FanFiction - Gone

Not So Little April Showers

AN: Hey. Like I said before, this chapter might get gross, well not really, but I felt like I should warn you just in case. Enjoy! Oh and pleeeeeeease review, even if it is bad. ;)

Dozens of screaming people ran past Rose, and she struggled to swim (or run in this case) against the current.

All these people seemed to be running away from something, something terrible. The question is... what? Each having some kind of injury.

She ran towards a little boy, about seven, huddled up in a corner, crying.

"Hey there." Rose said soothingly. "What's up?"

The boy sniffled and blinked as his teary eyes gazed up at her. Rosie's heart fluttered, not like when she was around Lucius, but still fluttered. The kid was so cute!

"There are monsters up there." He mumbled through hiccoughs. "They try to eat your brains."

Rosie had to strain to hear him, with all the screaming in the background.

"I don't know what they are!" The kid continued sadly, constantly stopping to sniff. "But they scare me!" He finished so quietly Rosie couldn't even hear the last word.

"Okay, if your scared, here's what you do." Rose told him, with a knew found confidence. "Run as fast as you can down to the end carriage of the train and that's where the exit it." She smiled at him. "You'll be safe then, I promise."

The little boy smiled gratefully. "Go on then, run!" Rosie told him.

And the kid ran off, as fast as his tiny legs could carry him.

Rose sighed before continuing to run through the train, trying to find this mysterious horror. Once she'd reached carriage fourteen, she'd passed at least twenty passengers running for their lives.

She stopped suddenly. All the curtains were drawn shut, but she could see no one anywhere and there was an awful stench of metal, iron...

Blood. She could smell blood.

Rosie could hear a sound, footsteps, coming from the direction of carriage thirteen. The direction everyone had been running away from.

The footsteps seemed pretty heavy, stomp-like even, and came at a very slow pace. Just then, the lights went out, and Rosie's world turned black. Though she could still hear the thuds of the footsteps in the distant.

They were getting closer, and Rose stood there for a moment, anticipating what to do next.

Then something grabbed her shoulder. And Rosie could fell her heart beat speeding up, it was on over-drive.

At that moment the lights flashed on for a second or two, and Rose got a glimpse of her rival, before the carriage returned to it's dark state.

The being was like a human, only covered in toilet roll from Ancient Greece. It had no eyes, only bloody eye sockets, and it's nose was non-existent. The creature had a small oval mouth, which was filled with row after row of long sharp canines.

There was a large dark red mark over his chest, right above where the heart should be. It was as though his heart was bleeding, quite severely, by the looks of things. It's ears were holes in the side of the skull and a lime green puss oozed out of them.

The whole body was covered in boils which bubbled out blood and reeked of a mix between burning flesh and wet dog.

Basically the whole creature was pretty rank...

Rosie stood still and concentrated on her breathing.

Breath in... breath out... breath in... breath out...

"Shit!" She whispered in frustration, but as soon as those words left her mouth, the zombie let out a huge roar/scream/wail/whine kind of combo.

It then gripped her shoulder tighter and shook her forcefully. Rose let out a blood curdling scream before dropping to the floor.

The zombie had drawn blood, her should was now dripping and a red substance stained her top.

She scrambled backwards and pressed her back against the carriage door in fright, trying to create as much distance between her and the zombies as humanly possible.

Rosie took a deep breath and summoned all her courage as she lifted her hands, palms out.

"Come on! you can do it!" She urged herself quietly.

She then scrunched up her eyes in concentration and focused. Suddenly, as if the zombie sensed what she was about to do, it opened it's mouth, and showed it's teeth.

Purple smoke flooded out and filled the room. Rosie started coughing until tears fell down her cheeks.

"Everyone thought we were dead." A voice rasped. "They were wrong!"

It was a girl's voice, raspy yes, but it was a girl's voice.

Rosie searched the fog trying to find the source of the sound. The girl sounded barely fifteen.

"But he gave us re-birth, and we came back!" The voice continued. "We are his army, to do his deeds at his command. We will cleanse this world and prepare it for a new beginning! All of you must die, if we are to reign!"

And with that, the zombie lunged at Rosie and scratched at her face. It burned, and Rosie rolled sideways in an attempt to escape it.

Water fountained out of her palms and sent the monster flying. The purple smoke had thinned and she could just about see the rest of the zombies making their way towards her.

"You're going to hell, you bastards. I'm sure they'll appreciate the constant supply of toilet roll. Chao." Rosie exclaimed, smirking.

She blasted them with water until they all dropped to the floor, soaked and soggy. There had been about twelve of them in total.

Rose licked her bottom lip, which was bleeding, and looked down at her attire.

Her long denim shorts had rips in several places and her green vest-top had a nice tear the front, which was now unfortunately showing her bra. She was covered in a delightful mix of both blood and water.

"Great." Rosie mumbled sarcastically as she slowly trudged her way back to the boys.

Jamie was pacing irritably up and down the compartment. "Where is she!" He asked, frustrated, for about the tenth time in a row. "I told you we shouldn't have let her go on her own!"

Lucius rolled his eyes. "Will you stop pacing! Do you have no faith in your sister's ability? She'll be back any moment, trust me." He reassured.

Lucius lent back against the wall and bit his lip, despite himself. He looked over at the girl with blond curls, the one who ran to them screaming, only minutes ago. She was dead, whatever was out there, it'd killed her.

Just in that moment, the carriage door open and Rosie stumbled through.

"Rosie!" Jamie cried as he crushed he in his arms.

"Oh thank God." Lucius whispered, as he let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding.

"Get off you git, I'm fine!" Rosie whined. "I haven't got any serious injuries." She added, looking down at her soiled clothes.

"Your shoulder one looks pretty serious to me. And if there's that much blood spilling out of it, it must be quite deep." Lucius commented as he stepped forward.

Up until that point, Rosie hadn't acknowledged Lucius's presence. His pal, gentle face was filled with concern. He was really rather handsome, she thought.

She then started to describe her encounter to the boys and once she'd finished, she couldn't help but smirk at Jamie's gawping expression.

"Zombies, really?" Lucius asked, confused, but not doubting her at all.

"Yup. The real deal." Rose replied.

"Whoa. Impressive." He muttered, too shocked really to say anything else.

"Cool! Can I see one?" Jamie begged, excitedly.

Rosie rolled her eyes. "Boys." She muttered with a smile on her face before answering. "Sure, but I ain't coming."

"Sweet! Lucius, you wanna come with?" Jamie inquired, while jumping up and down on the spot, like a lunatic.

Lucius smiled, but shook his head. "Nah, I'm good."

"'Kay!" And the next thing they knew, Jamie was long gone.

Rosie smiled brilliantly up at Lucius, and he felt his stomach flutter madly. He had know idea what he was doing, but he took several steps forward and smiled back at her.

Lucius's white teeth gleamed in the sunlight. Rosie's insides turned to mush as she looked at him.

"I was really worried about you, you know." He told her.

Rose blushed. "Really?"

Lucius nodded. "Uh-huh."

They were now about fifteen centimeters apart. The length of one of those small rulers that can fit in every size pencil case.

Rosie reached out and slipped her arms around his neck, and pulled him into a hug.

"Thanks." She whispered.

Lucius's smile grew, if that was possible, and he put his arms around her waist. She was warm against his body. He liked it.

"Any time." He replied.

They stood there for awhile, enjoying the bliss of each other's arms. All was well.

At least, until Rosie fainted.