Night-Night

I woke up a few hours later, from the looks of it, everyone had fallen asleep, other than Hayden. He was sitting down on the floor drinking some water with his brother sleeping next to him. I asked if they had gotten any food on the run earlier, Hayden said only a little, and that now we should be able to last a week if we ration, according to Shawn. I got up to go to the bathroom, and after I flushed, there was a very loud screech, everyone that was once asleep, woke up with a shock, Lilly and Landon both screamed, before Hayden covered Landon's mouth, and Lilly's dad covered hers. We were all very scared, Hayden and I haven't heard this kind of screech yet, we both looked at each other, then at Shawn, "What is that?" I ask, panicking, and wondering if it heard Landon and Lilly scream. We all sat down and stayed quiet, we heard heavy breathing from behind the boarded up windows. After a few seconds, it screeched so loud it made my ears ring. Then heavy footsteps started heading away from us, Shawn then said quietly, "We call them Hunters."

I was stunned, and couldn't move, and didn't want to make a noise just in case it came back. After a while, I calmed down, and we all stood up. Shawn's mom started making sandwiches that everyone could eat. And everyone else sat around, Hayden was trying to look out of the windows. After the sandwiches were finished everyone ate and went to sleep, I woke up with a splitting headache. Not one of those headaches you just shrug off either. I decided that some water might help so I stumbled towards the kitchen. Shawn was already up. "Morning," he called out. "Huh? Oh, morning, dude this headache is killing me", I replied as I opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water, I drank some of it but all of a sudden my headache got worse, Shawn walked towards me and asked if I was ok, I looked at him and smiled wearily, and said that I just had a horrible headache. Shawn went to the restroom and got me some ibuprofen, I put the pills in my mouth and drank water to help it go down. I sat down and relaxed for a few minutes.

Hayden finally woke up, but looked drained. Shawn and Hayden both sat at the kitchen table with me, it was just us awake, Shawn said that we three should go on a weapon supply run. Hayden agreed immediately, whilst I thought for a moment, but ultimately, I agreed. Shortly after, we left a note on the table in the living room, saying that we went to gather some more gear. When we walked outside it looked completely different then it did just a day ago. Trees were knocked over and cars were on fire. Even though there must have been a few survivors alive as of last night, they would have died if they weren't careful enough. Some of the buildings we encountered as we drove to the nearest gun store looked demolished, doors ripped to shreds, and windows shattered. When we got to the gun store. It took him a few minutes, but Shawn locked the door, we silently made our way inside the store, luckily there were no zombies, however, no guns could be seen, that was until we found some hidden in a rucksack beneath the main counter. I grabbed a glock 17, Shawn got a marksman rifle, and Hayden got a mp5. We were set for what came next.

We ended up leaving with a few more guns than that. Whenever we got inside the house we divvied up the guns between those who would go on the most missions and those who wouldn't. But not everyone was happy. Shawn's mom was very angry with us, mainly Shawn, about leaving without waking her up, and especially not leaving with an adult. After a lot of nagging, she eventually calmed down. Us boys then went into our bedroom, and found Matthew sitting there punching a teddy bear. Shawn knew Matthew was bored, so he tried to find some board games for Mathew to play with, when Shawn found some, Matthew wasn't really interested. I sat down on the bed and inspected my brand new gun. Then a thought appeared, a thought about what had happened to my family. I said to myself, "I will get my revenge, I swear it," I wanted to kill every zombie in this godforsaken world. Even if I have to die.

After a while of just staring at the gun. Hayden asked if I was okay, I said that I was fine, I think he knew I was lying. I turned around and Shawn and Mathew were passed out, Hayden said that I was staring at that gun for hours. He said he wasn't going to ask, but told me to keep myself in check. Then said he was going to sleep. I thought for a bit, then got up and decided to go outside. At some point Lilly went outside as well and sat on the ground. I asked her about what she thought of this world changing so fast. She said that it was scary, and how she misses home. I was feeling tired and a bit depressed. So I said I was going to head inside, and that she should follow, as night was really close. That was enough for her to book it inside. I went into the room and saw Hayden ,Shawn, and Mathew asleep.

I slept on the floor because there were no more beds. For a bit, there was only darkness, then pictures of me eating dinner with my family arose. I was happy for those few seconds, until they came. The zombies, I quickly stood up and tried to get my parents to hide with me, but they looked lifeless, I then ran into a closet and hid, minutes later, when I went back into the kitchen I saw all of their bodies torn to shreds, bite marks all over them, and then as I cried, their lifeless bodies gain motion again. Lifeless motion.

I woke up with Tears streaming down my face. I got up and went to the bathroom. I washed my face and my hands, then proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed some fruity flavored snacks. I started to go to the room. But then I heard a little girl call my name, I looked around, but no one was awake. After a few minutes of the girl calling my name. I grabbed my handgun and walked outside, towards the sounds. I heard the little girl coming from a house across the street, I snuck into the house and saw a little girl turned away from me. I asked softly if she was ok, and how she knew my name. As I grabbed her shoulder, she pushed me away with razor sharp claws, and started screaming. My ears popped and I couldn't hear. I quickly punched the kid in the face. Then grabbed her, and threw her against a wall, knocking her out.

She looked deformed in the body, long limbs, and a putrid looking face covered in blood. She was clearly a zombie, but no ordinary zombie. All of the sudden, loud banging sounded, telling me that my hearing was back, and that something wanted in. It was trying to get in from the back of the house, and more banging was gathering on the outside walls of the house. I quickly looked out the front windows of the house, no zombie was there yet, so I opened the front door, and ran for my life, cursing how dumb I was. I made it back with no zombie seeing me. I really am lucky. As I got to the door, it opened fiercely, and I was grabbed by Hayden. He threw me inside harshly, and closed the door. He then slumped down, and took a deep breath. Everyone else was looking at me, and through the windows, looking at the carnage happening to the house across the street. Shawn asked me what that screaming was, and I was so stupid to have gone outside by myself.

After explaining, I grabbed my notebook and wrote about the new zombie. I said "I'm going to call it a screamer," I said to Shawn, whilst I was looking at all of the zombies I have marked in my handy dandy notebook. I said them out loud. Roamers (Normal Zombies.), Runner (Variants of the Roamers.), Screamer (Loud ass screaming bitch.)These are the three types of zombies I've found, not including the zombie we heard scream that one night, as I'm still not sure what it is. There are probably more zombie variants than that somewhere, but as of right now, I would be collecting info on these creatures, and learning how to kill them more effectively.