Tales of the Eighth Grade Rock Hill Marching band.
It was Christmas Eve when the 8th grade marching band members (and the band director and a couple of high schoolers) pulled to a stop on the way to a Christmas gig in Racoon City. They stopped because the snow had pushed so hard on the windshield that it cracked. So David Michael Pemberton and Cody Ingles each grabbed an ice scraper that Mr. Jones was holding out towards them.
They got off of the bus and started scraping the ice off. Out of no where we heard 2 rather girly screams, and then blood was splattered onto the window. All of a sudden, a rather large dog burst through the windshield. The glass fragments shattered, landing in the bus driver's throat.
The dog had something in its mouth. It was David Michaels head in its mouth, blood still dripping from the freshly decapitated head. I jumped at the dog, and so did Billy. We were the only ones at the front. Except for Mr. Jones, everyone else was at the back of the bus. Billy grabbed the dog's head as it lunged for Mr. Jones. Billy ripped its head into two pieces then threw it out the still open door.
Someone from the back shouted, "Let's get outta here!"
Mr. Jones drove the rest of the way to Racoon City. On the way, I acted like I was sleeping, but was really listening to Ashton telling everyone the rumors she had heard about Racoon City. While I lay back in my seat, she told them about a genetic research facility called Umbrella Corp. I thought to myself "Where have I heard that name before?"
She told them about an experiment that had gone wrong and let out a mutagen that made people turn into zombie like creatures. Then I remembered where I had heard it before. "It was on the news years ago." I turned to look up front nothing was in our way ahead.I wondered if this outbreak was what the old marching band had to put up with at the last gig at Racoon City?
The last one had involved the entire old marching band members some of them lived to tell about it but were put in insane asylums because they went crazy from the stress. One that never came back from the trip was Brandon Coffee. If this outbreak is anything like the old one then we better find a gun store in Racoon City before they can get us.
We arrived at Racoon city and we stayed on guard for anything suspicious. We went into the hotel, and it was packed with people. When we went up to our rooms, I told C.J. that I thought we were doomed if we didn't find a gun store soon. He just shook his head at me and said, "Your freaking crazy". So, obviously, he was going to die if he didn't realize soon that the zombie dog had to be one of umbrella corps, ecscaped projects.
I told Ashton what I had told C.J. She believed me, so we went searching for an ammunition store. We found one, but it was closed for repairs. We went back to the hotel, got Mr. Jones, and asked him if he remembered what had happened. He told us what had happened the last time he was in Racoon City with the marching band. So we told him what we thought and he told us not to worry, he knew another way in.
So the next morning, which was Christmas day, we went to the stores and bought our friends a gift. While everyone was out shopping, Mr. Jones showed us the secret way in. It wasn't really a secret, just go into the building next to it and go through the gaping hole Davy had made when they were here last. We went back to the hotel and got 4 duffel bags then took them to the gun shop and filled them with guns, and ammunition I filled one with nothing but revolvers.
We took them back to the hotel and asked Mr. Jones to tell the band what we were planning, so he stood up on a chair and said, "Quiet down! We are getting prepared for a zombie invasion. Racoon City was overrun by them last time thanks to Umbrella Corp. Now we must prepare! Everyone, get the guns that will most suit you." He then got down and we unzipped the duffel bags and set them out.
I grabbed many revolvers and 82 cartriges of ammo. We had to make another trip just to get more ammo for everyone. I filled my trench coat with revolvers and a grenade launcher. I looked out my window and to my suprise no one was panicing or anything, so I went downstairs as a look out and grabbed someone to talk to them and their shoulder came off in my hand!
He turned to me and said, "Now why did you do that?" I looked into his eyesockets. There was nothing there! I pulled out a revolver and shot into the air 3 times. That was the sign for zombies. Everyone came down while the people in the streets scattered.They kept asking, "Why did you alert us? There are no zombies here." I said, "Oh yeah? Watch this!" I ran and grabbed one of the scattering people and tore their arm off. Then shot it in the head. They're all zombies!!!!
The whole band ran into the crowd. We searched for a building, which had a umbrealla as an insignia. We ran towards that building and shot down the door. There were zombies with huge claws pointed at us. "Looks like they knew we were coming."We all pulled out revolvers and fired into the crowd of huge clawed zombies.
Wenoticed a spiky hair zombie that looked as if it were someone we should've known. It stopped,then picked up a barrel of what I guess was the T- virus, as Mr. Jones told us it was called. It hit Ashton square in the head and busted, so we shot her. Out of nowhere, a zombie dug its claw into C.J. and Britany Bentine. Then out of nowhere a giant dog leaped up and bit Bob on the shoulder. We shot her in the head thinking she was going to become a zombie anyways.
We ran for our lives up a nearby stairway. At the top it was barred!! We had to find another way up, or we were sure to die. Everyone went back down and started shooting again whileI thought of a plan. Then, to my suprise, Rebecca said, "Why don't you use that?" She pointed the bulge in my coat where my grenade launcher happened to be.I nodded, then pulled it out and aimed it at the bars. I stepped down the stairs and fired. We ran through the now gaping hole. The stairs collapsed as we ran up them. As the last person took a step to jump, the stairs collapsed on her. It was Nikki! She was crushed by the stairs. We looked down at her deformed body with wood sticking through her head and her stomach.
I noticed the zombies were standing on each others backs to get up to us!!! We ran as far as we could, then the spiky haired zombie appeared. Mr. Jones said "Brandon, I know we left you to die. But its not our fault, its umbrella corp. Why dont you help us destroy them." Brandon came closer and closer, then he attacked! We all had our revolvers out. We pulled the trigger many times, but he still kept coming closer and closer. He wouldn't stop, so Mr. Jones pulled out a shotgun and pulled the trigger 2 times. Brandon fell dead (again). Mr. Jones just grinned; we all gazed at him with our mouths gaping.
Samantha pulled out a revolver and finally spoke. She said, "We better gets going." We all ran to a door, which had a biochemical sign on it. We stayed away from that door. The group ran down the corridor.Seeing another giant clawed zombie, we shot him with everything we had. As we ran down the hall, we ran through a door and we were in a pure white room. There was a mirror in the room and we heard a contorted voice that Mr. Jones recongnized instantly. It was Brandon!
We were about to shoot the mirror when we heard clicking all around and we realized we were surounded by zombies! We pulled out our ammo clips, but they hit them out of our hands! We scrambled around, and to our suprise, they didnt attack us. They just had chains in there hands. "Too bad we didnt get to play that gig," said Rebecca. Brandon laughed. "There was no gig, you fool.I tricked you all into coming here so I could get my revenge on the rookies. Teach them what we went through."
"How do you control those zombies?" asked Mr. Jones. " I am one of them, or at leastI am part one of them." The mirror raised and we saw Brandon. His face was so contourted, it looked as if he had been bathed in acid, his skin was hanging loosely off of his body. He clicked his fingers and the zombies with the chains wrapped each of us one by one in chains. Nobody noticed we were all staring at Brandon Coffee or what used to be him.
We were taken outside by a huge Christmas tree and were hung on the tree by the chains like ornaments. Under us we felt heat, and out of nowhere the tree was set ablaze. As it was set ablaze we heard chinooks, the military hilicopters, swooping down. They used water hoses to put out the tree. They had come to save us! Mr. Jones said, "I guess they heard about the recent outbreak and came to save us." We were pulled onto the helicopters by military men. As soon as all of us were on the helicopters, they ordered the command for an atomic bomb to be dropped.Then we got out of the city and out of range of the bomb.When we got out of range, we saw a huge missle falling from the sky it hit the city and blew up.