Surprise Surprise (Chpt. 17)

You wake up to the sound of a door opening. You look up and your mother leaves the car and goes over

to Chris. She talks to him and then comes back. "Hey, wake up, it's time to leave." She says as she gets

back in. She turns on the car and puts on the radio.

-"Yes Joshua, there have been some unusual people

around the area. They have been said to have attacked people. They won't respond to police orders. One

man has even attacked another man, ripping his face off and apparently eating it! Be aware of these

people, police have warned that if you meet one of them to immediately leave. To not try to talk to them

no matter what. They all have a plant on their back. This matter is being investigated as we talk. Once

again don't try to make contact with them, they are very hostile. Don't let your children or yourself alone.

That's it for now, over to Marisa who will tell us the weather today"-

"We should be careful, who knows what those people are doing but by the sound of it, it's no good." She

changes the radio to a music channel.

She gets a call from Chris and answers. "Hey Fountain did you listen to the radio?" "Yes I did, what do

you think that's all about?" "Dunno, I'm keeping it on in case something else comes up." "Okay, I think we

should go through the highway just in case. You never know where those people will be at." "Yeah we can

go on in a little, there's one up ahead if we go right-wait shh don't speak."

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You can hear this from the phone. "Oh sh-dang!" "What, what does it mean?" "This has to be a joke,

Fountain it says there is zombies going around, I don't know if this is true, I-we should be careful either,

just in case. Either way it can just be drugged people. I'm gonna try to hurry up to get on the highway." "Mum, this has to be a joke right?" You ask

anxiously. "Oh-honey I don't know to be honest. We should be careful either way." "Okay." After a while

you go up on the highway where there are more cars. You find some comfort in it that you aren't the only

2 cars.

Then you go down and there is a cross section on the highway. "Fountain there's some traffic up

ahead." There on the other side of the road is a team of police and two men. "Put your hands up in the

air!" One of the cops yells as he holds his gun towards one man. The man turns around and in his mouth

there is blood and something in his mouth. He screeches back to the cop and from his mouth falls what

seems to be a hand. "H-help me! Please dear god!" There you see the other man, on the floor without a

hand being held down by the other man.

"Oh-god Sherry, look away!" Your mother says with her hand on her mouth. "Sherry, this isn't something

you should see." You say as you turn her head away from the view.

"P-put your hands in the air!" The cop yells again, this time with more fear. Then the man runs towards

the cop. He tries to get to the cop but then the cop shots. There a hole can be seen on the man's

shoulder. He stops and looks, then it seems he tries to laugh but it sounds more like a growl. He then tries

to get on the cop again, this time another cop shots the man in the chest.

Once again the man doesn't

fall. "Hurry! Get out of the way!" A cop yells as he gets out of the cop car. "Wait what are you

doing?!"Another cop yells at him. He goes over and pushes the man to the floor as

the cop gets out of the way. "Hold him down!" The cop says as he gets out his handcuffs. The man tries to

bite him but he pins his head down. He gets pushed off and the man jumps up and runs over to the other

man who was helped by another person. The cop holds the man back by the arm. "Gosh this man isn't

human! Look at his skin! It's all gray!" The cop says as he and another cop take the man back to the cop

car. Then you hear a woman yell. There the other man tries to swipe at her face she

tries to push him but fails and she gets a deep scratch on her face. One cop goes to them. He tries to restrain the man. The cop then gets out his taser and uses

it on him. The man collapses and the cop handcuffs him. He takes him back to the car. "Don't worry,

everything has been taken care of. Please do not be alarmed, we are trying to figure this out." The cop

says to the cars all around and takes the woman over to an ambulance to take care of her scratches. Which are very deep, it's not just a

surface scratch.

You can see her flesh and on her arms you can see some bone.