bent down and looked into my eyes. "It's not that I don't trust you Zane, I just don't want you to get hurt."

"I won't get hurt. It'll be easy. If I see Danny or Andy or Brenda, I just back up, get ready, and pounce." I said that because thats what John would always say when they'd wrestle on the sofa. I could tell dad was getting teary-eyed just hearing me say something that reminded him of John.

Jospeh glanced into the space behind me, staring for a while. "I don't know Zane...-" I heard his voice breaking off, and thought he was going to cry. I leaned over to hug him, grasping around his tee-shirt and squeezing as hard as I could. He felt warm, and I could've sworn I heard a sniffle come from him, I just didn't say anything.

'I CAN do this... right?' I thought to myself, not really sure if I could.

As I left Jospeh's grasp, he patted my back. "That's a good girl." He said. "I know you can do this. You know that you'll be doing this for us... right? You gotta stay down low, and if you hear anything, stop in your tracks. Wait for a couple minutes until moving again. Got it?" I nodded my head. "Alright." He stood up. "I know you can do this Zane. Once you get out of that vent, I need you to stay low, crouch down and be very CAREFUL. Don't make any sudden movements if you see anybody out there move." He picked me up and sloshed a wet kiss on the side of my forehead.

"Now go up there!" Jospeh started pulling me up to the vent when Kate stopped him.

"WAIT!" She yelled, making a huge echo bounce around the vent. She quickly covered her mouth, and the uncovered it when no one noticed. "Wait..." She said a little more calmly and quietly.

"How do you know it'll work? Maybe they knew we'd make her go this way, and that's why they loosened up the vent to make it easier to open. It could be a trap, and once they find Zane we'd all be in danger!"

Although Kate was complaining, Jospeh had already helped me climb up the vent. I was couched low and steady underneath it, trying not to making and sounds.

"Kate, I know this seems dangerous to you, and it really is. I don't want her to do this either. But this is the only chance we have... and we gotten take risks like this, even if it kills us. I know it's hard to see Zane do this, but we're in a damn zombie apocalpes! We have to survive. And this, WILL help us get out. I know it. Trust me, okay?" He paused. Kate stared at him for a while and then sighed. "Okay." She murmured.

"Good." Jospeh smiled. He looked over to me and nodded. I nodded back, turned around, and started crawling through the vent. As I crawled, I heard the echoing of my knees scraping against the metal. I tried to go slower to lower the sound, but it didn't work as I wanted it to. I eventually saw the other side of the vent, and lucky, it was already off. Hopefully Andy or Danny haven't heard me crawling through the vent. If they did, they could be anywhere around me, trying to catch me.

I got out of the vent and immediately saw something that freaked me up. I gasped, and then covered my mouth trying not to whimper and scream.

All around me was blood. Everything had blood. There was a small area to the side of the room that had a rope that was hanging to the ceiling, and inside the tub that was underneath the hanging rope had blood covered in it. On the tub was a taser, pretty much for anything. I bet you they taze animals with it... or people. Right beside me was a huge spiked razor. Even it... was covered in blood. SURPRISE SURPRISE.

The floor was literally flooding with blood, and unfortunately, some of it looked "recently bloodied". I slipped and tumbled over it, trying to get to the other side of the room. There were things in these jars, not sure what they were, but they looked like body parts. I wanted to vomit.

'What the hell is wrong with these people? They are just so sick... everything about them.' I tried to ignore it all, yet it was kinda hard. Can't really avoid looking at something that's RIGHT BESIDE YOU... Just sayin'.

Once I walked over all the blood, I saw a door and leaned my ear up to it, just to make sure that it was the room Jospeh and Kate were locked up in. Then, I opened it up. "I'm okay." I said quickly.

Kate ran over to me. "OH MY GOODNESS!" She almost screamed. "I'm so glad you're okay." She picked me up and held me as close to her as possible. I saw Jospeh walk out of the room in the corner of my eye. Then he stopped dead in his tracks.

"Holy...-" He was cut of as he fell on the floor, not really looking at where he was going. He looked at his hands and up all around him, his mouth open in horror and shock. I knew he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Kate then let go of me and ran over to Jospeh, stopped as well.

"What the he-" Jospeh tried to say, but Kate covered his mouth.

"Shh..." She whispered. "I heard something, or someone in other words." She leaned up and down, sideways, and forwards, trying to listen to what or... who was making the noise.

"I don't hear any-" He was cut off as someone started to open the barn door. Jospeh scrambled to his feet, and pulled me over to where he was, holding me down. Kate sat next to him as well. We all crouched down as low as we could, hiding behind the pile of boxes from the dairy. I REALLY didn't want to know what was in those things.

The person who entered the barn was Andy. He started to cross off to the room we were in, and as he was about to open to door, Danny stormed in.

"Wait!" Danny cried, stopping Andy. "Not right now." He whispered, thinking we were still in the room. "Come over here, we'll surprise them. Unlock the door and give them a chance to escape."

Andy just shook his head and shrugged. "Whatever you say." He looked at the lock to turn it, and then made a puzzled face. "Wait... did you unlock this door?" He asked.

"Um.. no. Why are you wondering?" Danny asked back. He walked to Andy to see what he was talking about. Andy then pointed to the lock and said, "The door... it's opened. How did-?" He then opened the door and saw that no one was in there. "They escaped! How the fuck did they escape? We locked the door, and...-" He looked inside the room. "THE VENT!" He kicked the door with his foot. "We left the FUCKING VENT unhinged... AGAIN?" Danny shouted.

"Again?" Kate whispered to Jospeh with a worried look on her face. "Just ignore them." He whispered back.

"They're a bunch of fuckers."

"Who said that?" Danny asked. He looked around, puzzled. "Said what?" Andy asked him. He looked around with his brother.

"I SWEAR I heard something. They have to be around here somewhere... they're just hiding so they can escape... or KILL us." Danny said, adding "suspense" to the end. He kept looking around, and started creeping closer to the boxes we were hiding in.

"Okay guys. Kate, Zane. I'm going out." Jospeh told us, quietly. "WHAT?!" Kate held onto his hand. "I know, i know. But this is for the best. I'm gunna kill those sons-of-bitches. Just STAY hidden. Please."

I was scared, but I nodded anyway.

"Good." He jumped out, surprising both the St. John's brothers. "THE HELL YOU DOING? KNOCKING ME OUT? HURTING MY WIFE? Are ya gunna kill my kid? What did WE ever do to YOU? I can't believe you sick idiots!" He yelled at them.

Danny raised his hand. "Hey, where's the rest of your family. The hell are you doing out of that room we put you in?"

"What do you think?" He asked, sharply. "Do you think that we are dumbass? Do ya think we'd just stay in there, getting ready for you to kill us, skin as alive. Make us into FOOD? Huh?"

"What makes you think that?" Danny asked, raising a eye-brow.

Jospeh smirked. "'Cause this is a fucking DAIRY FARM! THAT'S WHY! Ya'll make MEAT out of people and send it TO OTHER PEOPLE! For them to FUCKIN' EAT! Is that what we ate? HUH? Is that what my poor daughter put in her mouth?!"

"Where IS your family?!"

"You answer MY question first!" Jospeh shouted at the two of them. I noticed Terry with a cross-bow in his hands. He quietly sloshed over the blood and mud, and slowly put an arrow in his cross-bow. I KNEW who he was going to shoot.

"Fine." Andy smiled over at Terry. Terry then reached over at Jospeh and pulled him over, settling the cross-bow at his head. "Answer the question, Jospeh." Andy continued his little speech. "WHERE IS YOUR FAMILY? If you don't answer, we'll let Terry END you. THEN you're precious little family. Y'know... Zane?" He tilted his head to the side, testing him.

I screamed and bite Terry's thumb, making it bleed and rip. "Let my dad GO!" I shouted. Kate jumped out form behind the boxes.

"NO! ZANE NO!" She grabbed ahold of me. When I bite Terry, he shouted and let go of Jospeh, also dropping his weapon. Jospeh quickly caught it and pushed Kate and I forward, trying to run as fast as we could, making sure we wouldn't slip over the blood puddles.

I heard Danny, Andy and Terry all get up and run after us. I tried to keep up with my mom and dad as we exited the barn and trotted down the hill and behind everything else, when I noticed John's guitar case near the swing Brenda made for me to swing on. I rushed over to John's guitar, hoping to get to it in time to run back, and i could hear Kate and Jospeh yelling and screaming at me to get back. I just ignored them. I knew what I had to do. I made a promise to my brother to keep his guitar, and that's just what I'm going to do.

I picked up the case and turned around to run, but I couldn't. I was too late. Terry was behind me, carrying a crowbar now. He had a smirk on his face that said, "Goodnight little girl. Congrats on being the first one dead during the zombies." Which was not true. The zombies died first, obviously...

He swung back hard, as I ducked away and he broke the swing instead. He pushed me down and lifted the crowbar above his head. His smile was evil and dark, just like that black clouds that dangled above him. It felt just like a horror movie, yet I was the bait. I started screaming and yelling but I couldn't really make much of an effort since he's foot was on my chest, pushed down right where my lungs would be.

Terry laughed a evil laugh and peered over to my family. Zombies were surrounding the fences to the St. John's house, but no one really cared since the wire-fences were zapping them anyway. Just before Terry could do anything to me, I saw a arrow slid right through him and on his chest. Terry let go of the crowbar, and it landing right beside me. Terry made some gurgling noises, then fell right on the ground. He was dead. I looked up to see who shot the arrow.

It was my father. I jumped up happily, and carried the case that had John's guitar in it, racing towards my mom and dad. I hugged Jospeh and then my mom, but we wouldn't stay for long. Not here anyway. Jospeh and Kate held hands together and we all raced together through the gates and the zombies... the only bad thing was, there were tons of millions of them. I tried avoiding them, and sticking with my family, but soon I got separated and couldn't find mom or dad.

"DADDY!" I yelled, looking all around me. "MOM!"

Jospeh heard me and yelled. "ZANE! DON'T WORRY ABOUT US!" He held Kate tight around him. "WE WILL BE FINE. WE WILL MET UP AT THE WATCHTOWER, SEE IT? OVER THERE, NORTH OF US?" I turned around to see a bright light shining through a tall, red, black and white multicolored building. "YEAH!" I shouted to him.

"HEAD OVER THERE! WE WILL MET YOU THERE, WE PROMISE. AND DON'T GET LOST. AND DON'T GET BITTEN! DON'T MKAE NOSIE EITHER, IT ATTRACTS THEM! ALTOUGH THEY HEAR US, THEY ARE MORE INTO THE WIRE-FENCES MAKING NOSIE, JUST DON'T MAKE TOO MUCH, OKAY? AND STAY CLOSE TO THE GROUND... HIDDEN."

"Okay!" I sorta shouted back to him.

Then I didn't hear anything else out of him. Nothing for a long, long time.