Zombie Apocalypse

By: Amethyst al Heatheritz13

## **Chapter 1**

### Sapphire

Whoever you are, believe it or not, you are hereby warned. For the following might stir up scary memories and whatever.

Okay, that sounded serious. I mean, this is just a story that is salvaged and pieced together from diaries of lots of people. Which makes it sound even more thrilling and refreshing to hear the story told by different people.

No time for long introductions, but if you must know, my name is Sapphire Ziraphale. I am fourteen years old. I have brown hair and blue eyes. And the world is ending.

It all started with the alarms. One moment I was sitting in the classroom playing with my pencil and the other minute the alarms were blaring. Why do we have alarms at our school? It is just part of the security system I think. Anyway, our teacher, professor McCray, froze.

For one whole minute, the class was silent except for the alarms.

Then terror struck. People started screaming, running around, covering their heads, and cowering in the corner.

‘Hey guys, chill!’ said Nick. ‘It is not like, a zombie apocalypse or anything. Probably just a test run or-’his voice trailed off as an audible low frequency groaning sound echoed through the school courtyard, sending a shiver down my back.

‘What`s that noise?’ asked Errol.
‘Whoa, look at that.’ said Amethyst al Heathers.
We all crowded towards the window and saw... what looked like three very drunk and grimy men staggering to our classroom. There were a lot of screams as everyone scrambled to get out of the backdoor first.

‘Amethyst!’ I yelled.

‘Here! We have to stick together!’she yelled back as we tumbled out the door. We got up and clasped hands.
‘Run first, talk later.’I said.

‘Agreed.’

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## **Chapter 2**

### Nick

Buckle up, everyone. This is where things get very bloody- uhhh I mean, interesting.

‘Arrow!’I yelled. And sadly no, I was not calling for arrows, which would have been quite useful. I was just calling to my friend, Aaron, but he does not like to be called that. Though I never found out why he preferred being named after a missile weapon.

‘Behind you. Keep running!’

We raced out the backdoor and clambered up the stairs where we can get a better perspective of things. We were about to turn around the corner when we heard a sickening squelch, and a metallic scent wafted back towards us. We both stopped. My heart was pounding so hard, I could here it in my ears.

Judging from the horrified look on Arrow`s face, he must have recognized that smell, too. The unmistakable smell of blood.

We waited. The slurping sound continued. I looked around in a panic. I made a gesture like thrusting or stabbing something at Arrow and his eyes widened, then he nodded with a determined expression. I pointed at the trash can, but he shook his head: it was too far away. He pointed at the large ceramic vase. I raised an eyebrow at him, impressed. I picked it up as Arrow armed himself with a large garden trowel.

I mouthed 3, 2, 1, go! We leaped from our hiding place and jumped the thing. I slammed the vase on to the head of the creature and Arrow covered our retreat with his trowel. I was about to bolt when I realized Arrow wasn`t moving. His eyes were locked on the bloody mess of lumps and tissue. Suddenly, it jerked upwards, and a hand reached out. Horrified, I tugged at Arrow who seemed not as reluctant to leave.

We ran for our lives as a howl of anger ripped through the air.

At that point, it was all the adrenaline rush. We literally tore through the crowds of confused people. A lot of them gawked at us. Whether it was because of the trowel Arrow was holding or my blood speckled shirt... I don`t know. One of them even screamed, monsters!

‘They`re back there, stupid!’yelled Arrow, waving his hand at the building we just left. As if to emphasize his point, yet another blood curdling howl cut through the air, much closer this time.

I did not even look back. I simply ran with Arrow to another nearby building.
We started up the stairwell. We desperately wheeled around corners. People looked at us like we were crazy, but we ignored them.
Finally, we collapsed next to the bathroom.

‘Phew,’sighed Arrow.‘That was epic. Straight from the movies! Gotta do that again.’
Suddenly, a voice said next to us,‘oh no you don`t.’
I almost jumped out of my skin.‘Who are you?’I demanded.
A girl with pale hair and purple highlights stepped out of the shadows. How the girl hid hair that blonde in the shadows I don`t know.

‘Amethyst!’yelped Arrow.‘Where`s Sapphire?’

‘Here.’said another voice. Her hair was the colour of chocolate and her eyes every bit as blue as the sky.

‘What happened? If you guys are here then something must be wrong.’Arrow fretted.

‘Whoa whoa, wait a sec,’I waved my finger at them.‘Who are you guys? And how do you know them?’

‘Oh uhhh...’Arrow looked at them like, help.

‘We met at a summer camp.’

‘We met at the counsel meeting.’
They said this at the same time which got me even more suspicions.
Arrow looked like his skin was about to explode from pure panic. ‘Uh Nick? Things are going to get pretty weird and I need you not to scream and not run away from us.’

‘Okay? But what-’
Purple-highlights checked her watch and cursed.‘We have lingered too long, we should get moving.’

‘Yes!’said the other girl.‘Let`s see how well our friends down stairs are fairing.’
As it turned out: not so great. The courtyard was littered with unmoving lumps, one dazed student kept on stumbling into trees, a pair of red eyes checked us out from the stairwell Arrow and I before. Most alarming of all: the school was completely silent, and all the doors were closed.