Barely Alive (First Draft Edition)

Chapter 13- Happy Zombieen!

Chapter 13- Happy Zombieen!

There was a knock on the door just before Jasper's hand touched it. He froze when a voice let a loud groan on the other side. He frowned and quickly turned to Ella and said, "okay, so I might have not told you everything about my brothers and I. We are more... intelligent than most zombies, okay. So try not to act to nervous around other zombies. They'll be able to detect your a human in a second fast if you blow your cover, okay?"

Ella nodded her head as Jasper opened the door. "Hey! Jasp! What's up buddy! Long time seen!" A voice laughed. A zombie who had blue streaked in his spiky hair shuffled in giving Jasper a high five.

Iggy shuffled over to the guy and fist bumped him. "Hey! Wad' up, bro. Back from the dead so soon." They laughed and said, "feels like yesterday since we were stalking those cheerleaders."

Iggy laughed and put his arm around him. "Ella, meet Lance. He's a cool dude." Ella peeked from behind Quincey, when Lance smiled and bent down to her. "Whoa! Who' s this! She' scutes than that squirrel you ate last year, Quince!"

Quincey laughed and said, "this is Ella. She's our... cousins...brothers...aunts...niece! Yeah..." Jasper slapped his forehead as Lance nodded and ruffled her hair. "Cool." He stood up and sat his hands on his hips. "So who's ready to get their zombie on!" Quincey, Iggy and Jasper cheered. "Party!"

All of them when to the surface where a flood of zombies roamed around moaning and groaning. In the distance it looked like someone sat up a bunch of colorful lights and a music system that blared music. Ella cocked her eyebrow wondering if it was like this every Halloween for zombies. Guess coming back to life makes it a party.

Iggy and Quincey drifted away with Lance laughing and dancing when Ella converted to hiding behind Jasper. He smile and patted her on the head when two zombie chicks walked passed causing Jasper to smile and walk away leaving Ella and Axe. He just starred at her as she hid behind him.

A couple zombies passed by giving Ella weird looks, which made her clench onto Axes shirt. Axe and Ella walked around then ended up sitting on a bench, watching zombies pass.

Finally, a zombie waiter (or whatever you call them) handed Axe and Ella a large drink which was weird to Ella. She'd never tasted anything quiet like it before. Jasper staggered over to them and said down with lip stick over his face. He sighed and sat back when he turned to Ella and said, "you know that is blended brains, right?"

Ella's eyes widened as she spat the drink out. "What! It tastes like chicken though!" Jasper laughed and took the drink from her. "I though steak, but chicken good too." He took a long drink when he said, "so this is what it's like for us on Halloween."

Ella nodded and glanced in the distance where she saw a group of children ran down the street with bags of candy. Ella has never been trick or treating before. Her guardians didn't let her. They didn't even let her pass out candy.

Ella sighed when Jasper looked at what she was sighing about. He smiled and said, "I'll be right back. Axe, watch her!" Axes eyes drifting off the crowds of zombies and landed on Ella. She scooted away from him nervously, waiting for Jasper to come back.

Minutes passed before he returned with a large sack. He handed it to Ella and said, "Happy Halloween!" She opened it as a pile of candy caught her eye. "Whoa! Where'd you get this?" He pointed to a pile of candy bags that sat by a tree. "Zombies prefer to eat people instead of eating their candy. So they usually just leave it laying around."

Ella gulped at the thought that this was someone's candy then turned her attention to Jasper. "So what did you men by more intelligent than most zombies when you we're talking earlier?" Jasper had an uneasy look on his face. "Well, back in the day when we turned into..." His voice trailed off as Ella knew he was going to say when he turned unto a zombie.

Jasper sighed and said, "well, the full transformation didn't really happen to my brothers and I. See, we kept most of our human knowledge. So we can control ourselves around humans. We don't eat them normally, unlike most zombies who attack a human at first sight. If we were like normal zombies, you'd be dead by now. No offense or anything."

Ella nodded and said, "wow. That's good right?" Jasper nodded. "Yeah. It's handy." Ella gripped the bag of candy as Quincey and Iggy shuffled over to them. Ella frowned and said, "is that blood on your face?"

Iggy and Quincey froze and said,"uh... no. It's Koolaid." Ella frowned and shifted nervously a group of familiar faces stopped her.

In the distance Billy, Stacy and their friends walked to house to house carrying bags of candy. Then an evil idea struck her head. She turned to Jasper and his brothers who had the same look on their faces. They all nodded and shuffled away with revenge oozing off them.

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