The Oblivion Lachlan Horrigan copyright 2009
(yeah, something like that)
THE OBLIVION
1. Prologue
North-port Bay
Crystal
Crystal Crystal
Crystal
Crystal
Crystal Crystal
The whole town of Capricorn Isle
A massive break out of a virus
that you might see in movies, a virus that kept the body alive when there was
no soul inside, a virus that could create its own mutant cross-species army.
You could tell if people had it or not just by looking into their eyes. The
virus was called Virus-K7 and it created the living dead…
The year is now 2010, the world is
exactly the same, and Global warming and terrorism are still among us. Although
Capricorn Isle wasn’t infected anymore by Virus-K7, it wiped out one quarter of
the population and half of the island was barricaded. One half contained
humans, the other half still hadn’t been opened to humans; there were a lot of
unsafe buildings, ready to collapse after the government agents bombed the
place. They went in to look for survivors and after a few months passed, they
came out with twenty of them. The government are still trying to find a cure
for the disease and the survivors have remained trapped in quarantine even
though most of them were not infected. Since that’s where the infection
started, only the Australian government was allowed inside, wearing containment
suits and carrying AK-47 machine guns, (they’re are a type of gun that
terrorists carry around usually)(Not all of them come out of the small gate, it
has two electric fences at each side, both of them covered in barbed wire at
the top.) Virus-K7 never made the news; it became another government secret
and, infected or not, nobody was ever allowed out…ever.
2. Now
Ben was thought of as a nerd but
he wasn’t that much of one really. Everyone just thought that because he liked
computer games so much, and he had friends that play dungeons and dragons. Ben
never played it though he could understand how to play. They also played world
of warcraft on the computers in the library, Ben actually enjoyed playing that,
but when you think about it, it’s just a game, why is it so nerdy? Ben was
short for being fifteen. He was sometimes mistaken for being thirteen. Once
even nine years old. It always made him angry when people did that. He had
brown hair; he had a slim body and a pointy nose. He wasn’t strong but he made
up for that by being a tremendously fast runner.
He had recurring nightmares about
what happened over those two dreadful nights, when the breakout of Virus-K7
came. Ben survived the onslaught because his tall fences fortifying his house.
On the second night of the infected it would have seemed like if the invasion
was over but because the zombies are nocturnal and everybody looted the hard
wear and gun shops for weapons, the infected took everybody by surprise; most
people thought that the invasion was over. Luckily Ben’s family was ready for a
second helping. This time they wear hit with a small swarm of a type of mutated
zombies known as ‘Jumpers’ they could jump over three story rooves.
They were as strong as regular
zombies, so you could take them down easily if you were fast enough to shoot
them. Ben’s nightmares were always about how he watched his father outside,
Bens mother would be screaming at his dad “Get back inside!” and she begged him
but he wouldn’t come back inside. Ben had a rifle next to him; he wouldn’t use
it unless it was absolutely necessary. A regular zombie came up behind his dad
and Ben had a clear shot, if Ben had been brave enough, maybe he would still
had a father...
3. The parade
There was a big celebration today,
a huge parade ran by the government was celebrating the opening of the Capricorn Island Capricorn Island
It was a school day, so most kids
were watching the ceremony from school or at home. Ben was watching it from
school; a few kids in his class were leaving, coincidently, all of his friends
were on the first few flights today or tomorrow morning. Ben was leaving in
five days time to go and live with his Aunt and Uncle and three cousins, in Cairns
He was watching the Parade on the
T.V. with his math class; everybody couldn’t wait till they showed the planes
leaving. Although some people couldn’t help being bored, so they had to bully
others. Hank, the fat bully in his class kept trying to steal Ben’s new hat.
“Stop it ya fatso!” Ben shouted, without a word Hank punched Ben in the face. The
menacing blow made Ben fall off his chair, and muttered “One of these days,
Hank” as Hanks’ so-called friends laughed at him.
A young girl who was fifteen years
old helped him up. Her name was Erica. She had long black hair and thick, red
lipstick and make up on; Ben also had a crush on her. She was very beautiful.
“You’re just jealous of Ben because he is leaving before you…and on a plane!”
Erica yelled at Hank, he was leaving by boat. An African-Australian girl with
short frizzy curls and round nose, (she was the hottest girl in school,) came
over to Hank “Hank, can you please try
to be nice to somebody for once” she replied in a nice voice, her name was Mimi
and was Hanks ‘girlfriend’. But really she hated him even more than Ben did…and Ben hated him A LOT!!
Hank treated Mimi like a slave,
she didn’t want to go out with him but she had to, if she didn’t, Hank would
bash her. Hank treated all the kids like if he was their king and they were all
his slaves, even the grade eleven and twelve kids couldn’t fight him, even the
teachers had no authority against him. He was just too strong, and he was part
of a gang outside of school. He was basically the tallest, strongest and most
psychotic kid in the whole school. He stood up, angry as a bull and shouted in a
deep, menacing voice, emphasizing the starting sound of each word.
“How…Dare…You”
Hank walked slowly towards Mimi,
getting angrier at each step. Mimi started pleading at him to forgive him. The
classmates were just watching him, too scared to stand up to him. But as Hanks
hand flew up, it started to show the planes starting up on the TV and in the
blink of an eye Hank and the rest of the classroom returned to normal.
4. A Time to die
Meanwhile the airport was ready
for the first plane to fly to Melbourne Queensland ,
about one hundred miles northeast from Hamilton Island
The airport was right next to a
barricaded wall that covered half of the whole island. There was a small gate
through the wall, it was on the runway and it’s to be used in case of an
emergency.
A whole army load of people were
at the airport, and every twenty minutes a Jeep Jericho would pass through the
massive gate, which was a few hundred metres away from the airport.
The gate opened for the jeep to
pass, the six armed scientists and guards drove in. They were making sure there
weren’t any cadavers, or any thing else left that could cause cataphoric harm,
like traces of Virus-K7.
They reached one of the oldest
streets of Capricorn
Island
The scientists and guards were all
wearing radioactivity/contamination suits. They all spilt up in pairs of two.
One scientist and one guard.
The first pair walked into a building that had
been bombed out, the guard took out a device made in 2009 called a
collapse-a-identify Ray, its primary function was to shoot out a loud squeaking
sound that only can be heard by dogs, it was like a dog whistle but it could
turn even the nicest, most friendliest dog in the world into Cujo, (An evil dog
in a Stephen King novel) to make buildings fall if they weren’t safe but hadn’t
collapse. He stopped the device from screaming out by pressing a button on the
front. They waited a minute. “Its safe” The guard said to the scientist,
through his speaker. Out of the corner of the guard’s eye, he thought he saw a
black shadow run past a hundred meters away, he told himself that it probably
was just a bird.
“Well,” said the scientist “There
aren’t any cadavers here”
“Obliviously,” the guard replied
“There hasn’t been a body found in this city since March this year! This is
just a waste of time; they already have the bombs ready to blow this dreadful Island to hell!”
“Well, we still have to make sure
nobody is here when it goes off.”
The government knew something that
the people didn’t know, anybody who was left on the Island
and wasn’t seen by the last-minute agents, would be blown up in a massive
atomic explosion. The bombs were placed in the sewers in five different places,
north, south, east, and west and in the middle of the city. The first bomb
would be the middle one, it would explode and then, all at the same time. The
other bombs would explode shortly after, containing the middle explosion and obliterating
the whole city as the atomic particles hit each other at high speeds and
explode.
The scientist looked up at the
sky; it was grey and cloudy without a ray of sunshine anywhere. Fortunately it
was forecasted to just rain.
He looked at the shadows of the
building, it was five stories high, and half of the building was destroyed.
Then he saw something fall. It was looked like a human figure, two legs and two
arms. He charged up the cement staircase. He jumped over the two steps that had
fallen down; at the end of the staircase, on the top floor, there was a
cupboard filled with glass cups and vases filled with rotten flowers.
The scientist held his gun tightly
as he looked to see what fell. But when he came to it he was surprised, nothing
was there. He knew he saw something there; it couldn’t of just got up and
walked away…could it?
Suddenly he heard a noise…
“What’s going on up there?” the guard shouted
“Hey-!!” his next sentence was cut short when the cupboard smashed through the
side of the cement railing and fell to hit a pile of broken up dirt, metal and
cement. Glass shattered everywhere. When the dust cleared, the guard could see
the scientist arm sticking out. His glove was almost off. The guard looked at
the closet. It had a back door, he was nervous. What the hell? He
thought to himself. He got his gun ready; he was going to open the back door.
The veins of the dead scientist
turned green, a vein popped up and his skin turned blood red.
The guard’s hands were shaking and
his bottom lip was trembling. He turned his head and closed his eyes as he
opened the door.
Then silence, he could here just
the whisper of the wind. He opened his eye, nothing had happened after he
opened the door. He opened his other eye, still nothing. He turned and looked
into the closet, the shadow made the inside of the closet pitch.
He let go of the door and let it
fall onto the ground.
“RARW!!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
He should have called for help
before he opened the door.
5. The start of an
adventure
“Here we are again at the
Capricorn airport and the first plane is ready to take off” Said the news
reporter. She was standing on the runway, the parade had ended but for their
enjoyment there was a local band singing a new song; it wasn’t that bad
actually.
The engines started up and the
plane drove over to the road. A huge gust of wind brought a light rain.
For the past ten minutes the
reporter had been talking to a government agent. He said that he was allowed to
reveal all, but the only thing he didn’t say to the reporter was how the bombs
will go off in two weeks time. It was very exciting that the government would
do that. He also explained their side of the story when the reporter asked “why
did you keep us from going?” The agent’s reply made the class think that the
government was nice, and they just wanted to protect the people, because they
did.
The plane was ready to leave. It
drove up the runway at amazing speeds. Something felt wrong though. In the
camera room, in the city, there were security cameras everywhere. They all
connected up to the one room and there was only one person watching the airport
runway, there were two small computers for both sides of the wall, the
protected half of the island that covered the airport. The man working at the
computer noticed something weird; a man in a protection suit chasing after
another guy, but the guy who was chasing the other person was running with a
limp, it was very odd, but the man at the computer thought nothing of it. The
person in the suit was probably just playing around due to the excitement of
newfound freedom.
The plane drove on to the runway,
speeding up to 120Kph. The gate at the airport rattled from the force. The
cameras showed something else, more and more people ran over to the gate. This
was insane! They had no permission to do this at all. They were breaking the
gate down as more and more and more people showed up. It was like they were
getting chased by something, or on a riot!
The man at the computer called the
other workers over to show him or her, what was happening. Then something
happened nobody would ever expected, giant red creatures that ran as fast as
the plane jumped across people in suits and smashed the gate straight down to
the ground.
“What the heck?” screamed Ray; he
was a boy in Ben’s class. He had short blondish hair and wore classes for
reading. He was short but very strong and once rescued his sister from a house
fire. But sadly she couldn’t be revived.
“What’s going on?” Clay
questioned, he was the only blind kid in the school, he knew how to write and
walk up stairs which let him able to stay in the school. He had an eye disease
that left him blind since he was in grade seven.
“I…don’t know,” Crystal
On the T.V. the people ran like
mad. Some people jumped extraordinary heights over the others, a group of the
big, red dogs jumped straight into the wheels of the plane. The jumpers jumped
into the jet engines of the plane. Causing it to explode and break off. The
plane turned slightly and the wheels bumped up and down, the plane-crashed nose
first into the ground and exploded into a massive fireball. You could hear the
screams of people in the background. The cameraman ran away, he was holding the
camera as he ran; it showed a female reporter running away with him. She
tripped over, “HELP!!” she screamed, and the cameraman ran back over to her and
helped her up. The people ran closer and closer to them; the smooth image of
the camera showed a load of army soldiers shooting at them all with machine
guns, several off them dropped to the ground. One of the people had his helmet
shot off…they weren’t people…anymore…
The men and women in the camera
room started evacuating to the top floor to fit into three helicopters or they
stayed back and barricaded the door shut and calling people all over the place
to evacuate as fast as humanly possible. The citizens who stayed inside were
the bravest of the workers.
The guy at the computer was on the
phone to the army back on the giant land mass. They were sending helicopters
and government agents to the island. He looked at the computer screen, it
seemed like the disease infected everybody in the ruined side of the city. The
screen started blacking out, it turned on again just for two seconds, the image
was blurry and black and white but the man could see what it was, a zombie flew
through the air, sparking electricity and off its fingertips…
The next ten minutes went fast.
First, a massive alarm was heard throughout the island. Next, everyone was to
barricade the door and make a pile of objects that lead up to the small
windows. Then the kids found a load of sheets in the closet next to the door,
the class that was there before them was the home economics class, and they
were sowing up quilts and rugs. They tied the quilts and rugs together and tied
a loop to the closet. Lastly they tipped over the closet and opened the window,
there were windows on both sides of the classroom, the windows at the only
entrance and exit were small and wide, but it was too small for an adult to fit
through. That was where they stacked up the desks to make the pile, just in
case of an emergency. On the other side, if somebody was to fall off the rug
ladder they made, he or she was going to fall four stories down to a concrete
slab. The windows were big and tall, but not big enough for a spider (The
zombies with giant spider legs) to get in (Spiders were the only zombies that
could climb buildings).
The school had a magnificent
architectural design; the first few rows of buildings had bridges. The rails on
the sides were set high so nobody could fall off. They also had automatic gates
that were made through out the inside of the school’s buildings. They made it
because of what happened in the year 2008. All the buildings were two stories
high but because the school was built on a hill, the building they were in now
was affected. If you fell off the side that had the door, you would fall three
stories. But if you fell off the other side you would fall down four stories, unless
you were on the roof, but how would you get up there?
Everybody got out the food from
their bags and put it under a desk in the pile. To make sure that the zombies
wouldn’t find them, they made a small cubby house with the desks. The teacher,
Mr. Branigan was sitting on a single chair in the middle of the room; he was
holding an emergency flare for protection.
About three to four hours later
Hank had enough of being stuck up against everybody so he said, “Uhhh, I think
I’m stuck” he tried to push everybody out. A few of them shrieked as he pushed
them out, “Hey! Stop that,” yelled the teacher. There was a loud banging sound
on the door and some groaning from a zombie. They immediately fell silent.
It was four in the afternoon, and
for some reason the word ‘cannibalism’ came up. Ben started to feel really
uncomfortable. He looked at Erica; she was talking with a friend. He couldn’t
hear what she was saying, but he didn’t care. He wanted to talk to her but his
shyness had overcome him. Mimi was sleeping. How could you sleep at a time like this!!! Ben screamed in his
mind. He could hear Hank whispering to Phil, he was one of Hanks friends. He
had long, black, rock star hair and was growing a goatee. He had a problem with
his legs that forced him to walk with an awesome-looking cane. It was painted
gold all over except for the smaller part at the bottom, which was black; it
also had an eerie looking skull on the top. Ben heard them say his name; they
were just talking about cannibalism. He look at Ray and Crystal, they were
hugging each other. Ben wished he had somebody to cuddle up to, he felt so
alone. His only friends were probably dead already. He shifted over next to
Clay and talked to him, other than Erica, Ray and Mimi, he was close enough to
being a friend. Outside, more screams of pain were heard outside. There was
also the sound of guns and sharp object chucked at the zombies. When the first
person started shooting, everyone else got to the floor or got up on the pile
to see what was going on. Nobody saw any soldiers at all, so they wondered,
were they ever going to come?
6. Thrown out
It was currently five o’clock. The T.V. was on
but the class couldn’t get onto the local channels. On the four thirty-news
show (Not on Capricorn
Island Capricorn Island
Clay was sitting in the corner
with his cane close to him. Phil was standing up, his black sunglasses covered
his eyes, He was acting like if his cane was a sword and he was fighting the
zombies, it was very weird how he swung the cane, he did it with massive anger.
Something appeared on the T.V. as Mimi was watching out for any communications.
Perhaps from survivors or the government. First it was static, with white noise
in the background, but the noise faded slowly and a shape appeared onto the
screen. It was a circle with the shape of Australia
The other classmates also ran over
to the T.V. “Survivors, please make your way to the new Capricorn Island
airport” The man on the T.V. continued “If you were watching the incident
responding at the airport, you would know that…that these…things” it showed a
diagram of all the creatures that have been seen, except for any supernatural
species. “Have all escaped into the city, so DON’T GO INTO THE CITY, I
REPEAT, and DO NOT GO INTO THE CITY!!!
The airport has been cleared and a
new barrier has been set up. The first flights in the past half-hour have had a
successful take-off” It showed file footage of the plane taking off “with the
first plane touching down in a government airport. Just twenty minutes ago. You
will be treated with the anti-virus. We will have helicopters flying over here,
here, here, and over here,” He pointed with a ruler on a map to six different
positions; one of them was the school. There was a roar of cheering in the
classroom. The teacher shushed them “Although we will have these positions
today and ONLY today, so pack up fast before eleven o’clock. Because that is
when the last copter will come, it will pass over Starlight Bridge
The T.V. turned to static, then
the shape appeared again and it started repeating itself.
Everybody was shocked. The copter
won’t come back if they miss this flight. Everybody ran around the room in
panic yelling out different things. Then Mr. Branigan screamed out
“QUIET!!!!!!!!!!!” Everyone fell silent immediately. “We need to find out how
to climb up to the roof. We may need weapons, has…any…body got any weapons?”
Mr. Branigan had weak smile. He always told kids that guns and weapons should
never have been created, they always made trouble. But now he finally had
realised that sometimes guns and weapons protect you. The class room was silent
for a few minutes, “Anybody…anybody at all? Now I know somebody must have
something, I can keep a secret.”
“Well, if anybody can keep a
secret…” Ray opened the side of his jacket, revealing an Uzi gun. Everybody was
shocked, especially his girlfriend Crystal. “How…I mean…why…but like…OH MY
GOD!!” Crystal
“Oh what! Your dads in the mafia?”
she screamed at him. Everyone but the teacher and Ray took a step back.
“He’s in the waste management
business…so…yeah” Ray replied
“Wh- What?” A tear came from her
eye.
“Don’t be sad,” he tried to hug
her but she pushed him away and ran into the desk house and pushed a desk in
front of the entrance. “Oh crap” Ray muttered under his breath. He walked over
to a crack between the piles of metal. “My dad just did one loan, it was for
the house”
“But you could die!”
“I know, that’s why he gave me
that gun,”
“Have you ever used it?”
Ray stopped talking. The classroom
fell silent more than ever. Inside the house, Crystal
“You have, HAVEN’T YOU?”
“I never have whacked anybody
before”
“Great, now you’re using Italian
slang!”
“I said I never had killed anybody
before”
“Well what about shooting people?”
“Only to scare people away. My
bullets have never touched flesh before”
“Oh really”
“Stop this at once!” shouted Mr.
Branigan.
“Why don’t you just mind your own
business” yelled Hank.
Clay walked up to Phil, “That’s
weird, because you always interrupt everyone else’s conversation!”
“Wrong person, Clay” Phil answered
back
“Oh!” Clay said nicely “Sorry
Tiffany” (Tiffany was a girl in the class)
Phil closed his eyes and looked at
the ground muttering, “Okay, Phil he is blind. He doesn’t not know who he’s
talking to.”
“Hey, have you tried blanks
before?” Ben asked Ray
“Hey, how about you kiss my-”
Erica interrupted “How about you leave my friend alone!” Ray dropped the gun on
the ground. It didn’t go off because it was on safety. Everybody started
arguing, Ben dropped to the ground crawling. “STOP IT; STOP FIGHTING RIGHT THIS
INSTANT, NOW!!!” Branigan screamed. He couldn’t control the fighting and the
yelling. Ben crawled on top of the desk pile and held the Uzi in the air. He
started firing; the noise was loud and deafening. Everyone screamed and dropped
to the floor. Hank stood up and pulled a rifle out and pointed it at him. Phil
stood up and pressed into the eye of the skull on his cane. Instantly a big
sword slid out from the cane and the gold plating folded in. Ray continued to
stand. Clay stood up as well but he didn’t know what was going on. “Crystal
“I’m…in a gang” he replied
“Well that’s no secret, what about
you Phil?”
“I live in a rough neighbourhood,
carrying a sword like this is like carrying a twig”
“And-”
“Those bullets were blanks” Ray
interrupted
“Err…what?” Ben asked
“I said those bullets were blanks,
they are like those pop-cap guns, they burst and make a loud noise, sorry I
started to get angry at you”
“Well have you got real bullets?”
Said Crystal
“Um…what happens if I say yes…?”
She let out an angry sigh and was
bout to hop back in but Ben quickly said to her “Well…I have a sniper rifle at
my home, with heaps of bullets. Also my mum has a shotgun, still loaded” I
hope she is at the airport…I hope she is safe at least Ben thought to
himself.
“Crystal
Everybody started nodding saying
things like “Yep” and “alright” one person even said, “We might survive after
all!”
“Listen kids. I think we should be
focusing on getting a ladder. Don’t you think?” Mr. Branigan shouted as the
crowd calmed down.
“Where is a ladder?” Asked Hank
“Well, there is a very big one in
the design and technology room, who wants to go?” asked Mr. Branigan.
Obliviously nobody would put his or her hand up. “They have to go out the short
window so it cannot be anyone big or too tall” He instantly marked Hank and Crystal
“ME! NO!” Ben shouted in shock
“Yeah do it Ben!” Hank Yelled
“Come on!” said a boy in the class
named Ned and he was a friend to Hank
“BEN, BEN, BEN” everyone cheered
except for Phil, Mimi, Clay, Ray, Crystal and Erica. Erica got on top of the
first desk “HEY! HEY! STOP THAT! WHY SHOULD HE GO? BENS NICE, WHAT ABOUT
HANK?” she screamed out.
The cheering continued. It could
not be stopped, it was invincible. Hank climbed up to him and pushed him
through the window. “Oof!” he shouted as he fell to the ground. It was getting
dark and he could see some surviving birds were going into their nest. He
looked behind him; there was an entrance to another classroom. In front of him
were some small rails. You could fall off if you weren’t careful enough. There
were old bag racks connected to the inside of the railing. The back of the bag
racks were covered with wood so the bags wouldn’t fall down.
Ben thought he saw a dark, shadowy
figure. But it probably was nothing, he told himself. Then he saw it. No…them.
Two ‘spiders’ were walking across the bridge. He was stupefied for about three
seconds, but then he acted quickly. He jumped at the window. Screaming in a
whispering voice “Spiders, Spiders! Give me a gun, please! Help me!” A knife
dropped from the window and it shut. The knife was just a blunt cutthroat
razor. It was useless! He tried to open the door behind him but it was knocked
of its hinges. He was trapped...
7. Once bitten…
Ben got a good idea that could
work. The spiders cannot see but they can smell. Earlier today he put his
sister’s deodorant in his bag instead of his own by accident. (Everybody was
wearing his or her bags when Ben was pushed out the window.) He crawled into the
tiny bag racks. The spiders came closer. He had the spray on deodorant ready to
fire. Closer and closer they came, 3…2…1…NOW!
He shouted in his mind. He squirted the spray into the spider’s faces. They
let out some short, high-pitched squeals. They rammed right into the big, dark
blue door. Ben got out, picked up his bag that was in front of him and ran away
as fast an athlete.
A few minutes had passed and Ben
hadn’t come back. Every few seconds a loud banging sound would come from the
middle of the classroom. Erica was worried about Ben. Really everyone was
worried except Hank and a few of his friends except Phil. Phil was the kind of
kid who would be friends to a bully but never picked on the kids. He was a
friend to Ben. The banging noise got louder and louder. Mimi sneaked over to
the corner of the room and noticed something, “Is…is that…A KEYHOLE!”
She lept back as the door burst
open and a dog jumped through. The door snapped in half. (Whenever I mention a
‘Dog’, I mean the mutant) Everyone screamed and ran over to the window, taking
the escape route; Clay ran over to the window and fell out!
Luckily he landed on the shade
cover of the tuckshop. Ray opened the entrance to the house and grabbed Crystal Crystal
Phil stumbled over to Hank and Ray
when the dog fell lifelessly still. “Listen,” said Phil “I don’t think anybody
saw us getting bitten, if we tell the others what happened, they might reject
us from the group.” They agreed to never tell anyone until the plane came. The
Virus-K7 couldn’t spread while airborne; you could only get it by somebody
bitting you. “I can’t believe that I just killed a human being!” said
Ray Phil grabbed his cane out of the dog’s head. “We didn’t kill it. The virus
or what ever killed it.” Phil said without looking at Ray. Hank just stood
there, he didn’t say anything. “I guess you’re right” Ray replied.
They climbed down the rope ladder,
now almost the whole class was on that one piece of rope.
The dog’s eye flickered.
Twice…three times… four times, it stumbled up. The closet was holding its
strength but when Hank got on, BAM!! The closet tumble rolled over and over.
More and more kids got off except Hank, The closet rolled and rolled; the dog
ran as fast as it could. It ran right in front of the window and the closet.
SMASH!!
The dog was catapulted out of the
window; it smashed its head onto the brick building across the pathway. “Ooh
that’s goanna leave a mark,” said Phil.
As they got down everybody ran in
separate directions. Mr. Branigan and Tommy, he was an aboriginal kid that had
short frizzy hair and wore glasses ran away. Hank took a few kids away with
him, including clay. Hank had some evil look on his face that would make your
skin crawl. Ray looked at him strangely like if he was telling Hank, “What are you
doing?” Hank just stood there with the evil look. He couldn’t make out what he
was going to do. He didn’t have enough time; it only went for a few seconds.
Erica, Mimi and a few other kids
were running away from the bloody mess stuck on the walls, they couldn’t see
were they were going at all. Then as they were running close to the wall, they
reached a corner and then came the ambush…
8. The slaughter
Ben ran away from a ‘regular’
(Slow and brainless) zombie ambush. He was walking along the dark corridors of
the science building. It was the quickest way to get to the design and
technology building. He escaped that ambush unharmed and still free of the
disease. He ran up some wooden steps and reached the room, as he reached for
the door he heard a sudden scream. It sounded like if it was from Erica, Mimi
and a few other kids from around the corner.
Ben sprinted down the corner to
find six kids trapped in another ambush, but this time it was ‘runner’ zombies.
He turned back around the corner. He sneaked up to the door of the Design and
technology classroom and silently opened the door. Erica and her group could
have fought but they were out-numbered six to twelve. Then as a zombie reached
out at Erica, BAM! Ben whacked the zombie in the head with a dirty shovel. It
fell to the ground, dead. The zombies all turned around and started grabbing at
him. That was the perfect distraction for the five girls as they bashed the
zombies by tackling them or hitting them. Ben took a step back to watch. The
zombie Erica was on turned over and it was on top. Ben didn’t notice until she
screamed, he whacked the zombie in the head in a baseball bat swinging motion.
It hit the wall with much force, causing the skull to break. Erica got up and
kicked the other Runners away. All the kids on the ground got up and ran away
with Ben and Erica.
Clay walked ahead of Hank, they
were the last left. They crossed a bridge but before Clay finished walking
across, Hank said, “This is your stop Clay”
“WH-What?” Clay replied,
“All, I’m saying is that you are
going to die”
“BUT-”
Hank pressed a button on his
remote.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BOOM!!!
Phil walked along the front of the
school with his sword, ready to strike.
CLANG! CLANG! SMASH!
A loud smashing sound came from a
few buildings away. Phil ran over to see what it was. A bridge connecting two
buildings had collapsed. “Holy!” he exclaimed.
The dust and dirt rose like a
sandstorm. He could hear the faint sound of footsteps on top of the collapsed,
steel bridge. He heard coughing shortly after.
The dust began to clear and Phil
saw a shadow. Clay was sitting on the ground, holding a cane and the rails
tightly. The bridge wasn’t destroyed. All of the bars on both sides of the
bridge were still stuck, so was the tin roof. Clay was completely trapped
inside a giant cage. “Uggh…” he groaned. Phil ran straight up to him “Are you
okay?” he said, Clay replied with a long groan.
“Clay?”
Clay’s glasses were still on and
his cane was on the ground, he slowly stood up.
He muttered in his breath
“They’re…”
“They’re…” Phil repeated with
panic.
“They’re all dead…”
9. Black Blood
Ben, Mimi and Erica and the other
girls ran in the science block, they would go back to the Design and technology
block once they had outran the runner zombies. It was getting dark; the sun had
set a few minutes ago. They would need a torch to see if they couldn’t reach
the Rooftop in time, they had to be quick because they could hardly see now.
They turned a corner, who knew that that one move would be so lethal.
They planned on running through a
tunnel to get around back to the D.A.T. (Design and technology) block. But they
were trapped because there was about twenty or more zombies just standing there
(They might have been regular, jumpers or runner zombies, possibly a mixture of
all three), they had their feet looking straight at them, their legs bent like
if they were going to pick something off the ground and their arms were on
their legs. Their ugly heads, some of them were missing eyes and jaws, were
looking straight up at them. The kids stopped running, Ben looked behind
himself. The runners had caught up with them, so had the zombies in the ambush
Ben was in before. He cursed as the runners started walking towards the group,
while the twenty other varieties of zombies just stood there. Ben still had the
shovel in his hand but it was useless. Then something crazy happened, one of
the zombies blocking the tunnel moved on top of another zombie. Another few did
this. Then the pairs connected to each other, the runner zombies and regular
ones joined in until it became a massive solid blob of grey, red, white and
black. Then the blob formed into a massive human like creature, it made an arch
around the front its head and had solid foot cups as arms and feet. A tight
ring appeared arms just a meter above the end of the arms and feet of the
monster. “Oh my god…” Mimi said. The monster climbed out of the tunnel to show
its true size, it was a least twenty feet tall. It was almost as tall as the
three-story classroom blocks surrounding it. They stumbled backwards except for
Ben who was stupefied, and to pay for that, the massive zombie swung its
massive hand and smashed Ben through the science block window and out the other
one, luckily, a table broke his fall when he crashed straight into it. The
girls screamed, especially Erica. That blow had a good side to it; he was
outside the D.A.T. block again.
The girls ran away and the monster
chased them. A young girl in the group, her name was Miranda. Mimi and Erica
Didn’t talk to her; Tiffany and Clare (two of the other four girls) were
Miranda’s only two friends. She tripped over a rock and yelped in shock;
Tiffany and Erica came to help her up. Mimi, Clare and the other girls didn’t
see what was happening because of how far ahead they were, but they soon
noticed and rushed to help Miranda. Mimi grabbed Miranda’s hand, but so did the
monster, but with her long legs. A zombie appeared out of the monsters hand to
grab Miranda. The monster screamed as so did Miranda. Mimi’s hand slipped and
Miranda was dragged back to the tunnel, into the darkness. Her loud,
ear-piecing scream faded out, The girls felt sad, they had just lost two people
from their group, but they knew that if they didn’t want to lose anyone else
they would have to run now. So they did.
“What do you mean they’re all
dead?” Phil shouted.
“D-d-dead” Clay stuttered. Clay
was still shaking from what happened, he could only say the word “Dead” after
he had said that last sentence “they’re all dead”. Phil was using his sword to
get the bars off so Clay could get out.
Clay tried to say another word.
“Ha-ha-a-a-nink”
“Hanink?” Phil said
“Wait” he said to himself “Take
away the first ‘n’ and the ‘I’ makes…HANK?”
Phil looked at Clay, “Is Hank
Dead?”
“NO!” A voice shouted out from a
set of steps “HANK KILLED EVERYBODY” Hank appeared from the steps. He loaded
his Rifle and said angrily “Ya see, I’m getting my sweet revenge on everybody ever
angered me, THAT MEANS YOU PHIL!” He shot the rifle at Phil but it missed and
ricocheted off the wall and stuck into the ground. “You’re NUTS!” yelled Phil.
Hank fired again and it missed, but as it ricocheted off the wall it broke off
the bar that Phil was taking off. “NOWITNESSES!” he shouted. Clay stopped
shaking and said as he got out “Hank murdered everybody, he held us hostage and
when any zombies came he would feed a kid to it. If anyone of us tried to
escape, we would be shot. We couldn’t even overpower him either, he’s just too
strong”
Hank charged at them so Clay and
Phil ran away at the other pass. All these buildings were set up like a massive
maze. Although this only applied to the left side, where the girls and Clay,
Hank and Phil were.
Mr. Branigan and Tommy were just
outside the school. On the road there were some cars a massive petrol truck. “I
think that might come in handy” Said Tommy
“Amen” Mr. Branigan Replied. They
hear a sound in the distance; they turned their heads around slowly. Mr.
Branigan cursed and Tommy shouted, “GET IN THE TRUCK!!!”
There were twenty helicopters
flying through the air and four had already turned around to pick up survivors
in a park somewhere. Two helicopters lowered onto a small car park downtown.
Then a few minutes’ later eight helicopters lowered them selves down to fly
into the school…
Crystal and Ray walked cautiously
through the edge of the school; they had been looking for survivors. Luckily
they didn’t run into any zombies. But they had found a few inside some
buildings just walking around.
They had just passed the pool
complex. There were no signs of life anywhere until they came across to the
hill the lead down to the sports oval, a massive horde of zombies (Various
kinds) were trying to get into a sports shed. “Look!” Ben exclaimed pointing a
the shed “There must be survivors” Crystal
“What should we do” Said Ray while
patted him. Crystal Crystal
“Okay, I’m guessing that I have to
be the diversion because I have the gun” Ray said sadly “Yeah” Crystal
A few minutes had passed; Crystal Crystal Crystal
As she got down to the last trees
on the hill, which were next to the shed, she put her hand over her mouth as a
lifeless body of a grade twelve boy frightened her. She took her hand off her
mouth and gasped. The boy was missing the middle of his chest. On his hips was
an army grenade belt. All the grenades but one was still on the belt. She
decided to get the belt of the body. She looked back as she unbuckled the belt.
Her hand reached the clip. She was scared that the boy might not be dead and
grab her arm, so she tried to do it as quick as humanly possible. She put the
belt on herself and took out a hand-grenade from the side and ran over to the
side of the shed.
Meanwhile Ray turned a corner
around past the tuckshop. He had lost them for a minute, but they were just
running towards him. Ray ran into an open garage where another golf buggy sat.
“Thank you” Ray said as he looked up the roof with his hands in a prayer.
The zombies came to the garage and
stood still. Headlights flashed on and Ray ran over a pile of zombies at fifty
kilometres per hour. “DIEEE!!!” Ray shouted. The zombies screamed in pain as he
shot them with the Uzi or drove over them. The zombies at the back of the horde
ran away from the car. Once he drove away the remaining thirty-four chased
after him.
The dogs were running at there top
speed now and they were only a few centimetres from buggy Ray was in. He turned
into a fork in the concrete road. He turned to the left and soon realised that
he was reaching a dead end, so he turned the corner and shot at the zombies. He
watched them fall or run into the dead end. He looked forward. He had the small
light on in the buggy; I had doors and a window in the back and one as the
windshield. He realised he was going in a circle and the circle led to the fork
in the road. It was bad for him because half of the remaining horde was waiting
for him.
He smashed into a massive dog and
flipped over onto its roof. The windshield cracked and Ray gritted his teeth,
holding the seat as hard as possible. He opened his eyes to see that his
seatbelt saved his life. He took it off and hit the floor with a hard thud.
“Aagh! Man!” he muttered to himself, Ray grabbed hold of his large Uzi.
Outside another massive dog
grabbed hold of the back of the Buggy and flipped it over using all of its
power and might. “AAGGHH!” Ray screamed, He got back up on his seat and
strapped the belt on. He couldn’t see outside so he shot the windshield. He
turned the headlights on; the buggy really did seem like a car. He shoved his
foot onto the pedal and drove away but the zombies all jumped on the bonnet,
roof, sides and the back. “Get away!” He screamed angrily, he turned on the
windshield wipers. Seeing that they didn’t work like they did in books and
movies, he got his gun from his lap and poked the nuzzle out of a hole and
fired. PA , PA
He couldn’t see where he was
going, although he saw through the window to his left that he was back at the
pool so he was getting closer back to the oval where Crystal
BOOM! The zombies were lifted in
the air and set on fire; a massive burnt hole was left in the ground. Crystal Crystal
“Are they gone?” a girl asked
“Yeah, I blew them up with a
grenade that I found on a-” Crystal
“Crystal?” the girl replied
“Crystal
“Mr. Hams?” Crystal
“Oh thank god you’re here; those
things just nailed us in without us knowing. Me and the other survivors ran in
here, all he had was the sports equipment as weapons, and the bow and arrows
won’t kill anything that’s too close to the wall” Mr. Hams explained.
“Come on, there is a helicopter
coming in a few minutes so we should hurry!” said Crystal Crystal
“Err…okay?” Crystal Crystal
The class started to leave the
shed; Crystal
“Be careful” said Crystal
Everybody just stared at the sheer
carnage. “I saw the helicopters in the air I think” He said. Everybody started
to move slowly, and then gradually started walking normally. When you think
about it, Ray is Very violent.
“Oh man,” said Ben as he was waking up, the
whole table had snapped. Luckily he wasn’t badly injured. He remembered all
that happened today and he sprung up to his feet as fast as he could. He looked
around; there weren’t any signs of zombies anywhere except for the bloody mess
on the wall near the classroom he was in. He was getting angry. Why did
everybody ditch ME! Why is it that everybody hates me! It’s unfair! Ben
thought to himself and now some annoying hordes of zombies, god! When will
it end? Suddenly a small voice popped into his head saying Fight back…
fight back… FIGHT BACK! Ben did as
what the voice said to do. Near the tuckshop there was a small garage with a
petrol powered golf buggy, it had a part on the back where you could carry
things on. Luckily it was still at the school. Ben opens the steel garage door.
Under the car were two petrol barrels. He took one out without trying to spill
any petrol. His plan was to brake into the tuck shop to get glass bottles and
fill them up with petrol to make Molotov cocktails. If he couldn’t find any
glass bottles in the tuckshop, he would go into the D.A.T. block and pick up
the ladder while he was there.
He didn’t find any glass bottles,
only plastic ones; those bottles would melt without spreading any petrol. The
whole canteen was empty except for some rolls of plastic and the plastic
bottles. There wasn’t even a knife.
So he carefully ran into one of
the D.A.T. rooms. It was the room where the year eleven and twelves built and
studied engines. Ben had been in this room many times before but it didn’t seem
the same as was in the day time, the air tasted like bitter dust and Ben could
feel a bad presences through-out the room. The room had an emergency exit in
the spacious closet, the closet lead back to near the table Ben smashed though,
and it was at the left side of the room. Ben didn’t walk though the fire door.
He walked though the long ways entrance. At the back of the room were five
rectangular windows. Outside were a tin shade covers, under them displayed five
boat engines with a concrete floor and an entrance to one of the other rooms.
Ben turned on the lights at the
entrance of the room. The whole entire room was empty. The tools were still in
there holders. There were some thick square, wooden tables at the top right
hand corner. At the bottom right hand corner were some small walls full are
screwdrivers, hammers, an amazing range a saws, screws and nails. Above each
tool was a small laminated sign saying their name. Ben was suspicious; there
was no blood, no bodies and no sign of any struggle that took place hours ago. Perhaps nobody was in here at the time the
zombies came Ben thought to himself. He was finally calm and collected, so
he went to work.
In the cupboard, there was about
twenty empty glass bottles. Ben got a sharp screwdriver from the wall of tools
that faced the window.
He saw a Hammer that could be
useful. As he walked over and bent down, he knew something wasn’t right. There
was a sudden flash of electricity in the air and more screaming then usual. A
loud thud on the window scared Ben to poke his head up above the wall. It was a
girl with long, deep black hair. Her skin was the deepest white. She had her
hands pressed against the windows and had gross black scars and long stitches.
She was wearing a white rag as a dress, which looped over only one shoulder. It
was horrifying, and then blue bolts of thick electricity shot out from behind
her and all the windows shattered into tiny pieces of glass. Ben ducked and
yelped. Fortunately none of the glass hit him. The girl floated in mid air and
shot herself right at Ben. He rolled over to the side and hit the wall. The
girl’s attack missed. He got up and chucked a hammer at her; she dodged it and
shot a bolt of electricity at him. She was floating about a foot above the
ground. He threw a metal wrench at the bolt and absorbed the attack and hit the
ground with a big clang. Ben ran to the desks and found a slingshot; he put the
screwdriver on it and pulled back. But before he could shoot it, the girl shot
a bolt and it hit the screwdriver. It missed Bens face by an inch and flew
outside. “Whoa!” Ben exclaimed. He saw a ball-steak in an open cupboard under
the sink behind him, a ball-steak is used for bending aluminium and other thin
metals to make them curved using a hammer, and they are mainly used to make
candleholders. It is green and looks like a ball at the top that has dents in
it; the bottom was an irregular rectangular prism. Ben chucked it at the girl,
this time it hit her straight in the head. Black inky looking blood came
straight out. Gross, Ben thought to
himself; the girl immediately made an angry face and electrocuted Ben with her
pale blue hands. “AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!” he screamed as hundreds and thousands of
volts of electricity shocked every muscle in his body. He fell to the floor, he
started whimpering and huffing and puffing. He knew this is where his road
ends, he was born a weakling and he’d die a weakling. He was on the verge of
extinction, while his friends would survive and lead happy, successful lives;
he would just be another person to die in vain and would be forgotten in a
week. He was about to shut his eyes forever when he had one last look at the
emergency door in the back of the closet, he realised his mistake, he should
have just ran away, he should have thrown a Molotov cocktail at her then the
girl would have burned up in smoke but that door made a voice pop back into his
mind, Fight
back…fight back…fight back...FIGHT BACK!!!! His heart
started beating rapidly, he had come this far, he wouldn’t go back, he
remembered that night his father was killed and Ben could have saved him but he
was too cowardly to do so. He remembered his loved ones, his father, his
mother, his siblings, his grandparents, his aunty and uncle, all his friends
and pets…Erica. Ben’s lifeless hands started to turn into a fist. Suddenly he
couldn’t feel any more pain, his anger and suffering was like a cast for his
wounds. “YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!” Ben screamed at the top of his lungs and pushed
his legs and hands up, he got up to his feet and charged over to the closet,
you might think he would run out crying or screaming, Oh no, you would be so
wrong. He grabbed a 2x4 at lightning speed and smashed the girl in the face so
hard it could shatter bone, the whole thing ripped apart; the girl had black
blood all over her face. She let out a menacing roar of pain. He dropped the
plank and stumbled over to one of the machines at the entrance. It had two saws
that were looking right at you when you faced the front. The phone in his pocket
started to ring with the tune of “Star wars”; he was addicted to the opening
theme song, although he wasn’t a nerd about it. The phone dropped out of his
pocket and onto the ground just as the girl shot out four bolts of her most
powerful electricity she could create, it was the same amount of electricity
used to light all the lights at a major league football game.
He ducked to pick up the phone and
the bolts hit the machine. The machine charged up with great force, the blades
started to turn and it started to rumble, loud noises of buildings crashing and
falling to a cement ground. Voices of men and women were shouting and screaming
outside as well. He wondered what was going on out there. Anyway, the machine
rumbled and screws started to roll out of it. Ben lept out of the way landing
next to door to the closet. “Wa da” said the girl, she would have said ‘what
the?’ if she was still human, but she wasn’t. The machine exploded in a massive
Fireball heading straight at the
girl, she screamed in an ear piecing scream so loud Ben had to cover his ears
with his hands. A saw blade hit the girls neck; she was decapitated. Electricity sparked out of her neck and
turned every machine in the room on, they all started to rumble. A second saw
blade stopped the flowing electricity sparking everywhere by shoving itself
into the girl-zombies heart. The girl’s body hit the floor in a puddle of black
blood. Ben tried not to look at it, it was too mental, like in a movie where
one little thing happens and gives a lot of people gory, painful and bloody
deaths. Ben answered the phone while he looked at the escape door.
“H-hello?” he said
On the other line was Erica “Oh
thank goodness you’re okay, Come to the tuckshop, NOW!!! HELP!!!!!” she cried.
“Okay” Ben yelled. Before he hung
up he heard the phone dropped and a loud roar, then the phone line went dead.
He picked up his Molotov bombs and shoved them into his bag; he hadn’t lit them
on fire yet. He charged out of the emergency door and ran insanely to get to
the tuckshop but as he got five meters away from the D.A.T. room it erupted
into a massive fireball. “AAGGHH” Ben screamed as he fell to the ground. A
screwdriver popped out next to Ben, it was a sharp and long one too. He looked
back at the fiery building, it colours of red and orange lit up the quiet night
sky. “There goes the ladder,” he muttered. Ben gulped and sighed as he picked
up the screwdriver, but dropped it because it was too hot. He waited thirty
seconds eagerly for the driver to cool down. He picked it up and tossed it
around, it was still hot. He blew on it a few times, when it finally finished
cooling down he stood up and ran away to the tuckshop. Scared to find out what
awaits him.
10. Oblivion
Ben turned to the left and went
between two buildings a zombie was had its hips stuck in the building to the
left, Ben kicked it in the head as he passed, he didn’t want to use up all his
energy before he came to Erica’s aid. It was easy to find her; he just had to
follow the sounds of screaming and shooting.
He brushed his lower body against
the bushes; he ignored them as he whispered to himself “Oh god” The zombies
that combined together to create a giant monster (Called ‘Oblivion’ by Ben)
climbed up the three-story building jumped off and created an powerful
shockwave. There were kids and teachers throwing weapons and shooting at it,
when the shockwave came, everybody was thrown back in the air. Cars flew in the
air and nearly crushed some kids. When they got back up they hid behind cars
for refuge. He looked at his screwdriver and thought stupid. But then he
remembered the cocktails in his bag and looked over his shoulder at his bag. He
started to march off in the distance, as he walked he looked from side to side,
there were dogs crawling around or standing up, waiting for Ben. They were
waiting to strike at the right moment. There were six or seven of them, all
hungry for his flesh but Ben was hungry to, hungry to kill. They slowly moved
closer, he had his screwdriver ready. The first one ran at him, he stabbed it
with the driver in the head and pulled it out, it hit the wall, dead. The
second sidestepped and punched in the face. He tumbled back and another dog
stood on its hind legs and grabbed his head. The pain was intense “Aagh!” he
screamed. The dog was crushing his head and the second was about to bite him
when Ben kicked it the face. It tumbled back and got back up. Ben shoved the
screwdriver right into the dog’s body. It screamed with pain rushing through
its veins and nerves. The dog let go of Bens face. Ben turned around at break-neck speed and slashed the dogs face
with his driver. It fell down to the ground and Ben stomped his foot on its
head to finish it off. A third one tackled him to the ground and clawed at his
bag. Ben flipped around to face the dog and stabbed it repeating, in the face.
It screamed holding its face with its red, bony hands. Ben kept stabbing it,
his hate filled his whole body, and the screaming words ‘fight back’ went
through his head and never stopped coming back. He stopped stabbing as soon as
he saw the dog’s blood on his shirt. He looked over at Oblivion and the kids
and adults fighting it. He saw that they even made a little hospital. Three
kids were already injured; DJ and another girl were treating people with a
first aid kit. DJ went to help other kids who go attacked by a zombie that
wasn’t attached to Oblivion. There were eight kids trying to bring down
Oblivion, all the rest were fight zombies with javelins, baseball bats and
sticks.
The dog fell off Ben and they all
ran away (Except for the dead ones)
A chill ran up Ben’s spine as he
followed along the walls of the science building. As he passed an entrance into
an alleyway, he heard a cry for help. It was Miss Turnwall and she was holding
a double-barrel shotgun and a .44 magnum desert eagle handgun. “Ben!” she
cried, Ben put his mouth over his hand at the sight of one of his favourite
teachers was missing her legs and her dress was covered in blood. He slowly
walked up to her, his hand to cover his eyes from the gore. “Don’t
be…afraid…Ben…” She was breathing heavily.
“W-w-what happened to you?” he
cried
“They came…to my…classroom…we
escaped and ran…through here… I sacrificed…myself…when the kids left the
alleyway…a massive foot came out of the sky and stomped them…all…” She pulled a
pack of cigarettes and a lighter with an Australian flag design on it. She lit
a cigarette up, “You want one? We’re all going to anyway,” she asked
“Nah, I think smokers go to he-”
Ben stopped and looked to find her staring up at her with a sour look on her
face. “No thanks” he muttered.
She spat the cigarette away and
whispered “Ben…I want you to have the guns and ammo for protection…I’m…dead”
“Can um…I also have the lighter? I
have a bagful of beer bombs”
With her last ounce of breath she
mouthed the word “Yes” then she put her head down and laid to rest…
He walked out of the alleyway with
his head, back to Oblivion, but he was now loaded with weapons. He found Ammo
in Miss Turnwalls pocket. As he walked out of the alleyway, a massive fireball
smashed into the ground right in front of him, it was a sports car, and the
fuel tank had been torched and thrown at somebody. Ben shrieked and fell back
into the alleyway. He had the shotgun in his bag and the desert eagle in his
hand. He turned the corner and saw the face of Oblivion. He shot it repeatedly
with the eagle. He took out the shotgun and checked it was loaded, the bullets
were made out of metal and were coloured red. He wondered how come almost
everybody has such dangerous weapons.
He fired the shotgun; the bullets
went astray as Ben flung up in the air because of the force of the gun. “Might
give this to someone stronger that isn’t Hank” he said to himself. He chucked
it in his bag and got back up, his back hurt from hitting the bricks so he
rubbed it gently. He ran past the car and ran to the next alleyway. It was next
to the building that had its third floor and the second partially destroyed.
That was where the ‘hospital’ was. He ran up to DJ and handed him the shotgun.
“Where did you get that!” he screamed. “Miss Turnwall!” Ben replied by shouting
back. In the background, there were the sounds of gun fire, screaming, Oblivion
roaring, metal bending, cars smashing, crying and explosions.
Ben fired more shots at the ring
on Oblivions face, as he shot bullets a zombie actually died and completely
fell off and hit the ground. The ring now looked like two large pincers since
two more dogs fell off the ring. The ring connected again and some dogs snuck
up from behind Ben at the hospital. He heard them roar, his neck snapped around
and so did his hand. It fell to its knees and then to its side.
“That was too close!” DJ shouted
above the gunfire but just as he said it, Ben jumped towards to fighting as
another car smashed the ground to pieces, the shattered glass landing inches
away from DJ. “Yikes!” he screamed, both Ben and DJ could feel the intense fire
radiating from the blast and decided to get away as possible. It was a good
thing they did that because BOOM! The car exploded in an even more fiery blast
of glass and shrieking metal.
Ben crawled along the hot ground.
He just wanted to make sure Erica was safe. He dodged the body of a jumper that
was killed by Hank in the distance. He passed some kids shooting arrows; they
were behind a car turned on its side, a dark blue Voltzwaggon. He could see
Erica fighting a zombie with a large stick through the blazing fire of a car
set alight, sitting on its roof. “3…2…1…Fire!” a boy shouted and the three kids
fired their arrows at Oblivions feet. It strike back by using its enormous hand
to catapult a zombie at them, Ben got on his knees and shot the zombie in mid air.
It hit the flaming car behind Ben.
Erica belted the branch onto the
zombie’s head, it continued towards her and she backed a couple of steps and
hit it again. She got an idea; she set the remaining leaves on the branch on
fire (She was behind a part of an engine on fire) and swiped the zombie. Then
the zombie started to try to grab the leaves off the branch but burnt its hand.
Ben crawled to the next set of
archers. This set included Mr. Hams. “FIRE!!” he screamed. The arrows fired
into Oblivion. Oblivion had enough of what was going on. It had become a living
thing with zombies inside it (Like when you eat worms or something and they are
still alive in your stomach. Sorry, that’s the only way to describe it). Anyway
Oblivion was angry; the living was winning so it decided to have a shower. It
waved it hands about from side to side. Tens of hundreds of zombies flew out of
its hands and landed on the humans. Most of the archers and Ben start shooting
at them; Oblivion had reduced its size by doing so. Everybody was getting
attacked except for one person, DJ. He was the only person who could save
around forty people or so, but he was too cowardly. He walked backwards into
the shadows holding his shotgun tightly in his hands. He looked at all the
carnage; the zombies were defiantly winning now. The song “Toy soldiers” went
through his head, people were dropping like flies and it was his fault. He
looked at his gun, he was so strong but so weak inside himself. He looked at
his feet to see a young girl taking her last breath before dieing and that
moment triggered it. DJ’s Rage went throughout his whole body. He didn’t scream
he didn’t shoot insanely; he just crossed his eyebrows… Then he went nuts. He
shot a zombie at the back that was about to take a big chomp out of Ben. Ben
got up and started to shoot the zombies. A Dog snuck up behind DJ and roared.
DJ threw his gun backwards at his side and caught it at the end out the barrel.
The handle hit the dog in its soft, pink stomach. DJ flipped the gun around so
he was then holding the handle; he swung around and whacked the barrel into the
Dogs face. It fell down to the ground lifelessly. DJ reloaded the shotgun. Just
as he finished, Oblivion swung its massive hand at DJ to crush him like a bug.
But just at the last second DJ swung the gun up in the air and shot the whole
entire end of the hand. A mountain of dead zombies fell off and rained onto DJ.
Oblivion didn’t scream, he just shoved his hand back quickly.
Ben kicked a zombie off Ray; he
got back up and started shooting the zombies with him. Ben kicked a zombie off
Erica and then shot it. She got up and was about to hug him. That made Ben
smile. But that moment was cut short when a jumper tackled them both. Because
it landed on their arms, they were both stuck. “AGGHHH!!” The jumper screamed.
It was about to strike when, POW! POW! POW! It fell off the two kids. “THanks
Ray!” Said Ben, Ray replied by nodding his head. He made the ‘follow me’ sign
with his hand. He wanted Ben and Erica to help find Crystal
They found her and got her to the
hospital. She had tripped over and hurt her ankle. Mary was protecting the
hospital with DJ’s shotgun. DJ was beating the zombies to a pulp. “Good, Crystal
“I’ll stay here with Crystal
“TAKE THAT YOU ZOMBIE B-” The
ending of Mary sentence could not be heard from the heavy sound of the gunfire
from the shotgun.
Meanwhile Hank was fighting off
the last zombie attacking him. He had it by the neck and he choke slammed into
an arrow stuck in a barricade. He looked at Oblivion; his vision was coloured
blood red, he was turning more and more into a mutant by the minute. He
shrieked in pain, it was intense, like getting fifty needles all at once.
He remembered what he said earlier
“No Witnesses” That made him go back in his homicidal state of mind. He needed
to ‘Erase’ out Phil and Clay because if they survive, he’ll go to prison
possibly forever, and no one wants that.
He looked around for Phil, he
wasn’t to be seen, and a loud explosion made Hank duck for cover.
One of Crystals Hand grenade had
been set off by Mary at Oblivions foot, more zombies fell out of Oblivion. The
remaining zombies back to Oblivion and jumped inside him. He held his arms up
in his massive strength as he grew bigger and bigger. When Hank opened his eyes
and got up, he realised that half of the kids were dead. He couldn’t see them;
they had been taken into Oblivion. He saw Clay crawling around looking for his
stick. Perfect Hank thought to
himself. There were puddles of blood, oil and flaming oil (From surrounding
cars).
He didn’t even make sure that
anybody was looking. His hate and infection from Virus-K7 had spread throughout
his whole body. He wasn’t himself anymore; his bite was throbbing on his arm
and was weak. He grabbed Clay into the chock slam position. “Prepare to die!”
Hank snickered.
“Wh-wha?” Clay replied
“I’ll kill your face,” Hank had
become an insane murderer who radiates misery and hate “I’ll kill your body,
I’ll kill your legs, and I’ll definitely rip out your EYES!!!” He teased, “How
dare you escape me!” He screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Hank” said Clay, He crossed his
eyebrows and kicked Hank in the face. Hank dropped him to the ground. He used
his hearing to see as he fought Hank. But Hank knew that he would do that and
tripped him over into a flaming puddle of oil. “AAAGGGHHH!!!!” He screamed as
he rolled around on the ground, clutching his face in his hands. Hank laughed
at his intense pain “Ha, ha, ha!”
DJ turned around as he finished
clobbering a runner (Surprisingly there wasn’t any spiders around in the group
which Oblivion was in) “What the hex?” he muttered as he got out of his angry
stance and tilted his head.
There was a line of fire that
passed through the firing ground. That meant people could either: jump over the
fire, walk or run around the fire where Oblivion or walk/run around the exit of
the battlefield.
Ben took his bag and held the gun
tightly and Ray and Crystal ran out with him.
Ben and Crystal ran out near a
table, Ben jumped on it and shot rapidly at the surrounding zombies around him
and Crystal. He didn’t notice it but Oblivion’s hand came right at him. “Ben,
WATCH OUT!” screamed Erica from a distance.
“Huh?” said Ben, he turned to her
then looked at Oblivion and yelped. A dog stuck out from Oblivions hand and
grabbed Ben’s head. “Ben!” Crystal
Everybody huffed, puffed and
groaned using all their strength together to pull out the two kids. Even
Oblivion was struggling for his hunger. Finally he gave in and Ben and Crystal
and everybody else were thrown out of Oblivion.
Crack!
Ben and Crystal smashed onto a
wooden table safely; the table broke their fall. Everybody else landed
painfully on the ground but they were okay. “Ow!” Ray exclaimed as he rubbed
his back. “Wait,” he said to crystal “Didn’t you have more than three grenades
left?”
“What?” She replied when she got
up. Ray looked at Ben getting up; WOW
these tables must love me! Ben thought.
“Hey Ben, why is your bag ripped
open?” Ray asked. Ben swung his bag over, one of the pockets was ripped open
and the Molotov cocktails were missing, he could see that there were flame or
torch marks around it.
He just stared at it blankly and
finally said, “Oh crap”
Ray’s eyes widened as far as
humanly possible, he turned to the line of kids getting up and screamed
“EVERYBODY DUCK!!!” Oblivion’s chest exploded in a devastating mass of fire and
bodies. The sound of the explosion was louder than the two jets that roared
through a cloud in the air and some thunderbolts. Oblivion howled in pain into
the cold night. The blast let out a cloud of thick, grey smoke. A breeze
fluttered through the air, and in everybody’s hair.
When the blast cooled down, the
kids could see that he was still standing but with another feature. He had tens
of hundreds of tentacles flailing about everywhere, whipping the ground and
stabbing it as well. The kids wondered why and how did he get them. Oblivion’s
head was arched back in the air, acting like if it was frozen.
Then the tentacles attacked a
grade 12 boys in the middle of the line. The pinkish-purple tentacle grabbed
him by the throat and threw him into the chest. Everybody ran screaming for
shelter at the hospital and other nearby buildings. Mr. Hams took grabbed a
javelin from off the ground and slashed the tip of a tentacle in half. Then he
stabbed it into the ground and pulled out the javelin. The tentacle fell
lifelessly on the ground. Two more came up to him, he stabbed one. But the
other one grabbed his throat and squeezed relentlessly. He desperately gasped
for air, Luckily Ben saw him dieing and used his desert eagle to shoot a bullet
into the tentacle. Ben could see the bloodied bone of the tentacle. It released
Mr. Hams fell and down to the ground. Mr. Hams crawled over to Ben in the
hospital. “Thanks kid” he thanked.
“Your welcome” replied Ben.
DJ was hit with a tentacle, he
stumbled to the ground and another tentacle wrapped around him arm, then
another tentacle came out of nowhere and grabbed the other arms. He tried to
kick them but he couldn’t reach far enough. They started pulling him in closer
to the chest of Oblivion, and no one was going to help him. “AAAGGHHH!!!” he
screamed. But then a flaming arrow stuck into one of the tentacles. It broke in
half and fell to the ground. He started swinging around and shrieked when he
could see the insides of Oblivion; it was full of zombies waiting for him to
sink their teeth into. He also saw a giant beating muscle looking thing in the
epicentre of the chest; it looked like a giant black and red heart. He started
lowering down, not to Oblivion but to the ground. The tentacle couldn’t take
his weight. He grabbed the tentacle when he reached the ground and pulled it
off himself and ran to an alleyway just in front of the hospital. Mimi was
there shooting arrows at the tentacles but she was missing because of her bad
aiming and the tentacles were to fast. She had been doing that for the whole
time since Ben and Crystal
“Die!” she screamed. She looked at
DJ and said, “Good thing I saved you are you would be one hard zombie creature
thing to kill” He gave her the evil eye for some reason.
Mary came out of the hospital with
the shotgun shooting the chest in an attempt to shoot of the tentacles. “She
shouldn’t go so close to that thing or she’ll be dead like drop dead Fred!”
Mimi warned
“I don’t know if he actually dies
in that movie?” DJ stupidly questioned
“Neither do I, I haven’t seen it” she
replied
“Whatever” he mumbled
Ben and the others watched as Mary
bravely went into the firing ground to protect the rest of the kids and
teachers. Either she’s brave, or she’s
lost her marbles fighting the zombies Ben thought, he was thinking about Mary
and why she just ran off with out reason. “Why don’t you die, just die!!!” Mary
screamed at the top of her lungs and possibly more than that. There were
tentacles come straight for her and she didn’t even seem to notice. DJ knew he
had to do something but his cowardliness pulled him back to shouting at her
“MARY, GET BACK!” he yelled, Mary didn’t reply, she just kept walking and
shooting then loading again. “I-I somebody ha-has to do something or she’ll be
killed!” DJ said to Mimi, “I’m not doing it, you should!” she replied
“But-but I-I can’t!”
“You have to, you’re equally
strong as Hank, but I don’t see that scumbag anywhere”
DJ was getting jittery and
extremely nervous, and he is bad under heavy pressure “Man, I, God! It’s just
that-”
“Just that what!” Mimi shouted
“I saw what was inside Oblivion,
it was horrible!”
“Well so did Ben and Crystal”
“But- but there much braver than I
am”
“No! You must learn to be brave
and use your courage as your strength like superman and kryptonite is extinct
through out the known universe!” (Kryptonite is the only thing that can kill
superman; he is a superhero that looks like a human but is an alien. He is a
comic book character.)
“I’m like superman?”
“Um…sure…just save her.”
“Okay,” he calmly sighed, “I must
risk my life to save another’s, but this time I won’t be enraged. I must fight
back with out a weapon. Okay now I-”
“Just get out there you moron!”
Mimi shouted and kicked him into the open with her boot. “Ow!” DJ moaned
angrily.
Mary shot a tentacle off and it
smashed on the ground with a loud thud, rocks jumped in the air because of the
impact. “Oh yeah! Who’s the boss now punk?” She didn’t notice that a tentacle
slipped around her ankle, “Mary look out!” Crystal
He heard a massive roar from the
top of the long staircase. It sounded like a massive oil tanker and a whole
loud of running footsteps.
He looked saw headlights and threw
away the heart. He gasped and lied down on a stair only because a massive oil
tanker jumped right off the staircase. It smashed onto the stairs and turned to
its side and started flipping around. Inside the truck, Tommy and Mr. Branigan
were screaming like they never have before, they knew it was a good idea to
wear seat belts but they just wished the truck had airbags. The truck smashed a
set of rails. Then it came down to DJ, it flipped in the air, narrowly avoiding
him. The footsteps at the top of the staircase got louder and angrier.
Oblivion didn’t have enough time
to turn around when the truck smash into him. Hundreds of zombies flipped and
fell and flung out of his legs, some of them got crushed. DJ quickly reloaded
his gun with the last two bullets; he aimed and fired straight into the oil
tank. The oil sprayed everywhere, on the zombies, on the last of Oblivion and
heaps on the staircase. All the kids shot at the tank, mainly to slow it down.
Then Crystal
Meanwhile, the load of helicopters
that were about to arrive at the school saw the massive explosion and Oblivion
going up in flames. “What the heck!” one of the many pilots shouted. They now
headed for the Oblivion.
“Mary!” shouted DJ as he
fast-walked through the flames of Oblivion; he had his arm on his face to
protect him from burns and to cover his nose from the putrid smell of burning
flesh. There were clumps of black everywhere and the sky looked completely
blood red. DJ heard huffing coming from behind a pile of ash and burnt body
bits. Mary had her legs stuck in the pile, so DJ helped her out by dragging her
by her arms out of the pile. She had a bruise on her forehead and parts of her
clothes were ripped. She also had a cut on her arm from a blade. He finished
dragging her body out, “DJ?” she whispered
“I’m going to get you back to
safety” he replied
“I can’t feel my legs” she
whispered, DJ could see that she still had her legs but they were broken. He
lifted her up into his arms and carried her to the hospital.
The kids used the first aid kit to
plaster up her legs quickly. A few dogs appeared from the tall staircase and
hoppled down to the black heart that was ripped out of a once living Oblivion.
One sniffed it and realised what it was, then it yelled out a high-pitched
scream. The living could hear what it was saying, it was screeching out “MASTER
OBLIVION DEATH!” really slowly. When it stopped it fell to the ground like if
it was dead, then seconds later, the stomping and roaring reached the staircase
to reveal a giant army of undead soldiers jumped off the staircase and the two
dirt hills next to it, The tumbled over the ground and cement, blazing on fire
and covered in dirt. The kids saw the first helicopter land on the roof of the
building they were in before. They also noticed that the explosion had opened
the doors to the school block, so they didn’t need a ladder any more once they
got out. All the kids ran inside to find zombies blocking the pathway into the
next corridor full of lockers. Phil came in a sliced them in two with his
sword.
Underground, massive waves of
various zombies were running, waiting to smash their way up into the one
building that the helicopter was on. The tunnels started shaking because of the
weight and the stomping. Meanwhile on the surface, it started to make an earth
tremor. The building started to shake, posters and lockers started to fall to
the ground. The people continued to run. Ben, Crystal
CRACK!!! SMASH!!! BANG!!!
A whole entire corner of a
classroom fell off the supports and blocked the only entrance into the corridor
that leads to the staircase to the roof. The kids (on both side) banged their
hands on the wall blocking the path. Mr. Branigan pushed his way to the
blockage, “Kids! Kids can you here me!” he shouted. The crowd could here a
faint ‘yes’ though the cracks “Okay, I know a way to get to the roof!” he said.
Meanwhile DJ could see that
another load of helicopters were landing on the ground, including a white
helicopter with a Red Cross sign on the door. The army of zombies reached the
end of the staircase and were heading for him. He saw a copter drop something
that looked like a small bomb. It exploded into a purple fog, he knew what it
was. It was the cure, but the fog wasn’t big enough to cure all of the
infected. DJ looked at a Volkswagen beetle, (That’s kind of car Herby was, ask
your parents/guardian) anyway, he got o the back and used all of his muscle
power to lift it up, he groaned and finally, flipped it over onto the roof. He
did that to protect crush some of the zombies that came at him, next he found a
Molotov cocktail that was partially burnt, and so it mustn’t have exploded or
shattered while inside Oblivion. He lit it on puddle of oil and chucked it in
the engine next to the fuel tank. Then lastly he ran away to see it exploded
into a lethal fireball.
Phil knew his time was near, he
knew that his bite would infect his whole body soon; he could see that his
vision was already infected, he could see the world as if it was blood red and
the people could be seen only as black shapes, he felt the psychotic hunger for
human flesh but had to resist the temptation. He went to the back of the crowd
and fell to his knees. The cane fell to the ground with a thud.
“At the very top of the staircase,
there should be a door that is locked” Mr. Branigan explained, “Yeah we know
it” Ben replied.
“Well shoot the lock with your
gun”
“Why?”
“Because it leads to the rooftop!”
“Okay we’ll go now!”
“Good luck!” The kids started to
run off but as soon as the could, the ground started to shake again but even
harder, a few tiles on the ground fell through the building. The was a massive
sewer pipe right under the building. The floor started to crack and fall. The
kids ran even faster to the sprialing staircase but then a skeletal hand
smashed through and grabbed Ray. More hands smashed the tiles through to the
top. The kids screamed except for Hank, who just smiled. The more survivors to
perish, the less likely he would go to jail, and more enemies he will lose.
Erica and Crystal helped him up, while Ben kicked the hand off and shot at the
hands coming out of the ground. Then a loud cracking sound came and the whole
floor shattered from the wall to Ray’s foot. Ben and the rest moved to the
staircase. There was a light on the staircase. It looked eerie to the eye and
was extremely bright like magnesium when it has been set alight. Ray was a few
metres away from it; he fell to his knees and screamed in pain. He looked at
the bite; it had covered most of his skin in red. His vision had been turned
from a blood red colour to seeing only black and everyone else was red. He had
the thrilling temptation to eat human; he didn’t want to eat anything dead. He
wanted something ‘fresh’ and warm-blooded.
“Are you okay Ray?” Crystal
“I…am…infected”…
Foam started frothing out of
Phil’s mouth, his skin turned complexly red and his vision became the same as
Ray’s. Everybody was watching the horror. Mary came and helped him up and got
him outside to the medical copter. But before he got there his whole entire
face turned red, the red skin crept up his face and his green veins on his
started to show, Mary let go of him and watched in horror as his transformation
was complete. She ran back inside and grabbed her shotgun and aimed it at Phil
just in case he attacked her. He got to his knees and charged to the helicopter
relentlessly. The door on the copter opened wide to reveal a woman (in her
thirties) dressed like a pilot, held a massive chain gun attached to the
Helicopter. Phil prounaced in the air, the woman opened fire and Phil hit the
ground into a puddle of water and he didn’t move again…
“WH-what?” a tear popped out of
her eye. Everybody was shocked, including Hank. He realised that he had to
hurry up to get to the helicopter or he would die too.
“I was bit by one…of…those fast
red…things…GAAA!” He explained with a shouted of pain at the end.
“We’ll get you to safety!” Crystal
“No…my time…is up”
“NO! We, we will…just hang on
there!”
“I wish we could but…”
“Please”
“I’ll fend off these…blood thirsty
murderers” Ray started to swear about the zombies.
He got himself up, and got his UZI
out. Crystal
“If you’re going, then I’ll die
too!” she answered
“NOO!!!” he screamed in a
dreadfully deep voice. They hugged each other. His skin was completely red now.
He turned his head away “Now…GO, Go before I see you and will uncontrollably
rip you open and feast-” He turned around to find they were gone “What did I
say?” he shouted. He turned around to the spiders and jumpers and regular
zombies climbing out of the sewers and said lastly. “Okay, time you meet the
grim reaper!” he was referring to himself as the one who would bring him down.
He unveiled another UZI out from the jacket; crystal saw it and said, “He has
two guns!”
She then watched him fire as he started
to fall to the ground, still shooting and killing the zombies. He dropped a gun
but continued firing. His mouth started to foam, he dropped the other gun and
his face turned blood red. He fell to the ground and started growling loudly.
He couldn’t see anymore…
They reached the very last door at
the very top of the spiralling staircase. It was locked, obliviously. So Ben
shot the lock off. He stood with the gun pointing at the door, just in case
anything was inside. When they checked by turning the light switch on, nothing
was there. A sign of relief came over the kids. But not Hank, he thought Phil
was still out there among the living, possibly cured and what about Clay?
He never saw him actually die.
Somehow he would have to get them, but he had to kill the group to do so. He
waited for the perfect moment; he held his gun in his hand tight. The small
room to the rooftop was silent and musty.
Meanwhile two dogs ran up the
staircase snarling and fangs dripping with foam and blood from their previous
prey.
“What’s that sound?” Erica asked,
they could here the sound of footsteps. The kids fell silent to hear. Then they
realised what it was and charged over to the stairs to the rooftop. In front of
it was a steel door that looked like a gate. The kids ran to the door with Crystal
“Um…Okay?” said Ben, Crystal Crystal
“WHAT!” Crystal
“What?” Ben replied angrily
“You heard me, you maggots, shut
the gate!”
“You…want to…wait…what are you
trying to pull off?” Said Ben
“No witnesses” Hank whispered, “I
hate you all so you must all die!” he answered.
The remaining kids were so shocked
they could pass out from the rubbish that came out from Hank’s mouth. Before
Hank realised it, he had a gun pointing at his head.
“He, he, he… I know you don’t have
the guts to shoot me, Ben,” He laughed. Beads of sweat ran down the back of
Ben’s neck. He couldn’t kill another human being, even a psycho. He started
lower his gun, and his head, down in shame. “No!!!” Crystal
screamed as Hank walked over and shut the gate on Crystal
“I’m so sorry” Ben cried
The two dogs reached the staircase
and grabbed her by the collar, making her fall down. Hank turned around and
pointed the gun at the survivors and said to Ben “Oh boo hoo! Let’s go!” The
kids walked up the stairs and opened the roof door; it wasn’t locked unlike the
first door Ben had to shoot off. As Hank reached the final stair, he mocked Crystal
She started to cry as a dog sat on
her hips and drew its razor sharp claw upwards in the air and it zoomed down on
her beautiful face. Her ear-piercing scream could be heard throughout the whole
building and into the night.
The kids reached the roof to find
the helicopter at the end of one of the sides. They were about to run to it
when Hank said, “Ben, give me a lighter and a beer bomb” (Molotov cocktail) “No
way!” Ben exclaimed, Hank held the gun up to his head “Ben, give me a lighter
and a beer bomb” he repeated but this time he said it in a deeper voice. He
mumbled and grabbed one of his last ones out. He got the lighter and gave it to
him. Hank set the rag on fire and pulled it out. He poured the fuel down on the
straight tin roof in a meter wide line that separated the roof into to
sections. “What are you-?”
“I’ve been holding this pain out for a while,”
Hank interrupted “I…am…infected” he spat out a load of gross looking foam from
his mouth. He curled up the rag and pegged it at the fire; a blast of fire grew
out from the engine fuel and covered his whole body and face. The fire
collapsed to show that Hank hadn’t become a jumper, or a dog, but both. He had
stringy hair and his skin was dark blueish-grey and he didn’t have any eye
pupils but the whole eye had turned the darkest blue you could get without
getting to black noticeably. Also his muscles were all showing and he looked
like he lost five pounds. He laughed in a deep, dark voice and walked through
the fire.
11. The master of
war…
That young boy that was trouble
from the day of his birth had now became a demon from the very depths of hell
itself, hell bent to kill the people he knew best, his very best friends. He
had become one of the most powerful zombies in all existence. He trudged over
to Ben and was going to corner him and push him off the three/two story
classroom block. He kept pushing Ben towards the edge until Mimi came and
kicked the zombiefied Hank; he turned around and surprisingly talked again in a
deep voice “You shouldn’t do that, Mimi”
“Hank?” she replied
“Yes, it’s me. I have realised
that the two different types of infection I got from that jumping thing
and that dog thing have both cancelled themselves out when they reached my
brain, so I am both human and a mutated Zombie”
“You got infected twice?” Ben
asked
“Yes and now I’M THE ULTIMATE
ZOMBIE!!!” Ben ran away from the edge, Hank chased after him. Then Mimi was
behind him and she kicked him again, Hank turned around and started pushing her
towards the edge when Erica came up and grabbed his shoulder. That was when
more disaster occurred, Hank flipped around and pulled his gun from his pocket,
flashes of light stabbed themselves into her chest but the sound wasn’t even as
loud as Crystal’s scream. She flung back into the air and hit the tin ground
hard. “ERICA!!” Ben cried. He got to her and tried to wake her up, but then
Hank kicked Ben in the face. It felt like somebody just smashed him with a
cinderblock. He fell on to the ground, crimping in pain. Then Mimi slid under
Hanks big legs (taking Hank’s gun unnoticeably) and reached into Ben’s bag and
got a Molotov cocktail, she pegged it at Hank but then he caught the bottle in
his hands then chucked it at her. She ducked and the bottle smashed on the ground,
spilling fuel everywhere and then it all got set on fire. Ben climbed up, and
cracked his neck. Hank smiled and so did Ben. Ben got the screwdriver ready.
Hank put his hands on the ground, charged over at lightning speed and tackled
him. Ben stabbed Hank straight in the face while in mid-air. “GAAAGGGGHHH!!!”
they screeched. They hit the ground hard; Hank was on top of Ben. Mimi silently
walked over to Hank holding the gun at point blank range. She silently counted
from one to three and shot Hank straight into his back and said “YEAH! Take
that you monster!” Ben grabbed the screwdriver and stabbed Hanks hand. He stood
up and did a flip over to face Mimi’s back. Before she could turn around, Hank
punched her in the back and elbowed her in the back of the head. She fell down
to the ground crawling towards the fire to get to the helicopter; he jumped in
the air and stomped on her back. Ben took out his gun and fired at him. Hank
jumped into the air, missing the bullets and kicked the gun out of his hands. It
slid along the ground like a racing car and fell off the building. “Damn it”
Ben exclaimed. They started to exchange fist, they were missing them by inches.
Meanwhile, Mimi was crawling over to the fire. A man rushed out of the
helicopter and helped her over the fire; he was wearing a SWAT team suit and a
pilot’s helmet. He had a bulletproof vest and was wearing dark sunglasses. He
took her over to the helicopter and a giant door slid open. Some survivors
helped her in. They shut the door when Mimi was in and Hank smashed his knee
into Ben’s gut. He crumpled to the ground in pain, cradling his stomach.
The living-zombie picked up the
gun and shot the pilot in the back. The pilot gasped for air and hit his helmet
on the landing rail of the copter.
Hank pointed the gun at Ben and
was about to pull the trigger when Ben pulled out a ‘lit’ Molotov cocktail and
smashed the middle of the bottle into Hank’s face. The oil splashed on Hank and
was set on fire. He screamed out loud, shaking the fire off his face. This was
enough time for him to get up and reach for the gun in Hanks hand. The fire
faded away and, without hesitation, Hank punched Ben in the face. Ben spun
around and fell to the middle of the edge holding the gun. Hank kicked Ben
again. Hank kneeled down and grabbed Ben’s collar and smacked him silly, each
time Ben got hit he cursed, making Hank want to kill Ben faster. “Die! ...DIE!”
It screamed. Ben’s nose started bleeding. Ben glanced over at the handle of the
glass bottle that he used as a weapon before. If he could just get the bottle
he could get Hank off him. He couldn’t get his screwdriver because it was
laying the ground. Ben got an idea, he started crying in pain. “Prepare to die
a painful death, you cry baby!” he mocked. Ben suddenly stopped crying and
rammed the jagged edges of the glass handle into the side of Hanks head. His
scream tore through the night sky. Ben stumbled up to his knees see Hank
run-kick him in the groin, Ben fell to his knees and the glass handle fell to
the ground. Hank stepped back and charged at Ben. Hank kicked him with great
force. His legs flung around and he hit the tin ground unconscious. Hank
laughed quietly and muttered, “That was too easy” he turned his back to him. A
loud groan came out of Ben. Hank turned around to him. Ben had only passed out.
“He just doesn’t die, does he?” Hank questioned himself. He picked up the glass
handle and stepped back again. He jumped up ten feet in the air holding the
glass handle above his head. He was about to stab Ben with his own bottle and
he won’t even be able to stop him unless a miracle could occur.
The dog grunted as it walked up
the staircase in the eerie, dusty light. It passed two dogs that had blood on
their claws. One let out a whiney sound to the other one, it said, “Sorry,
Foods gone” The dog looked at the other two that was creeping down the
staircase and ignored it. The dog continued up the stairs. As it reached the
top of the staircase to find the door smashed open with the lock missing. The
cold grey tiles were cracked and there was red blood between the single tiles.
As the dog crept through the room more he could see the blood got thicker and
sprayed more on the tiles. It widened its eyes as it saw a blood covered Crystal
Inside its brain, something was
happening. The dose of virus-K7 that infected the human was staring to
deteriorate out of its brain. And thus, Ray was back.
He screamed in pain, struggling to
stop the Virus that infected his bloodstream. Tears poured out of his eyes, as
he looked down at his best friend he ever had corpse. “Why!” he screamed into
the air, still with the deep voice. He coughed and his voice returned to
normal. He looked at her and said to himself, “She’s an angel in heaven now” He
took one last look at her. He walked over right up to her body; there wasn’t a
bite on her. And then a miracle came. “…Ray?” a soft voice appeared from her
lips. A rush of joy swept Ray away, “Crystal
She relied by groaning. No, she
wasn’t okay.
“What happened to you?” Ray asked
“…I’m dying” she replied, Ray saw Crystal
“Don’t look at me, I’m hideous!”
said Ray.
She saw him and quietly said,
“You’re not hideous”
Ray slowly turned his head around
and said, “You don’t mean that”
“I don’t care what you look
like…you’re my best friend”
“Oh yeah, I- I kinda forgot about that because
of how we were fighting so much”
“It’s just a part of life”
“I know, it-it’s just so hard to
let you go…we could save you”
“No…it’s too late for me”
“I should have came up with you
and did what you said and get to the copter”
“You’re still alive and
that’s what matters”
“Yeah but so does your life!”
“Nobody will really miss me, my
family hates me”
“Maybe they do hate you and won’t
miss you if I get out to the airport in time but still there would be one
person who would miss you for all his life”
“Who?”
“Me!”
“Oh, sorry”
They had an awkward pause for a
moment and Ray said, “I thought we could have grown up and even get married”
“I guess we were never meant to be
together”
“We could have”
“W-what” he asked
“You’ll…always…be…my friend” she
fell silent; Ray used the side of his finger to shut her eyes. He stood up
crying.
He walked out of the room and remembered the
two dogs with blood on his claws. They killed her and, with a rush of anger, he
would kill them too. Even if he was still in his zombie form.
The two dogs were about to enter
hole leading into the sewers when they heard a loud scream in anger. Ray flew
down the stairs and tackled one of the dogs to the ground. He got up and used
his claws repeatedly to swipe the smirk off that dogs face. The other dog came
up and said “Traitor!” in a loud screeching voice. The dog died and Ray spun
around and ripped the other dog’s stomach open. A loud smashing sound came out
from the blockage. There was a whole army of soldiers using a high-tech ramming
machine. The blockage was beginning to show cracks at the top, bottom and the
sides.
Below in the sewers, all the
zombies rushed back to the hole to face Ray who was hungry for vengeance.
Crash!
Just as the first zombies reached
the top, the blockage came crashing down and completely covered the hole.
Because of the walls weight, the zombies found it hard to break through. The
solider pointed their firearms at Ray. He stood up and looked at them. “Don’t
shoot me,” he said in his deep voice, the soldiers and bystanders were shocked
to hear a zombie talk for once. The put away the fire arms and let him walk
across the blockage and out of the classroom block. On his way out he saw a
medical helicopter. He didn’t respond to it and he left the school and walked
through the purple fog full of people passed out from the cure. He inhaled the
fog but he didn’t pass out because of how he had control of his brain. He walked
into the shadows leading into the city, leaving his life behind…
Hank was darting down to the earth to
stab Ben in the chest. Tiny bits of glass broke off from the shattered middle
and flew up into the night sky. Ben
couldn’t move because he was unconscious. Next to him sat Hank’s gun, it was
loaded.
Hank was getting down to six feet
in the air and Ben’s eye twitched. It twitched again and he slowly and
painfully opened his eyes. His vision was blurry and he couldn’t see Hank
falling towards him. He was feeling numb all over himself except for his head
and right arm. His vision came clear and realised what was happening. Hank
thought to himself Good, sleeping beauty will be able to feel the pain and
continued to speed down. Ben was breathing fast; his eyes rolled over to the
sight of the gun and turned back. He used all of his strength to reach over to
the gun but he just couldn’t do it. His eyes rolled over Erica, she was dying,
and he could even tell his feelings for her. He found a new strength inside him
and reached onto the gun. He used all of his might to push his hand and the gun
into the air. He did that and put his finger on the trigger. Hank was only
three feet away from hitting Ben. Ben pulled the trigger and a blast of metal
was sent airborne missing Hank. Luckily the gun stayed into Ben’s hand, he
pulled with all his strength and another bullet went flying into the air, this
time thought it smashed the glass bottle into billions of pieces. Most of which
pieced themselves into Hank’s zombie hands. He screamed at the top of its
lungs. Ben was satisfied enough so he pulled the trigger one last time and the
blast of shrieking metal hit Hanks foot. Hank screamed even harder and started jumping
in the air. He couldn’t see where he was going and he fell off the edge of the
building. His screamed echoed from the walls and started fading out as he fell
into the darkness of the night. Ben didn’t hear a thud or any sound of a body
hitting the pavement. He just heard the echo of his screaming, nothing else. He
summoned the strength to roll over on to his front and get up. The numbness
left his body and he was just injured. A door opened on the helicopter. Ben
felt that rush of joy again. He was safe. He started to walk over to the fire
and turned around to see Erica and was shocked to see his last Molotov cocktail
about to blow up in her face. He ran with a limp in his leg over to her and
kicked the bottle away, as it reached the edge it exploded into a thousand
shards of glass, luckily none of them reached Ben or Erica.
Erica was resting in a small pool
of blood; Ben used all of his strength again to pick her up. He carried her in
his arms over to the copter, he didn’t even care that his legs were burned
severally as he stepped over the fire, he was just happy to get away.
Mimi rushed out with an army Medic
and helped her and Ben into the plane. They also got the first pilot into the
plane as well. Ben and Mimi sat next to each other and Erica and the first
pilot both laid down on a whole row of cushiony, black leather seats. In the
helicopter, there were five rows of seats because it was an army search and
rescue helicopter. One row for the pilots and four rows the people. The first
pilot was put into the very back of the helicopter and Erica was put in the
second row so the medic could keep her alive with machines. The first pilot was
just in shock because he never was shot with a gun before even if it was in a
bulletproof vest.
The black S&R (search and
rescue) helicopter’s blades started moving again, the fire was starting to fade
out. Ben and Mimi strapped on their seat belt and they could finally relax.
Mimi only had a few wounds from being brutally bashed by a homicidal zombie;
she would have to go to hospital but just for a ‘check up’. But with Ben it was
clearly oblivious he would have to spend a few days in hospital because he was
bleeding, burned, bashed, Pelted with glass, had a broken leg and fractured
skull, and almost bitten with virus-K7.
They were six hundred feet above
the ground now and the pilot told them that they were going to blow up the
whole school because there were too many zombies roaming about. They didn’t
have enough ‘cure bombs’ for the school; they had to save some for the rest of
the whole island.
“Hey, I know what might cheer you
kids up,” said the pilot as he looked over his shoulder. He turned on the radio
to a channel that was broadcast of the island. The song ‘staying alive’ was
playing. A moment of the song passed and everyone sat in silence; finally Ben
said “Aaaaaaawkward!” then all of a sudden a hand smashed right through the
window and tried to grab Ben’s hair. Everybody screamed. It slipped back
outside and opened the giant sliding door. It was Hank with blood coming out
from his forehead. He had survived the fall and jumped back onto the building,
ran off it, and grabbed onto the helicopter.
Hank grabbed Ben’s leg and
screamed in a deep, devilish voice “Die!!!” he slipped off the landing bar it
was standing on and Ben fell out of his seat. His seat belt snapped. Ben
screamed and he tried to grab onto something but he couldn’t grab onto any
thing, the whole inside of the copter was smooth. Mimi grabbed his hand and the
medic grabbed her arm and they all pulled. Ben became furious and smashed his
leg against the railing; Hanks hand was under his leg. Ben belted the leg again
and again and again. Finally Hank let go and its feet climbed over the landing
rail. Ben got Hanks gun from off the seat and stood up angrily. Then everything
went slow and silent. Ben could hear his heart beating loudly and quick, Hank
roared as he tried to grab his legs. Ben pulled the trigger and the bullet went
into its head. Hank stopped roaring; he stopped any face expressions at all. He
just fell off and flipped to the ground. Hank hit the ground with his eyes open
and the road cracked from the impact. Then something twisted happened. Hanks
claw turned into a fist and, covered in blood stumbled back up. A wide smile
spreads across his blood-covered chin, “AHAHA YOU CAN’T KILL ME, NO ONE CAN,
I’M INDESTRUCTIBLE!!” he laughed, and then Hank sang the lyrics to the song
‘indestructible’ by the heavy metal band ‘Disturbed’ “I’M A INDESTRUCTIBLE
MIND, I’M AN INDESTRUCTIBLE MASTER OF WARRRRRR!!-” He was about to sing the
rest of the lyrics but this was cut short because he didn’t notice the massive
tank about to squash him. He was too caught up in being ‘immortal’.
Meanwhile while Hank was getting
run over by a giant tank, Ben watched what was happening. He turned his head
around when the tank had finished. He knew that he would never see him
again…
12. The planes
He lifted his head up, at first he
thought it was a dream but then he looked at where he was. It was a completely
transparent-white room. He looked at the sheets on the bed he was lying on. He
blinked; the whole room was made of plastic except for the bed, which was
cotton and polyester. Where the heck am
I? Phil thought to himself as he got out of the bed. He looked at the white
window. It had trips of disinfectant running down it. Outside the frosted
window was a large field of grass and flowers. He turned around to find a
nurse. “Oh! Gosh!” he exclaimed
“Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to scare
you” Said the nurse.
“Where am I?” Phil asked
“You were…one of them” she
explained
“Yeah…I was. Am I still…infected?”
“No, you were shot with the
vaccination but in a bullet form”
“Oh, what time is it?”
“It’s seven-forty something, you
came in last night”
“Okay”
She brought in a tray in from
outside, “Would you like some breakfast?” she asked
“What is there?”
“We have toast, bacon and eggs,
lots of different cereals”
“How about some steam fried,
lightly salted human legs”
The nurse’s eyes widened open
“Just kidding!” he exclaimed “So can you answer my first question: where am I?”
“Oh yeah, your in a special army
hospital for de-mutation facility attached to the airport”
“Am I still in Capricorn Island
“Yes you are”
“Why?”
“We can’t afford to let the
Virus-K7 reach the mainland, so you have to be vaccinated at least twice before
you leave Capricorn
Island
“Okay. I’ll have bacon and eggs
for breakfast”
“Excellent choice, will you come
with me to the breakfast room”
“Sure” Phil answered and they
walked into the breakfast room. He looked at his clothes and realised he was
wearing white PJs. Somebody had dressed him while he was out. When he asked,
the nurse said it was a new type of robot the dresses and undress people.
He got into the breakfast room to
find it was blue and white. It was also connected to the airport but there was
a large glass wall in the entrance to the airport, to get through it, you had
to go through a tunnel full of scan machine machines for various things like
weapon or drugs. Also there were some to detect if you were still infected with
the virus. The atmosphere was calm and relaxed and the air smelt normal but the
taste of the smell tasted like bitter disinfectant. The nurse gave him his tray
and let him sit wherever he wanted to. The room was very large and had three floors;
Phil was on the first floor. The third room was for army soldiers and family
that had been taken out of the war zone. He took his tray over to a table where
Ben (Who had a small cast on his head and a cast on his legs and arm), Mary,
Mimi, Tommy and Clay (Who had a giant cast on his face) were sitting. They
welcomed him over and he sat next to Clay.
“What happened to Hank?” He asked
“Long story short, he went insane
and killed crystal by shutting some gate letting these zombie dog things get
her-” Ben explained
“He also killed some kids,” Clay
interrupted
“Wow, he’s a serial killer, no
wonder he turned from bad to worse in a matter of hours!” said Mimi
“Yeah he told me that he wanted to
kill everyone he ever hated, and he had to kill any witnesses,” Phil added
“So I guess that explains his idea
to kill everybody” Said Mary
“Yeah, its creepy, but at least we
won’t see him ever again,” said Ben
“Why?” Asked Phil
“We escaped on the helicopter
without Hank who at the time, had turned into a weird zombie and tried to kill
us. So I shot him off the edge and got Erica and myself onto the helicopter.
Later he somehow survived and got into the helicopter and tried to pull me off.
Luckily using his gun, I shot him off the copter. He fell to the ground and got
back up!” Ben continued, “Well then he started singing or something and didn’t
realise a massive tank about to squash him. Then it did squash him!”
“Ha! he’s a pancake! By the way,
where is Erica?” Phil asked
“She’s in the hospital still, Hank
shot her with his gun” Ben answered
“I hope she’s okay”
“I hope so too. She’s been out
since she was shot; I’m going back after breakfast”
“What stuff is there to do?” Phil
asked
“Nothing really” Said Mimi
“Great, I think I’ll have another
eighteen rounds of breakfast” He said as he stood up, finishing his bacon.
“Well there isn’t anything to do
until it’s your time to get vaccinated, that’s why DJ is out of here and in
some shops or something” Said Mary
“Hey by the way, have you heard
about the courage awards night in Canberra
“No, what’s that?”
“Oh, its in the newspaper. Some
the survivors will get a bravery award” Clay explained
“Really?”
“Yeah, and it said that the
survivors at our school will be getting one so that means us!”
“Awesome!”
“Damn straight!”
“I hope Erica lives long enough to
get the award,” Ben said miserably
Clay shifted his head over to Phil
and muttered the words “Cry baby” very discreetly.
Phil showed a quick smile but he
knew that it was sad for Ben because he never told her about how much he liked
her.
Ben stood up when he finished his
meal and left quietly to the hospital.
“Philip?” A woman cried, Phil
turned around to find his mother staring back at him.
Ben sat next to Erica bed reading
a magazine. He was with her parents and her cousin. Ben knew her parents so it
was okay for him to stay. Erica’s parents had left to get a chocolate from a
vending machine and go to the bathroom. So Ben was just in the room, he hoped
that his mum and his family would be at the airport. He had checked everywhere
but couldn’t find them. He looked at Erica and let out a sigh. He looked back
at his MAD magazine. A minute later he heard a loud scream. “Yaa!” he yelled He
looked at Erica to find her looking around at the white plastic walls. “Erica!”
Ben yelled happily. “Ben?” she asked. Her cousin walked in eating a giant
chocolate frog, “Erica!” he exclaimed with a mouthful of chocolate crammed into
his face. He ran out to his, and Erica’s parents. “Ben, where am I?” she asked
“You’re in a hospital connected to
the airport” He answered
“What happened? The last thing I
can remember was seeing bright flashes of light from Hanks gun”
“Well…” And he told the story of
what happened. By the end her parents came rushing in and hugged her. “I’ll
leave you guys alone, I have to find my parents” Ben said as he left the room.
He was wearing the ripped clothes that he was wearing the night before. Except
he was wearing new denim jeans since his old pants were ripped and burned to
ashes. Ben stuck his Hands into his pocket and kept his head down. He looked at
the other people. Some walking around with their families. A few people looked
at him strange, this annoyed him but he tried to ignore them. A name was called
out. “Maclooney” It came from the sound speakers. Anybody
in that surname was had to go to the first floor to the tunnels to receive the
vaccinations. Sadly ‘Maclooney’ wasn’t Ben’s last name. He turned around a
corner to see a hand grab him and pull him into the shadows, “What the hell!”
he screamed. “Shush!” he voice said, it sound familiar “Nobody knows that I’m
alive and I want to keep it that way”
“Ray?” Said Ben
“Yes, it’s me, I killed those
zombie things that killed Crystal
“Are you human?” Ben asked
“Yeah, I got out through the
blockage and inhaled the fumes from that fog bomb that hit the staircase”
“Okay”
“By the way I wanted to tell you
that my Dad isn’t here and I think I know where he is. But it’s in the city”
“Well what are you going to do?”
“I’m going there”
“You can’t!”
“Don’t worry, I’ve talked to an
army General, he said I was the right age to join a S&R family team”
“So what does that mean?”
“I’m going with a team of soldiers
and other familles to go to places they might be hiding and rescue them; we
also shoot any zombies with a vaccination gun”
“Okay”
“You could join if you family
didn’t show up”
“I’ll think about it, but my
family might already be here”
“Suit yourself”
Ray put his arm on Ben’s shoulder
and said, “This is the last time you’ll see me”
“Why”
“Because if I find my dad then
we’ll go to America
Ben saw Erica coming out in black
jeans and a black and white T-shirt; she had a large cast around her waist as
well. “Well,” Ben said, “It was nice knowing you. By the way, I’m so sorry for
what happened to Crystal
“Good-bye Ben” said Ray
“See ya” said Ben as he walked out
of the shadows. He walked over to Erica; she said, “Did you hear about the
state-wide funeral held in Canberra
“Yes, it’s just before the Courage
awards night” Ben answered.
“…By the way-”
“Yeah”
“Thanks for saving me, all those
times” she looked embarrassed
“Would you go out with me?” Ben
blurted out. Oops I said at the wrong time he thought to himself. He
blushed.
She started blushing herself, “YEAH!!...I
mean, okay” she exclaimed
And
they did go out on a date together. When they reached Cairns
After
the funeral, everyone went to the awards night, which cheered a few people up
because they had a medal of bravery around their necks. Ben and everyone else
were reunited with their families except for Hank and Crystal Crystal
Phil
went to a new house in Tasmania
Clay Moved
to a house on Hamilton
Island
DJ and his family went to live with his aunt and uncle in
Canada
Mary, Mr. Branigan, Tommy and a few other classmates all moved to the Gold coast.
Mr. Hams moved
to Darwin
Mimi moved
to broken hill
And
by coincidence Erica, Ben and everyone else (except for ray) all moved to Cairns
The End…
(Well almost)
13. Epilogue
Two
days till the last planes leave.
A bright light shown outside the
windows of the abandoned warehouse. It was seven o’clock at night. The
warehouse full of empty boxes and barrels of oil. The air was bitter and there
was an old 80’s electric feeling in the atmosphere. Dust covered the boxes to
the left and to the right. At the very back of the warehouse was a room full of
desks and one door. The light in the room was turned on and was full of
Capricorn Island Italian Mafia members. They were all hiding from the dogs and
regular zombies that smashed their hands against the wall and the door. The
light outside got brighter and a high-pitched whine sound appeared. The light
became so bright that the whole windows shattered to pieces. The two giant
sliding doors for vehicles flung open and a tank sized car full of spikes and
guns and armour plated windshields. The oil barrels exploded at the impact of
the car. The car jumped a few feet in the air and hit some dogs that prowled
around the warehouse. It bounced lightly as the tires hit the floor. The car
went to a speeding stop. All the dogs and zombies ran over to the car and
started trying to break it. A huge spitfire machine gun moved out from the roof
of the car and shot most of the zombies. An armoured door open and ten soldiers
ran out in SWAT team uniforms and holding small machine guns. “Eat dart,
deadmen!” a solider screamed as he shot a zombie. They all started to shoot the
zombies. Meanwhile a short man in a uniform set a bomb onto the doors lock. The
soldiers ran over to the door as the bomb went off. The lock fell to the
ground, snapped in half. The short man in uniform kicked the door open. He and the
soldiers ran in. The Mafia men inside were all safe and hiding below the desks.
Man short man took off his Riot helmet, it was Ray. A balding man stepped out
from one of the desks, “Dad!” Ray exclaimed.
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