It's been four years since everything went back to normal. Everyone said that it was a bad dream and that zombies never walked the earth. I laugh to myself sometimes when people freak out about the new bug or viruses that go around. Those don't scare us anymore. Henry and I stayed friend and Mary was pretty cool too. they had gotten Mary two months ago and Matt had just begun living with me and Beth. Beth's hair is shorter now and she's turning eight next month. If your wondering what happened after we left the city, it's not that exciting. We didn't see any walkers after that. the city had fixed itself or so the government says. I'm pretty sure they got rid of those walkers by bombing them or something.
"Ready to go?" Matt asked me as the horn honked outside.
I nodded and locked the door behind me. We smiled at Mary and Henry as we sat in the car and drove to Beth's school. She sat in the middle of us as we drove away. We were going to go visit Charlie's grave for the first time. I had a bunch of flowers and Beth had a drawing she wanted to leave there. We drove for a long time until we reached the familiar dirt road we hitchhiked a while back. We all got out and walked past the trees and bushes until we reached the small little dirt hill. We walked past it and Beth looked around. Her face fell when she saw the dirt pile. I placed my hand on her shoulder and she relaxed. she stepped forward but stopped. She dropped her drawing and I dropped the flowers. The pile had been dug up. No, something had clawed itself out.
"Katie, you destroyed the brain right?" Henry asked.
"N-no. He was too damaged to come back." I said.
We heard a noise and the branches rustled. We all turned and heard feet being dragged along.
"I-I have a shovel just in case." Mary said, showing us.
We all gulped as the noise came closer. It stopped and turned, going in the other direction. We all looked at each other and Beth stepped forward.
"No. Be quiet." I whispered.
Whatever that noise was...it was gone. For now. Did Charlie really come back or did someone find him and think he was murdered? We all dropped our stuff and ran back to the car. We saw a helicopter fly past us and a bunch of cop cars drove down the road quickly. An ambulance wailed loudly as it drove quickly. We knew what that meant.
"Here we go again." Beth said.
I shook my head and smiled weakly.
"Maybe it's different this time." I said.
The bushes rustled behind us again. Whatever IT was, it was standing right behind us. A small groan escaped their lips as we turned. There stood Charlie. Not the Charlie we knew. The dead one, and he only had one thing on his mind. To eat and kill the human race.
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Return of the dead
HorrorKatie Torrez is a strange young girl who transferred to a local high school in the middle of the semester. She is always getting in trouble for bringing weapons to school and her excuse is always the same, "I have to be ready when they strike again...