The Dead Have Risen.

Chapter 1 New Beginnings

Its been two years since the apocalypse began ever since then things have been a literal hell for me and my friends, on top of never resting easy, not accepting these things at first we had our fourth bandit attack this morning of this week. So Emily has been a nervous wreck as for the most part since everyone listened to her before they listen to her as of now mostly due to the fact that she is the de facto leader of this group, which as of right now consists of myself, Emily, Austin, David, Lucy, Lily, Evie, Kaylee, Mary, Raymos, Nick, Kolby, and Brian. Brian we had found with his dead son three weeks ago the guy had it hard but was really nice. I saw Austin approaching me "Whats uo bro?" I asked "Not much just a bunch of bullshit drama going on between Mary and Emily, Mary doesn't care for the way things are being run around here and Emily thinks it is for the best, basically the usual." He blinked rather slowly Austin had not slept for the better half of forty-eight hours, he had been taking things really seriously for awhile now that everything was getting tough (not that it wasn't already.) I decided I was gonna go have a chat with Emily but that got interupted by a megaphone and a strangers voice "This is your last warning, give up your supplies or we are gonna take that little base you got going there down!" startled I peeked through the this hole in our permimeter fence, and there were.......at least fifty we were fucked of we went up against these guys "Hey there is way too many of these guys we gotta go" I whispered Emily looked pretty shocked herself so we ran through the warehouse that we had made camp at a week earlier we broke through a window, and through the jog we were making towards the woods Emily yelled out "Everyone if we get split up make for the gas station about thirty miles east from here!" almost immediately after her saying that we all got split up from eachother.

" 1 hour later"

(Oh my god I forgot how far thirty miles is.) I thought as I walked through the woods, however while I was walking I heard someone sneak up behind me I was really paranoid so when I turned around I swung and decked David in the face which he shrugged off since it was more of a shock than anything "DUDE! that really hurt!" David slowly massaged his jaw behind him Austin cracked up pretty hard "Damn Nigg you got punched....like a bitch." that got him hit pretty hard which was the norm since we used to abuse Austing daily "Anyway dude we saw you walking and ran to tell you were on the road over here with Nick and Lily and we all got bikes besides Lily, David was carrying her." I felt pretty relieved because I was tired of walking and honestly being in the woods alone was pretty scary when your passing the dead as you go. While walking towards the road we heard a branch break and we all jumped around and there was a small horde of zombies just slowly walking we all silently decided that we were gonna get rid of these bad boys before we head out there was five of them and three of us so we figured it wouldn't go horribly....we were dead wrong we were creeping up on these guys and a loud noise went off followed by a loud scream I shot around and saw Austin on his butt as my eyes followed to his legs I realized that his ankle was in a bear trap "Oh my god!" David yelped when the dead started towards us I pulled out a hunting knife that Austin had kindly sharpened for me a few hours before and stabbed the first one in the eye it was dead right there, David however went beast mode on these guys, picking up Austin's machete and cutting two of there heads off in one swift motion and throwing it into the other one's head (who happened to be behind me.), I then stabbed the other one in the chin with my knife and wiped it off on his clothes. "Dude where did all that come from?" I asked with wide eyes suprised David had got so ferocious with these guys. "Honestly I got scared for Austin" he replied huffingly as he was pulling back the bear trap, as soon as it was back be said "get his foot now." I pulled it out rather ruffly, "oww, bitch!" Austing yelped, "sorry it had to be done." I replied with slight annoyance, "You didn't have to pull my goddamn leg off, I barely have a back as it is!" Austin replied with a half smile that also looked pretty sore with pain me and David heaved him up and headed for the bikes, which was tricky since we had Austin's ankle to deal with now. "What the hell happened?" Nick asked as we were walking up "Austin stepped in a bear trap." David replied rather quickly. After trying several diffrent things for the better half of thirty minutes we ended making a makeshift stretcher and tied it to the bikes and we basically drove Austin"

"2 and a half hours later"

We were nearing the gas station but we got to a large plateau and abandoned the bikes and me and David volunteered to go ahead and see if we could spot the others whenever we got near the gas station we jumped into some bushes because the minute we saw the gas station we knew it was wholed up, mainly cause it had a wall similar to ours back at the warehouse and we could see some people on the wall doing perimiter guard, then we saw two people being led up there with their hands tied by a group of about thirteen or so people it looked like Emily and Evie and made David really nervous out fears were pretty much confirmed when the last of the bandits was carrying a baby which was obviously Lucy, David started to go down there and I stopped him before he could get angry with me I said "Before we go down there to get our girls, which we are lets at least get the drop on these guys." David reluctantly agreed. We headed back and explained everything, Austin was gonna try to go with us to the point where we had to tie him up, and to my suprise Kolby had made it there when we had got back, after nightfall me and David rolled out after getting as close as we could to the gas station we started to army crawl which we made our way around towards the back. "boost me up David and hurry" I whispered quickly after heaving me up and I helped him up we opened a window around the back of the gas station and we saw a guy asleep at a desk with a little lamp on I signaled David to hold the lamp I didnt want this guy to knock it over when he started struggling I pulled out my flexible metallic wire I had and started to strangle this guy which was pretty easy since I caught him off gaurd. While going threw through there we both squated down "you got the gas?" David asked "Yeah just gimme the funnel." David handed me the funnel using the last of the gas we siphoned we made three molotovs which we were gonna use quite creatively after getting them prepared we started towards the door "Oh my fucking god" I gasped when I peeked out the front window, there was all of those fifty guys out there and then it hit me the guys back at the warehouse tricked and flanked us at the same time they knew if they had holed us up in the front they would get us out the back which also explained the random ass bear trap in the woods we walked right into their base "We have to be very careful David its the same guys." He gave me a wide eyed look we went to the side of the station and set the molotovs up around the gas tanks and snuck towards the front which luckily when we got towards the front we saw another room and heard Lucy in there when we peeked in there was two guys and I said "Lets kick these guys asses" we swarmed in there I had a hatchet which I picked up from the bike ride and sharpened and had previously given my hunting knife to David the first guy I just let lose on I hit his neck with hatchet until it was hacked off, David hit the juggular on his guy in about two seconds, we grabbed both of their pistols and David grabbed Lucy in the corner we saw Evie asleep we woke her up and told her to be quiet and snuck outside we went to the far end and saw Emily being interrogated she was pretty beat up to be honest which pissed David off something fierce but he kept his calm "David when I shoot the molotov and hopefully there is a pretty explosion most of them will probably run that direction we will pick off the rest grab Emily and break for it." David nodded "Got it." I pointed for about thirty seconds I was not gonna miss this shot and then........BAM I shot the molotov and the explosion was jarring to say the least all of them ran towards that way except for three "Get em!" I yelled and shot one when the other two turned one shot and missed me by inches David picked off one and I shot the remaining one, we then sprinted hard for Emily and when she saw us she didn't smile she had a dead serious look and said "David come here" David already knew something was wrong and said "What is it Em we gotta go fast" Emily smiled at David sadly and said "Hun Im not coming with you." David and my eyes widened and David started "What do you me-" Emily interupted by raising her sleeve to reveal a bite, David's eyes start watering "No thats not fair you can still co-" Emily interupted him quickly and sharply "over on the other side of this gas station is another little girl who is asian she is gonna need some help please David if you love me and respect my decision" now her eyes and mine were watering we all embraced for awhile David nearly sobbing now looked at her and I finally said "David we gotta go buddy, I love you Emily" I grabbed David and jogged towards the back and he looked ahead determined he was gonna this girl for Emily in her honor, we got back there and she was unconcious he picked her up and I looked at Evie and said "jump on my back and don't let go till I tell you to okay?" she nodded she jumped on and I was also carrying Lucy and we ran faster than ever untill we got out which we got shot at and David shot two of the guys, we eventually made it back and once we were we was exhausted and David punched a tree he was grieving hard until the little girl woke up and he walked over to her and said "Its okay now we got you out, do you mind telling me your name" she looked really frightened but noticed his sincerity and said "umm.....my name is.......Yui."