Undeads are walking

From Cluj to Athene - Part 2

There is a building where there is a business called "Academy of Radu and Alin", an Academy where people do business in martial arts and Boxing. Radu trains young children in martial arts, but mostly in karate, since he is an expert at this type of fighting. And Alin, whose step-brother is three years younger than him, is an expert at boxing.

These two fighters have participated in a lot of fighting competitions, and most of them won. These two started this sport because of a gang of bullies who used to bully them in high school. They trained hard and had their sports, and one day, these two had beaten those bullies so easily. One of them was close to being sent to the Hospital by Alin. His force is really frightening, and the speed of Radu could match any professional karate fighter in China.

Now, these two brothers have built an academy for fighting by using their money earned in fighting competitions and their college savings. The business ain't going well since not many people joined their academy because, nowadays, kids prefer to carry a knife around them, just to be safe if somebody threatens them. Now, these two are even going to lose their place since this building didn't have many people joining their academy. They posted advertisements online, put posters around the town, and even tried to go to some schools to show the kids martial arts and boxing styles.

In the office of those two bosses, one of them looks at the title he earned in a tournament.

"What is wrong with our business, brother?" asks Radu, looking at his title he earned three years ago.

"I do not know." responds Alin, who is checking his e-mails, hoping he will find a person who will be willing to sponsor them.

"We do need to give up."

"Brother..."

"Look, Alin. Our business isn't going that well, we barely got one or two kids per day, and they are in bad shape. We have to give up or sell this building to someone else."

"I know, but we can at least wait. Maybe one day, we will get a new customer."

Then, their ring at the door starts to sound, which means that a person has entered this place. Alin looks astonished at Radu, who is going to that man who entered the dojo, but not fighting. He is looking hopelessly at them. While he is covered in bite marks, he looks depressed at Radu, and says his final words.

"S-Save me." and he fell on the floor.

Radu quickly goes to that man, and tries to wake him up, but he doesn't respond. Alin joins this scene and he quickly takes his mobile phone and starts calling for an ambulance to come. But when he was about to call, Radu left that corpse, looking scared as the man was getting back on his legs, growling and twitching.

"Mister. Are you all right?" asked Alin, going to the man, but when he was close to touching him, the monster was close to jumping him.

Radu reacted quickly to this action. He punched that zombie in the face one time, and then he punched his belly several times, which broke and the monster refused to go down. He continues to attack while his organs are close to falling.

"Brother, you remember those zombie movies we used to watch?"

"You mean 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead." he responds to Alin, who is punching this zombie so hard he can hear it breaking in half, and this made the monster fall on the floor.

"My goodness..." says Radu, looking at the zombie corpse. "If this was a zombie, would we get arrested?"

"It is definitely not a human." says Alin, looking at the bite marks this person acquired on the neck, leg and on the cheeks, "It is a monster. Not anyone would be able to jump like that being covered in these wounds."

"What about drug users?"

"They may be under the influence of drugs, but no drug is able to bring a person back to life and make their behaviour like an animal."

They see another two zombies entering their building, and these two brothers are smiling at each other, and proceed to kick those zombies' ass. Radu has successfully broken the arm of one of these zombies, while Alin, who used his full force, made a hole in that skinny zombie in his chest, then he proceeded to do an uppercut. He flew that zombie's head to the ceiling, and then landed on the floor, close to the first corpse. After Radu broke the second zombie leg, he stomped on his head until he got minced meat from the Profi store. Radu and Alin are slapping their hands and proceed to barricade their doors, to be sure a zombie will not come to enter this place.

"Radu... Do you know what this means?"

"We are safe from bankruptcy?" asks Radu to his brother.

"This and... Now we can beat people without being charged."

"Cool. But promise me, we will only fight zombies, not humans living."

"Of course. But now, let's just watch the news, just to be sure we ain't dreaming."

They go to their boss's room, open the TV and start looking at the news, which shows a news report on PRO TV about a zombie apocalypse report you will usually see in the movies. Andrea Esca explains how these things can be avoided, killed, how to deal with an infected and where survivors should seek shelter. The way to kill these zombies is by removing the head because their brains are still there and if you smash the brain or penetrate it with a bullet, it might stop the mutant from moving any more. Andrea Esca told them to seek shelter by living in forests, or taking a plane to remote islands, because staying in cities would raise risks of being infected and most people would consider this a fake sign. Radu and Alin, after they got their confirmation and what they can do, they quickly go to their desks, take each one of them a bottle of scotch and pour a few ml into their glasses they have in these desks for this special occasion. After they fill their glasses, they two make a toast.

"To our freedom!" says these two good friends on the same team before they were packing up and leaving the airport to take one of those planes there that will lead them to freedom and maximum protection.

***

After these two dudes finished with their whiskey, packing up and picking up some pipes as weapons because they were quite durable and very useful. Alin had this idea since he was little. He played a lot of Dead Rising and the weapons he took were always pipes. Alin had taken a second weapon in case the pipe broke, and he took his boxing gloves, because if zombies were ever going to grab his fists, it would be impossible to be bitten, because those gloves are really powerful and hard to damage.

"You think we will encounter survivors on our way?" asks Alin, who was the last person to leave the building and didn't close the door, since it was an apocalypse and this building is not worth it anymore since

"If it happens, we should help them. Not beat them." says Radu to Alin.

They put the backpacks with supplies on their backs, walk to their car, get on their seats, Alin goes to the driver's seat, and Radu goes to the other front seat, but right when they were close to leaving. A citizen ran to them and yelled at them to help him. That man who stooped in front of their car, was dressed as a mechanic, got on his left arm a wrench and got a lot of blood all over his face.

"I need help! Someone was trying to attack us." says the mechanic to them.

"Who was it?" asks Alin, who opens the window to the car.

"A-A guy suddenly tried to jump at me and bite me. Could you help me to carry him to the hospital?"

"Haven't you heard the news? There is now a zombie apocalypse going on."

"What?... What is a zombie apocalypse?"

Radu sees a zombie walking slowly towards them, but before he is about to leave the car and fight him. Another random guy poops out of a house, and that one wore an Anakin costume, and uses a lightsaber toy for kids. He hit that zombie with the lightsaber but it worked out in turn, it made that zombie turn around and try to jump at him, but the dude continued to hit the zombie in the head. He hits the zombie while he goes on the back, just to see if the zombie will have his head broken and die. It was close to pinging that cosplayer to the wall, but Radu arrived right on time, used his pipe he took from the bathroom, and he stabbed that on the head, which made him dead again and his corpse collapsed on the street.

"Thanks, young padawan!"

"... Whatever." says Radu to that random cosplayer. "Would you like to join us?"

"To a new planet?"

"Most likely to a safe destination, but it is your way."

"I will be coming with you... Because I do not have a driver's license."

"Hah." laughed Radu. "Who needs a driver's license these days, am I right?"

"Wait!" says Alin, who is coming to Radu to check on him, but he stops and he is shocked. "You do not have a driver's license? Since when?"

"I never had."

"So you drove without a license for three years?"

"Eight years." corrects Radu.

"Eight years? I know this is Romania, but we are not in Argeș!"

"What is the difference?" laughed Radu to Alin to make the mood feel good, but it didn't work out.

They decided to drop it and get into Radu's car. The mechanic also joins them, but before they are about to leave, Radu asks those two survivors.

"Who are your names?"

"My name is Marcus," says the mechanic, sounding a little nervous. "Sorry. I am not used to talking with people, nor this new change."

"My name is Anakin, and I-" said the cosplayer, but he was stopped by Alin, who said to Radu.

"We got a few zombies coming at us."

These four survivors looked at their backs and they saw a large number of zombies coming towards them. Radu quickly pushed the acceleration pedal and drove from this mess. A few zombies were close to being hitten, but thankfully. Radu had some good skills for driving because he played a lot of car games to participate in illegal races to buy money which they were founded in creating that dojo, which is now going to be a normal building in apoclaypse. An abandoned building which will be devasted by survivors hoping they will see something useful there, like the swords and blades Radu let them there, for the people who truly need it.

They left the street and now, they drive to the closest airport to take a random plane to fly them to the islands which will spend most of their lives there. While Radu was driving, he turned on the radio and survivors heard an announcement coming from the radio.

"The virus, which is named Z, has already infected 600 000 people around the world on the first day. The origin of this virus is unknown, but governments around the world are telling people to isolate themselves in their homes or risk taking a plane and driving to an island which is in the possession of the military. Right now, the military have told us that one hundred islands around the entire globe are their territories. Some of them are artificial and built in this case, and others are unhibited. Now, the closest ones are in Greece, since the ones in Romania are much smaller, and also occupied by the government."

"That government!" says Anakin to everybody, but he is the only person who speaks about the government. The others don't really care that much about politics.

"For the survivors who are listening to us. Be safe and survive another apocalypse transmission humanity is dealing with." says the guy on the radio before the transmission is cut by a little screaming in the background, which indicates that the zombies have already entered the radio building and proceeded to eat the humans there.

Alin turns off the radio, sighs and then he says.

"Well shit... We are fucked."

"Apparently we will go to the airport and take a plane, right? Is this still the plane?" asks the mechanic to be sure.

But, their car suddenly stops because on the other side of the intersection, a truck is literally on fire and eight or maybe the zombies are holding a truck on that truck while one of them is eating the driver who is trying his best to continue to drive that truck, but he eventually crashes into a house and that crash, the truck proceed to explode since it got a lot of damage from zombies and the other vehicles if we will analyze these marks on the cars. The boys in the car made a relieved sigh because they avoided death, thanks to Radu's fast instincts.

"We avoided death there." says Anakin. "Thanks, a young padawan named Radu."

"Dont mention it." says Radu, who was breathing heavily. "We've got lucky here. But I feel bad for the truck driver."

Radu looked around him to be sure not another car would go through the same ones that the truck ones earlier, but thankfully, there were a few zombies who were walking slowly towards them, and survivors who needed help, but they were also bitten because most of them were covered in blood and ones bandaged were probably indicates that these one are infected. If they were thinking about bringing one of them in their car, it would be quite hard to squeeze him there.