"Death now surrounds us all," says danny as they pass what looked to be a burnt corpse on the side of the road. "Once we where an ignorant and self-centered populace, now what are we?" Kneeling down danny looks into the remnants of a burnt out car "looks like whoever was in here is either undead or was burned alive." Dustin looks around as they turn the corner, heading back to danny's house, "how are we going to survive danny?" "I mean we have next to no food, no guns, and a hell of a lot of zombies between us and wherever the hell we are heading after your place."
Grabbing his battle-axe from his back danny turns to look at both of them "we have these," he said as he showed them the axe and swords they carried "these we can use, as for food and shelter we will have to crash at my place for a bit to get our bearings and let eric sort out his thoughts." Dustin looks over at the haggard face of a friend who once knew happiness and joy, now all the face showed was a great sadness and misery. "Hang in there eric," putting his arm around eric "I don't know how bad you are hurt emotionally but you need to hang in there man; I mean lets face it, it will be a hell of a lot harder without a third set of eyes to keep watch you know."
With a pitiful look on his face eric nods, with a voice husky from crying, eric blurts out "but what's left for me?" "My entire damn family was killed man, I have absolutely nothing else to live for. Danny gives a slight grin, making dustin grimace at the image, "listen to yourself, you've given up," with a look of sorrow now on his face danny walks up to eric and lifts his face up to his "you once said that no matter what happens you would always keep fighting, onto pain of death you wouldn't let go now all you will say is were doomed." Eric looks into danny's eyes; Danny sees the fire coming back in the depths of Eric's. Extending his hand to eric danny grins "nice to have you back in this hell hole of a world eric."
With a grin on his own face eric takes danny's hand "good to be back." Dustin looks at danny and eric "we should be leaving now danny, no telling what the hell is happening at your place." Danny's face darkens "yeah, we should get back." With that the three continue to walk down the deserted road. "Eric watch out!" dustin yells as a rotting zombie emerges from a burnt car. Eric turns as the zombie attempts to bite him on the shoulder; Eric kicks the zombie back into the car and hacks off one of the zombies decomposing arm, with a howl of rage and anguish eric yells "you son of a bitch!" and begins to hack at the zombie mindlessly. Bits of rotting flesh and blood rain all around eric and the others, danny walks over to eric and lays his hand on his shoulder "eric enough, its dead." Blood dripping from his face he turns to danny and dustin "taught that motherfucker not to jump at me," said eric, with a wolfish grin on his face, as he wipes the blood of his face with the hem of his T-shirt. Danny grins and turns around to look at dustin "it seems we got the old eric back now doesn't it?" With a grim nod dustin leans closer to danny "is he himself or has it gotten to him," he whispers. "I don't know, but whatever he is we will need him later." At this they both nod and as eric walks up to them they turn the corner and walk into danny's backyard.
Danny in front dustin looks to his left and asks eric "so what will you do when this nightmare is over." Eric looks at dustin and shrugs "I don't even know if I will survive this nightmare so as of now I don't, danny what's wrong?" Before dustin notices he walks right into danny. Walking next to danny dustin looks at the blood covered door and turns to eric "the damn zombies got in." Without warning a zombie launches itself from the front door. Danny howls with rage and swings with his axe, and misses!
Dustin jumps back as the zombie and danny fall to the gravel driveway. Danny roars and twists the zombies head a full 360 degrees around. With a gut wrenching crunch the zombies head twists around and bones and coagulated blood pop out of the twisted mass of flesh once known as a neck. Eric and dustin rush over to the corpse fearing the worse. With a grunt of effort danny throws the lifeless corpse of him and stands up, covered in blood yet again danny looks as if he was a demon straight from hell. Bending down danny grabs his battle-axe and rushes into the house yelling to see if his family is there. Following danny, dustin and eric look around at the blood covered floor and walls "god, there must have been dozens of them." Rotting corpses litter the floor, dodging the pools of coagulated blood dustin and eric follow danny deeper into his house. Looking into his parent's bedroom danny sees a corpse face down on the bed. Slowly edging over to the bed danny carefully turns the corpse over to reveal the face of a long-since-dead corpse of a female zombie.
Protruding from the corpse is the dagger danny gave his mother "she's still alive,"said danny as he yanks the dagger out of the corpse. "If she is still alive that means that she had to leave this house with someone, i'm sure she couldn't have killed all these zombies and escaped just by herself," said dustin motioning with his arm to the dozens of corpses littering the floor "which means someone is watching and protecting her," said danny with a great sigh of relief. "What will we do now danny," said eric as he entered the bedroom, danny reaches down and grabs a photo of him and his mom and dad from an antique dresser, "we will head out, this place is not fortifiable so any suggestions would be helpful."
"Well first of all we need to get guns, I mean no offense or anything to the swords and stuff but what will happen when we have to face ten or twenty of them at once," said eric. Dustin nods and walks over to eric "your right, after that though what place would be a good place to hold up in." "We could go to a mall," said danny with a rueful grin on his face. Eric and dustin grin but shake their heads "as good as that place would be it is too far and besides, this isn't dawn of the dead." Danny nods "ok, seriously though we could hole up at our highschool, I mean think about it long hallways, small doors and windows," with yet another grin on his face "and food."
Deciding on the highschool danny, eric, and dustin head in the direction of the local Wal-Mart. "There are more zombies down the road danny, which way do we go," said Eric, scratching the back of his bald head danny points across another yard "we'll go this way and follow the railroad tracks all the way down to Wal-Mart from there we will go to the highschool and hole up." With another glance down the road danny turns to both of them ' in the meantime keep an eye out for the living and the non living got it?" Both eric and dustin nod "damn this day gets worse and worse," said eric with a sigh "well at least we're not zombies," said dustin. "You got me there," said eric, with that the three headed off toward the railroad tracks.
