Survival

Chapter One - The Outbreak

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MITCH'S P.O.V

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It was a rainy and dark Tuesday in the small town of Bellville, Ohio, and as much as I wanted to be home right night now, I had to be in school. The Morning Announcements were on, and Principal Greille was talking about shit like grades and tardinesses. I wasn't paying attention much until the screen went black and all the lights turned off.

The whole class sat up, alarmed from the new found darkness. The teachers head shot up from the computer screen. “What is going on?” My friend Sarah asked with a bit of fright in her voice. I decided to just ignore her.

When the class realizes the power just cut off they break into a loud cheer, except for one guy and me. That is when I got a feeling. Something was wrong.

The emergency alarms start to blare throughout the school, the loud noise making my ears hurt like I have been stabbed in the ear. The class starts to groan and scream. “Everyone calm down! It is just a test!” The teacher says standing up and walking to the front of the class.

The guy who wasn’t cheering earlier looks distressed, and began reaching into his desk. The air starts to fill with a foul stench of sweat and an unknown odor that makes me want to throw up my breakfast.

 

Loud rapid bangs erupt from the door , louder then the alarms,making the heads of my fellow classmates snap to the door. “I’ll get it” The teacher says loudly over the alarms.

The strange guy gulps loudly, standing up with his pencil in hand.

The teacher pulls the door opened, just to have principal Greille fly in on top of him, pinning our teacher to the ground. in the hall, screams erupt, teenagers run throughout the halls, screaming like they just witnessed a murder.

Our teacher screams in pain as Principal Greille takes a bite into the teachers neck, taking a large chunk of flesh.

“Mr. Greille!” Someone screams. The class starts screaming and running

around the room. The principal takes another chunk out of the teacher, But by now the teacher has stopped screaming and moving, and a large pool of blood floods the white tile.

“He is dead!” Someone screams out, and I don’t doubt it.

 

Feelings of fear, confusion, sadness, and dread fill me.. I feel like crying, but i can’t, I feel like running, but I’m frozen in place. A student makes a dash for the principal, kicking him in the side, making him roll off the teacher with a growl. Thats when I realize Principal Greille is stained with blood and his face is a greyish color with a chunk taken out of his neck and cheek.

The principal growls and gets up, trudging to the student that kicked him, making the student scream once Mr. Greille stabs his arm, bringing it to his mouth and taking a bite. The students eyes widen and he screams a loud cry of pain, falling to the floor, the Principal falling right behind him.

The student getting torn into kicks and screams, as the rest of the class watches in horror. All of a sudden the students screams get cut off and he stops moving. Dead.

“What’s Happening!” Sarah screams out, tears falling down her face.

By now the we all got used to the alarms.

The kid who was distressed earlier is now pale, and grips his sharp pencil tight. We make eye contact and I know what he is going to do.. I reach for my pencil that is in my desk and nod to him.

 

He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, nodding to himself, he takes off  in a sprint to the principle and I follow.

 

The guy,who I now know name is Luke, kicks the principal in the ribs, catching him off guard. I grip my pencil tight and bring down the sharp part fast, jabbing the principal in the stomach, the feeling of my pencil breaking through the skin makes me cringe. I felt my eyes widen when nothing happened to him. The guy starts stabbing the principle in the body, and nothing is happening except the principle continues to try and grab us. I yank the pencil out of him, ignoring the weird feeling, and I continue to hack away at him with my pencil.

I stand when I realize this has no effect on him, and start kicking him, Luke start to do the same, and the principal still tries to get up.

 

One of my kicks hits him in the head, making him fall and struggle to get up.

I look up at Luke and he looks at me, and we both nod.

Before we can kick his head anymore he grabs my leg, pulling it out from under me and making me fall flat on my ass.

Principal Greille growls loudly, pulling my leg to his mouth and I try to kick away but he has to strong of a grip on my leg.

Just as I feel Greille’s teeth touch my leg, it stops.

I look up to see Luke’s pencil sticking out the back of Mr. Greille’s head. He is finally dead…

I look at the three dead body’s, just as the teacher starts to move, his face paler than before. And slowly the students in the classroom start to pile around us, one leaning down to see if the teacher is alive, even though he is moving.

The student who is checking the moving teachers heartbeat eyes widen and as she goes to speak the teacher wraps his hands around her head, bringing her neck to his mouth and biting down, taking a chunk out of her neck.

This time I drive my pencil into the teachers temple, watching as he dies.

Luke catches on and goes to the dead student who tried to take down the principal earlier and drives his pencil into hst left temple, so he doesn't come back...The other students remain silent, looking at the girl who is breaking heavily and clenching her neck wound.

“What was it?” I demand. “He had no heartbeat.. He was dead.. and he just.. came back” she says with a hoarse voice.

“I… I know what is happening” Luke says.