Real Survival Horror

Chapter 5

'Jill's' Mercy

The library was always quiet, but when ever the silence was broken before it was met with annoyance from the library assistant, this time it was the walking corpse of the library assistant that broke the silence in the library as Beth entered through the main door, at this point she began to wonder why she had taken this route, all the doors on the ground floor had been welded shut and there was no other way for her to escape. She had left her friends to die, this was not what she wanted, she was suffering major confusion. She began to think back to the beginning of the day, when before everything turned into a living nightmare.

Her day started off like normal, she had turned up late to college so she had to sign herself in at the main desk, she walked up to the main desk and rang the bell, it was quiet because every one was in class. No one had answered her bell call, so she shouted through the door impatiently

"hey! Is anybody back there?" she didn't get an answer, she began to ring the bell over and over again, she had a bored look on her face, all she wanted was to be seen to and to get to class. Beth was growing increasingly impatient, the way into the office behind the main desk was through a door, Beth thought that if she was going to be seen to she would have to go through into the office, she was now ten minutes late. She walked over to the door and put her hand on the handle, there was a notice on the door that read, 'no entry to students' she turned the door knob and began to walk in, all of a sudden a hand grabbed her shoulder, Beth, being immediately cautious grabbed the hand, with out looking, and punched the person grabbing her in the stomach, to her fright she realised that she had just punched and winded the college head master, Dick Smith. Dick, leaned over in pain,

"That's it young lady, come with me to my office" he took a breath, "now!" Beth looked sheepish, she bit her bottom lip with a nervous look on her face.

Beth was sat in a not so comfortable chair in the head masters office, Dick entered through the door and walked over to the filing cabinet, he pulled out an incident form and slapped it on the desk in front of her,

"you'll need to fill this in, but before you do that, would you mind explaining to me what you where doing walking round the college while class is on, walking through door prohibited to students and punching your truly?" the head master explained

"I am so sorry sir" Beth pleaded, "I've had a bad morning, I woke up late I missed the bus, I..." Beth was interrupted before she could finish explaining,

"its not good enough, you should have set your alarm earlier shouldn't you..." the head master said looking down as she wrote her name on the incident form, "... Bethany"

Beth looked up,

"I know sir it wont happen again" she assured him

"damn right it wont happen again!" the head master shouted at her, "you are suspended until I see fit for you to come back, I'll let you know in a letter"

"don't you thing that is a bit harsh!" Beth shouted at the head master, Dick walked over to the phone,

"now we can add answering back to the charge" he took out a file with her home phone number on it, "I'm getting your parents on the phone right now" Beth buried her head into her hands and let out an aggravated groan, "there is something wrong with the phone" the head master said putting it back on the hook, "I'll be right back, you stay here" he opened the door and all of a sudden he was pushed back a two people, covered in blood, oozing from cuts and bite marks, Beth took a good look at these people, it was Dick's secretary and one of the college teachers. Dick was being pushed back and was mauled by both of the zombies over his desk, blood spilt all over the floor and the desk was turned upside down. Beth backed up into a corner and watched as Dick's body fell limp and lifeless. When the desk upturned one of the draws opened and a handgun fell out onto the floor a few feet in front of Beth. Beth grabbed the gun and pointed it at the two zombies, they began to advance on her, she aimed the gun at one of their heads and pulled the trigger, the zombie took the bullet and dropped backwards to the floor, its head crashing down like a lead weight. Soon after Beth did not hesitate to shoot the second zombie in the same way, after doing so she crashed down to her knees into tears.

Now all alone she is wandering around the college looking for a way out. For after the incident she tried to get out and found that all the doors had been mysteriously welded and boarded shut. If she can find away out on the second floor, she could get out of this hell hole, she had only been in there for a couple of hours, but to her it felt like an eternity. She turned and looked at the zombified library assistant, which was trying to crawl over the library desk to get to her, she upped her gun and shot it in the head, without remorse, she knew he was now no more than a mindless, flesh craving zombie.

Mean while on the ground floor, Phill Rob and John where walking down the dilapidated corridor, the sound of moaning zombies had become louder then ever, it was no longer silent and none of them felt safe at all. John began to fade,

"John, don't give up on us now, we're nearly there" Rob said to him while carrying him,

"my head hurts" John moaned, "does any one have a paracetamol?" he asked

"no, but I'm sure we can find some in here" Phill took his crowbar to the nurses office door, and prized it open, he was suddenly jumped by the nurse, she was a zombie, luckily Phill had had his crowbar pointing out at about head height, the nurse had placed all her weight on the crowbar and it had impaled it self through her weak skull. Rob and John stepped back in horror, Phill had the body of the nurse resting on him, his eyes where wide open with shock,

"holy shit, I'm gonna need therapy when I get out of here" he pushed the body of the nurse off him and pulled the crowbar out of her skull, he walked in a stuck his hand into the cupboard and through John a box of paracetamol, "now remember only take two every 4 hours" while Phill was saying this John was devouring half the packet, Phill shook his head

"it really hurts" John said look at them both.

They eventually passed the toilets,

"hey, the toilet windows are pretty big, maybe we could climb through those" Phill suggested. They ran into the toilets, it was dark, Phill flicked on the light, and he looked around the top windows of the toilets,

"FUCK!" Phill swore, all the windows in the toilets had been boarded up and welded shut, "how the hell are we gonna get out now?" Rob walked over to Phill,

"there is still that secret way out on the piece of paper" he reassured him

"yea but I was hoping we wouldn't have to walk all the way through the college" Phill said with a tired look on his face, he had seen to much in this college, his only desire is to get out, he is starting to feel like it will be his last desire.

John was now walking around on his own, his over dose of paracetamol had helped subside the pain, he looked in the corner of the toilet and noticed a welder, a box of nails and a hammer,

"hey you two, look here" John called them over, Phill and Rob walked over to John, "who ever did all this left behind a few props"

"it was Ben and Mike, those bastards!" Rob cursed while kicking one of the urinals,

"I have an idea" John said running into one of the cubicles, he pulled off the top of one of the toilets and pulled out the big metal ball, he also ripped off the flushing chain the hung down beside the toilet, he came back and he unscrewed the ball and took the nails, he threaded the nails through the ball to make them stick out, then he screwed both the halves of the ball together and welded it to the chain. He picked up his new creation and swung it around, "my new weapon", John boasted, he had created a swinging mace, both Phill and Rob smiled,

"its good to see that blow to your head hasn't affected your brain power John" Phill said, "now make me one".

Upstairs Beth has just cleared the library, she is now in the IT rescores department of the college, all the computers were turned off and all the lights were off, it was dark, but seemed untouched by zombies. Beth heard a quiet whimpering coming from the administrate office of the IT room. She walked over to the room and opened the door, there was a girl her age inside, the girl screamed and backed off when Beth opened the door, but then again Beth did open the door while pointing a gun out ready to shoot any threat. Beth just looked at her and began to turn around,

"wait!" the girl shouted, "where are you going?" she had a tearful face, her eyes and nose were red from constant rubbing,

"I need to get out of here, and I'm going alone" Beth said as she started to walk away, the girl scuttled out on her knees and grabbed Beth's Arm,

"please take me with you, I'm so scared" the girl pleaded, Beth pointed her gun at her,

"let go of me" she said coldly, the girl jumped backwards,

"my boyfriend went to get help, I haven't heard from him in over an hour" the girl said crying. Beth looked at the scared girls face, she began to feel sorry for her, she sat down in front of her,

"whats your name?" Beth asked

"Keeley" replied the girl, sniffling, Beth put her hand on Keeley's shoulder

"come on then Keeley, we need to get moving now" Beth said

"no, I cant go until Danny gets back" just then Keeley's eyes lit up, "Danny!" she shouted, Beth turned around to see Danny standing behind them. All of a sudden Danny dropped him self on Beth, and tried to bite her, Keeley screamed, she knew this wasn't her boyfriend, especially when she saw the top of his head and noticed it was open and she could see his brains, he was a zombie

"help me!" Beth struggled the zombie was nearing her neck, Keeley hesitated, she didn't know what to do. Eventually she grabbed a box of pencils from the top of the desk next to her took out all the pencils and rammed them into the open head wound, the zombie, fell limp onto Beth, Beth pushed off the zombie,

"thanks" she said

"don't", Keeley said back I just had to kill my boyfriend, I don't think any body should be thanking me and I defiantly don't wanna be thanked!" Keeley began to shout, "now get me out of here!"