Danny, Eric, and Dustin set off from the deserted library at a speedy pace. Danny looks back to the others "if you see anything or hear anything tell me," both of them nod and continue to look left and right.
Walking down the sidewalk they come to a four-way intersection, "hey Eric, which way to your house?" says Dustin. Looking down one street Eric looks at Dustin "see that road that branches up hill, at the top of that hill is my house." Pointing uphill Eric starts walking up the hill, "Eric do you have your cell phone on you?" asked Danny. Eric reaches into his pocket and retrieves his cell phone "yeah." Danny walks to Eric and opens his cell phone "try to call up to your house to see if your family is there."
Eric nods and opens his cell phone, ringing. Someone picks up on the other end "Hello?"
Eric puts the cell phone to his ear "Mom, are you guys all right?" On the other end a crashing sound erupts from the receiver and someone screams. Eric's face turns white and he yells into the cell phone "Mom hold on were coming!" Before Danny or Dustin can stop him Eric charges up the hill in a dead run.
Danny and Dustin run after Eric with their hands on their weapons "Do you think that they are ok," says Dustin. Danny shakes his head "from the sound of that breaking glass and screams I think that whoever is at that house now is undead or dying." Dustin nods and keeps on running all out.
Eric was the first to reach the house, blood cover the white car in the driveway and pooled in certain areas. Eric rips open the door "Mom, where are you!" Dustin and Danny stand behind Eric. Danny puts his hand on Eric's shoulder "Hey you wont like what your about to see," Eric looks at Danny "chances are Eric, that your mom and other family are dead." Pointing down at the blood in the driveway and on the steps "it looks like a lot of zombies broke into the house here and are still inside man, don't go in there."
Out of nowhere Eric's fist makes contact with Danny's jaw knocking him off the steps and onto the car. Rubbing his jaw Danny looks up at Eric "I'm just trying to warn you man, that's all." Rage burning in his heart, Eric walks into the house and walks down the hall peering left and right "Mom where are you?" In answer to Eric's call, his mom walks out of the back room.
Outside Danny and Dustin look at the door "you didn't have to say that," said Dustin "I know I just had to warn him for what he's about to face," said Danny. Just as Danny finishes his sentence both Danny and Dustin hear Eric yell "NOOOO." Shaking his head Danny grabs his battle-axe and walks into the house.
Eric looks at the zombie of his mother and breaks down into tears. Rocking back and forth Eric shakes his head screaming "No." Danny walks down the hallway and looks at the zombie and then down at Eric "you know what you have to do Eric, end her pain."
Eric looks up at Danny with tears rolling down his face "No, she's my mom, I wont to it," says Eric. Bending down Danny looks Eric square in the eye "if you don't do this your grief and guilt will kill you." Eric wouldn't do it.
Danny stands and hefts his battle-axe into his hands "You'll hate me for this Eric but it must be done." Walking up to the zombie Danny looks past the zombie into the room "oh god, Dustin get in here!"
The room was awash in blood; eight zombies huddled in corners feasting on what was left of Eric's family. "Dustin!"
Dustin hears Danny's call and runs into the house. Danny takes a few steps away from the approaching zombie and looks at Dustin "get Eric out of this house," Dustin looks at Danny perplexed "what's in the room?" Danny shakes his head "Its in your best interest not to know, now get him and yourself the hell out of here and wait for me outside I will be there in a few minutes.
Danny watches Dustin help, the still crying, Eric up and walk with him out the door.
Danny looks at the zombie of Eric's mom and says to her "I'm so sorry for what I'm about to do." With a swipe of his axe Danny decapitates the zombie and kicks her corpse out of his way and walks into the room. Looking about Danny counts not eight but five zombies and starts hacking away at the undead.
Dustin shoulders Eric's weight "they will live on Eric, remember that, they will live on lovingly in your memory." Eric wipes the snot and tears from his face and looks at Dustin "there dead, all of them, my mom, my brothers, there all dead." Dustin continued to talk to Eric as a bloody figure emerged from the door. At first Dustin though it was a zombie then he noticed the battle-axe and said, "is it done?"
Danny leans in the doorway "yes, it is done." Without saying much Danny walks over to the shed by Eric's house and retrieves a gas can from it. "Eric will come to hate me for what I did," Danny said as he pored the gas onto the house "I will have to live with that, yet his pain will continue to be worse." Dustin stands up and walks next to Danny "what do you mean?" Danny stops pouring the gas and looks at Dustin "his little brother was alive, half-eaten he was still breathing and crying; I will never forget his face as I raised my axe, Eric shall not know of this, ok?" Dustin looked at Danny in horror and shock "he will not know, just tell me one thing if I get bitten will you end my life without a second thought?" Danny looks at Dustin "pray it wont ever come to that, but if you are bitten I swear to you that I wont let you be one of those damn things."
With a nod Dustin walks back to Eric and Danny continues to pour gas inside the house now. Danny looks down at the bodies of the zombies and the rest of Eric's family "I'm sorry this had to happen to you." Pouring a trail of gas down the driveway Danny handed the lighter to Eric "its best if you do it."
With a strangled cry Eric threw the lit lighter onto the gas and watched the only house he ever knew burst into flame "where will we go now?" asked Eric. Danny turns back to look down the street "back to my house, from there we will try to contact my father and Dustin's family." Without much talking all three made it back to Danny's house.
