A Strange Adventure 2: Dawn of the Dead
By NocturneD/WINGZ
Note: Well I got a better start than the other story with my story ideas being introduced to this section. I definitely caught a few people's attention with my style and made a few friends because of it, also with the finish of the previous story I hope people know what is up ahead with the series.
Rated Pg-13: (Violence, cheap gore, language)
That afternoon everything was going smoothly so far but the down side is that almost half of the school children and staff didn't bother to show up. Perhaps the news of the attacks frightened the town's people to the extreme, no one can be sure where the creatures might strike next but it is certain that the easy targets are the small children or the weak elderly.
Meanwhile Mr. Ratburn was trying to teach his very limited class his new lesson plan but due to the size it was very fun to the man. Pretty much the only children that showed up for class was Brain, Muffy, Buster, Binky, Fern, and Francine, no one else bothered to show. To the lack of size Mr. Ratburn declared it a free day and spent the rest of the day looking out the window for anything suspicious. The thoughts going through his mind were logical thinking why did they still have school in the first place if at least only one fourth of the class will show? He could dismiss the class entirely for the rest of the week if he had too but with the school system being a bitch these days, education has to come first.
Now Mr. Ratburn was a man who loved to teach but under the condition of the society it was starting to get to him, fearing for his own life even as he got into his car this morning and drove to work. The children spent the rest of the period just reading and doing left over homework quietly, well except for Buster bothering the Brain.
"Man, I never knew our town could be all freaked out because of this. Just like the time we were cursed by the Tooth Fairy." Buster whispered to his friend.
"Tooth Fairy Buster?" Brain stopped writing and looked at his crazy friend with a smirk.
"Yeah, you remember the story about the Tooth Fairy of her sneaking into a kid's room at night when they lose a tooth and put it under their pillow. She would give you some money in exchange for the tooth but if you saw her face she would kill you in a split second!" Buster explained.
"Buster you got that from a movie we watched on TV three weeks ago." Brain smirked and continued doing his work.
"Oh… But what about that time not just our town but the world was at war with these aliens who flew space crafts the size of a state, and the only option was to fight back…" Buster tried to explain but was cut off.
"Buster… That was Independence Day…" Brain replied. "We watched that last month."
Meanwhile back at the dump, Mr. Frensky was trying to push the decaying maniac off of him but it was no use. His hand could barely even reach the pipe; fighting off the hungry maniac's mouth he kept punching the decaying freak in the head many times to scurry over to the pipe even closer. He finally grabbed the end of the metal pipe and pulls it from its slimy prison, arching forward a little Mr. Frensky aimed and rammed it into the freak's forehead completely going through it with blood spraying. The garbage man slid it out and started beating in the maniac's head even further until there was nothing left, Mr. Frensky got up and started to catch his breath…
"Oh man. What the hell was that?" Mr. Frensky asked himself while looking at the decaying bloody body in the garbage filled ground. Then he looked over into the garbage pile and reached in, "Hey a perfectly good toaster!" Just then Mr. Frensky wandered back to his truck with a new appliance and rides off like nothing happens.
Several hours later, there was a town meeting at City Hall with the concerned citizens of Elwood city. Most of the town was there while the others feared for their life by either staying home or leaving town. Mr. Ratburn was sitting in the front row looking back and forth with concerned citizens frequently burst out in questions and panic. Pretty much the entire room was in a fit of panic until the mayor of Elwood city finally came up to the podium and spoke.
"Hello citizens of Elwood. I am Mayor Sawyer and I am here to address the problem to the public and want to tell you people that the situation is under control… Now, I only got one question to ask all of you…" The mayor explained while the citizens look at him quietly. "Have you ever thought about the parking problem downtown?"
"Are you serious? Screw that damn parking! WHAT ABOUT THE ZOMBIES?" Buster got up and stood on his chair shouting.
"Kid? Are you on crack or something?" The mayor asked over the microphone.
"No! Well, maybe some left over from my mom's last party but the problems in this town proves it! For behold I got the zombie survival guide in my hands!" Buster gloats with raising the book high above his own head.
"Kid seriously, there are no such things as zombies. They only exist in movies and books, not in real life." The mayor replied.
"How can you be for sure?" Buster asked. "Did you for once ever think of the possibility? What about that new company Gene Tech that opened up?"
"Gene Tech has nothing to hide young man and we would have heard something from them by now. Normally if something terrible happens they write me up a report and sent it to me in a big yellow folder with a red sticker." The mayor explained. Just then a tall aardvark man walks up to the mayor and has a yellow folder with a red sticker on it.
"Uh sir, this was left on your desk yesterday afternoon before you left to go to the strip club." The bodyguard informed the mayor.
"Uh ok then Adam." The mayor took the folder then shifted his eyes, then opened it and looked at the written report. "Uh ladies and gentlemen…"
"…" The citizens were silent.
"The dead are apparently getting up and walking and killing. So in other words, ZOMBIES!" The mayor panicked and jumped out the closed glass window completely shattering it.
"…" The citizens were silent again.
"Well you don't see that everyday." Mr. Ratburn said.
"What are you stupid people? He said we've got a zombie problem!" Mr. Frensky shouted. "Oh yeah, I got my toaster from the dump to work again."
Meanwhile on the other side of Elwood city Katharine Frensky was babysitting her sister in their apartment while their parents went to a town meeting. Francine was sitting near the table just drawing with her cat Nemo by her side walking all over the table. Katharine was checking up on her little sister by going back and forth by watching a movie called "Night of the Flesh Eaters", Francine got tired of drawing and went back into the living room to watch the movie with her older sister by sitting next to her on the couch along with Nemo pouncing on her lap.
"Man is this movie old or what?" Francine asked.
"Duh, it's like was made in the sixties." Katharine replied with a sigh.
"Oh… that would explain why it's in black and white then." Francine replied.
"No uh, the TV is in black and white. Dad won't get us a new TV remember." Katharine reminded her sister. "Oh that reminds me I ordered a pizza and it should be here anytime." Just then the doorbell rang, the older sister got up and went to the door to answer it. "Hello?" With that the door was open to show a pizza man with a crushed pizza box, but something wasn't right about him as with his skin was falling off of his body and his uniform is torn up.
"Oh man you look like crap." Katharine went out and said it without any thought. With that the pizza man could only moan and wobble in response, while Francine was watching the movie it suddenly turned into a news flash with a bear faced man with a big snappy suit shuffling papers.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please remain calm. The mayor's office has proclaimed an outbreak with the dead coming back to life suddenly and eating the flesh of the living. Residents should stay indoors and keep windows and doors locked, please stay off the streets and remain calm." The anchorman explained. "Please for any reason if you have been bitten by any of these creatures that shuffle and moan, try to report to a hospital and follow the main road to lead to St. Lawyer's Hospital. Meanwhile try to keep a firearm or self-defense weapon handy as a blow to the head can immediately put these creatures down instantly. Oh and here's a list of the birthdays as of today… What, no don't come any closer… STAY BACK!" The anchorman shouted and screamed, just then a group of five zombies tackle the man to the floor and start mauling and devouring him. Immediately the picture goes to an "Experiencing Technical Difficulties" picture.
"Wow, it's Fern's birthday today?" Francine looked at the birthday list being shown on the channel.
"AH SICK!" Katharine shouted as she quickly sends a kick to the pizza man's stomach making him fall backwards and slop down the stairway. After that she closed the door and locked it and went over to her little sister. "Francine, I'm going to have to ask you to stay strong because something is weird going on. Also where does dad hide his gun?"
Meanwhile on the streets of Elwood City, Mr. Ratburn was fending off his home by boarding up the windows and throwing furniture in front of the doors. Quickly taking a peak out of an open creek through the window he sees the streets seem a little calm but with a few undead creatures wandering them looking for food. Ratburn's heart was beating quickly as he went to his locked desk drawer and opens it with a key to reveal a 12-guage shotgun, a regular 9mm handgun, a 357-caliber magnum revolver, and a survival knife along with a few boxes of ammunition enough for all three firearms. Loading in the ammo for the guns he quickly paced back and forth from the cabinet to the boarded up windows to take more peaks to see if the zombies pass his house.
"For god sakes how can something like this could of happen to a town like mine?" Ratburn asked himself still loading in the shells into the shotgun. "For some reason I could tell they lust for flesh and want to have the unfortunate victims join their ranks to increase their numbers. Wonder what the television will say about this?" Ratburn thought as he finished loading the shotgun and resting it on his work table and turned on the television to see a live update to show a couple of police officers blocking the roads with road blocks and taking a stand against the increasing numbers of the zombie arm that was up to at least one hundred already.
To be continued…
What will happen to Katharine and Francine? Will Buster do what the guide tells him to do in this sort of situation? What will become of Elwood city? Will Ratburn kick ass and take names? Find out next time!
Note: Well this chapter took awhile to work on and as you can see it's not really that perfect but I wanted to add a little more zombie stuff to it. And to everyone who kept loyal to the series I thank you but some where a little confused by the first chapter as I really wanted to add some seriousness to it but kind of went off the deep end, so chapter two I believe evens out the comedy and the serious.