The Market was empty besides the store clerk and it was quiet besides the radio which was turned down low. James came in the liquor store. His huge headphones played ‘The Dark Knight’ Theme song loud in his ears. With a smile on his face and only one thing on his mind
“Fifth of Canada House Please” he says to the Store Clerk.
The Store Clerk smiles and searches the shelf for a bottle of Canada House
James taps the counter as he waits for the booze to arrive. The Store Clerk comes back with the Canada House in hand. The Clerk rings up the House.
“So what are you guys having a party or something going on tonight?” the Clerk asks
“Yeah, biggest party of the Fall. I figure we should start pre-drinking early today.” James replies “Oh shit I forgot the chaser I’ll be right back add a Faygo on that”
James throws down a Ten dollar bill as he heads to the back to look at the drinks.
The store radio said something that caught the Clerk’s ear. He goes over and turns it up.
“Wayne State University. Whole department is missing. I am going to repeat that ‘cause this sounds bizarre. The whole Police Department at Wayne State University has gone missing since about 8 or 9 this morning. It’s amazing, it’s 2009 and still communication can be lost just like that. Apparently the Detroit Police Department is trying to cover their work until the investigation to find the freakin’ Police department is over. Wow. Bill this sounds like a real mess I sure hope no one gets hurt out there. Also if you are a Wayne State student and you didn’t get the trillions of emails for the Dean, Classes are Canceled Again. If you didn’t hear me the first time Classes are Canceled. {“So explain what happened, where did they all go?” Bill asked} Inspector Douglas Todd of the Detroit Police Department was at City Hall today at 1 o’clock this afternoon assuring everyone that the Wayne State Police Department took a company picnic and that he will personally make sure the Wayne State District stays just as safe as its always been {he sighs} I don’t know bill som-something just doesn’t seem right”
[Ding-Dong]
Two Police men enter Marcus’s Market. Smoke came from their head and hands. The Clerk was a little shocked to see them.
“Hey I just heard on the radio about you guys. Where have you been? Apparently you guys went missing?” said the clerk
“We have been working on a special new task force training top-secret stuff you know” one of the cops said. The clerk smiled and nodded
“Here” The other Cop puts a box of Venom on the counter “This is for your store. Could you do us a favor and give these to every customer.”
. “I’ll make sure everyone gets one” the Clerk takes the box and goes to the back room.
One of the cops leans to the other
“What about him? I feel like I’m craving it, let’s get him”
The Cop looked around the store. He didn’t see anyone.
“Alright sure, I could use a bite too. Ok we’ll split him, grab him when he gets back” the Cop whispers
James was crouched down staring at the different types of Faygo. The music was so loud he was out of touch with the rest of the Market.
“Damn….should I go with Faygo Cola or Faygo root beer.” James sat there and just wondered which would be better. “I always go with the Cola but the fuckin’ kids….the kids drink the Root beer…hmmm….tough call.”
His headphones made his ears deaf to the current situation. The Clerk came back from the backroom.
“Uh….well that’s um taken care of …um…is there anything else I can help you boys out with?” The Clerk said as he looked at the Cops who stared back at him.
The Clerk’s screams frightened birds outside but because of the headphones James doesn’t hear a thing.
“I…think….umm…..Faygo Cola. You can never go wrong with Canada Cola”
James walks around the back of the store and takes a look for anything he may need.
‘Peas….don’t need peas……scotch tape don’t need tape….” He moves too quiet for the Cops to hear him. The Clerk’s screams get replaced by sounds of chewing. James walked up to the front keeping his head on each side of the aisle.
“Jerky…..Don’t need…ooh I could uses some Jerky” James picks up the bag of Jack links Beef Jerky. With one hand holding the Faygo Cola and another holding the Jerky James heads towards the front of the store. He lifts his head up. Instantly his right hand lets go of the Cola and it falls to the ground. It fizzed and sprayed pop all throughout the aisle.
The cops lifted their heads. They looked different, almost possessed. Blood dripped from their mouths. Drop by drop the blood of the store clerk falls from their mouths. The Clerk’s body lay on the ground dead, bitten in two different places so hard that it broke the skin. James stood frozen. His only movements were to remove his headphones off his head and put it on his neck. The Cops rose to their feet. Their blue uniforms were covered in blood. One of the Cops licked his lips as if James was a snack. James took a big gulp; it felt as if he had swallowed his tongue. Time felt as if it had frozen for James. Needless to say he felt fucking confused. His heart pounded in his chest he felt light thinking if they did come at him his feet wouldn’t move if he told them to. The cops look at each other and nod.
“Bad news bears. Very bad news bears” James whispered as he walks backwards. The Cops walk towards him slowly. James screams.
AHHHHHHHHH
He bolts to the back. The Cops chase after him down the aisle. As soon as James hits the end of the corner he knocks down a Faygo pop stand. The stand lands right on one of the cops. The Cop cusses franticly and pulls out his gun. James screams again
AHHHH
He kicks the gun out of the cop’s hands. The cop grabs his leg and he falls to the ground.
“Shit, Shit” James says repeatedly.
He repeatedly kicks the cop in the head. James pushes his self up and jumps over into the next aisle. The other cop grabs both of James’ legs and throws him across the store. James lands right in between the apples and the oranges.
“I had no idea you were that strong Kelly” the officer on the ground says.
“I’m feeling really good right now. Now get up. Roddrick told us we can’t leave any witnesses till nightfall.” Officer Kelly says
James gets up. His neck hurts. His back hurts. His neck and his back hurt. He got up aching but quickly remembering what the situation was he kept low and headed for the door on the lower left side of the store. He got all the way to the end of the aisle without any problems until….
{Bang}
Officer Kelly shoots at James and hits bags of chips instead. James screams again
AHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK
{Bang}
He panics and throws bottles of Orange juice toward the cops. Kelly shoots the bottles and laughs
“You know you’re going to die right?” She asked him
James doesn’t respond. He crouches down behind the Hostess stand.
“Shit….this…this is not good”
{Bang,Bang}
“Why don’t you just come out like a man? Save me my bullets” She silently signals her partner to go around the other side. “Have you heard of the new drink they have out now? {Bang} It’s called Venom {Bang} you should try it.”
Marcus’s Market was a mess the bullets tore thru toilet paper and detergent. Her partner veers around towards the Hostesses stand. With his gun out he runs over to the other side but nothing, James was gone. The cop looks up towards Kelly and shrugs. Out of nowhere James throws a case of beer at the head of the cop. He falls down and yet again drops his gun. This time James grabs it. Kelly shoots
{Bang, Bang, Bang, Click, Click,Click}
“Fuck I’m out of Ammo” Kelly says to herself
As soon as James hears this he runs for the exits. With his eyes closed and him shooting towards Kelly he manages to lay on her in the chest. She falls to the ground as he runs out and guns it to the pike house.
“Kelly! Kelly!” the officer screams as he runs over to Officer Kelly
“Kelly are you ok?”
She spits blood in his face
“Awwww fuck you are dying” he says. He goes in to hug her but before he can she slaps him so hard that he falls over to the side.
“Dave you have to be one dumb fucking cop to lose your gun twice to a kid in less than a minute.” She says “I’m sorry he caught me off guard are you ok though?”
She gets up
“Yeah I’m ok, it just hit the vest now come on let’s get that kid”
“How?”
“I know that kid.” She says “he’s a Pike”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
James runs down Second Street in the middle of the road. His backpack flopped back and forth and his headphones bounced around his body as he ran. He turned the corner on to West Canfield. People instantly dropped what they were doing and screamed. A car makes a quick turnaround just to avoid him.
“Shit I forgot I have a gun”
He runs into the alley and heads for the backdoor.
“HEEEEYY IS THERE ANYBODY HERE?” James says as he busts in the back door. He holds his gun out. The house is quiet. He heads upstairs via the back steps. The first room he heads to is Justin’s.
“JUSTIN” he bangs on the door “Justin, are you there?”
No answer. He knocks on Roberts’s rooms
“Robert Come on…..Fuck”
He doesn’t answer either. James runs to the other side of the house to Marcus’ room
“Marcus, Charlie……..Jayme maybe”
There was no answer. He knocked on the door. The door opened up slowly. The room was dark, darker than it normally is. He goes over to the window and pulled the sheet covering it down. The sunlight shines into the room. He looks over at the couch. A huge stain of blood was on it. He looked to the ground. There was a blood trial that went out of the room and down the hall. He followed the trail all the way to the back steps.
“mmm…..uh what’s going on?” Richardson asks
James gives a sigh of relief and runs over to Richardson
“Anthony I need your help ok. Cops just tried to kill…”
Anthony interrupts “whoa man what is that!” he says pointing at the gun and retreating down the hall.
“It’s a gun stupid” James says following him "just listen to me.” He starts to smile “it’s happened.”
“What’s happened?” Anthony asks
“I saw two cops eat the clerk over at Marcus market”
“You saw what?”
“Two cops eating the clerk. They ate him”
“What? No I don’t believe you”
“Anthony, why don’t you ever believe me? This is fuckin’ it kid it’s just like I wrote it”
“Wait a minute I’m still not following you. What is this like?”
“Zombies at the Pike house, my Facebook story remember? I just witnessed two cops going to fucking town on the clerk. And I mean there was blood everywhere they were eating him Richardson”
“I don’t know, for some strange reason I don’t believe you. I mean don’t you think we would have heard something about a zombie attack or something.”
They walk down the front steps.
“Anthony… {he pauses to find his words] why the hell would I make this shit up just look at me”
Anthony looks at James and noticed he was wearing a suit.
“Why you all dressed up?”
“I just wanted to look nice that’s all but look at the blood and shit. Some cop threw me like a ragdoll on Christmas in a funeral home”
“What that doesn’t even make sense why would…”
[Knock, knock, knock]
There was a knock at the door.
“Shhhhh” James says to Anthony. He signals him to go back up the stairs as he cocks back his gun.
“Who is it?” James asks. He leans up against the wall with his gun pointed at the door
“It’s the police open up or we are coming in”
“Fuck you were right” Anthony whispers
The cop pulls on the handle trying to open the door.
“Open the door”
“YOU CAN’T GET IN WITHOUT A WARRANT IM WARNING YOU DON’T BREAK THAT DOOR”
The cop shakes the handle again trying to force his self in.
“Fuck” James whispers. “What am I suppose to do?” Anthony shrugs his shoulder as he moves up the stairs. James stays where he is takes a deep breath in
“We are coming in” the door flies open
[BANG BANG BANG BANG]
4 shots go off. Anthony dives upstairs into a safe spot.
“Oh fuck man James” he calls out but James doesn’t answer
Anthony peaks his head out from behind the stairway. James stood up and looked at the dead cop on the door.
“Holy shit. I can’t believe you did that. You just killed a cop.”
James is taken aback. “Yeah…yeah I think I just did”
James takes off the cop’s helmet
“Oh fuck”
“What’s wrong besides the obvious” Antony said
“This isn’t one of the cops I saw at the market”
The sunlight hit the back of the cops head and it started to smoke
“What so you could have killed a cop that wasn’t a zombie.”
James collapses on the steps. He felt like the stinging pain of guilt
“Oh shit……this is bad”
Brian comes from the social room
“What was all that noise?” he looks at the dead cop on the floor “holy shit what the fuck happened.”
Richardson comes down pointing at James
“This is all James doing. He thinks there are zombies at Marcus’ Market so now he’s shooting every cop he sees. He’s gonna get us all in trouble. We are so fucked why would you do that James?” Anthony says
Brian walks over to the cop. More and more smoke appeared from his skin.
“Why is he smoking?”
“I don’t know…oh….the cops at the Market were smoking too.” James says
Brian puts his hand on the cop’s neck
“Well his heart is still pumping we should get him to the hospit-“
The cop bits Brian’s hand.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK” Brian screams
“Oh shit”
James shoots the cop in the head rendering him motionless. They all stared at the cop’s corpse waiting to see if he was really dead. Moments later James is the first to speak
“See Anthony, I told you it was a zombie”
Brian looks at his hand to analysis it. It was bloody but it didn’t hurt that bad.
“OWW shit. Am I going to die? Guys? I might need to go to the hospital.”Brian says
“Ok, ok you were right. But why the fuck would a zombie talk that ain’t no zombie I heard of” Richardson says
“I don’t know. I mean who really knows how zombies work in real life anyway.” James says. A couple of cars drive by the Pike house. “We should close the door I don’t want anybody seeing this shit.”
“What about my hand”
“Stop overreacting Brian now is not the time we got to get serious” James responds quickly
“Where is everybody? I thought school was canceled” James asked as he walks into the social room. The others follow first Richardson then Brian holding his hand.
“They all went to some meeting or something” Brian says
Police sirens come from outside
“What the fuck was that? Anthony asks
“Sounds like cops Anthony” Brian stated
James looks out of the social room window. Officer Kelly stood outside of the pike house with blood dripping down her neck. Her partner was slightly behind her. James took a big gulp.
“What?” Anthony and Brian asks
“Bad news bears.” James responded.
Officer Kelly puts her hand in her front pocket and pulls out a pair of Aviator shades. She puts the shades on and a smile on her face. She walks up to the Pike house front door and gives a knock
[knock, knock, knock]
Richardson goes for the door
“Anthony what the hell man.” James whispers to him
“Hey it’s a cop what am I suppose to do?”
“Not answer the door when there is a dead zombie cop in the foyer” James whispered back.
“Fuck this is gonna be bad” Brian says
[Knock, knock, knock]
“This is Wayne state police. I am not going to wait any longer” Kelly said
“Ok hold on I’m coming” Richardson says
He opens the door. Officer Kelly was standing there by herself.
“Where is he” she said as she pulled out her gun
Anthony points towards the social room. “He’s in there”
“Fucking Judas” James says as he runs toward to kitchen
Kelly heads for him Anthony tries to stand in her way
“Hey you need a warrant to...” “OUT OF MY WAY PENCIL DICK” Kelly shouts as she pushes Richardson on the ground.
Kelly fires toward James. She hits the kitchen wall twice.
“Come on….shit” James was heading out the back door when he runs into Kelly’s partner. He puts James in handcuffs and drags him back into the foyer. Officer Kelly smiles at him as he is brought to his knees. She looks at the dead cop
“Are you aware of the penalty for killing a cop?” James doesn’t say anything he just keeps his head down. Anthony and Brian watch but keep their distance.
“How about the penalty for the attempted murder of a cop? No, not sure well you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you desire an attorney and cannot afford one, an attorney will be obtained for you before police questioning.” she says
James doesn’t move. Anthony looks at Brian then to Kelly. Neither moved. It felt like an eternity. Then Kelly smiled at Brian and Anthony. Her fangs became visible to them. “The price for doing such things is DEATH” Kelly opens her mouth and goes to bit James. Brian shoots her in the shoulder before she does. James screams
Ahhhhhhhhhh
He drops to the ground. Handcuffed he is forced to wiggle out of the way towards the hallway. Kelly shouts “Bruce take out the gunner” She shoots and takes out one of the beams of the staircase.
“Motherfucker” James says as he turns under the stairs to the social room.
Officer Bruce goes for Brian. Brian runs backwards and trips on a couch. Bruce jumps for the gun. Brian fires and gets two shots in Bruce’s stomach.
“Oh shit I got him” Brian pushes Bruce off of him. He walks towards James “hey I got…”
Bruce gets up and grabs Brian by his shirt
“It’s gonna take more than that to kill me, Bitch”
Bruce throws Brian at the dining room table. His head bangs on the side of it.
James runs in to the President’s bathroom. As he does Kelly kicks him in the ass. He falls on the floor. He starts kicking his feet to get away. He gets trapped in the shower. Kelly holds her gun up.
“You have been quite the trouble maker. In fact on normal grounds I would never have tried so hard to kill you. But Roddrick said no witnesses and that means you and your friends got to go.”
She opens her mouth showing her fangs. James is frozen feeling that it is all over for him. His inner child is screaming ‘Fuck’. He breathes in. She breathes in.
Right before she shoots Anthony hits her in the back of the head with a baseball bat. She falls to the ground. Blood from her head and gun wound spill out on the ground. Anthony helps James up.
“Thanks for joining the party fucker what took you so long.”
“I don’t know I panicked. Where’s Brian”
“I don’t know but I gotta find the fuckin’ keys to this thing”
They walk past Deandre’s room and Anthony stops and knocks on the door.
“Deandre are you in there?”
On his 3rd knock Anthony turns the knob and the door is open. Anthony and James look inside. The room floor was covered in blood. In the pile of blood was the head of Tucker. The wind blew his hair. Anthony covered his mouth.
“What the fuck. What the fuck!” he says
“The window is open” James said “they must have come in and got him. James looks down. A blood trail was going outside of the room up the steps.
“Come on we have to get to Brian”
They run through the kitchen to the dining room. Officer Bruce is on top of the table and Brian is underneath it, shooting up at him.
[Bang, Bang, Click]
Brian misses every shot and runs out of ammo. Bruce jumps down from the table. Brian runs to the other side. They stood at either side of the table. Bruce’s gunshot wounds bleed on the wood floor. Bruce tosses the table to the side and comes after Brian. His mouth is open. His little fangs were sharp. Anthony goes after Bruce and tackles him before he gets to Brian. A set of keys falls off of Bruce’s coat.
“Keys” James says softly.
He goes after the keys, without having use of his hands, James bits the keys with his teeth. Kelly comes out of the kitchen
“Fuck you. You stupid piece of shit”
She kicks James in the ass again but he rolls in to the trophy room. She shoots her gun at him but misses barely. The bullet goes through James dress coat to the wooden floor missing him by only a few inches. James acts like he has been shot and screams loudly.
Anthony, Brian, and Bruce get in an all out fight. Anthony’s punch to Bruce’s face gets followed by a kick from Brian in the chest. Brian goes for another kick and Bruce grabs his leg and pulls him to the ground. Anthony goes behind Bruce and puts him in a half nelson.
Cameron comes from the back door and hears a commotion. He heads to the Dining room and sees Officer Kelly with her gun out. He can hear other people. So he asks
“Whoa whoa what’s going on?”
Kelly turns around and puts the gun on Cameron
“I guess I am going to have to kill the whole damn chapter”
James quickly puts his legs over his long hands so that his hands are in the front. He spits out the keys in his hand.
“Get down on your knees” Kelly says
Cameron gets down on his knees. Kelly grabs his head and shoves it to the ground. She rips his shirt exposing his neck. She opens her mouth wide. She is so thirsty for blood she starts to drool. All of a sudden she gets hit in the head and falls to the ground. Cameron looks up. To his amazement James is standing over him with a giant Smythe Trophy. James goes for the gun. Kelly tries to get up but Cameron kicks her to the ground. James aims the gun at her head and fires.
Bruce flips Anthony out of the half nelson. Bruce puts his foot on the back of Anthony’s head.
“This is the Wayne state police. I suggest you stay down.” Bruce says
Anthony tries to move but Bruce’s foot is holding him there.
“I said keep still bitch”
Bruce puts his foot up to smash it on Anthony’s head.
[A bullet shot goes off. Then another]
“This is Pike Bitch and you can suck my balls” James says
James shot through two rooms and got a head shot on Bruce. He walks up to Anthony and helps him up.
“Anthony if you ever do some bitch ass shit like that again I’ll kill you my damn self. At least Brian fuckin’ covered for me. I almost died like fuckin’ 3 times. I wanna go home.” He says
Cam walks in to the social room
“Wait a minute just wait a minute can somebody please explain why James just killed two cops”
“They are zombies Cameron. They tried to eat us” James says
“They’re not zombies they can talk. James thinks he’s playing Grand theft Auto or something he is killing every cop that comes in here there’s another one in the foyer” Anthony says
James points his gun at Richardson. Brian and Cam try to grab the gun.
“Zombies Richardson. Say it’s Zombies” James shouts
“Ok, ok, ok they were Zombies geez” Anthony says as he walks away from the gun. “Just watch where you point that thing ok?”
“Yeah, yeah” James says as he pops the safety on the gun. Cameron walks to the foyer to see the other body
“Dammmmmmmnnnnnn James what the fuck?!?!” he shouts through the house
“He tried to eat Brian ok?”
“Hey man this is not a good look.” Cameron starts to laugh “we got three dead cops in this house right now”
Brian looks at Bruce’s mouth and sees the fangs
“They have fangs like they are vampires or something”
“That’s stupid Brian.Vampires wouldn’t be out right now the sun is still up” James insists
“Yeah I’m gonna have to agree with James on this. What time is it?” Cam asks
The 3 others look to pull out their phones but Brian is the quickest.
“It’s 5:15pm”
James still had his phone out and puts it to the side of his face
“Who are you calling?” Cam asked
“Marcus”
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