Chapter 3

Shop till you drop .

Twelve forty nine P.M. as he past the I eighty on ramp . He wasn't going to leave yet for Michigan . No he had to get more ammo and other important supplies . He had six magazines for his P ninety and each magazine held fifty rounds each and he didn't like the idea of falling back on a six shooter . There's no way that three hundred rounds will be enough he thought to him self . So this met hitting a gun store . He was heading for Kristal his buddies Ex's . She worked at Jacks gun store down town . Jacks was the biggest gun store in town . He pulled the car along the road in front of her place . Her mini van was in the drive way . He turned off the car and got out . And walked around to the back of the brown two story house . He checked the back door but it was locked . So he started to looked around and under things on the porch . But he didn't find a key there . He took a look at the ground alone the porch and notice a rock about the size of a fist . It was out of place among the smaller Wight rock around it . He picked up and gave it a closer look . On the bottom was hidden compartment and inside was a key . He used the key and open the door to the house and was welcome with the smell of death . He fought the erg to gag and reached for his red handkerchief . He raped it around his face to help with the small . He then aimed his P-90 and stepped into the house . He slowly swept the first floor and made sure it was clear before going up stairs . He made his way up stairs checked the first room to the left . It was painted blue and had toys for a boy in it . This must have been Ben's room and it wasn't the master bedroom . He check the one on the right of the hall way . Its door was closes and he could tell this was where the smell was coming from . He slowly open door and smell poured out of the room . Across the room was a bed and on it was three bodies . One adult and two children's .

He paused for a second and took a deep breath before walking to the side of the bed . When he got to the bed he took the blanket and cover Krista and her kids . Then he look on top of the night stand next to the bed for her keys . He glanced over the bed to the other night stand . The only thing was a cup of water and three open empty pill bottle probably the pills they had taking to escape this hell . Suicide was starting to seems to him like the second cause of death in Z-Land and zombie being number one of course . His thought shifted from that to that of his folks and to what he d tried to do . No don't think about that . He yelled at him self under his breath . He turned around and saw a man . He quickly jumped back and trip over something falling to the floor . He aimed his weapon at the man he crowed backwards . Then man came into focus . He was sitting on a chair and his upper part of his head was gone . The wall was covered with dried bloody chunks of . O my god he said . He looked away at the floor and saw a set of key at the bottom of a dresser . He moved towards them across the floor and pick them up . He look at them . There was a picture on the key chain . It was of the kids and a man . He flipped the case and on the back of the picture was writing . Love you mommy . Love Ben Sandy and your husband . A terrible filling started to keep it's way into his heart . He locked his jaw and pushed it into a corner of his mind . He place the picture on the night stand before leaving the house for the gun store with keys in hand . He made his way for town and crossed the river . He was know down town . He got to the gun store without seeing any zombies . But he know they where there somewhere . He pulled right in front of the guns store . He turned off the ignition and got out with Kristal keys in hand . He looked throw them and there was one with a W on it so he tried it

first . That was it . He quickly open and went inside before shutting and locking it behind . He put the key in his left front jeans pocket and aimed his weapon before going over the inside of the store for any zombies . He was making his way down the first aisle when he heard foot steps from behind him . He quickly turn around to meet the zombie . But he was fast enough . The ugly devil tackled him to the floor . It hit him so hard that it knocked off his hat and they both slid to the end of the aisle . His P-Ninety strap snapped and slid out of reach . He quickly grabbed the zombie by the neck with his right hand and held it mouth back . It mouth was snapping wildly inch's from his face right side . It was so determined to feast on his flesh . It grade his shoulders and tried to pull him closer . He wasn't ready to check out not now nor like this . So he pressed his face hard against the floor . Using his left hand he quickly reached down for a six inch long combat knife on his belt . He whipped it out of its case before slamming it into the zombie left ear . The zombie body went limp on top of him . He pushed the zombie off to his right side of him before pulling the knife out of it's head . Using the zombie shirt he cleaned his knife . He slowly got up and was about to put his knife away when he heard growls coming from the back room . He look back to see two more zombies .

"Shit!" he said .

He then glanced his right side there on the aisle were a couple of Axes . He took the knife and grabbed it by it's tip of the blade . Not really sure if it would work he through it as hard as he could . It slammed into the zombies chest wear it heart was on the right . It wasn't a kill though the only thing that would do was slow it down . He then grabbed an axe and ran for the zombie on the left . He raised the axe above his head before bring it down at an angel going right into the zombies neck . It's head flow off as the axe ripped through . He quickly recovered and brought it at an upper angle into the other zombie head . But this time it didn't go all the way through . As he ripped the axe out of the zombie head . It fell to the floor . He walked to his P-ninety and picked it up . I need a new strap he thought . He the went for his hat which was still were he lost it . When he was tackled . He then went around the gun shop to make sure there weren't any more zombies hiding before he started to gather supplies . First thing first he'd need duffle bags to putt his stuff in .when he got to where the duffle bags were . He a big military back pack along with two military duffel bag . Then he went around taking anything that looked useful to him like first aid kits, water purifier and binoculars . He had found a rang finder along with a couple of night vision goggles and lock picking set with a book about how to pick a lock . He fill his back pack with this stuff and put extra in one of the duffle bags . He then headed for the guns . When he got there he started to taking the guns off the rack and putting them onto the display case . He grabbed a couple of hand guns . A couples of nines, thirty twos and Forty fives . Then he took a couple of shotguns along with some rifles with scopes . He also got a M-4 rifle with tactical scopes and grip . He then placed all the guns into the duffle bag at his feet .

He then took out a new black berretta nine milometer to replaced his revolver . He didn't get rid of his revolver just got a new holster so it could be worn on his leg . Then went to get ammo and extra magazines for his new weapons . He filled his back pack up with ammo and extra magazines . Then he filled the duffel bag with more ammo and after filling them both up he took them to the front door and let them there . He then started to looking for a new vest that could carry both P-90 and M-4 clips . He found one that was dark blue and could carry four P-ninety Clips and six M-4 clips . It also held four nine mm clips . He then found two magazines holder that held two more P-ninety magazine each . That attached to the vest and strap up around your upper thigh . He also found 2 nine milometer clips holder that held three clips each . They attached to his belt . He grabbed some ammo belts for shot gun and rifle ammo along with the kind that you could strap to your out or inside arms . He took off the back pack and put the ammo holders stuff into the pack . He then swapped his old vest for the new one and then attached the belt and leg magazine holders . Then he throw on his fighting bars holder over the vest and adjusted it so it felt right . After it felt right to move around he holstered his side arm . Using it new sling he put on the P-ninety so it hung on his chest barrow pointing down . He then swung the back pack on his back and walked to the door .

He took a deep breath and unlocked the door . Then he slowly opened it and took a look down both ends of the street . All clear he thought to self . He picked up the duffel . They were a little heavy but he didn't let it bother him and went to load them into the G8 . He throw the duffle bag in the back . Then he heard footstep coming from behind him . He swung around on the heels of his feet and aimed his P-ninety . There where five zombie run towards him . He pulled the trigger and fired three round into the closes zombie head and then three more into the next one . Their head exploded in dark crimson red . The last one he fired ten rounds in to its neck severing its head and send it rolling down the street . He slammed the back door shut as he open the front driver side door . He then took off and throw the back pack in onto the passenger seat and jumped in . As he started the car as a few more zombies came around the corner behind him . As soon as he saw them in the rear view mirror as slammed the gas petal . The Pontiac V 8 roared to life and took off whipping round a left turn in fort of him . He just missed another group as the car slid around the corner . As he took off for the inter state he quickly realized . That he was lost the hundred and some zombies that were chasing after him . As G 8 raced up and disappeared around the turn . It V eight roars echoed though out the valley of the small town Clear Valley . The trip to Pontiac Michigan would be over four hundred miles and take around six hours . It was three P.M. He would stop before it got to dark to find a safe place to spend the night and leave when he woke up .

As he jumped on the inter state . He realized that the person he was in the old world . He was gone along with his name . Now he was someone new and with that he needed a new name . He looked down at the bold Pontiac Emblem on the steering wheel . Pontiac It was his favorite car brand and he enjoyed driving them .

"Pontiac ! That it . I am Pontiac." he said out load with a smile .

His I pod then played one of his favorite songs . Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas . He sang along with it as he drove down the road . As he drove down the highway