Look out!" It was Tyler that yelled first.

Eric turned around, and found himself face to face with his former sergeant. Only it wasn't his sergeant anymore. The zombie's head was still bowed, but now it was cracking its neck from side to side, and its eyes were fluttering, like it was just waking up from a dream. Then it looked up, and turned its ghastly eyes on the three humans.

It let out a roar and moved forward. Eric dived back and let a few bullets loose from his deagle, which ripped right into the zombie sergeant's belly. It thrashed around wildly, kncoking down the supports for the tent as the tarp started to cave in on them.

The rain was at its worst, drumming endlessly against the ground around them.

More bullets went off, but the gigantic zombie never fell. It roared and moved forward again. This time, it grabbed marissa. Eric and Tyler couldn't even see what was happening as they struggled to get out from underneath the tarp.

Marissa tried to fight back but her strength was useless as the zombie bit a large chunk out of her arm.

Letting out a piercing scream, she mustered her last reserve of strength and pulled free. The rest of the tarp fell down onto the zombie's head,

distracting it for a bit, as a bewildered Marissa looked down to the huge wound on her arm. To her right, she could see what she thought was more zombies coming in from around the side of the compound.

Oh god, oh god, oh god.....

She was starting to lose it. She wanted to hide, to be away from this nightmare suddenly. She prided herself on being tough, but right now, she felt only one thing.

Fear.

Then she started to run as fast as she could from the tent site, and she never stopped to look back to see if her friends were ok.

She heard someone yelling at her, trying to call her back, but she wasn't listening.

Meanwhile, Tyler had finally managed to get the annoying, wet tarp off him, but now both Marissa, and the big zombie were gone. Eric was there though, a few feet away, staring off into the direction that Marissa had run off to.

Pain surged up through Tyler's arm.

When the tarp had fell, he'd fallen to, and had smashed his arm against the ground. It wasn't broken, but the pain was distracting him from the hulking figure coming up behind him.

The huge zombie's teeth came barrelling for the back of Tyler's neck.

Blood splashed through the air.

Tyler ducked out of the way as the colt bullets shredded into Zombie Sarge a second before the creature was about to bite into the back of his neck. More colt bullets went off. Zombie Sarge let out a pained roar and then finally collapsed to the ground. Tricia came out from under one of the flaps of the tent, and slowly lowered her colt. "Geez, do I always have to save you guys?"

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Craig was standing by the viewport of the doorway, trying to get a good look outside, but he could only see darkness.

Ocassionally, the lightning would illuminate some compound or some tent. But there was no sign of the others.

Something's wrong..

A voice from behind him, "They should've been back by now." It was Tex.

Craig gave him a "No Shit" look before turning back to the viewport. Again, there was only darkness.

But this time, when the lighting crackled, he could make out a figure, kneeling in the rain,about 10 feet in front of the base.

"Christ, it's Marissa." Craig slammed open the door and ran outside to help her.

She was shivering and using her jacket as a blanket. Tex followed out after him as Craig knelt down and wrapped his arms around her, "Marissa...Marissa! Are you ok!"

She wasn't answering. She was staring off into space. Her face was pale and her skin was cold. Her eyes were almost a pitch black but Craig didn't notice.

"Help me get her inside!" Tex nodded and helped Craig pick the shivering Marissa up and bring her into the base. Then, they laid her down on a bench in the main foyer.

Craig was frantic, "She needs help! She... I... I need to get her a blanket or something, she's going to catch pneumonia." Craig turned towards the doorway. He was one step closer to leaving the room when he heard the scream from behind him.

He turned back around, and his eyes went wide.

Tex was standing there, eyes open in pain, and Marissa was standing behind him, her teeth buried in the trucker's throat.

(Author's Note: mwaha, just when you thought there wasn't going to be any character deaths - )