Echo

School of The Dead

Ellis only had his sister after the death of their parents. One day Ellis came home from work, as a mechanic, to find his parents brutally murdered. Ellis soon took custody of Zoey, protected her, fed her, and made sure she got her education. At the time Ellis just turned 18 and Zoey was a senior in High School. A couple years later the siblings were in college when an unexplained sickness went from person to person. But no one thought much about it, thinking it was a flu that comes around yearly, so no one paid much attention.

As the two were in their class the power went out and the emergency lights came on. Some of the students got curious of what was going on. The professor told the class to get back on topic until a scream was heard from the hallway. The professor walked to the door and opened it to see what the commotion was all about. The professor couldn't believe what he was seeing, a female student was running down the hall covered in what seems to be her blood. She was followed by two other students acting like hungry animals. The professor told the girl to hurry and get in the classroom where it was safe. The girl ran into the room and the professor shut the door. The class look in surprised as the girl in shock stood shaking in front of the class. The professor walked up to the girl.

"What is your name?" He asked

"E-E-E-Elizabeth" The girl stuttered uncontrolably.

"What happened out there?" Ellis questioned.

Elizabeth just stood there without a single word. The class began to whisper all the possibilities that there could be. One main possibility was a zombie apocalypse but we didn't believe what we were thinking. Everyone's thought was interrupted by banging on the door. The students immediately put all attention to what was going on outside in the hallway through the small rectangular window on the door. A bloody hand slid down the window. As the pounding got louder a girl began to scream. The bloody hand broke through the glass window and tried to get in. Ellis told Zoey and the class to get to the back of the room. The door began to make a cracking sound every time the beast would slam its body against the door. After eight to ten slams the door broke and the student ran in. When the student attacked Ellis the professor pulled a 9mm handgun from his desk and aimed it at the student.

"Stop!" Yelled the professor.

The man wouldn't stop attacking Ellis. Ellis pushed with all force to not be bit as the man was intending to do.

Zoey didn't hesitate, she rushed over to the professor and took the gun.

"Hey douchebag!" Said Zoey.

*Bang* the sound came from the professor's gun. The man fell dead onto Ellis. Ellis pushed the body off of him and was then covered in the man's blood.

"Are you okay?" Asked Zoey as she helped up Ellis.

"Yeah, thanks." Ellis said getting up out of breath.

"Does anyone want to tell me what the hell is going on?" One of the male students said pissed off.

"Do you really think any of us knows what's going on." Zoey answered. "Why didn't you do anything when Ellis was being attacked." Zoey said angrily at the professor.

"B-because that was my son." The professor said with a depressed face.

"Oh, I'm so.." Zoey stopped mid silence as the class looked with sympathy.

"I'm so sorry for your lost, but it isn't safe here, we have to leave." Ellis commanded the class and the professor.

"Who made you the leader?" Said the same guy from earlier.

"Fine, you can stay here and die, while my ass is surviving." Responded Ellis.

Ellis and Zoey walked out as whoever wanted to live followed behind. The hallway's walls were covered in blood. Zoey had the gun raised just in case someone or something came to attack them. There were only a few students who joined, the professor mourned over his son's death and the rest stayed with him for support. One of the classmates who came with Ellis and Zoey pointed out an exit. The group walked over to the door and pushed the exit. The alarm went off and everyone panicked. Ellis spotted an axe in a glass safe, he then broke the glass and took the axe to protect him and his fellow group. Ellis and Zoey knew that from the first encounter with the professor's son was the clue to the zombie apocalypse theory due to all the games they use to play. Then the reason why Zoey knew how to shoot was because Ellis took Zoey target practicing just in case someone would try to murder them as like their parents. So as the alarm went off they knew that there would be a horde of those zombies heading their way.

"If we stay here we'll die, follow me!" Zoey yelled a command.

Zoey took the lead to Ellis's truck in the parking lot. The grouped followed behind as the horde began to chase them. There were zombies everywhere, coming from all directions. As each zombie came towards Zoey she would shoot a bullet into their head. As the zombies came near Ellis, he would cut the heads off with the axe. As everyone was running one girl fell and a zombie threw itself onto her tearing her flesh off her bones. Her boyfriend stopped and ran back, the same happened to him. There were only three survivors left besides Zoey and Ellis. Zoey got into the car and Ellis jumped in as well shutting the door. The last three of the survivors jumped on the back of Ellis's truck and Zoey drove off. One of the survivors weren't so lucky. They started to feel sick, and started to throw up. The other two started to get worried. The sick student laid down in pain and eventually his heart stopped.

"Zoey!? Ellis!? Eric just died!" One girl screamed.

Ellis turned back to see Eric getting up. "Watch out!" Warned Ellis.

Eric jumped onto the girl's back and bit her neck causing a lot of blood to run out of her veins. The other survivor panicked. Zoey stopped the car and pulled out her pistol.

*Bang* dropped Eric. Zoey then aimed the gun at the girl.

"Please! Please no!" Screamed the girl.

"I'm sorry, it's too late." Zoey said with sadness.

*Bang* the girl's body fell on the back of the truck.

The one last college student couldn't handle it. He began to shake.

"I don't want to live anymore!" Yelled the man.

"Shut up, be grateful you're not one of them." Explained Ellis.

Zoey got in the car and drove off. She was going about 65 miles per hour on the highway. Its been about an hour since the last time everyone has seen death, so Ellis turned to look through his back window and check to see of the man was alright. He was sleeping peacefully. As Zoey kept driving she suddenly stopped in front of two men in suits standing on the side of the road bloody.

"We're not one of those things!" Yelled a man in a blue and white suit.

Ellis rolled down his window. "Are any of you bitten?" Questioned Zoey.

"No, this isn't our blood, I swear." Said the other man in a white dress shirt with a red tie.

"My name is Louis, and this is my work partner Nick." Louis introduced themselves. "We thought we were the only ones alive."

"We know the feeling" Ellis added.

"Get in the back." Zoey kindly told them to join the group.

"So what's your story." Ellis asked.