I didn't know how to react, I just saw him die. Those people killed him, and now he's a zombie! I shook my head as he ran towards me to try and find myself again. I needed to calm down enough to kill him off. He came charging forward, only inches away. I grabbed my small knife and sliced through his throat! He still came towards me, only a little slower. I held the knife in my fist and jammed it into his thick skull. Blood began to trickle from his head. He fell to his knees, then on the ground face first.

I bent over him and pulled the knife out of his skull. I placed back in my belt quickly, and then flipped his dead body over. His front was slit open. I could see most of his major organs that managed to stay in. I noticed the heart was gone and the skin was yellow. I didn't understand any of this, I finally felt myself becoming a freaked out.

I heard some gunshots fired a ways off. I took in a deep breathe and tried to regain myself. After a few more were fired, I ran towards the sound of the shots. I ran past to the stores and into the food court. The windows had been shattered and zombies were trying to get in. 'How is this possible?' I asked myself. 'Now they will really hate me for pulling off the few pieces of cardboard.'

Peter was standing behind Mark. Peter clung to Mark while Mark was shooting. Jennifer was trying to shot from her other hand, she wasn't doing to well. Tammy was right beside Jennifer, shooting. Damion was hiding behind a counter and firing shots. Carren hid beside Damion, only she was doing more whimpering than firing. I saw Rustle boarding up the window. It seemed nearly imposable with all of the trying to get in at once.

I ran behind the Panda Express counter and pulled the gun from Carren's hands. I fired a few shots from behind the counter.

"We need to board up that window!" I shouted. "We need to help Rustle!" I ran towards Rustle firing the best I could. I managed to get a few, but there were more then we could handle at once. 'How did they get inside the plaza anyway?' I asked as I came within inches of the window.

I grabbed a board and place it against the sides of the window. Rustle began to hammer in the nails. Mark came and started nailing in the other side. I grabbed another board and held it up to make an x shape. Once they began to hammer that one in, I fired a few shots and nearly avoided being bitten. I managed to put up another board. 'This would have been easier if they weren't trying to bite us!'

I heard shots being fired all around me! After we had placed several boards up, they began trying to break them down. Tammy and Damion came and began helping. He was shooting and holding in the boards. It took several minutes to get the other boards up; even then we knew it wasn't safe. Damion and Rustle placed a few vending machines in front of it. I only hoped it would hold up.

We all waited for the two boys to return in a Beauty Saloon store. I enjoyed pumping the chair up and down. Mark and Peter sat next to each other, Carren was sobbing in her chair. Jennifer was just sitting staring at her missing arm. Tammy was sitting in the back corner. Rustle and Damion walked inside the room, and took their seats.

"Why were you messing with the boards Charlene?" Damion asked. "You could have killed us."

"I'm sorry; I didn't know there were zombies in the outdoor food court."

"We should have told you. We had to fight for this plaza, we were shopping when it happened," Jennifer said. "I was here with my husband. We were looking at clothes when we heard some noise coming from a dressing stall. Two guards went to investigate and kicked the door open. We saw a girl; she was covered in blood and pale. Her eyes were piercing blue and she hissed at us. She ran and bit the guards, infecting them. Before long there was chaos and people were coming back from the dead. A few of us managed to hide in this saloon. We decided to fight against them. We managed to force them into the outdoor eatery. We boarded up the windows to keep them out. I lost my husband to them. Everything is gone now. We are the only survivors of that incident. Several of us died trying to place them in a confined area. Then you came just out of the dust. You came and killed my husband after he became a zombie. That's why we couldn't help you right away, he was sort of our leader."

There was a moment of silenced pause. I had never felt so terrible before. I killed her husband.

"There may be other survivors, out there I mean," Mark said in a low voice. I could hear the sadness in it.

"How could anyone survive that tyranny?" Carren asked.

"We should listen to the radio. If there were any survivors they would let us know," Damion said. Damion stood up and grabbed the small radio. He plugged it into the wall. He started looking for a radio station that would work, only static came through.

"Aha," Damion said as he words began to come through. "I found a station."

Damion sat down quickly and we all listened closely. The transmission was full of static.

"The zombies have taken over Yuma. If you come into contact with one, shoot it in the head. It'll kill them instantly. There is a safe zone in Tucson. We are currently hiding in the military base. We are planning to move some to Tucson and several other safe zones. We know there are other survivors out there, hiding in different locations around Yuma. We are going to send a bus around to pick up any survivors we can find. We plan to stop by Wal-Mart first, and then make our way through the rest of the town."

The transmission was lost. I felt a small bit of hope fill inside of me. We may be saved after all.