Chad the Zombie

The plaque that had gripped the world and turning millions into zombies started out as a military weapon. Some government, no one knows which, was using a parasitic fungus to use to control enemy combatants. No one knew the fungus would kill its victims and bring them back as voracious, hungry, angry zombies. The government, no one knows which one as stated before, did not test the fungus it created on live animals but instead tested it on humans and the plaque quickly, within months had taken over the world.

Many people made shelters to hide from the hungry undead. Their appetite for human flesh was legendary. They seemed to get pleasure from eating human flesh and the screams of their victims excited them more than anything. Some others formed roaming gangs that attacked and robbed anyone they came across. Chad found shelter in his girlfriend’s apartment. Unfortunately they could not make it there without Chad’s girlfriend, Sonya getting bitten and turning into a zombie. Chad was a well-built young man and a student along with his girl friend at the local college in Miami. Chad had a weak chin, and tiny eyes, which people made fun of. Chad loved the color red so much that he almost always wore a red shirt. Sonya was an average sized woman and an exchange student from Russia. She met Chad on here first week in Miami and they fell in love. She had blond hair and big brown eyes that were now fiery red due to the plaque. Chad could not bring himself to kill Sonya or even knew how so he tried to keep her tied up. Sonya being clever when she was alive was still clever being dead and would manage to get out of her ropes and Chad would be forced to knock her out with a frying pan and tie her back up on the bed.

Well, seven months passed since the outbreak and Sonya becoming a zombie. Chad would notice that when Sonya was not grunting or screaming or foaming at the mouth that she would be staring at him the way she use to when they were in love or at least that might be what he told himself was the reason for her staring. Seven months can be a long time to go without sex for a young man and after risking his life every few weeks to get food for himself and to bring back fresh meat for Sonya he started to become a bit antsy. One day he said to himself, “The hell with it, I will just go for it. What is the worse that could happen?” Chad undressed Sonya and did what he wanted to do for a long time but unfortunately for him the fungus could be passed through sex or any exchange of bodily fluids. He did not feel the change for a couple of hours and actually felt good and on the plus side Sonya was for the first time quiet all day. After five hours Chad started to show the first signs of the illness, which is, perfuse sweating and cold clammy hands. Later his eyes started turning red and he could not breathe and he started to get the shakes. His muscles gave way and he finally collapsed and died. Chad was dead for a few moments and then he woke up. At first he thought he was fine except he was extremely angry and hungry for what he did not know at that time. He looked up as he was on the floor and saw Sonya looking down at him smiling and at that moment he realized he was a zombie. Also it could also be the fact he tried to talk and all that came out was, “Argh, rhaa, mwaah,” and Sonya did not try to eat him.

Sonya helped him up and they both decided it was time to leave the apartment. Being dead meant his pupils were dilated so the bright light from the sun was too much for him and Sonya at first. After they got use to the sun they wondered around with the other zombies when their attention turned to, “We have to get out of here before these filthy zombies get us,” and “Fine, then put down the diamonds and let’s go or hurry up and put them in the bag.” Chad felt this irritable force to go after the two people that were talking so Chad along with Sonya and a few other zombies ran into the jewelry store and saw two men robbing the place and being so hungry Sonya leaped at the man that first spoke and before he could react she had ripped his jugular and was feasting on his flesh before the other zombies even could raise an eyebrow. The other zombies just looked at each other in amazement and grabbed the other guy who tried to run past them. Chad and Sonya had their feast and Chad felt a strange sensation eating human flesh. He did not feel remorse but pleasure. The feel of the warm flesh going down his throat and the warm blood tickling his throat as it went down brought pleasure to Chad that he never felt before. He took Sonya by the hand after she was done with her meal and they stared into each other’s vacant dead eyes for several minutes. Although they were dead they were still in love with each other.

Chad and Sonya wondered out of the jewelry store hunting for humans but had no idea how to find them. Chad being new to being a zombie and Sonya being locked up for all these months, and after a few days they wondered onto the campus they both went to school and noticed a door was ajar. They decided to peek in and saw a tall man packing food into his backpack. They were in the cafeteria of the school and the man forgot to close the door. The man was in so much of a hurry he did not notice Chad and Sonya creeping up behind him. The man was a tall, muscular man roughly the same age as Chad. He had black straight hair as Chad could tell from the back. Suddenly the man turned around terrified and he could not move a muscle when he saw Chad and Sonya almost in his face with their mouths wide open and ready to take a bit. Chad immediately had some recollection of this man. He was the person who bullied Chad relentlessly when in was in Junior High and High School and scarred him for life. Sonya recognized this man from the photos that Chad showed him. Both Chad and Sonya gave a quick look at each other and before the Charles, the man’s name, could react they sprang on him like a jungle cat. Sonya punched the man in the face while Chad went for Charles’s legs. Charles screamed in pain while Chad and Sonya ate him alive and his screams attracted three other undead who joined in the feast. Chad did not want them to come but realized that zombie etiquette means you share your food and do not fight each other.

One of the zombies that joined in was a short fat man that Chad recognized as his ethics professor, Samuel. He had a snout like nose thinning brown hair and wore glasses. All the students liked him since he was easy to talk to. The person next to him was his wife, Sofia. She was the same height as he was and had a pear shaped body. Her had black hair and dead rose in her front pocket of her pants. The third zombie was a young man Chad did not know named Brad. Brad was tall and slender with blue eyes and reddish blond hair. The red was from the blood he had a habit of wiping into his hair. After they got done eating Brad looked at Chad and pointed to himself and said, “Eyah Braahhhd.” Chad understood what he said perfectly and introduced Sonya and himself. I will not trouble the reader with the zombie language since it would be difficult to understand so I will give a rough translation since zombies have a rough time speaking were anyone can understand them due to the fact that they cannot draw in air.

Samuel asked, “How long you be zombie, Chad?”

“Three days.”

“We show you the ropes of hunting humons. They taste good,” replied Brad.

“Most humons hide in their homes, schools, military bases, police stations and stores. They are easy to get to if you know how and if have enough zombies to help,” responded Sofia with a wicked grimace. Chad and Sonya now had three friends to help them in their new world.

Chad learned that getting shot in the head is not going to kill a zombie since they are already dead but can damage their cognitive functions so avoiding bullets was a good idea. Chad also learned that animals such as cats and dogs were edible to but humans just tasted better and dogs could be dangerous as he learned when he and his friends were walking by a house and a zombie was being ripped apart by three pit bulls. “He new zombie and he dumb. He no know that dogs have sharp teeth and can tear through zombie flesh,” responded Brad holding in his zombie laughter that came out anyway. All the other zombies just pointed and grunted really fast which are the way zombies laugh.

Brad then turned Chad’s attention to a zombie that was rummaging through trash. “You know him, Chad?” questioned Brad. Chad thought for a moment and racked his zombie brain for an answer then he remembered, “He was on Rich mag’zine. He billionaire,” replied Chad. “Yes, he was snob, thought he was better then everyone. Loved to fire people and steal from them and now he zombie. No zombie help him and no zombie will let him feed. That why he goes through trash and eats rats and bugs,” grunted Brad. Brad then continued, “The rich taste the best since they eat good food which makes then taste good. I show you were to find rich humons.”

Our zombie friends then made their way to Miami Beach and onto one of the many islands. They came across a large blue house that was well fenced but Brad knew to go to the back were the house meets the water and get in that way. They looked in the windows and saw a man sitting on his recliner smoking a pipe and reading a book, Rise of the Zombies. He was also a former CEO of a large pharmaceutical company which made billions of dollars of profit by getting doctors to give prescriptions to people that did not need it. He was an older man, roughly early sixties and next to him was his wife a woman in her late fifties. They also had one servant who was lame in one leg and wore thick glasses waiting on them. “So how get in?” asked Chad. “I show you”

Samuel and Sofia kicked down the back door which was glass and all four walked in. The three occupants were startled by the noise and decided to check up on it. The four zombies came face to face with the three occupants. Sonya and Sofia seized the woman immediately and Chad and Brad seized the old man while Samuel seized the servant. They killed the servant quickly but slowly ate the old man and his wife. Chad had to admit that the flesh of the rich did taste better. Our four friends ate so much of the old man and his wife that they did not have the muscular to move when they became zombies so they just flopped around but the servant only received a bite to the jugular and had a small amount of flesh eaten. He even woke up in time to join in on the feast of his boss that use o kick him and yell profanities at him. He then introduced himself as John. John was lame in one leg due to the fact he had a habit of jumping off high areas. John eve showed his foolishness a few hours later by jumping off a bridge but since he was more than fifty feet up and there was no water below he just splattered all over the ground and that was the end of John. Our five friends just laughed and moved on.

As we said before there were roaming gangs moving around the city and Brad loved to attack them whenever he could get the upper hand, which came after a few weeks of wondering. They made their way to central Florida when they came to a rest stop and they saw five men try to attack a lone female who stopped to use the rest room. They were too busy ripping off her clothes to notice the five zombies coming behind them. “Hurry up, get her clothes off so we can have some fun,” one of the men yelled at the others while they were cheering and talking about talking about all the things they were going to do to her and arguing about who was going to be first. She begged them to stop and which only excited them more. Before they could get all her clothes off they were each grabbed from behind and each zombie bit into the neck of their victim before they could even muster up a struggle. They went down each with a zombie on their back and tried to roll them off but couldn’t. Their screaming only excited the five friends even more while they bit into their victims flesh. The woman seeing all this got up and ran off before the other zombies making their way towards her and the five men could get her. She quickly got into her car and got out of there. These five men had caused a lot of trouble for people and now they were zombie chow. With all the zombies devouring their flesh there was not enough of them to become a zombie.

At this time the military was wiping out the zombie plaque and our friends witness many zombies being blown up or burned and knew it was only a matter of time before they were going to be destroyed. One day they saw a few people running so they went after them not knowing it was a trap. Only Chad and Sonya managed to get away before they realized that those people running had pour gasoline over the road way and was trying to get the zombies to walk into it so they could be burned. Chad and Sonya noticed the gas coming from the pumps but could not warn their friends in time before the ensuing fire. They watched helplessly as their friends were burned. Being zombies Chad and Sonya did not miss their friends and just went along with their zombie lives hiding from humans and eating those they could catch. Luckily for Chad and Sonya the world will never be the way it was before and there were people fighting for zombie rights and there were still tens of millions of zombies not to mention Hollywood making zombies seem better than humans in movies and TV. Our story will continue at a later date