Hello everybody! Here's a new chapter to this new story that I created and first posted a couple of days ago. It wasn't easy to make it, but listening to the right kind of music really helped me get into the mood that I'm setting this chapter in.

Yes, I know that this is a particularly speedy update in relations to my normally slightly slower updates to my other stories. The reason this is the exception is because I'm quite excited about this story and am right now in a writing high for this particular topic. I hope that you end up enjoying this new chapter as much as you had reading the first chapter.

Let me just give you guys a small warning in terms of how this new chapter is going to be. In the last chapter, it was all friendly and light and all that good stuff. This time, the mood and situation is going to do a complete 180 and take a sudden turn for the worse. I'll explain it a bit more in detail at the end of this chapter after you all had a chance to read the new chapter.

Please don't forget to leave a review before you move onto the next story that you want to read. Since this is a new story, I find it helpful when you all leave reviews saying how you liked it and if there's anything that you would like to see slightly different. Constructive criticism is always welcome, but reviews that are flames disguised as constructive criticism or masked by extremely long reviews are not nice. Trust me; someone once sent me a very long review that sounded nice at the beginning but was really just a flame when you took in the overall message of it.

But yeah, that's enough of my ranting there now. Hope you enjoy this new chapter as much as I had making it. Until the next update to this or any of my other stories on this site everybody!

Chapter 2: Nightmare Turned Reality

As the minutes in fourth period slowly made its way to the hour-and-a-half mark, Billy was finding it harder to not doze off during class. It was not too much of a surprise he was feeling this way seeing as how the history teacher had quite a drawling voice that could make even the most diligent of students nod off. That and he had a habit of not engaging the class in question-and-answer sessions, so it made for a one-sided class conversation that barely even seemed productive.

How can he expect anyone to learn what he's teaching by talking with that boring tone? he silently wondered as he had long since taken to studying on his own by reading through the textbook. It's almost like he's trying to serenade us to boredom without actually singing a tune! Oh well, at least he's doing a good job keeping to the book. And if Teddy survived with this guy last year, then I should be able to do the same.

With a small yawn that he barely managed to cover, Billy continued to venture into the lecture on his own. He was one of the rare students in his class who actually cared about learning or took it upon themselves to understand the material. Most of the others had long since zoned out and were in their own little world. Some were busy doodling in their notebooks that were meant to house important class notes; others decided to sneak glances at their cell phones, some under desks while others more daring and out in the open.

Being that it was also pretty quiet in the class save for the teacher's voice, he could also hear some of the softer sounds he otherwise would have missed. For example, he could barely hear somebody's iPod going off from somewhere behind him. He could not hear the melody, but the backbeat and percussions were easy to catch without much effort. He had to refrain from bobbing his head up and down to it since he immediately recognized the music that whoever was playing to be one of his favorites. Instead, he settled at drumming his fingers to the beat of both the lyrics and backbeat while skimming through his textbook.

"…And that is what Lincoln managed to accomplish in the days before his unfortunate assassination," he heard the teacher apparently conclude his lecture as he put down the piece of chalk he had been writing with for the past hour-and-a-half and turned around towards the class. In a sort of freaky fashion, every student who was doing something they should not have been doing quickly hid away what little evidence there was of their inattention and pretended to have been diligently taking notes. While they knew it was easy to get away with these things, they also knew there would be definite hell to pay if he happened to catch them since he does not believe in giving out warnings before exacting punishment. "I hope you all managed to catch what I said; it's going to be on the pop quiz I'll be giving you tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, the entire class, Billy included, let out a groan of protest at the thought of having to participate in a surprise test. This was the last thing they wanted to hear, especially since this was the first day any of them had covered any of the information. All the teacher did as a response to them was shrug his shoulders before sneaking a glance at the clock above the doorway.

"By the response you just gave, I'd suspect that you were not paying full attention," he stated as he took a seat at his desk. "If you have been, then there'd be no reason for you to be protesting against a harmless surprise quiz. If you wish, you can spend the last ten minutes of class copying down whatever notes you failed to record. If you don't understand any of the notes, then it'll reflect on your test and put a dent on your grade."

Before he could say anything else in regards to the test, a sudden shrill scream sounded from out in the hallway. A second later, it was accompanied by frantic shouts of panic and cries of hysteria as if somebody had just bore witness to something extremely horrific.

"What in heaven's name…?!" the teacher exclaimed as all the students immediately got out from their seats and rushed towards the door. He then instructed in vain to the class to go back to their seats.

Billy, however, felt that it was probably somebody's idea of a prank to scare the pants off of anybody who heard it. It happened once before last year the day before summer vacation started where some guy was stalking his girlfriend in a werewolf costume before suddenly appearing right in front of her and causing a shriek that could wake the dead. It had become the hottest topic on the internet for the majority of summer break.

As such, he decided to stay behind at his desk and began to pack up his things. Class was going to be over in a few minutes, and he already taught himself what was being covered in the day's lesson. He felt no need to be copying any notes since the information was pretty much ripped out from the textbook. All he had to do now was wait for the bell to ring and go to the hallway where he would no doubt see the aftermath of someone's sick idea for a joke.

"What's going on out there?" he heard one of the female students ask in a tone that made it sound like she had just stumbled onto the latest school gossip. He ignored her and made sure everything was in his backpack, especially his laptop since he would need it for his fifth period advance computers class. The last thing he wanted was for it to have been taken by one of his bullies from right under his nose and beg his parents to buy him a new one. "Come on; open the door and let us see!"

"How can I open it when you're crushing my hand against the doorknob?" he heard a male student ask in annoyance as he now checked his pockets for his flash drive, his iPod and headphones, his wallet, and house keys. "Stand back a bit, why don't you? This door needs to be pulled open!"

"Somebody, help me!!!" another scream from the hallway was heard before a guttural shout of pain sounded and accompanied by a strange and sickening gurgling noise. Instead of recoiling in fear, the students by the door seemed even more determined to go outside and see what was going on.

A couple of seconds later, the door was finally opened as was indicated by the students now rushing out into the hallways to see what was going on. The teacher, who had been trying to get their attention ever since the first scream was heard, gave a resigned sigh before heading outside himself to see just what was going on. Billy soon followed suit after putting on his backpack since he did not trust it being out of his sights for even one second. Having survived through school as a bullied loner made him slightly paranoid about his things being left alone anywhere except in the company of Teddy.

"Oh my god…!" the teen heard one of the male students gasp out loudly as most of the girls had chosen to scream bloody murder akin to that in typical horror movies! "The hell are those guys doing? Are they really having sex on the floor?!"

"Are you blind or something, you idiot?" another student all but screamed in response; Billy had since quickly made his way towards the crowded doorway to see what had everybody so frightened. "You can't have sex fully clothed! And besides, when did screwing each other, faggot style or not, involve digging into someone's stomach?!"

What the hell…?! he thought as he fought his way through the crowd and into the hallway. Having his backpack on made it harder to do so since it served as an extension of his body mass. Someone's performing cannibalism out in the middle of the hallway? How in the world can that be possible?! Now I know this has got to be some kind of sick joke, especially when they made it so they could laugh it off as overly kinky gay sex!

Once he finally fought his way to the front of the crowd, the teen was able to see to some extent what had everybody shouting and screaming. The very moment he laid eyes on the scene was the moment he regretted letting his curiosity get the better of him. Even the other students who had since left their respective classrooms were starting to flood the hallways and looking either sick or freaked out.

All the way at the end of the hallway were a couple of guys lying motionless on the floor, one on his back and the other on his stomach. Hovering over them were a few other people who were walking around in an unexplainably weird fashion. There were also a few kneeling next to the fallen guys with what could be seen even from Billy's position blood dripping off their hands and forming a small pool around them. There must have been a lot of blood being spilled; the metallic scent quickly reached his nose and caused him along with a few others to involuntarily recoil as if he were about to gag.

"Hey, what are you kids doing over there?" the history teacher shouted over the screams as he fought through the crowd and headed towards the scene. Either he was thinking that this was all one elaborate joke or was not fazed at all at the bloody sight taking place in front of him. "If this is your idea of a joke, then it's rather ill-tasting. Even if it were Halloween, you're going way too far with this prank. Pulling off grotesque stunts like this is going to give you a one-way ticket to a suspension!"

By the time he got to where the cannibalism was occurring, the guys eating the fallen students looked at the teacher with a blank yet hungry look in their eyes. He immediately picked one up by his arms roughly and was demanding he explain what this was all about while having his back towards him moving back towards the crowd of students. What happened next shocked just about everybody.

Before the history teacher could even have a chance to react, the guy he was dragging by the arm suddenly lunged forward and sunk his teeth into the back of his neck. And just like the screams that were heard earlier, the man emitted a pained shout that soon turned into a sick gurgling noise as blood quickly spilled from his mouth. He then collapsed to the floor and proceeded to be eaten by the person he had dragged with him.

All the students that bore witness to this immediately started screaming their heads off before taking off on a full-fledged run! People did not care whether or not they were running towards a bunch of cannibalistic people; they just wanted to get out of the hallway where a murder had no doubt just taken place!

"Oh shit!" the teen cursed under his breath as he stood rooted to the spot despite the many people crashing into him in a desperate attempt to get away from the horrid scene. As much as he wanted to run, the imprint of the scene he just saw caused too much of a shock for him to do much else but just stand there in petrified fear like a statue. "This can't possibly be real! Zombies actually exist?!"

In the next moment, he was brusquely torn away from his frightened trance by somebody crashing into him and forcing him down to the floor. He ended up landing on top of another person he accidentally took down with him and was slightly crushed by the extra weight that was his backpack sitting on his back. When he looked behind him where he was hit, he noticed a male student looking positively beside himself with fear.

In the next moment, the guy gave out a pain-filled shrill scream that rattled every nerve in Billy's body. When he looked beyond the one who knocked him down, he saw that it was in fact another zombie-like person who had entered from the other side of the hallway and was now gorging on the person's leg!

"Oh god!" Billy exclaimed as he quickly scampered onto his feet and ran straight for the area where his history teacher had been eaten. At this point, his mind was running on autopilot. He could care less just exactly where he was going. All he knew was that he had to get out of this murder-filled hallway as quickly as possible!

Unfortunately, that proved a bit harder than it sounded. Amidst all the chaos and confusion, people were shoving each other this way and that. Students were falling over each other and being slammed into the walls and lockers; some were even unfortunate enough to be pushed into the zombie-like people and thus become their meal. In essence, the panicked evacuation served more as a roadblock for other panicked students rather than a productive evacuation. The teachers, most of which who tried to stay as calm as possible yet looking as pale as ghosts, tried to direct and organize the evacuation to no avail.

By some miraculous feat, the raven haired teen managed to squeeze through the tiny gaps in between the impenetrable wall of panicked students and avoided making any kind of contact with the zombies. Subconsciously, he thanked whatever gods were out there for giving him a rather skinny frame as it helped with the escape process. That and his somewhat weighted backpack provided him with just enough extra weight that he would not be pushed to the ground again unless caught by complete surprise like earlier. However, the pray was short-lived as the many screams of fright and anguish around him quickly added more fuel to his panicked escape that would no doubt lead to problems if he did not start calming down.

"God…damn it!" he grunted as he squeezed through the very crowded hallway doors and was now in the outside school paths that led to the quad and deeper into the school. "It's like all hell broke loose around here! Just what is going on?!"

Instead of receiving an answer to his otherwise rhetorical question, he was greeted with the sound of breaking glass. Looking around him in a panicked frenzy for the location of said sound, he failed to see anything of the sort because of the mass panic and confusion that seemed to have now spread throughout much of the school. In fact, it seemed as though the incident that took place in the hallway was also taking place in other parts of the school seeing as how he was now looking down the path opposite the quad and seeing zombies walking towards them and eating away at their unfortunate victims.

"How did these things just appear out of nowhere?!" Billy shouted out as he decided to make his way towards the quad where it would be somewhat easier to regain his bearings and hopefully less of a panicked atmosphere. "Shouldn't campus security have caught the zombies wandering around before this mass panic?"

As his frantic mind tried to work out a reasonable answer to how this catastrophe came to be, he continued to run past every hallway. Most of them had students flooding out of them looking around in confusion as to what all the commotion was about. Some were even daring enough to head towards the zombies without knowing the dangers of doing so. A few students who were relatively calm despite the franticness tried to warn them, but some chose to simply ignore the warnings. Billy would have done the same thing, but the last thing on his mind right now was to warn anybody who happened to have been heading in that direction. All he wanted to do was to get out of this school before any zombies made him into their dinner, an idea he was not planning to entertain anytime soon.

"…Teddy!" he suddenly exclaimed in a breathless manner as he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. A few people who happened to have been following close behind him shouted some choice profanity at him before continuing on with their escape. "He probably doesn't know what's going on yet. I got to find him!"

With that thought in mind, Billy quickly turned around and headed towards the hallway where he knew Teddy's classroom was in. Thankfully for him, said hallway was less than a couple of seconds away being that he had stopped just after passing it. However, the panic was now quickly growing along with the crowd of students as it now seemed that every hallway from his classroom and here have been warned about the zombies. Still, he chose to fight through the crowd in order to get into the hallway that held Teddy's classroom so he could tell him what was happening if he did not already know.

Once he got into the correct hallway, he noticed that the crowd had yet to enter a state of panic. This meant that the students here had yet to get the full story of what had just taken place and were just plain confused. However, that quickly changed as a scream was heard coming from the other end of the hall along with the panicked shouts of students telling everybody to run. And as if on cue, everybody began running away from the shouts and out to the outer corridors of the school.

Now knowing that he had little time to find Teddy before he followed the panicked crowd outside, Billy forced his way through the oncoming crowd of people in search for the blond. Unfortunately, this feat proved to be very difficult seeing as how his somewhat skinny frame hardly held any kind of resistant force to push through whatsoever. All he could manage was probably moving ahead a couple of feet for every ten seconds at best, a feat that was clearly unproductive in the current situation since Teddy's class was located all the way on the other side of the hall!

"Teddy!!!" he resorted to shouting out his friend's name. It ended up falling on deaf ears since his voice paled in comparison to the dozens of shouts and screams that drowned out any other noise around him. Still, he knew he had to try something to find him. "Can you hear me? We got to get out of here!"

Before he could get another word in, the resistive force of the crowd finally became too much for him. Having exhausted his strength fighting against the current, Billy allowed himself to be pushed back out from where he had come in. Once outside, he began frantically looking around for that familiar lock of blond hair dashing past him. However, he could only spare a couple of seconds doing that as he noticed that most of the people from the direction he had originally come from had left. This allowed him a front seat view of the fallen students and many zombies that were slowly making their way towards him.

Deciding to temporarily abandon his search for Teddy, the raven haired teen made a mad dash towards the quad. If he could just get there, then he could spend just a little more time looking for his best friend and figure out the safest way out of here in the process. How long he would have to do so was a completely different story seeing as how the situation was getting more dangerous by the second.

Once he arrived, he began his frantic search once again. Just like last time in the hallway, he failed to see any signs that Teddy was here, although he did subconsciously admit that he was not fighting against any kind of current this time. It did make it somewhat easier for him and his frantic mind to conduct a productive search. He even tried shouting out the blonde's name again seeing as how the screams were not as loud as they were in such a condensed space like the hallway. Unfortunately, this failed to yield any kind of results as he did not receive a response he was hoping for.

"Where the hell are you, Teddy?" Billy murmured under his breath in worry as he kept on with his frantic search. "You couldn't have gotten caught by those zombie guys. You're too good for that!"

"Billy!" he suddenly heard his name being shouted over the panicked screams of students. "Are you here? Say something if you can hear me!"

Surprised by this, the raven haired teen's eyes immediately lit up with hope as he turned towards the left side of the quad where the other hallway exit that Teddy might have taken would have led him to. Sure enough, he saw the familiar sight of his best friend frantically scanning the area for him.

"Teddy!!!" he shouted out as he cupped his hands over his mouth to try and get his voice to travel further.

Sure enough, said blond quickly turned his attention towards him and allowed a look of pure relief to approach his face. However, the expression quickly changed to that of fright and panic as his eyes grew wide.

"Billy, behind you!" Teddy shouted as Billy turned around out of reflex.

The next moment, the raven haired teen was face-to-face with a monstrous face dripping blood from its mouth no less than two feet away from him! With a yelp of surprise, he tried to back away but ended up falling over since the zombie had managed to get a firm grip on his shirt. As such, he was now on his back with the monster on top of him snarling and trying to take a bite out of him.

Fueled by both adrenaline and instinct, Billy brought his right hand up to the monster's throat to prevent it from coming closer and thus be in a position to sink its teeth into him. This proved to be harder to pull off than he initially thought since the creature was practically using its full weight to its advantage to get close to the teen. Noticing this, he decided to try his luck at punching the creature's lights out with frantic but well-aimed hits to the head to try and deter it from its goal. Unfortunately, this hardly did anything as the zombie seemed unfazed by this and even further driven to chomp him to bits.

"Get off of him, you monster!" the blond shouted as he suddenly appeared right next to his fallen friend. In the next moment, he delivered a strong and swift kick to the zombie's ribs that caused it to go flying a few feet away from them and unintentionally tripping up another zombie that was walking towards them. He then asked in both fear and concern with an arm outstretched, "You okay, Billy?"

"Do you even have to ask?" the raven haired teen snapped back with perhaps a little bit more venom than he meant as he accepted the hand and was quickly brought to his feet. "I almost got eaten there! And I've seen people being eaten by these zombie people! Do you think I'm okay, Teddy?!"

"Billy, calm down!" Teddy said in a stern yet calming tone as he placed comforting hands on the other's shoulders. "I can't deal with you going on a nervous breakdown! It isn't going to help us. Just take a deep breath and relax."

Probably because he was in front of the one person he trusted with his very life, Billy's frantic mind to heed of the advice and started to calm down. Even amidst all the chaos around him, he managed to block out all the screams and concentrate on relaxing. He continued taking deep calming breaths for the next few seconds until he was finally able to think somewhat clearly without going into a full-on panic.

"…Okay, I'm feeling better now," Billy responded as he let out another deep breath and looked Teddy in the eyes. "Sorry for going crazy there."

"How about we try worrying about other things for now?" the blond suggested as he nodded his head towards the direction where the other teen had first came from. "I think we got some unwanted company."

Looking behind him, the teen noticed that the outer corridor he had taken to get here was now swarming with zombies. He even recognized one of them to be his history teacher who he remembered saw being killed just minutes ago! They all had hungry looks in their eyes and were quickly filling their portion of the quad with their presence.

"Shit, we have to get out of here!" he exclaimed as he turned his gaze back at Teddy as if expecting him to come up with an idea. "Is the outer corridor you took to get here filled with zombies? That's the only way that leads to the front gates."

"I think you already know the answer to that," Teddy murmured under his breath as he frantically scanned the quad for any signs of a safe exit. He then saw the cafeteria doors wide open with some students running into the room. He then said as he dragged Billy along by the arm, "Come on; we're heading to the cafeteria! That should be a safe place to hide out until this whole thing blows over."

"You sure that's going to work?" Billy asked as he looked behind him and saw the zombies now starting to overrun the quad and taking down whoever was unfortunate enough to be in their way. "It's starting to look a lot like it's a horde of zombies attacking. Are we really going to be safe in there?"

"Well, we could always leave the school through the loading area of the cafeteria kitchen if push comes to shove. However, that's the best place we can go right now considering the zombies coming in the directions of our other exits."

Instead of arguing with the suggestion, the raven haired teen simply went along with the idea and continued to allow himself to be dragged by the blond. That and he did not have a better idea that he could counter with. All he could do now was look around him and see students running in all directions desperately trying to get away from the zombies.

So, how do you all like that for a sudden change in the story? I purposefully made the first chapter sound like everything was going to be normal since this new chapter is going to introduce the main theme of this story.

Also, I had forgotten to mention this in the last chapter. The title for this story is Latin for "Living Dead". Actually, I kind of accidentally on purpose left that fact out so you would not have an idea as to what I was going to write about. But now that I've already given away the main subject here, I figure that it's safe to tell you the real meaning of the title. And sorry if the title sounds very sucky and all that.

But yeah, that's how things are going to get here now. Let's see how Teddy and Billy are going to deal with all this. At least the blond seems somewhat calm despite everything going on. the raven haired teen, however, seems a bit beside himself. Then again, that's to be expected since he's seen people being eaten and killed right before his eyes. I can't really say the same for Teddy right now, but everyone is really in a panic now.

And speaking of panic, I hope I did a good job describing everything that was happening. After all, the only way to really put down on paper, or computer in this case, the chaos taking place there is to write it down and be as descriptive as possible without overdoing it. So I hope I did a good job and made you all feel like you were in that situation.

Now with all that out of the way, please don't forget to leave a review before you leave. As I said before, it is always very helpful to me in seeing how you readers are liking the story. Until the next update to this or any of my other stories on here everybody!

And now to the outtakes section. Just one thing about that; unlike in the last chapter where they were all pretty much funny, there will be times where they are quite serious or ideas that I came up with while writing the chapter. Just kind of giving you a peek at what was going on in my mind when I was writing this. Until next time everybody!

Outtakes:

History teacher: ...And this was what happened before Lincoln's assassination. Does anybody have any questions?

Billy: ...(Sleeping with head in hand)

History teacher: ...Mr. Kaplan?

Billy: ...(Still sleeping)

History teacher: Mr. Kaplan! (Loudly slams his desk)

Billy: ...!!! (Wakes with start and falls out of chair)

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Student: Hey, someone's having sex out in the hallway!

Student 2: Are you blind? How can you have sex with all your clothes on?

Student: Maybe they "prepared" beforehand so they wouldn't have to take off their clothes.

Student 2: Even if that were the case, since when did faggot sex involve literally eating each other?!

Student: Maybe it's like one of those blood brother rituals. After all, gay sex is totally different from straight sex.

Billy: ...Is that guy really being serious?! What an idiot!

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Billy: ...I forgot about Teddy! (Stops right in tracks)

Student: Hey, what are you doing idiot?

Billy: Sorry, but I need to find someone!

Student: Then do it without blocking my way! (Roughly shoves Billy aside)

Billy: Hey! (Falls to floor and hits head on ground, now unconscious)

(Zombies comes few seconds later and gorges on Billy)

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Teddy: Billy, where are you?!

Billy: Teddy! Over here!

Teddy: (Looks shocked) Behind you!

Billy: What? (Turns around and is knocked down by zombie) Help!!!

(Proceeds to get bitten in the neck by zombie)

Teddy: Billy!!!!! (Runs to zombie and kicks it away from Billy, but it's already too late) No, don't be dead...! (Kneels down Billy's body and stares into his lifeless eyes) Don't die on me!

Billy: ...!!! (Suddenly raises up and bites Teddy in the neck)

Teddy: B-Billy...!!! (Struggles before falling to ground dead)