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 It is a grave yard you wait,the lights are dim,you are hoping to see a zombie why everyone else asks,why come out to a grave to see a zombie the very idea is insane,you laugh thinking maybe you are insane,just a little bit too.You then start looking around and walking,careful not to step on any grave marks this graveyard is old,at least a hundred years old or more ,
 

Suddenly a snap,something broke a twig,you turn and smiled, it was your friend that came out with you,she smiled back at you,you both kissed she asked if you seen anything at all,more or less ,you said no .You turned on a fkashlight aimed it a tombstone,the tombstone read your name on it ,you in fact almost fainted then quickly recovered . Then as you were then  about to leave you both saw the dirt over the grave move  you both froze unable to react as you see a hand come up from the grave  you both looked at one another,screamed and wanted to run but couldn't .

Now what .

As then the  hand then had came up from the grave you then nodded to each other and thought retreat was the better part of being brave or trying to see a zombie,there was always another day for that,but you decide staying alive was more important in fact then seeing a zombie was .As far as in fact either one of you knew zombies were always had the history of just being mean,cruel,out looking to eat human flesh,just plain bad or evil .

Your thoughts then raced as why your name was on the tombstone,you were alive you were breathing your heart racing as you both ran,you felt the warmth of her hand holding yours trying to reassure her everything was going to be alright,neither one of you looked back,it was a good thing you didn't ,the hand was not all that came up from the graveyard it was in fact you,but how could then there be two of you,one alive,one undead,the zombie was almost out now as you both were just outside the entrance of the cemetary now. You watched him ,unable to move .

' How could there be two of you ? ' she asked him .She knew you better then anyone in fact and you both were going to get married .She then was a year younger then you but that didn't matter to both of you .

Suddenly you then too had noticed the zombie acting not zombie like,he suddenly noticed both of you and didn't know how to react ,you wanted to stay but he was not the only zombie to rise then out of their grave,other zombies around the cemetary were rising up from their graves and they to saw you and from the zombie that look like you let out an errie howl or scream and told the other zombies to go after you .

You both decided to run would be a good time as any and you ran .

Zombies then were out and just like they predicted but now was not any type of confrontation by them,they were outnumbered so back to the central You ran and ran .You know once you get there you had to let others know about what you saw and once you did 
 

You then  remembered the day it happened we too then  were at war and the President had no choice at the last minute too then order all nuclear missiles to be then launched a few of you stayed inside a safe in a bank and were safe from the eventual fallout from radiation and nuclear winter which the zombies loved,then the radiation bought them then  alive and now they were everywhere .The radiation made them breathe again too while killing the rest of humanity .
 

And now they then  were alive,getting stronger and bigger too,hunting human flesh .And yet they did not move with speed or agility they moved slowly and awkard as well. You hurried back to the others .And as you arrived the doors to the office building closed you ran around to the secret door that was made and syepped inside,their the others  greeted you .You told them what you both saw and they said they knew from the monitors they had,monitors that could view any part of the world thanks to a link up with a satellite in orbit .

So then the  human race was frsf sll except for a strong few that survived .The ones that survived had to struggle for food or even shelter because not only did the radiation kill off people but it hurt6 the food chain as well,as it made the fruits and grass unable to eat so eventually the animals were to dying plants had no water to grow by since the sky was littered with ash and debris .They contaminated the clouds to produce rain .

You and then the  others tried to figure bout how to fight the zombies while in the back of your mind you could not forget about the zombie that looked like you and tried to continue on .Your mind rabeced with ideas on how to then defeat them, but so far they were better stronger and at times unable to be hurt but they could be hurt .
 
As a child then you then  thought it was funny stepping on ants or ruining a web that a spider made all year only to be crash by you ,Now it seem you were in fact the spider or that ant .The zombies were stomping on you .And now who wasn't laughing any more,you in fact felt sorry for all the ants you stomped on the spiders home you had destroyed now the shoe was on the other foot .You were the ant or the spider . 

 Now then too you all,all then wait for the only person not here yet,the leader of the group his name was Eliam,he and you then were the ones that bought the group together after then the  first zombies were sighted you searched  for the remaining humans and then  hid then in here,not only were the building made from titanium steel,the floors were not easy to penetrate by the zombies they were made of steel too and no matter how strong the zombies were infact steel or titanium they could not not passed through it .

Eliam was then out looking for food or drinkable water it would be years yet before anything would then be edible again or not contaminated by it and in all the city the office building was the only one created for any disasters or unusual situation  that would come up .And he knew that as well too.

In all there were thirty in the group here .Then the  zombies were back in their graves while the sun was rising up and Eliam was returning with food and drinkable water because that was his job to make sure the survival of the group,yours you did your job was recon and the searching out for the cemetary and the graves .each person of the group had their part to do their job as it were .
 

You and then the  group must survive ,you had to.You were all that was left . Zombies then  ounumbered us true but we must fight them it is our race that was at stake ,The planet is too all we have to roam on it is our breathing space and right ,we were after all Meanwhile Coppertone could not wait till the sun went down unlike most she was not just feeding for herself then ,she was bearing a child which to that in itself was unusual, a zombie that was pregnant . Coppertone moaned as she felt her child kick . 
 

Coppertone then like most then zombies were given names by Eliam and his group so they could identify who was who,,which zombies were stronger and weaker,who they could easily defeat and who they had the bigger fight with that way they could match any fight with them any time and though she was female Coppertone could fight and defend herself better then most male zombies could . 

 You tthen urn as you all hear a sound,the alarm went off that indicated that someone was trying to get in or enter you smile on the monitors there you saw that it was Eliam and he was carrying food and water and in fact was in a hurry too get in .Someone lets him and the alarms quick ringing . You then too all help Eliam put away the food and water and let him compose himself before you all in fact begin talking about your next move against the zombies .

 ' After I then catch my breath we need to nick this thing in the bud,' said Eliam looking around at everyone,especially the children ,' All the way here I to had to duck and cover,they were everywhere so don't anyone leae this building unless you get an order from me,that goes to you children also I know how you love to play outside being cooped up in here all day .'
 

 ' We then too  understand said one Sandy Hopper then who was the oldest of the children and she made sure the other children behaved or try too as much as they could but who then could blame them for wanting to go out and play and run then .Being inside the building all day nothing to do .There was computers to interact with but they were mainly use for monitoring zombie activity and from time to time Sandy loved to help with them and actually she could use a computer better then most of the adults here .

 Sandy was then  eleven and then was one of ten children that survived the war and she too lost her family in the war now everyone here took turns at taking care of the children ,especially Abby and Todd who were only three and four . And they to lost  then someone they had too cared about .
 

Thats then too why they were fighting,not just because of fighting against the zombies but fighting for everyone as well, Theyhad enough people once the war with the zombies was over they could repopulate the planet with the people they had had .But it seemed that a world of the undead upon them and the war wasn't going to be over soon 

Eliam then had to come up with a different battle plan, the thing that he saw the most about zombies was the fact they attack in groups that's why in fact they outnumbered them every time .And not one of them was what he called a weak link,they all had their reason for being part of the group instead of fighting as individuals because an individual can make more mistakes then a group or a unit as a whole .
 

 He knew then  they needed something against the zombies and now the next time they fight them who knew what would happen .But they had to be ready . As then  night then fell over the land Eliam had gone to sleep,just like the rest of his group had,but two people remained on guard every four hours at the central command room and watched all the monitors for any zombie activity at all.The first two that stayed on guard were Rosie Palamas and Zach Tyler .Although then too  anything could happen at any time,for some reason tonight was an unusual quiet night for zombies and Rosie started thinking about them .Sitting then next to Zach her mind then started thinking of strange thoughts thoughts that someone like Rosie shouln't be thinking about,she thought what it would be like to be a zombie or why do they act the way they do.

 Suddenly as then Zach then was watching one of the monitors he turned as he saw there was something wrong with Rosie,her skin seemed too changed color from the pink normal skin to a rashy gray skin,She then  acted like she was having seizures then Zach saw something that he thought he  henynever see Rosie changung into a zombie after she changed without warbubf she attacked Zach . Rosie then a unique zombie where she was created by the others to be a changeling which meant she could take on any form humam or zombie .And then she was a plant or a spy in the group thats how come the zombie were one step ahead of the humans .

Rosie was then too their creation .Rosie then  too knew that she only had a short life too as well,her existence was short lived .Her life was expandable it was already forfeited for the others . Her life then had only  one pointless meaning,to live then die for the rest of her kind .At then the right and exact moment Rosie would take a pill bite on it and like a time bomb explode killing anything around her .Unfortunately the killing zone area was not wide enough,it was limited to close range targets only .

Then the  zombies were not mathematically intelligent they only knew how many they could kill or who, their minds could only be focus on one or two objectives at a time .

Their minds then too could not comprehend anything complicated or out of the ordinary, they were used to simpler things or easy tasks to perform ,like a baby learning how to use their motor skills for the first time or how to crawl or walk .

Once there then was a zombie then name Blunt in his human life then before he change he was a scientist and inventor, Even then he was searching to prove life existed after death and zombies would be prove of that .but as he was flying to his birthday party then the  plane suddenly went dead and in fact then too started spinning out of control. It crash no survivors ,

Blunt then died immediately afterwards and was changed .But then the  knowledge as a scientist he kept so he tried several times to genetically changed the way of the zombie,he even tried cross breeding .The cross breeding almost work but the subject died .


  Then  Blunt then had the craziest notion to fuse together zombie DNA with that of human plus then the  addition of animal DNA as well, but which one which animal would best suit his needs for this then too exoeriment in terror .

 Monkees then were then smart indeed and now as Blunt then to saw they were almost on the same playing field as people then too were.Always then too  fighting,yelling,trying to make war with one another and yet peaceful in it's simpler form . Blunt found then that too  monkee at the local zoo and not even caring if anyone saw him enter the cage  then he had ,looked around and grab the first monkee he saw there,turning he then saw that people noticed him, immediately  there were screaming gun fire and alarms but Blunt noticed more times then not they were more afraid of him then the other way around .
 

Blunt   used that fear as a weapon against them .Fear was the biggest weapon zombies used and it workedd he knew that .Blunt missed then having someone too talk too to communicate with.The only real talking zombie .

In the meantime then  everyone had wondered what happened to Zach and so the recording tapes were rewound back and they saw what Rosie had done to him and before they could grab her she fought back,escape and got out of the building just in time . Eliam was to say not the least not at all pleased with that and he wanted to know how Rosie became part of the group and when in hell did zombies have the ability to change forms .Now Eliam had to figure out two goals,one in fact when did the zombies begin changing forms and two why couldn't anyone catch Rosie or knew how or why she was about her,how did she get passed security checks .Security then here was as tight as it was around Fort Knox still .So how did a zombie get to be part of his group ? How then  did she end up here without anyone even notice what she was or why she was for that matter . He had heard stories and rumors of changeling zombies and one in that was particular Blunt .He never thought he would actually see one live .
 

It was ashamed that she killed herself .They could had studied her more,Somewhere  else in the meantime screams could be heard,Blunt was at it again .He was experimenting with genetics again . This time he was experimenting on a child . He was trying to make him stronger then a normal zombie smarter then your aqverage person was .Blunt smiled and laughed as he added another DNA to the child .

Then the  child then too was going then to be the bridge between the two,the missing link as it were to law the humans into a sense of security then throw that security away ,like Rosie then the  child would have a limited life span .And then it would expire at the right time and not before .When he did it would be bigger then Rosie going off as she did .Then the  destruction that this child could bring would be horrific which would please Blunt,Blunt then wanted no less then to kill the very human that made him die and turn into a zombie,and Blunt then  knew that he too was part of the resistence group here as well. Blunt then just had to keep looking for him


.To a zombie no less then never giving up was not an option you gave up what was the reason for existing ,there was none at all . Blunt wanted then  no less then every human in the office building dead, he hated the flesh walkers as he called them, he hated them because they always made wars,wars caused death and death brought about zombies and without humans there would not be any hate .

Blunt knew that the very existence of them were the humans . But then now in fact he had his own concerned ,his own then hunger grew now and Blunt loved flesh,more then he should .More then most zombies did ,you could say that Blunt had an affinity of flesh . Still in his own soul he wanted more ,there had to be something better then this .Blunt then too  laughed too,people thought then zombies were mindless creatures flesh eating things that their world then had portrayed them in their world of art and books,but Blunt then  knew they were more then that,he was a good example .
 
Now thern something else was then too happening,a new type of life form was growing not human,not zombie but more then both . It then  consisted of plant life as well which made it more stronger and more faster too ,But unlike the zombies,they were not mindless creatures,they had  shown signs of intelligence,they existed in the coldest parts on Earth .

 Blunt was then eating now when suddenly he stopped,he felt uneasy which was  uncommon for any zombie at all,something was happening now .Then the  first life form then  began too move and even then too grow,they had smell,senses like people did,taste,hearing,toiuch,but their level of pain was unbelieveable,they could be hurt,yes,but their pain threshold was high indeed . Even higher then Blunt . 

Then the  new life began too then  spread and they encountered the zombies as well, at first it was a young zombie and they saw it as food,since they never eaten before they had no idea what food was ,the life form started gnawing at the young zombie then ,it like it ,it screamed with delight at the taste of flesh .Then the  new life form continued eating the flesh off, it stopped when it started biting at bone ,it did not like bone  .

Then another thought came to the life form then , it needed more room to live. So then  it figured that eating the zombies woulkd be to put them out of the way and however it then did not count on the humans that were there in the office building,but it would deal with one problem at a time .For now it kept eating the food it liked .


  Meanwhile then  unknown too those on this blue green planet called Earth, its own satellite,the Moon, was about too make a change of its own,a field of asteroids was now on a direct collision with the Moon, as they would bombard the surface of the Moon , then the  bombardment of the Moon would caused it to turn or shift in orbit, the shifting of the Moon would bring more harmful effects to the planet besides zombies and death and decay, there would be more effects here felt now .
 

Now as the final asteroid hit the Moon .

 

PART ll:

                  Then the asteroids then that then too collided with the Moon cause weather changes on Earth too drastic measures then  were thought of by Eliam and his group as with pockets of then other resistence groups that had apparently survived too  then  the first ordeal and now each were looking  too then communicate with the other .Each group then contained thirty or  so members but they were spread across the world and communivcations nowadays except for a few computers each group had or even what they called once a CB radio when truck drivers used to communicate while driving to keep in touch with each So then  Eliam along with the rest of the leaders around the planet set up a rely station so communications could be better established .

                      ' We our then now a world based community and there are other survivors that exist too, thank god .' Eliam took a deep breath as he was done talking ,now knowing there were other groups here too,they could now combat the zombies world wide .Perhaps then end this sooner then in fact later . 

 

                     Zeb Callahan then too felt relieved as then he heard the transmission from Eliam and the United States . Zeb was then too vacationing in the Bahamas on one of the islands and was stranded there like twenty five others were as well, there were pockets of people now all over this planet that existed too, the United States,Russia, Iraq, North Korea even China reported a group of people surviving there

                      .In fact then  if television wasn't banned by the world for fear it would be used to telecast lies and stories that weren't true and radio was no longer the thing to listen to because that was where Blunt was heard  by everyone a talking zombie,who knew or figure that one out .

                        Blunt suddenly then had had reason a plan to go forward ,now then  he then could sptead terror then everywhere and he laughed,worldwide communications indeed . 

                     ' I once thought like they did ,' he said ,

 

........ Princess Orr then opened her eyes and yelled out in pain,it wasn't time yet,something must be wrong, she was not suppose too wake until the right time .She then  had slept for a hundred years and was suppose too sleep for another hundred,but she then was suppose to wake when there was in fact trouble or something was not right .Princess Orr was then a zombie but like Blunt she was more then that, her family kin started at the time of the Roman Empire . Zombies are known to live long and then  Orr was a good example of such .Her bloodline then  started during the time when the Romans were adjusting to new rulers .

 

              She then was fed to the lions by the new Ruler ,and the lions didn't waste time in attacking her and eating jer,but in the end the day came when the lions were to old to fight any more to old to attack anyone so the Ruler had them shot and buried .but as they then too were Orr was hit by lightning several times and through a freak mishap was bought to life but as a zombie though .and the other zombies saw this and thought she was all powerful and made her Queen,she could talk well too .

                Her first action was to stop this new Ruler before he killed again .And she then did But in time then to she became bored with being immortal she sought out other ways too then  keep her attention from killing and death and the thirst for human flesh.    In time then  Princess Orr then knew that killing the humans would start killing off the race completely ,then she knew the inevitable would happen zombies would begin to eat one another too. And then she couldn't allow that she didn't mind one race being killed off the humans but not hers .
 

                  She then would not let that happened .She too loved the zombies and with all her heart she knew she was one and will always be part of the  race of zombies she could not hide from who she was .Then the  real problem of course was Blunt ,he had to be stopped . But how do you then kill one of your own, It would not be easy but these experiments he was now doing had to cease . Now . We would get to where we're going without any help from Blunt . 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reviewed by Nickolaus Pacione 3/30/2014
If you want to be taken seriously in horror man, beef it up to at least 1800 words here or 2500 words because that will get you noticed by magazines. This, if I was to go in depth with the review of this kind of story -- it would be longer than the story.

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