Seeking Shelter

I walk along the path for around an hour, without anything eventful happening. The path was getting darker and harder to see in the dusk lighting as I went. I finally see what appears to be a house of some sort with a wooden privacy fence around a back yard and the woods coming right up to the fence line. There is a massive hole along the left side of the fence, and I notice a good twelve feet of fence uprooted and destroyed. 'whatever did that was massive.'

I slowly move through the foliage leading to the destroyed fence. When I reach it I lean over slightly, peering around the corner of the fence to see if there are any threats in the area. 'well I don't see or hear anything maybe it's clear, I'll just go into this house and see if I can find food and possibly stay the night here.' Suddenly I hear the sounds of snapping wood and breaking glass coming from the house I was looking to take shelter inside. I look closer and see the feet of a creature explode out as if it had been uncomfortably cooped up in a bed that was too small.

'That thing is fucking massive, those feet have to be three or four feet tall and maybe a foot and a half or two feet wide, looks like I'm finding a different place to stay. 'I abandon any hope I have of staying in any of the houses near the giant. I move along the fence at the back of the house I notice it continues along the back of the houses down this block. I walk six houses down before stopping and listening to my surroundings.

I don't hear anything out of the ordinary, so I peer over the fence and watch the house, and it's surroundings for about 10 minutes. Seeing nothing, I reach for the top of the fence and quietly pull myself up and over. After I get to the other side of the fence, I take a good hard look at the house. It's two stories tall, a light blue color, though very faded and dirty. There's a porch running along the backside of the house with a set of double patio doors. I wait for a couple of minutes, and, seeing no movement, I sneak up onto the porch and attempt to open the door.

'fuck it's locked. I'll sneak around the front and check the front door.' I leave the porch and move to the left to the side of the house, still sneaking just in case something happens to be around. I walk between the fence and house until I see the front yard and porch, but there is a problem. 'are those fucking zombies? I may know absolutely nothing about videogames and fantasy stuff, but everyone knows about zombies. I'm completely screwed'

There is a group of fifteen to twenty zombies scattered throughout the lawn, and on the porch, maybe even some inside that aren't visible. I turn around to backtrack and move on to another house, but as I turn around, I see a zombie shuffle into the space between the house and fence.

It doesn't appear to have noticed me, but it's slowly shuffling down the middle of the area towards me. I look through the fence to my left to see if it's possible to jump the fence to get out of the zombies' way, and I realize that I am surrounded. There are another ten to fifteen zombies visible, and probably even more that I can't see, so going over the fence is out of the question. I look over at the zombie and see that it is still shambling towards me.

The only thing I can do is press myself up against the house. I crouch hoping the zombies senses are bad enough that it doesn't notice me. I pull my knife out so that it'm ready when my opportunity arises. I eye the zombie as it shambles down the area and waiting for an oppertunity. As the zombie passes me I move away from the wall and sneak up behind it, mimicking the move I used on the first monster I killed, stabbing the zombie at the base of the neck as fast as I could.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. The zombie turns around so quickly I almost didn't realize what was happening. I put my arms up in front of my face out of reflex as the zombie lunges at me, clawing at my face and neck and knocking me to the ground and falling on top of me.

I panick and start to flail around, stabbing and slashing randomly for probably twenty or thirty seconds before I realize that the zombie is no longer moving. I stop and sit still long enough to calm down and ensure nothing else is headed in my direction. After I calmed down, I look at the zombie and realize that when the zombie lunged at me and I put my arms up to defend myself, my knife had been pointing away from me, as it should have been, and had just happened to go into the zombies' eye, killing it instantly. 'that was so fucking close, but at least now I know how to kill them'. I search the body of the zombie, as much as I don't want to, I figure it might have something useful on it. I find a small pocket knife and a nice zippo in its pockets. Nothing insane but definitely helpful.

I move slowly towards the end of the house and peek around the corner to see there are about ten zombies just chilling in the back yard that were not there before. I don't see any along the fence on the side I'm on, so I decide to give it a shot, and I start to sneaking slowly along the fence line, attempting to get to the back so that I can jump back over into the woods.

About halfway there, I notice a rather large lump of something on the ground in front of me, so I stop moving to see if I could tell what it was. After a couple of minutes of watching it, I hear a grown confirming what I thought it was, a zombie. I watch it crawl to its feet, amazingly not noticing me even though I'm only three or four feet away from it. 'Yep definitely a zombie' I watch it shuffle towards the center of the yard, where the vast majority of the others were shuffling around looking for something to eat.

I move along the rest of the way, observing carefully, but there are no more zombies in the way. I hop over the fence without any issues and decide to keep moving away from the house where I saw the giant. By this point, it was starting to get dark, but the moon should be coming out in a few minutes, and I should be relatively well off considering my situation.