Outbreak of the Living Dead (Book 1)

by Guerra, Aaron

  “Nicole! Get her out of here! I don’t want to see her disgusting face right now,” Crystal ordered.

  Through Kim’s acting she was able to see the two officers leave the room as the tallest one stayed behind.

  “Now, what has she done with the little mutt?” Crystal asked herself quietly. The leader of the group had knelt down to move the man’s head around to see if he was still alive. Tristan ended up coughing up some blood with scratches and bruises covering most of his face now. “There’s my little Mutt! The mean old crazy girl is gone. It‘s just you and I,” said Crystal. She moved closer to his face to place a gentle kiss on his lips. Her hand slid up his shirt to his chest like a slithering snake. “Mama is here to treat you well, or at least better than the other two,” she said.

  Tristan had spat up some blood on her face which made her move away to wipe it off. Instead of punishing him like the others had done, she just easily licked it off and smiled.

  “That’s the spirit little pet. I like you. You don’t give up easily and that’s rare to find in my prey,” she said while licking the last of his blood off her fingers. Tristan had looked away with his eyes narrowing from defeat for the moment.

  “You guys. You won’t get away with this. Someone will find you and stop you from terrorizing anymore people,” he said to her. Crystal looked over to his friends that were tied up.

  “Who’s going to stop me?!” she said while extending her arms out. Using her strength, she had lifted him back upright on the chair for him to see his friends. “I want you to watch this very closely,” she said as she walked over to Susan. The woman placed her gun to the teenager’s forehead.

  “STOP! SHE’S JUST A KID!” Tristan yelled. Crystal had slowly moved the end of the gun to Kim’s temple with her finger resting on the trigger.

  “What about this one? She’s a woman, and from the way she’s dressed, a sloppy one at that,” said Crystal. Tristan had tried to break free from his binding, but it was still no use.

  The rope was starting to burn his skin which was causing a slight irritation to his wrists. The woman had moved the gun back to the teenagers head while smiling.

  “I don’t like kids though. They always give me a fucking headache,” she said while biting her bottom lip. The sound of the handgun going off made Kim and Tristan tremble. Crystal started to laugh as her hand had reached over to grab the redhead’s hair. She had lifted it up while smiling at the man with her evil cold eyes staring directly through his soul. The bullet hole was on the wall behind Susan. She shot beside the girl to make it look like a full on execution. “THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE! IT’S PRICELESS! I WISH I HAD A CAMERA!” Crystal said while laughing.

  Susan began to wake up after the gunshot.

  “S-She lives?!” Tristan said with a weak smile showing. The man opened his eyes the best he could to see that the teenager was already freaking out from being tied up.

  “W-What’s going on?! Where am I?!” Susan asked in tears. The officer had sat on the girls lap. She began to smile down to her with the gun‘s tip caressing the teen‘s face.

  “It’s okay, mommy’s here for you now. I‘ll take care of you,” Crystal said. Kim had felt the rope on her left hand loosen up after she started to wiggle her arm around in different ways. She was trying her best to stay in character while escaping from the chair. “HEY! YOU TWO GET YOUR ASSES IN HERE! ONE OF THE GIRLS FINALLY WOKE UP! IT’S TIME TO GET THIS PARTY STARTED,” Crystal said in a cheerful expression.

  Nicole and Valerie came inside the room like hungry dogs looking for their bones to chew on. The sight of Susan being awake had them going off with pure happiness.

  “So we kill the guy now, right?! RIGHT?!” Valerie asked with a bright smile on her face. Crystal immediately shook her head and gave her the thumbs down gesture. “Why the hell not?! Look what he did to Nicole’s beautiful lip! He should have a bullet in his fucking head right about now,” Valerie said while her face turned red from frustration. Nicole agreed with Valerie as she made her way to the man who was still bound to the chair. The woman known as Nicole had smacked Tristan across the face before glaring at her leader.

  “Crystal, he needs to die now! One of them is all we need to feel satisfied when we’re having our twisted fun,” Nicole had told her. The leader calmly got off Susan’s lap with the gun still in her hand. She had suddenly aimed it at her fellow crazed friend and smiled.

  “Are you ordering me around, little bitch?” Crystal asked playfully. Nicole took a step back with her eyes widening from the sight of the gun.

  “N-No! You know I would never do that Crystal,” Nicole said with tears forming in her eyes.

  The leader turned over to stare at Tristan with a soulless look in her eyes.

  “If you think she’s fucked up, then what am I?” Crystal said as she continued to stare into his eyes. The gun suddenly went off. Nicole fell hard on the floor with a bullet lodged between her eyes. Valerie was shaking from watching her old friend lay there in a pool of blood.

  “C-CRYSTAL! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DO?!” she said to her leader. The woman fell to her knee’s beside her dead friend, holding her close with tears streaming down her face.

  “See that? That shows how twisted and fucked up I am, little Mutt,” Crystal said while staring at him still. The gun was moved to Susan’s head with her eyes having that same look in them. “Think I won’t this time?” she asked with a devious smile. Tristan looked down as he prepared himself to hear the sound that would come from the gun. But all he heard was the tall woman screaming in surprise. When he opened his eyes to look back up, he saw that Kim had gotten free from her entrapment. “GET OFF YOU LITTLE BITCH! VALERIE! GET HER OFF OF ME,” Crystal asked for help. Valerie was too messed up from what just happened to her friend to think of helping anyone. She was still rocking her dead friend on her lap. Valerie held her close as the blood continued to pour out of Nicole’s forehead.

  Kim started to bite down on Crystal’s neck from behind. While sinking her teeth in she tried her best to take the gun away from the psycho‘s hand. The fake police officer ran backwards to smash Kim against the wall with great force. But to her own surprise, the girl on her back just wouldn’t let go even after that attack. Susan was trying to set herself free while Kim battled the psychotic woman. She released her teeth to spit the blood out to the side while holding onto the woman tightly.

  “I WON’T LET YOU HURT MY FRIENDS ANYMORE!” Kim shouted in her ear. The young woman that was holding onto her dear life finally got the gun away from Crystal. She used the gun as a melee weapon when she smacked her hard against the back of the head to knock her out. Crystal’s body fell forward like a ton of bricks after the blow to the head.

  Valerie was still preoccupied to even notice what was going on around her still.

  “TRISTAN! SUSAN!” Kim shouted as she ran to the teenager first to untie her. Once Susan was free, they went over to help Tristan with his bindings. The girls were in tears when they were able to see him so badly wounded. His whole face and arms were covered in gashes and bruises from what they did to him. When he was finally released, he grabbed the gun from Kim’s hand and aimed it down to Crystal.

  “You-You don’t deserve to live you piece of shit!” he said with blood sliding out of his mouth. The trigger was pulled, but just an empty clicking sound came out. “No! NO!” he yelled in anger. Susan and Kim grabbed him close and helped him out of the room as fast as they could. The bag with the ammunition and the riot shield was still in the hallway.

  “We need to leave,” said Kim. Susan was breathing hard, only because she woke up to a new nightmare that had thankfully just ended. The man tried to stay behind to finish off the two women that were still in the room. But Susan held him tightly so that he couldn‘t escape from her hold.

  “Leave them be, Tristan! They’ll get what’s coming to them! I’m sure of it,” Susan said in tears. Kim looked up to him with a gentle smile before she had picked up their equipment. The group
walked out of the old building and entered a nearby neighborhood within the darkness.

  Sarah was standing outside the school with her gun being held firmly in her left hand. She looked past the corner of the building to see a few wandering creatures with their hands clawing up at a window.

  “There! They’re trying to get in! That must mean that there‘s people still trapped inside,” Sarah had thought to herself. She walked past the corner and out into the open with her lips perking up. A high pitch whistle came from her which caused the reanimated corpses to slowly turn to her direction. Some of them started to sprint towards the woman. The others seemed to be too slow to realize what was going on. The officer quickly brought her gun up with the trigger being squeezed when she was ready to kill again. Sarah precisely aimed up at their heads and pulled the trigger three times, one after the other. The first few that sprinted towards her went down while the last two were finally walking in her direction due to the brief gunshots. The trigger was roughly squeezed once more which released the metal fragment into the air. The bullet pierced the sudden rain fall and entered the creatures neck, which wasn‘t what she intended to do. “Alright,” she said. Sarah walked to the closest one that she shot. She kicked it hard against it’s chest. It’s decaying body had fell back onto the wet grass before she kicked the other rotting creature away with equal force. She lifted her leg up high into the air before it was brought down to it’s head.

  The sound of cracking bones and squishing brains was made which caused the other one on the ground to get up quickly. It was sniffing around through the rain while black blood leaked out of it’s mouth.

  “T-That’s a new one,” she said to herself. It’s eyes had widened up with the white color slowly fading away. The creature turned away from the woman for a moment which made her feel nervous. “What the hell is wrong with this one? He‘s not acting like the others,” said Sarah. It’s body started to twitch and pop as it growled into the dark night. She took a few steps back with a new clip of ammunition being loaded into the gun. It’s eyes were blood red now as they focused on her once again. It lowered it’s body before sprinting towards her with great speed. Sarah fell on her back in the mud while using his momentum to launch him away from her. When the creature had leapt up at her, she used her leg’s strength to kick him up and away from her in that sudden moment. The officer quickly turned around and got up on her knee’s while aiming the gun high up for it’s head. When it had finally stood tall she unloaded a few shots at it‘s damaged skull. The thing fell back as it’s body continued to twitch and turn around in pain. “What the hell?” Sarah thought. She got up onto her feet as she made her way towards the corpse that was still moving around.

  It’s eyes were open and still bloody red even when three of her bullets had pierced clean through it’s ugly face. She moved closer to get a better look but instantly moved back when the creature had forced itself up again. It started to scream out loud with blood spilling out of it’s mouth. “No way! I shot you in the head! I shot you in the freaking head!! YOU‘RE CHEATING!” She yelled at it in anger. Sarah dodged it’s sudden attack before unleashing two more shots into the back of it’s skull. It had fell face flat into the mud, but it’s body started to twitch some more when she took a step away. “Stay dead,” she muttered under her breath. The officer started to run to the window where the dead were first at.

  Sarah increased her running speed when she heard the thing scream again through the pouring rain. It clearly wasn’t going to die easily, and that’s what scared the hell out of her. When she had made it to the window, she began to smack her hands against it as hard as she could. “OPEN UP! I’M WITH THE POLICE! PLEASE!” she yelled out. The creature finally made it to where she was standing near the building. She brought up her gun again and shot it in the face. Some of the skin and one eye fell off from the damage. The thing fell onto it’s knees as it continued to twitch all over. “PLEASE OPEN UP!” she demanded by the window. Sarah watched as the window opened with a hand reaching out. “Thank you,” Sarah happily said! The blonde woman had took the helping hand in time. The monster down below stood up again with it’s horrible screams echoing throughout the darkness.

  When she had fell into the room, her eyes had opened up to see a group of students in the corner, afraid. A man she had never seen before was closing the window shut. He hoped that the creature would leave the area soon. The man turned around and held out his hand again to help her up from the floor.

  “You alright Officer? We were afraid that you were one of those things out there,” said the man. Accepting his help, she was able to stand up on her own. She carefully examined everyone that was in the classroom. Sarah turned around to face the man that saved her life.

  “How long have all of you been here?” she asked. The man smiled with a gentle expression showing on his face before letting out a soft sigh.

  “All day, apparently. These are my students for the tutorial class that was hosted after school today. We watched your broadcast and decided to stay here until help arrived. But that was hours ago and now, now we just don’t know what’s going on anymore in our town,” said the teacher.

  Sarah had smiled at him as she shrugged her shoulders somewhat.

  “Sorry, but I think it‘s just me that‘s left to help. I had a partner, but…” Sarah said as her eyes shifted down to the floor. The teacher easily understood what she meant without explaining any further.

  “I’m sorry to hear that. I believe we have all lost someone during this hectic time,” he said. The man brought his hand out again while smiling to the woman. “My name is Max, Max Turner,” he said with a bright smile upon his face. She had generously took his hand and shook it firmly as a sense of comfort took over her.

  “I’m Sarah, Sarah Parson,” she said. One of the students had came forward after the greeting was done.

  “Is the Police going to stop this thing or…are we basically fucked?” the young student asked. Max instantly snapped his fingers before pointing at him with a serious look on his face.

  “Daniel, you know that’s a dollar for the Swear Jar!” Max had let out in a quick response. The boy made a mumble sound as he walked over to the front desk to put a bill inside the slot of the jar. He put his hands back into his baggy pants before returning to his seat. “Even if school hours are over, you are still on the property. Remember that son,” Max explained. Sarah couldn’t help but smile up to him when knowing that even during all this, he still had his composure as a teacher.

  Rebecca Lee finally arrived in the small town of Little Bow as the storm continued to hover it. A loud cracking sound of thunder shook the very car that she was driving in. The windows to the vehicle were shaking violently after the sight of a bolt of lightning could be seen stretching across the sky. For a moment she was able to see a large number of the creatures wandering around aimlessly on the streets. She slowly drove forward and watched as many of them sprinted to her vehicle.

  “This place is looking as bad as Crimson Falls. I can‘t stick around here for too long. I‘m pretty sure when word gets out, this place will end up being destroyed,” said Rebecca. She was able to see some survivors fighting the undead near a small park on her left. Some of them were police officers that were trying to save the civilians that were trying to evacuate the area.

  She continued to drive down the road when the mob that followed after her finally lost interest. They immediately started to run to the police that were alive for the brief moment.

  “Better them than me, right Sheriff?” Rebecca said to herself. All she could hear through the rain was distant gunshots and the glorious sound of thunder that roared every couple of seconds. She parked the vehicle in front of the police station with the engine still running. Rebecca wondered if they had any information on the current situation. The woman made sure to look through the car window with her flashlight to see if the coast was clear. Knowing that nothing was lurking within the shadows near by, she quickly exited the ve
hicle and ran over to the front doors. Her outfit was already soaked wet when she made her way through the entrance that was wide open. Rebecca looked around the great hall with her flashlight to see a lot of the desks and chairs were turned over. Some bodies in police uniforms were laying on the floor with bullet holes already in their heads. “Someone’s been here recently,” she said quietly in the dark.

  The woman brought her handgun out from her pocket and moved her left arm under the gun to keep it steady. Her left hand had the flashlight pointing in the same direction as the gun.

  “Hello? Is there anyone still alive here?” Rebecca asked within the darkness of the police station. A blond woman slowly came walking out from the hallway to the left of the entrance. She was covered in some fresh blood, but it didn’t seem like it was hers. “Hello there! My name is Rebecca Lee. The Sheriff to this department told me that there would be some officers that could assist me,” Rebecca said. The woman that had entered the large room looked around at first before glancing down to the uniform she was wearing.

  “Oh yes! The Sheriff! What is it you need Ms Lee?” The officer in disguise asked in return. Rebecca lowered her gun before she cautiously walked towards the woman.

  “I was wondering if you or any other officer could help me search for something? It’s of great importance to me and possibly the nation itself,” said Rebecca.

  The officer that was covered in blood turned her head to look back through the hall that she had just came from. The woman couldn’t help but smile with a sadistic look on her face.

  “It’s just me and my friend Crystal in this big old droopy place. What exactly are you searching for? Is it a special flavor of gum?” The blond officer had asked playfully. Rebecca’s eyes narrowed with the gun in her hand moving slightly up again. The woman with the handgun looked at the officer very closely, with a coy smirk appearing on her face.