Danny stands up and walks over beside the bed to a battle-axe hanging on his wall, "I remember when I bought this, Jay told me that his father was trying to sell it so I begged my parents to let me buy it and they let me."
Eric picks up two swords from the wall also," Do you think we will make it?" Danny looks Eric dead in the eye " I don't know Eric, I really don't know." Danny reaches down and picks up an eight-inch knife he laid on his dresser " Lets make a vow now, if one of us dies we continue to fight our way until the very end."
Eric turns to Danny and extends his hand " I couldn't ask for anything else." Disturbed blaring on Danny's radio Danny takes up the four knives, a sword, and his battle-axe and turns to Eric " I suggest you start praying now cause there wont be much of a chance when we get out of this house."
Marla stands up from her chair and walks down the hall to Danny's room and puts her ear to the door "The first thing we need to do is get down to your house and pick up your family and drop them off here," Danny says. "Once we get them we'll see if Chris will join us and if he does or if he doesn't we will go and find my father."
Marla slowly opens the door "I knew you would be this way when you were little," she says, tears running freely down here care-worn face, " a natural leader and survivor." Danny turns to Marla "I know you will be alright here mom; here take this short-sword, if any of the zombies try to bust in remember swipe for there heads and they will die."
Danny looks out the front window to see if any of the zombies are out there; "I don't see any wandering the streets," Danny says; Eric looks around and walks to stand next to Danny "Yeah, that's how it is in the movies; you get outside and wham! They appear like the plague."
Danny and Eric walk outside and peer down the street and see a few people shuffling across the street "do you think there living or dead?" Eric says to Danny " I can't tell from this distance but id best not take any chances," says Danny. Jumping off the porch Eric and Danny take off running down the backyard peering left and right.
Danny sees out of the corner of his eye movement " Whoa, Eric stop." Eric stops and gulps air in "what..have..you seen?" says Eric "Movement there by the end of the fence." Sure enough one of Danny's neighbors turn the corner of the fence. "Holyshit!" both say in unison. The neighbor's stomach was gone, parts of entrails were hanging down the front of his legs, blood pouring out of him with every step.
Danny shakes his head " I figured I would have to kill one eventually:" he says and charges at the zombie battle-axe overhead. Running up to the zombie Danny moves his battle-axe to a baseball swing position ready to decapitate the zombie. A huge rush of cold blood fountained out of the stump of the neck of the, now dead, zombie. Danny bends down and cleans his battle-axe blade on the clothes of the zombie and turns to see Eric empty the contents of his stomach all over the lawn "oh toughen up Eric you will have to do this eventually you know," says Danny with a serious look in his eyes. "I know, its just didn't think it would be this bloody," said Eric wiping the vomit from the corner of his mouth.
Danny and Eric continue towards Eric's house, coming to a library parking lot Danny walks over to the window " Dude, you cant be wanting to go into the library now," says Eric Danny shakes his head "No but there could be living people hiding in there," says Danny. "Oh sorry didn't think about that," said Eric. Looking through the glass Danny sees someone duck behind the main desk, "Dude there is someone in there," said Danny "living or dead?" said Eric. "Living enough to duck out of site," said Danny.
Tugging on the front doors of the library Danny finds that they are locked "Damn, I knew it wouldn't be that easy now would it." Eric peers into the window" hey I see someone else in there too." "What two people?" said Danny "yeah," said Eric "Danny bust the glass, the other person is undead." Danny nods and swings his battle-axe at the glass door, small fragments of glass clatter to the pavement. Danny and Eric walk through the opening and sniff the air "aw man what is that smell?" says Eric Danny sniffs the air again "blood, that is the smell of blood," says Danny with a disgusted look on his face.
'How the hell would you know that," Eric says "remember I lived on a farm for four years, I know what blood smell like when its freshly spilled," said Danny "We had a cow torn apart by a coyote once, the stench then was unbearable , but I never forgot it." Danny walks past Eric and looks around and shouts " Is there anyone in here?" From behind the main desk to his left a man stands up "Yeah I am." Both Danny and Eric jump; Danny walks up to the man to get a closer look at him "Dustin, what the hell are you doing here?" Dustin looks at Danny "Danny? I was at the computers when people started running and screaming, next thing I knew I was facing a dead man." "You mean a zombie?" says Danny "so that's what they are," says Dustin "Well anyway, I saw the zombie and turned and ran." "Good decision, weaponless he might have bitten or killed you.:"
Eric walks past Dustin and Danny and peer down the library " guys the dead guy is walking towards us."
Danny and Dustin walk beside Eric and Danny nudges him "well why are you standing there for, kill the poor bastard." Eric nods and slowly walks toward the zombie "Sorry whoever you are." With a swipe of his sword Eric beheads the zombie, blood fountains out of the headless corpse and splatters off the walls and ceiling.
Both Eric and Dustin's face turn green, Dustin looks at Danny" why are you so calm?" Eric turns to Danny and walks towards him "why don't you get sick at the sight of blood and these corpses?" Danny looks from Dustin to Eric "to answer your questions plainly, I don't fear the dead or get repulsed by the site of mangled corpses and such." Both look at him and say in unison " and what makes you immune to them."
Danny shrugs "two reasons, one I'm a writer and have written and described worse, two I have seen all the zombie flicks made and seen it all from them and don't get freaked out by the site of the dead."
Dustin looks to Eric "well that settles it," Eric looks at Dustin "settles what?" "It settles who I'm following." Eric nods "yeah, safe to say ill stick with Danny." Danny laughs " thank you both for being my friends cause I seriously don't think I could have done any of this by myself." Dustin and Eric grin "were just damn lucky that we have a friend like you man." Nodding Danny turns back to the door "we should be heading off now to your house Eric before the zombies beat us to it. Eric nods " yeah, man I can't wait to see my family now." Danny turns and walks to Dustin and hands him a short-sword from its scabbard "here you'll need a weapon." Dustin takes the sword "thanks." Turning back to the door Danny, Eric and Dustin walk to the door "now this is going to get hard," says Danny. "What do you mean?" said Dustin "well for one we have yet been able to find any guns and another is that we don't even know if Eric's family is at his house," says Danny "but oh well, we can make it."
