p id="docs-internal-guid-5aab882e-68d0-be5b-3f5b-3b9559ad9bee" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"My friend and I are running for our lives. A bunch of zombies are after us and we can't find our way out of this hospital. We've gotten ourselves into a really bad situation. Let me go back and explain how it all started. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"As usual, I went down to the skatepark after school. I was with my friend Xavier and we were showing off for a group of girls. He must have thought it would have been a good idea to push his skateboard in front of mine while I was going down a huge ramp because that is exactly what he did. His board hit mine and pushed mine a different direction. I went flying off and landed on my arm. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"""Elijah! Are you okay?" Xavier yelled out. He ran over to me and helped me to my feet. I told him that I was pretty sure I had broken my arm. He apologized and offered to go with me to the hospital. He carried our boards and we walked away./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"After we walked into the hospital I knew right away that something was wrong. The place was eerily quiet, too quiet for a place that usually had a lot going on. The place also had no one there. No one was in sight. We walked around the waiting room for a minute or two and decide to leave and come back in an hour or so. We turned to leave the when we heard a loud scream. Coming from behind the big double doors, we run through them and stop immediately. Ten feet in front of us was a small group of zombies. They were on their knees in a circle and a nurse was in the middle. I could see her face and her hair and everything else was covered in blood. Her neck was ripped open and blood was pouring out like a waterfall. Her stomach also had a giant hole in it and her bloody organs were all over the place. I looked over at Xavier and he looked like he was about to throw up. We quietly tried to exit the hall without alerting the zombies but the one facing up looked up and saw us. It got up and walked towards us which made the others notice us. We turned around and and began running, but when we get to the front door, a zombie was in the way. We took off running down a random hall which brings us back to now./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We've been running around for a few minutes since we found the nurse. I'm getting really tired of running and my arm is killing me. Xavier pushes me into a room and throws the our boards down and shuts the door behind us. "What the heck is going on?" He yells. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Shh! If they hear us they'll come after us!" I yell. "They already know we're here," I say while I listen to the groans coming from outside the room. The zombies are walking down the hall, and I guess there are at least four out there now. "We've got to find something we can use to defend ourselves and figure out how to get out of here."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The groans and moans have stopped and Xavier searches the room for a weapon while I look out in the hallway. The hallway is clear except for one who is facing the opposite direction at the end of the hall. I shut the door quietly and turn to Xavier. "Is there anything here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I only found a pair of scissors. You can have them and I'll use my skateboard to hit them in the head. We need to find something to wrap your arm up with so you can at least use it somewhat."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Let's just worry about getting out of here. If we go back the way we came we should easily be able to get out of here the way we came in. I hope there aren't any along the way because I don't want to lead them out of the hospital and into the city. Once we escape we're going straight to the police, okay?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Sounds good. You ready?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, let's go." We listen for any zombies and when we're sure it's clear we quietly open the door and exit the room. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We move down the hall quickly and quietly. Once we get to the end of the hallway we notice one zombie. When it sees us it turns around and comes after us. "I've got it," Xavier says. He raises the skateboard and uses all the strength he has to hit the zombie in it's head. It steps back but continues to try to bite Xavier. He hits him again and again and I join in, using the scissors to stab it in it's head. My hands are covered in blood by the time it drops to the ground. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That was intense," I say. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah it was. Hey, do you think it's weird that we haven't ran into any other people, like doctors, nurses, or patients?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I guess they could have got outside of the hospital when the zombies first came."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I don't think all of them would have gotten out. We haven't seen any bodies or remains either. I mean, except for that nurse we watched get ripped apart. I wonder if there are any other people trapped in here somewhere."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I want to know how long this has been going on for. I'd say not that long or else a few would probably have gotten into the city by now."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I guess you've got a point. Anyways, where do we go from here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""We'll continue on in this direction and see if we can find our way out of here. Hopefully we can manage to get out without any other zombie encounters."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We continue on down the hall and when we end up by a supply closet we go in and see if we can find something to use as a weapon instead of scissors and a skateboard. The skateboard is about to break and something besides scissors would be great. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Inside the closet is just a bunch of random things. I look for something I can wrap my arm up in and find a few rolls of gauze. I hand it to Xavier and have him help me wrap my wrist. When he's done, we resume searching the closet. I find a bag and take it off a hook and fill it up with anything that may come in handy. Rolls of gauze, medical tape, a first aid kit, things like that. Xavier is looking through the cabinets and doesn't find anything useful. "Ready to leave?" I ask. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, let's go," he replies. I zip up the bag and throw it on my back before opening the door. I grab a scarf that's by the door and put that in the bag as well. We exit the closet and at the end of the hall is a zombie. I creep up behind it and wrap the scarf around it's neck and pull up. I reach for the scissors which are in my pocket and begin to stab it in the head. The blade sinks into it's head and is covered in blood when I pull it out. I stab it multiple times in different places and continue doing so until it falls to the ground. Even though it's almost done for, it tries to bite me. Xavier comes up from behind me and hits it in the head with a fire extinguisher. He bashes it's head in until it falls to the floor and doesn't move. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Dude, where did you get that from?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I remembered seeing it when we walked through the other hall. While you were trying to choke a dead corpse I ran back and got it."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That could come in handy." I look closely at the zombie and see a name tag. I inspect it and learn that the zombie was once a doctor here. "Hey, look at this. The zombie was a doctor. I wonder if you come back as a zombie. That would explain why we haven't seen any bodies."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That's how it was on some zombie movie." Xavier looks down at the hall. "Anyways, we should keep going. I want to get out of this place as fast as possible."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We continue walking down the hall and don't see or hear any zombies. We get to the end of the hall and have to decide if we want to go left or right. "Which way do we go?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""The right, obviously."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Why do you say that's obvious?" I question. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""We go right because it's the /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"right /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"way to go!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""You're an idiot." We go right and end up in a different hallway with a lot of doors. We both start opening doors and looking in. "Nothing useful," I call./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Nothing as well." Xavier opens another door and yells, "Oh, I found something but it's not what we're looking for!" I hear a bunch of different zombie noises and Xavier slams the door shut. However, a zombie's arm is in the way and the door doesn't close. All of the zombies knock over each other trying to get us. We take off running and find that the hallway is a dead end. There is a few doors, though. Xavier opens the door on the right and runs inside. "Check the other room!" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I run in the other door and lock myself in. I can hear all of the zombies which are now right outside the door. There's at least fifteen, I assume. I search the room and find nothing useful. My hands are covered in blood and I decide to wash them in the sink that is in the room. Right after I turn the water off the closet door bursts opens. Taking out my scissors, I raise my arm, getting ready to attack. It limps over to me and I get ready to strike but since my hands are still wet, the scissors go flying behind it. /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Great, /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I think. The space between us is closing, and I'm defenseless and have no where to go. The hallway is full of zombies and I can't get around the one in here. It takes a step toward me and tries to bite me and I scream. "Elijah!" I hear Xavier call out. I believe he is fighting one or two zombies as well. I jump away from the zombie's mouth and try to get to the other side of the room. It tries to bite me again and I dive out of the way and land on my broken arm. I cry out in pain. It moves closer to me and I scoot back towards the wall and end up cornered. The zombie leans down to try and bite me for the third time and I kick it in the head. It stumbles backwards but continues to try and get me. I go to kick it again but I miss. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The zombie is right in front of me now. I realize that I'm about to die. I have no way around the monster in front of me and Xavier is too busy to help. I punch it but accidently use my broken hand. I cry out in pain and in that moment, it gets right in front of me. I hope this will be like the movies and Xavier will break in the door and save me at the last moment. Suddenly the door opens and Xavier does come in. He runs over to help me but it is too late. The zombie leans down and bites my neck. I feel my skin being ripped away and I scream in pain. The pain is unimaginable. My blood is pouring out of my neck and I see Xavier kill the zombie. I can see the tears running down his face as he leans in front of me. "No, no, no, no, no! Elijah, no! You can't die, you can't leave me alone! Please don't die!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"That's the last thing I hear before my heart stops beating./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"As usual, I went down to the skatepark after school. I was with my friend Xavier and we were showing off for a group of girls. He must have thought it would have been a good idea to push his skateboard in front of mine while I was going down a huge ramp because that is exactly what he did. His board hit mine and pushed mine a different direction. I went flying off and landed on my arm. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"""Elijah! Are you okay?" Xavier yelled out. He ran over to me and helped me to my feet. I told him that I was pretty sure I had broken my arm. He apologized and offered to go with me to the hospital. He carried our boards and we walked away./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"After we walked into the hospital I knew right away that something was wrong. The place was eerily quiet, too quiet for a place that usually had a lot going on. The place also had no one there. No one was in sight. We walked around the waiting room for a minute or two and decide to leave and come back in an hour or so. We turned to leave the when we heard a loud scream. Coming from behind the big double doors, we run through them and stop immediately. Ten feet in front of us was a small group of zombies. They were on their knees in a circle and a nurse was in the middle. I could see her face and her hair and everything else was covered in blood. Her neck was ripped open and blood was pouring out like a waterfall. Her stomach also had a giant hole in it and her bloody organs were all over the place. I looked over at Xavier and he looked like he was about to throw up. We quietly tried to exit the hall without alerting the zombies but the one facing up looked up and saw us. It got up and walked towards us which made the others notice us. We turned around and and began running, but when we get to the front door, a zombie was in the way. We took off running down a random hall which brings us back to now./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We've been running around for a few minutes since we found the nurse. I'm getting really tired of running and my arm is killing me. Xavier pushes me into a room and throws the our boards down and shuts the door behind us. "What the heck is going on?" He yells. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Shh! If they hear us they'll come after us!" I yell. "They already know we're here," I say while I listen to the groans coming from outside the room. The zombies are walking down the hall, and I guess there are at least four out there now. "We've got to find something we can use to defend ourselves and figure out how to get out of here."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The groans and moans have stopped and Xavier searches the room for a weapon while I look out in the hallway. The hallway is clear except for one who is facing the opposite direction at the end of the hall. I shut the door quietly and turn to Xavier. "Is there anything here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I only found a pair of scissors. You can have them and I'll use my skateboard to hit them in the head. We need to find something to wrap your arm up with so you can at least use it somewhat."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Let's just worry about getting out of here. If we go back the way we came we should easily be able to get out of here the way we came in. I hope there aren't any along the way because I don't want to lead them out of the hospital and into the city. Once we escape we're going straight to the police, okay?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Sounds good. You ready?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, let's go." We listen for any zombies and when we're sure it's clear we quietly open the door and exit the room. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We move down the hall quickly and quietly. Once we get to the end of the hallway we notice one zombie. When it sees us it turns around and comes after us. "I've got it," Xavier says. He raises the skateboard and uses all the strength he has to hit the zombie in it's head. It steps back but continues to try to bite Xavier. He hits him again and again and I join in, using the scissors to stab it in it's head. My hands are covered in blood by the time it drops to the ground. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That was intense," I say. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah it was. Hey, do you think it's weird that we haven't ran into any other people, like doctors, nurses, or patients?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I guess they could have got outside of the hospital when the zombies first came."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I don't think all of them would have gotten out. We haven't seen any bodies or remains either. I mean, except for that nurse we watched get ripped apart. I wonder if there are any other people trapped in here somewhere."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I want to know how long this has been going on for. I'd say not that long or else a few would probably have gotten into the city by now."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I guess you've got a point. Anyways, where do we go from here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""We'll continue on in this direction and see if we can find our way out of here. Hopefully we can manage to get out without any other zombie encounters."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We continue on down the hall and when we end up by a supply closet we go in and see if we can find something to use as a weapon instead of scissors and a skateboard. The skateboard is about to break and something besides scissors would be great. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Inside the closet is just a bunch of random things. I look for something I can wrap my arm up in and find a few rolls of gauze. I hand it to Xavier and have him help me wrap my wrist. When he's done, we resume searching the closet. I find a bag and take it off a hook and fill it up with anything that may come in handy. Rolls of gauze, medical tape, a first aid kit, things like that. Xavier is looking through the cabinets and doesn't find anything useful. "Ready to leave?" I ask. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Yeah, let's go," he replies. I zip up the bag and throw it on my back before opening the door. I grab a scarf that's by the door and put that in the bag as well. We exit the closet and at the end of the hall is a zombie. I creep up behind it and wrap the scarf around it's neck and pull up. I reach for the scissors which are in my pocket and begin to stab it in the head. The blade sinks into it's head and is covered in blood when I pull it out. I stab it multiple times in different places and continue doing so until it falls to the ground. Even though it's almost done for, it tries to bite me. Xavier comes up from behind me and hits it in the head with a fire extinguisher. He bashes it's head in until it falls to the floor and doesn't move. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Dude, where did you get that from?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I remembered seeing it when we walked through the other hall. While you were trying to choke a dead corpse I ran back and got it."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That could come in handy." I look closely at the zombie and see a name tag. I inspect it and learn that the zombie was once a doctor here. "Hey, look at this. The zombie was a doctor. I wonder if you come back as a zombie. That would explain why we haven't seen any bodies."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That's how it was on some zombie movie." Xavier looks down at the hall. "Anyways, we should keep going. I want to get out of this place as fast as possible."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We continue walking down the hall and don't see or hear any zombies. We get to the end of the hall and have to decide if we want to go left or right. "Which way do we go?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""The right, obviously."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Why do you say that's obvious?" I question. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""We go right because it's the /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"right /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"way to go!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""You're an idiot." We go right and end up in a different hallway with a lot of doors. We both start opening doors and looking in. "Nothing useful," I call./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Nothing as well." Xavier opens another door and yells, "Oh, I found something but it's not what we're looking for!" I hear a bunch of different zombie noises and Xavier slams the door shut. However, a zombie's arm is in the way and the door doesn't close. All of the zombies knock over each other trying to get us. We take off running and find that the hallway is a dead end. There is a few doors, though. Xavier opens the door on the right and runs inside. "Check the other room!" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I run in the other door and lock myself in. I can hear all of the zombies which are now right outside the door. There's at least fifteen, I assume. I search the room and find nothing useful. My hands are covered in blood and I decide to wash them in the sink that is in the room. Right after I turn the water off the closet door bursts opens. Taking out my scissors, I raise my arm, getting ready to attack. It limps over to me and I get ready to strike but since my hands are still wet, the scissors go flying behind it. /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Great, /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I think. The space between us is closing, and I'm defenseless and have no where to go. The hallway is full of zombies and I can't get around the one in here. It takes a step toward me and tries to bite me and I scream. "Elijah!" I hear Xavier call out. I believe he is fighting one or two zombies as well. I jump away from the zombie's mouth and try to get to the other side of the room. It tries to bite me again and I dive out of the way and land on my broken arm. I cry out in pain. It moves closer to me and I scoot back towards the wall and end up cornered. The zombie leans down to try and bite me for the third time and I kick it in the head. It stumbles backwards but continues to try and get me. I go to kick it again but I miss. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The zombie is right in front of me now. I realize that I'm about to die. I have no way around the monster in front of me and Xavier is too busy to help. I punch it but accidently use my broken hand. I cry out in pain and in that moment, it gets right in front of me. I hope this will be like the movies and Xavier will break in the door and save me at the last moment. Suddenly the door opens and Xavier does come in. He runs over to help me but it is too late. The zombie leans down and bites my neck. I feel my skin being ripped away and I scream in pain. The pain is unimaginable. My blood is pouring out of my neck and I see Xavier kill the zombie. I can see the tears running down his face as he leans in front of me. "No, no, no, no, no! Elijah, no! You can't die, you can't leave me alone! Please don't die!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"That's the last thing I hear before my heart stops beating./span/p