Planet Undead (Book 2)

Two - Shattered

Finn gets his Doritos as he's happy he finally kissed his crush Tiffany. Tiffany feels happy for the first time ever since her whole family died. Nighttime comes and Finn sleeps on the floor of the chips section. All of a sudden, the same horde of roamers that were chasing Finn's group, finally make it to the gas station. Dante hears growling and wakes up immediately. The horde of roamers channel the hivemind for other roamers nearby to surround the gas station. Everyone wakes up as Kimberly sleeps soundly as she can't hear anything. Emmett wakes up Kimberly and signs to her "Go to the back of the store and shut the door. Do not come out until I say so." and Emmett tells BJ to go with Kimberly so none of the kids get hurt. BJ and Kimberly go to the back of the store as the teens and adults prepare to fight. Finn uses the bullet provided by Emmett as Tiffany grabs a baseball bat. The horde of roamers work as a team to break the store windows and they get in. Dante panics as he kills a roamer and Lorenzo loudly blames Finn for leading the roamers to the gas station and putting everyone in danger. Finn tells Lorenzo that he didn't mean too and Anna kills a roamer to protect his husband Anton who rudely tells his wife Anna to worry about herself. Marcy sees in the corner of her eye, she sees a human with human guts and intestines smeared on them running into the store. Marcy points this out to the group but Lorenzo tells her to stop hallucinating. In that moment, Lorenzo gets attacked by the human wearing guts and the human starts eating Lorenzo alive. The group watches in shock as the human eats Lorenzo alive and then, the human looks at the group. The group sees the human isn't a roamer and the human takes the remains of Lorenzo's corpse and the human runs away with the remains. Emmett sobs as he witnessed his brother being cannibalized. The group kills the horde of roamers as Emmett runs to the back crying. Emmett signs to Kimberly to cover her eyes and Emmett tells BJ to cover his eyes. Emmett brings the children back into the main area as the group looks in horror and disgust as what they just witnessed. Anna cries on Anton's shoulder as Anton is damn near emotionless. Marcy is scared to death and barfs in the corner as Tiffany and Dante shed tears. Cameron and Margo try to convince theirselves that Lorenzo didn't just get eaten alive by a normal human. Finn tells the group that he saw a normal human eat Lorenzo and the group agrees as they also saw that the human wasn't a roamer. Emmett starts to cry internally and Emmett excuses himself to the bathroom but before he does, he takes a silencer gun, pencil, and a piece of paper to the bathroom with him. Dante says that he's gonna follow the cannibal human as Tiffany immediately tells Dante "NO! YOU AREN'T FUCKING GOING ANYWHERE!" and Finn tells Tiffany to calm down. Tiffany shoves Finn and Finn retaliates by shoving her to the floor. Finn and Tiffany get into a physical fight as Marcy tells BJ to leave the room. BJ grabs Kimberly's hand and the kids both leave the room. Dante breaks up the fight and Finn tells Tiffany that she's a childish nuisance and Tiffany is offended and she slaps Finn in the face. Dante holds back Finn as Tiffany smirks and backs away. Dante tells the group that he'll follow the cannibal while the group makes sure no one hordes come by the gas station. Everyone agrees and Dante takes one of the two radios so he can send messages to the group about what Dante finds. Dante leaves the gas station and Emmett writes a note directed for Cameron and Margo. Marcy turns on their radio feedback and they hear Dante chasing the cannibal. Dante follow the blood trail Lorenzo's remains left behind and the muddy footprints the cannibal left behind. Margo goes to check Emmett in the bathroom but she sees something horrifying. Margo sees a trail of blood, coming from Emmett's dead body with a bullet in his head while sitting down in a closed bathroom stall with a well written note lying on the sink counter outside the stall.