The Dead Have Risen

Chapter 2: My Friend Tries To Eat Me

Chase and I had a hard time of it but we managed to make our way through the zombies which were not coming at us as fast as I thought they would. We made our way to my camero and got in quickly before any others decided to show their ugly mugs. I turned my car on and silently thanked my mother for not allowing me to get the louder version of my car.

As I pulled out of the school parking lot it was easier to see the destruction going on in the town since the High School was set up onto a hill that looked over pretty much the whole town. I stopped there for a little bit and looked over at Chase who looked just as horrified as I felt. "This is insane I can't believe any of this is real," I said and he nodded in agreement. I started driving through the town and saw a lot of the shops and convenience stores had already been looted and there where a lot of the dead gathered around the fires that had been started inside them. This worried me because if the small shops had been looted like this then what happened to my moms coffee shop where they sold food as well as the coffee. As I drove up to my mom's coffee shop my heart sank seeing that there was a big black truck crashed into the front of it. I looked over at Chase and he gave me a reassuring smile, "don't worry dude, I got your back," he said lifting the axe onto his lap. I nodded then took a deep breath, "alright...I need you to come in through the back door. There might be more than one of them. If they only see me they'll think they have a chance. I need you to come in through the back to ambush them," I told him and he nodded. "Don't worry Damon, we got this bro," he said then we both got out of the car. Chase started for the back of the building while I walked toward the front. I took a deep breath and slipped my pocket knife into my pocket suddenly wishing I had a bigger knife. At least I have my taekwondo skills I can use if I came down to it. I was a black belt after all. I grabbed the handle of the door and took another deep breath steadying myself for what could be a battle ahead. I pulled the shop door open and immediately held up my hands as a loaded glock 45 swiveled my way, "hey kid! Get the hell out if here!" A man with a gruff voice who stood at about 6 foot and had a long gash running down his face said as his eyes narrowed watching my every move. "Look, I don't care about what you are doing here, I just wanted to come and save my mom. She works here," I told him. A smirk slipped onto his face as he seemed to recognize me even though I had never met this man in my life. "Your mom huh, she must the pretty one. You got some good genes." I looked up at him and frowned, "I swear if you did anything to hurt her-" "nah. Not yet, we were actually just about to start the fun, hey Dick get your ass out here! And bring the pretty one with you!" He called and I looked toward the back kitchen and my eyes widened as I saw another guy come out with my mom holding a gun to her head. He wasn't as tall as the other guy but he was definitely just as big in muscle mass. "Mom!" I called out and started toward her but the taller of the two men raised his gun in my face and smirked," not so fast kid, you're going to stand there and watch and then, when we are done, we will take turns with you. I looked up at him and glared then looked back at my mom when she cried out. The shorter of the two men had pushed her to the ground and was now kneeling over her pinning her to the ground. 'Come on Chase, what is taking you so damn long?' I thought getting worried that I may have to take these two on by myself. Just as the shorter of the two men started trying to get my moms pants off Chase came in from out of nowhere and sunk the axe deep into the shorter man's skull. As the taller of the two of them looked back and started to turn toward Chase to raise his gun at him I performed a round house kick and knocked the gun out of his hand then I followed that up with a knife hand to the man's throat. He grabbed at his throat making a wet gurgling sound and that was when I pulled out my pocket knife and flipped it open then sunk it deep into the guys eye socket. His face went limp and he fell forward deeper onto my knife. I looked up and saw my mom still on the ground with the other man's blood covering her face and ran to her,"Mom! Are you okay?" I asked her as I pulled her into my arms in a tight embrace. She made a small whispering sound and hugged me tightly her body shaking. "Oh Damon, thank God you're okay!" She said hugging me tightly. I pulled away from the hug after a while and started wiping the blood from her face with the bottom of my shirt and checked to make sure she wasn't injured then I looked up at Chase and smiled slightly, "thank you, I couldn't have done that without you." He smiled then looked at both of the men's dead bodies seeming to be in disbelief. "I can't believe we just murdered two men," he said in a soft tone and I followed his eyes and frowned. "They weren't men...they were animals," I said feeling disgusted at what they were about to do to me and my mother. I looked back at my mother and grabbed her hand, "we need to get out of here. We need to get home, it's not safe outside anymore." She looked up at me and nodded, "Damon, have you seen them? The dead walking around?" I nodded and frowned looking out the window of the coffee shop. We stood up and Chase walked into the back room of the coffee shop letting all of the other workers that they were free and they started to leave the building cautiously. I picked up both of the guns that the guys we killed had dropped and checked to see how much ammo was in them and decided to bring them with us. As soon as my mom got some food and supplies from the kitchen we were in my car and heading toward our house. We pulled up to the house and got out and that was when we all heard screaming coming from inside our house. Chase and I looked at each other with wide eyes and I ran toward the door and threw it open. What I saw inside made my blood run cold. There on the floor was Angela with a zombie on top of her trying to get at her neck to bite her.