Classroom Gathering

Day 3

"So, your leaving?" Asked Jerry, he stared at Clementine who was arranging her stuffs, she nodded, "in such situations, movement is essentially the only way to survive, we don't still know more about what's going on, but, to survive, we need to gather resources as we travel to a safer zone " She lifted her bag and looked down at Jerry, "so, I don't know wether I should say farewell or see you around kiddo" She smiled at Jerry.

"Why not staying here, it's safe" Said Jerry, Clementine frown as she looked around, they kid called Finn wasn't far, observing them, "I don't think being control by a kid is a good idea, especially if he is paranoid" Said Clementine, Jerry stared towards where she was looking, "what do you mean?" He did not get it.

"A word of advice, check on this man named Adam, we have been around and I haven't seen him, nor has he come to greet us" She turn around and walked towards the entrance, followed behind by Dahlia.

"Looks like your escorts has gone..." Said Finn, he came forward with a group of boys all armed in blanks and iron rod, grinning, "she wasn't in the first place, so, what's this task I am supposed to do?" Asked Jerry, Finn did not delay any longer, they all walked towards a classroom.

After making sure everybody was present, Finn brought out a map of the school building, some places were marked in red and others not, "as you can see, the whole left area of the school is infested by the zombies " Said Finn.

"Isn't that a little cliché?" Said Dexter, he was one of Finn's trusted allied, older, stronger and useful.

"Shut up " Finn silent him and look back at the kids, "we need to secure this base as much as possible, you got me?" Said Finn, "how do we do that?" Asked Miranda, Finn glance at her for a second.

"Finn knows what he is doing, if he says, there is little space, we should listen and follow, still now, he hasn't gotten anything wrong" Said Melissa, Miranda sighed and waved her hand for him to proceed.

"We need to secure the building, from the map, the red zones are the dangerous zones, are task is to try a mince to clear of those guys" Said Finn seriously.

"Why don't we leave them there and focus in gathering food and supplies?" Asked Dexter he added, "it would be safer, I don't like taking risk" He folded his hands.

"Leaving them there would lead to a potential threat in the future, adding with the fact that, some of them looks different from others" Said Finn, everybody nodded, "that's true, some have a red like skin, move in solitary and are aggressive to anything moving, while the other looks more dormant and lazy, but exude an abnormal strength and Resilience when hunting " Said Miranda.

"She's right" Everybody turn towards the voice, Jerry did not deviate his gaze away and stared back at them, as one of the youngest to be allowed inside with Dylan, Jerry did not hesitate to share what he discovered on his one day walk to reach school.

"It's not that crowded as in films or whatever, for sure, we all know that went bitten, it's game over" Said Jerry, on his way to the school, he had spotted people trying to outrun the Runners, but got caught easily and turn to meat food.

"For the moment, out there, I have categories three forms already, The slowpoke, Runners and Stalkers" Said Jerry, Everybody was confused, "what do you mean by three?" Asked Dylan.

"As Miranda said earlier, they are various type, they do the same thing, which is hunt the living, but it looks like some can be differentiated to the rest" Said Jerry, "what is this stalker?" Asked Finn, Jerry cleared his throat as he tried to remember went he entered the forest.

"He lies in the dark tailing you, I spotted few on my way here and one even stalk me and I think is out there waiting " Said Jerry, Dexter was furious, "you brought one of them here?!" He came forward so as to impose his height over Jerry, but the young boy didn't back away, "he couldn't enter, the issue with this ones are, they're weak and shy, prefer ambush than actually confrontation, the danger with them, is that, they are difficult to be spotted " Said Jerry.

"So, how did you encounter one of them?" Asked Ethan curiously, "I was simply lucky to be hiding went it caught up to a sleeping man in the woods" Said Jerry, everybody went quiet at the comment.

"Whatever " Finn broke the silence and stared back at the map, "we need to secure a larger area for settlement, and the best place is the school grounds" Said Finn, "it's located outside, surrounded by thick walls and iron gates, there's soil and we can get access to the store room, and seeds found there, for the main time, what we get outside can sustain the twenty and plus kids present in school, but later on, supplies would shorten and we would have to work in other to eat" Said Finn, everybody nodded, Jerry thought about something, "What those Teacher Adam says about all this" He asked.

"He is dead" Finn folded the map and walked away, everybody stared at him confused, "in other to assure the kids, I lied, sorry, but keep that for you, in any case, we need to avoid a situation of panic " said Finn before leaving the classroom.

"So- actually, he left without actually telling us why he summoned us?" Said Ethan as he scratched his head in confusion, "in short, we would have to lure the zombies out of the school grounds" Said Dexter.

"Hahaha, I new you were a funny guy" Said Ethan, Dexter eyed him not laughing at his words, "ehmm that wasn't a joke" Ethan corrected before freaking out, "really?!" He jumped off the desk and pointed outside towards the school grounds, "you guy's may have surely forgotten, but out there is the worst place, it's ground zero, our classmates, teachers and all are there, roaming to feed on us the living!" Said Ethan, Jerry walked towards the window and look outside, there, a huge number of kids and adults zombified, "they are all of the slowpoke type, slow but abnormally strong, if you guys want to secure this zone, you can only prepare to run" Said Jerry.

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A arrow split through air and stroke a zombie on the head, it immediately went on his kneel and collapsed, soon, two other zombies fell and stopped moving.

Clementine and Dahlia exited the bush and walked towards the road keeping guard on their surroundings on they other types, she had already taken down two stalkers, "is that how he named them?" She look at Dahlia who nodded, "kids this days play too much video games" She thought.

"Only one week had passed before the door to that strange space freed out this curse to the world, just a week, and the world is dying" She was slightly angry, some memories came back as she eyed Dahlia, she came closer to the road, a dense traffic with some accidental cars found, some still smoking.

"Today is my lucky day" She ran and picked up a bike, she looked at it and it looks to be in good shape, "At least, they day isn't bad, with this we can go faster" Said Clementine smiling, Dahlia pull on her coat, she turn and looked at her, "Give me a moment, we-" She stopped, seeing Dahlia looking elsewhere, she immediately reacted, she held the kid and immediately took shelter in the bushes.

Soon, she heard cracking sounds from the otherside of the bushes, she looked up and saw a long hand shooting out, "what the heck..." She murmured, Dahlia was shacking in fear, Clementine immediately knew what this creature was, "I would have never imagined seeing one of them here" She thought as she saw the blurted mass of human corps merged in one, it's head looked like that of a fish, it moved slowly, but Clementine knew that it was a facade, this creature can reason and learn.

"What is a Balloon man doing here?" She question, "no, that's not the point, how did one develop so fast at an early stage of contagion?" She wondered, seeing the direction it took, she feld bad for the young boy.

"We have to leave this area immediately " Immediately they creature left, she lifted the bike and tried heating it up before it took off, she lifted Dahlia and got ready to go, Dahlia stared at her, "don't give me that look, what can I do with a monster that has the ability to wipe out a whole building " She said and added, "Plus, they never come alone " They immediately took off and she made sure to create a maximum distance away from her and this abomination, which had never been human in the first place.