4 Cry for Help

"You can do it," Claire says to herself as she readies to swing the bolt cutter. As the first one nears her she takes a step toward them, swinging with all her might. As they fall to the ground the other zombie lunges at her. She holds up the cutters, and they just barely prevent the zombie from sinking its teeth into her as it grabs onto her arms. She stumbles back a bit, almost slipping on some blood, but manages to shoves the zombie off her, dropping the cutters in the process. The zombie also falls onto the ground and Claire runs down the hall, making a right. She goes to open a pair of double doors, but they're also chained up.

She quickly turns around, looking for the cutters. It's right next to the zombie that just attacked her. The other one is already starting to get up. She hurries over, pulling out her gun and shooting them in the head, making them fall back down. She shoots the other zombie and snatches the cutters. As she cuts the bolt, she spots more zombies coming from further down the hall from around a corner. As soon as she hears the chain break, she tears them off the door handles and swings open the doors to an office where a cop zombie is waiting halfway down. They're on the right side of some desks, so she runs on the left side. On the last desk she sees a fuse, but keeps running to the other door.

Claire removes a door that was blocking it and opens up the door. She runs out into a hall going left and right. Seeing a doorway to the left she heads there, but finds it blocked off by a metal shutter. On the wall next to it is a fuse box, a fuse missing.

"Shit!"

She runs back into the office, the cop zombie only a few feet away from the desk with the fuse. She runs over and grabs it, the zombie lunging at her. She quickly pulls her hand back before it can grab her. It falls onto the desk from the force as Claire heads back to the shutter. She places the fuse into the box and the shutters start coming up.

"Come on, come on," Claire mutters as the shutters slowly rise. She can hear the moans and groans of the dead coming from the office. She can already see them starting to reach the doorway. The shutters are barely moving up, but there's just enough room to crawl underneath. She slides the bolt cutters underneath before getting onto her hands and knees, pulling herself to the other side, some blood smearing onto her arms, jacket, and jeans. She gets up, the shutters still rising, now at about knee level. Seeing a lever on the wall next to it, she quickly pulls it down, the shutter abruptly stopping before going down.

As the shutter is nearly down, a zombie emerges from underneath, trying to grab her legs. It's body blocks the shutters, preventing it from coming all the way down. Claire sees a handle at the bottom of the shutter, near the zombie's head. She shoots it in the head, stunning it. She places her foot on the shutter handle, and then stomps down on it, the force of her foot and the machine enough to tear off the zombie's head.

"Ew!" She exclaims as she jumps back, the head rolling sideways a bit, its mangled face facing upwards. She stands there for a bit, catching her breath as she looks at the exposed jaw and murky grey eyes.

"You Claire?" A man's voice asks. She turns to the left, seeing an officer, the right side of his abdomen covered in blood. He's pale as a ghost and can't even stand up entirely straight, leaning over on a railing by a ramp.

"Y-yes? How do you know?" Claire responds in slight confusion.

"Leon told me he was looking for a girl named Claire, said she was over in the east courtyard,"

"Leon? Where is he? I, didn't see him anywhere,"

"He went off to the west wing to find a key in order to get to you, hold on, let me radio him back," The man reaches onto his belt and grabs a radio. Claire walks over to him.

"Leon. Leon, you there?"

"Yeah, what's up Lieutenant?"

"I found your friend, Claire,"

"Really? Where is she?"

"Right here," The Lieutenant hands the radio over to Claire.

"Hey Leon,"

"Claire, it's nice to hear you made it inside alright,"

"Nice to hear you're-" Claire is cutoff when she hears the sound of a little girl screaming.

"What was that?" Leon's voice asks.

"I-I think it was a little girl, it sounded like it came from upstairs," Claire hands the radio to the Lieutenant, "I'm gonna go check it out," And Claire hurries off towards some stairs that go around a massive statue of a lady holding up a USA flag in her right hand.

"Hold on! Wait, you don't know what's up there!" The Lieutenant exclaims as she hurries off to a door in an upper hallway.

"Of course not, but I'm not just gonna let a little kid die," Claire replies before turning the doorknob. She opens the door to a large library room, where shelves are filled with books. Several corpses lay by some tables.

"Help!" A young girl's voice cries. Claire looks around, then sees a little running along some walkways on an upper floor. A zombie is slowly stumbling after her. Claire sees some stairs to her right and hurries up them.

"Hey, little girl!" Claire calls out. The little girl runs over to the side she's on, but then runs away to a door on the other side of the room. She starts fidgeting with the door handle, then opens it up.

"Hey! Claire shouts as she runs towards the girl, "Wait I-" She suddenly falls as the floor beneath her breaks apart. She comes crashing down onto the ground, "Ow…" She groans as she starts getting up, her whole body in pain from the sudden drop. She looks up to see the zombie that was chasing the young girl is walking toward the hole in the floor. She quickly rolls out of the way before the zombie comes tumbling down, landing where she had been. She tries to get up and get away, but it grabs her foot. She kicks off her boot, and crawls backwards away from the zombie before grabbing her gun. Before she can shoot it, someone else does. A couple shots and the zombie goes limp.

Claire looks up and over her shoulder to see Leon, his pistol in hand.