The Symbols of Silver

"The lights mark the path away from hell," the writting on the wall said when I woke up.

I've been asleep for days, knocked out during the attack but luckily placed in a safe room, with food, weapons and other people. I don't know if i should leave or wait for another person to wake up. Who knows how long they've been knocked out or when they will wake up. There's a little girl who looks around 9, an older man aged about 40, and a boy around my age who's 15. He looks so familiar, maybe I went to school with him or seen him around town.

I stood up from my cot and went to the dresser on the other side of the room and opened it looking for better clothes or more supplies. I found four fighting outfits, uniformed dark blue padded hoddies with chain armour on the arms and around the neck, and each had a different silver symbol on it. Each outfit had a name on the tags on the inside. There was Anna, George, Ky and mine, Xandrea. My symbol was a wolf, Anna's was a rabbit, George's was a tiger, and Ky's was a dragon. I have no idea what the symbols mean but they sure looked cool. I put mine on, grabbed a knife and left the safe room.

I found my self in a deserted bank, the windows were all broken and trash was everywhere. No signs of life, or the enemy. If my memory is still intact then its true, all of it. All the stories and tales of the apocolypse, the zombies, humans turning on one another in distrust, the stories are reality. I can't remember how it started but quickly it spread, faster than wildfire. Next thing I know the whole town was being attacked by the zombies and we had to evacuate. The last thing I can remember is someone was acussing me of stealing their food supply and hit me so hard i fell and blacked out. Someone must have put me in there incase I woke up.

There were dead bodies scattered around, 4 zombies and 7 humans, or at least human remains. One could easily spot the zombie bites and rips in the flesh. I stepped outside, it was daytime, I could not see any lights during the day so I would have to travel at night. There was blood everywhere, brutal kills line the streets and the smell of death lingered in the air. I walked around for a while to try to see if any survivors were left behind but no one was to be found. I still had a few more hours til sundown, so I went back into the safe room. Everyone was still knocked out on their cots. I grabbed a can of peaches and sat down on my cot and began to eat. Food has never tasted this good before, I went through a whole can in probably five minutes.

I got back up and went to check out the bank to see if any money was left behind just incase I would need it. While going through one of the vaults i heard a loud scream come from the safe room. I pulled my knife out of my boot and ran into the room, to find the paniced boy, Ky, trying to catch his breath. He was awake. I put my knife away and slowly approached him, "hello, my name is Xandrea. You're safe, it's okay." He caught his breath and turned to me, "I'm Ky. Is there anyone left?"

"Yes, there are. Those two and us. No one is left in town but they all evacuated somewhere else and left us only a hint to find them," I informed him.

"Why did you stay?" he asked.

"We can only travel at night, and I just woke up," i told him. I went to the dresser and pulled out his uniform and tossed it to him, "here you'll need to put this on, I'll leave so you can change." I walked back out and sat on one of the counters.

Ky came out of the room, and right there I realized how perfect this stranger is. Black semi shaggy hair, piercing blue eyes, he was kind of mysterious. "I found this on my cot, under the blankets," he tossed me a journal.

"Did you read this yet?" I asked as I flipped a few pages.

"Not yet, I thought you would want to see it first, wolf." he gave me a slight grin.

"Oh yea, the symbols. Do you know what they mean?"

He sat down next to me, "yea. The wolf means leadership and courage, and the dragon means strength. My dad taught me incase something were to happen to me during this. Only certain people are given symbols, only those who've shown certain traits can have them. The board of survival i in charge of them and there are only 6 symbols. That means only six people are given the powers these symbols show. And we are two of them, I just wonder how it's possible we are both from the same area and have symbols."

"Wait, but there are two other symbols with us. In that room, unconsious," I said to him. He quickly stood up and walked into the room, he pulled open the dresser and saw the other two outfits.

"No, no, no. This isn't real. Why would this happen? Somethings wrong here." He took the book from my hands and frantically flipped through it. "What's going on?" I asked him.

"This is unreal. The symbols are supposed to be scattered over the country, not all in one room. and definatly not all unconcious. This book is written by the 5th symbol, the Hawk, he says he woke up in this room with a note the 6th symbol left, who is unknown. He says someone is trying to destroy the symbols, and he found a way to render us all unconsious so he can return soon to set the bank on fire. The Hawk claims that the 6th power came in contact with him and scared him off temporarly. The Hawk left because he had to get help and he couln't do that while waiting for us to wake up." He said while reading through the book.

"Alright so lets stay here until the other two wake up, we'll gaurd the place, then when the other two wake up, we leave. We'll find where everyone evacuated to and help." I instructed.

I am beginnning to understand what is really going on, but why does someone want us dead and who is this killer? I will protect the other two, no matter what it takes.

[More to come! please vote to see if the two symbols awake in time, who is out to get the symbols and why, who is the 6th power and why is their identity unknown?]