Adventure to Haven (thats the title for now)

A Story by Awesome Emily

its a fantasy/adventure/romance/horror with zombies

I make my stance, grit my teeth, and pull the trigger, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, my rifle goes off shooting loud and clear! “BOY I LOVE THIS BABY! Can shoot six bullets at once man” I back out the window, back flip off the two story house, run with my line of ammos across my shoulders, my rifle in hand. I run, run and keep running. Looking back occasionally, noticing the Asian zombies coming for me, hm, yeah, nothing wrong with that, I turn my head see where I’m going, “Ahh” I shout as I jerk to my right, “close one I almost ran into a tree!” Yeah they’re dead and can’t understand me, but just to get it out of my system. “GEESH YOU CREEPS HOW CAN YOU BE SO FAST! I jerk myself to a stop, fall to my knees comb my hair out of my face. “Then again they’re Asian” throwing my arm in the air “pish”, catch my breath for a few minutes.

“Got my handy rifle,” slitting my eyes. Oh yeah, I pray “thank you dad, for teaching me how to shoot” I stand in that heroic way, hand on the hip, legs apart. Turn my head towards the sun. Just to see, the dead, bloody, and retarded super fast Asian zombies running over the hills. I hiss and roll my eyes, crap they’re back! A final deep breath “I’m ready” hold my rifle. BOOOMMM, the bullets, fly out in random directions! Woops I accidently clicked the trigger, and I wasn’t ready yet; I always forget to plug my ears. Ok I think I got all one hundred seventy of them by chance, not.

“Ah yes sorry I actually wasn’t planning on starting the story like that, anyway allow me to explain.” Looking around and seeing all the heads, ew “Well, come to think of it there isn’t much to explain, yep that zombie virus got out all right. Don’t go thinking it ain’t real.” Sigh “So yeah I’m not too surprised. “My parents well, lets just not talk bout them” kay I’m sitting down… my leg hurts. I mumble to myself. “Aish, what’s with these dead things” Stretching my neck, arms, and legs. Realizing, “s**t” where are my friends? Oh well they’ll come. I jump up, climb the tree to see. “YAH! Tony, Alec, Trace, OVER HERE.” Ah yeah I forgot to mention I live in the Mountains and yes, if you’re thinking “wouldn’t the mountains be the last place?” We expected them to come after they ate the town people but... Looking to the sky “yeah, that happened faster than we expected.”

I climb down from the tree, look to my right and see them coming.

“Gale you look terrible” says my best friend Alec, panting from exhaustion “as do you guys.” Alec is that serious friend that truly cares. Tony is my sister older by a year thinks she knows everything. Plus Trace who was a neighbor of mine he’s sixteen two months older than I, he’s adept with a sword, I’ll tell you that. I suppose I shouldn’t hold off on what happened to our family, they all died trying. That’s it. As far as we know we’re the only ones here, at the moment though we’re trying to get to this place called “Haven” Supposedly it’s the one place zombies can’t slash into.

“I’m really worried about Gale, she seems to be the leader of this whole thing, and she acts like its all alright but I can tell its not. As a so called neighbor I can’t say I know everything about her, but I’ve heard things in that house all I know is her dad passed away. Since then her mom hasn’t been that good to her. She doesn’t show it but she’s always suffering. I look up in surprise “Hey, hey, hey Trace what’s up?” says Gale with a smile, “Others are taking naps. I think we got the zombies, got them all for the day.” “Oh cool, so how’ve you been?” I reply with a smile. “I’m good but dying of thirst.” I say putting on a silly face, hand on my chest “The river close by here?” “Yeah just around that rock.” She replies quickly I stand up stretch, “Ok I’m going then back in a bit.” “OK” Gale shouts back.

“WHOA ok GALE we gotta move!” She runs towards me “Why? What happened? I turn to see her running she runs too fast she almost falls in the river, I catch her by the waist and pull her back holding her for longer then expected, I release as she looks at me feeling awkward. “I, I think you already know” She turns and, stares longer at the river of dead bodies still fresh and flowing down stream, “CRAP THIS!” She replies with frustration, stomping one foot kicking the gravel. I moved my foot just in time. Before I know it she’s running back to the others. “Hey, Gale WAIT!” I catch up to her noticing Tony and Alec are already standing there.

I run back to check on Alec and Tony, just to see… they’re already standing, as if they were already waiting for me. Then, I notice bite marks on their ankle and arm which I couldn’t see before. I’m taken aback and almost fall down I shed a quiet tear and hear Trace behind me. I grab by rifle from my back, set it to 2 shoots. I hesitate and whisper all the good things before its too late I say “Goodbye” and pull the trigger. They fall, their heads detached from their body.

I fall to my knees, burry my head for a few moments. Then I feel Trace’s arm on my shoulder, I shrug my shoulder and throw it off. Get up and walk quietly. I whisper “just like that their gone, how could I be so cruel and shoot them just like that?” I hear the birds in the trees singing, you’d think animals would be dead/zombies but no they stay alive they can’t die. Trace tries to comfort me by saying “Gale you did what you had to you saw the bites on their ankle and arm as did I. If you had let them live they would have killed you, you know if a zombie bites you there is no way fro us to keep them from becoming one of them. They weren’t them they were a virus!” He grabs my arm and pulls me in to him to hug me fast and swift. Usually I push him away but I felt so weak I trembled inside my heart. He held me closer and tighter. I started to cry more and more in his hold of me. Until I felt as if my heart were to explode, I let all my weight go and he went down to the ground with me.

I held Gale, crying Gale, and for the first time she didn’t pull away instead she just fell into my arms and started crying. I didn’t know her friends that well, all I know are they were good for the past three years since the virus we’ve taken care of each other. Who’d of known, that right off the bat they would die. She fell to the ground I went down with her. I sat my back to the tree, and her head on my lap. Then I fall asleep.

Morning comes; I wake up first to a beautiful daylight morning. Gale is still sleeping. I admire her for a bit, her long black hair down to the end of her back, her long lashes, her torn up hands and her tan skin. We were all prepared for a quiet/ horrific world, preparing for when the zombies came but no, the animals are still alive and well as if nothing happened only the humans are getting killed. She starts to wake with a quick jolt up, her eyes open and her hair still neat. She looks around and as do I to notice a black horse a Friesian a big black horse with long and well combed mane and tail with white flowers, braided in, he even had a saddle and reins. Soon Gale comes to see it not long after she turned around and her eyes saw it. She jumps to her feet and approaches it. I just watch.

As soon as I saw the horse I got up and approached, just looking at the beauty makes me suspicious as to why he’s already tacked up in BEAUTIULLY crafted tack. I check him to make sure he was no bites even though animals don’t die who knows we could come upon one good thing there are none. I turn my head and motion for Trace to come. He walks over slowly sigh he’s such a wimp when it comes to horses. I roll my eyes, and smile. “Suit yourself” I’m going” I walk to the right side and get ready to hop on. I hold out my arm and struggle to approach, “GALE wait, not yet how do you know? You could hurt yourself.” I sigh “oh come on” I hop on “I guarantee he’s not gonna hurt us!” I hold out my arm “come on give me your hand” He shakes his head. “Aw come on” He continues to refuse, “Suit yourself I’m not going far.” “I nudge with my foot see you in five.”

“Ohhh crrraaapp” I say slowly. I put my hand out “Come on Trace get on now!!” I say looking ahead he turns and sees the zombies coming closer by the second, they grab his shirt I grab him and pull but I fall off. We’re surrounded. Trace and I back to back, “how come their not charging and how have they gotten so fast?” He grabs my hand I yank away he shrugs and says “You know Gale I’d like to know that too.” He says with that agitated voice. I get my rifle out set it back on to six shoots remembering why I had it on two before. Trace gets his sword.

“Ok ready?” He turns his head to the side “whenever you’re ready” “I’ll shoot first then you attack.” “We may not get out alive but we’ll die trying right?” He says obviously scared why wouldn’t he be there are over two hundred around just us. I hold up my rifle. Crack my neck put my finger on the trigger and fire! BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM!! As that was happening I wondered why the horse wasn’t moving. I shot down 18 of them with just six bullets. I charge in to fight; Trace is fighting all of them as they come. I get my dagger, I charge into the wad of the moaning zombies cutting heads avoiding mouths.

SUDDENLY we’re pulled into the air and whipped on to the back of the horse. Looking down on the zombies. “Wait? Don’t tell me…” He’s behind me and I feel him nod “yep” he pauses obviously taken aback “he’s flying alright” I’m not one to be surprised easily so I lift my arms in to the air and shout “WOOO HOOO OH YEAH!” Wind in my hair. Then I stop and go back to being serious I drop my arms quickly and ask “Where are we going?”

© 2011 Awesome Emily

Author's Note

I just jotted the story down, when It came to mind so its not perfect. Also my grammar isn't that good either. A friend of mine said she'd edit/help me out a bit. If you have any ideas/ stuff to put in then.... tell me and I'll consider it. I ALSO have another story that's probably worse as in grammar and words, but according to my family and friends its good overall.

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Aianarie (INACTIVE)

Hey there, welcome to Writer's Cafe. :-)

This is a nice story you got going here. Needs some work, plot/character development is a bit sketchy. Watch your spelling and grammar too. Grammar checks in Word are useful, but don't catch everything. One more suggestion, be careful with overusing your Caps Lock. It can be very distracting for the reader.

I see a lot of potential here for a great story. Keep writing!