The Undead

Chapter 2

The group explored the room they were in looking for useful tools, food, and water. They got to a door way and there were 5 of the dead in there as well as some tools they could put to good use. They had to get around the dead in order to get the tools. Aiden took a glass bottle that was next to him and threw it on the other side of that room, opposite of the weapons, and of course the dead chased the sound. Aiden and Benjamin quickly, but quietly, went into the room and grabbed the tools. On the way out Benjamin lost the grip on his hatchet and dropped it, then all the dead started to run toward the noise screaming and grunting. He quickly picked it up and chopped the first ones head in half, the next one he took his knife and stabbed it the head. Then two of the zombies jumped onto Aiden and knocked him over. Benjamin took the last one out and when to help Aiden out. He pulled one off of him an stabbed it in the head, and then the same with the last one. Then he reached his hand out and pulled Aiden up, then noticed the bite mark on his hand. Aiden quickly pulled his hand away.
"Its noting." he claimed.
"Aiden that is something, one of then bit you, you should do something about it." Benjamin replied.
"It'll be fine, it will heal."
"Yeah but it could get infected, you know how gross those things are, and you don't know what a bite from one of those things could do to you. You need to see a doctor somehow. Maybe after we get safely over to the next building we could try calling someone. There has got to be someone who will help"
"Benjamin who is going to help us, in case you haven't noticed this is the start of the end of the word. No one is going to pick up the phone, if any who can help is even still around at this point. No one is coming anytime soon, its been months and not a word from anyone. I doubt they'll come to us we would have to go to them. If we can even find someone, who says they will help, its pointless they have things bigger to deal with right now."
Benjamin was silent, he wasn't sure how to reply, he hadn't thought about any of that, up until now everyone has just been trying to survive. Now that they have time to think there is a lot they haven't realized. Aiden grabbed the tools and went to the next room looking for supplies leaving Benjamin to think about things on his own for a while.
Jasper and Allen were looking for something to eat. It had been a few days since they last ate. They gave the last of their food to Donna and James when they had run into them while trying to escape the dead. It had been been really hectic in all of this, especially the past few weeks of it. This all started around six months ago. It started with the news talking about savage attacks, finding people dead in the forest eaten alive. At first they blamed it on wild animals, but wild animals could never do something like that. Then after a while, the savage attacks became more common and started moving into the cities. eventually the people who died in the attacks started attacking other people and then more and more people were effected and more and more people started attacking others until the city was overrun. Everything before that were just distant memories, nothing would ever be the same again. Jasper herd a commotion coming from the other room. He quickly grabbed his crowbar and the supplies he found and ran over to see what it was. By the time he got there Aiden was leaving the room and Benjamin was just standing there. There were five of the dead laying on the ground, now officially dead. Jasper watched Aiden walk by, then looked back at Benjamin.
"Is everything alright?" Jasper asked.
"Yeah everything is fine, we handled it" Benjamin replied.
"Alright, if anything goes wrong let us know. We can help"
"Yeah I will, I promise"
With that Benjamin went off in the direction Aiden went. Allen walked into the room and help up a first aid kit and few cans of food he had found.
"Good job Allen, lets go take inventory of what we've found" Jasper whispers still looking in the direction Aiden and Benjamin went off in.
"Yeah lets do that" Allen replies. They then head off back into the room they had come from.
Donna, James and Lucas were exploring the cafeteria they had found. There were a bunch of tables with left over trays, forks, spoons, and knifes. There was also left over food on the trays, tables and floors. In the far end of the room there were two double doors, which seemed to be where to food should be at. The small group made their way over to the doors and examined the area.
"How much food do you think they might have back there?" Donna asked exited to finally get some food in her stomach
"I'm not sure but there must be a lot, it doesn't look like these doors have been opened in a while" James replied. Lucas stayed silent
"Maybe if they have enough food we could just live in this building."
"Maybe we could, but I think it would be safer to stay in the building next to this one, with the fence we would have a lot more protection against the dead"
"Yeah, I guess you're right after we get the food from here we could take it with us"
"Yeah we could if we just figure out how to get inside"
With that the group went silent still looking around, when Donna saw the handle on one of the doors. She tried to pull one of the doors open and, of course, they were locked so they needed to find some way to open them. After searching for a while James found a crowbar and stuck it in the side of the door frame and used it to try and open it and Lucas tried to help him. While they were doing that Donna kept looking around. She saw that one of the double doors on the other side of the wall were boarded up so she tried to pull the boards off which seemed to work out better than the crow bar on the other doors. Lucas and James saw what she was doing and gave up on the door they were working on and started pulling the wood off the other one with the crow bar. Just as they got the last board off the saw something that had been written on the door covered by the boards "Do not open biters inside" The door was already cracked open. Once the group realized what they had done they turned in the other direction and ran as the dead busted out of the door and chased them.