The Zombie Apocalypse (Closed/Started)

Freya

I looked up to see Chris run out the room and looked around in question. No one replied and i shrugged it off. As it got later, everyone started to dirft off to sleep and i made my escape.

I know the group doesn't think i contribute towards keeping eachother safe but if only they knew. When one of them accidently falls asleep, i pick up the slack and watch out.

Tonight however, i had a different idea. Soon we were going to run out of food and no one was going to want to leave the safety of the school to get more. Hence my late night excursion.

I make my way to the locker rooms and grabbed a large sports bag before heading out the door, being careful not to be seen. Sports bag in one hand and my trusty crowbar in the other.

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I arrive back at the school, bag full of food and medical supplies, only for the entire group to look up at me in suspicion. Desmond made his way towards me, his eyes zeroing in on the bag.

"What's in the bag Freya?" He asks, well more like demands.

"Supplies." I reply.

He narrows his eyes at me, his jaw clenching then unclenching.

"How did you get supplies have you been hiding them from the rest of the group?" He accuses. At that I saw red, i had had enough of everyone thinking i'm slacking off when it comes to the safety and well-being of this group.

"You listen good Desmond. I WOULD NEVER HOLD BACK SUPPLIES FROM THE GROUP! YOU MAY THINK I'M A SELFISH B**CH BUT THE TRUTH IS I CARE ALOT FOR THIS GROUP WHICH IS WHY I RISKED MY LIFE TO GO GET MORE SUPPLIES WHEN NONE OF YOU WOULD STEP UP TO THE PLATE!"

I panted heavily and looked round the group who all had astonished or amused expression on their faces before looking back at Desmond who had turned a nasty shade of red.

"YOU WENT OUT OF THE SCHOOL BY YOURSELF? ARE YOU F**KING INSANE?!"

"Oh my GOD! Nothing is good enough for you people is there! First you complain about me not pulling my weight around here when trust me, i am you just don't notice or witness it. Now your complaining that even though i'm getting involved, i'm doing it the wrong way!" I growl lowly at him, glaring so intensely that he takes a few steps back before i spin on my heel and head to the tech. department to finish off what i had been working from the minute i arrived in this godforsaken place.

Chris

I woke up dizy and confused, i lifted myself up, then remembered that
haunting thought. I got up, washed my face, there wasn't much that came out because of the electicity not being on and all.

I noticed my sword was out of the sheath and on the floor. That inscription, shaken, I didn't know what it stood for. I put it back into the sheath and walked out of the bathroom, I noticed I was in the Tech. department. I walked down the hallway, I saw Freya storming down the hallway, I didn't know what happened but it looked like she was angry. I was still a little dizzy, but she stopped for a moment she asked "Chris what the F**k happened to you, you look like you've been though hell!" I replied " I think I have been."

I continued to the cafeteria, weveryone looked up at me, most went back to their doings. Desmond stormed towards me, and yelled "Where the f*** have you been you lazy a** peice of sh*t, you told me you'd take night shift but you didn't so someone else had too!" "i'm sorry ok" "NO! Sorry isn't OK!".I lowered my head trying to keep in my fury. Desmond yelled " Are you every listening to me!"

I grabbed his collar and threw him against the closetest wall, and yelled "F*ck you, you have no idea what I've been through!", "I highly doubt its as worse as mine, if you think its worse than mine, prove!" he said as he grabbed my wrist. "Fine, You know what I had to do, i had to kill a little girl...A small girl, i had too, it was me or her." My head lowered, i let go and walked to the roof ladder and climbed it. I was alone, the wind blew, the scent of blood and rotting flesh was in the air. In the distance I heard a yell, it was scilenced a moment later. I stood and looked to the sky, a tear rooled down my cheek. I thought:

I knew I would find string in the art dept and cans in the kitchen cafeteria, I started on my way to the art department - hearing shouting and swearing. I stayed back for a while before I saw Chris storm off.

I turned the corner and saw Desmond looking a little defeated. "You need to go easy on them you know" I said in a small voice. "I know you want to be a leader - and you are one of the closest things we have to one, but that doesn't mean you have to shout and everyone for and little thing"

He stayed quiet, I came closer. "It's hard for everyone. We've all lost someone, or something - I don't even know if my Dad's alive or dead. Just - go easy okay, it's even worse when you had a crappy life before and you didn't think it could get any more crappy" I gave him an understanding smile, he returned it slightly.

I looked down and carried on my way to the Art dept, when I arrived I realised no-one had even bothered coming in here. If I didn't have to keep a watch out constantly I'd spend most of my time here. I rummaged through the draws before remembering the string was in a locked utility closet.

I sighed, wondering how to get into it. I stepped back and attempted a high kick - I heard it come a little loser as my boots connected with the handle. Then I went old-style and pulled a clip from my hair, bending it straight and picking the lock, I'd never actually tried it before but hey - it worked.

Aubry


"Things have been a bit tough around here lately," I say to Clifford as i sit down next to him, with a small frown " everyone's on edge and is paranoid and crap. I feel...just useless i guess. Everyone is able to fight and what can I do? Patch a person up and wish them a good day." I look down at my slightly smudged airforce Jordans with a sigh.

"Aubry you have nothing to worry about," Clifford says with a small smile " you can protect yourself pretty well from what i've seen." he says bringing up the cut my boyfriends head off occasion " And even if you can't you've got all of us. We're a group, we help each other you know." he said giving me a friendly shoulder pat.

"Hey did you know, I was going to ask you to the Sadie Hawkins dance before everything went to poop." I blurt out randomly.

He looks at me strangely and cocks his head to the side " Really? Everyone said that you had been planning to ask Desmond." He says staring at me in confusion. In my head I laugh at the fact that we're talking about tiny little affairs that kept us busy and such back when things were normal. I respond with " Well my old friend Jade had wanted me to..." I say looking down again. " But what I hadn't told her was that I had actually wanted to ask you." I blush slightly and get up so fast that I get a bit dizzy for a second. But when I snap out of it I quickly jog down the bleachers.

"I'm sorry, that was kind of stupid to bring up." I say quickly walking to the exit. " I'll see you around Cliff!" I say more loudly than needed and rush out the doors.

I walk into a bathroom before even look at which one it is, then quickly go into a stall and sit there for a second. What was I thinking? Bringing up petty little crushes like they actually matter now. I shake my head and my brown/black hair slaps me in the face. I haven't cut it in awhile so now its slowly climbing down my back. I inhale deeply and start to gag in the process. It smells like top of the line puke in here. I am so out. I walk out of the bathroom quickly and decide not to go back to everyone else. I kinda wanna be alone for right now. I walk through the semi dark hallways and think.

We're safe for right now...so wouldn't it be okay if I had some type of a relationship with someone. I mean what if Cliff decides that he's not into me. I mean there's not much of a good choice in guys here. I mean most of them are really cute...but they probably aren't even thinking about dating and stuff like that. Let alone would they go for me. I mean i'm definitely not the cute girl i used to be. That cute girl with fresh hair and make up everyday that always used to smell of mango's. That girl with the effortless curvy yet slender body that other chicks would kill for. That girl who would hang out with the other pretties people. That girl was weak.

I'm stronger than her...I think. I mean my looks aren't all that different i'm a bit skinnier, but isn't everybody? I sigh, and then turn back around. I walk into the teachers lounge and make a quick cup of coffee. The funny thing is that when we were around here scavenging we found a huge supply of those k-cup coffee things, sugar, and that powdered milk stuff. I plop down at one of the large circular tables with my coffee and just decide to read for the rest of the night, and to just stay out of everyone's way. They probably don't even wanna talk to me anyways...

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Clifford Jamers---

I watched as Aubry ran off the roof, still confused, and turned back to the horizon. Aubry was a good girl, cute. She should have told me before, we've been here a year now. Why is she bringing this up?

The sun was starting to go down. I've been up here for a while, no action (as usual). I picked up my stuff and started back into the main building. I could hear screaming before I even entered the cafeteria. Freya and Desmond were having a standoff, both of them screaming, both in a rage. Before I can break up the fight Freya is storming off and Chris is walking in, Desmond is on him in a second. I leave them be and go check on Freya. I find her in the tech department and she doesn't look very pleased with my company.

"Hey," I start cautiously, "what happened out there? It's complete chaos."

Richard: Medical Room

Chills ran up my spine as a sound pierced into my mind, a sound that comprised of fear, horror, pain and desperation. I bolted straight upwards, a cold sweat breaking out upon my forehead, and looked around unsteadily, scared that perhaps the source of the sound was closer than I suspected. This wasn't the case, and I rubbed the small amount of sleep that had gathered around my eyes; I hadn't been asleep too long.

Standing up and shaking my limbs to get my joints in working order, I reached for my red and black trainers and tied them up, flinching as human cries echoed into the alien wail that was both melodic and monstrous. I shook my head last, removing dizziness from my vision and stimulating my brain (although my body had already been stimulated by the adrenaline that began to pulsate through my veins. Restraining the urge to scream my lungs out, I reached for the cold steel handle and turned it slowly, hands shuddering uncontrollably, and pulled the door slightly ajar for me to just poke my head out. I saw nothing.

Slowly I nudged the door even further to and, gazing down the hallway, I saw an anorexic figure wandering slowly, clutching its feminine yet gruesome face with long grizzled claws. A Witch.

I had observed this particular infected's behaviour before, and (although the others may not have noticed) the Witch was passive, unless extreme enviromental changes came into place, such as the presence of non-infected, physical pain and sudden light inclines. Sound, however, was not a stimulant to violent behaviour. I crept out and stared at the creature, still quivering with fear, and shut the door.

Using the only intelligent alternative to killing it, which would be impossible with a knife at this range (well, I didn't feel confident enough in my throwing skills), was to set out a path to the outside. I quickly opened the barricaded door that led to the field, unsheathing the knife to dispatch two infected that greeted me. Moving as swiftly as possible to avoid the inevitable arrival of the Witch, I slashed the jugular of the zombie on my right causing its blood to blind its ally.

The other infected lunged forward with all its weight. I managed to dodge the offense with a quick dodge to the left, and fell on top of the creature as it stumbled to the ground. I plunged the tip of the blade into the soft flesh where the spine met the skull, and as I retrieved my weapon it hauled deep crimson blood diluted with clear menin and pale brain matter.

The figure drew closer, her bare chest expanding erratically as she breathed, and I pulled the lifeless corpse to the door behind me to clear her path, closing the alternative route to her as fast as possible.

Unaware of my presence (thanks to the door between us), she proceeded to leave via the exit I had provided, and as she moved from the vicinity, I slammed the exterior door shut. I placed the barricades back to where they seemed to go, and left the area, stamping on the head of the infected present in the hall to make sure it was actually dead.

Tech labs

I wasn't at all surprised to see Freya working inside the workshop, it was practically a hobby for her, which was always good in times like these. I wasn't sure if she felt the same way, but I had found that she was the one I had trusted the most within the group, I think it may have been, quite ironically, the fact that we both were relatively anti-social that made us work on the same social wavelength.

Clifford was there also, and I realised that the two had started talking about something, and I found myself intrigued by the situation.

"What's going on guys? Is there a problem?" I asked, the adrenaline fading from my body, making my breath shallow and quick.

Ricks POV:

I was outside with nothing but my swords, some wood, and some gasoline. Being a greek pagan, I placed the wood I had in the shape of a lightning bolt and lit it aflame. This was to symbolize a plead for help from the King of the Gods, Zeus. After the placement of this I took a walk around the barrier for the rest of the night to kill any infected that were near the school. I continued walking around until the sun began to rise in the distance, symbolizing the end of the night and dawn arising. I went inside and hoped to see my usual small breakfast of a peice of bacon, an egg, an apple, and some warm water, recently being purified by boiling in the back. Instead, when I entered I saw pure chaos, and knew this had to be solved.


NOTE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE STORYBOOK!!!!

I had a longer post originally, but when I submitted it, the post didn't post because of updates to the Storybook. Sorry, but this is the quick summed-up version of the original post.

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Freya Tech Lab

I look up as i hear the door open to see Clifford making his way over to me cautiously asking me about what happened in the cafeteria.

"Desmond was just being a twat as usual. He didn't like that i did something without his permission." I said through clenched teeth, taking off my jacket so i could begin to work.

"What did you do?" Cliff asks. I sigh and look back up at him, he looks at me intently, his bright green eyes staring deep into mine.

"I went out of the school by myself to get supplies and before you say anything i did it because bringing people along would have just slowed me down and no one would have willingly wanted to go anyway, especially with me." I look down, whispering the last part of my rant that slipped out hoping Cliff didn't hear me. I hate how vunerable it made me sound.

"I would have gladly went with you." Cliff says softly and i look up to see him smiling softly at me and slowly walking closer till their was only inches between us.

I give him a small smile back hoping that he wasn't just trying to make me feel better and actually enjoyed my company.

"So what have you been up to in here?" He asks before standing even closer to me to look over my shoulder. I smirk as he looks down at me in amazement.

"You made all these?" He asks in awe looking at the array of weapons i created from bows like Ryders to sycthes like Alicia's.

"Yes, i've been working on these weapons for a few months now finding what i could all around the school to help."

"Whoa, i didn't know you could do stuff like this." He whipsers as he picks up a bow and one of the arrows.

"You never asked." He looks up at that and my breath catches in my throat at the look he gives me before i come to my senses and scold myself for getting sidetracked. I walk over to him again and begin to explain what else i plan to develop.

"The sports department has some pretty handy stuff, i mean i didn't need to do anything with the Javelin's except sharpen the ends up a bit. After i finish with the weapons and test them before giving them to the group i was going to work on some traps and snares."

Cliff looks at me in question and raises an eyebrow so i elaborate.

"Come on Pretty Boy, there is a forest practically sitting at the back of the school filled with animals. Pretty soon we're going to run out of food. I think it would be better to hunt know while can, eat fresh food to keeo our strength and keep the tinned goods for emergencies incase we have to move and can't find anything else. Hence the snares."

He nods along in understanding before looking back at me again smirking.

"Pretty Boy?" He questions smiling. I freeze realising my slip and blush trying to find an excuse for the nickname as his smile widens and he interrupts me.

"I like it but only you get to call me that." He smiles and i smile sheepishly back, embarassed with my own girlish behaviour.

I cough and change the subject back to my homemade weapons and future ideas with Cliff contributing with little extra pieces of information at times.

This entire time i think about how i have shown Cliff the more vunerable side of me that i had kept locked down for so long and wondered how he had got through those barriers with one simple conversation.

We continue this course of discussion for a few minutes before the door opens again and Richard walks in looking pale and sickly. I rush over to him and ask him if he is okay, firing questions left, right and center not giving him enough time to answer.

Chris

My mind started to wander while looking at the sky, but it stopped it. I didn't want it to happen again. a sound unfamiliar to me can into frame, from behind me. I turned my head, not my body, my head; left hand on the sheath, right on the handle; adrenaline pumped through me. Three hunters, behind me.

One pouncedat me, I turned right, pulling my sword out and upward. I sliced right through the first. The second one attacked from below, i jumped back, and smacked the third with me sheath which attacked form my left, dazing him. the second spring again, I brought me blade down, peircing its skull, ending him. The third zig-zagged at me as I pulled the blade from the second's head. I ran right there was a wall there so i wall ran, it bounced off the wall, as it came down, my sword came up, its head rolled. I sighed and put my sword in my sheath.

Alicia came up the ladder, as she did, she asked "Whats all the noise up here?" When she got to the top she stopped and saw the bodies. "What the h*ll DID happen up here?!". I walked to her and said "Get down and inside, get desmond or someone, I'm staying up here to see how they got here and just in case more show up, HURRY!". She went down the ladder, at the bottom I heard a yell, I looked and there was a hunter, ijumped down, the ladder was to slow. It jumped at her , I pulled my sword as I jumped. Mid-air my sword pierced its torso, landing one foot on the ground, one on its torso, I then proceeded to cut its head off. "RUN ALICIA!"I said. After she went in the building I locked it and climbed the ladder, looking at the lowering sun on the horizon, I saw mass movement, howls in the air.

Desmond climbed the ladder and said "What the f*ck is happening!!" "Look at the horiozon, somethings gonna happen, humans or not." One thought came to my head, just one....

"Fine, you know what I had to do? I had to kill a little girl. A small girl, I had to... it was me or her."

With that he let me go. I was speechless. I was about to say something to him, but he quickly climbed up the ladder and disappeared. Way to go Desmond I groaned. Some leader you are, making everyone hate you.

"You need to go easy on them you know," someone said behind me softly.

I turned to see Alex.

"I know you want to be the leader- and you are one of the closest things we have to one, but that doesn't mean you have to shout at everyone for a little thing."

I didn't say anything, feeling embarrassed for what I did and tongue-tied from being next to her. She stepped closer and continued. "It's hard for everyone. We've all lost someone or something- I don't even know if my dad's dead or alive. Just go easy okay, it's even worse when you've had a crappy life before an you didn't think it could get any more crappy."

She gave me a smile and I gave her one in return before she left. She was right. She always knew what to say, and I liked that about her. I definitely owed everyone, especially Chris and Freya, an apology and I definitely needed to learn some patience. If I was going to be the leader, I needed to calm down and think more rationally.

"DESMOND! Come quickly! Chris needs your help!" Alicia shouted, running towards me.

I just nodded and scrambled up the ladder, my Tommy gun over my shoulder an fully loaded.

"What the f*ck is happening?" I asked, my heart racing in my chest.

"Look at the horizon. Something's gonna happen, humans or not," Chris said, pointing.

It looked as though the zombies were clustering together instead of just wandering around aimlessly like usual. They looked to be heading towards the school.

"Alicia!" I called down the ladder. "Go find everyone! We have a serious problem!"

Aubry

I'm whistling Dumb by Nirvana when i hear all of the commotion. "Humph, they obviously don't need me so i'm sooooo not gonna help" I think to myself while pouting. They can just use Cliff, he can patch crap up too. The noise outside is getting louder and louder and I decide to just close the door and to listen to my ipod. Just when I'm about to put my headphones in I hear Alicia banging on the door.
"Aubry come on we've got to-" She begins but I cut her off.
"No, right now's the first time today that i'm actually relaxing and i wanna keep it that way" I say and then quickly shove the headphones in my ear before she can continue. I hear her muted yelling and banging but i ignore it with the roll of my eyes. Oh come on it probably isn't that big of a deal. They've screamed at me to help them for small scrapes on the knees and crap, and we haven't been attacked in awhile so it probably isn't that either.
I thrash my head to the lyrics of It smells like teen spirit (also by Nirvana) and smile to myself in complete enjoyment. I'll come out later tonight when everybody is calmed down.

Clifford Jamers - Tech Lab with Freya and Richard

"Let the boy breath, Freya," I said as I walked up to the both of them, guiding Freya gently away from Richard's bloody body.

"I'm fine," he protested, as I gestured for him to take a seat on the lab table. I narrowed my eyes and folded my arms.

"Well, I want to make sure." There was a small stare down before he hoped on the ledge and I got started on clearing the blood away from all places where there would possibly be a wound. "What was it?"

"A witch and some general infected."

Freya turned away from her lay out of projects with a gasp.

"A witch, in the school?"

Richard nodded.

"Hold still." I grabbed his face in my hands to steady it and lifted it up to check his blood splattered neck. "How did she get in?"

"How do you expect me to know? All I know is something's going on here and I don't like it."

"Hnn."

Silence.

"Well, it's all blood no wounds here so you're good."

He jumped down and I handed him the towel to finish cleaning off.

"I'm gonna go do a check around the perimeter, make sure everything is okay out there. If you guys see anything in here just-"

"We have a problem!"

I stopped as Alicia's voice filled the room. She was in the doorway, panting, eyes wide and crazed.

"What's going on."

"Infected everywhere."

"How many?"

"A lot!"

"Let's go then, we have to get to somewhere secure. If it's as many as you're implying then there's no way we can fight them off."

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I honestly have no idea what's happening outside the tech lab.

Rick's POV:

I entered into the school and saw the chaos. Zombies entered in through every way possible. Now I have to take the offensive INSIDE. I saw the group fighting off the zombies and quickly joined in. I noticed Chris as I entered the group and wondered how he was dealing with the situation. An attractive guy like him shouldn't have to deal with issues like this. I then went over to Chris and asked if he knew what was going on.

Chris

I stood up agianst the door as Freya shoved a 2x4 in between the door handles. Rick cam up too me and asked me "Dude what the h*ll is going on here, what's happening here?!" I crouched down on my toes, and said "Theres a mass horde of zombies attacking, we have to either fight them off or find a way out and run. That's our choices." He asked "How are you woulding up?" "Not as great as I'd wish I should be but for now I can hold out."

I heard someone scream "Oh F*ck, a Charge, watch out!!!!" IT seem to target me, It rushed toward me, I pushed RIck away and jumped of the door behind me. I didn't realize until it was too late. The doors shatered into peices several normal infected rushed in. Two rushed at me, the first I slashed its head off, the second I jumped off his face, over top of the charger, the charger crashed into the wall. I landed and rushed at the dazed Charger. I slashed and slashed till blood was all over. Everyone rush towards the Tech Department and shut the doors the seperate the building areas. There we baracaded the doors and relaxed. I stood there and though "I can't believe I killed a charger by myself, but how" I thought to myself what that inscription meant, I didn't know. There was one thought for one person,about how they were and how they were handling this scenerio...