The Last Hope

Chapter 1: Death isn't the end...

Chapter 1                                                                               (Her P.O.V)

      I wake in a cold sweat almost screaming my head off. That dream wasn't just a regular dream or nightmare...it was reality. My reality. I had almost died just because of what my dad had done to me, but that doesn't matter now. I didn't chose this life...but I guess this is the world I...No, we live in now... I let out a soft, quiet sigh and roll over to see my little sister and brother, Tiana with her blonde hair and Lukas with his ginger hair, laying on the little cot next to me, sound asleep. They are just little kids in this world where death gives life brand new meaning to 'Death isn't the end'.

      I am a danger to them and my friends... I thought. I pushed that thought away because if I tried to leave, Liam and Trent, two of my best friends, would kill me before I could do anything. They are both worried about me enough right now, I can't have them even more distracted. I got up, put on my leather jacket, jeans, and boots on, grabbed my crossbow, and went slowly downstairs, wincing at the pain in my neck. When I get downstairs I see Alisha and Astra sleeping next to the front door with pistols in their laps. I shook them and they looked at me in a haze.

     "I am going to go get some breakfast..." By that I mean hunt, "Do you mind taking over my watch until I get back?" They looked at each other as if they were thinking the same thought and I knew what that was before the words were even selected. The thought I have hated from the beginning. Alisha slowly blinked her brown eyes.

     "Are you sure you should go out alone?" She says running a hand through her strawberry blonde hair smoothing it out as Astra rubs her dreary eyes, "One of us could come and-"

    I interrupt her because I didn't want to hear anymore of this bull crap. I am not a little kid that needs protecting, that would be the ones around me. I need to protect the ones around me, not the other way around! I only wish that they can see I will be fine, but....maybe that is a lie I am telling myself to keep going. Whatever it is, I am going out alone. "No, I will be fine," they both looked at me not convinced but they don't protested. I push past them out the the front door and they do not stop me, not like they would in the first place. I sigh as someone slams the door behind me.

      I narrow my eyes and scan my surroundings. Trees to the front, a red barn to the one side, a well to the other. A tall, built up fence surrounds the property that I now call home. To me, it feels like a cage, but the difference is, I can open the can of worms whenever I want to. Reaching the gate, I realise the dead didn't envelop the fence. My luck just got a 100% better! This hunt should be easy, I think, excitedly. I knocked on the wood of a tree being to make sure I don't jinx this day and open up the empty can.

                                                                                                  *****

      As I walk through this thick forest, I think about the day before this all started. Before the world went mad...Well, madder. My big brother, Brendon, (or as he liked to be called, Bear) took me out for a walk in the forest. We laughed. We smiled. We had fun. That would be the last time I would have fun with him. With anyone infact. I had heard a noise behind me... A gurgle and a groan. I turned around and that when I saw it. The first undead thing. That terrible thing. It looked so familiar... but then Brendon shoved me behind him and pulled out his dagger.

     "Rissy, run!" I shook my head. I didn't want to leave him alone with that...dead thing. Who knew what it could do? He said it again as it got closer, but again I refused. I peaked around him and now...I wish I didn't. I knew that face...it was my mom... but my dad had said she had to go to a meeting in Washington... He lied. Like every other adult. He lied.
     "Mommy...?" Is all I could say. Her hair was matted. Part of her face was missing. Her clothes were so bloody; guts spilling out everywhere. I started to cry. I didn't understand. I didn't want to. But I had to. Brendon took his dagger and stabbed her in head. He pulls it out and crimson blood sprayed us. I screamed. Brendon pick me up and starts to run back to the house. I just stare at her, in her lifeless body. My brother just killed our mother, Is all I could think. But no, she was already gone. Gone, gone, gone. Just like everything else would be soon. Just like my soul would be. Everything... just gone.