"Dang it, I swear I had it right." She muttered to herself irritably. Luna strummed softly on her guitar trying to find the right sounds.
"Don't worry you got it." Said Sam who sat next to her strumming a guitar of her own. They were both currently on their last and favourite subject which was the music class. The teacher was busy relaxing on his desk while the others were playing around with their instruments. One dude was putting a drumstick up his nose while another just quietly reading a bible. Luna blew a puff of air into her eye. Despite being boring all the time, she loved going in this class, she was always so immersed by every symphony of all the instruments produced.
Presently, Luna was able to get the right tune and continued playing.
"Ha!" She said happily and for the next few seconds she kept on playing with her instruments.
Right next to her, Sam was playing the music of her own. Luna and Sam have had a very great relationship with each other. After sending that anonymous love letter in her locker many months ago and confessed her feelings for her not long after, they had started going out. Playing songs together, sneaking out at night to go to a concert. Even kissed on small occasions. Needless to say, she loved this girl. They even had already thought of what their future would be.
A future that would never happen.
Luna looked at the clock and it was just one minute away from three and the bell would ring so she can go home and chill in her room hang with her sisters. As well as planning what to do for the summer and next school year. She doesn't expect that much but she knew it would get a whole lot challenging.
Meanwhile, Luan wasn't as lucky as Luna as she sat on her chair with her shoulder slumped and her head facing the ceiling. It was math class; the worst of any class and the teacher was still about the understanding of even and odd numbers. What's so odd about numbers? I can't even. Haha yeah, Luan. She looked around to find an empty seat right next to her and sighed. Sucks that Benny couldn't be here, he was the only person that can bring a smile to my face when we're in math class. Once upon a time they pranked the teacher into thinking there was a fire and told everyone to leave the building immediately, how they pulled it off was a mystery. Thankfully, they would be seeing each other again on the weekends or once Benny would get better. In the meantime, she had a birthday party to attend tomorrow.
She had always loved making people laugh, every laugh she brought to the world reassures her that she can go far in life and that one day she hoped to perform in front of thousands of people.
Well, too bad cause faith has in store for you.
A large army of birds started flying around the sky, everyone in class saw went to the window to take a picture. Then moments later, a massive earthquake happened and all the kids were forced to hide under their seats. Luan hid under her desk.
"What do you call a cow during an earthquake? A milkshake!" Luan said at loud (heh) but she knew she was absolutely terrified at what's happening. Besides, everyone was too busy sitting under the desk in panic.
Meanwhile, Luna sat under her desk waiting for the earthquake to stop. The sounds of the instruments reverberating the entire room. She was weirded out after those large groups of birds came flying across the sky and even more weirded out once this happened. One even got stuck in the window. When the earthquake did eventually stop, they slowly stood up to make sure it's safe.
Only to get whipped back to the floor when a powerful shockwave burst through the window, followed by a green smog that covered the entire room. Everyone including Luna had to immediately cover their faces. Though a few students took a few seconds due to the sudden shock. Luna felt a strange sensation resonating from inside her body, she didn't know what it was and she didn't want to know. Once the green mist cleared in less than a minute and everyone we're free to breathe properly and saw that the lightbulb completely shattered and can only see in near darkness. Everyone began talking at once with someone from the back and kept saying about God being angry and most of them were pondering about what that screams from the hallways meant.
One of the students pulled their phone out and opened the flashlight setting so that they can see where there going and called out for their teacher. They were able to find him and boy oh boy they were in for a surprise. The teacher lay on the floor, spazzing out of control whilst his skin was slowly turning green. The others were both scared and confused as to what was happening to the teacher. No one dared to come forward. Finally, when the teacher stopped shaking, he started getting up and started at the students before jumping at great speed, grabbed one of the students nearby and began to chomp his teeth right through his neck causing the student great pain. Luna and the other students, hitherto, stood frozen at their place before screaming as well.
"What the fuck?!" The young rocker exclaimed.
One kid came up and kicked the teacher in the ribs, to free the other kid that was being eaten alive by the said teacher.
It worked.
But at the cost of his own life as the teacher lunged at him now, biting his throat.
More students began to scream in terror. Some kids ran forward to the teacher, some helped the other kid who was attacked earlier into the nurse's office while others just got the fuck out of there. Either way, they all had to escape to survive.
Luna was torn between whether to get the fuck out or help the poor kid. That's when a tall kid with wire-framed glasses went up behind the teacher and slammed the back of his head repeatedly with a bass. All the while, screaming "Die you beast!" over and over until he managed to shatter the teacher's skull, blood oozed from his ears and nose.
The tall kid just stood there at what just happened before silently ran off. The other kids try and pull the teacher away from the bitten teen but it was too late for him. This was enough incentive for Luna to run to the door.
And once she got out, she just wished she just stayed behind.
Everywhere, she saw older students, mostly seniors, janitors and school staff were screeching and shaking violently as though they got massive seizures after seeing multiple blinding lights all at once.
Okay, I think staying in the room would be alright.
Why are all these dudes acting like they were from that outbreak movie only their skin turns green? Luna thought. Was it something to do with that green smoke from earlier? Everywhere she looked she could see older teens and adults chomping down on younger teens, particularly, freshman and sophomores. She continues to scan around the hallways and spotted Sam and a few groups of kids running away to the exit and she sighed. I just hope she would be safe. Right now, I have to find my sisters.
She ran across the hallway, passing several disturbing scenes around her. At one point she was a handicapped kid getting devoured by a staff that was supposed to take care of him. Luna couldn't help but just cry at such a horrible sight. Thankfully, a group of teens wielding weapons such as a baseball bat, a pencil, a long ruler stick and some very sharp tools from the mechanics class, came up from behind her and tore the ever-living crap out of that deranged adult. Luna decided to tag along with these groups were heading in the same direction as she was.
Luan ran across the hallway in fear as strays of tears fell through her cheeks. Behind her, were a large horde of infected adults and older teens chasing after her and a few of her classmates. She could sense them coming closer as their outstretched hand were grazing her ponytail. She didn't want to have the same fate as her fellow classmate Parvana who unfortunately met her fat when the teacher went up to her and bit down her neck. Luan just stood there in fear while the other kids tried desperately to get the teacher off her. She could only scream and cry as the other kids outran her as the hands of the adult brushed against her. She imagined them digging through her with those cold dead hands.
Just minutes ago she was looking forward to attending a birthday party and visit Benny at his home. And now she would die getting moulded to death by these infectious adults. Just when she thought she was a goner. A group of kids came up rounding a corner, carrying melee weapons. She screamed desperately while she waved her hand, signing them to help her. They saw her and ran forward. As Luan came closer, she spotted one of the groups to be Luna and smiled.
"LUNA!" The young comedian screamed and waved her arms around to her to notice her. She did indeed saw her and was horrified when Luan was just inches away from getting torn to pieces. Luna threw caution to the wind and ran towards Luan, promoting others to do the same. She ran past Luan and against to the nearest adult. They fell forward, Luna trying to break free from the grown-up's grasp while it was trying to bite her neck. Several other adults circled around her. Luan turned back and screamed her name again.
"Ah, sick dude!" Luna exclaimed as blood from the grown-up's mouth sprayed all over her face.
Just when she thought she would be a zombie snack, the kid's Luna was with. Ran up to the adults and deliver devastating blows into their heads. Blood from these adults sprayed more into Luna's already blood-covered face, as she was still getting pinned to the ground. Then, a boy standing at 5'7 with a buzz cut; wore a black t-shirt with the words "America" written in red and blue ink came up to her and slammed the adult's head with a baseball bat.
The teen extended a hand towards Luna, who instantly grabbed it.
"T-thanks." Luna stuttered.
"No mentioned it." The teen said. "That was very brave of you, how you were able to charge these things with nothing but your hands."
Luna blushed and smiled softly. She recognized that teen as Brock Howard. He was a strong and brawny kid who was born in a military family.
"Luna." A voice cried out.
She snapped out from her trance and looked to see Luan running towards her. They embraced each other as soon as they converged.
"I'm so glad your alive," Luna said. "What happened."
"When the green air disappeared, the teacher started going insane on the floor before getting up and attack one of my classmates," Luan said as fast as she could, still shuddering at the image of her friend getting eaten alive by the teachers while she just stood there not knowing what to do.
"Luan..." Luna said softly as she hugged her tighter, not wanting to let go. She turns to Brock with a small smile.
"Thanks again."
"No mention it." He said raising one hand up. "Now, do you girls wanna follow us?"
"Nah, dude it's cool, we have to go find our sisters, and hoped that they're okay," Luna stated. He fixed her with a confused and worried glance.
"Are you sure? Cause I noticed a pattern around these infected people and..." Brock said but Luna stopped him.
"It's fine, really. I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't at least try."
Brock was still uncertain to leave these two all by themselves but just nodded.
"Alright, well then take one of these just in case," Brock said as he handed them a spare baseball bat. "Just be safe out there."
"We will." She answered.
And with that, Brock and his friends continued walking down the hall. Luna then turned to Luan who kinda knew what she was going to say.
"Come on Luan, we gotta find Lori and Leni." Said Luna.
Luan hugged herself tighter and fear spread throughout her face. As much as she didn't want to stay here long and leave as soon as possible, they knew they had to go find their older sisters. It was just wrong to just leave them and end up getting eaten alive.
And besides, Lori has the keys to Vanzilla, how else are they gotta drive home?
Nodding, Luna and Luan ran towards the junior section of the room where they passed several bloody scenes around them. Luna clutched her baseball bat tighter as the sounds of death grew louder and more sinister with each step they take. They went to the halls where Leni would most likely be. Luna kept shooting glances to make sure Luan stayed close. They finally reached two pairs of double doors, signifying that they had reached the 11th-grade rooms.
Luna knew Algebra was Leni's last subject so she ran straight to that certain room. When they arrived, Luna slowed down and took one last glance at Luan who glanced back and nodded. They opened the door slowly then stopped when they heard a strange spongy sound emerging from it.
They poked their heads through and saw a group of kids kneeling around something.
Or someone causes from the looks of it, they seemed to be eating.
They both continued to stand in the doorway, waiting for something to happen.
As they were closely examining the group. They noticed one of them looked very familiar. It was dark so they couldn't see properly so they slowly stepped forward to get a closer look.
Big Mistake.
As soon as they got closer, all the teens turned to face them. They now understood who they were and what they were. The older teens that got infected. Their skin was mossy green and blood oozed out from their lips. Both loud was able to get a good look at who they were trying to get a closer look at, and what they saw smashed their hearts to pieces.
Blond hair, and light blue dress. They instantly recognize the infected teen as Leni Loud. Her hair was a lot messy, her dress was covered in blood and so was her face, her sunglasses that usually sit above her head now gone and her left sandals have also been missing.
Both loud siblings continued to stare at her in deep sadness. Luna's grip on her bat begins to loosen and Luan was inches away from crying.
Leni and the others stood up and screamed viciously at the newcomers. Luan covered her ears and screamed herself. The older teens charged at the two. Luna shoved Luan away and slammed the door shut, pressing her body against it. Leni and the other teens were aggressively trying to push the door open. Luna struggled to keep the door shut while Luan came up and helped her.
"Get ready to run," Luna said.
But before they could do that, however, an arm suddenly burst out through the little window of the door, grabbing Luan's ponytail. She screamed frantically as she grabbed whatever was holding her and tried to pull away but it only made it hurt more.
Luna felt a rush of fear through her veins, grabbed her bat and began to deliver massive swings against the teen's arm and it worked but it but tore a chunk of Luan's hair, letting it flow in the back of her shoulder. Luan crouched down crying in pain as she caresses the side of her head.
Now Luna was furious, that strange sensation came back but she didn't give a shit, she gripped her bat tightly and let the door open. One teen emerged and Luna smashed that teen's skull harder than she smashed her hundreds of guitars she destroyed. Another teen came up, it was one of Leni's friends Fiona and she had a less painful death. Then, Leni came up and she was hesitant at hurting the blond girn so instead, she just pushed her aside to the ground as more teens appeared. Soon, one more came and it was the teen who attacked Luan earlier. Now Luna's anger returned, she screamed ferociously as she swung her bat so hard it literally pop the teen's eyeball out of its sockets. Luna didn't care how hard she hit, she was angry, angry at what it did to Luan.
Luna turned to see Leni getting back up and rushed towards the young rocker. That halted her rage for a moment. She dropped her bat and shoved her to the classroom. It wasn't as hard as keeping the door close as it was before but I guess whatever that green gas was, increased Leni's strength. Luna breathed heavily, her heart pounding against her chest.
She turned to Luan who was still on the floor.
"A-Are you okay?" She asked.
"What do you think I look like!?" Luan cried out. "No I'm not okay, everything is not okay! A piece of my fucking hair is missing."
Luna hugged her tighter.
"Come on, we have to find Lori." She said. Her voice was shaky and out of breath. Luan let go and shook her head.
"How do we know she's not already dead!?" She yelled.
"We have to at least try," Luna said back then turned to the door. "But we have to take care of Leni first." She grabbed her bat and opened the door. Leni emerged from the two doors and tried to lunge towards them. Luna was hesitant to kill Leni. While she was infected, she was still her sister but she wouldn't risk getting eaten by her either. So instead, she swung the bat on Len's right leg. The snapping sound made the two sisters flinch in sadness as their older sister came crashing to the ground.
Luna and Luan quickly ran away to find Lori's class but not before taking one last look at Leni was reaching out one hand as she let out a sharp and angry roar that would fill their heads day and night.
Blood and exposed organs filled across the hallway that they were running across. Both teens tried to ignore what was around them as they made it to the Senior part of the school. Both were ready for the impending heartbreak should their oldest sister suffer the safe fate as Leni. They listened closely as the sounds of rage-filled creatures echoed through the bloody halls. The smell was unbearable that both louds were surprised they haven't fainted from the foul odour
Suddenly, the sound of someone screaming caused them to stop running. Across the halls, a badly injured teen maybe about Luan's age was limping around the corners as fast as he could. Then a pack of older teens came up from behind and began to swamped down on him.
Tears rolled down the sister's face when they saw that one of those infected teens had thick blonde hair, a light blue tank top and brown cargo shorts. Both siblings quickly recognized her as Lori Loud.
Damn. They were both powerless to help the poor teen and thought he was gonna die anyway so they ran into an empty room, jammed a few desks against the door and barricade it. They plopped their butt on the floor and let their tears flow as they embraced each other.
"Well, so much for that," Luna said, punching the floor.
They both looked out at the window which was shattered like all the others. Seriously, how strong was that explosion?
"Come on, let's get the fuck out of here," Luna said as they jumped out through the window and ran into the horrifying sight of the new world. It's like hell was brought upon this earth.
"What now?" Luan asked.
"We have to go find our younger sibling and make sure they're okay." Said Luna. As they ran they shot one last look at their school. The thoughts of their sisters devouring kids would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Hopefully, today wouldn't be the day. They then found and ran with a large group of kids who were fleeing in the same direction. As they were running they saw a teenage girl lying in the middle of the road. Two infected teens were kneeling on her as they consume her organs. It was a horrible sight to see. It ended when a speeding truck ran over all three bodies, blood and guts spilled everywhere.
Eventually, they spotted the middle school. Before they could get inside, however, they ran into one of Lynn's roller derby partners Polly Pain.
They ran up to her and asked where Lynn was.
"She went that way." She said, pointing where—to the sisters, it was quite obvious—the elementary school is at.
"Thank you." They said and went on their way. Relieved that they wouldn't have through the horrors of middle school. They were stuck to a group of kids who worked together to fend off any adults coming at them.
Soon they reached to the elementary school. Both girls braced themselves as they went inside. And just like their school. The inside of the elementary school was a massive bloodbath. They tried to ignore the sight around them as they searched through every one of their sibling's classroom. They both shudder at the thought of an infected adult chomping down on one of their siblings. They also passed a few older kids somewhere their age looking desperately on every classroom, possibly finding their siblings as well. At one point they saw a tall boy running frantically around the hall, looking for the exit. They thought whoever he was looking for must have been too late.
Soon, ran to yet another small group of tough-looking teens. Luna and Luan all recognized them clearly, they see them quite a lot in their school and were popular among many.
After greeting each other Luna spoke up. "Have you see our siblings?" She didn't need to explain their names as pretty much everyone in Royal Woods knows who they are.
"No, we didn't worry." Spoke to one of the boys. They knew him as Stanley Parker otherwise calls him Stan for short. Stood at 5'7; fair skin; dark hair and brown eyes; wore a dark blue parka and brown pants. "Have you seen my sister?"
Luan knew his sister as Sally Parker as she attended to her 7th birthday a few months back; saying that she loved Luan's performance. Which she was very thankful for. But just thinking of it makes her sad. "No, sorry."
Before Stan could say anything else, a voice called out to him.
"Stan, come on we have to hurry." A teen spoke up. They look to see three other kids standing by. One of them who called out to Stan was Duke Melville. Stood at 5'8; with light brown hair and green eyes. Wore a red and blue polo shirt and brown khaki pants. He was always so stubborn and a jerk sometimes; self-proclaimed himself the leader of the group.
Next to him stood at 5'8; thick blonde hair that swept sideways; wore a white tank top and dark blue pants that were sagging slightly; Joey Moore was his name. Everyone thought of him as Duke's lover as he always hangs around with him. Another boy, who stood at 5'9 had dark brown hair, green eyes and freckles. Wore a white shirt with the words "Up top" Up top of what? They knew him as Jake Flecks. He was the quarterback of the Royal Woods Football League.
"Okay," Said Stan. "Good luck out there."
Luna and Luan nodded as they went to their separate ways and headed home. And there, they passed several bloody scenes. Dead kids and adults littered around the ground. They made sure they don't come across infected teens and adults. They ran further and passed a crashed burning airplane. They couldn't imagine how many planes wherein the sky when the blast occurred.
They were finally able to reach the house and they saw Mr. Grouse's body lying on the ground. They noticed a small bleeding hole on the back of his head. They assumed someone must have shot him. They reached the door to find it locked, they began to pound on it and scream, hoping that their mom and siblings would be waiting in the house to open the door and greet them.
They were half right.
The Loud House remained silent for a few moments after the story was finished. The thought of their older siblings committing cannibalism was too much to even comprehend. Lincoln couldn't even imagine how hard it must have felt like for his sisters to witness Lori and Leni doing such an atrocious act.
"Excuse me." Said Lisa.
"Yeah?" Asked Luna.
"If I may ask when you saw these infected teens, where they 16 and older?" The child prodigy asked.
"That's what we saw why?"
"If I am correct then this virus only affects people who are of that said age." Said Lisa.
This worried most some of the kids. Luna, especially, since she was two months away from her 16th birthday.
"Would we ever turn into one of them?" Lola asked.
"It's probable, given that the virus latched onto every human on earth no matter the age."
"Wait how did you know?" Said Lana.
"I scanned every one of you and found that the virus is within us," Lisa said. "And most of you have a relatively large quantity of the virus inside of you including myself while one of has an astonishing size."
"That's me right?" Lincoln asked to which Lisa nodded.
"Why you?" Asked Lucy and Lincoln explained why.
"I didn't know it was a virus at that time and I didn't even smell anything."
"Dang, that would explain how you attacked mom-" Lana was about to say but Lola covered her mouth.
"Indeed."
Lynn was gonna say that she encountered two adults who looked perfectly fine. Three if that crazy guy driving a semi-truck was an adult. But decided it wasn't worth mentioning. Right now though, she thought of that story for a moment before coming to a realization. "Why didn't you put them down?"
Everyone stared at her in disbelief.
"What?" Luna said, not believing what she just heard.
"You heard me." She said as she stood up. "Why didn't you end their suffering?"
Now Luna stood up and look as though both kids were about to at each other.
"You expect me to kill my own sisters?" She shouted. Lincoln flinched as he had done the same thing with his mother.
"You would have done them a favour," Lynn said. "Every second of their existence could be pure agony, they could be trapped inside their minds, screaming for mercy, begging for someone to put them out of their fucking misery."
"We don't know that." Luan intervened.
"Yeah," Luna concurred, "For all we know they could be content in their bodies, every one of them could be in their own little happy place, enjoying their life."
Lynn stepped closer to Luna and stared into her eyes.
"Do those...things out there look content to you?" She growled in a cold desolate voice. "Cause I fucking don't."
A tear began to well up in Luna's eyes, causing Lynn to back away.
Luna wished more than anything that she could get the image of Lori and Leni's dead angry scowls out of her mind. But there was no forgetting the looks of reckless abandon in their eyes as they devoured their prey without the slightest hint of remorse.
"You're right," Luna said. "I thought I was doing the right thing by sparing Leni but there wasn't any way for us to get to Lori, but I had my chance to put Leni down, and I blew it, now she's probably going to be forced to crawl around until someone takes the initiative to put her down or until the sun stops shining."
Her younger siblings began to silently weep at the thought of this. Luna hated that thought as well. She also hated the phrase "Put Down". It felt like she was calling her sister a wild animal which she wasn't. At least not the Leni she knew.
Lynn looked down at Luan who had her head buried back to her knees. It must have really hurt when that adult ripped a chunk of her hair. Then she looked at her own. She knew that if she was ever in a situation like Luan, the adults would grab for her ponytail. So the only logical way to do it was to cut it.
Silently making her way upstairs and into the bathroom. She starred at her reflection from the mirror before opening the cabinet and grabbed a pair of scissors. As much as she loves sporting her ponytail, she wouldn't let it be her downfall when it comes to fending off infected people.
So take one last look at her dark brown hair and watched it as she held her ponytail up and pressed the scissors together.
Snip. Was all it took for it to separate. She held her lock of hair and studied it through the sunlight before tossing it away in the waste dump. She looked back into the mirror. Her hair barely the same length as Lisa's. A swirl of thoughts came into her head. Thoughts of both good and bad. Good as she thought of all the records she had broken, and how her parents and siblings were always there to cheer her on, every step of the way. Bad that because of what is happening in the world, her fallen parents and siblings would never be able to cheer for her again.
Her body shook rapidly as tears swell into her eyes. She stares at the scissors and with a loud scream she threw them against the mirror shattering every inch of glass. Lynn stood there her head hung slightly. Her hands clutched tightly to a fist. She let her tears flow for a moment just as a sound of footsteps was heard outside the door.
"Lynn!?" Shouted Luna. "The hell happened!?"
All of the siblings stood in front of the bathroom gawking at her now shortened hair.
"I...decided to get a haircut," Lynn said pointing at her head.
"Okay, well why did you-"
"So I wouldn't end up like her." She answered quickly pointing at Luan who winced.
"Oh," Luna said then looked at the broken mirror. "Care to explain that?"
"Well." Lynn chuckled softly as she rubbed the back of her head before forming a more serious look. "I just a had a lot going in my head and it was stressing me out."
"It's fine dude," Luna said. "We're all very stressed as you are."
Lynn just nodded.
As they all left, Lynn looked back at the broken mirror. She still couldn't forgive herself for not at saving those poor kids that are probably already eaten alive. She imagined herself going inside the elementary school and take out as many adults as she could while kids around her cheered and chanted her name. Oh, well, perhaps one day. She then joined with the rest of her family.
Lincoln stood at the doorway of what is now formerly Lori and Leni's bedroom feeling grim as he scanned through the room. Bits of glass were littered around the floor and some other stuff joined with it. He remembered that once he wound be older and Leni would leave the house. This room would now be his. Guess that's ain't happening now.
He then looked at Lori's bed and thought of his older sister. Just like him, Lori was a person of action. Always trying to control the situation. An authority figure and practically their third parent. She brought order in the loud house when he couldn't.
He never usually say this as he never chooses a favourite. But he kinda always thought of Lori as his favourite. People usually mistake Luna or Lynn as his favourite but that's because he just hangs with them a lot more or in Lynn's case the age gap. And while he loved Lori, there are times where she gets on his nerves. She's always pushy, condescending, irritable, somewhat obnoxious, overused the word "literally" in every sentence and would always spend time on her phone talking to Bobby or whatever. But with all that, she cares deeply about her siblings. She always looked after them, helped them out when their parents weren't around.
Lincoln then thought of their conversation earlier that day just after dropping them off. Of how he was scared of her leaving for college and that they should talk about it later once they got home. A conversation that would never happen.
His eyes fixed on Leni's bed.
Leni, sweet Leni rest her kind soul. She was always thinking of others. Doing her very best even if she wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. But that doesn't mean she couldn't light up a dark room. She was sweet, thoughtful and very easy to convinced. Her ability to make fancy dresses and artistic design makes up for her near lack of intelligence.
She was a skilled artist, fashion designer, and could tell Lincoln pretty much everything about clothes, designs, and great deals at the mall. Lincoln couldn't believe that he was never going to see them again, never going to talk to them nor hear their voices, never going to be able to hug them or kiss them again.
A small tear fell through his cheek as he tried so hard not to break down. Had he known that Lori dropping him off at school or Mom and Dad telling them goodbye would be the last time he'd ever see them. He would have to look them into the eye hug them and tell them I love you.
Taking one last look at the room before closing it. He walked back to his room until he spotted Lisa, Lynn and Luna standing outside of the former's bedroom looking uneasy. They looked like they are talking.
"You sure you can do this?" Asked Luna.
"That is correct, and while the whole town has relinquished any kinds of electricity. I had a backup generator sheltered under my bed." Lisa noted then added. "And I have a few more stored in my bunker."
"How long would it take?" Luna asked.
"Given the current situation, I predict about a month," Lisa answered.
"Okay, so...is it really necessary to use Mom as a test subject," Luna asked
"I have to find out more of this virus and where it originated from. I have to use our mother since she herself was infected." Lisa stated. "And besides all I need is some scanning and blood samples."
"Alright but call us when you want us to bury mom in the backyard," Luna said as she and Lynn walked away.
Lisa then went to her room to collect samples from their dead mother. Lincoln just went back to his room and lay down at his bed. He stared at his hands with unease after Lisa told him of that he had consumed a large amount of the virus. Though she never explained how drastic it affect him, chances are it's pretty bad. He thought back to when he killed his mother out of blind rage, he didn't know what came over him and now that it was because of that virus, he fears that won't be the last time.
Lincoln toss and turn his head on either side and spotted his laptop sitting on top of his cabinet. He grabbed it to find it still working. He scrolls through his screen to find a file that reads photos. He clicked it and shows dozens of photos of him and his family and friends. He smiled solemnly at all the memories he had made.
But that smile soon faded and turned to a look of worry when he saw a picture of him and trying to hold the camera while Ronnie Anne came up from behind and hugged him. His eyes were wide as dinner plates when he suddenly remembers about Ronnie Anne. Now he has another reason to worry about. Was Ronnie Anne okay? He couldn't message her since there were no signal and his phone could still be in his locker and he couldn't go to the city since it is too far away so he wouldn't be sure if she was dead or not. All he could do is just pray that she was alive and well because he would do anything to just see her again.
He looked through his message and find their last conversation this morning. She told him about what they would do for the summer to which he replies by saying not sure. He closed his laptop and stared at the ceiling thinking about Ronnie Anne.
Meanwhile, back in Lisa's room. The young scientist stares at her mother's corpse covered by her blanket. She pulled the sheets out to reveal her mother. She shuddered just by looking at it. She still noticed her neck twisted unnaturally due to the strong whiplash caused by her brother.
As much as Lisa wasn't comfortable of using her mother as a test subject. Especially when she's dead. She wants to know more about how that virus turned her into a bloodthirsty cannibal. Grabbing her gloves she began working.
One Month Later.
June 19, 2020
All kids were in Lori and Leni's bedroom, looking rather anxious at each other. Most were sitting on the floor while others sat on the beds. After Lisa had called a meeting they knew it was something about the virus as she had been working closely on it for the past month. She used their Mother since she was infected. It took her about a day to scan her body before they buried it in the backyard. At one point she mentioned that the virus also affects them but not what they think.
And during that month, they were simply bored out of their minds. Played every board game, let Lucy contact their mom to the other side, or for Lynn and Lincoln's case; going insane and just simply walked around the house. Speaking of Lincoln, he turned 12 two weeks prior. Worst birthday ever am I right? After that thing with Lynn. Luna decided it was best for the other siblings could trim down their hair. Everyone except Lola agreed. It took some convincing to get her to allow them to cut her luxurious hair, as she called it.
Some of them had also changed attire. Luna and Luan no longer wore skirts. The former now wore a dark purple hoodless sweater and light blue pants while the latter wore a long sleeve yellow shirt and blue skinny jeans. Lana, Lincoln, Lisa, Lily and Clyde remained unchanged. Lola wore a pink hoodie and black pants, Lucy wore a light grey hoodie and black skinny jeans and Lynn wore a black and red tank top and black pants.
Now, Lisa cleared her throat to get everyone's attention. They hoped she brought any good news but the scowl on her face says otherwise.
"You may be wondering why I gathered you all here today." Said Lisa.
"Tell us," Said Lincoln.
"Well, after this past week or so, I was able to conclude my analysis on the virus and the results are very interesting, to say the least." Said Lisa grimly as she grabbed her tablet for everyone to look at. It shows an image of inside a human body that they assumed to be their mother. "From my research and study of air velocity, it appears that this virus really did spread around the world." She tapped her finger and zoomed the screen showing green splotches.
"This is the virus, it seemed that when it goes through a person, it becomes permanently attached inside making it part of the human genes. It has also affected the skin pigmentation also known as Melanin which is why their skin turned green" Said Lisa. "The infection also caused inflammation of the brain, rendering all sense of reason and logic obsolete."
"That explains it," Lola said. "But what about all the blood puking?"
"Brain Hemorrhage," Lisa said plainly as Lola cringed in disgust.
"Okay, but can you explain how they were able to run fast? We saw how fast Mr. Grouse could run despite being really old, not to mention his strength." Lana ask
Lisa fixed her glasses. "Frankly, I'm not sure, my theory is that this virus has some level of mutation that caused the body to have abnormal effects." That was all she said.
"So what else does this virus have and can it be cured?" Asked Luna
"As I said a few weeks prior, this virus not just affects older teens and adults but kids and younger teens as well but the only common thing is the increase of strength, speed and reflexes and as for your other question..."
"I cannot cure it," Lisa said shamefully. She went on and say that whatever this virus was so beyond her understandings it almost felt it was extraterrestrial. She then said that it only affects humans as he tested the virus on Charles and other animals lying around. Targeting only humans. Then she looked at the floor with a blank stare.
"I fear that who or what caused this, meant on targeting only humans and the plan was to wipe out the human race." All kids just stood there silently. What Lisa doesn't know is that the virus also has "mental" abilities.
Hours after the meeting, all of the kids sat quietly in the living room figuring out what to do.
"This sucks I can't take this anymore!" Lynn yelled.
"Would you rather take your chances out there?" Luna asked.
"Pfft, Yes," Lynn answered and Luna sighed.
"Are you crazy!?" Screamed Lola. "And besides where would we even go?"
"Anywhere but here!" Lynn clapped back.
Luna wondered if there was anyone else left alive in the town of Royal Woods. It had been a month since they last saw a living person run by their house.
She turned to Lisa. "What do you think?"
"As dangerous as it seems, it's the only option we have," Lisa told her then continued. "We can't stay here very long as our supply has almost depleted. Lisa had foreseen them reacting as they had, anyone would common sense would have wanted it. Asking them to go out there was crazy, but staying was a foolish move.
"Can't we just make this place better?" Lana asked.
Though word like a child, which she is she didn't know why she would think that. Lisa found it to be a fair question.
"We could venture out for supplies, but we'd have to do so on occasional time," Lisa explained. "And each time having to go further and further for resources that might not even be there. We might risk of getting caught by those infected adults."
"Alright, let's vote on whether we should stay or not." Said Lincoln and a majority ruled the latter.
"Excellent, now we gather up every useful supply and then we can leave." Said Lisa. "Hopefully we can find a better shelter and maybe other survivors out there."
The loud family searched their rooms for any stuff they can bring with them. Lincoln grabbed every piece of stuff he can find and put it in his backpack, it wasn't the same one as he bought two in case the one of them got lost. He then grabbed his stuffed animal: Bun-Bun and put it inside, he knew it wasn't useful but he really needed something to hug to. Besides him, Charles lay on Lincoln's bed.
"Get inside, Charles it would be safe," Lincoln said, opening his bag for Charles to get inside, which the dog did just that.
He went outside to meet Clyde holding a bat Lynn gave him.
"Ready?" Said Clyde.
"Am I ever?" Lincoln laughed slightly.
Across the room, Lynn grabbed a golf bag filled with sports items such as Bats, hockey sticks and balls. Lucy meanwhile grabbed a black, leather-bound journal.
"Is that all your gotta take?" Asked Lynn raising an eyebrow.
"We'll face many if not an endless amount of dark days coming for us and I'm gonna make sure I record every moment of it," Lucy said. "Along with some screwdrivers and my knife."
"Wait what-"
Lucy pulled out a black-handled, half-foot long, sharp hunting knife.
"Where did you get that?" Lynn asked.
"Uh...found it in the woods?" She smiled sheepishly making Lynn's eyes narrowed to a slit as she went outside to meet Lincoln and Clyde. When she was certain she was alone, she turns to her burst of Edwin and kissed it goodbye. As much as she doesn't want to leave it behind, she wouldn't expect it to carry along with her.
Across the room, Luna decided to bring her guitar with her. So she can use it to slam any adults coming for her. Luan wanted to bring Mr. Coconuts, but what use can he be? She was about to put it inside her box but another idea came to her.
She went into Lynn and Lucy's room just Lynn went outside and she spotted Lucy kissing her statue of Edwin.
"You didn't see me kiss Edwin, did you?" She asked embarrassed at what she did.
"Maybe?" Luan smiled sheepishly.
"Sigh," Lucy covered her face as Luan held up her dummy.
"Is it okay to leave Mr. Coconuts here with Edwin?"
Lucy looked for a moment then said. "Sure,"
Luan smiled and rested the dummy on Lucy's bed. "Hey, handsome." She made the dummy say.
"Thanks for leaving me with the vampire if I was left in that case I would've gotten so bored. Get it?" He laughed to which Lucy nodded.
Luan made Mr. Coconuts face Edwin."I sure hope my jokes aren't abused."A slight smile formed on Lucy's face."Goodbye, Mr. Coconuts." Luan said.
"Take care of Edwin for me," Lucy told the dummy.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure nothing sucky happens to him.
Luan and Lucy then left the room, closing the door behind them. Just as Mr. Coconut and Edwin faced each other.
"So, wanna get some ice cream?"
Lana decided to bring her lucky wrench she named big bertha along with a tool belt with her. Along with her pet frog Hops, and Izzy. Unfortunately, she wouldn't be able to bring all her other pets with her, since they were nowhere to be found.
Lola wanted to bring her car with her but she knew it wouldn't be that much use. Instead, she grabbed a metal staff that is about two feet wide and is retractible.
Lisa grabbed every Lisa gathered up as much of her science equipment as she could and some notebooks, along with her laser gun with her.
Since Lily doesn't have that many stuff to bring as she was only a toddler. She decided to bring her purple blanket and stuff giraffe.
"Come on Lily, we have to go." Said Lisa grabbing Lily's hand.
"Okay."
Once they were all packed, they gathered in the living room. Lynn distributed her spare baseball bats to Luna, Luan and Lincoln. Soon they all went outside, but not before Luna takes one last look at the living room and the door to the backyard.
Goodbye Mom.
Lincoln looked around and there was nobody in sight. They were certain an adult would come and attack them but so far there weren't any. Other than the decomposed body of Mr. Grouse and a few others laying on the side.
"Guess we're walking huh?" Said Lynn when she remembers that vanzilla is still in the high school parking lot.
"Not exactly." Said Lincoln and pointed at Mr. Grouse's house. "We can use his car."
"Does it even work? it has been a long time since the apocalypse happened." Asked Lynn.
"It's only been a month and I hope it works." Spoke Lincoln.
They all ran quietly over to his house, luckily the front door was unlocked so they didn't have to risk breaking the door down and possibly alert any nearby infected. They found his keys hanging on a rack beside the door to his garage opened and could faintly see his car parked in the darkness.
They all had to lift the garage door up, manually. Once the afternoon sunlight filled the garage, they all went inside and placed their stuff with them. It was nowhere as big as Vanzilla so the younger siblings had to sit on the older siblings' laps, while Luan sat in the passenger seat and Luna sat in the driver's seat.
Seeing as she was the oldest, and had already learning how to drive, she would have to drive the car.
She placed the key into the ignition, the car rumbled loudly every time she turned the key. She was worried that the sound would attract adults. Once upon a time or 2 weeks ago, she and Lynn were trying to make a campfire in the backyard and two zombies tried to crawl into the fence. Luckily by the fifth try, the car boomed to life.
Luna smiled as the sound reverberated through the garage.
She shifted the car into reverse and began to back out. The car was annoyingly loud, and she prayed that they weren't announcing their presence to every adult within a five-mile radius.
"This sound always drives me crazy." Luan laughed followed by her familiar get it.
For once they actually laughed at her jokes. They really need some positivity to keep them from thinking about all the pain and misery they had witnessed in a course of a single day.
As they drove away Luna looked in the rear-view mirror and watched the house shrink away, all her siblings looked back to see the house shrink away as well.
The Loud House.
The place where they spent their entire lives, the place that held so many memories good, bad, funny, and sad. They thought of their mom lying dead on the floor, and all the things they'd left behind. Hopefully, someday they would be able to return to their home, their place of happiness.
Hopefully.
Chris sat quietly on his chair, staring at the blank television screen, his arms on either side of his knees. One month in and he was running low on meat. He was really frustrated that this had to happened when he planned to pray on more kids later that night. Guess that's the downside of a fucking zombie Invasion huh? As he was sitting, he heard the sounds of footsteps walking right by his house, accompanied by the sounds of something dragging.
Grabbing his pistol he looked through the window and spotted an adult dragging the body of a dead fat kid.
So juicy. Chris though. Wish I could eat that kid.
The adult suddenly stopped and turned towards his house and knocked on his door.
That's my cue. Chris readied his gun and stood in front of his door and slowly reached for the knob.
I know you in there. A voice called out to him
WHAT THE FUCK!? Chris screamed in his mind as he accidentally dropped his gun before grabbing it. Am I going nuts!?
No, your not, The voice in his head answered.
What the hell do you want!?
I just wanna share this big and delicious kid with you.
Chris thought back to when he was at his job and all the adults were fighting over the kids, sharing was the last thing they wanted to do.
How do I know you're not just gonna attack me?
I'm won't, I just wanna share this with you.
Well, why me?
I can sense your vibes, The adult answered, you're giving off more energy than any adult I've encountered. You're what I call a natural-born leader and I would be honoured to give you this kid as an offering.
Chris thought for a moment before grunting. I still don't trust you.
I can see that. So as a show of good faith, I'll leave this kid's body here and walk away from the door.
Chris heard the adult set the dead kid down and take a few steps back. He then looked out his window and saw the adult standing on the sidewalk. He appears to be in his 50s as Chris can see the wrinkles on his face. He looked short about 5'6 has gray hair that recedes above his forehead. He wore a light blue turtle neck and brown coat, black pants and white tattered sneakers. When the adult noticed him looking he smiled and waved. His face looked sick and pale and the smile only added to his creepiness factor.
Chris opened the door pointing the gun at the adult as he dragged the body inside and closed the door immediately once inside, all in less than half a minute.
Chris wondered what there could be to talk about and then looked down at the fresh meat and smiled.
This should be interesting.