Chapter 2

Status Check

Bill-Dead

Lauren-The living Dead

Jake-Alive

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Lauren went in for another bite, but before she could Jake pushed her off of him and jumped out of the dumpster to find snarling dogs below..he began to panic as Lauren grabbed hold of his leg, he shook her off, and noticed their was a ladder hanging off of the building the dumpster was next to. Taking advantage of this he quickly grabbed hold and climbed up about halfway. He looked down as Lauren managed to stand up Out of the dumpster, and let out a moan of hunger. David felt a sharp pang of sadness in his heart, but he ignored it and climbed all the way to the top of the building..when he got to the top it was empty.

He sat up there for a while, just letting in what happened. Eventually after thinking about all of his good-memories with lauren. He fell into a deep-sleep the first he had gotten in over 48 hours. When he awoke his mouth was stale. He had made up how he would spend his final day..he figured he was safe as long as he spent his time on roof-tops and not on the ground that often. Jake Climbed down the ladder on the building, below the dogs were gone, and so was lauren. When he thought of lauren, he remembered the bite he had on his shoulder. It throbbed with fast pain, as if it had just been made. He realized that maybe killing himself had 2 advantages. First it would end all this torment he Is seeing, and it would prevent him from turning into one of them.

When he reached the bottom, he quickly set out onto the main Street. The helicopter was still burning, and the burning women's body parts were lying in various places across the street. No sign of Zombies, crazy hunter things, licker thing, or those fucking dogs, and boy was Jake glad. He strolled down the street before coming to a café that had been hurt but not bad enough to grab some bagels that had not gone stale. He sat on the edge of the Street, just chewing as slow as possible on the bagel, trying to make it last. After Jake finished he stood up, and started walking down the street which was lined with cars, most of the doors were open. He expected to find Keys to them fairly quickly, and he did. He found keys to a 1992 Ford Explorer. He got in the car, and turned the ignition. The car sparked to life and Jake pulled out onto the street, and began to drive as far as he could. He drove slow incase any survivors were on the street.

He drove by a bank, and found out it was around 5:30 at night. It would be dark soon, and he was sure they would be coming out after him. If they weren't already out after him, Jake slammed on the breaks as a body laid in the road 10 feet in front of the explorer. He examined the thing on the ground. When he was driving up it looked like a normal human body around 5'5", but this thing was huge. It must have been 8 feet tall, and the thing was writhing, its 7 inch veins were pumping in and out of its skin. The Thing, whatever it was slowly rose to its feet, it easily towered over the car. Terrified, Jake slammed down on the gas pedal, speeding towards it, The thing moved out of his way, And looked at him with such a chilling stare, Jake almost crashed. He watched as the thing continued to stare at him through his rear-view mirror. Then the thing gave chase. Oh my was it fast, it must be running at least twice as fast as the car, because it was caught up to the car within 4 seconds. Instead of grabbing onto the back of the car, it ran up along side the car. The thing was now face to face with Jake, running alongside the car. Jake slammed on the brakes, but the thing was too smart. It Jumped up into the air at least ten feet, nearly a split second before Jake hit the brakes. The thing came down with a sickening crash onto the explorer's roof. The impact shattered the front wind-shield.

Jake knew he had nowhere to go, he was doomed. He couldn't drive, the thing would catch up. He couldn't stay it would kill him, he couldn't run it would catch him, and then things got worse. Another one of those things turned the corner. Staring directly at the car. It also began to bound towards the car, Jake had no choice. Jake slammed down on the brakes and began to drive as fast as he could, but the Thing on top of the car held tightly. Jake Screamed in fright as the thing managed to stand up on-top of the car, while it was going around 67 miles an hour. Then the other one was catching up. The Thing on top of the car, punched a hole straight through the top of the explorer, Its huge monstrous hand coming inches from Jake's face.

Then Jake saw it, up above a ramp heading straight down under the streets. Why it was there, he didn't care, because he was going in. As he drove the car underneath it caught air knocking the monster off the top of the roof as it slammed hard back down, and Jake Drove straight into pitch-blackness.