Despite Joe not being there, the photo session was going quite well, the fans that wanted pictures with Joe were fine with waiting until he got there, they were actually quite glad because it meant the got to watch all of the funny things that happened.
Suddenly what sounded like an earthquake erupted from the ceiling, everyone stopped and looked up as if they'd be able to see through the floor to what was going on upstairs. Everyone had gone quiet as they could hear loads of shouting and muffled cries. The room was tense. No one knew what was going on, but they had a feeling that it wouldn't be long until they found out.
Bloodcurdling screams shot through the corridors from upstairs and that was the cue for people to start moving. The three security guys went straight for the starkids to get them safe from whatever was coming and also all of the attendees who had started to move to find their friends and try to ready themselves for whatever was out there. One of the security guys went to herd the fans, another went to see what was going on and the last one stayed with the boys.
"Everyone keep calm ok, we'll just wait for Rodney to get back and find out what all the commotion's about ok." The member of staff shouted, trying to get everyone to be quiet. There was the sound of footsteps heavily pounding down the stairs. Everyone shushed each other. The footsteps were coming closer. There was more than one, at least five. They came faster now, gunning for the room they were in. Everyone silently prayed it was Rodney coming to tell everyone that everything was fine.
The doors flew open. It was Rodney. Everything was not fine.
He let a thunderous roar out of his half mouth, the other half had been chewed off, you could see the bite marks on the grey pieces of flesh that flapped in the air. Blood poured down his chin and was across his face from where he had tried to wipe it away. His eyes were white and his whole phisique seemed more fearsome. Needless to say everyone ran. There was a second door and the second security man opened it to let people out but ended up just letting more zombies in. The third security guy ripped off the backdrop cloth from the pole it was attached to and used it as a weapon to cover the boys. The photographer took a quick couple of snapshots then put the camera round his neck, picked up the tripod and hit one of the oncoming zombies around the head.
"Pete!" The security guy shouted to the photographer, Pete looked over and ran towards them.
"What's the plan, Mel?" He asked her.
"Plan?! You think I've got a plan?!" She exclaimed, knocking out a zombie that seemed to be going for Dylan.
"You've always got a plan!" Pete said
"You're the nerd, shouldn't you be the one with the zombie plan?"
"I do have a zombie plan. For when I'm at home. I wasn't exactly expecting it to happen in the middle of a convention!"
"Uh...guys, can we stop arguing and like, get out of here." Brian piped in. Mel nodded and motioned for the door Zombie Rodney had come through. She went in front with Pete covering behind them, as they went the boys frantically looked around for weapons, they weren't exactly trained for the situation but they felt really vunerable without weapons.
Mel lead them out of the room and the opposite way to the staircase, there weren't many rooms in this part of the hotel and they ended up going into the room next door to the chaos. It wasn't ideal as the only thing between them and the zombies was a sliding wall room divider. They quietly turned a few tables on their sides to make a barrier they could hide behind but without any idea how the zombies found their prey there wasn't much they could do apart from keep as quiet as possible and be ready for an attack. The boys found a couple of wooden chair that they broke and quietly as possible and they all ended up with a long 2x4.
The group had been crouched behind the tables for about five minutes listening to the room next door grow quieter as the fans were either dead or had been turned into zombies and had headed upstairs for something to eat. They had presumed that they were safe and when it seemed to have gone silent the boys let each out a small sigh of relief but Mel held her hand up signaling them to stay quiet. All seemed fine but then they heard it, the small scuffling of footsteps. They were heading away from the partition but then there was a few thumps and the zombie fell backwards into one of the folds of the door, opening it slightly. They heard the zombie stand and walk to the opening, it had opened enough for her to fit. She shuffled through and the group all held their breath. Jeff put his hand over his mouth to make sure no noise escaped him.
It was the longest few seconds of their lives but the zombie hadn't noticed them and she was shuffling towards the door which they had accidentally left ajar. They thought they'd done it. It was all gonna be fine. Then Brian's phone rang.
"Shit shit shit!" he whispered as he frantically tried to get his phone to shut up, the zombie turned and saw them, the phone stopped and there was a split second of time before the zombie lunged at them, it was a weird moment that almost seemed to go in slow motion. Mel grabbed the pole and swung back, Pete (who was the closest to the zombie) pumped his tripod backwards as if to jab the zombie back, Dylan and Jeff picked up their chair legs and held them like baseball bats and Brian fumbled as he put his phone back in his pocket and pick up his chair leg at the same time.
The zombie lunged forward and Pete jabbed her in the stomach, Mel stood up and swung at her, hitting her across the shoulder. Pete moved backwards, still crouched down, and Jeff, Brian and Dylan moved forward. The zombie ran for Jeff who swung too early and missed her, but as she got to him he turned around her and crouched down, confusing her then Brian jabbed her in the head and Dylan wacked her around the skull. She fell sideways and landed on one of the pushed-over tables in an extremely awkward angle. She was definitely dead.
Now that she was taken care of, Brian looked at his message.
Meredith
Are you ok? Where are you? We're in green room XXXXX
"The others are in the green room" He told the group, Mel nodded, Jeff and Dylan smiled slightly, glad that their friends were ok but Pete was distracted by something else.
"Um guys..." He said, pointing back to the other room. The others followed his finger and saw that it had obviously been zombie nap time before and now there were at least a dozen of them waking up. "I don't think we're out of the woods just yet."
