Once Upon A Nightmare

1. The Carving

It's April 22, 2050, we're 1 year and 3 months in; we're almost out of food. Hold on....... I should probably give you some background. I don't exactly know what happened, its just like these things jumped right off the pages of story books.

I'm just happy i'm not alone. In my little group there's Wade my 50 year old uncle, a handy engineer and a slight alcoholic, my 45 year old stepmom Chris (short for Christine) a burly woman, my 20 year old brother Drew a pure bred redneck who loves mechanics, Chris' daughter Alice a new age 18 year old hippie with pink and blue hair, Chris' son Jack a slightly overweight fourteen year old, and I'm Wes a sixteen year old video game addict.

~Wes' POV~

It was a nice day when we first saw one we were all outside hanging out. Wade, Chris, Jack, and I were all on the porch while, Drew was teaching Alice to shoot his crossbow. Then out of nowhere we heard Alice screaming "Drew watch out!''.

We all started running down the hill to see what had happened. When we got to the bottom of the hill we saw Drew hugging Alice and on the ground was what looked like a man but this was no ordinary human there was blood and strangely huge wooden splinters everywhere on and in its body and it had a arrow in its eye socket.

We all stood for awhile staring at the wooden figure on the ground in front of us as, a horde of them came out of the woods.

We ran to the house and locked the doors and barricaded the windows. When we were barricading the last window, they shattered it. Wade herded us all in the main bedroom, to try and keep us safe.

We stayed in there until the noise outside stopped. Wade had already loaded his shotgun and Drew had another arrow loaded in his crossbow. Wade had the rest of us huddle up in the back of the room, as he opened the door to see if they were gone. He walked out signaling Drew to follow. Just as Drew stepped out of the room, two of them popped out of nowhere. Wade was able to blow one of their heads off, but Drew got pinned. As much as he fought he couldn't get past it.

"DREW, MOVE!" I yelled holding the spare revolver they left us with . I was aiming for the figure. I pulled the trigger, and shot it in the head. Drew grabbed his crossbow and ran to hug me. We hugged each other, until the rest joined us in the living room.
  
   We all huddled together and just cried for a little while.

  Wade broke out of the group "Okay before we leave, grab any supplies you can, food, water, medical, weapons, whatever and throw it in the Expedition." He commanded.
   After we gathered everything we could, Alice drove Chris and Jack in her Geo, while Wade drove Drew and I in the Expedition. We drove until we found an old safehouse, that we soon turned into a shelter.
 
    That was the first day that it had happened, apparently a doctor named Dr. G. Petto has been luring in humans saying he had a cure for cancer and actually trying to make them into a new controllable species. Once he had enough soldiers, he went after everybody, not just cancer patients 

He was making those people into  his own little wooden puppets and they keep doing it any human they find alive they capture and take back to his laboratory. I mean those things were manufactured to just kill and enslave innocent people.
  

In my time in this big epidemic I've learned that these things don't have a conscience but they really only have one objective to harm anybody who refuses to cooperate with them.

We've started calling them Wicks.