Chapter 1
chapter one : “The start of the end ?”
The zombie apocalypse is weird. People have to fight against the living dead and watch people they know and love die. That type of thing only happens in books and stuff on television, or so we thought.
On a chilly spring day in the middle of March, Gerard, Frank, Mikey, and Ray were hanging out in Gerard's room, talking and having fun. “So what should we do today guys?” Gerard asks ,scanning the room to look for things to do. Mikey's sitting on the floor, listening to music on his ipod, not paying any attention.
“i dont know man , maybe we could play some video games or something?” Frank suggests putting down his comic to look at Gerard. “Maybe you and Frank can go make out in the closest or something, ” Ray talks before laughing. Gerard's face turns blood red in embarrassment and something else , picking up the comic frank set down “shut up ray.!” Gerard mutters before throwing the comic book at rays heads, ray ducks dodging the flying book.
“Hey.! i was just kidding” ray states kinda mad gerard threw a comic at him. Mikey looks up after seeing the book fall to the floor and takes out one of his earbuds. “ What happened?” mikey asks looking confused at the three, “ray, said me and Gerard should go into the closet and “make out” frank murmurs looking flustered “then Gerard threw a book at me.!” ray interrupts , folding his arms and leaning against the wall behind him. Mikey looks back at Gerard and Frank, noticing they are both flustered and blushing.
“You guys should, I mean y'all are dating.” Mikey says joking knowing it will just make them more embarrassed and would make Gerard get pissed. “Mikey I swear i’ll-” Gerard says before getting cut off by a loud siren, coming from their phones. “What is it.?” Frank asks confused , still flustered and red from the conversation before the loud beeping went off, "it's an amber alert.” Ray says, looking at his phone . a confused and concerned look on his face. Gerard looks at his phone in confusion and shock taking a second to process what it says, before reading it out loud. “this is not a drill, there is a zombie virus outbreak"
“what the fuck! Are they serious ?” Frank yells slightly in a panic, looking at his phone with the others. Gerard stares at the screen until it turns off. “I think so. it says to evacuate, that power and water will shut off in a few hours." Mikey replies before standing up, and moving next to the others. “what do we do!” Ray exclaims clearly stressed about the situation.
“One minute guys.” Gerard says tossing his phone onto his bed , running upstairs to the storage closet grabbing 2 bags, before running back down stairs. “Ray, take this !” he says tossing the heavy bag to ray, before turning to mikey. “Mikey go to the garage and grab a bag that's on the bottom shelf” Mikey nods, going to the garage and searching for the bag. Once he finds it he brings it to the room "Here, what's it for ?” Mikey asks, throwing the bag onto the floor , Gerard rips the bag open,” go through it, put on whatever you find.” Gerard says grabbing black pants, a black hoodie and a leather jacket. “im going to get dressed, you guys do the same.” he says walking to the bathroom as he hears the others rummaging through the bag of clothes.
Mikey finds some red gloves, greyish black pants and a hoodie. Frank finds a leather jacket , skeleton gloves (yes I had to include the skeleton gloves) and black cargo pants , Ray finds a dark grey zip up hoodie and a black shirt. Gerard comes back into the room in his new clothes and grabs his boots putting them on. “guys go get ready, ill get us weapons.” he says after tying his shoes
“Damn gerard you are really prepared” frank states holding the clothes in his hands, “yeah i binged watched too many zombie movies a few months ago” gerard says not saying the full truth. As Ray goes to the bathroom to change , Mikey decides to go into the garage to change and Frank gets dressed in Gerard's room.
while they get changed into their new clothes, Gerard searches for weapons, he finds 2 pocket knives, 3 guns. a shit ton of ammo and a baseball bat with barbed wire around it. (yes this is a walking dead reference ) . He then makes his way to his room, knocking on the door to see if Frank is dressed. “you dressed?” Gerard asks his hand on the door knob, “not fully but you can come in.” Frank answers before hearing the door creak open, Gerard walks in with the weapons, his face turning red at the sight of Frank without a shirt on. “woah sick !” Frank exclaims before throwing on his shirt and jacket. admiring the weapons.
,"I know right! here "Gerard says handing frank a gun and a knife, he then turns around to see mikey and ray. “Hey guys, which one of you wants the bat, i only have one more gun.” Gerard says holding out the bat and the gun. Mikey reaches for the bat “ill take the bat.” taking the bat into his hands swinging it. “Guess I'll take the gun.” Ray says grab the gun from Gerard's hand. “Are you guys ready?” Gerard asks, picking up one of the bags and putting it on. “fuck yes!” Mikey exclaims, swinging the bat around. “Be careful with that!” Gerard yells as he almost gets hit. “let's go?” Ray asks, picking up the other bag.
they all nod, surprisingly more ready then they thought they would ever be. , they make their way to the back door. “stay close. also frank and ray here's more ammo.” Gerard says handing them a box of bullets. Frank opens the box of bullets pouring them into his velcro pocket on his pants, Ray on the other hand just puts the bullets in the bag he reaches for the door knob, Gerard looks back at the others ,signaling that he is about to open the door. He opens the door, no sight of zombies yet, but they are still careful.
As they step outside, the cool spring air hits their faces. The neighborhood is unnaturally quiet, except for the distant sounds of chaos -shouting, gunshots, and the eerie moans of the undead. Gerard takes the lead, his senses on high alert for once. He stays in front as he leads them through the neighborhood. As they walk Gerard signals them to stop, pointing to a horde of zombies, it’s small around 10 or 15 zombies walking together. lucky for them The zombies haven’t noticed the group yet.
Gerard turns to the group with his serious expression. He mouths "get ready" before turning his attention back to the horde. He slowly begins to back away, keeping an eye on the zombies. He signals for the others to follow his lead, staying quiet and out of sight.
They manage to sneak past the horde without being seen. They move out farther away from the town and dangers . Gerard lives near the outskirts of the town so it has less zombies and it’s near the woods. “We should go to the woods. It’s safer and closer, "Gerard says, walking a bit faster than the others walking around him. “Maybe we could make our ways to smaller towns too ,” Ray adds, looking at Frank and Mikey. They nod agreeing,
So they started to walk to the forest near where they were . It takes about 2 hours to get there, they aren't tired yet . They haven’t run into any zombies. “Hey Gerard, what's even in these bags?” Frank asks, breaking the silents between the four. “Just the basics, food , a water filter, rope, lighters and a few other things.” Gerard says, still walking in front of the group. “You’re so prepared.” Frank says, grabbing onto his hand. “ Yeah." Gerard answers, leading them into the forest.
“Now stay close. Stay on high alert okay.” He speaks as they enter the forest. “You guys see that?” Mikey asks, pointing to the weird movement of a nearby bush. “Yeah. Stay close. Be ready” Gerard says moving slowly away from the bush so they avoid whatever it is. “Is it a zombie?” Ray asks as he keeps his eyes on the bush as they walk away ."Maybe but we shouldn’t stick around to find out “ Mikey suggests following close by Gerard. “Yeah, let's go," Ray says, walking behind the others.