Chapter 4: Main Lodge Dodge
"What are you talking about" Chris asked, smiling at their discomfort.
"Like look behind you" Geoff said.
"You know this curse legend thing is getting old like real fast" Chris demanded, smile faded into a sigh like appearance.
"This is no joke, look behind you" Bridgette pleaded.
Chris reluctantly turned around to see whatever they wanted him to see. It wasn't like Bridgette to say something and not mean it, she wasn't one for cruel or practical jokes of any kind.
When he saw what they were so scared off, he nearly wet his pants. He backed up as well and accidently backed up into Duncan, who was too scared to even notice.
"The curse is real" Chris choked out.
What they were so scared of was the true island curse. With the bonfire as there only source of light beside the full moon. It was pretty easy to know what they were. Fifteen figures staggered toward them. Pales skin. Arms outstretched. Mouths open showing blood soaked teeth. Eyes that showed the regular yellow burning sensation. Their clothes dirty and torn, blood clotted open wounds all over them. Most wore an army uniform, with camaflouge pants and shirt. Some had helmets, some didn't.
"Zombies" Cody screeched out.
"What do we do" Lindsay panicked.
The closest zombie was a mere twenty feet away and getting closer with every step.
"We have to make it to the main lodge" Chris yelled out, bringing up some courage.
"But how do we get past them" Bridgette pointed at the zombies.
They were now ten feet away. For some reason they decided not to run at them.
"We fight" Ezekiel said stepping forward.
He stepped up to the closest one. He jumped into the air and kicked the zombies head clean off. The body fell to the ground.
The others would have congratulated him but they were too horrified with the other 14 approaching.
Duncan was the next to step forward. "Now it's my turn" he smiled. He took his switch blade out and jabbed it into another zombies head. It went crashing down not moving a second later.
"Everyone make a run for the main lodge" Chris screamed.
With that everyone frantically ran for the main lodge through the slight gap Ezekiel and Duncan had made. Everyone dodged in and out of zombies the best of their abilities.
8:09pm
There seemed to be zombies all of over the campground as Chris and the teenagers all made their way to the main lodge.
The first person to the main lodge was Sierra with a very frightened Cody being dragged behind her. She climbed the stairs opened the door and got inside. She closed the door behind her and looked to see the entire dining area clear of zombies
Izzy was the next to enter. "That was close" the crazy red head said wide eyed.
"Where are the others" Cody asked breathlessly.
"I don't know" Izzy said breathlessly as well.
The door burst open and Bridgette, Geoff, Tyler, Lindsay, Beth and Eva com running in.
"There are like so many of them out there" Geoff said holding his knees.
"We barely made it" Bridgette added.
"I could have taken em" Eva huffed.
"You would have been torn to pieces" Tyler pointed out.
"At least we're safe" Izzy said looking around.
"Yah but what about the rest of us" Cody worried.
"Hopefully they'll make it dude" Geoff said also worried.
The door burst open again; Katie and Sadie came bolting in.
"We made it Katie" Sadie cheered with relief.
"I know we're alive" Katie cheered back.
The two grabbed each other and their usual happy dance.
They looked around and only saw nine of their friends. "And we're not the only ones to make it" Katie cheered.
The two grabbed Beth and Lindsay and the four continued their dance.
Justin pushed open the door and quickly entered. A very sweaty and tired looking Owen entered next. Under both his arms he carried a person, who wasn't very comfortable being there, but grateful the big guy saved them and had managed to make it to the main lodge.
Owen dropped Gwen and Trent on their feet while Justin reclosed the doors. But not fast enough before Chris, Alejandro; Courtney, Leshawna, and DJ came bolting.
Alejandro was actually caring Courtney bridal way and Leshawna was caring DJ bridal way.
Leshawna let DJ fall to the ground as soon she got in. Justin reclosing the doors for good this time.
"You're safe now" Alejandro said sweetly, putting her down.
"Are we all here" Chris asked looking around? He actually seemed to care about their wellbeing now.
8:14
"I think six of us are still missing" Gwen said also looking around.
"Who" Chris asked? "Chef is one."
"My Harold" Leshawna squealed.
"Noah" Eva muttered.
"Duncan, Heather, Ezekiel" Izzy spoke.
"They haven't made it yet" Beth worried.
"I'm not let my Harold stay out there" Leshawna demanded.
Gwen grabbed her by the arm to stop her. "And I'm not goanna lose you out there" she demanded.
"I'm not goanna leave him out there" Leshawna also demanded, pulling Gwen with her to the door.
"Let's just open the doors and see if we can find anyone" Trent offered.
"Sounds good to me" Gwen agreed.
"Alright" Leshawna sighed.
The three made their way over to the doors while everyone else watched.
Chris had one door while Justin had the other as they opened them. Leshawna, Gwen and Trent all peered out into the early night. They could feel it had gotten colder.
The looked around and saw zombies ruffling around as their minds were blank. The good news they didn't see any in a huge group to say one of their missing friends had been attacked.
"I don't see any of them" Leshawna wined.
"They must be in one of the cabins or the latrines" Chris responded.
Then a figure dropped from the roof in front of them.
Leshawna screamed.
"It's only me" Heather snorted.
"Oh, you're safe," Leshawna sighed, "have you seen Harold."
"No, I'm sorry, but I did find him though" Heather said as another person fell down beside her.
"What's up eh" Ezekiel asked?
"Errrr" they all heard.
They looked to see zombies charging at them.
"Zombies" Ezekiel screamed.
The five ran back in and closed the doors behind them.
"Ow my arm" they heard someone yell. Everyone turned around to see an arm in the door.
"There's trying to get in" DJ screamed.
"No you dunce it's me" Harold said coming in. Duncan and Noah followed close behind. They turned and locked it.
Seconds later pounding and scratching sounds can be heard on the other side of the door along with their groaning and moaning. Chris slid a piece of wood in between the handles.
"That should hold em" Chris said.
"There' are like some in here to man" Tyler freaked; he was standing at the glass window counter that looked into the kitchen half.
"Where I don't see any" Sierra said.
The others shook their heads in agreement; they also didn't see any zombies. ]
"There are two of them in the kitchen" Tyler responded.
Everyone else joined him and saw two of them ruffling around the kitchen. They all gasped when they saw who one of them was.
"They got Chef" Chris cried.
"We have to put down" Duncan said intelligently.
"He's right" Courtney found herself agreeing with the delinquent. "We can't take the chance of him infecting the rest of us."
"So who's with me" Duncan said pulling his switch blade out, which still had wet blood on it.
"I guess I am" Harold offered stepping forward, taking his numb chucks from his pockets.
The two of them headed for the kitchen door. Harold opened it and Duncan entered first. Harold followed; Beth and Lindsay lingered in the doorway to watch.
The two of them only saw one zombie with a hard had. It saw them and charged Duncan, who charged back as he plunged his knife through one of its eyes. Sending it crashing to the ground.
"Where's the other one" Duncan asked?
He really wished he hadn't asked that. Especially, Beth and Lindsay.
Chef zombie was hidden behind the door and emerged. He growled at Lindsay and Beth, as he marched toward them.
Duncan was too shocked and scared to move as he was stuck in place. The other campers were the same way as Lindsay and Beth continued to back up until they hit a wall. They screamed even louder.
This seemed to snap someone out of their shock as they quickly grabbed a large steak knife and plunged it into the back of Chef's head, sending him crashing to the ground perminately, the knife still stuck in his head.
Lindsay and Beth stopped screaming and looked at their savor that had many skills. They both ran over and gave him a hug for saving their lives.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, Henry" Lindsay thanked.
"What she said" Beth agreed.
"Anytime" Harold offered.
Everyone else broke from there animated shock.
8:31pm
After breaking up the two long wooden tables and sealing off all the windows, they gathered chairs and sat in a circle. With only a couple lights on, to make sure the zombies wouldn't get more agile.
The pounding had ceased for the moment and the moaning seemed to be quite a distance away.
"So what do we do now" Tyler asked?
"Make it to the boat and get the heck out of here" Gwen said.
"We can't" Chris sighed. "Chef blew all the fuel on the way here."
Everyone freaked.
"Did you know the legend was real" Heather huffed at Chris.
"Not exactly" Chris admitted.
"So you did a little" Duncan barked. "And you still sent us all out here."
"I mean, who really would of suspected this could be true" Chris barked back. "I mean really, zombies."
"You still had an idea that they were here and you still brought us here" Leshawna pointed out.
"It don't matter about that now" Sierra said defending him. "How can something like this be possible in the first place?"
Chris explained the entire legend between what happened in 1942. About the two scientists who made the dead come back to life. It spread throughout the entire island and how it killed everyone. More and more zombies were created, from the military personnel. Then how the camp was made and that Dakota was the lone survivor that made it out. He concluded.
"So the question is how do we get out" Harold asked?
"I don't think there is a way" Chris admitted.
Everyone's regular state of being really nice, evil, nasty, or other personality traits have disappeared, mostly. Some did linger still though.
"There has to be a way" Sierra offered.
"The boat has no fuel, and there are no other boats. And I don't think cars can swim and there is definitely no landing strip for airplanes."
"What about helicopters" Courtney asked?
"What about them" Chris asked dumbfounded.
"Is there any way we can at least communicate with the outside" Cody asked.
"We don't have any wire phones and I left my cell back at my trailer" Chris sighed.
"I still have mine" Courtney said taking it out.
"Do you have any bars" Alejandro asked sincerely.
She flipped it open and checked. "Yah, I got uh two."
"Thank God for her always wanting to sue us" Chris thanked.
"I'll call my lawyers and have them send out a chopper" Courtney promised.
"Good, what do we do" Owen asked?
"We need weapons" Harold pointed out.
"To defend ourselves in case they decide to break in" Cody added.
"Oh, my Cody's a zombie expert" Sierra cooed.
"Where do we find weapons in a mess hall" Heather huffed.
"Go search the kitchen" Chris instructed.
Leshawna, Cody, Bridgette, Geoff, Tyler, Eva, Alejandro, and Duncan went into the kitchen to see what they could find as weapons.
Bridgette and Geoff had actually decided to hold off on their make out sessions until after they escaped Death Island.
Everyone else had decided to just hang out until thee eight came back.
8:43pm.
The team of eight made it back some with weapons some not. Leshawna had found a baseball bat that Chef had used to beat raccoons up with when they would get in the freezer and steal frozen food. Duncan had found some steak knives, two large ones in total. Finally Geoff found a small pistol in the back of one of the cabinets.
Cody, Tyler, Eva, Alejandro and Bridgette didn't find anything so they just came back empty handed.
Courtney was just finishing up with her call with her lawyers when the eight came back.
"Nice, you found a gun" Owen cheered.
"Yah, but there's only six bullets" Geoff said showing Owen the cartridge, to show that actually only had six bullets.
"I doesn't matter you found the pistol that Chef's uses in case of emergency's" Chris pointed out.
"And not to mention some steak knives and a baseball bat" Duncan added.
"Is that it" DJ asked shaking?
"Hay guys I just finished with my lawyers, I have good news and bad news and worse news" Courtney frowned.
"Let's start with the good news" Chris sighed.
"My lawyers said they can send a helicopter to come pick us up" Courtney smiled a bit.
"So what's the bad news" Alejandro said sweetly.
"It won't be here until six tomorrow morning" Courtney sighed.
Everyone all got scared looks at having to spend a night on a zombie infested island.
"And what's the worse news" Chris asked? Him and everyone else really probably shouldn't have asked that?
"Well. To put it straight, there really is no spot on the island for the helicopter to land" Courtney said frightened.
They all started to get more scared.
"The only place for them to land is on the military base roof. We have to make it there in one piece, which by my lawyers; the base is on the opposite side of the island" Courtney finished.
Everyone was about to be sick as they were going pale from the sound of what Courtney had told them.
"I think I'm goanna be sick" DJ said, his stomach wrenching more now than it ever had.
"So we have to trudge through an island full of things that want us for dinner, just to wait for a helicopter that may not be coming" Duncan groaned.
"That's about right" Courtney sighed not liking the truth herself. Even if she was agreeing with Duncan.
"We're goanna need better weapons than these man" Geoff worried holding up his gun.
"I actually am hiding one more thing" Chris admitted.
Everyone stared at him wondering what he could say next that could surprise them.
"What is it McClean" Heather said waiting.
"Remember the two crates that I brought along with us" Chris asked shyly?
They nodded in agreement, finally goanna get the answer to what was in them.
"If we can get to those crates, we can will make it across the island with no trouble" Chris said with a smile, he was sure of it.
"What's in them" Trent asked curiously?
"You'll see if we get there" Chris replied very confident.
"If" DJ choked out.
"We'll make it" Bridgette assured DJ as she glared at Chris.
"One minor problem" Chris said.
"Oh great, what can it be this time" Heather said sarcastically.
"The key to the lock to the shed is in my safe on the boat" Chris said scared now.
"Just great" Heather barked.
"We need to send someone down there to retrieve it, and then come back here with it and we'll all go to the shed as a whole" Harold offered. He pulled two walkie talkies from his pocket.
"Where'd you get those" Leshawna asked?
"I found them when I killed Chef" Harold gloated.
"That's a good idea" Cody agreed. "We should send three of us to be safe. And they take one walkie while we keep the other, to stay in touch with each other, in case something bad happens or goes wrong."
Since it was the best thing they've heard all afternoon, they went with it.
"How do we decide who goes" Beth asked?
"I know" Chris said going to the kitchen and returning with paper and pens. "Can I borrow you're hat" he asked Geoff?
"What cukie idea are you coming up with this time" Gwen asked raising an eye brow.
8:56pm
"We each put our name on a piece, fold it in half, put it in Geoff's hat and do a drawing for who goes" Chris stated.
"Sounds good to me" Geoff said giving him his hat.
Everyone took a pen and piece of paper and put their name on it. They folded it and put them into Geoff's hat. Chris held the hat and quickly shuffled and mixed the paper, making sure it would be random.
"Now before I take out the three names, the people that get chosen swear they will go and not chicken out" Chris demanded.
Everyone shook their heads yes, even the ones scared to death.
"Alrighty, the first name is" Chris said pulling a name out, as Geoff held his hat.
Everyone was biting their nails waiting to see who it was.
Chris looked at it and read the name. "Ezekiel."
Ezekiel just gulped. "Okay then" he choked out.
"Second name" Chris said pulling out another paper, unfolding and reading the name. "Leshawna."
"This sister is about to kick some zombie a**" Leshawna chanted.
"Last but not least, Geoff" Chris finished.
"Alright homeschooled and Leshawna, let's go" Geoff cheered.
"Don't forget your weapons" Duncan said, giving Ezekiel the steak knives. Seeing Leshawna had the baseball bat and Geoff had the pistol.
"Thanks Doug" Ezekiel said.
"We're not letting you go out there unarmed" Duncan replied.
"But he already has two arms" Izzy joked.
"This is no time for joking" Courtney snorted.
"Stay safe" Bridgette said to Geoff, she came over to him and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"I'll be alright" Geoff assured her back, the two hugged. Geoff emptied the remaining paper onto the ground and replaced his hat.
"You be safe to" Harold assured Leshawna, giving her a fist pumped.
Leshawna happily returned it, "I will, keep those lips of yours warm for when I return."
Harold gave her a salute to say yes mam.
"You guys ready" Chris asked?
"As ready as can be" Ezekiel said.
"Okay good, now the combo to my safe is, 14, 25, 36, in that order. Got it?"
"I have it" Leshawna assured.
Trent slid the wood from out the handles, Chris unlocked, it and Justin and Beth took a door each and slowly opened them.
They opened it a crack to start, so Geoff could peak his head out and see if the coast was clear. He could hear them and see them ruffling through the cabins. There seemed like none were near the mess hall at the moment.
"The coast is clear" Geoff assured stepping out. Ezekiel and Leshawna joined him.
"Be careful and stay together" Chris said, sounding the most caring for them then he had ever.
They saw him close the doors and heard him lock it and slide the wood back into place.
"Let's go" Geoff whispered, carrying the gun low with both hands.
They moved down the stair and into the shadows as they quietly made their way back to the boat.
They moved absolutely quiet and quickly as they moved to behind the latrines, making sure no zombies saw them. None did.
They moved along the walls until they were on the opposite side. They quickly made their way in the dark onto the dock and onto the boat before any of the zombies saw, some reason they were more concentrated on other matters to even notice they were there.
Leshawna quickly fiddled with the dial and put in the first number, then had a little trouble remembering the second but eventually remembered.
Then they heard footsteps on the dock. Geoff peered around the corner and saw a zombie coming down the dock toward them.
"There's a walker coming our way" Geoff cried silently.
"Hurry" Ezekiel pleaded.
"Hold you button" Leshawna turned the dial and clicked the last number to indicate that it would open. She quickly opened it by the tricky handle, she looked in and saw only one thing. A single key. She quickly grabbed it and stuffed it in her pocket.
9:15pm
Geoff checked around the corner again and saw the zombie had moved about eight feet in just a few seconds.
"He's getting closer" Geoff whispered.
"Got it" Leshawna said.
Then they heard a splash sound. Geoff looked around the corner and saw the zombie was gone.
"He fell in the water" Geoff whispered.
"Good let's go" Ezekiel pleaded.
They got off the boat and headed back the same way they came to the main lodge.
They were about ten feet on land from the dock, when they heard the moaning and groaning sounds. They looked and saw the zombies were now coming from the cabins and coming for them.
They screamed and ran for the main lodge. But they were cut off as ten zombies came barreling out of the forest and passed the main lodge coming at them.
9:18pm
"Where do we go" Ezekiel screamed.
"In the latrines" Leshawna commanded.
The three ran into the bathrooms and locked the door behind them.
A second later more pounding and banging could be heard on the doors.
"We're trapped" Geoff shrieked.
The bathroom door started to shake. The three could see some wood start to chip off it.
They looked at each other and knew what was happening. They were starting to break through the door.
"There's gotta be a way out of here" Leshawna protested looking around.
"It's a bathroom, there's only goanna be one exit" Ezekiel freaked, "They're goanna get us."
"NO they're not" Leshawna said grabbing homeschooled by the shirt and pulling him close to her. "We don't give up until all chances are gone, you here me."
"Yes" Ezekiel said weakly.
"Hay guys, I found a way out" Geoff exclaimed.
Leshawna let go of Ezekiel. "Where" Leshawna asked?
"Up there" Geoff said pointing.
Leshawna and Ezekiel looked up and saw the sky light.
"You're brilliant" Leshawna said proudly.
Then a large piece wood came flying and hit a toilet stall. The three of them looked at the door and saw a zombies head in the hole starring back at them.
"There breaking through" Ezekiel shrieked.
"Hurry help me up" Geoff commanded, he stuffed the gun in his pocket. Then with Leshawna's help, he got up onto one of the sinks. He could feel cold water dripping on his barefoot.
He reached up and unlatched the roof window. He pushed it all the way open and jumped down.
"You first Leshawna" Geoff offered.
She didn't argue as Geoff took the bat and helped her onto the sink. She reached up and with no trouble pulled herself up and onto the roof.
9:25pm
By now half of the zombie was now in the whole, head to torso. Its arms were swinging widely, trying to get someone in its mits.
Geoff reached up and quickly gave the bat to Leshawna. She put it aside in a place so it wouldn't role away.
"You're next homeschool" Geoff said helping Ezekiel onto the sink. Ezekiel had stuffed the knives into his sweatshirt pocket as Leshawna grabbed a hold of one of his hands and quickly helped him up.
By now the hole was bigger and the zombie was almost through.
"Hurry Geoff, climb out before it's to late" Leshawna pleaded.
Geoff was about to when the zombie broke in and charged him. He quickly reached into his pocket and took out the gun. He pointed it at him and fired, hitting the zombie in the forehead. It went crashing down to the floor.
Geoff quickly grabbed the sides of the sink and helped himself up, with the gun now back in his pockets.
Leshawna was now just helping him pull up when the door completely fell to pieces and the zombies came flooding in, coming over to where Geoff was dangling in the air. The zombies swiped at his feet, as he tried to dodge all there swipes.
Leshawna's hands were starting to get sweaty, she was almost about to let him go, but she managed to pull him up and in.
They sat for a moment and caught their breaths as they stared down at the zombies peering back up at them.
They quickly pulled out their weapons and moved to the other side of the latrines and looked down and saw no zombies. They jumped down one at a time, landing on their feet, the soft ground softening their falls.
They saw the main lodge only mere forty feet away. They started to run for it, then skidded to a stop when eight zombies came running out of the forest towards them. Twelve more came from past the latrines and fifteen more came from the cabins and six more from their other side. They were surrounded.
"We have to fight" Geoff choked out.
"We can't take on all of them" Ezekiel whimpered.
"We have to" Leshawna said not liking the truth.
The zombies came charging.
Geoff, Leshawna and Ezekiel did the only thing they could, they fought.
Geoff took on the ones coming from the cabins. Leshawna took on the ones coming from the latrines. And finally, Ezekiel took on the ones coming from the forest.
"Get ready" Geoff readied himself.
Leshawna and Ezekiel also readied themselves.
9:32pm
They waited for the zombies to come to them. Then spread out to about ten feet from each other.
Geoff took aim, Leshawna raised the bat as if she was goanna hit a baseball, and Ezekiel raised the knives as if he was going to devour them.
Geoff got two shots in a row. One bullet went through one zombie's eye to get stuck in the forehead of another sending them both crashing to the ground.
Leshawna smacked one zombie after another in the face with the bat, smashing its brains as soon as it hit the ground. She literally seemed to have perfect aim every time. She beat down five zombies in a row.
Ezekiel weaved in and out of each of the zombies. Using the steak knives as his lethal weapons. He stabs one in the head, slashed another by the back of the head and watches their brain fall out. Then decapitates another six.
Geoff shot the remaining three bullets, killing a zombie a piece, but he realized he was out of bullets when he heard the clicking sound. "Oh crap" he said to himself. He threw it at one of them in hope of doing some damage, but it only bounced off and landed quietly on the grass.
He looked behind him and saw a zombie coming for him, grabbed ahold of his arm and was about to sink its teeth into his arm.
WILL GEOFF LIVE. AND WHO ELSE MIGHT JOIN HIM. WILL THEY REACH THE MILITARY BASS? HINT, THEY WILL, BUT NOT ALL WILL. REVIEW AND STAY TUNED FOR CHAPTER 5.