A shorter chapter, I'm sorry. This is one of those filler chapters with the purpose of building suspense. Also, thank you RyuVixenKit for being the first to favorite my story, I really appreciate it!

Chapter 5: The Beginning

Distant zapping and groans could be heard, though it sounds like it's coming from the outside. A walkie talkie is playing at the end of the hall with an unfamiliar voice talking through it.

"Jesus Christ." Ivan whispers.

They both slowly make their way down the hall, stopping at the corner and picking up the walkie talkie, listening to it. It became inaudible but still had function. Claire pockets it and they check the corner. A body is stuck on something, and with closer examination, a pipe was holding it up... through its mouth.

"What happened...?" Ivan's thinks.

"This door is locked." Claire explains.

"There's more down there..." Ivan states.

They continue their walk, being weary of the broken windows. They reach another corner where a body was standing lifeless outside the window, just watching. It begins to hit the window as Claire and Ivan approach it.

"I don't think it can get in." Ivan states.

"Good. Look, there's a double door."

They both walk towards it.

RAURGH! RAAAAW! UHHHHHH!

A group of zombies shove their bodies through a window with broken pipes, not able to fit through. Claire and Ivan jumped.

"THROUGH THE DOOR!" Claire yells

They both enter through and barricade it with a desk and some chairs.

"That should hold out for a while." Claire states.

"Close call, thank god these doors were open." Ivan says calmly.

He walks towards a door, turning the handle and not having any effect.

"Seriously?" Ivan cries out.

"There's a broken window we could crawl through." Claire points out.

"This is some police department." Ivan groans.

They grab the map and bullets scattered through the room and climb on the board to near the broken window.

"Ladies first." Ivan jokingly says.

"Haha, fine." Claire exhales, climbing through. Ivan follows and lands on a dead body with no head. His shoes became a mess.

He was about to swear when his mouth is covered by Claire's hands. He jumps and Claire's points out why. There was a slightly fat zombie beating up a vending machine.

"What the fuck...?" Ivan questions.

The zombie continued its rampage on the unexpecting vending machine. A true horrific sight to behold. The zombie groans out in disappointment as it slowly turns its head, making eye contact with us. The facial expression changes and it makes way towards us. Claire readys her gun and points it at the zombie. 5 shots were fired before it fell down.

"Thick Skull, huh?" Claire questions.

We move forward out the way to a body on the floor and 3 different passage ways.

"This'll be a fun scavenger hunt... but first-" Ivan looks to the right of him, staring on to the floor.

"..."