Day 2
They are ambushed are a small group of walkers and they escape with their lives in the car. They make it back into the city, ditching their prison uniforms. Night falls and the four criminals and girl drive home in Evan's car. A major pileup on the drive back to Mila's house breaks out with Aiello crashing the car and sending Harris through the window and killing him. Just as the passengers recover from the trauma, Harris reanimates and attacks them, taking a chunk out of Chris's arm. Aiello manages to kill the infected Harris as more cars in the middle of the road begin stopping, and more people staggering out.
The criminals take their chances and they drive off once again. They plow through several of the undead and get back on the highway and get back to Mila's home, where the family of four and criminals decide to work together to survive, especially after Aiello saved Mila's life. Atticus attempts to rob the family of four, but Chris succumbs to the infection and dies in the backseat. Atticus tried to revive him, but the zombie Chris attacks him. Just as Atticus is unable to push the zombie Chris off, Mila stabs the zombie in the brain and kills it.
Day 4,607
Twelve years ago, the entire world changed forever. On July 18, 2003, a mysterious virus has originated in the United States spread across the globe. Another year after that, the military and government collapsed and left the world all by itself. The zombies had outnumbered the humans five thousand to one so there was a total of 1.4 million people left still alive all over the world. Five years later, there was a total population of 1.6 million people left alive all over the world.
The virus is like a stereotypical zombie virus: Anyone infected with the virus will turn into an undead cannibalistic monster called zombie. How long it takes to turn into a zombie varies widely. Some can turn instantly, although it is extremely rare, while others take days to turn.
Twelve years is also how long Aiello Korell has survived this zombie apocalypse.
He was in Fairbanks, Alaska. He slowly creeps into an abandoned satellite station covered in snow. He went inside with a plan. He knew the place was not home to supplies, but home to a small gang of bandits. He was not a vigilante, he was just a twenty-nine-year-old survivor and father of a four-year-old. The leader of the bandits was a man named Carmine. Several weeks ago, Aiello's campsite with all his group members was raided by these bandits and they held his four-year-old son, Erik, at knifepoint. Carmine did.
Although Aiello's wife did try to persuade Aiello not to go on this vengeful quest, he stated that it's not vengeance, it's justice not only for his son but for all the people these bandits have either hurt or killed.
Aiello knew how the bandits operated because one of his group members used to be a bandit, but sadly they were killed in the raid. Aiello's entire family survived and moved to Alaska for a better sanctuary. Aiello promised as soon as he brought justice to the bandits, then he would follow his family back home to Vancouver.
He walks through the satellite station, his gun loaded, but not drawn. A bandit at the door asked him who he was and he answered. "My name is Aiello, I heard there is a man in charge here named Carmine, I wish to speak with him."
"Why?" the young bandit asked, "Why do you wish to speak with Carmine?"
"I want to be a part of his group. My brother used to be part of your guy's group and he put in a recommendation letter for me," he lied but proficiently.
"My name is Caleb, I will take you to Carmine. He's the kind of survivor who likes to meet new survivors face to face."
"I understand. No one survives this apocalypse for telve years by doing nothing. Take me to the man and I will take his job interview."
Caleb led Aiello throughout the halls, passing through several more bandits. He counted a total of four, plus Caleb. No matter what happened, Aiello was going to kill every single one of these bandits and then flee all the way home to be reunited with his son, wife, and those he considered to be his family.
When Caleb brought Aiello to the main room, there were two more subordinate bandits and the main bandit man, Carmine. Aiello stared at the yellow haired man with hate in his eyes. One of the bodyguards, whom Carmine called Malena, pulled out a chair for Aiello to sit in.
"Are you Carmine, leader of the bandits?" Aiello asked, wanting to be sure this was the moterhfucker that almost murdered his son. Instead of walking away, Caleb shut the door and stayed inside with Malena, the other bodyguard named Kaylyn, and the leader, Carmine.
"What are you doing here?" Carmine asked with a Brooklyn accent, which seemed strange because he was residing in Alaska and Brooklyn was all the way on the opposite side of North America. Aiello figured that he must've been from Brooklyn and shrugged it off.
"Hello, Carmine, my name is Aiello," he says politely as he takes a seat. He sets his scoped Ruger 30 on his lap before running a hand through his wavy blond hair. "I came here for recruitment."
"Why would you want to be with someone like us? You know who we are?" Carmine asked, sitting forward in his chair.
"If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I know who you are and I know what you guys do to survive this world. I have done things like that before." He was half-lying. He was no bandit, he was the leader of a group of saviors and survivors called the Moral Ones, whose main goal is keeping humanity alive. The group was founded a few months ago in Alaska and they plan to make a nationwide reputation somehow. It was the zombie apocalypse so that would prove to be a difficult challenge, but they wanted to spread the message of morality and how even in this world, everybody has to have some kind of morality. They weren't about helping people, only influencing people.
"Aiello, do you have any skills that can be of some use to us?" Carmine asked like a job interviewer, "We only accept people who can help us stay alive for a long time."
"I am a very capable fighter, I am in peak physical human condition and I am capable of crafting bullets from scratch. I am also excellent at reading people and I have killed over two thousand zombies. Two thousand and nineteen to be exact."
"How many people have you killed, if any? We require people willing to take lives."
"I've killed a total of one hundred and seventeen." What Aiello said was true, but he never killed them in cold blood; that is not how the Moral Ones operate. They kill only in self-defense or for the greater good and what Aiello was about to do was for the greater good. He lost his mother and father to people like Carmine and he wanted to start a clean slate and murder murderers. "Do I have the job?"
Carmine answered, "Yes, welcome to the bandits. Is there anything else you would like to add on your behalf?" He was not trustworthy of Aiello yet and was trying to figure out his ulterior motives.
"A few weeks ago, you raided a camp from what I heard. You held a kid at knifepoint."
Carmine remembered as if it happened yesterday. "That is correct," he said proudly, "I held a little boy at knifepoint, why do you ask, Aiello?"
"I will answer a question with a question: Do you know who that kid's father was?"
Carmine's eyes widened because it didn't take long to put two and two together. The three bandits in the room picked up what was going on and each reacted differently. Caleb reached for his waist and pulled out a pistol. He clicks the safety off, but due to Aiello's keen senses, he heard the safety is turned off.
As fast as lightning, Aiello snatches his Beretta 92FS from his belt and shoots Caleb in the head behind him, killing him instantly. He then turns to Malena and shoots her before she could even raise her gun. Then he turned to the last one, Kaylyn and he shot her in the stomach. She collapses to the ground and moans in pain.
He trains his gun on Carmine, who instantly raises his hands in surrender and begged like the coward he was. "Please don't kill me. Please don't."
Aiello had no intention of killing a defenseless man so he offered an alternative. "How about this, if I ever see you again, then I will shoot you through the skull and I will make sure you die. Never let me catch you again. Disband your little bandit organization and run as far as you can in the middle of nowhere." He uses this opportunity to pick up his Ruger 30 and shoulder it.
The other three bandits, Cameron, Martin, and Marci came barging into the room and aimed their guns at Aiello.
Aiello tackled Carmine from the desk and they both went rolling to the ground. None of the three bandis dared to fire, fearing they would hit their leader by mistake.
Aiello overpowered Carmine and kicked him out the window behind him before he launched himself like a missile after him. The three bandits ran towards the window and looked down to see if they could find Carmine or Aiello.
"Shit, we lost them," Cameron growls.
"Cam, kill me. Please!" the wounded Kaylyn begged, slowly bleeding to death. Martin did the honors and shot Kaylyn in the head, ending her life.
Down below, Aiello landed in some deep snow and was buried. He unearthed himself and searched for Carmine. He was nowhere in sight, but he did not let his guard down. The storm was starting to brew up, which would hide Aiello from sight.
Cameron, Martin, and Marci made it downstairs and regrouped with their leader, who was shivering. "We have a hostile threat. It's the father of the boy we failed to kill at the camp. Make sure he doesn't live beyond today."
"Understood," Cameron nods, "Let's move out."
"You know what? Wound him and bring him back to me. Payback's a bitch." Carmine pressed his back against the wall while his two men and one woman went out to look for their target.
Aiello was hiding behind a totaled school bus with zombies inside. They growled and tried to bang their way out. Aiello saw that their skin decayed from their body and gave them an uncanny resemblance to skeletons.
"Poor kids," he whispered in sympathy, understanding that elementary kids were on the bus when the outbreak hit Alaska. Zombies began materializing from the blizzard, but they did not see Aiello, but he saw them.
He spotted a pair of feet that belonged to a bandit from under the bus. He crawls under just as the bandit circled the bus. Using the zombies to his advantage, he stabs the bandit in the achilles, dropping him to the ground and causing howling in pain and attract zombies. Through the snowstorm, he saw that it was the bandit named Cameron.
"Help me!" he shouts in both pain and fear as the zombies and infected come his way, drawn by his screams. He shoots them with his pistol, but he missed the kill spots and ran out of bullets in a flash. The zombies then began to devour him, biting into his skull and heart to make sure he does not get back up. Even after twelve years, zombies are still lethal and very creative with their kills besides eating their victims for whatever reason.
Martin and Marci open fire at the zombies coming to their path. Aiello crawls out from under the bus and runs away from the zombies. While the two bandits were distracted, he crouches down and takes aim with his scoped Ruger 30. Being able to see through the snowy winds, he shoots Marci in the throat. She drops to the floor besides Martin and she drowns in her own blood.
He prepares to shoot Martin, who had jumped into the air in shock and horror from the death of his associate and the gunshot that came in his direction until he heard a growl from behind. He turns around and shoots a zombie in the head, killing it, but he did not have enough time to reload before the zombies attacked him.
The zombie tries to bite Aiello in the forearm, but he is shoved back and a bullet pops him in the skull. Aiello did need to worry about catching the virus because he knew that everybody in the entire world is already infected. Bites do nothing but kill you and if you die, and your brain isn't destroyed, then you come back as a zombie. Those are the rules and apparently, if you are wounded from these things then you die but if zombie blood gets in your mouth or eye, you could be either sick or nothing will faze you at all. He wasn't immune as far as he knew and he did not want to turn into a zombie anytime soon. He did not survive twelve years only to die from a zombie bite.
Upon hearing the cries of a dying Cameron and the gunshot that took Marci away, Carmine decided to take action and hunt Aiello with his remaining bandit. "Follow the sounds of the gunshot," he ordered before he and Martin ran off into the snow.
Aiello heard footsteps and turned around to see Carmine and Martin running and gunning at him. Aiello makes a run into the blizzard, killing more and more zombies along the way. Once he got away from the satellite outpost, he was in the woods that was surrounded by zombies. He did not use any of his guns, for he did want to draw more attention to him, so he used his knife.
He left some alive for Carmine and Martin to deal with and slow them down.
"All right you prick, where are you?" Carmine shouted through the snowstorm. "My bandits and I grew up in Alaska. We grew up in snowstorms like this. You can't hide from us."
Aiello heard Carmine's voice and continued to run off. He wasn't trying to escape, he was trying to weed the two murderers out.
"Come on out and make it easier on yourself. We'll make your death a quick one if you surrender. I was considering just taking in you in alive, but after what you did to Cameron and Marci, that is irreversible and has severe consequences."
Aiello hid behind a tree as he shouted out, "You held a knife to my son's throat. He was only four-years-old and you tried to kill him!" Anger filled his voice. "You can still survive to live another day. That is how the Moral Ones operate, we give you guys a chance. Even after all the pain, you've caused us."
"Sorry, but I am not one who backs down that easily." He and Martin begin walking down a steep hill, following the tracks that Aiello left in the snow. "You are going to die from either the zombies or us. Either way, it's going to be a painful death!"
A gunshot rang out. Carmine and Martin tried to look for the source. Hearing something behind them, they turn and see an avalanche falling towards them. A thirty-foot tall avalanche came at them like a bullet. Carmine dives to the side and barely avoids getting crushed by the snow. Martin, on the other hand, had the opposite outcome.
"That was a good plan Aiello, I will give you that," the bandit leader cheers dryly.
"It's just you, Carmine. Your little group of bandits is nothing now, so just walk away!" Aiello's voice echoed throughout the mountains.
"How about you come out to kill me and then we will talk about it?" Carmine cocks his firearm before a body slams into his from the side, knocking him off his feet and losing his gun in the process.
Aiello punches Carmine endlessly, not showing any mercy. "You almost cost my son his life. I saw you, I saw you put the blade to his throat." He begins choking Carmine. "I saw the glint in your eyes even from a distance. You wanted to kill that innocent child and you wanted to kill everyone at camp. I've encountered brutal survivors before but I am not going to let this crime go unanswered, one way or another." He takes his hands back from his Carmine's throat. "I am not going to turn into a monster like you. I am not going to kill you in cold blood, but I will make sure you pay for your crimes."
A loud roar was heard. Aiello nearly jumped out of his skin and looked around. He knew that sound. Growing up in the wilderness, he can always tell which sounds belong to which animals and that roar were a sound that belonged to a polar bear.
"As a matter of fact, this is your punishment, Carmine. I won't save you from getting mauled by a bear." He gets up to his feet and makes a run for it. He heard the sound of a bear growling and the dying sounds of Carmine.
Day 3
A day later, the four family members and two criminals walk together back to the city, taking extreme caution. There are reports in downtown.
