Starting with this chapter, the characters will be on the move much more, enjoy!
Everyone in the factory woke up fairly early, some kore willing to wake up than others.
"Well, day two of factory life." Eddy groaned.
"Aww, cheer up Eddy! At least we have all of this cool stuff!" Ed said cheerfully, taking out a whooped cushion he found in the factory, blew it up and then flattened it, laughing at the fart noise produced by it.
"Shorty has a point though." Armando noted. "Staying here isnt the smartest move, we're sitting ducks if we stay."
"So what do you think we should do, smart guy?" Marie taunted, prompting Armando to respond with a nasty glare.
"Ok, let's keep things calm here, okay?" Nazz pleaded.
"Well Peach Creek is full of zombies by now, either that or the army's there dealing with them, and if one of those two groups don't kill us, the other will." Kevin explained.
"Well Lemon Brook isn't safe either." Kathy began. "We came this way to get away from these zombies."
"So what do we do?" Peter asked. "Head to Peach Creek and deal with what's there, or go to Lemon Brook, and deal with what's there?"
"Well, seeing as how Peach Creek is closer to a more urban environment, I think we know what the better choice is." Kathy remarked.
"Rule number 2 of zombie survival, never go into a highly populated area, the risk is too high!" Ed warned. Armando raised an eyebrow at his statement.
"No offense, but I thought of Ed to be... Not so bright." Armando commented.
"Well he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed but Ed does have his moments of brilliance, mostly when the topic of anything related to science fiction is mentioned." Double D explained.
"I see..."
"So I guess we're going to Lemon Brook then?" Sarah aaked.
"Looks like it, I guess we should get a move on." Jonny said as he began to pack up, the others began to follow suit. The Lemon Brook gang looked either nervous or downright afraid.
"Are you all sure you want to head to Lemon Brook?" Erin asked.
"Yeah, we could go to Peach Creek instead!" Tony added
"We already decided Lemon Brook is the safer option, can't back out now." Lee responded. Tony began tearing up a bit at her response.
"No... I don't wanna go back there!" He cried.
"What's with him?" Janyse asked.
Peter sighed before he answered.
"We found Tony crying around his family when we found that the zombies got to them already."
"So his family got turned into zombies?" Ed asked.
"No, we just found them dead..." Armando answered
"Then... It could be possible that they may have become zombies by now." Matt noted.
"If they turned into zombies... Then I gotta know for sure." Tony stated.
"We'll be here with you just in case!" Jimmy said at his new friend.
"Thanks little buddy!" Tony said, finally having a smile on his face. Sarah smiled at the fact that her best friend seemed more cheerful, knowing what happened not even twenty-four hours ago.
The group saw the city limits to Lemon Brook, which was about the same size as Peach Creek, though it was much more urban as opposed to the suburbia that was Peach Creek.
"Hmph, never been here before. Wish we could've under better circumstances." Lenore sighed.
"I've visited Lemon Brook on a business trip once before, it's a typical urban city. However with this sudden disaster there's no telling what's going on there now." Dr. Vincent explained.
"I still think going to Peach Creek is the smarter choice." Peter scoffed.
"If we went to Peach Creek and somehow made it past there, where would we go next, what's there for us? I'll tell you what, a highway leading to one of the biggest cities in Canada! It might as well be a giant target!" Janyse replied with an annoyed tone. Peter glared at Kanyse, who wasn't afraid to fight.
"Please, just stop arguing!" May called out.
"May's right Janyse. Besides, he ain't worth it." Marie said, holding her friend back.
"We're almost there, so now you get to see why we didn't want to come back." Erin said, her voice cracking a bit.
As the group entered the town, they began to understand what Erin meant. At first glance it looked quiet and normal but up close the city was badly damaged, buildings were set ablaze and falling apart. There were no people around, one could assume they either escaped or were taken by the zombies.
"This place has definitely seen better days." Eddy's dad said.
"Its like a twister hit this place." Keenan added.
"That's where I was just before all this shit happened." Peter said solemnly. He pointed at a video store. "I work there, or use to work there I guess. A bunch if people ran in screaming about zombies. Next thing I knew I was running home to check on my family. They were all trying to get me to safety. I met up with them and we decided to get out of town. You know the rest from there."
"Well we can't just sit around and reminisce, we need to keep moving." Armando exclaimed.
The group continued heading through the city until they reached a library.
"This is where I was when this disaster began." Kathy began. "I needed a place quiet to study in for my final exam in Biology. Naturally it was quiet, so you can only imagine my surprise when a group of people came in panicking about a zombie apocalypse. Thankfully my family headed over for their home country of Jamaica a few weeks ago."
"Well we better head in there... Look!" Jimmy called out, pointing to a group of zombies nearby. Thankfully, the group was not seen by them.
"Damn it! It isn't safe here either!" Kevin cursed.
"Allow Rolf and his family to deal with these cursed bodies of the undead!" Rolf stated as he and his parents readied themselves for battle. Everyone held them all back.
"Forgive us Mr. And Mrs. Vorlick, Rolf, but we can't let you go out there! We dont know how many are out there and if you attack them they could call out for more of their allies, or worse, the army!" Double D pleaded. The Vorlick family hesitantly stood down.
"So if we can't go out there, what do we do?" Keenan asked.
"We must continue moving until we get out of Lemon Brook." Double D replied.
"If we can get out of Lemon Brook then the next best place to go is Cherry River." Nazz said.
"And Lime Lake is close to Cherry River! Remember when we went to summer camp there last year, Sarah?" Jimmy added, his fear seemed to go away at least a little bit when he mentioned the summer camp.
"I know! That summer was the best!"
"We should probably move out again once the coast is clear." Lenore notified the group. "Which way do we go from here though?"
"We need to go Southeast from this library, be ready just in case we are attacked though." Dr. Vincent warned.
An hour passed before the group could get out of the library, heading in the declared direction. They were passing through a neighborhood when Erin stopped everyone.
"Wait!" She said. Her face full of dread as she looked in the direction of house that had a large hole in its side. "That's my house. I was on the phone with my friend when the zombies started attacking. I heard a loud crash so I went to see what it was and I saw my dad fighting off one of them while my mom told me to get to safety. My dad made the hole, he went to college in America and played Football." Erin explained.
"And you're telling us this because...?" Armando asked.
"Its my dog, I want to make sure she's ok."
"A canine could be a useful ally in this type of situation. It could be useful for defense if it is a breed with senses built for survival." Kathy elaborated.
"And if it isn't a breed known for combat or survival, an animal companion could help boost morale amongst us." Double D added. Kathy and Double D smiled at each other, as if respecting each other's intellect. Marie growled to herself in jealousy.
"You heard the man, go for it." Eddy said, nobody else had any objections to Erin's request.
"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!" Erin thanked as she ran back into her home. She came back out holding a leash with a German Shepard that had a K-9 Unit cloth on it. The dog also had a collar with its name on it; Coco.
"Guys, this is Coco, she's my dad's dog. But they're also technically coworkers, she's super friendly too!" Erin announced, introducing her dog to the group. Coco walked towards Sarah and Jimmy and began playing with them, much to the preteens enjoyment.
"No time to play with the pet, we need to move!" Peter reminded them. Before the began moving, they saw Tony sitting on a curb a few houses down the block. He was crying. Everyone rushed over to him.
"What's wrong Tony?" May asked. Tony's hand shook as he pointed to the house behind him. The house, or what was left of it, was painted a soft green. However the house was more or less torn down. It was tough to make out but a few of the group saw severed limbs of a man, woman and little girl among the damaged house.
"That's my house..." Tony whimpered. "Before this happened I was in my backyard practicing Football with my dad when we heard someone break the front door. We went in and saw a group of zombies attacking my mom. We were too late to save her. My dad told me to go get my little sister Olivia and we were almost out of the house too. But they ended up killing my dad too. Olivia was mad at the zombies because she aaw them hurting our dad so she tried to hit them. There was nothing she could do... She was only five years old... FIVE YEARS OLD!" Tony explained as he broke out in tears.
"I had to leave, I wanted to survive. At least for my family, so I ran until I found Armando and we found Erin, Peter, and Kathy too."
Nobody knew what to say, except for Jimmy who walked up to the grieving teen and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"And were going to!" He said. "Were going to get through this, we just have to stick together and survive! Because friends are there to help you!" Jimmy's words made Tony smile and wipe away his tears. Just as Jimmy looked like he was about to start singing, Armando stopped him.
"NO!" He said sternly. "None of that! No singing! Shame on you..."
"Hey, isn't your house not too far from here Armando?" Tony asked.
"Yeah but there isn't anything I need to get from there. Let's just keep moving." Armando replied. With nothing else to say, the group pressed on. They ended up passing Armando's house on the way to the city limits.
"Wait!" Rolf called out. He and his family began sniffing the air for something.
"Rolf's family smells the scent of death.' Rolf said.
"More zombies?" Matt asked. The teens got into battle stances, ready to fight.
"Not the undead. Just death." Mr. Vorlick told them.
"Its probably my family..." Armando admitted. "The zombies got to them, I was taking a nap and I woke up to the sound of crashing. My brother told me to run and don't look back. Look, let's just hurry out if here, Lemon Brook has bad memories for all of us."
Everyone seemes to understand and accept Armando's response, except for the Vorlick family. They gave Armando a suspicious look. Once he knew all eyes were off of him, Armando looked back at his house and glared at it, specifically at a hpuse on the second flood.
Armando's house was empty, but in the room he glared at, blood splattered the walls. More blood pooled out from under the bed. What lied under the bed were three dead bodies. However these corpses weren't the result of a zombie attack, they had three large cuts from their necks. The bodies themselves were of an old man, a middle aged woman, and a young teen with glasses. All three were of Hispanic descent, just like Armando...
The group did eventually make it to the city limits, but a small horde of zombies blocked the path.
"Get down!" Ed said loud enough for the group to hear but quiet enough so that the zombies wouldn't. Ed grabbed as many of the group in his arms as he could. Everyone hid in a nearby building, some of them looking outside to see where the zombies were.
"What do we do now?" Jimmy asked.
"We must do what all great warriors must do! Stand our guard and fight!" Rolf suggested.
"I'm not sure your friend knows what he's doing." Kathy responded. "A zombie's strength is akin to that of a processional boxer! We're better off trying to sneak past them."
"We could stay put too. Wait until its safe, y'know." Eddy said.
"Well we need to do something. So we should make a vote. We can either stay put, sneak past the zombies, or fight our way through them." Kevin announced.
What should the group do?:
Option A: Stay in the building until it's safe
Option B: Get past the zombies using stealth
Option C: Fight their way through the pack of zombies.
The choice is yours...
Make your choice carefully for an option may not be as good as it first appears.
And I apologize for the fact that this chapter is very late. Personal issues are currently my major priority. But rest assured that I'll do what I can to release the next chapter out much more quickly.