Alice

The jet was landing. I discovered that when it touched down, and caused my sleeping body to roll off the couch and onto the floor. I looked around the cabin frantically, trying to make sense of what was going on. Shun walked into the room and told me, "We just landed at your grandfather's lab….Why are you on the floor?" Shun walked over to me and extended his hand out for me to grab.

When I took his hand, he helped me to my feet. I didn't tell him I fell off the couch, but instead I asked, "So, is it clear outside? Or are there any zombies?" I picked the fleece blanket off of the floor and tossed it on the back of the couch. Shun told me, "I think it's pretty clear. If there were any out here, then they would already be swarming the jet to get in. But we should hurry just in case some saw us off in the distance."

Kato stepped out from the pilot's cabin, and rolled up the sleeves on his shirt. Shun asked him, "You going with us, Kato?" He nodded his head and told him, "We've made it this far and I'm not staying here on a zombie infested planet." I smiled. Kato still had some fight left in him. Shun turned the handle on the door, and opened it slowly. He stepped out first, then me, and last was Kato. All three of us were alert as deer as we searched the area for an attacker.

I saw Shun was relaxing, and knew this place was safe for the time being. There was a clicking behind me, and I turned to see Kato loading the hand pistol that Shun had found a while back. I asked him, "What are you planning to do with that?" I wanted to hit myself for asking such a stupid and feeble minded question. "Self-defense purposes of course."

I appreciated him not getting smart with me. I couldn't help that my brain was fried with everything that's happened. There was a few inches of snow on the ground, and it crunched under our feet. I could see that Shun hated the noise it was making. It could easily give us away if we weren't careful. We cleared the trees and I saw the house and lab that I had spent most of my life in.

Everything looked to be the same. Except for a few shattered windows and knocked over potted plants. I started walking towards the house, when Shun said to me quietly, "Alice, stay near us." I had lost myself for a moment, and was now aware of why we were here. Something moved past a window in the house. I stood there and looked into the window, and Shun called out to me again. I shook my head, and ran to catch up with them.

Shun

At the moment, I was grateful that Dr. Michaels lived in the middle of nowhere. The odds of being attacked out here were slim, and even if we were it would only be one or two at the most. Alice caught back up with us after I had to snap her out of her thoughts. We had to stay together. Now wasn't the time to get distracted and sidetracked, no matter how safe we may of felt. The lab looked just like the house; broken windows, and knocked over plants. We rounded the corner to the door, and saw it was cracked open. I made sure Kato and Alice were behind me as I pushed the door open slowly.

It creaked, and soon revealed the insides of the lab. A few computers were knocked over and laying on the ground broken. Papers were also scattered everywhere. I let Kato and Alice inside, and shut the door behind me to keep anything that came this way out. I caught the glimpse of something red, and saw the back of the door was smeared with blood and bloody handprints.

That raised a red flag in my mind. Alice yelled over to me, "Shun! The transporter still works!" I put a finger over my lips and said, "Shh! Be quiet!" All of fell silent, and you could hear the snow falling on the ground. And footsteps. Shuffling footsteps. None of us made a move as we heard the sound approach the door. There was a scratching on the other side like that of what a dog does when it wants inside. The scratching ceased. Kato said, "I'll go peer out of the window and see if its still out there."

He walked over to one of the unbroken windows, and looked out of it. A hand then burst through the glass and grabbed onto Kato's neck. The head of the monster popped through the hole in the window and bit down of neck muscle of Kato. I saw who it was. Alice screamed.

"Grandfather!" Blood squirted from Kato's neck as he flailed and tried to break free. I saw a metal handled broom in the corner of the room, and took it. I tore off the broom part and was left the metal stick. Alice was screaming at me to not kill her grandfather, but it was too late after I gave one good blow to the back of his head. Kato scrambled away from the window and looked at the limp body in horror.

Half of it was in the building, while the other was hanging outside. It started to slide into the building, and eventually fell from the window and collapsed on the tiled floor. When it hit, the body contorted into an inhuman position and remained there.

Alice had her hand covering her mouth and tears were rolling from her eyes as she looked at her beloved grandfather. Kato was leaning against the wall and holding his ripped open shoulder. His hand was shining red with fresh blood, and the wound was still bleeding. There wasn't anyway the he was coming with us now.

Shun

I watched as Alice knelt by her grandfather's dead-again body. She acted as if she wanted to hold him, but was also reminding herself that he wasn't who he once was. Kato stumbled up and walked towards the transporter. "Miss Alice, could you please tell me the coordinates to where you want to go." I raised an eyebrow. Alice wiped her eyes and said, "Just press that blue button and you'll a list of different dimensions we've been to. Why are you setting the coordinates though? I could of set them myself."

Kato turned to her and smiled and said, "I at least want to die knowing I made sure you two got where you were going." I felt my own eyes water. Kato was faithful all the way to the end. The list came up when he pressed the button, and at the top was Vestal. He asked us, "Will Vestal work?" Alice walked over next to me and held onto my arm.

I told Kato solemnly, "Anywhere is better than here." He nodded his head and selected the coordinates to Vestal. The transporter hummed and the portal opened. I was blinded by the brightness, but they quickly adjusted. In front of us now, was the gate way to our safe haven. I took Alice's hand in mine, and walked up the steps with her. We both stepped into the standing platform and the two large glass doors slide close. I asked Kato, "What are you going to do before you turn?" He smiled, and I knew he wasn't planning on becoming one of those things. Although I couldn't figure what he was planning by looking at his facial expression. That surprised me. "I don't know. Maybe walk around and enjoy the scenery."

I smiled back at Kato. Something about this good-bye stung just as bad as me having to let go of Dan's hand so he could fall to his fate. I turned to Alice and said, "Ready to go?" Her eyes were still wet with previous, and oncoming tears. "No. I'm not ready to leave behind everything I've known my entire life. But I am ready to start over." I placed my lips on hers and tightened my hands grip on hers.

We both faced the portal, and I turned my head back at Kato. "Thanks for everything you've done for us, Kato. It's a shame you can't come with us." He bowed his head, and Alice and I leaped into the portal. As it was closing, I turned and saw Kato standing there waving at us. And the hand pistol pointed to his head. Right before the portal closed, I heard a gunshot, and a body hit the floor. I felt the hairs on my neck stand up after knowing that Kato took his own life, so he wouldn't have an afterlife.

Alice's hand was still in mine as we floating through the portal. I saw tears were flooding from her eyes. I was positive she was thinking just what I was. Our plan had finally worked. We had made it to the transporter and were on our way to safety. I thought about everyone we lost, and how they died. Julie never knew what was coming, and was the first to go. Runo was given a chance to live, but fell just like the first. Poor Murucho was dragged off in his sleep by our friend and eaten alive.

Dan sacrificed himself so he didn't have to suffer the same fate as all others who were bitten. And Kato took his own life with the same gun that I had shot and ended up having to take another's life. The end of the portal was now in our sights. Our bodies went through the opening, and we tumbled onto the ground of Vestal. Alice's eyes were closed and sobs were escaping her mouth.

I looked around, and saw the all too familiar buildings. I wrapped my arms around Alice's body and brought her closer to my body and whispered to her, "We made it. We're safe. We're safe." I sat there holding her, not caring that other Vestals stared at the two human zombie apocalypse survivors. I whispered into her ear, "I love you."

Shun

Six years. That was how long we had been here on Vestal. It took us a while to adapt, but we had found Ace, Mira, Keith, and Baron and they had helped us. They didn't believe our story of why we ran to their world. I thought that Baron was the most upset when we told him Dan and the others were gone. The rest just seemed shocked that something like that could of happened. I was sitting in a park bench next to Alice. The air was clean and nice as the wind blew clouds across the blue Vestal sky.

There were days that we couldn't bare to go on knowing that we may have been the last two surviving humans from Earth. Baron's little sister Maron, ran past us and over to the playground equipment. Baron wasn't far behind her, and turned to go and sit with one of his many other siblings. Not many people were out today, which was very odd. In the six years we had spent here, there hadn't seemed to be a slow day at the park yet. There was another person on the other side of the playground equipment that Maron was playing on. He looked familiar. Oddly human.

I didn't point anything out to Alice, and I focused my eyes to see his face. It all rushed to me at once. He had the face of the man who had stuck me in the arm with tranquilizer and taken me to the underground lab. A vision attacked my mind of him stuffing bags full of vials of antidote serums and such as the zombies ate his staff and colleagues. He was staring right at me, and I felt my heart speeding up and sweat pouring from my forehead.

Alice turned to me and said, "Shun? What's wrong? You look sick." She hadn't noticed him, but I had. And he noticed me. He knew who I was and remembered. The man reached into his pocket and held up a glass vial filled with a red liquid. Another virus. He's going to let it loose in Vestal!

I tried to tell myself it had to be injected into somebody for it to take effect. He smiled and shook his head and waved a finger. As if he was telling me that it wasn't the case anymore. He flicked the vial and everything went into slow motion as I yelled, "No!" The glass shattered on the ground, and the red liquid spread from the vial. The man was still smiling, and he waved back at me and walked away. The virus was released once again, and it was airborne now.

omg! mega cliff-hanger! shame this is the end for now. :/ i must return to my other story, but there will be a sequeal to this story next year and i promise that it will be finished by Halloween. but, i just want to say thanks to everyone who had read and reviewed the story and supported it all the way. it has become one of my most successful stories so far. maybe even a close second to Broken Bones. please do go check the poll and poster if you havent before this zombie fic vanishes into the depths of Fanfiction. thank you all for reading though. it means a lot to me. :) well read, review, and other things once more as we say good-bye till next year. P.S. i will do a Christmas fic. :) ~Copperpelt~