I just found another Fanfic by me on an account that I lost my details to again.
*facepalm*
Check it out.
It's called Playing With Fire by some long name like xXxXxXxNaLu4EvaxXxXxXxXx or something.
Enjoy the next installment.
Things are getting interesting :3
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Act 5: Bathing in Blood
I parked on the side of a road near Austin's house. It was completely empty.
I can't believe it.
How could I not have guessed this?
Sam and Steph were looking pale. On the verge of being sick. Ash was sitting on my lap peacefully. I'm glad he's such a quiet child.
"C-children..." Sam stuttered.
"They got the children aswell?"
She choked slightly and held her stomach.
In my head, I had already thought of what had happened vaguely. There was another crack around here and the noise of the primary school attracted the monsters. The children panicked and it's already hard enough organising calm children. Some one got bitten, probably a teacher, and now all the children are those... Things.
I feel no guilt when I kill those monsters. The people who they once were are already gone so it's fine to me. But children... I looked down at my nephew.
He looked up at me with his big green eyes. I loved his eyes. A light green with blue and grey specks on them. So round and innocent. Not tainted with the harsh reality of the world. Still full of hope and magic. The kind of eyes you could stare into all day and not be bored.
He shuffled in my lap so he was facing me and wrapped his chubby arms around my torso. Gently laying his head on my stomach, he said, "I love you Aunty."
I patted his head and looked out of the window. The only people in this world I love are Ash, Franki and Drake.
Now Drake and Franki could always leave me but family always stays.
Knowing I had someone who would always love me no matter what reassured me.
"Thanks Ash," I smiled.
Steph was in a trance but Sam had broken out of it and was on the phone yet again.
"Hi. Yeah we're here. No not yet. We have a problem. Hold on. Lemme put you on speaker so Lilly can explain."
Oh, looked like it was my time to shine.
"Heya Lilly," I heard a deep voice on the end of the phone. His voice had broken already. Ha! He sounded like an old dude.
"Hi Austin. Long time no see!" I said.
"Yeah. Sorry to not have a warm, heartfelt reunion but what's the problem Sam was talking about?"
Straight to the point then. Why so serious? Ah... Apocalypse. I keep forgetting that.
"Children."
"Children?" he asked sounding slightly baffled.
"The street is overrun with kids that have turned into these things. Like... It's a swarm."
"Shit that's a problem."
It went quiet as we thought about the situation and different solutions.
"I think there is only one solution. We will just execute the same plan I used with Sam." I replied after a short while.
"What's that?" Austin asked.
"You guys will run through the door and into the car. I will get rid of any zombie things while you're running and then we shall speed off into the sunset. Tee hee," I giggled at that last part.
"..." I heard silence on the end of the phone.
"Are you really going to put yourself through that. Can you handle the deaths? Can you even handle the sheer amount of kids? Their blood on your hands?"
Could I?
Who knew.
"Well there's only one way to find out." Sam said with a new set determination on her face.
We all looked at her suprised.
"I trust you. You are an amazing person capable of anything."
She looked me square in the face.
I grined madly with a new found confidence.
"Well ok then! You guys be ready at the door and wait for my signal."
"What signal?" Austin asked.
"You'll know," I sneered.
This would be fun.
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Rolling up to the front of the house almost silently, Steph asked yet another interesting question indeed.
"What are you going to fight them with?"
"Aha! While I was searching through burning car, I found another gun." I pulled it out from under my seat.
Sam rolled her eyes and Steph giggled.
"God knows what else you have under there," Sam tutted.
If only she knew.
"I'll prepare the car."
I waited patiently whilst Sam pulled back the seat so the two back seats were accessible.
"Lilly there's a car seat back here. I think we should put Ash in it. It really isn't safe for him to be on Steph's lap." she exclaimed.
She is such a worry wart. When she readied the car seat, I pulled Ash off of Steph's lap and into the car seat. He looked around slightly bewildered but grew accustomed to his new seat. I had never bothered with a car seat so this must be new to him.
"There we go! All done and ready back here. Are you ready?" she asked facing me.
As ready as I'll ever be.
"On 3." I said.
"One."
"Two..."
"THREE!"
I busted open the car door and shot a zombie that was right infront of me. Small splatters of blood landed on my faces. Looking down at the dead child before me, my mind went hazy with guilt.
No time for this Lilly. I snapped out of it and shot another two then finally heard the front door open.
"Hurry!" I yelled.
Down went two more in a row. Two birds with one stone. And another. Shit these things were swarming me. I was already surrounded and was backing away slowly. I looked down as one tried to attach itself to my leg from underneath the car. Shit! I kicked it off frantically and shot three more in the head. It only seemed to work if you shot them in the head. I have no clue why though.
"Lilly! Get in!" I heard Sam scream.
I backed slowly into the car and shot one more that was on the window. Blood and brains splattered across the window and before I drove off I had to wash it. I could practically see everyone straining to hold their lunch in.
Red stained the glass like the fires of hell. It reminded me of a dark, crimson sunset fading to night.
Luckily, Sam had covered Ash's eyes. He did not need to see that.
"A GUN! SERIOUSLY!" shouted Kasey from the back.
"Yeah nice to see you to. Talking later. Moving like NOW!" I stepped on the gas and tore down the road, knocking over several children zombies along the way.
"Well that went well!"
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Once we had finally gotten away, I started to feel my skin crawl. I clawed at the blood on my face and wiped it off with my sleeves. I had shot all those children who had their lives ahead of them. The images of their dead, rotting bodies and splattered brains on the pavement wouldn't leave my head. No. It's okay. They were gone. There was nothing left for them.
I hope they can rest peacefully at last.
As I got my nerves in check, I looked in my mirror at my new travellers.
In the middle with Sam and Ash was Sidney. He hadn't changed, although he has glasses now. Short dish water blonde hair, brown eyes, pale skin and lanky.
At the very back was Kasey and Austin. Kasey was still a bright ginger with a short bob cut longer at the front. Her blue eyes that always sparkled, teeming with life. I could tell from here she was still a midget.
Austin had changed though. His usual blonde dyed hair was back to its original dark chocolate brown. It brought out his grey eyes which seemed dull. He looked tanner and the bone structure of his face was more defined. It also looked like he had gotten skinnier even though he was still quite muscular. But he was covering his arms and legs which was unusual. He loved the summer look of shorts and t-shirts even in October.
I could see all of them trying to take in my new look. All the piercings and my new ombre blue hair.
"Soo... Hi guys! Nice to see ya again." I started the conversation.
"Yeah nice to see ya," Kasey and Sidney said in unison. Creepy.
"Question. The gun is from where?" asked Sidney.
"A burning police car."
The car went silent again. This is awkward.
"Thank you. For coming to get us." Kasey whispered. She was on the verge of tears.
Great. Crying girls.
"We were stuck in that house and didn't know what to do. I thought we were going to die." Kasey wept into Austin's shoulder. He flinched slightly when her head made contact then patted her head softly.
So that's what you do when someone cries.
"Yeah we really do than-"
"HAAHHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" I burst out laughing suddenly just as Sidney was about to talk.
"Why are you laughing?" Sam asked.
I was out of breath still laughing so I pointed out the window.
There, during the middle of an apocalypse, a guy was being chased by a Jack Terrier.
"Holy shit!? Is that Joey!?" Sam asked whilst laughing.
By this point we were all dying (not literally) by the sheer stupidity of the event. This guy was bothered about a tiny dog during the end of the world.
"JOEY! JUMP IN!" Sidney shouted while sliding the door open.
Wait a sec! Who said!
Joey looked at us frantically and jumped in on top of Sidney. He closed the door just as the dog was about to climb in. I looked in the rear mirror and noticed the dead things from the school were starting to move so I started driving again. That was a strange turn of events.
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"GOD DAMMIT! I THOUGHT THAT MOTHERFUCKER WAS GONNA KILL ME! NOT TO MENTION ALL THOSE FREAKY ZOMBIES FUCKS! Oh hi everyone," Joey cried before calming down.
"Hi Joey." We all laughed simultaneously. That was a good way to lighten the atmosphere.
"What are we doing here then?" he asked curiously.
" Well we are goin-"
"CAN HE PLEASE GET OFF OF MY LAP," Sidney shouted.
Ash giggled at the strange man that had just hopped in the car. "Friend?" he asked.
"Friend." I smiled. I could hear Kasey cooeing in the back.
It had been a while since I'd seen Joey. He left primary around Year 4. He was already tall and skinny and had gotten even taller and skinnier if that was possible but he still had that goofy girn that matched his floppy blonde hair and cheeky blue eyes.
We shuffled around slightly and ended up with Sidney in the front with me and Sam sitting on top of Joey with Steph on the other side of Ash who was in the middle. I looked at Sam's blushing face and remembered they used to go out.
This was gonna be funny.
My eyes locked with Kasey's and we both laughed thinking the same thing.
We seemed to be laughing a lot.
"What?" Austin asked.
"Nothing," we replied trying hard to stop giggles but failing.
It was strange how we could laugh so care free in this certain situation.
Got to say I missed these lot. Primary school is a whole different story to secondary. You remember the good times when being an idiot was cool and not childish.
We started driving again. Sidney seemed to dislike silence (damn it) and put on a CD. It was a R&B CD much to his disapproval so he switched to the radio. Like he was going to find a decent channel. All communications were down.
I was sorting out the SatNav slightly when something I heard caught my attention.
"Wait turn back to that last channel." I asked.
He nodded and did so.
"This is Radio Emergency. The top radio station open during all emergencies. This unknown virus that has scientists baffled has now killed over 300,000 million people globally and that is an estimate. Identifying corpses is diffucult due to the horrendous bodily changes they go through. Scientists have confirmed the virus somehow manages to kill you but keep your brain active. How they move without a beating heart is anyones guess but for now all we can do is try to survive. Back later with more updates."
The report ground to an abrupt halt.
"So it's a disease that affects the brain," Sidney thought out loud.
"I know you can be brain dead but you can't live without your heart right?" Kasey asked.
"Well I don't know but for know I want to have a chat with a certain someone." I said reaching under my seat.
I pulled out the radio and looked it over figuring out how to use it. "Picked this up at the burning car," I smirked.
Sam's jaw dropped. "You really did have more under there?" Steph giggled at her sisters annoyance.
I pressed a button and spoke, "Yellow? Is anyone there? This is Officer Alistair reporting for duty." I joked.
Everyone waited in anticipation for a response. After a minute we all started drooping.
"I guess that-"
"Hello? Is this Officer Murino?" a voice inturupted Sam.
"Nope but we are people far more important. Can I please have your highest ranking officer available? I have some information that could save the world," I smiled.
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Well that's it.
Wonder what will happen next?
R&R please!
Senpai out ~