Authors' note: This is only the first half of Chapter 14. I'd put the whole chapter in, but I haven't made a update in ages, and there's the fact that this chapter will take another few weeks to complete. Sorry about that. I hope to have part 2 finished by the weekend (15th/16th March).                                                      

                                                                 Chapter 14: The Gravediggers' Retaliation Part 1

Le Rocquier School, 8.05pm

Andre proceeds out into the staff room. It was just like they always tell you-mini kitchen in the corner, loads of soft chairs in a circle around the room, computers lined up against one side.

Just by the kitchen was a door that led to more rooms sealed off to old Johnny student. He tried the door. It was locked.

'Damn.' Andre thought. He stared down at the gun. The idea of blowing the lock off sounded good, but he had gone through a few bullets beforehand. And if he met that worm again-

Don't even think about it, boy.

Andre sighed. There was another door at the back of the room. He entered and looked around.

It was a small room. Computers lined up against two walls and shelves of files against another. On the left wall was another door that led further and in front of him was a door that led out to the staff car park.

He tried the door on the left. Again, locked.

Damn! Looks like there's only one way out now.

He turned towards the door, which led to the staff car park, then looked around the room. It was only then that he discovered the black duffle bag.

"Hmm, what could be in this bag?" Andre said, ignoring the fact that the line was painfully clichéd, and then opened the bag.

His smile went even wider when he took a closer look in the bag.

Three 5.56mm rounds, seven grenades, a .54 pistol with five 9mm clips and five 9mm rounds are in the bag. He puts the .54 and ammunition in his backpack, intending to give it to Craig when he sees him, and puts three 9mm clips in his bag, and two in his pockets. He puts a fresh magazine in his Glock and checks the computers.

They were all broken, and upon closer inspection, appear to have their CPU's forcefully broken into and destroyed. The files were just normal teaching records, and didn't have any thing useful in them.

Having double-checked his armament, Andre proceeds into the car park.

Le Rocquier School, 8.21pm

In the near-distance, Andre spots two zombies. A teacher and a student. He aims carefully and fires. Took five shots for the both of them.

He proceeds onward, and just as he gets to the centre of the car park. A rumbling noise and heavy vibrations shake the area.

Oh, shit.

The creature of nightmares emerges from the ground as Andre holds on to a nearby car for support.

Suddenly, the massive worm wiggled- no, smashed- it's way out of the ground violently and lurched from side to side. It looked towards Andre for a second. It was pointed at him for a second before making a loud screeching sound and throwing its' head back.

Andre was paralysed with fear when he saw it throw its head back. He tried to move but he couldn't, when…

Goddamnit, move!

Andre suddenly 'awoke' and threw himself away from the path of the creature. It slammed into the ground and burrowed under again. Andre forced himself to unholster his pistol and fired three rounds into its tail. Andre slowly got up and started to move, circling around his position.

The gravedigger rose up behind Andre. He turned around quickly and fired five shots into it, before diving out of the way as the Gravedigger crashed into the car behind him.

"Fuckfuckfuck!" Andre screamed, and it would be an understatement when I say that Andre was mildly startled when he saw a Ford Mondeo fly thirty feet into the air before calling the heed of Gravity and crashing back down into the music department.

"Ah, to hell with this." Andre screamed, raising his handgun and firing nine rounds into his mouth. It quietly screeched before slamming into the ground again.

"God, this is gonna go on forever." Andre said. "There MUST be another way."

Andre thought quickly before an idea flashed into his head.

Grenades!

Andre reached into his bag and pulled out a grenade. The monster, sure enough, pulled out three seconds later.

"Hey, bitch! Come and get it!" Andre screamed.

The Gravedigger screeched and lunged towards him. Andre pulled the pin out of the Grenade and threw it, dodging out of the way at he same time.

Just as he had predicted, the Gravedigger caught the grenade in its' mouth and burrowed underground.

Andre didn't have to wait long before he had the self-explanatory BOOM.

The Gravedigger lurched out of the ground. It had a large hole in its' body and it was bleeding profusely.

It was swinging from side to side, but it wasn't dead yet. Using the pistol would take far too much time, and the Grenades were pointless, because he wouldn't be able to get a clear throw.

It was starting to recover.

Andre was backed into a corner.

He looked around, trying to find an answer, when something caught his eye.

A dead body and a bullpup-style assault rifle. It had a sniper scope and a magazine was loaded.

Andre ran towards the rifle and picked it up. He pointed it up at the worm and put his finger on the trigger.

I just hope it's not empty.

Blamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblamblam!

The gun played its' repetitive tune as the lead impacted into it's body, every squelch as the metal hit flesh was like a small squeak of hope.

Blamblamblamblamblamblamclick.

The worm screamed in pain and thrashed around, in obvious anguish. It thrashed, screamed and collapsed into the bins.

He got up, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He checked the rifle again. It was a Steyr AUG. It had a Sniper scope and it's magazine was behind the trigger. He removed the empty magazine and replaced it with a fresh one he found earlier.

He looked the dissolving creature, sighed, and walked off.

To be continued…