1 Introduction

Run. Run. Run. Run. Running. Dont stop. Dont look back. Keep going. Run. Faster, dont slow down.

Repeating my new mantra over and over, I realised I'd lost my sisters five minutes ago we were running through the woods. Now their gone. It would probably be easier if I explain what happened to begin with then I'll explain how I lost them!

So as you know the world was put under quarantine due to a deadly virus, the scientists had been looking at different ways to make a vaccine they found a way but they didn't do  a proper trial test on it. After  two weeks of doing a test they then proceeded to give half the population a vaccination only the vaccine wasn't a vaccine. It killed whom ever was vaccinated with it and brought them back! Only they were not living the dream.....they were dead and walking.

  If one of the sick? Infected? zombie? Geeks? Walking dead? I'm still not sure what to call them! Any ways if one of them bit or scratched you, then you changed into one of them when you died no way around it. There was no cure, no way around it, the only way to put them down was a knife or bullet to the brain.

This was three months ago since then I'd found a group, they had a lot of supplies and were good at getting rid of the dead or what ever you want to call them. I'd talked to Isabella and Sophia we had agreed that it was safer to join a group so that's exactly what we done. Since joining the group we went on runs,went hunting and dealt with any security problems that had arisen. Sophia had suggested that the three of us go on a run and that's exactly what we done and how we got into the current predicament of being separated from one another.

While on the run we went into the city to hit a few shops and raid some houses, we decided to go to the shopping centre in the middle of town for old times sakes, I knew it was a  bad idea but I wasn't in charge of this run so Soph explained why it was a great idea due to their being a wide range of shops, we could get survival gear like tents, sleeping bags and more knives and get food and clothes at the same time. I knew their was no point in arguing with her cause she was stubborn once she had her mind set on something.

Like lost puppies we followed her to the middle of the city avoiding the dead. Once we got there we gathered plenty of supplies for camp to last a while, we didn't need to raid a house and started heading back it wasn't until we were nearly out of the city we ran into trouble! We were nearly back at the truck when we heard the sound of an engines and people shouting, we knew the people from camp weren't in the city cause we were out and they only let a group out at a time for safety.

Izzi though it would be a good idea to check it out, only we found out some disturbing news this new group, they were feeding the dead! That was when I knew we had to get the hell out of their and back to camp to warn them. Quietly we snuck back the way we came and made it eight miles out of the city without the car due to it being to near to the new group. when we bumped into a small heard of the dead there were around about eight or nine. We were so close back to camp we only had a couple of miles away until I knew we'd be safe.

The plan was to run like hell and stick together but due to their being to many we had to split when they caught up to us as it was the only way to ensure we all made it back to camp alive. The dead following me were easy to take care of due to only having a couple to deal with and them being fairly slow. After I took  them out I started back tracking to where we were when we got separated.

  I'd waited at the meet up point, where we separated for an hour and a half unsure of what to do next, I wasn't sure if I should follow one of the trails, if I should wait any longer or if I should head back to camp in case I'd missed them. After taking a good ten minutes to decide what to do next, I decided that I was going to head back to camp I left a sign on the trees for them.

As I turned to walk in the direction of camp I noticed something moving in the trees, after getting my crossbow ready to shoot whatever it was slowly came shuffling out of the bushes. As I was away to shoot I noticed that it was a dog, as I started to approach it it cowered and started growling.