3 Souls Of Life

Chapter 1

I wake up to find myself lying on the ground in a forest clearing. I blink several times to get my eyes adjusted to the brightness. I sit up, and I look around. I noticed my friend getting up and walking towards me. "Hey, what are we doing in a forest?" He asks as I get up. "I honestly have no clue Lee." I notice a path behind him and start walking. He follows me, "We should probably go to your house." He says as I quicken my pace, hoping to figure out where me and him are. We follow the path for about an hour, when we reached our school. "What are we doing at the school trail? I thought we left." He starts to walk toward the school. I stop to look around, and the hairs on the back of my neck start to tingle. "Hey Lee, wait up." I run towards him just to catch up. I put my hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Something is wrong here, just look around" I tell him, waving my arm around the school's vicinity.

He looks around "You're right, with these cars here you would think someone would be outside." He continues to walk and I follow him toward the parking lot. I notice that there is someone here."Hey!" I yell towards what appears to be an adult standing still. As I walk closer I notice that it is the deputy for my school. I poke the deputy's shoulder. "Excuse me sir, but do you know what's going on?" The deputy starts to turn around, so I start to back up. I froze as I saw the deputy's face. His face looked crooked. Some of his skin was missing. His eyes were bloodshot with extremely dilated pupils. The deputy moves slowly towards me, with a look of hunger on his face. I start to back away slowly, looking around for something to defend myself with.

The deputy yells and charges at me, looking fierce. I turn and run, hoping to find something to help me. I don't see anything and I'm pushed to the ground. I roll onto my back quickly, only to stop the deputy from biting me. I struggle to get out from underneath him, but he was slowly getting closer to my face. I hear something fall, and out from the corner of my eye I see the deputy's gun on the ground. With adrenaline coursing through my veins I place both feet on his stomach. I shove him, and he staggers and falls to the ground. I get up quickly and grab his gun. As I do so, he gets up and charges at me again. I aim the gun towards his head and fire. The deputy falls to the ground with black blood flowing from the bullet hole. Lee runs over, and looks at the deputy "What the hell Robert! why did you kill the deputy?!" I look at him "I had no choice Lee! He was trying to eat me!" I carefully place the gun in my pocket and slowly walk away from the school.

I walk down the road, wanting to get to my house. Lee follows me, and we start to run to my house. As we were running down the road, I saw horrid things. I saw bodies everywhere, decaying or motionless. We run by them, barely making a sound. As I reached the road heading down the mountain to my house, I noticed someone eating someone else alive. I just turned and went down the road, only to see more of "Them" walking toward us. Some of them noticed us and slowly walked toward us.

"Let's go to my house, it's near here" Lee starts running down the road, and I follow. Five minutes later we end up at his house. He runs up to the door, and unlocks it. We both run inside and push a couch in front of the door. "Man, this sucks." Lee says, panting lightly. "Yeah, tell me about it. we need to get weapons" He nods towards his room "Look in my closet, I might have some." I nod and head to his room. I walk into his room and open the closet door to see his collection of machetes, ready to be used for the first time.

I grab a belt and sheathed one of the machetes. Lee walks in "I can't find my parents... I hope they're okay..." He looks at the ground. I grab his spare machetes and put them in a duffle bag on his floor. "I'm sure there fine Lee, your parent's are tough." I look at him and continue, "Our main problem is getting to my house. I have some rations." I sit down on his bed. "What the hell happened? I mean, I could have sworn we just left to go to my house...only a few...." I grab my head in pain. "Robert? are you okay?" He walks over to me. "My....head....h-hurts..." I fall to the ground, and pass out. All I could hear was Lee yelling my name, before things went dark.

I wake up and I automatically know I'm dreaming. At first all I see is absolutely nothing. But then something comes into view. I walk over and take a look. "I-is that me?" I look at it closely. It is me, but the scene doesn't look familiar, but something about the scene feels real. I watch as a bunch of needles enter my body, and I feel immense pain all over my body. I fall to the ground in pain. Then all at once a bunch of memories fly past me, to fast to comprehend. I try really hard to focus on any memory, and one comes into view. I force myself to stand, and I look around, trying to remember the place. I'm at some lab facility, standing next to a bunch of scientist. They're looking at some sort of equation, but I can't see it clearly. The memory starts to fade, and I fall to the ground. A few seconds later I jolt up in a cold sweat, looking around frantically. I remember that I'm at Lee's, on his bed. He runs into his room. "Finally your awake. What happened?" He looks at me worriedly.

I look at him, "I'm alright. Though I really don't know what just happened...." Just then we heard a loud rumble. Me and Lee blink a few times, realizing that we are hungry. We both smirk and walk into the kitchen. "What do want? some granola bars?" He looks at me, and I nod. He hands me a few granola bars. He grabs some bread and Nutella. "How the hell can you eat that shit? its tastes awful." I laugh as he stuffs his face, "What are you talking about, Nutella is great" He exclaims with his mouth full. I grab some water and walk into the living room as Lee makes him more Nutella sandwiches.

A few minutes later were in his living room, finishing our food, trying to figure out a plan. "Alright... what do you think we should do?" He looks at me. I think for a few minutes and shrug. "I don't know, but I do know that we need to get to my house to grab some things." I look out the window, "Though we should probably wait till the morning, its getting really late." I say as I yawn deeply. He nods and walks to his room. I stay in the living room. "Are you coming?" He says on the other side of the house. "I'm fine, I'll keep watch, making sure nothing gets in here." He yawns, "Alright, night." he walks into his room, and falls asleep after a few seconds. I chuckle lightly, "That man always loves to sleep." I Think to myself. I place a chair on the opposite side of the window, so that way no-one, or nothing, can see me. I yawn lightly, waiting for the new day to arise.