Chapter Nine

(Dennis)

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I woke up to the hard pounding on the glass window to this clothing store. I looked at what was causing the noise and saw a monster who desperately pounded on see-through window to get in. Thankfully, this wall of glass was quite sturdy so I wasnt really alarmed by the it pounding.

I looked down at the sleeping Tom laying next to me, I was surprised he was sleeping through the zombies fit. I looked over at Dipper laying on the table next to us, his fiery-hot hair falling over his freckled covered face. I smiled at both of their sleeping figures, happy that I actually had people to go through this terrible experience with. I hadn't the slightest idea, not even a single estimation to when with apocalypse might end but I hope the government is still working in secret, it has only been 10 weeks into the apocalypse anyways.

Sighing to myself, I left from behind Tom on the table and slid my legs over to stand, I stretched and decided to walk around the store to wake myself up. As I took a few laps, on the 3rd I stopped in front of a changing room and went inside to stand infront of the mirror. I looked at my dirty clothing and suddenly felt disgusting, I hadn't even realized we've spent so much time in these clothes and dirtied them up a ridiculous amount.

Stepping out of the changing room, I looked around the store and realization hit me like a brick. Were in a clothing store, we can pick some clothing in here, at least that way we can somewhat be clean. I decided to pick my clothing out first before I'd go and wake the two up from their slubber. Walking up to a rack of clothing, I swiped through them looking for things that may catch my eye. My color has always been black, I never really liked bright things.

After searching through the clothing for a while, I ran my hands through my black and blonde rooted hair, I had found a few pieces of clothing that I would like to wear. What I had came up with was a black trench coat with buttons that I'd leave unbuttoned, a black undershirt, baggy black pants with a chain hanging from the pocket to the belt line, and black leather boots to complete the very dark look. It may seem edgy, but I really like the color scheme. I grabbed all my stuff and walk to the changing room, stepping over the dried blood from the zombie I killed yesterday. I walked inside and began stripping till I was in my underwear, I stared at myself in the mirror. I noticed two injection looking dots on my arm, and the few scars on my belly I'd gotten from knife fights. I sighed in remembrance, I hated that life, but what I'd do just to go back there and not in this shitty world is infinite.

I snapped out of my head and got back to putting the clothing on. Once I'd gotten every piece of clothing on I looked in the mirror once more to see the final product. It all goes together perfectly, each piece of the outfit compliments all others, and they make me look like some kind of mafia badass, which I like. I smirked to myself ready to impress Tom and Dipper once they wake up. I walk out of the dressing room and towards Tom to shake him awake.

"Tom" I whispered shaking him slightly, he groaned and began to stir awake, "Whaaat, five more minutes please" he whined. "Tom were in an apocalypse, five more mintues could mean our death at any given moment" I deadpanned, the statement seemed to jolt him awake as he looked around and remembered where he was. "Shit" he swore before turning to me and checking me out, "you look nice" he said smiling before stretching and getting off of the table.

"Thank you, I got new clothing since were in a clothing store I figured why not, you should go do the same yeah? I'll wake up Dipper and tell him what's going on" I said walking towards the sleeping Dipper on the table. Tom nodded and began to walk away and pick put clothing. Stepping up to Dipper, I shake his shoulders to wake him up. His eyes flutter open to reveal their baby blue color, "Huh?" he said confused, I couldnt help but smile at how adorable he was. "Come sit up, I thought that since we're in a clothing store we could get some new fits before we fight our way out of here" I said with a goofy smile. He reciprocated my smile and stood up stretching, his red hot hair falling in front of his face again. "Okie, what about that zombie tho?" He asked me, looking towards the zombie, I waved it off, "I'll kill it once we get ready for now, go find some fitting clothes buddy" I said patting his back. He nodded and was off to go find some more clothing around Tom. For some reason, realization just hit me hard. I had completely forgotten the fact that Dipper was just infected by the virus yesterday and is now fine, why is that?

I'll have to question him sometime sooner but for now I was just happy that hes ok. I walked to zombie still pounding on the glass and look at it while shaking my head, "Poor guy" I said aloud, "Now you're cursed to walk this earth mindlessly hunting for flesh, well not for long" I said smirking a little. I stopped that behavior immediately tho, that's the same feeling I felt when I massacred those zombies with Tom the other time, bloodlust. I cant go into that state, not again.

"Hey Dennis, were ready" I heard Tom's voice ring in my ear, I turned around to view what clothing they had on.

Firstly, my eyes landed on Tom who wore a black short sleeved jacket that had no zipper, a grey undershirt, dark grey Jean's that hugged him nicely, and black shoes. He had his gun in his hand and his other hand in his pocket, he looked extremely badass and intimidating.

Next was Dipper, kept the running trend of black in this group going with a black long sleeved shirt, black jeans with layer surfaced rips, and black dress shoes. He looked like a fancy type of badass, I really enjoyed it.

I smirked at both of them, "well I guess it's time to get out of here right?" they both gained my smirk and nodded, I went towards the door and push the barricade away, stepping outside with my already augmented blade claws and driving my claws into the annoying zombie's skull, I sighed happy to do that and get rid of the pest lurking outside of our door. I augmented my claw back into my hand and pulled out my gun, we aimed to clear the room full of zombies immediately.

We jogged to the gate separating the other side of the mall, seeing that most of the zombies were still lurking by the store we were previously at, that reminded me, "Shit we almost forgot our bags" I said turning to go back, "I got it!" Dipper said running at a surprisingly fast speed back to the clothing store. not even 40 seconds later he was already back out of the store with all three of our bags carried easily toward us. I looked at him surprised, "wow you have some muscle huh?" I said grabbing my bag from him, Tom doing the same. "Yeah I guess so huh" he said, shrugging the event off, I decided that I would help cleave our way through the zombies and augmented my hand back into its claw form. I broke the lock off the gate which made a clink sound and alerted the zombies of our presence. They began aggressively making their way towards us.

I cleaved at the first zombie, chopping through its rotting spine with ease as I heard shots firing from Tom and Dipper. I saw their bullets rip through multiple zombies, their aim seeming indefinitely better then it was yesterday. That sleep must of really help them huh. I ripped through more zombies as well slowly made our way towards the exit. I made sure to tell the guys not to use all their ammo because I have no idea where the next ammo stop might be.

After a while of slaying zombies we finnaly made it to the door we came in from. Looking out the windows of the front part of the mall, I noticed that there were way more dead bodies then yesterday, people must have came around and killed them. Almost as soon as that thought left my head, a car full of 3 people pulled up and stopped in front of the mall, they had crazy intimidating guns and we couldnt just walk right out in front of them so we decided to hide in a corner in between one of the stores.

The people walked in and stared at the dead bodies of zombies piling the floof, they had looks of surprise on their face.

One guy turned to the corner we were in to search it, I looked around frantically but there was no where else we could go. "Shit" I muttered a little to loud, the guy coming to search the corner stopped and immediately held his gun up, pointing it at our position. "Walk out with you hands up and any weapons you have, drop them to the floor" he said.

We listened to what he said and began walking slowly out with our hands up, we slowly put our guns on the floor and held our hands back up. "Now, did you guys do this?" He asked pointing at the dead bodies on the floor.

All three of us looked at each other..."Yeah" I said.

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